Metric based on Rank Codes and Applications to Public Key Cryptosystems

39 Metric based on Rank Codes and Applications to Public Key Cryptosystems

A talk by Professor Ernst Gabidulin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

A talk by Professor Ernst Gabidulin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia 2005-06-07 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 07 June Jun 06 2005 13 00 2005-06-07 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 07 June Jun 06 2005 14 00 Tuesday 07 June 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 38 Evolutionary Multi-objective Optimization and Its Application to Multiobjective Fuzzy Rule Extraction

A talk by <a href="http://www.ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~hisaoi/ci_lab_e/personal/ishibuchi/">Professor Hisao Ishibuchi</a>, Osaka University, Japan

A talk by <a href="http://www.ie.osakafu-u.ac.jp/~hisaoi/ci_lab_e/personal/ishibuchi/">Professor Hisao Ishibuchi</a>, Osaka University, Japan Download <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/ishibuchi_talk.ppt">Professor Ishibuchi's powerpoint presentation</a> 2005-09-01 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 01 September Sep 09 2005 13 00 2005-09-01 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 01 September Sep 09 2005 14 00 Thursday 01 September 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 37 Evolvable Connectionists Systems: Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics, Brain Study and Intelligent Machines

A talk by <a href="http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/kedri/staff/nickola.htm">Professor Nik Kasabov</a>, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand

A talk by <a href="http://www.aut.ac.nz/research/research_institutes/kedri/staff/nickola.htm">Professor Nik Kasabov</a>, School of Computer and Information Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Download <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/kasabov_talk.ppt">Professor Kasabov's powerpoint presentation</a> 2005-09-07 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 September Sep 09 2005 13 00 2005-09-07 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 September Sep 09 2005 14 00 Wednesday 07 September 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 36 Using Embedded Agents to Create Ambient Intelligence

By <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/hagras_bio.pdf">Dr Hani Hagras</a>, University of Essex

By <a href="http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/staff/angelov/hagras_bio.pdf">Dr Hani Hagras</a>, University of Essex Embedded agents are embedded computational artefacts integrated with intelligent reasoning and learning mechanisms. The embedded agents are able to personalise themselves to the user's needs and preferences by learning from their behaviour and thus configuring and controlling the user's environments on their behalf. Thus these agents can reduce the cognitive load associated with configuring and programming ubiquitous computing environments to create Ambient Intelligence. Due to the limited processing power and memory capacities of embedded computers, the intelligent mechanisms that are used in embedded-agents have to be computationally undemanding. Moreover, the intelligent approaches applied should have transparent internal representations such that their learnt behaviours and decisions can be represented in the form of human readable rules which are accessible to the end user. This talk will introduce different novel AI techniques that can be used in the agents like type-2 fuzzy logic. The talk will also present the application of these agents to create ambient intelligence within smart environments and the talk will present results obtained from the real test bed of the Essex iDorm. 2005-11-17 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 17 November Nov 11 2005 13 00 2005-11-17 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 17 November Nov 11 2005 14 00 Thursday 17 November 2005, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 35 Audience Participation through Mobile Phones with a Multi-track Music video on a Large Public Display

A talk by <a href="http://mlab.uiah.fi/~jscheib/">Jurgen Scheible</a>, Media Lab at University of Arts and Design Helsinki, Finland

A talk by <a href="http://mlab.uiah.fi/~jscheib/">Jurgen Scheible</a>, Media Lab at University of Arts and Design Helsinki, Finland 2005-12-05 13:00:00 Monday Mon 05 December Dec 12 2005 13 00 2006-10-18 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 18 October Oct 10 2006 14 00 Mon 05 December 2005 - Wed 18 October 2006 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 34 Wireless sensor networks

A talk by Michael Haley, <a href="http://www.bp.com/home.do?categoryId=1">BP International</a>, Chief Technology Office

A talk by Michael Haley, <a href="http://www.bp.com/home.do?categoryId=1">BP International</a>, Chief Technology Office 2006-02-09 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 09 February Feb 02 2006 13 00 2006-02-09 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 09 February Feb 02 2006 14 00 Thursday 09 February 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 33 From cluster analysis to finding interesting patterns

A talk by <a href="http://public.rz.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/%7Eklawonn">Professor Frank Klawonn</a>, University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany

A talk by <a href="http://public.rz.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/%7Eklawonn">Professor Frank Klawonn</a>, University of Applied Sciences, Braunschweig, Germany 2006-04-05 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 05 April Apr 04 2006 13 00 2006-04-05 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 05 April Apr 04 2006 14 00 Wednesday 05 April 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 32 Mastering Complex Causal Systems

By <a href="http://www.cs.ugal.ro/%7Ebocanialac/english/index.html">Dr. Cosmin Danut Bocaniala</a>

By <a href="http://www.cs.ugal.ro/%7Ebocanialac/english/index.html">Dr. Cosmin Danut Bocaniala</a> The talk focuses on a novel distributed methodology for complex causal systems. Here, a complex system represents a system whose global behaviour, which emerges from the interactions between its usually large number of basic components, is difficult to be accurately described via state-of-the-art modeling techniques. The methodology imitates the manner humans perform reasoning when confronted with mastering complex systems. The monitored complex system is partitioned into minimally separated and causally independent parts that can be separately modeled and understood. The fact that each region is causally independent from the rest of the model, allows allocating a dedicated local agent to each region, that will be able to perform the required task at local level. However, the local agents exchange information between them via partition's borders. The methodology provides minimal complexity for the communication process between agents. The research performed so far indicates that the methodology can be successfully applied for a variety of purposes on complex systems, which feature causal relationships between their basic components. During presentation, application examples from Fault Diagnosis, Particle Swarm Optimization and Autonomous Agents areas will be provided. 2006-05-16 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 16 May May 05 2006 13 00 2006-06-16 14:00:00 Friday Fri 16 June Jun 06 2006 14 00 Tue 16 May - Fri 16 June 2006 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 30 The Impact of Information Technology on Deaf People

A talk by Professor Jim Kyle, Bristol University

A talk by Professor Jim Kyle, Bristol University 2006-06-08 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 08 June Jun 06 2006 13 00 2006-06-08 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 08 June Jun 06 2006 14 00 Thursday 08 June 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 29 HF Prediction Methods for Digital Communications

A talk by Professor Les Barclay

A talk by Professor Les Barclay 2006-06-20 12:00:00 Tuesday Tue 20 June Jun 06 2006 12 00 2006-06-20 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 20 June Jun 06 2006 13 00 Tuesday 20 June 2006, 1200-1300 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 28 Power laws in the Magnetosphere - Why are they so interesting? A data analyst's perspective

By Dr. Gary Abel, British Antarctic Survey

By Dr. Gary Abel, British Antarctic Survey There is a growing body of work that shows scale free behaviour in a wide range of phenomena in the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere system. These observations include the AE indices, magnetic fields, electric fields, auroral brightenings, convection flows and magnetic structures associated with reconnection. They have been analysed using a variety of techniques including spectral analysis, threshold crossings and structure function analysis. This seminar presents some analysis of convection velocities measured by the SuperDARN radar which show scale free complex behaviour. These results will be discussed in the wider context along with some of the implications of scale free behaviour in the Magnetosphere. These implications affect both the way we view the system and the framework within which we should view observations. 2006-07-06 11:00:00 Thursday Thu 06 July Jul 07 2006 11 00 2006-07-06 12:00:00 Thursday Thu 06 July Jul 07 2006 12 00 Thursday 06 July 2006, 1100-1200 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 27 Data-Driven Evolving Fuzzy Models - Algorithms and Applications

By Dr Edwin Lughofer, Johan Kepler University, Linz, Austria

By Dr Edwin Lughofer, Johan Kepler University, Linz, Austria In nowadays industrial systems there are quite a lot requirements for an incremental modelling of system behaviours from data. These requirements arise due to a fast tracking of dependencies between system variables with online recorded measurements or due to huge data-bases which cannot be loaded into virtual memory at once. Improving the process security by extending already available models to new operating conditions or by adjusting them on the basis of some feedback from operators is an important issue as well. In this talk algorithms for a data-driven incremental learning of fuzzy models are demonstrated. The main focus is given to fuzzy basis function networks (as a specific type of Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models), but some aspects how to extend the approach to other types of fuzzy models are illuminated as well. A modified version of vector quantization is exploited for rule evolution and an incremental learning of the rules' premise parts. The modifications include the generation of new clusters due to the nature, distribution and quality of new data, point-wise update of already existing clusters and an alternative distance strategy for selecting the most adjacent clusters for each new incoming sample. The premise part learning is connected in a stable manner with a recursive learning of rule consequent functions possessing linear parameters. Stability can be achieved by preventing the 'unlearning' effect in case of steady states and by ensuring that a suboptimal solution of the parameters can be achieved which is close to the optimal one in the least squares sense (i.e. with respect to least squares as underlying optimization function). Some aspects about maintaining the interpretability of the trained fuzzy models round off the algorithmic part of the talk. The second part is focussed on applications of data-driven evolving fuzzy models in industrial systems. These applications include online identification for high-dimensional static and dynamic data, online fault detection, refinement of expert-knowledge based fuzzy systems with data and model-based (inverse and predictive) control. Some evaluation results for online identification and fault detection are mentioned. 2006-09-12 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 12 September Sep 09 2006 14 00 2006-09-12 15:00:00 Tuesday Tue 12 September Sep 09 2006 15 00 Tuesday 12 September 2006, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 26 DCS Seminar

A talk by Dr Mike Warrington, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester

A talk by Dr Mike Warrington, Department of Engineering, University of Leicester 2006-09-19 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 19 September Sep 09 2006 13 00 2006-09-19 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 19 September Sep 09 2006 14 00 Tuesday 19 September 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 56 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well.

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2006-10-25 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 25 October Oct 10 2006 13 00 2006-10-25 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 25 October Oct 10 2006 17 00 Wednesday 25 October 2006, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 25 Extending the capabilities of a clinician

By Professor Maria Petrou, Imperial College, London

By Professor Maria Petrou, Imperial College, London The human vision system has been the inspiration for many computer vision approaches. However, the human vision system has its limitations. The talk will concentrate on methods used to allow us to see characteristics in the data that are not obvious to the human eye. It will show examples of 3D texture analysis for MRI data and also results of tumour boundary detection using high order statistics. 2006-10-26 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 26 October Oct 10 2006 14 00 2006-10-26 15:00:00 Thursday Thu 26 October Oct 10 2006 15 00 Thursday 26 October 2006, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 57 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2006-10-28 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 28 October Oct 10 2006 13 00 2006-10-28 17:00:00 Saturday Sat 28 October Oct 10 2006 17 00 Saturday 28 October 2006, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 58 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2006-12-06 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 06 December Dec 12 2006 13 00 2006-12-06 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 06 December Dec 12 2006 17 00 Wednesday 06 December 2006, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 24 Personalized user behaviour models

A talk by Dr George Magoulas, Birkbeck College, University of London

A talk by Dr George Magoulas, Birkbeck College, University of London 2006-12-06 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 06 December Dec 12 2006 13 00 2006-12-06 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 06 December Dec 12 2006 14 00 Wednesday 06 December 2006, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 59 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2006-12-09 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 09 December Dec 12 2006 13 00 2006-12-09 17:00:00 Saturday Sat 09 December Dec 12 2006 17 00 Saturday 09 December 2006, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 81 Seminar

Electron Heating in the D region and Mesosphere: A Progress Report

Electron Heating in the D region and Mesosphere: A Progress Report presented by Dr. Mike Rietveld from EISCAT, Tromso, Norway Powerful radio-wave heating of electrons in the D region is one of the oldest known effects in ionospheric heating experiments. It was used since the 1950s in the largely forgotten wave-interaction experiments for probing D region densities and collision frequencies. Since the 1980s the effect has been used to modulate ionospheric conductivities and currents, thereby radiating ELF and VLF waves. Since the late 1990s it was found that electron heating affects the strength of polar mesopsheric summer echoes, with both increases and decreases of the echo amplitude being possible. Within the last few years even polar mesospheric winter echoes as low as 62 km can be modified, thus extending the diagnostic use of HF heating facilities. Nevertheless several gaps in our knowledge remain. For example measuring the effect of heating on the incoherently scattered signal from the D region has proved elusive, as has measuring the heating effect on riometers. The theory, results, and ideas for future experiments related to these effects are discussed. 2007-02-07 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 February Feb 02 2007 14 00 2007-02-07 15:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 February Feb 02 2007 15 00 Wednesday 07 February 2007, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 60 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2007-02-14 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 14 February Feb 02 2007 13 00 2007-02-14 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 14 February Feb 02 2007 17 00 Wednesday 14 February 2007, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 80 Seminar

