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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Constant juggling? An interactive and research-informed webinar on managing work-life boundaries for academics
DESCRIPTION:Title\nConstant juggling? An interactive and research-informed webinar on managing work-life boundaries for academics \nSpeaker\nDr Mengyi Xu (徐梦艺博士)\, Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management\, University of Birmingham\, UK \nChair\nProfessor Lynda Jiwen Song (宋继文教授)\, Professor in Management\, Leeds University\, UK \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nThis webinar aims to share academics’ experiences of managing their work-life boundaries from recent research and lived experience\, and collectively explore individual strategies and tactics for work-life boundary management and managerial implications of hybrid working in the Higher Education (HE) sector. COVID-19 has accelerated existing trends towards the greater digitalisation and virtualisation of how the HE institutions are operated\, and the knowledge work is done. Hybrid working\, comprising a mixture of office-based and remote working\, is now a firmly established option for many employers. While it is understood that the resulting blurring of work and home domains poses threats to staff wellbeing\, health and longer-term productivity\, the problem has consistently been framed as individual responsibility with the result that less attention has been paid to what employers can and should also do to support staff. \nWe will start by sharing some recent research and lived experiences on the work-life boundary experiences of academics during and after the pandemic. Then participants will be instructed to take an assessment designed to identify their boundary style and its pros and cons. Participants will then be allocated to a breakout room to share and use the results of this assessment to develop strategies and tactics for effective work-life boundary management. The webinar will end with a debrief from the discussions where participants will share the good practices and techniques of effective work-life boundary management\, and critically reflect upon the importance of work-life boundary control for improving productivity and well-being. \nIntended participants and admission criteria for the participants\nAll ABCP members and friends. \nIf you are interested in understanding work-life boundaries ahead of the webinar\, you can read through the following article and do the work-life boundary style assessment and have their results handy. \nKossek\, E. E. (2016) Managing work-life boundaries in the digital age. Organizational Dynamics\, 45(3):258-270. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orgdyn.2016.07.010 \nBio of speaker\nDr Mengyi Xu is an Assistant Professor in Human Resource Management (HRM) at the University of Birmingham. She is an academic member of the Charted Institute of Personnel Management\, a Council member of the British Academy of Management and a working member of the Association of British Chinese Professors. She also serves as an external examiner on MSc and BSc HRM courses at other universities in the UK and Malaysia. \nMengyi’s research interests focus on work-life interface\, hybrid working\, and the future of work. Her research and consultancy projects are funded by the British Academy of Management\, Forces in Mind Trust\, the UK local government and Brazil’s Civil Service. She was awarded a Research Accelerator Fellowship from Cranfield University. Her publications have appeared in high-impact journals\, international peer-reviewed conferences\, and HR professional magazines. \nMengyi is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and possesses a broad portfolio of teaching and supervision expertise in HRM\, Employment Relations\, and Organisational Behaviour at Undergraduate\, Master\, MBA and Executive education. Her teaching is infused with insights from her research\, and consultancy as well as her international experience in the West and East. \nPrior to her academic career\, Mengyi held a variety of roles in the UK and China\, including HR\, content creator\, bilingual teacher and events presenter at TV stations. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting using the following information: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81376373243?pwd=EbUovJgglM1ILq3xSO1OoFG3tVxKva.1 \nMeeting ID: 813 7637 3243\nPasscode: 725001 \n— \nOne tap mobile\n+442039017895\,\,81376373243#\,\,\,\,*725001# United Kingdom\n+442080806591\,\,81376373243#\,\,\,\,*725001# United Kingdom \n— \nDial by your location\n• +44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n• +44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n• +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom \nMeeting ID: 813 7637 3243\nPasscode: 725001 \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kiHlpRsre
