Virtual seminars
Cooperation between Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) partners is underpinned by a range of highly successful virtual seminar series. Viewed live and interactive at sites across the partnership, they provide a unique opportunity for staff and students to engage with world class researchers and to learn more about the research being conducted at WUN partner institutions. The format of the online lectures has enabled lively question and answer discussions to take place across an international audience.
For an overview of virtual seminars and full details of upcoming events please go to the WUN website.
Virtual seminars in Bristol 2011-12
The University of Bristol takes part in a number of virtual seminar series with other WUN member universities. These are shown live in either Senate Room or the LGF1 meeting room, both on the lower ground floor of Senate House, Tyndall Avenue or in the NSQI Seminar Room (Nanoscience and Quantum Information building), also on Tyndall Avenue.
The following tables give the dates, times and locations at Bristol for the WUN seminars in 2011-12. These seminars are open to all staff and students.
Titles, abstracts and additional materials
Clicking on the series title will take you to the external WUN website, with details of speakers, titles, abstracts etc. Please note that some of these sites are password protected. If this is the case, the contact details for obtaining the password will be given on the relevant site.
Attending the seminars
Please note that in general you can attend these seminars by just turning up on the day, but a small number will require advance booking (please refer to the last column on the right). If you would like to attend a seminar where booking is required, please contact the WUN Development Manager no later than 3 working days before the event. If we have not received any bookings for these events by this time, they will not go ahead at Bristol.
Please arrive promptly for the seminars as late arrival will cause disruption not only at Bristol, but at the other sites participating in these seminars.
| Date | Time | Seminar series | Speaker | Title | Location | Booking Required? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 04/10/2011 | 17:00 | Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes | Chris Keylock (Sheffield) | Quantifying Turbulance | LGF1 | |
| 19/10/2011 | 16:00 | World Cinemas | Lucia Nagib (Leeds) | The End of the Other: Ethics and Physical Cinema | LGF1 | |
| 08/11/2011 | 17:00 | Earth Surface Sedimentary Flow Processes |
Katerina Michaelides (Bristol) |
Modelling hillslope sediment supply to channels in debris-mantled dryland fluvial systems | LGF1 | |
| 16/11/2011 | 16:00 | World Cinemas | Max Silverman (Leeds) | The Memory of the Image | LGF1 | |
| 23/11/2011 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | Erik Tuenter (KNMI/Utrecht) | Transient (monsoonal) climate behaviour in CLIMBER | LGF1 | |
| 14/12/2011 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | Ying Cui (Penn State) | Slow release of fossil carbon during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum: model inversion of a new, high-resolution carbon isotope record from Spitsbergen | LGF1 | |
| 18/01/2012 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | Alan M. Haywood (Leeds) |
Modelling Earth's last interval of greater global warmth: progress, pitfalls and future challenges |
NSQI | |
| 01/02/2012 | 16:00 | World Cinemas | John Corner (Leeds) | Documentary and the Dimensions of Reference | LGF1 | |
| 10/02/2012 | 16:00 | Ideas & Universities | Ian Wei (Bristol) | Competing for academic jobs: how staff-student dynamics changed with the emergence of European universities in the thirteenth century - POSTPONED | LGF1 | |
| 15/02/2012 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | Stephen Meyers (Wisconsin Madison) |
The construction of time models (orbital time scales), and their integration with proxy data to develop a conceptual model for Oceanic Anoxic Event 2 |
LGF1 | |
| 17/02/2012 | 16:00 | Ideas & Universities | Susan Robertson & Filip Vostal (Bristol) | Knowledge mediators and lubricating channels: on the temporal arts of performing the modern university | NSQI | |
| 14/03/2012 | 16:00 | World Cinemas | Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht) | Literature and Cinema: Postcolonial Adaptations | LGF1 | |
| 21/03/2012 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | Christoph Heinze (Bergen) |
Modelling the ocean carbon cycle - lessons from the past and entering new territory for the future |
NSQI | |
| 18/04/2012 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | tbc | tbc | LGF1 | |
| 02/05/2012 | 16:00 | World Cinemas | Jonathan Rayner and David Forrest (Sheffield) | Cinema and Landscape | LGF1 | |
| 04/05/2012 | 08:00 | Ideas and Universities | Anthony Welch (Sydney) | China’s Scientific Rise | NSQI | |
| 11/05/2012 | 08:00 | Ideas and Universities | Anne Chapman (Western Australia) | tbc | NSQI | |
| 16/05/2012 | 17:00 | Horizons in Earth Systems | tbc | tbc | LGF1 |