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Prize winning paper on optical nanoantennas at national conference

4 May 2012

Jamie Stokes from the Photonics group in Electrical and Electronic Engineering won the Best Paper prize at The Festival of Radio Science organised by the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) at Durham University.

Grant to solve quantum communication problem

24 April 2012

A solution to the problem of sending information in single quantum particles over global distances could be a step closer thanks to grants of over €3 million that have been awarded to researchers in the University of Bristol’s Quantum Photonics group.

Electrical engineers develop LED ‘Magic Wands’

24 April 2012

Engineers from the University of Bristol have developed illuminating ‘magic wands’ that work by picking up radio signals from mobile devices.

Peter Head Lecture on Climate Change

9 June 2011

The Bristol Dynamic Designs Lecture: 'Entering the Ecological Age – the Engineer's Role' (Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA, chaired by Professor Nick Lieven), Thursday 21st July (5.30pm-7.00pm) in the Pugsley Lecture Theatre, Queen's Building. This ground breaking lecture will outline the challenges facing society in the context of climate change and a burgeoning world population, and will review what changes we can make to meet these challenges. Followed by a drinks reception. To book a place, please email: emma.wood@bristol.ac.uk. For details of the Dynamic Designs week, please see: www.bris.ac.uk/dynamic-designs

Exciting HPC conference in Bristol

7 April 2011

There is still time to register for next week's Many-core and Reconfigurable Supercomputing Conference (MRSC), which this year is being held at the University of Bristol from April 11-13th. MRSC is Europe's largest conference focusing on the use of GPUs and FPGAs in High Performance Computing (HPC).

New €3.2 million project aims to build computers that can learn from us

17 September 2010

Computer systems which can learn from us and then help to carry out complex tasks may become a reality thanks to new research being carried out by scientists at the University of Bristol.