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SUMMARY:How to apply for RAEng Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Title\nHow to apply for RAE Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships \nAgenda\n\n\n\n4-4:20pm\nShort presentation about RAEng’s Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships scheme and Q&A \nSpeaker: Joel Chen​​​​\, Programme Manager\, Research\, Royal Academy of Engineering\n\n\n4:20-4:50pm\nPanel discussion on how to apply for RAEng Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships \nPanellists and Facilitator: See below\n\n\n4:50-5:20pm\nQ&A between the audience and the panellists\n\n\n\nPanellists\nProfessor Yulong Ding (丁玉龙教授) FREng FIChemE FRSC\, Founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering & Director of Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage (BCES)\, University of Birmingham; Lead of EPSRC Supergen Energy Storage Network Plus Programme; RAEng-Highview Industrial Chair in Cryogenic Energy Storage (2014-19) \nProfessor Yang Hao (郝阳教授) FREng FIEEE\, Deputy Vice Principal for Strategic Research\, Queen Mary\, University of London (QMUL); Director of EPSRC Research Centre on Future Wireless Connectivity; QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair (2022-27) \nFacilitator\nProfessor Hongbiao Dong (董洪标教授) FREng FIMMM\, Professor of Materials Engineering\, University of Leicester\, UK; Scientific Director of EPSRC Doctoral Training Centre in Innovative Metal Processing (IMPaCT); Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair (2016-2022); President of ABCP \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English but may switch to Chinese if all participants can speak and understand Chinese (especially for the second part). \nAbstract\nIn the past 35 years\, the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) has been offering Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships as unique opportunities to UK researchers\, by supporting “academics in UK universities to undertake use-inspired research to meet the needs of industrial sponsors”. This scheme has successfully supported over 200 awardees and enhanced internationally renowned centres of excellence. The funding for this scheme is from the UK Department for Science\, Innovation and Technology (DSIT). \nMore precisely\, according to RAEng’s website\, awardees “are expected to: \n\nestablish or enhance a world leading engineering research group\ndeliver ‘use-inspired’ research that meets the needs of their industrial sponsors\ndisseminate the outcomes of their research for appropriate academic use\nbecome a self-sustaining research group by the end of the award (by securing substantial external grant income).”\n\nThe award opens for applications twice a year\, with deadlines in March and September. The next deadline is still to be announced\, but it is useful to start earlier. \nThis panel discussion is organised to let three senior British Chinese academics (two panellists and the chair)\, all Fellows of RAEng and winners of an RAEng Research Chair grant\, share their personal experience in applying for RAEng Research Chairs\, and answer questions from participants who are interested in applying for RAEng Research Chairs or Senior Research Fellowships in 2024 and future years. \nBio of Professor Yulong Ding\nProfessor Yulong Ding is founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering and founding Director of University of Birmingham’s Centre for Energy Storage. His research has been on energy materials and processes. He has published 550+ technical papers with 450+ in peer-reviewed journals (with a Google Scholar h-index of ~90) and filed 100+ patents. \nHe invented liquid air energy storage technology and led the initial stage of technology developments (commercialised by Highview Power). He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies\, leading to large scale commercial applications with total installations exceeding ~500MW / ~2GWh so far. His work on passively cooled container technology has been on large scale commercial demonstration for cold chain applications. \nProfessor Ding currently leads the EPSRC Supergen Energy Storage Network Plus Programme\, and is a member of the Royal Society Net Zero Panel and World Bank . He is an associate editor of Energy Storage and Saving (Elsevier) and Discovery Energy (Springer)\, and serves on editorial boards of the following journals: Energy Storage (Wiley)\, Thermal Science (Springer)\, and Particuology (Elsevier). He recently led a Royal Society briefing note on heating and cooling decarbonisation in ‘Climate Change: Science and Solutions’ for COP26 in 2021\, and technical part of IRENA (International Renewable Energy Agency) Thermal Energy Storage Outlook 2030 (2020). \nHis work has been recognised by Humboldt Research Award (2023); ESIE Award & Medal for Lifetime Contribution to Energy Storage (2022); IChemE