The artificial auroras: Wave-particle interactions without boundaries

The artificial auroras: Wave-particle interactions without boundaries by Dr. Mike Kosch from Communications Systems Department Abstract High-power high-frequency radio waves cause plasma turbulence in the Earth's ionosphere, which accelerates electrons, causing particle collisions, resulting in artificial auroras. The optical emissions give direct evidence of the electron energy spectrum. This work contributes to understanding solar corona heating, solar wind acceleration and the energisation of magnetospheric particles, which ultimately cause the natural aurora, and to space weather phenomena, which directly contribute to spacecraft failure. venue: Physics Department 2007-02-14 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 14 February Feb 02 2007 14 00 2007-02-14 15:00:00 Wednesday Wed 14 February Feb 02 2007 15 00 Wednesday 14 February 2007, 1400-1500 0 0 Lancaster University 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 23 DCS Seminar

Effects of the Ionosphere on Space Based Radars

Effects of the Ionosphere on Space Based Radars Prof. Paul S. Cannon Chief Scientist Communications Division Centre for Propagation and Atmospheric Research QinetiQ The presentation will start by introducing the principles of space based synthetic aperture radars together with a summary of the effects that the ionosphere can have on satellite to ground transmissions. The presentation will then go on to describe some measurements which have been made of channel impulse response of the ionosphere near 150 and 400 MHz. This is first determination of ionospheric distortion, comprising the simultaneous characterization of both multipath and Doppler, on wideband, transionospheric VHF and UHF signals. The measurements took place as part of the test phase of the United Kingdom-United States Wideband Ionospheric Distortion Experiment during the evening (1000 UT) of 18 January 2005. This characterization has been achieved using the ALTAIR radar at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll (9.395 N, 167.469 E (12.87 N, 237.16 E corrected geomagnetic)) in the Pacific, in conjunction with a low Earth orbiting, constant radar cross-section, passive satellite (calibration sphere). During the period when the two-way S4 index was above 0.8 on both channels, the median coherency times were 43 and 96 ms at VHF and UHF, respectively (at 1.5s). The corresponding median coherency bandwidths were 0.8 and 2.1 MHz. These measurements will be compared with theoretical calculations. 2007-02-15 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 15 February Feb 02 2007 13 00 2007-02-15 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 15 February Feb 02 2007 14 00 Thursday 15 February 2007, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 61 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2007-02-17 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 17 February Feb 02 2007 13 00 2007-02-17 17:00:00 Saturday Sat 17 February Feb 02 2007 17 00 Saturday 17 February 2007, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 62 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2007-02-21 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 21 February Feb 02 2007 13 00 2007-02-21 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 21 February Feb 02 2007 17 00 Wednesday 21 February 2007, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 63 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2007-02-24 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 24 February Feb 02 2007 13 00 2007-02-24 17:00:00 Saturday Sat 24 February Feb 02 2007 17 00 Saturday 24 February 2007, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 16 Technology Matters Event

In addition to the <a href="http://infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/graduate_academy.php?theme_id=13">Graduate Academy</a>, this Technology Matters event also featured the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/factsheets/accelerator.pdf">Accelerator Programme</a> (a joint initiative with Lancaster University Management Schools' <a href="http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/Departments/Entrep/">IEED</a> which offers a unique opportunity for technology-led companies in eligible areas of Cumbria and...

In addition to the <a href="http://infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/graduate_academy.php?theme_id=13">Graduate Academy</a>, this Technology Matters event also featured the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/factsheets/accelerator.pdf">Accelerator Programme</a> (a joint initiative with Lancaster University Management Schools' <a href="http://www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/Departments/Entrep/">IEED</a> which offers a unique opportunity for technology-led companies in eligible areas of Cumbria and Lancashire to access a range of specialist support to assist in their business's development) and the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/business/partner_programme.php">Partner Programme</a> (aimed at developing a two way relationship between InfoLab21 and our partners to maximize support for business development in the region). <h4>Presentations</h4> The following videos show the presentation slides along with the audio captured at the event. (If your browser does not open the video files directly try right-clicking and saving the file first) <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/presentations/iga.avi">InfoLab21 Graduate Academy Presentations</a> <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/presentations/accelerator.avi">Accelerator Programme Presentation</a> To register for the next Technology Matters event contact Business Development Officers: <a href="mailto:n.king@lancaster.ac.uk">Nick King</a> or <a href="mailto:c.i.mclaughlin@lancaster.ac.uk">Colin McLaughlin</a> 01524 510447/3 <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/factsheets/technology_matters.pdf">Flyer for this event</a> 2007-03-07 09:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 March Mar 03 2007 09 00 2007-03-07 12:00:00 Wednesday Wed 07 March Mar 03 2007 12 00 Wednesday 07 March 2007, 0900-1200 0 0 Room C74, InfoLab21, Lancaster University 1 Technology Matters Technology Matters Events InfoLab21's Technology Matters series provides a showcase for academic expertise and technological development with the focus on specific topics. Networking sessions offer businesses the opportunity not only to talk to each other but also to find out more about the incubator businesses at InfoLab21 and exchange ideas with academic staff from the Computing and Communication Sytems departments. These events are open to all. They will probably have a wider appeal to businesses within the digital industries and those involved in an IT function within companies but anyone with an interest is welcome to come along and find out more! If you have been unable to attend previous events you can view the presentation slides in the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_type_id=1">events archive</a>. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1178121939.jpg 75 75 64 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2007-03-21 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 21 March Mar 03 2007 13 00 2007-03-21 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 21 March Mar 03 2007 17 00 Wednesday 21 March 2007, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 65 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2007-03-24 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 24 March Mar 03 2007 13 00 2007-03-24 17:00:00 Saturday Sat 24 March Mar 03 2007 17 00 Saturday 24 March 2007, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 94 The mysterious flickering aurora

by Bjorn Gustavsson from Norway

by Bjorn Gustavsson from Norway 2007-05-08 15:30:00 Tuesday Tue 08 May May 05 2007 15 30 2007-05-08 16:30:00 Tuesday Tue 08 May May 05 2007 16 30 Tuesday 08 May 2007, 1530-1630 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 93 Model-based on-line Fault Detection and Image Classification

A seminar by DR. Edwin Lughofer from Johanes Kepler Univeristy, Linz, Austria visiting Fellow of the Royal Society (host: Dr. P. Angelov)

A seminar by DR. Edwin Lughofer from Johanes Kepler Univeristy, Linz, Austria visiting Fellow of the Royal Society (host: Dr. P. Angelov) An On-Line Interactive and Self-Adaptive Image Classification Framework Edwin Lughofer edwin.lughofer@jku.at, http://www.flll.jku.at/people/staff/lughofer.html Johannes Kepler University Linz Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria Abstract In many machine vision applications, such as inspection tasks for quality control, an automatic system tries to reproduce human cognitive abilities. The most efficient and flexible way to achieve this, is to learn the task from a human expert. This training process involves object recognition methods, adaptive feature extraction algorithms and evolving classifiers. A lot of research has been done on each of these topics, however, simply plugging all of these methods together does not necessarily lead to a working machine vision system. In this talk, a generic self-adaptive image classification framework is presented, focussing on integration issues and on topics that are specific to quality control applications. The framework is shown in Figure 1. The basic components of these framework are the following: Generating contrast images by calculating the deviation images to the master Recognizing ROIs (=regions of interest) in the deviation images An adaptive object and aggregated feature extraction component (object features characterize single objects, whereas aggregated features characterize whole images) Training of (initial) base classifiers for aggregated and object features (! aggregated and object classifiers) based on off-line pre-labeled image sets Ensemble Classifiers for resolving contradictory input among different operators Strategy for on-line classification of new images (incorporating object, aggregated and ensemble classifiers) On-line adaptation/evolution of base and ensemble classifiers (based on operator's feedback during on-line mode) Early prediction of success or failure of a classifier Each of these components will be addressed during the talk. At the end of the talk some results on real-recorded images in various industrial systems will be presented. These results will include a comparison of object recognition methods as well as off-line and on-line classification accuracies and achievable bounds (from base and ensemble classifiers) based on (off-line) pre-labeled data and operator's feedback during on-line operation mode. 2007-05-24 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 24 May May 05 2007 13 00 2007-05-24 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 24 May May 05 2007 14 00 Thursday 24 May 2007, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 90 SensorNet 2007

This one day workshop event is to be held at Lancaster University Conference Centre and is aimed at businesses and academics interested in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies and their commercial applications.

This one day workshop event is to be held at Lancaster University Conference Centre and is aimed at businesses and academics interested in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies and their commercial applications. This emerging area of technology is an extremely pervasive area of research and has many current and potential applications such as in environmental monitoring, health, emergency response, manufacturing, traffic management, security, assisted living and intelligent housing etc. Attendees will enjoy short faculty and industry presentations, panel discussion, and networking opportunities with the aim being to collaborate and explore commercialisation opportunities in this field. <h4>Programme</h4> 8.30 - 9.00 Arrival reception 9.00 - 9.30 Keynote Speech by <a href="http://www.kevinwarwick.com">Kevin Warwick</a>, Professor of Cybernetics, Reading University 9.30 - 10.40 Lancaster University Presentations 10.40 - 11.00 Tea & Networking 11.00 - 12.10 Industry Presentations 12.10 - 13.00 Buffet Lunch 13.00 - 14.10 NW Academic Presentations 14.10 - 15.10 Poster and Demo Session 15.10 - 16.10 Panel Discussion 16.10 - 17.00 Discussion on Future Directions We would be interested to hear from anyone wishing to attend or speak at the event. Contact <a href="mailto:n.king@lancaster.ac.uk">Nick King</a> or <a href="mailto:c.i.mclaughlin@lancaster.ac.uk">Colin McLaughlin</a> Tel: 01524 510443/7 <a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/sensornet/">View SensorNet 2007 Website</a> <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/factsheets/sensornet.pdf">Download Flyer</a> 2007-05-30 09:00:00 Wednesday Wed 30 May May 05 2007 09 00 2007-05-30 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 30 May May 05 2007 17 00 Wednesday 30 May 2007, 0900-1700 0 0 Lancaster University 9 Networking Event Networking Events http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1174587387.jpg 75 75 100 Cognitive radio: A Future Communication Technology

Research Seminar by Dr. Saqib Ali.

Research Seminar by Dr. Saqib Ali. 2007-06-15 10:00:00 Friday Fri 15 June Jun 06 2007 10 00 2007-06-15 11:00:00 Friday Fri 15 June Jun 06 2007 11 00 Friday 15 June 2007, 1000-1100 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 102 Science and Technology Taster Day

Lower sixth students from schools across the North West are invited to come to Lancaster University's Faculty of Science and Technology to try out subjects ranging from Engineering to Biology.

Lower sixth students from schools across the North West are invited to come to Lancaster University's Faculty of Science and Technology to try out subjects ranging from Engineering to Biology. The day is designed to give students a flavour of real university life and the breadth of science and technology subjects on offer at Lancaster. 2007-07-04 10:00:00 Wednesday Wed 04 July Jul 07 2007 10 00 2007-07-04 15:00:00 Wednesday Wed 04 July Jul 07 2007 15 00 Wednesday 04 July 2007, 1000-1500 0 0 Lancaster University 17 Schools Event Schools Events There are lots of opportunities for schools to get involved with Science and Technology at Lancaster University. Find out more at <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/schools/">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/schools/</a>. 101 Unmanned Ground Vehicles Modelling and Control

A talk presented jointly by the expert from Guidance & Control Group, Departemnt of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, Cranfield University (Defence Academy of the United Kingdom) Dr. John Economou.

A talk presented jointly by the expert from Guidance & Control Group, Departemnt of Aerospace, Power and Sensors, Cranfield University (Defence Academy of the United Kingdom) Dr. John Economou. 2007-07-04 12:30:00 Wednesday Wed 04 July Jul 07 2007 12 30 2007-07-04 13:30:00 Wednesday Wed 04 July Jul 07 2007 13 30 Wednesday 04 July 2007, 1230-1330 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 92 Fabry-Perot Spectrometers in the Australian Antarctic Territory

A seminar by Theo Davies from La Trobe University, Australia

A seminar by Theo Davies from La Trobe University, Australia 2007-07-12 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 12 July Jul 07 2007 14 00 2007-07-12 15:00:00 Thursday Thu 12 July Jul 07 2007 15 00 Thursday 12 July 2007, 1400-1500 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 87 Ninth International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications

Supported by the IEEE Information Theory UK RI Chapter.

Supported by the IEEE Information Theory UK RI Chapter. A major objective of ISCTA '07 will be to pursue the progression from communication and information theory through to the implementation, evaluation and performance of practical communication systems of various types. <a href="http://www.hwcomms.co.uk/ISCTA07.htm">Final call for papers</a> 2007-07-16 00:00:00 Monday Mon 16 July Jul 07 2007 00 00 2007-07-20 00:00:00 Friday Fri 20 July Jul 07 2007 00 00 Mon 16 - Fri 20 July 2007 0 0 St Martin's College Conference Centre - Ambleside 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops 104 21st Human Computer Interaction Conference

Lancaster is hosting the 21st Annual British Human-Computer Interaction Conference on 3rd-7th Sept.

