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 2012-13
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 2012-13. These seminars are open to all University of Bristol 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? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10/10/2012 | 15.30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry | Herbert Huppert (Cambridge) | Introduction to High Reynolds Number Flows I | NSQI | |
| 17/10/2012 | 15.30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Stephen Sparks (Bristol) |
High Reynolds Number Flows II
Volcanic Intrusions |
NSQI | |
| 19/10/2012 | 08:00 | Ideas & Universities | Nan Yeld (Cape Town) | University Rankings: A good or bad phenomenon for African Higher Education? | NSQI | |
| 24/10/2012 | 15.30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
P. Bates (Bristol) |
Low Reynolds Number Flows I
Large Scale River Flows |
NSQI | |
| 26/10/2012 | 08:00 | Ideas & Universities | Richard Budd (Bristol) | Why might students in different countries have contrasting views of higher education? Do they? | NSQI | |
| 31/10/2012 | 15.30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Alison Rust (Bristol) |
Low Reynolds Number Flows II
Lava Flows |
NSQI | |
| 7/11/2012 | 15.30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Jeremy Phillips (Bristol) |
Particle-Driven Flows
Volcanic Ash Clouds |
NSQI | |
| 14/11/2012 | 15.30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Thorsten Wagener (Bristol) |
Flows in Porous Media I
Groundwater Flows |
NSQI | |
| 16/11/2012 | 16:00 | Ideas & Universities |
Pamela Gravestock (Toronto) |
Does Teaching Matter? Assessing Teaching for Tenure at Canadian Universities | NSQI | |
| 21/11/2012 | 15:30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Jonathan Bamber (Bristol) |
Flows In Porous Media II
Earth's Varying Gravity |
NSQI | |
| 28/11/2012 | 15:30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Andrew Hogg (Bristol) |
Granular Flows I
Runout and Arrest of Granular Flows |
NSQI | |
| 30/11/2012 | 16:00 | Ideas & Universities | Susan Robertson & Filip Vostal (Bristol) |
Knowledge mediators and lubricating channels: on the temporal arts of performing the modern university |
NSQI | |
| 5/12/2012 | 15:30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
L. Staron |
Granular Flows II
Rock Flow Mobility |
NSQI | |
| 7/12/2012 | 16.00 | Ideas & Universities | Sara Goldrick-Rab (Madison-Wisconsin) | The Rhetoric versus Reality of Affordability Policies in Higher Education: The American Case | NSQI | |
| 12/12/2012 | 15:30 | Gravity Currents in Nature and Industry |
Herbert Huppert (Cambridge)
Tony Payne |
Ice Flows
Plumes, Ice and the Polar Oceans |
NSQI |