Clean Energy Medal (2021)\, election to Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (2020); IChemE Global Awards in three categories of Energy\, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement (2019); and Energy & Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award (‘The Engineer’\, 2011). \nBio of Professor Yang Hao\nProfessor Yang Hao\, a distinguished figure in the field of electrical and electronic engineering\, stands at the forefront of cutting-edge research in wireless connectivity and metamaterials. He currently serving as the Director of the EPSRC Research Centre on Future Wireless Connectivity\, Prof Hao’s impact is not confined to the academic realm; he has been a driving force in fostering collaboration between academia and industry. His role as the QinetiQ/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair underscores his influence in shaping the future of wireless technologies. He co-founded “Isotropic Systems (All.Space)”\, a successful satellite communication company creating more than 100 engineer jobs in Reading\, exemplifies his commitment to bridging the gap between theoretical research and practical applications. \nThroughout his illustrious career\, Prof Yang Hao has contributed extensively to patent applications and scientific journals including Physics Review Letters\, Nature Communications\, Advanced Science\, Proceedings of the IEEE\, NPJ Computational Materials\, etc. (with >20\,000 citations and an h-index of 66). He received honors and awards\, including the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award\, BAE System Chairman’s Silver Award and the IET AF Harvey Research Prize\, mirror the significance of his work. His leadership extends to various capacities\, from being a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering to serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and the Vice President of Publication Committee for IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society. He serves the Fellowship Committee\, Research Committee and Enterprise Hub for the Royal Academy of Engineering. \nSince 2000\, Prof Hao has supervised more than 70 Postdocs and PhD students. They are now working in global industries and universities including Samsung Electronics\, Airbus\, Cobham\, Cadence Design Systems\, Isotropic Systems\, Lawrence Livermore; Heriot-Watt\, Glasgow\, QMUL\, KTH\, Dublin\, and Penn State University. Three of them have set up spinout companies. Four of them winning Royal Society Research Fellowships. \nIn addition to his prolific research career\, Prof Hao has excelled in academic leadership roles. He went through the training via the Oxford Executive Leadership Programme\, Saïd Business School at University of Oxford. As the Deputy Vice Principal for Strategic Research at Queen Mary\, University of London\, and the Dean for Research at the Faculty of Science and Engineering\, he has played a pivotal role in REF 2021 submission (ranked joint 7th in the UK for the quality of its research)\, setting up university research institutes and steering institutional research agendas. \nBio of Professor Hongbiao Dong\nHongbiao Dong is Professor of Materials Engineering and Deputy Head of School of Engineering at the University of Leicester\, Fellow of Royal Academic of Engineering (FREng). He obtained his BEng and MEng degrees in metallurgical engineering from University of Science and Technology Beijing\, DPhil in materials science at the University of Oxford. He was a Royal Society Industry Fellow at Rolls-Royce Plc (2006-2008)\, PI and coordinator for a major EU research project (Mintweld) (2009-2013)\, Research Chair of Royal Academy of Engineering (2016-2022)\, and PI for an EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Innovative Metal Processing (2014-2023). \nHe is internationally renowned for materials modelling and its application in metals and have made seminal contributions to the metals industry. His work on modelling the columnar-to-equiaxed transition in metal solidification has far-reaching influence in both theory and industrial application. It provides new understanding of solute-driven solidification grain-structure evolution; his solidification simulation videos have over 60\,000 views in YouTube\, and have been used in undergraduate teaching at universities. This underpinning work laid down the concepts of subsequent work on multi-scale\, multi-physics modelling of casting and welding\, provides novel insight into key solidification phenomena at different length scales and more importantly allows industry to design and optimise casting and welding processes to give better performance and reduced costs. \nHis work has been exploited in various sectors\, including in aerospace by Rolls-Royce\, energy by the Welding Institute and steel by NISCO and NISCO and the Materials Processing Institute. He has played a key role in establishing international partnerships