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.
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.
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’.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.