Lancaster is hosting the 21st Annual British Human-Computer Interaction Conference on 3rd-7th Sept. This is one of the longest running and most high profile events in usability, user interface design and all matters about the relation of people to technology. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners from the UK and across the world. The conference includes a number of tutorials and workshops on Monday and Tuesday (3rd - 4th Sept) followed by the main conference. Thursday (6th Sept.) will have a practitioner focus, including a keynote by usability and user experience guru Jarad Spool. The KBC is sponsoring the conference to promote knowledge transfer in this area and there are a number of special ways in which Associate Companies and ICT Cluster members can benefit from the conference: <ul><li>On Wednesday evening (18:30, 5th Sept.) there is a free welcome reception in InfoLab21. This is a superb opportunity for SMEs to network with peers from across industry, as well as with academics in the field of HCI. </li><li>On Thursday (3:45, 6th Sept.) there is a free careers/recruitment event that would allow your access to the best students and graduates working in the HCI field.</li><li>Cluster members can attend the practitioner day for £50 (includes lunch and refreshments) instead of the normal day rate of £260.</li></ul> To register interest in these events, please contact Amanda Ross <a href="mailto:a.ross@lancaster.ac.uk">a.ross@lancaster.ac.uk</a> If you would like to attend the whole conference or any tutorials or workshops, you can do so at reduced 'member' rates. For this just use the conference registration system (on the web site <a href="http://www.hci2007.org">www.hci2007.org</a>), on the registration form tick "BCS member" and when asked for the membership number enter "KBC Cluster". 2007-09-03 08:30:00 Monday Mon 03 September Sep 09 2007 08 30 2007-09-07 12:15:00 Friday Fri 07 September Sep 09 2007 12 15 Mon 03 - Fri 07 September 2007 0 0 InfoLab21 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1186569904.gif 75 75 78 Technology Matters Event

<h4>Financing Innovation in SMEs</h4>

<h4>Financing Innovation in SMEs</h4> Schedule: 9:00am - Registration Tea and Coffee 9:30am - Introduction (10 mins) 9.40am - Presentation 1 (45 mins) 10.25am - Refreshments Break (20 mins) 10.45am - Presentation 2 (45 mins) 11.30am - Close (5 mins) 11.35am - 12.00 Networking <h4>Presentation 1: R&D Tax Relief/Credits</h4> Anthony Cox and Rebecca Murdoch Corporate Tax Compliance Tax and People Services - KPMG LLP (UK). KPMG will be presenting on all aspects of claiming for R&D tax relief with a specific focus on will focus on the rules for research and development tax credits, highlighting how the relief can be applied to those in the ICT sector. The definition of Research and Development ("R&D") for tax purposes is wider than most businesses realise and offers considerable opportunities to secure additional tax benefits. After all, the majority of companies carry out some form of R&D, even if they don't think of it strictly in those terms. The current definition covers both pure and applied research, as well as product development activities where there is an advance in science or technology. Many businesses could be wasting valuable tax relief opportunities by not making effective claims for R&D tax relief so if you'd like to find what tax relief you might be eligible for please do register for our September 5th event. <h4>Presentation 2: NWDA Business Finance Solutions</h4> Clive Grunsell - Head of Grants for R&D - Northwest Regional Development Agency The NWDA manages and funds a number of business finance solutions designed to help businesses in the region to start up and grow. At our September 5th event Clive will be giving an overview of these solutions including grant schemes (Capital Investment Grants, Grants for Research and Development) where money is given to a new or existing business for a specific project, as well as a number of loans and investment schemes (Equity Finance, Business Angels and Small Business Loans) where the money is repayable when the company has income, profits or shares are sold. <h4>Registration</h4> To register for Technology event please email Sarah Maginness <a href="mailto:s.maginness@lancaster.ac.uk">s.maginness@lancaster.ac.uk</a> 2007-09-05 09:00:00 Wednesday Wed 05 September Sep 09 2007 09 00 2007-09-05 12:00:00 Wednesday Wed 05 September Sep 09 2007 12 00 Wednesday 05 September 2007, 0900-1200 0 0 Room C74, InfoLab21, Lancaster University 1 Technology Matters Technology Matters Events InfoLab21's Technology Matters series provides a showcase for academic expertise and technological development with the focus on specific topics. Networking sessions offer businesses the opportunity not only to talk to each other but also to find out more about the incubator businesses at InfoLab21 and exchange ideas with academic staff from the Computing and Communication Sytems departments. These events are open to all. They will probably have a wider appeal to businesses within the digital industries and those involved in an IT function within companies but anyone with an interest is welcome to come along and find out more! If you have been unable to attend previous events you can view the presentation slides in the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_type_id=1">events archive</a>. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1178121868.jpg 75 75 105 International Workshop on Self-Organizing Systems 2007

Self-Organizing Systems (SOS) is a new research area exploring the theory and engineering of distributed computing systems that can self-configure, self-manage and self-adapt.

Self-Organizing Systems (SOS) is a new research area exploring the theory and engineering of distributed computing systems that can self-configure, self-manage and self-adapt. The aims are first to develop systems that have better properties such as high availability, strong security and the ability to evolve, and second to produce a more fundamental understanding of the ways in which future distributed systems may be designed. IWSOS is an International Workshop series dedicated to these issues. The 2007 workshop, which is being held in the Lake District (<a href="http://iwsos.comp.lancs.ac.uk/">http://iwsos.comp.lancs.ac.uk/</a>), focusses on networked systems in particular, and is co-chaired by David Hutchison and Randy Katz. 2007-09-11 10:00:00 Tuesday Tue 11 September Sep 09 2007 10 00 2007-09-13 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 13 September Sep 09 2007 13 00 Tue 11 - Thu 13 September 2007 0 0 The Lodore Falls Hotel 13 Demonstration/Workshop Demonstration Workshops Demonstrations and discussions to share views and assist developments in areas of research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1186758454.gif 75 75 107 Innovate Show 2007

InfoLab21 students will be showcasing their latest research and technologies at this years annual Innovate Show.

InfoLab21 students will be showcasing their latest research and technologies at this years annual Innovate Show. Previous events have shown demonstrations of autonomous robots, mobile location blogging, 3D animations and more traditional fighting games. The show, presented by MSc and PhD students will run throughout the morning and early afternoon on the 19th with a series of structured presentations during the morning regarding how companies can engage with the academic community at InfoLab21. You can see details of the 2006 show, including presentation content at <a href="http://www.innovateshow.com">Innovate Show 2006</a> with some further examples of technologies for view at: <a href="http://www.locomash.com">www.locomash.com</a> , <a href="http://www.locovid.com">www.locomash.com</a> and <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_id=77">Innovation Exchange 2007</a> Registration To register for the event please email Dr Phil Benachour p.benachour@lancaster.ac.uk 2007-09-19 09:00:00 Wednesday Wed 19 September Sep 09 2007 09 00 2007-09-19 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 19 September Sep 09 2007 14 00 Wednesday 19 September 2007, 0900-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 9 Networking Event Networking Events http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1189605010.gif 75 75 106 Integrated Micro and Nano Systems

Design, Test and Manufacturing Technologies for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems. A European network of Excellence sponsored event at Lancaster University.

Design, Test and Manufacturing Technologies for Integrated Micro and Nano Systems. A European network of Excellence sponsored event at Lancaster University. A 4 day event showcasing technical advances in the field of Micro and Nano Systems Engineering through the European Network of Excellence in Design for Micro and Nano Manufacture and related programs. The event will also address technology access, services and opportunities in the field for small and medium sized industry and provide larger, user companies with a forum to assess advances in the field and opportunities for uptake. Day 1: 1st October 2007 (FREE EVENT) Micro and Nano Systems - A new Technology for a new Industrial era. An outreach day identifying UK capability and facilities,core technologies and access mechanisms across Europe, engineering services, support associations and networks, case studies and new funding initiatives including FP7 and DTI based. Day 2: 2nd October 2007 Business Development and Industrial Challenges An education and dissemination day focusing on building business activities that either utilise or target Micro and Nano Systems. Will include tutorials on commercialisation and supply chains, reliability engineering and test. Will showcase new intellectual property developments, methodologies for Micro and Nano Systems design and manufacture, engineering services and demonstrator projects. Day 3 and 4: 3rd - 4th October 2007 Collaborative Research and Industrialisation Technical days focusing on state-of-the-art in design and manufacturing technologies for Micro and Nano based systems. Will present key advances in reliability and test engineering, packaging technologies and system integration together with contributions from the design automation, simulation and modelling communities. Registrations and Details To register please complete the registration form available on-line at: <a href="http://www.engineering.lancs.ac.uk/microsystems/mnt2007.html">www.engineering.lancs.ac.uk/microsystems/mnt2007.html</a> 2007-10-01 10:00:00 Monday Mon 01 October Oct 10 2007 10 00 2007-10-04 13:30:00 Thursday Thu 04 October Oct 10 2007 13 30 Mon 01 - Thu 04 October 2007 0 0 Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1187087552.gif 75 75 97 New Approximation Techniques in Nonlinear Filtering

Richard Vinter, Imperial College London

Richard Vinter, Imperial College London One of the most important areas of application of nonlinear filtering is to Bayesian target tracking: that is, estimating the position of a target from noisy sensor measurements. In this area, linear Gaussian models are commonly used to describe motion of the target and sensor platform. The estimation problem is typically non-linear because of the nature of the measurement process which, depending on the precise nature of the application, provides noisy information about angle-to-line-of-sight (or bearing), range or range rate, all of which quantities are nonlinear functions of target position. Traditional approaches to target tracking are based on the application of the Kalman filter to a linearization of the underlying equations about current estimates (the extended Kalman filter approach). However, the Kalman filter breaks down (fails to provide convergent estimates) when applied to many challenging tracking problems involving, perhaps, multiple sensor platforms or degenerate configurations where the measurements provide very little information about some aspects of target motion. This accounts for the great interest in recent years in particle filters; according to this approach the conditional density, on which estimates of target position are based, is approximated by a discrete distribution obtained by carrying out on-line Monte Carlo tests. The ability of particle filters to provide useful estimates for difficult tracking problems where extended Kalman filters are inadequate is now well documented. Their main disadvantage however is the large computation requirements of such tracking algorithms. The question therefore arises whether tracking algorithms can be devised which achieve the accuracy of particle filters for difficult tracking problems but whose computational demands are comparable to those of Kalman filters. We show that, if we focus on specific classes of tracking problems, 'bearings only' tracking or 'range only' tracking for example, this goal is achievable. The filters however need to be tailored to the geometric structures of the measurement process concerned. We examine the performance of new filters, devised at Imperial College according to these principles, in collaboration with Martin Clark. We illustrate their benefits in a range of challenging scenarios where particle filters are computationally expensive, and where the extended Kalman filter fails altogether. 2007-10-25 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 October Oct 10 2007 13 00 2007-10-25 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 October Oct 10 2007 14 00 Thursday 25 October 2007, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 109 LU Postgraduate Open Day

If you're thinking about studying for a postgraduate qualification, Lancaster University would like to invite you to its Postgraduate Open Day.

If you're thinking about studying for a postgraduate qualification, Lancaster University would like to invite you to its Postgraduate Open Day. You'll be able to talk on a one-to-one basis with our postgraduate staff, visit our academic and recreational facilities, and receive advice about funding and study options. 2007-12-05 14:30:00 Wednesday Wed 05 December Dec 12 2007 14 30 2007-12-05 18:30:00 Wednesday Wed 05 December Dec 12 2007 18 30 Wednesday 05 December 2007, 1430-1830 0 0 Lancaster University 7 Postgraduate Open Day Postgraduate Open Days Open days are an opportunity for prospective students to meet the staff and students, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. 110 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2008-02-20 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 20 February Feb 02 2008 13 00 2008-02-20 17:00:00 Wednesday Wed 20 February Feb 02 2008 17 00 Wednesday 20 February 2008, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 111 Communication Systems Open Day

Once potential undergraduates have selected a Communication Systems degree at Lancaster as one of their UCAS choices, they will be invited to come to one of our open days. Parents and guardians are welcome to come along as well. Open days are held regularly. As well as hearing more about the department and being given a guided tour around the University, open days are a chance to talk to members of staff and current students. To find out more, speak to our <a href="http://www.dcs.lancs.ac.uk/admissions/contact.php#coordinators">Undergraduate Coordinator</a>. 2008-02-23 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 23 February Feb 02 2008 13 00 2008-02-23 17:00:00 Saturday Sat 23 February Feb 02 2008 17 00 Saturday 23 February 2008, 1300-1700 0 0 InfoLab21 8 Undergraduate Open Day Undergraduate Open Days Department open days are an opportunity for prospective undergraduate students to meet the staff, check out departmental facilities and have a look round the university. Get in touch with the department to find out more. 187 Science and Technology Taster Day

The Faculty of Science and Technology's annual summer Taster Day is an opportunity for year 12 students to get an insight into the courses available at Lancaster University.