between the UK and China\, India and South Africa. \nHow to Participate\nPlease join the panel discussion remotely using the following Zoom meeting information: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85385174702?pwd=vRSph4nec1iB0AJrhkH0MrcycyDXVP.1 \nMeeting ID: 853 8517 4702\nPasscode: 960820 \n— \nOne tap mobile\n+442080806592\,\,85385174702#\,\,\,\,*960820# United Kingdom\n+443300885830\,\,85385174702#\,\,\,\,*960820# United Kingdom \n— \nDial by your location\n• +44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n• +44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n• +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom \nMeeting ID: 853 8517 4702\nPasscode: 960820 \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kciZAe6iQZ \nRegistration Form\nIf you are interested in attending the event\, please fill in the following form by 8th January Monday 9am. 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URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/2024-raeng-research-chairs-and-senior-research-fellowships/
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SUMMARY:All roads lead to Rome: How leadership in internationalisation and transnational education furthered my career progression
DESCRIPTION:Title\nAll roads lead to Rome: How leadership in internationalisation and transnational education furthered my career progression \nSpecial Note\nThis is the second of a new series of professorial inaugural talks series of the ABCP\, for celebrating promotions of its Associate Members to a professorial post and ABCP Full Membership and sharing experience with non-professorial academics on how to get promoted towards a professorial post. \nSpeaker\nProfessor Daguo Li (李大国教授)\, Professor & Deputy Dean\, NUIST-Reading Academy (南京信息工程大学雷丁学院)\, University of Reading \nChair\nProfessor Li Wei (李嵬教授) FBA MAE FAcSS FRSA\, Professor in Applied Linguistics & Director and Dean of Institute of Education (IoE)\, University College London (UCL) \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nInternationalisation and transnational education present unique opportunities for promoting global understanding and career development. In this talk\, the speaker will discuss and share his vision and experience of creating and leading UK-China international/transnational education initiatives and programmes over the past decades\, and how they have helped to enhance his career development and visibility\, culminating in his recent promotion to professorship via the Teaching Intensive route. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Daguo Li is the UK-based Vice-Dean of the NUIST-Reading Academy – a joint education institute between the University of Reading (UoR) and Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST). He is also the Programme Co-Director of the UoR’s Masters in English Language Education\, a UK award jointly delivered in Guangzhou with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies. During his doctoral study\, he pioneered residential professional development programmes in the UK for English language teachers from China. Upon completion of his PhD\, he continued to lead and develop such initiatives and programmes\, supporting the professional development of teachers and education managers at all levels of education. His national and international impact is also felt through his active involvement and leadership in transnational education fora\, as well as his doctoral supervision and research around English language teacher professional development and international and transnational education. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting using the following information: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85192531368?pwd=OE5jeVZCdVpOMEp5b0VhYWJsdFNRdz09 \nMeeting ID: 851 9253 1368\nPasscode: 500627 \nOne tap mobile\n+441314601196\,\,85192531368#\,\,\,\,*500627# United Kingdom\n+442034815237\,\,85192531368#\,\,\,\,*500627# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n• +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n• +44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/keEByt6WEr
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/professorial-inaugural-talk-daguo-li/
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SUMMARY:How research fellowships helped accelerate my academic career pathway: Low-cost and rapid sensors
