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News in 2009

Research visit from the University of Vienna

10 December 2009

Philipp Gentner (PhD student at the University of Vienna) recently visited the CCR. His visit was funded through COST2100 and the Short Term Scientific Mission scheme. Philipp has been making use of our anechoic chamber to characterise his UWB antenna elements and arrays.

Grant awarded to investigate global warming

4 December 2009

Academics from the University of Bristol have been awarded a grant from the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) to develop techniques to monitor melting ice several kilometres within an ice sheet.

ERC Advanced Grant Awarded to Professor Rarity

19 November 2009

Professor John Rarity in the Centre for Communications Research and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has been awarded a major European Research Council for his project ‘Quantum optics in wavelength scale structures’.

Professor Mark Handley gives CCR Research Seminar

16 November 2009

Mark Handley, Professor of Networked Systems at UCL and holder of a Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award gives research seminar to members of the Centre for Communications Research at the University of Bristol.

Designing Out Crime

2 November 2009

Professor Joe McGeehan talks to the New Scientist about the steps that can be taken at the design stage of technology to deter crime.

Modelling neural activity research featured in IEEE Spectrum

5 September 2009

Research on a method to model neural activity with enough detail and speed for living cells to talk to synthetic neurons has been presented at the FPL'09 conference in Prague and published in IEEE Spectrum Magazine.

UK delegation visits research collaborators in China

10 August 2009

Professor Joe McGeehan (Director) and Professor Siyuan Yu of the Centre for Communications Research at the University of Bristol recently participated in a two-week visit by the UK members of a newly formed consortium to academic and industrial organisations in China. The visit was funded as part of a grant awarded by the Research Councils UK to a consortium of UK and Chinese universities under the Science Bridges programme.

CLEVER - Closing the Loop for Smart Meter Rollout

2 July 2009

UK Government plans for the rollout of smart meters to all 26 million UK homes by 2020 were published in May 2009. The CLEVER project is maximising the impact of Smart Metering by closing the loop of electricity generation, distribution, retailing, metering and consumption through the direct involvement of residential energy consumers using intelligent meters

Bristol academic awarded prestigious Toshiba research Fellowship

20 June 2009

Dr Mark Thompson, a Lecturer in Physics and Electrical Engineering at Bristol University has recently been awarded the prestigious Toshiba Research Fellowship, where he will be spending one year working alongside Toshiba researchers at the Toshiba R&D Headquarters in Kawasaki, Japan. Dr Thompson’s research interests are in the understanding and development of ‘Integrated Photonic Circuits’ for applications as diverse as ultra-fast laser systems, high speed communications systems, optical interconnects, quantum information processing and quantum computation.

CCR exhibits at WTP 2009

13 May 2009

The Centre for Communicatons Research (CCR) at the University of Bristol exhibited its leading-edge research at WTP 2009 in Yokohama, Japan in May 2009.