The Faculty of Science and Technology's annual summer Taster Day is an opportunity for year 12 students to get an insight into the courses available at Lancaster University. The day will give students an idea of university life and what it's like to study science and technology subjects. Departments likely to be involved include Maths and Statistics, Biological Sciences, Geography, Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Computing, Communication Systems and Engineering. The day is aimed specifically at those students who are interested in these subject areas and how they would be taught at University. During the one day event the students will attend a series of short lectures, practical workshops and have the opportunity to talk informally to staff and students from the various departments. Lunch and refreshments will be provided for the students and staff who attend. Schedule <ul> <li>9:45-10:00 Registration/Introduction</li> <li>10:00-11:00 Campus Tour</li> <li>11:00-12:30 Session 1</li> <li>12:30-1:15 Lunch</li> <li>1:15-2:45 Session 2</li> </ul> Places will be limited so early booking is recommended to avoid disappointment. Contact <a href="mailto:a.darragh@lancaster.ac.uk">Alan Darragh</a> to find out more. 2008-07-02 09:45:00 Wednesday Wed 02 July Jul 07 2008 09 45 2008-07-02 15:00:00 Wednesday Wed 02 July Jul 07 2008 15 00 Wednesday 02 July 2008, 0945-1500 0 0 Lancaster University 17 Schools Event Schools Events There are lots of opportunities for schools to get involved with Science and Technology at Lancaster University. Find out more at <a href="http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/schools/">http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/schools/</a>. 208 Research Seminar 'DIGITAL OBESITY addressed by Fuzzy Information Management' by Prof T. Martin (Bristol University and BT)

The phrase "digital obesity" summarises a range of problems arising from our propensity to generate and retain a rapidly growing volume of data, at web-scale as well as at corporate and personal scales. Much of this data is effectively wasted unless we can find and use the "right" data when needed.

The phrase "digital obesity" summarises a range of problems arising from our propensity to generate and retain a rapidly growing volume of data, at web-scale as well as at corporate and personal scales. Much of this data is effectively wasted unless we can find and use the "right" data when needed. Statistical methods help to a degree with numerical data, although they sometimes "average out" useful information. Textual data is less amenable to formal treatment. To a large degree, the problem arises from a mis-match between the precisely defined terms used by formal models of data storage and retrieval and the far more subtle and expressive terms used in human communication. We are adept at communicating in a language where the majority of concepts are fuzzy, defined by common usage rather than by necessary and sufficient conditions. It is only when we interact with computers that we adapt our way of thinking to artificial precision. We need to redress this balance, so that computers adapt to our way of thinking. The success of fuzzy control is one example of the way in which fuzzy set theory enables computers to work with commonly understood terms such as "hot" and "slow" rather than with precise numerical values. This talk describes some ways in which fuzziness enables computers to work with ill-defined concepts, leading to more effective use of text- based information in business and other situations. Trevor Martin is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Bristol. Since 2001 he has been funded by BT as a Senior Research Fellow, researching soft computing in intelligent information management including areas such as the semantic web, soft concept hierarchies and user modelling. In addition, he has investigated the use of intelligent data analysis for extracting information from home sensor networks. He is a member of the editorial board of Fuzzy Sets and Systems, and has served on many conference programme and organising committees, including programme chair for the 2007 IEEE Fuzzy Systems Conference. He has published over 200 papers in refereed conferences, journals and books, and is a Chartered Engineer and member of the BCS and IEEE 2008-07-02 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 02 July Jul 07 2008 13 00 2008-07-02 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 02 July Jul 07 2008 14 00 Wednesday 02 July 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 209 Blind Source Separation and Independent Component Analysis

The seminar will present theoretical developments in the area of blind source separation (BSS), also known as independent component analysis (ICA).

The seminar will present theoretical developments in the area of blind source separation (BSS), also known as independent component analysis (ICA). BSS and ICA address those situations where mixtures of a set of unknown source signals are available and the problem is to extract the original source signals from these observed mixtures without the knowledge of the mixing matrix. In the case of linear, instantaneous mixtures, the received signals, y, can be written as y = A*x, where x represents the unknown original source signals and A is the unknown mixing matrix. It will be demonstrated that independent source signals can be extracted using higher-order statistics (HOS). BSS and ICA have many potential applications in diverse fields. The seminar will present theoretical developments as well as examples of simulation, demonstration, and real-world examples. speaker: Prof. Asoke K Nandi David Jardine Chair of Signal Processing Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics The University of Liverpool Brownlow Hill, Liverpool, L69 3GJ, UK 2008-07-10 11:30:00 Thursday Thu 10 July Jul 07 2008 11 30 2008-07-10 12:30:00 Thursday Thu 10 July Jul 07 2008 12 30 Thursday 10 July 2008, 1130-1230 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 214 Modelling Evolving User behaviours

A talk by Jose Antonio Iglesias from the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain).

A talk by Jose Antonio Iglesias from the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). Knowledge about computer users is very beneficial for assisting them, predicting their future actions or detecting masqueraders. Thus, to create and recognize the behaviour profile of a computer user is an interesting task. However, a challenge in this task is how to accurately profile a user while his/her behaviour changes constantly. Thus, a user profile should be frequently revised to keep it up to date. In order to solve this problem, Evolving System can be very helpful. This talk describes a way to create the model of computer user behaviour and classify it using Evolving Systems. In order to tackle this task, computer user behaviour is represented as the sequence of the commands s/he types. This sequence of commands is transformed into a distribution of relevant subsequences in order to find out a profile that defines its behaviour. Then, an evolving system is applied for classifying the profile. Jose Antonio Iglesias is teaching assistant at the Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain). He received his Master´s degree in Computer Science from Valladolid University (Spain). He has several papers about behaviour modelling and classification, especially in two different environments (RoboCup and UNIX User). Related to the RocoCup environment, he participated in the RoboCup Coach Competition 2006 held in Bremen (Germany). His research interests include evolving intelligent systems, modelling behaviour and their applications in real problems. 2008-07-18 13:00:00 Friday Fri 18 July Jul 07 2008 13 00 2008-07-18 14:00:00 Friday Fri 18 July Jul 07 2008 14 00 Friday 18 July 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 210 Phase Noise and Suppression Method in the 3G-LTE Uplink Communication System

seminar by Prof. Heung-Gyoon Ryu from Chungbuk National University, Korea

seminar by Prof. Heung-Gyoon Ryu from Chungbuk National University, Korea speaker: Position: Professor in the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea Prof. Ryu is the recipient of the "2002 ACADEMIC AWARD" from the Korea Electromagnetic Engineering Society (Institute) His fields of Interest include: - New next generation mobile communication, B3G/4G - MIMO system with OFDM for next generation mobile communication - Low Power communication for Satellite and HAPS - Spread Spectrum System , AJ and LPI Technology - Communication Signal Processing. - GPS, WLAN, Mobile Ad-hoc Network, Wireless Sensor Network. - High performance PLL Design and Application - CDMA System Design and Adaptive Modulation System - PLC(power line communication) and Home Networking, etc . . . - From 1988 until now, Professor Ryu has published over 230 papers IEEE and Korea domestic journals, over 50 papers in international and domestic conferences. He has finished or now proceed over 35 research projects from Korea government, ETRI, ADD and Samsung, LG, etc. paper review, book publication, . . .). He graduated 13 Ph.D students and 77 M.S students (2 from Vietnam and 2 from China). Now, He is advising professor of 4 M.S. students and 6 Ph.D students Publication Lists (within recent 5 years): - 24 IEEE and IEE Transaction papers - Submitted papers to IEEE (under review): 32 papers - International conference papers: over 25 papers - Domestic regular journal papers: about 55 papers - Domestic conference papers: about 12 papers - Submitted or registered Korea patents: 16 patents - USA patent : 1 - Canada patent : 1 - European Patent : 3 2008-08-20 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 20 August Aug 08 2008 13 00 2008-08-20 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 20 August Aug 08 2008 14 00 Wednesday 20 August 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 220 Postgraduate Show - Innovate 2008

InfoLab21 students will be showcasing their latest research and technologies at this years annual Innovate Show.

InfoLab21 students will be showcasing their latest research and technologies at this years annual Innovate Show. The event will display postgraduate project work on autonomous robots, informatics, object tracking, wireless and space communications, mobile location blogging and location based services, 3D modeling and animation, Media production and Distribution, and Virtual Design for advertising. The show, presented by MSc and PhD students will run throughout the morning and early afternoon on the 10th September with poster presentations in room C74 in the Knowledge Business Centre. We are keen to meet researchers from other Departments in the University and Industry who are interested in interdisciplinary projects. Registration: For enquiries please email Phil Benachour at p.benachour@lancaster.ac.uk Telephone: 01524 510 387 2008-09-10 10:00:00 Wednesday Wed 10 September Sep 09 2008 10 00 2008-09-10 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 10 September Sep 09 2008 14 00 Wednesday 10 September 2008, 1000-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 13 Demonstration/Workshop Demonstration Workshops Demonstrations and discussions to share views and assist developments in areas of research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1220867802.jpg 75 75 219 Technology Matters - Knowledge Transfer Partnerships

How can a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) work for you? An event to showcase the Governments premier Knowledge Transfer Programme.

How can a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) work for you? An event to showcase the Governments premier Knowledge Transfer Programme. Highlighted in most of the governments' recent economic policy documents (notably the Sainsbury Review and the more recent Innovation Nation) KTPs are seen by many to be Europe's leading programme to help businesses improve their competitiveness and productivity through the better use of the knowledge, technology and skills that reside the UK's further and higher education establishments. A KTP partnership is generally a 3 year project and has 3 main elements: <ol><li>A company partner (KTPs supports a broad cross-section of UK firms, regardless of size,</li><li>A knowledge-base partner - this is a higher education institution (e.g. university), college or research organisation and</li><li>A KTP Associate(s) - one or more high calibre Associates (recently qualified people). The Associate(s) transfer the knowledge the company is seeking into the business via a strategic KTP project.</li></ol> This event will provide attendees with a chance to hear presentations from all the parties involved in the KTP process. You'll also be able to speak to the two KTP advisors working in our region and hear from two regional SMEs who have carried out recent and successful KTPs (In Touch & Rinicom). In addition to this you'll also have the opportunity to meet and speak to both of the new Heads of Department (Computing and Communication Systems) at InfoLab21 and gain their views and thoughts on the Knowledge Transfer Programme. If you are interested in the KTP Programme and would like to speak to those who have successfully carried out a KTP or the people who administer the programme this event is not to be missed. By attending this event you'll be able to gain a clear understanding of the programme from both the industry and academic perspectives and also gain valuable introductions to the people who administer the programme at the KTP office and support the programme at InfoLab21. Event Registration The schedule for the event is included below and to register for this Technology Matters event please email Nick King on <a href="mailto:n.king@lancaster.ac.uk">n.king@lancaster.ac.uk</a> Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first serve basis so please do contact us as soon as possible to reserve your place. 2008-09-12 09:00:00 Friday Fri 12 September Sep 09 2008 09 00 2008-09-12 12:00:00 Friday Fri 12 September Sep 09 2008 12 00 Friday 12 September 2008, 0900-1200 0 0 Room C74, InfoLab21, Lancaster University 1 Technology Matters Technology Matters Events InfoLab21's Technology Matters series provides a showcase for academic expertise and technological development with the focus on specific topics. Networking sessions offer businesses the opportunity not only to talk to each other but also to find out more about the incubator businesses at InfoLab21 and exchange ideas with academic staff from the Computing and Communication Sytems departments. These events are open to all. They will probably have a wider appeal to businesses within the digital industries and those involved in an IT function within companies but anyone with an interest is welcome to come along and find out more! If you have been unable to attend previous events you can view the presentation slides in the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_type_id=1">events archive</a>. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1178121829.jpg 75 75 234 Wireless Video Transmission:

Wireless Video Transmission:

Wireless Video Transmission: from joint source and channel coding to cross-layer design Dr. Maria Martini Senior Lecturer in wireless and mobile communications Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics Kingston University Penrhyn Road, Kingston-Upon-Thames London, KT1 2EE, UK Phone: +44 (0) 20 8547 7900 Fax: +44 (0) 20 8547 7972 e-mail: mgmartini@ieee.org m.martini@kingston.ac.uk Abstract: Recently, joint source and channel coding and decoding (JSCC/D) techniques that include a co-ordination between source and channel encoders were investigated, in particular for transmission of audio data, images and video over wireless channels. It was shown that, for wireless audio and video transmission, separate design of source and channel coding is usually not optimal, nor it is always applicable, in particular when transmitting data with real-time constraints or operating on sources whose encoded data bit error sensitivity varies significantly. With joint source and channel coding, the transmission system can be adapted to source characteristics, either at channel coding level or through source adaptive modulation. JSCC/D techniques may require the use of rate/distortion curves or models of the source in order to perform the optimal compromise between source compression and channel protection. Similarly, source compression and resilience can be adapted to channel and network characteristics. Joint source and channel coding involves joint design of the source encoder, at the application layer, and of channel encoder/modulator, at the physical layer. In order to realistically perform JSCC/D, it is thus necessary to allow the flow of information to be exchanged in the transmission system and a cross-layer approach is needed. Cross layer design is a recent further evolution of the concept of joint source and channel coding, targeting at jointly designing the classically separated OSI layers. Characteristics and limits of such approach will be described, together with approaches proposed by the speaker and under study in the WMN group in Kingston University. 2008-10-27 13:00:00 Monday Mon 27 October Oct 10 2008 13 00 2008-10-27 14:00:00 Monday Mon 27 October Oct 10 2008 14 00 Monday 27 October 2008, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 276 Application of Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks for Modelling and Control

The application of fuzzy logic (FL) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in modelling and control of complex, non-linear and time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands marks recently a considerable progress. The aim of the lecture is to present some basic theory and research results, related with the development and implementation of PI-like fuzzy logic and fuzzy neural controllers.