DESCRIPTION:Title\nProfessorial Inaugural Talk – How research fellowships helped accelerate my academic career pathway: Low-cost and rapid sensors \nSpecial Note\nThis is the first of a new series of professorial inaugural talks series of the ABCP\, for celebrating promotions of its Associate Members to a professorial post and ABCP Full Membership and sharing experience with non-professorial academics on how to get promoted towards a professorial post. Such talks are also designed to help inspire Associate Members of ABCP and academics with a similar status to progress further towards being full professors. \nSpeaker\nProfessor Zhugen Yang (杨竹根教授)\, Professor of Biosensing and Environmental Health\, Cranfield University; Leverhulme Research Leader; NERC Fellow \nChair\nProfessor Huiyu Zhou (周挥宇教授)\, Professor of Machine Learning\, University of Leicester \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nPathogen detection is significant for both biomedical diagnostics (e.g.\, infectious disease) and environmental analysis\, e.g.\, pathogen contamination in drinking water\, SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater for early warning of pandemic). This talk will present a low-cost\, deployable paper-based biosensor device for rapid analysis of pathogens for a wide range of application including biomedical diagnosis and wastewater surveillance. It will show the capability of paper-origami device for field-testing in the UK\, India and Africa. This device is currently developing to trace the source of pathogens (e.g.\, SARS-CoV-2) in wastewater for early warning of disease outbreak\, supported by UK national wastewater epidemiology surveillance program (N-WESP). \nThe speaker will also share his personal experience on how he successfully applied for different UK fellowships and how they helped him reach his professorial promotion. \nBio of Speaker\nZhugen Yang is a Professor of Biosensing and Environmental Health at Cranfield University in the UK\, leading a UKCRIC-funded Advanced Sensors Laboratory for water-environment-health-nexus. He joined Cranfield University as a Lecturer in 2019 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2022 and Professor in 2023. He has received three prestigious Fellowships for different career stages\, including Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards (2023-2028)\, UKRI NERC Fellowship (2018-2021)\, and EU Marie Curie Fellow (2013-15). His independent academic career starts as a Lecturer at the University of Glasgow in 2018 after awarded a prestigious UKRI NERC Independent Fellowship. He completed postdocs at the University of Cambridge\, and subsequently at the University of Bath as EU Marie Curie Fellow. He received his PhD from the University of Lyon in France\, BEng from Harbin Institute of Technology and MSc from Sun Yat-sen University in China. \nHis group is developing rapid and low-cost sensors (e.g.\, paper-origami device) for biomedical diagnostics (e.g.\, infectious diseases and cancers)\, public health (e.g.\, wastewater-based epidemiology)\, and environmental science (e.g.\, microbial source tracking\, antimicrobial resistance). His research has been sponsored by a variety of sources (>£5.5m\, PI on £4m) including UKRI (EPSRC\, NERC\, BBSRC\, MRC)\, Leverhulme Trust\, Royal Society\, Royal Academy of Engineering\, industrial and governmental sectors (e.g.\, UKHSA\, Home Office\, Defra\, EA)\, leading to over 80 referred articles (including Nature Water\, PNAS\, Nature Communications\, h-index = 34 as of September 2023)\, several UK/PCT patents and a number of invited/keynote talks at international conferences. The key sensor technology has led to a spin-out company at Cranfield. His research has received many national and international awards including a recent Honorable Mention for the James J. Morgan ACS ES&T Early Career Award\, featuring in Science and numerous media coverages (e.g.\, BBC News\, Washington Post\, etc.). The origami-paper device is currently featured at London Science Museum. He serves as associate editor/guest editor/editorial advisory board members for 10 international journals and chaired the international conference of TTW6 in Oxford in 2023. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting using the following information: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82124399519?pwd=RGd2UU1jaUlLSDdjV1JRWkJDS0RWQT09 \nMeeting ID: 821 2439 9519\nPasscode: 104733 \nOne tap mobile\n+443300885830\,\,82124399519#\,\,\,\,*104733# United Kingdom\n+441314601196\,\,82124399519#\,\,\,\,*104733# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n• +44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n• +44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n• +44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n• +44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kcIzJDGEm8
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/professorial-inaugural-talk-zhugen-yang/
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SUMMARY:Impact Case Webinar: Making an Impact - Building towards World-Leading Impact in Cybersecurity
