Events - October 2014

What motivates student learning? Can instructors influence the motivation levels of their students?

Some theorists believe that motivation for learning is impacted by two factors:

1. Student beliefs about their ability to succeed in the learning task (expectancy)

Candidate

Uyxing Vongsaysy

Title

Studies on processing additives introduced for increasing the efficiency of organic solar cells: their selections and their mechanistic effects

Supervisor

Hany Aziz

Speaker

Roberto Giacobazzi, University of Verona, Italy

Topic

Obscuring code – Unveiling and Veiling Information in Programs

Candidate

Tianchi Ma

Supervisor

Christopher Backhouse

Title

An Automated Hand-held RFLP-CE Diagnosis Device for point-of-care Applications

Abstract

Micro-Total-Analysis-System (uTAS) for genetic diagnosis has a great potential to revolutionize the future of health care. However the lack of uTAS, which is fully integrated, mass-producible and application oriented, has delayed uTAS development in real life point-of-care applications.

Candidate

Adam John Neale

Title

Design and Analysis of an Adjacent Multi-bit Error Correcting Code for Nanoscale SRAMs

Supervisor

Manoj Sachdev

Speaker

Professor Ashish Khisti

Topic

Coding for Real-Time Streaming Communication

Abstract

A growing number of multimedia applications require transmission of a stream of source packets under strict delay constraints. It is well known that classical models in information theory do not provide useful guidelines for such systems. In this talk I will show how certain deterministic approximations to statistical channel models can lead to new insights into real-time streaming communications.