The application of fuzzy logic (FL) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) in modelling and control of complex, non-linear and time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands marks recently a considerable progress. The aim of the lecture is to present some basic theory and research results, related with the development and implementation of PI-like fuzzy logic and fuzzy neural controllers. First, the essence of ANNs and some applications in modelling and control is discussed. Then, fuzzy sets and fuzzy logic are introduced and employed in building PI-like fuzzy logic process controller. Next, the process of anaerobic digestion of organic waste is studied. For this non-linear complex plant: 1) an ANN plant predictor is suggested; 2) a two-level fuzzy logic controller is designed, consisting of a primary fuzzy controller and a supervisory fuzzy controller for autotuning of the scaling factors; 3) a Sugeno ANN is trained on the basis of the fuzzy two-level controller in order to make a simple neural-fuzzy controller (NFC); 4) finally the Sugeno NFC is combined with the ANN plant predictor in the feedback to further improve the control system performance. Results from simulation and real time control using MATLAB facilities are presented and the control system performance estimated and compared with the performance of designed ordinary PI controller system. 2009-02-25 13:00:00 Wednesday Wed 25 February Feb 02 2009 13 00 2009-02-25 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 25 February Feb 02 2009 14 00 Wednesday 25 February 2009, 1300-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 281 GameJam @InfoLab21

GameJam@InfoLab21 is a 24hr mobile game design competition.

GameJam@InfoLab21 is a 24hr mobile game design competition. It is the UK heat of the Forum Nokia Mobile Games Competition 2009 for University Students initiated by Forum Nokia and co-organized by the Mobile Radicals at Lancaster University. This is a chance for students to design new ideas that could shape the future of mobile games. The Competition is open to students from any discipline attending Lancaster University, which is one of the Forum Nokia PRO member Universities participating the Competition. Why take part? <ul><li>You'll learn from Nokia Champions about mobile game design in the intro session</li><li>Meet people from across the Uni who are into gaming</li><li>You could win a Nokia N96 or Nokia 6210 Navigator phone and go through to the next round to win an all expenses paid trip to San Francisco where you'd present your game design at the Game Developers Conference</li><li>Pizza and drinks provided on Friday, followed up a slap up breakfast on Saturday</li><li>The experience of taking part in the UK heat of a global competition where you could shape the future of mobile gaming-great for your CV.</li></ul> How to enter Form a team of 2-3 people, select a team name and choose a Team Leader to represent you in all communications with the organisers. All teams must register by emailing their entry forms to Dr. Paul Coulton (p.coulton@lancaster.ac.uk)prior to the event starting and must have received confirmation of acceptance to the competition. Places are limited and only confirmed participants will be allowed to enter. Tips to win! It is likely that the judges will look favourably on entries that innovate in areas such as<ul><li>Advanced device features (magnetometers, accelerometers, GPS)</li><li>Mashups to web based services</li><li>Using the unique capabilities of handsets (messaging, photos, videos, sound etc) User Generated Content (UGC)</li><li>Social Networks</li></ul> Cost: Free! Event Supported by: InfoLab21, North West Vision + Media, Nokia. A full GameJam@InfoLab21 Programme and a registration form is available at the link below. 2009-02-27 14:00:00 Friday Fri 27 February Feb 02 2009 14 00 2009-02-28 14:00:00 Saturday Sat 28 February Feb 02 2009 14 00 Fri 27 - Sat 28 February 2009 0 0 InfoLab21 23 Lancaster University Student Event Lancaster University Student Events http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1234436998.gif 75 75 283 Technology Matters - Partnering for Innovation & Growing in a Global Recession

A Digital Communications KTN event delivered in association with InfoLab21's Technology Matters events.

A Digital Communications KTN event delivered in association with InfoLab21's Technology Matters events. Please join the Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network (DC-KTN) and InfoLab21 for an event looking at Collaborative Funding and Partnering opportunities in the Digital & Creative Industries Sector. Please note change of venue. This event will now take place at Lancaster House Hotel instead of InfoLab21 to allow for the higher attendance level expected. For directions please see the link at the bottom of this page. Following a welcome from InfoLab21 and the DC-KTN, there will be an introduction to the Creative Industries Technology and Innovation Network and then a practical workshop from the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to look at helping SMEs apply for TSB Collaborative R&D Funding. In addition to referencing the funding programmes and mechanisms through which the TSB seeks to drive innovation in the UK, this event will give reference to the 'Accessing and Commercialising Content in a Digitally Connected World' call for funding applications, to be publically announced on March 16th. Northwest Vision and Media will be providing information on their Regional Attraction and Venture Capital loan funds and after lunch, in partnership with Business Link Northwest will be delivering a panel session focusing on enabling growth in a global recession. This hour-long session will provide tips, advice and practical solutions from key players in the public sector to creative and digital companies to give your business the edge during recession. To register to attend both sessions (Partnering for Innovation Workshop and Beat the Recession event) please click on the following link: <div class="link"><a href="http://innovationworkshopandbeattherecession.eventbrite.com">Register for both sessions</a></div> To register to attend just the morning session Partnering for Innovation Workshop please click on the following link: <div class="link"><a href="http://partneringforinnovationworkshop.eventbrite.com">Partnering for Innovation session only</a></div> To register to attend just the afternoon session ('Beat the Recession' event)please click on the following link: <div class="link"><a href="http://beattherecessionevent.eventbrite.com">Beat the Recession only</a></div> Registration and attendance is free, but space is strictly limited. The Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network has been established by an industry-led group of leading players, with funding from the Technology Strategy Board. It seeks to bring competitive advantage to the UK by promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing between the users and providers of Digital Communications, and helping to drive innovation in the sector. If you have any problems registering via the links above please contact Sarah Maginness <a href="mailto:s.maginness@lancaster.ac.uk">s.maginness@lancaster.ac.uk</a> Please see the attached flyer for the full agenda. Morning coffee and a Buffet Lunch will be provided. <h3>Event sponsors</h3> Digital Communications Knowledge Transfer Network North West Vision and Media 2009-03-26 09:00:00 Thursday Thu 26 March Mar 03 2009 09 00 2009-03-26 15:30:00 Thursday Thu 26 March Mar 03 2009 15 30 Thursday 26 March 2009, 0900-1530 0 0 Lancaster House Hotel, Lancaster 1 Technology Matters Technology Matters Events InfoLab21's Technology Matters series provides a showcase for academic expertise and technological development with the focus on specific topics. Networking sessions offer businesses the opportunity not only to talk to each other but also to find out more about the incubator businesses at InfoLab21 and exchange ideas with academic staff from the Computing and Communication Sytems departments. These events are open to all. They will probably have a wider appeal to businesses within the digital industries and those involved in an IT function within companies but anyone with an interest is welcome to come along and find out more! If you have been unable to attend previous events you can view the presentation slides in the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_type_id=1">events archive</a>. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1178121829.jpg 75 75 31 Distributed Visual Information Processing in Camera Sensor Networks

By <a href="http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/%7Epld/">Dr. Pier Luigi Dragotti</a>, Imperial College, London, UK

By <a href="http://www.commsp.ee.ic.ac.uk/%7Epld/">Dr. Pier Luigi Dragotti</a>, Imperial College, London, UK The paradigm of point-to-point communications is well established, and dates back to the seminal work of Shannon. With the recent advances of the sensor network technology, a new paradigm for signal processing and communication is emerging and this will have a dramatic impact on the way we acquire and process signals and the way we transport and reconstruct them. In particular, since sensors are low-power devices and communication bandwidth is critical, there are new trade-offs between accuracy, compression, computation and transmission power that need to be investigated. In this talk, we consider the case of camera sensor networks and discuss the entire signal processing pipeline: distributed data acquisition, distributed data compression and data reconstruction at the receiver. We first introduce the plenoptic function that well models the spatio-temporal structure of the visual data and study its sampling. We then focus on the problem of distributed compression and propose a distributed compression scheme that allows for a flexible allocation of bit-rates amongst the sensors. Finally, the data fusion problem is discussed and new results on image super-resolution and scene segmentation are presented. We also briefly analyze the fundamental trade-offs between the reconstruction fidelity, the number and locations of cameras and the overall compression rate. This is joint work with N. Gehrig (ICL), Jesse Berent (ICL), Loic Baboulaz (ICL), M. Gastpar (UC&Berkeley) and M. Vetterli (EPFL). 2009-06-01 13:00:00 Monday Mon 01 June Jun 06 2009 13 00 2009-06-01 14:00:00 Monday Mon 01 June Jun 06 2009 14 00 Monday 01 June 2009, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 77 Technology Matters Event