DESCRIPTION:Title\nMaking an Impact: Building towards World-Leading Impact in Cybersecurity \nSpeaker\nProfessor William (Bill) Buchanan OBE\, Professor of Applied Cryptography\, Edinburgh Napier University \nChair\nProfessor Shujun Li (李树钧教授)\, Professor of Cyber Security and Director of Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS)\, University of Kent; VP for IT & External Liaison and Co-Chair of AIG (Academic Interest Group) on Social Science and Humanities\, ABCP \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nWhile research outputs often focus on citation counts and journal impact factors\, they are often just indicators towards the future impact of research work. This presentation will outline the timeline towards defining two impact case studies with REF 2021\, and outline the key elements of building a world-leading impact case study for research. \nBio of Speaker\nWilliam (Bill) Buchanan is a Professor who leads the Blockpass ID Lab at Edinburgh Napier University\, and a Fellow of the BCS and Principal Fellow of the HEA. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2017 Birthday Honours for services to cybersecurity. Bill lives and works in Edinburgh\, and is a believer in fairness\, justice\, and freedom. His social media tagline reflects his strong belief in changing the world for the better: “A Serial Innovator. An Old World Breaker. A New World Creator.” He has published over 400 peer reviewed research papers\, several high-impact patents\, and over 30 academic textbooks. Bill created one of the most extensive sites for cryptography in the world (asecuritysite.com)\, and which has over 10 million users per year. His work has led to many areas of impact\, including four highly successful spin-out companies (Zonefox\, Symphonic Software\, Cyan Forensics and MemCrypt)\, along with awards for excellence in knowledge transfer\, and for teaching. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting using the following information: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81269291304?pwd=NjNKZTFGLzhjNkoraFRQUWdzZ0VMUT09 \nMeeting ID: 812 6929 1304\nPasscode: 775833 \nOne tap mobile\n+442034815240\,\,81269291304#\,\,\,\,*775833# United Kingdom\n+442039017895\,\,81269291304#\,\,\,\,*775833# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kb449Efct
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/impact-case-webinar-bill-buchanan/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Impact Case Webinar: Experience gained and lessons learnt from a 10-year research journey on digital inclusivity
DESCRIPTION:Title\nBuilding a REF Impact Case Study: Experience gained and lessons learnt from a 10-year research journey on digital inclusivity \nSpeaker\nDr Yan Wu (吴燕博士)\, Associate Professor in Media and Communications Studies\, College of Arts and Humanities\, Swansea University \nChair\nProfessor Lynda Jiwen Song (宋继文教授)\, Leeds University Business School\, University of Leeds; Co-Chair\, ABCP AIG (Academic Interest Group) on Social Science and Humanities \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nThe speaker will provide a first-person account of her research journey to study digital inclusivity in Wales. Wu et al’s REF2021 impact case study research focuses on the challenges posed for sensory impaired users in Wales by first\, the digital switchover of television; and secondly\, the broader digitalization of services and information. They have both brought risks of exclusion\, ‘digital gaps’ and the erosion of communicative rights. The research has had an effect on the awareness and understanding of these challenges in Wales by elected representatives\, broadcasters\, Action on Hearing Loss and the Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB). In this talk\, Dr Wu will share experience gained and lessons learnt from her 10-year research journey – how she started this portfolio of research projects; how she built a cross-disciplinary team; how she collaborated with external partners; what are the opportunities and challenges associated with doing an impact case study and her current and future portfolio of research projects. \nBio of Speaker\nDr Yan Wu works as an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies\, Swansea University. Her research interests focus on the social impacts of digital media and communication in China and digital inclusivity in Wales. Her publications appear in journals such as New Media and Society; Global Media and China; International Journal of Digital Television\, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art; British Journal of Chinese Studies; etc. and as book chapters in Media and Public Sphere (Palgrave Macmillan 2007)\, Climate Change and Mass Media (Peter Lang 2008)\, Migration and the Media (Peter Lang 2012)\, Public Diplomacy and the Politics of Uncertainty (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)\, The Cultural Politics of Femvertising (Palgrave Macmillan 2022). \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting using the following information: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89646206839?pwd=ZmNSb05uOVIwMU5EOTBrRFlEcWVWZz09 \nMeeting ID: 896 4620 6839\nPasscode: 490277 \nOne tap mobile\n+441314601196\,\,89646206839#\,\,\,\,*490277# United Kingdom\n+442034815237\,\,89646206839#\,\,\,\,*490277# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kdB0gQ6fNN \n 
