Physicists gain insight into the UK's biggest killer
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the UK, accounting for a third of all fatalities through illnesses such as stroke and heart disease. Read more
Lancaster Environment Centre conducts roadside pollution research for BBC
Could trees reduce pollution in busy streets? An experiment being conducted on the A6 in Lancaster for the BBC may provide the answer. Read more
News
Unborn babies 'practise' facial expressions in the womb
Researchers from Durham and Lancaster Universities suggest that a foetus's ability to show a "pain" facial expression is a developmental process which could potentially give doctors another index of the health of a foetus.
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Mon 17 June 2013
Lancaster leads the way in cyber security bursary scheme
Lancaster is one of four UK universities selected to take part in an 'industry first' sponsorship initiative encouraging students to take up Masters-level cyber security degrees.
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Mon 10 June 2013
Engineering students make finals of national start-up business competition
Engineering students Scott Nash, Daniel Richardson and Aaron Aboshio have won the northern heat of the Youth Entrepreneurs Scheme 'Engineering YES' competition for their spin-out renewable energy company Atlantis.
Thu 23 May 2013
Social media plagued by privacy problems, say researchers
The privacy management of 16 popular social networking sites, including Facebook and Twitter, is "seriously deficient," according to a study being published in the June issue of Computer magazine.
Story supplied by LU Press Office
Tue 21 May 2013
Events
Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Edward Laird, Oxford University
Friday 21 June 2013, 1500-1600
C1 Physics Building
Nanotubes are attractive materials for electron spin qubits because they can be made free of hyperfine dephasing and because spin-orbit interaction offers a route to all-electrical spin control. I will describe the first qubit in this material, the valley-spin qubit. The qubit is controlled by exploiting spin-orbit coupling in a bent nanotube and read out electrically using a generalization of Pauli blockade in a double quantum dot. I will also discuss prospects for studying spin-phonon...
SuperIdentity - A Novel Model for Understanding Identity Across Physical and Cyber Spaces
Professor Sadie Crease, University of Oxford
Thursday 27 June 2013, 1300-1400
C74 InfoLab21
As we continue to embrace cyberspace and the opportunities it affords us our identities and online personas are increasing in value - to us, to the service providers we engage, to criminals and to those who would exploit cyberspace to conduct attacks. The ability to understand identity and how it transcends cyber and physical spaces is important in understanding the exposure to risk people may face, as well as in detecting the perpetrators of crime. The SuperIdentity project is developing a...
CRESTxLancaster 2013
William Knowles, Security Lancaster
Wednesday 03 July 2013, 0900-1630
InfoLab21
As part of its knowledge transfer and professional development activities, CREST - the professional body representing the ethical security testing and incident response industry - is introducing CRESTx, a spin-off from its flagship conference CRESTCon.
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Resource Recovery from Waste Workshop
Professor Kirk T. Semple, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
Tue 09 - Wed 10 July 2013
LEC Training Rooms 1 And 2
Tuesday 9th July, 10.00am - 4.00pm
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