The Innovation Exchange

The Innovation Exchange Sponsored by <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/business/associate_company_scheme/index.php?company=41">CLB Coopers</a> At our next Technology Matters event, we will showcase areas of research from the Computing Science and Communication Systems departments and the Knowledge Business Centre at InfoLab21. We will have demonstrations by research groups highlighting new areas of technology and possible areas of commercial application. This Technology Matters event is "Invitation Only" but if you have an interest in the research here at InfoLab21 and specifically may be looking to explore the commercialisation of new areas of technology, please contact <a href="mailto:n.king@lancaster.ac.uk">Nick</a> or <a href="mailto:c.i.mclaughlin@lancaster.ac.uk">Colin</a> The projects being showcased include: VoodooIO The VoodooIO project has developed a technology for computer control that allows users to define, construct and modify the controls themselves to suit their individual requirements and personal preferences. Simply cut out the shape of the device you want out of a flexible material, then arrange buttons, dials, sliders and joysticks on its surface to create tailor-made flight-simulator cockpits, custom music-production studios, or personalized remote-controls for home entertainment. Sensor Networks for Time Critical Applications Existing sensor network installations have in common that they are not considered time critical. No immediate action has to be undertaken as a response to the received data. However,many future application areas of wireless sensor networks such as plant automation and control, traffic management or medical applications require this feature. In such environments, data has to be transported in time through the sensor network. Due to the lack of appropriate models, components and protocols it is currently very difficult to construct and operate a wireless sensor network with a controlled performance. Thus, the commercial success of wireless sensor networks in many application areas is unsure unless this particular problem is understood and solved. RelateGateway, Spontaneous mobile interaction with pervasive services One of the early visions of ubiquitous computing was to enable mobile users to spontaneously use available pervasive services. While current discovery mechanisms facilitate network-level connections, it remains quite difficult for users to identify available services then configure and consume them. To enable spontaneous mobile interactions with pervasive services we propose the end-to-end discovery model (Figure 1) and its implementation in the RelateGateways Architecture, enabling the rapid prototyping of spontaneous environments. Firefly Fairy lights with an embedded tiny computer, creating the next generation of fairy lights. This innovation will potentially revolutionise lighting displays like the Blackpool Illuminations and have great potential for advertisers. Patterns and effects are much easier to implement and can be far more complicated than those that are available at the moment. In addition, the lights requre fewer cables, which makes deployment of the lighting array much easier. PremiershipLive A distributed application that serves as a portal for football fans to view online content such as videos, fixtures and news, and share and search information including fan-provided content. Locoblog The portability and connectivity inherent in mobile phone technology opens up the possibility for users to blog on the move. Using a GPS receiver, or positional data derived through other means, such as GSM Cell/Area ID, the user can relay information about their whereabouts alongside regular blog information (images, text etc.). This enables them (as well as others if permitted) to track when and where they submitted their blog entries and gives entries greater context. Nemo The focal point of this project is the development and use of smart artefacts, i.e. work-related objects such as tools and containers augmented with embedded computing, sensing and wireless communication capabilities. <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/video.php?theme_id=28">View the NEMO video on our website</a> AOSD (Aspect-Oriented Software Development) A new software development approach which supports systematic identification, modularisation, representation and composition of crosscutting concerns such as security, mobility, distribution and resource management. Door Plates Forty interactive door displays have been deployed in InfoLab21 as part of the Hermes 2 project. Aims of this work include exploration of areas such as awareness and coordination: for example, the door displays allow a visitor to an office to leave a video message which is then sent to the absent occupant's mobile phone as an MMS message. Next Generation Middleware Group Following their key developments in Middleware Research such as the emergence of distributed object technology (e.g. CORBA) and component-based services (.NET, EJB, etc), the group has pioneered reflective middleware as a principled means of supporting both customisation and dynamic re-configuration of middleware platforms and associated services. The group also investigates the use of systems-level component technologies, and the associated concept of component frameworks, in the construction of open middleware solutions. Multimedia Copyright Protection Data-hiding is widely used for copyright protection (digital watermarking), where a logo or signature of the author is placed in the digital media (text, audio, image, video) to mark the original, and cannot be removed without destroying the media data. The main challenge is to avoid noticeable difference between the media after and before introducing the watermark. Power-aware communications over wireless sensor networks This project designs a wireless sensor network for monitoring and controlling, that efficiently addresses the following requirements: (i) Fault tolerance in the presence of individual node/sensor failure, (ii) Reliability and accuracy of the sensed data, (iii) Power efficiency, (iv) Occupied bandwidth since other devices, systems, and services should coexist, (v) Node density, (vi) Cost. We resort to a short-range wireless communication strategy that is fast and easy to install, with low-risk of interference with other systems and devices. Sensor Data Processing, Objects Detection, Tracking, Classification and Decision Making in Sensor Networks This research is concerned with the development of advanced real-time methods for efficient sensor data processing: data fusion, system monitoring and decision making. The particular interest is in nonlinear system dynamics under measurement and environment uncertainties. Typical applications are intelligent transportation systems, monitoring, and surveillance systems. Water Sensors and Flood Prediction This project is developing a wireless sensor network that doubles as a light-weight computational Grid, which allows us to move flood-modelling functionality out of the Lab and onto the sensor nodes themselves. This allows us to support diverse sensors, provide more timely warnings and adapt to predicted conditions. Exploiting Mesh Networks to Bridge The Digital Divide In rural areas that are fortunate enough to have a broadband internet service, it typically does not match the high bandwidth and low latency standards experienced by their urban counterparts. Recent advances in wireless network communications has seen the development of Wireless Mesh networks, a technology providing a complete wireless infrastructure solution allowing the provision of network services into locations where there is currently little or no infrastructure The Sampling Lens Information visualisations frequently have to deal with large amounts of data and this often leads to saturated areas in the display with considerable overplotting. The Sampling Lens is a novel tool that uses random sampling to reduce the clutter within a moveable region, allowing the user to uncover any potentially interesting patterns and trends in the data while still being able to view the sample in context. Tiltracer <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqYVJ0zpDx8">View You Tube Demo</a> 3D Stereographic Camera More soon METALuCID(r) - Metal encapsulated RFID The benefits of RFID are well documented and in some harsh environments a sealed metal-encapsulated chip and antenna is the only option. However, a completely metal enclosure should stop the RFID antenna working due to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage">Faraday Cage effect</a>. This problem has been overcome and a solution for tagging surgical instruments will be demonstrated. 2009-06-14 09:00:00 Sunday Sun 14 June Jun 06 2009 09 00 2009-06-14 12:00:00 Sunday Sun 14 June Jun 06 2009 12 00 Sunday 14 June 2009, 0900-1200 0 0 Room C74, InfoLab21, Lancaster University 1 Technology Matters Technology Matters Events InfoLab21's Technology Matters series provides a showcase for academic expertise and technological development with the focus on specific topics. Networking sessions offer businesses the opportunity not only to talk to each other but also to find out more about the incubator businesses at InfoLab21 and exchange ideas with academic staff from the Computing and Communication Sytems departments. These events are open to all. They will probably have a wider appeal to businesses within the digital industries and those involved in an IT function within companies but anyone with an interest is welcome to come along and find out more! If you have been unable to attend previous events you can view the presentation slides in the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_type_id=1">events archive</a>. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1178121902.jpg 75 75 302 Distributed Modelling, Estimation and Control for Road Traffic by Prof. Rene Boel, University of Ghent, Belgium

This talk will focus on compositional methods for modelling vehicular traffic and on distributed estimation methods for real time traffic systems.

This talk will focus on compositional methods for modelling vehicular traffic and on distributed estimation methods for real time traffic systems. Compositional models describing the evolution of the traffic density, and possibly also of the average speed of traffic, in different sections of a road network, are proposed. Hybrid models - combining discrete event models with very simple continuous evolution equations - allow compact modelling of fairly complicated behaviour. In many cases road traffic controllers will have available a fairly large, but often an inaccurate and unreliable, set of measurements of the traffic state at the current time. Combining the on-line measurements with the compositional models we develop recursive estimators for the traffic state, and detection of faults (sensor faults, or traffic incidents). Particle filtering and other Bayesian techniques can be used. Distributed implementations of the estimation algorithms make possible their application in practice. Finally, these state estimates can be used for on-line control actions, e.g., synchronising traffic in closed loop. 2009-06-25 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 June Jun 06 2009 13 00 2009-06-25 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 25 June Jun 06 2009 14 00 Thursday 25 June 2009, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 295 Tenth International Symposium on Communication Theory and Applications: Final call for papers

A major objective of the Symposium will be to pursue the progression from communication and information theory through to the implementation, evaluation and performance of practical communication systems of various types. You are invited to submit original papers in the following and related areas:

A major objective of the Symposium will be to pursue the progression from communication and information theory through to the implementation, evaluation and performance of practical communication systems of various types. You are invited to submit original papers in the following and related areas: Digital Transmission and Recording Space-Time Techniques <ul> <li>Source and Channel Coding</li> <li>Modulation, Detection, Channel Estimation</li> <li>Channel Modelling, Synchronisation</li> <li>Optical and Magnetic Recording</li> </ul> Special Topics in Channel Coding, Source Coding, Information Theory <ul> <li>Turbo Codes, Low Density Parity Check <li>Codes</li> <li>Source Coding and Data Compression</li> <li>Privacy, Secrecy and Security</li> <li>Multi-Functional Coding</li> <li>Sequences and Arrays</li> <li>Fountain, LT, etc. codes</li> </ul> Systems, Multiple Access, Protocols <ul> <li>Communication System Architectures</li> <li>3G and Beyond-3G Wireless Communication Systems</li> <li>Sensor Networks</li> <li>Ad Hoc Networks</li> <li>Multiple Access Techniques, Protocols</li> <li>Multimedia Networking, wireless e-learning, e-commerce and e-health</li> </ul> Detection Techniques <ul> <li>Vector Detection, Multiuser Detection</li> <li>Combined Equalisation, Decoding and Channel Estimation</li> <li>Iterative (Turbo) Schemes</li> </ul> Realisation <ul> <li>DSP for Communication Systems</li> <li>MIMO Demonstrators</li> <li>Complexity Considerations</li> <li>Implementation of LDPC decoders</li> </ul> Broadband Techniques <ul> <li>Ultra Wideband</li> <li>Fixed Wireless Access</li> </ul> Fusion of Communication and Location <ul> <li>GNSS-based Probabilistic algorithms</li> <li>Applications</li> </ul> 2009-07-13 09:00:00 Monday Mon 13 July Jul 07 2009 09 00 2009-07-17 17:00:00 Friday Fri 17 July Jul 07 2009 17 00 Mon 13 - Fri 17 July 2009 0 0 Venue To Be Confirmed 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops 96 Intelligent Sensors in Chemical and Petro-chemical Industry

A talk by Dr. José Juan Macías Hernández

A talk by Dr. José Juan Macías Hernández Dept. Engineering Chemistry Universidad de La Laguna, Spain Dr. José Macías is currently Head of Process Engineering Department at an Oil Refinery based in Tenerife and Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering at the University of La Laguna, Canary Islands. He has 20 plus years of experience in both industry and academia. In the Refinery, he has being responsible for the design and commissioning of advanced control applications using Multivariable Predictive Control and Expert Systems Applications for Operators guidance. In the university he is responsible for the tuition of Simulation and Optimization of Chemical engineering Processes and Petroleum Technology subjects. He has given several in-house advanced control courses using rigorous dynamic simulation. He is founder of an engineering company dedicates to programming, simulation and control in chemical engineering. His research interest is mainly dedicated to the fields of soft sensors and chemical engineering optimisation. 2009-07-13 14:00:00 Monday Mon 13 July Jul 07 2009 14 00 2009-07-13 15:00:00 Monday Mon 13 July Jul 07 2009 15 00 Monday 13 July 2009, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 21 2nd International Workshop on Evolving Fuzzy Systems

The 2nd International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems will be held at St Martins College Conference Centre in Ambleside from 7th-9th September 2006.

The 2nd International Symposium on Evolving Fuzzy Systems will be held at St Martins College Conference Centre in Ambleside from 7th-9th September 2006. The emerging area of evolution-augmented fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy systems is currently being shaped and the proposed Workshop on Evolving Fuzzy Systems promises to be an important forum for researchers from academia and industry to discuss current achievements, problems and future directions.In recognition of the growing importance of the evolution-inspired self-developing systems the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, International Fuzzy Systems Association, and European Society on Fuzzy Logic and Technology are technically co-sponsoring this event. Four companies (BAE Systems, Nokia-UK, J&S Marine, and Retail Analytics) are also sponsoring a range of 'best paper' awards. For more information please contact Plamen Angelov <a ref="mailto:p.angelov@lancaster.ac.uk">p.angelov@lancaster.ac.uk</a> 2009-09-07 00:00:00 Monday Mon 07 September Sep 09 2009 00 00 2009-09-09 00:00:00 Wednesday Wed 09 September Sep 09 2009 00 00 Mon 07 - Wed 09 September 2009 0 0 St Martin's College Conference Centre - Ambleside 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops 313 Postgraduate Show -Innovate 2009

InfoLab21 students will be showcasing their latest research and technologies at this years annual Innovate Show.

InfoLab21 students will be showcasing their latest research and technologies at this years annual Innovate Show. The event will display postgraduate project work on signal processing for telecommunication systems, informatics, mobile applications, e-learning, media production and virtual studio design, 3D modeling, and wireless and space communications. The show, presented by MSc and PhD students will run throughout the morning and early afternoon on the 9th September with poster presentations in room C74 in the Knowledge Business Centre (C Floor). We are keen to meet researchers from other Departments in the University and Industry who are interested in interdisciplinary projects. <h3>Registration</h3> For enquiries please email Nick King <a href="mailto:nick.king@lancaster.ac.uk">n.king@lancaster.ac.uk</a> Telephone: 01524 510447 2009-09-09 10:00:00 Wednesday Wed 09 September Sep 09 2009 10 00 2009-09-09 14:00:00 Wednesday Wed 09 September Sep 09 2009 14 00 Wednesday 09 September 2009, 1000-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 21 Exhibition Exhibitions http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1250601271.jpg 75 75 108 IEEE SenseApp 2007

Second IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications.

Second IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications. SenseApp 2007, the Second IEEE International Workshop on Practical Issues in Building Sensor Network Applications, will be a one-day workshop, held in conjunction with the IEEE Conference on Local Comupter Networks (LCN 2007). Dr. Utz Roedig from InfoLab21 is co-chairing the programme. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers from academia and industry to showcase their work and obtain feedback. The workshop is expected to act as a forum for the sensor network research community to discuss open issues, novel solutions and the future development of wireless sensor networks in general. Sensor nodes are tiny autonomous devices that combine sensing, computing and wireless communication capabilities. These nodes are deeply embedded into the physical surroundings, and gather and process information such as temperature, humidity, light characteristics, seismic activities or images and sound samples from the physical world. Networked systems of such sensors are expected to be used in a variety of applications including habitat monitoring, precision agriculture, disaster recovery operations, healthcare and supply chain management. Real world sensor deployments and prototype implementations are still not commonplace. However, experiences gained in such deployments are crucial for the sensor network research community. These results will allow us to refine assumptions made while designing hardware, software, protocols and mechanisms for sensor networks. For more details and registration please go to: <a href="http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~senseapp/index.htm">The IEEE SENSEAPP 2007 website</a> 2009-10-18 08:00:00 Sunday Sun 18 October Oct 10 2009 08 00 2009-10-18 17:30:00 Sunday Sun 18 October Oct 10 2009 17 30 Sunday 18 October 2009, 0800-1730 0 0 Clontarf Castle, Dublin, Ireland 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1191332134.jpg 75 75 116 InfoLab21 & Daresbury SIC Networking Event

Event Overview

Event Overview InfoLab21 and is hosting a networking event on the 7th of November to include members of its own resident company community, companies from Daresbury Science & Innovation Campus (SIC) and also representatives from InfoLab21's associate network of companies using or developing advanced Information & Communications Technologies (ICT). Like Lancaster University's InfoLab21, Daresbury SIC provides incubation facilities and business support services to Digital/ICT businesses and both organisations have recognised the value of networking activities to help support the growth of these businesses - through the identification of business development opportunities, sourcing of business-critical expertise or developing collaborative routes to market. At this event representatives from both establishments will come together to create new collaborative opportunities. Event Schedule 11.00 Introduction 11.10 Presentation from Depts of Computing Science & Communication Systems 11.15 Presentation from Computational Science and Engineering Group 11.20 Company pitches 12.15 Lunch The event will start at 11am with an introduction from Steve Riches; Director of the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/about/kbc.php">Knowledge Business Centre</a> (KBC) at Infolab21 followed by a short presentation from <a href="http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/staff/dh.html">Prof. David Hutchison</a>; Director of InfoLab21 on the University's Departments of Computing Science and Communication Systems. Representatives from Daresbury SIC will give an overview of their <a href="http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/">Computational Science and Engineering Group</a> and then we will move on to the main content of the event where all the attending companies will be able to give a two minute elevator pitch to cover the following points: <ul><li>Who you are?</li><li>What is your business?</li><li>What you have to offer other Digital/ICT companies?</li><li>What do you need from other Digital/ICT companies?</li></ul> These short presentations and pitches will run through to around 12.15 when a buffet lunch will be served giving opportunities to network up until around 1.30. Pre-event Information on Companies Attending In order to promote the event in the best way possible and encourage networking at the event we are publicising the details of all registerred attendees ahead of the event itself. Our intention is that attendees can pre-research who else is attending the event and then, following the "elevator pitches" (See event schedule) directly seek out those people they want to meet with. This is a formula Daresbury has used to great success at its monthly breakfast briefings as it allows all attendees to get the best possible use out of the meeting. Current Attendees Registered <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/daresbury_attendees.php">Click for list of Attendees</a> Attending the Event Please note that attendance at this event is by invitation only and the list of attendees will close on Monday November 5th. If you would be interested in attending and would like to discuss a possible invitation please contact Nick King <a href="mailto:n.king@lancaster.ac.uk">n.king@lancaster.ac.uk</a> 01524 510447, Knowledge Business Centre, InfoLab21 Transport & Location For those companies from Daresbury SIC, transport will be available for those companies who are interested. If you are making your own way there then please go the link at the bottom of the page for directions. 2009-11-07 11:00:00 Saturday Sat 07 November Nov 11 2009 11 00 2009-11-07 13:00:00 Saturday Sat 07 November Nov 11 2009 13 00 Saturday 07 November 2009, 1100-1300 0 0 Room C74, InfoLab21, Lancaster University 9 Networking Event Networking Events http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1192093082.jpg 75 75 79 Technology Matters

Financing Innovation (Pt 2)

Financing Innovation (Pt 2) Schedule: 9:00am - Registration Tea and Coffee 9:30am - Introduction (10 mins) 9.40am - Presentation 1 (45 mins) 10.25am - Refreshments Break (20 mins) 10.45am - Presentation 2 (45 mins) 11.30am - Close (5 mins) 11.35am - 12.00 Networking Presentation 1: Enterprise Ventures - - The RisingStars Growth Fund, Mark Wyatt - Investment Director The RisingStars Growth Fund 1 (managed by Enterprise Ventures) was launched in March 2002 and since then has been the third most active VC investor in the UK in 2004 and 2005. Enterprise Ventures is an independent Fund Manager, based in the North of England and focused on growth and becoming the leading venture capital firm across the Northern regions. Building on its success, RisingStars Growth Fund 2 was launched in March 2006. The RisingStars Funds typically invest in seed and early stage technology companies that have the potential to grow into highly successful businesses. The RisingStars investment team seeks to back ambitious and successful management teams who have the ability to turn unique and leading technologies into world-class products or services that will in time attract customers from around the globe. In addition to the finance initiatives that Enterprise Ventures manage, they can also provide expertise in assisting companies with their strategic, technical and market development. For further information, contact the RisingStars investment team at EV on 01772 270570 or visit the Fund's website at <a href="http://www.rsgf.co.uk">www.rsgf.co.uk</a>. Presentation 2: Robert Sheffrin, Adviser to Northwest Business Angels, the NWDA's business angel network Following on from our September presentation from the North West Development Agency (NWDA) regarding the business finance solutions funds they administer, we will be joined by Robert Sheffrin who will be looking at investment in innovative technologies or solutions from the perspective of investors themselves. The Investors' Perspective Raising funds from a business angel or venture capitalist is sometimes viewed as a mysterious art. It shouldn't be. The presentation will provide a brief introduction to business angels, who they are, what they are looking for and how they operate and a few tips on how to get the money from angels and funds. Robert Sheffrin A former venture capital fund manager and bank manager specialising in funding for smaller businesses he trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG later working with Deloittes and Ladbroke Group. After participating in an MBO, he established an international consultancy advising funds, companies and professional firms. He is an advisor to a number of funding organisations, a director of Braemar Securities and was President of the Manchester Society of Chartered Accountants in 2006/07. Registration To register for this Technology Matters event please email Sarah Maginness: s.maginness@lancaster.ac.uk Presentations <div class="ppt"><a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/presentations/technology_matters_05_12_07/Intro.pps">Introduction</a></div><div class="ppt"><a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/presentations/technology_matters_05_12_07/Mark_Wyatt.pps">Rising Stars Growth Fund - Mark Wyatt (Enterprise Ventures)</a></div><div class="ppt"><a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/docs/presentations/technology_matters_05_12_07/Robert_Sheffrin.pps">Finance from Business Angels (Robert Sheffrin) - NW Business Angels</a></div> 2009-12-05 09:00:00 Saturday Sat 05 December Dec 12 2009 09 00 2009-12-05 12:00:00 Saturday Sat 05 December Dec 12 2009 12 00 Saturday 05 December 2009, 0900-1200 0 0 Room C74, InfoLab21, Lancaster University 1 Technology Matters Technology Matters Events InfoLab21's Technology Matters series provides a showcase for academic expertise and technological development with the focus on specific topics. Networking sessions offer businesses the opportunity not only to talk to each other but also to find out more about the incubator businesses at InfoLab21 and exchange ideas with academic staff from the Computing and Communication Sytems departments. These events are open to all. They will probably have a wider appeal to businesses within the digital industries and those involved in an IT function within companies but anyone with an interest is welcome to come along and find out more! If you have been unable to attend previous events you can view the presentation slides in the <a href="http://www.infolab21.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/events_archive.php?event_type_id=1">events archive</a>. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1178121829.jpg 75 75 396 Weathering solar storms Dr Jim Wild Department of Communication Systems

Space isn't quite as cold and empty as you might first think. The Earth is embedded within the outer atmosphere of the Sun and is constantly buffeted by the solar wind and bathed in the remnants of the Sun's massive magnetic field. While generally imperceptible to humans here on Earth, changes in the space environment, so-called "space weather", can have an impact upon man-made technologies under, on and above the surface of the Earth.

Space isn't quite as cold and empty as you might first think. The Earth is embedded within the outer atmosphere of the Sun and is constantly buffeted by the solar wind and bathed in the remnants of the Sun's massive magnetic field. While generally imperceptible to humans here on Earth, changes in the space environment, so-called "space weather", can have an impact upon man-made technologies under, on and above the surface of the Earth. Over 150 years ago, English astronomer Richard Carrington observed a massive solar flare and the geomagnetic storm that resulted was the most powerful on record. Although Victorian technologies were temporarily disrupted, some fear that a similar event today could disable the high-tech infrastructure that underpins modern society. Dr. Jim Wild, from the Department of Communication Systems' Space Plasma Environment and Radio Science Group, looks at the science behind space weather and considers some of the implications of living with a star. 2009-12-15 16:15:00 Tuesday Tue 15 December Dec 12 2009 16 15 2009-12-15 16:40:00 Tuesday Tue 15 December Dec 12 2009 16 40 Tuesday 15 December 2009, 1615-1640 0 0 Lecture Theatre 1, Management School Building 11 Christmas Conference Talk Christmas Conference Talks The Faculty of Science and Technology's annual Christmas Conference is a chance for faculty members to hear talks from colleagues in other departments, as well as presentations from invited speakers. ecba99b1 429 Codes with parent identifying property and digital fingerprinting codes: what is in between? Professor Gregory Kabatyanskiy Institute for Information Trnasmission Problems, RAS, Moscow

In this talk we prove initial results on the proportion of "mutated" coordinates that can be tolerated under the IPP property. The talk is based on a joint work with A. Barg, G.R. Blakley and C. Tavernier.

In this talk we prove initial results on the proportion of "mutated" coordinates that can be tolerated under the IPP property. The talk is based on a joint work with A. Barg, G.R. Blakley and C. Tavernier. An n-word y over a finite alphabet is called a descendant of a set U of t words (called "parents") if each coordinate of y coincides with the same coordinate of at least one of these t words. A code C is said to have the t-identifying parent property (t-IPP) if for any word y that is a descendant of at most t parents belonging to the code it is possible to identify at least one of them. The existence of good t-i.p.p. codes is known from earlier works. We introduce a strong version of this problem under which some of the coordinates in y can break away from the descent rule ("mutate") , i.e., can take arbitrary values from the alphabet, or become completely unreadable. 2010-02-05 13:00:00 Friday Fri 05 February Feb 02 2010 13 00 2010-02-05 14:00:00 Friday Fri 05 February Feb 02 2010 14 00 Friday 05 February 2010, 1300-1400 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 423 Physical and Link Layer Implications in Vehicle Ad Hoc Networks Dr Mosa Ali Abu-Rgheff Reader in Mobile Communications, University of Plymouth

Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) provide safety on the road and deliver road traffic information and route guidance to drivers along with commercial applications.

Vehicle Ad hoc Networks (VANET) provide safety on the road and deliver road traffic information and route guidance to drivers along with commercial applications. However the challenges facing VANET are numerous. Nodes move at high speeds, road side units and base-stations are scarce, the topology is constrained by the road geometry and changes rapidly, and the number of nodes peaks suddenly in traffic jams. In this talk, I will focus on issues related to the physical and link layers of VANET to achieve high data rates and high throughput. For the physical layer, we examine the use of multiple antennas installed on top of the vehicles structured in Vertical BLAST (VBLAST) systems to provide higher capacities in rich fading environments. To study the capability of the proposed system, a vehicular channel model was developed from a rich scattering environment. However, the performance of VBLAST system drops as the line of sight strength increases due to the correlation between the antennas. The analysis of VLAST-OFDM systems showed that they experience an error floor due to intercarrier interference (ICI) which increases with speed, number of antennas transmitting and number of subcarriers used. The IEEE 802.11p MAC layer standard, under development for VANET, uses a variant of Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA). IEEE 802.11 protocols were evaluated to prove the saturation throughput of the basic access method drops as the number of nodes increases thus yielding very low throughput in congested areas. RTS/CTS access provides higher throughput but it applies only to unicast transmissions. To overcome the limitations of 802.11 protocols, we designed a protocol known as SOFT MAC which combines Space, Orthogonal Frequency and Time multiple access techniques. In SOFT MAC the road is divided into cells and each cell is allocated a unique group of subcarriers. Within a cell, nodes share the available subcarriers using a combination of TDMA and CSMA. The throughput analysis of SOFT MAC showed it has superior throughput compared to the basic access and similar to the RTS/CTS access of 802.11. 2010-05-18 12:00:00 Tuesday Tue 18 May May 05 2010 12 00 2010-05-18 13:00:00 Tuesday Tue 18 May May 05 2010 13 00 Tuesday 18 May 2010, 1200-1300 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 468 Design and Application of Industrial Fuzzy Logic Controllers Professor Snejana Yordanova Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria; e-mail: sty@tu-sofia.bg; http://web.hit.bg/syordanova

The fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) mark a considerable progress in controlling complex, non-linear, time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands

The fuzzy logic controllers (FLCs) mark a considerable progress in controlling complex, non-linear, time-varying processes satisfying the high system performance demands Since their emergence in the area of process control the FLCs design is constantly being improved laying it out on theoretical grounds and making it more general and simple. Different structures of model-free and T-S model-based FLCs and approaches have been suggested for treating together fuzzy system stability and uncertainty for the purposes not only of analysis but also of design. The aim of this lecture is to present some results from the research of the author and her team on development and implementation of various types PI-like model-free process FLCs for robust control of complex industrial plants with time delay. An effort has been made to treat together in the frequency domain the stability and the performance of a fuzzy control system of a plant with time delay and model uncertainties, provoked by plant complexity and shift of the operating point along the smooth non-linear plant characteristics due to disturbances, changes in the operating mode and time-varying plant properties. Another research goal is to offer a simple and transparent both FLCs and FLCs design in order to make controllers and their design feasible and easy to complete in industrial PLCs. Robust stability and robust performance criteria are derived by extending the Popov stability criterion for the case of a fuzzy control system and combining it with Morari robustness considerations, employing experts estimates of simple nominal plant model with time delay and plant uncertainties model. These criteria lay the theoretical foundations for the developed simple and objective FLC design and parameter tuning procedure. The design starts with a single input - the signed distance, fuzzy controller (SI FC), making use of its crucial advantages for application of the Popov and Morari techniques - 1-D uniquely determined rule base, a sector bounded non-linear control curve and a reduced number of tuning parameters. Then it is extended to other sole and two-input FLCs. A model of the procedure is derived using LSM and feedforward ANNs to automate the PLC implementation of the design. The design procedure is assessed by applying it for the control of the inside temperature of a laboratory-scale dryer using MATLAB real-time and Siemens SIMATIC PLC. A comparison of the fuzzy closed loop system performance with the performance of a designed ordinary PI controller system underlines the advantages of the fuzzy system. An extension to the case of multivariable FLCs is suggested which is tested for the control of an aerodynamic plant (laboratory-scale helicopter). Brief biography of the speaker: Snejana Yordanova - MEng in Electrical Engineering (Automatic Control) and Ph.D. holder from the Technical University of Sofia (TUS), a full-time Associate Professor with the Department of Process Control, Faculty of Automation, TUS; TUS ECTS expert Member of the Union of Automatics and Informatics in Bulgaria and the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (WSEAS) Teaching activity - process control, fuzzy control, control systems, elements of industrial automation, modelling and simulation, MATLAB Scientific and research interests - application of the robust, fuzzy logic and neural network approaches to system modelling, simulation and control under uncertainties in the areas of oil refining, milk processing, wastewater treatment; measurement systems; thermal power plants Publications: papers - over 120 (in journals Int. Sc. J. of Computing, WSEAS Trans. on Systems, WSEAS Trans. on Circuits and Systems, J. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Australia, IEEE Trans. Instrum. and Measurement, Transactions of the Institute of Meas. and Control, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, Int. J. of Automation and Control, Advances in Physics, Electronics and Signal Processing Applications, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, Bioprocess Engineering, Problems of Eng. Cybernetics and Robotics, Automatica & Informatics, Proceedings of the Technical University of Sofia, Technical Review, Electrical Engineering and Electronics, etc.); textbooks 8 and manuals 4, Research and education projects 18; Coordinator and guest lecturer in 8 Erasmus-Socrates projects (Spain, Italy, Sweden, UK, Portugal). Supervisor of 2 Ph.D. students Member of organising and international scientific committees of conferences (WSEAS, IDAACS, IFAC, UIEEE, "Challenges in Research and Education of 21-st century"- Bulgaria, etc.); co-editor of proceedings; reviewer for journals (WSEAS, Automatica, IEEE, etc.). 2010-05-20 13:00:00 Thursday Thu 20 May May 05 2010 13 00 2010-05-20 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 20 May May 05 2010 14 00 Thursday 20 May 2010, 1300-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 481 Think RaRe - Rational-Reactive Intelligent Agents for Collaborative Thinking in Virtual Worlds Dr. Mario Gongora Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Monfort University, Leicester

At the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Monfort University, Leicester, we are working in a collaborative thinking process using a project in progress, the Virtual Romans (VR). Around the VR project we can discuss a new approach in engaging the understanding at basic level and the analysis at research level of the same subject.

At the Institute of Creative Technologies (IOCT), De Monfort University, Leicester, we are working in a collaborative thinking process using a project in progress, the Virtual Romans (VR). Around the VR project we can discuss a new approach in engaging the understanding at basic level and the analysis at research level of the same subject. In the standard state of mind, research informs basic education; being a one-way process. Now we attempt to have the education and the research work together at the same level and cross feed. Technology provides the simulation of a virtual environment, where an artist designs the look and feel. With this collaboration, the VR project aims to create a simulation a Roman settlement in Britain at a specific date and location, where people can interact with the characters and researchers can use it to study this particular piece of our history. For the purpose of engaging in the study of history, we can make the virtual characters look like Romans; but for the purpose of research, we cannot make them think like Romans. By creating the characters using our intelligent agents Rational-Reactive (RaRe) approach we can use them to induce naïve and unprejudiced observes to interact with the Roman environment and spontaneously attempt to think like a roman type character; using the natural desire to interact with them, and historical cues to guide their behaviour. With a combination of the RaRe methodology and a biologically inspired memory model we create a powerful evolvable intelligent behaviour simulation, which allows the virtual characters to learn from the interactions with naïve observers. With our collaborative thinking process, we attempt to create an environment where we can use our known constraints and research to validate and guide the structure of the historical simulation, and hence the creation of small details of history as it should have happened in those times. 2010-06-03 14:00:00 Thursday Thu 03 June Jun 06 2010 14 00 2010-06-03 15:00:00 Thursday Thu 03 June Jun 06 2010 15 00 Thursday 03 June 2010, 1400-1500 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 508 Parents required for Online Child Protection Focus Group

Isis Forensics, a Lancaster university spinout based in InfoLab21, is seeking parents of children who use the Internet to take part in a set of focus groups over the next few months. The aim is to find out from parents their concerns about how their children use the Internet in order to help develop the next generation of online child protection solutions. For parents it's a chance to share their views and concerns about this sensitive area with other parents and help shape the online child...

Isis Forensics, a Lancaster university spinout based in InfoLab21, is seeking parents of children who use the Internet to take part in a set of focus groups over the next few months. The aim is to find out from parents their concerns about how their children use the Internet in order to help develop the next generation of online child protection solutions. For parents it's a chance to share their views and concerns about this sensitive area with other parents and help shape the online child protection technology of the future. The first focus group will take place on Tuesday the 20th of July from 12noon to 2pm. It will take place in InfoLab21 and lunch will be provided. A few places are still available - to register your interest please follow the link below. Depending on interest, a separate evening event may also be arranged. 2010-07-20 12:00:00 Tuesday Tue 20 July Jul 07 2010 12 00 2010-07-20 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 20 July Jul 07 2010 14 00 Tuesday 20 July 2010, 1200-1400 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 27 Focus Group Focus Groups 470 Information Fusion: the Concepts, the Technology, the Community, and Modern Research Challenges Dr. James Llinas, Research Professor, Executive Director Center for Multisource Information Fusion, University at Buffalo, NY, USA

Information Fusion is a still-maturing area of research even after some 30 years of study and application. The processes and capabilities of Information Fusion have however proven to have wide and even extraordinary types of successful application, but crafting such processes and capabilities has been shown to require a multidisciplinary team, ranging from those expert in sensors and signal processing and communication to those expert in decision science and cognitive engineering.

Information Fusion is a still-maturing area of research even after some 30 years of study and application. The processes and capabilities of Information Fusion have however proven to have wide and even extraordinary types of successful application, but crafting such processes and capabilities has been shown to require a multidisciplinary team, ranging from those expert in sensors and signal processing and communication to those expert in decision science and cognitive engineering. Grasping the concepts of Information Fusion across this multidisciplinary spectrum is thus a bit of a challenge and this talk will try to clarify those ideas. The talk will also present a portrait of the multidisciplinary sciences necessary for integrated Information Fusion system development, as well as some system-level architectural strategies. Brief remarks will be made about the professional Information Fusion community and its publications, conferences, and societal aspects, all of usual interest to academics. While progress has been made as noted, there are many modern research and application challenges that will require innovative to revolutionary progress, and a view of those challenges will conclude the talk. the talk's PPT are displayed at www.lancs.ac.uk/staff/angelov/industry.htm 2010-07-26 11:00:00 Monday Mon 26 July Jul 07 2010 11 00 2010-07-26 12:00:00 Monday Mon 26 July Jul 07 2010 12 00 Monday 26 July 2010, 1100-1200 0 0 C60 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 341 Science and Technology Christmas Conference 2010

2010's Christmas Conference will include talks from all Science and Technology departments introducing examples their latest research.

2010's Christmas Conference will include talks from all Science and Technology departments introducing examples their latest research. The external speaker for the 2010 conference is Julian Ellis from the European Commission, who will be speaking about 'Future and emerging technologies - pathfinder for ICT research in the EU'. Professor Rachel Cooper from LICA is an invited speaker and her talk asks 'Why does the EPSRC fund design? Putting the D in STEM'. The day will also include the Science and Technology Graduate School poster competition, with posters from across the faculty on display. 2010-12-14 09:00:00 Tuesday Tue 14 December Dec 12 2010 09 00 2010-12-14 17:30:00 Tuesday Tue 14 December Dec 12 2010 17 30 Tuesday 14 December 2010, 0900-1730 0 0 Management School Building 3 Conference or workshop Conferences and workshops http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1258556279.jpg 75 75 997 To the cloud from your office and beyond your own horizon to-the-cloud-from-your-office-and-beyond-your-own-horizon Stuart Coulson Secarma

This talk takes you on a journey from the office to the world of cloud computing, examining the questionable advantages of BYOD (bring your own devastation), and looking at how far you can go to protect your cloud and business online. Plus a look down the full technology supply chain to spot the competitive advantage of security throughout the entire process.

This talk takes you on a journey from the office to the world of cloud computing, examining the questionable advantages of BYOD (bring your own devastation), and looking at how far you can go to protect your cloud and business online. Plus a look down the full technology supply chain to spot the competitive advantage of security throughout the entire process. 2012 has been an interesting year for data security with BYOD hitting the headlines, cloud computing becoming a more mature hosting solution and major security breaches occurring from lower down the value chain. Secarma would like to show you how this jigsaw puzzle is constructed and how it pieces together. <ul class="link"><li> <a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/education/guest_lectures/stuart_coulson.php">Read More</a></li></ul> <h4>Watch the talk summary</h4> <iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/3OcODg4AYBY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <h4>Watch the full talk</h4> <iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YAOXl1rNA18" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> 2012-10-11 10:00:00 Thursday Thu 11 October Oct 10 2012 10 00 2012-10-11 11:00:00 Thursday Thu 11 October Oct 10 2012 11 00 Thursday 11 October 2012, 1000-1100 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1349358207.jpg 75 75 1021 Talk on Professionalism in the Cyber Security Industry by Ian Glover guest-talk-from-ian-glover Ian Glover Council of Registerd Ethical Security Testers (CREST)

The talk will describe:

The talk will describe: <ul> <li>The need for professionalization within the technical information assurance industry </li><li>Why there is such a good opportunity to enter the industry </li><li>The professional qualifications that are available for students to aim for once they have entered the industry </li><li>Examples from current penetration testers in different points in their career </li><li>Government and private sector schemes </li><li>Opportunities for Internships and junior roles </li><li>Student CREST membership and opportunities to apply for CREST awards through the university. </li></ul> Ian will give his talk in C74 in InfoLab <ul stle="link"><li style="more"><a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/education/guest_lectures/ian_glover.php">More Details</a></li> <li style="more"><a href="http://ianglover271112.eventbrite.co.uk/">Register</a></li></ul> 2012-11-27 14:00:00 Tuesday Tue 27 November Nov 11 2012 14 00 2012-11-27 15:00:00 Tuesday Tue 27 November Nov 11 2012 15 00 Tuesday 27 November 2012, 1400-1500 0 0 InfoLab21 2 Talk, Lecture or Seminar Talks, Lectures and Seminars An opportunity to hear about the latest research by invited experts in their field. All are welcome to attend. 1028 Small Business Cyber Security Workshop 2013: #SBCSW2013 small-business-cyber-security-workshop-2013-sbcsw2013

The recent SBCSS2012 <a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/sbcss2012.php">report from Security Lancaster</a> published at the end of last year highlighted a number or areas where small businesses voiced issues or concerns regarding IT or 'Cyber' Security.

The recent SBCSS2012 <a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/news_and_events/events/sbcss2012.php">report from Security Lancaster</a> published at the end of last year highlighted a number or areas where small businesses voiced issues or concerns regarding IT or 'Cyber' Security. Following on from that report, representatives from small and medium sized businesses are invited to attend a workshop that will develop the report's findings to look at how those issues and concerns can be addressed. The workshop will include a range of stakeholders in this area, including representatives from the Department of Business Innovation and Skill (BIS) and will help Lancaster University and delegates better identify how companies can benefit from great adoption in this area. The findings of the day will be written up and fed back to government so this is your chance to help drive this national agenda. This event is run in partnership with the <a href="https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/ictktn">Information Communication Technology Knowledge Transfer Network (ICT KTN)</a>. <ul class="link"> <li>Registration has now closed</li> <li class="link"><a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/research/cyber_security/cybsec_workshops/venue/001028">Venue</a></li> <li class="link"><a href="http://www.security-centre.lancs.ac.uk/research/cyber_security/cybsec_workshops/sbcsw2012.php">More Details</a></li> </ul> 2013-01-28 14:00:00 Monday Mon 28 January Jan 01 2013 14 00 2013-01-28 20:00:00 Monday Mon 28 January Jan 01 2013 20 00 Monday 28 January 2013, 1400-2000 0 0 Lancaster University 13 Demonstration/Workshop Demonstration Workshops Demonstrations and discussions to share views and assist developments in areas of research. http://www.lancs.ac.uk/sci-tech/images/thumbnail_1354543563.jpg 75 75