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/impact-case-webinar-yan-wu/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion on ChatGPT
DESCRIPTION:Title\nA panel discussion on ChatGPT: The good\, the bad and the hopeful \nPanellists\n\nDr Jidong Chen (陈吉栋博士)\, Associate Professor\, Law School\, Tongji University\, China\nProfessor Hongmei He (何红梅教授)\, Professor in Future Robotics\, Engineering and Transport System\, University of Salford\, UK\nProfessor Yulan He (何瑜岚教授)\, Professor in Natural Language Processing\, King’s College London & Turing AI Fellow\, Alan Turing Institute\, UK\nProfessor Yaochu Jin (金耀初教授)\, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for AI\, Bielefeld University\, Germany & Distinguished Chair\, Professor in Computational Intelligence\, University of Surrey\, UK\nProfessor Pengfei Liu (刘鹏飞教授)\, Professor of Marine Hydrodynamics\, Director of Marine Propulsion Research Laboratory\, Newcastle University\, UK\nProfessor Xiao Ma (马骁教授)\, Professor and Director of Centre for Business Transformation\, Nottingham Trent University\, UK\nDr Weiqun Wang (王维群博士)\, Assistant Professor in Chinese\, University of Nottingham\, UK\nProfessor Perry Xiao (肖蓬教授)\, Co-Head of Bioengineering Research Centre\, London South Bank University\, UK\nDr Jie Zhang (张洁博士)\, Lecturer in Computer Science (Software Engineering)\, King’s College London\, UK\n\nCo-Facilitators/Organisers\n\nProfessor Huiru (Jane) Zheng (郑慧如教授)\, Professor of Computer Sciences and Theme Leader of Data Analytics and Systems in AI Research Centre\, Ulster University\, UK & Co-Chair of ABCP’s AIG on AI\nProfessor Huiyu Zhou (周挥宇教授)\, Professor of Machine Learning and Head of Applied Algorithms and AI (AAAI) Theme\, University of Leicester\, UK & Co-Chair of ABCP AIG on AI\nProfessor Shujun Li (李树钧教授)\, Professor of Cyber Security and Director of Institute of Cyber Security for Society (iCSS)\, University of Kent\, UK & ABCP VP on IT and External Liaison and Co-Chair of ABCP AIG on Cyber Security\nDr Chongyan Gu (谷翀燕博士)\, Lecturer\, Queen’s University Belfast\, UK & Co-Chair of ABCP AIG on Cyber Security\n\nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in Chinese. \nAbstract\nChatGPT and other generative AI systems have been one of the most discussed and debated topics these days. The recent ban of ChatGPT in Italy for data protection concerns and the ongoing call from the Future of Life Institute on “Pause Giant AI Experiments” have let all researchers and the whole society think about the good\, the bad and the hopeful of advanced AI techniques especially generative ones such as LLMs (large language models)\, into which ChatGPT and its underlying technique GPT fall. \nThis special ABCP panel discussion is co-organised by the ABCP AIG on AI and AIG on Cyber Security to provide a platform for the panellists and the participants to have a timely discussion and debate about pros and cons of ChatGPT and other powerful but “problematic” AI techniques\, and also the future directions researchers in all disciplines can think about. \nThis panel discussion is a member-only event\, and the information on how to participate will be circulated via the ABCP mailing list for all members. ABCP members are also encouraged to share the event with their PhD students and colleagues who can understand Chinese to join.
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/panel-discussion-chatgpt/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="ABCP (Association of British Chinese Professors%2C %E5%85%A8%E8%8B%B1%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%95%99%E6%8E%88%E5%8D%8F%E4%BC%9A)":MAILTO:contact@abcp.org.uk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220623T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220623T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T192455
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Academic journal publishing: a great change in business models and a gradual shift in evaluation
DESCRIPTION:Title\nAcademic journal publishing: a great change in business models and a gradual shift in evaluation \n学术期刊出版的那些事儿：商业模式的巨变和评价方式的渐变 \nSpeaker\nDr Shuai Yan (颜帅博士)\, independent consultant; China Consultant\, STM Association (International Association of Scientific\, Technical and Medical Publishers) (2021-present); Vice President\, China Editology Society for Scientific Periodicals (2015-2021); President\, Society of China University Journals (2004-2019); Vice President\, China Periodicals Association (2012-2018) \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in Chinese. \nAbstract\nFor most of the more than 350 years from the founding of Philosophical Transactions by the Royal Society in 1665\, reader payment and institutional subscription have been the basic business models of academic journal publishing. Entering the new century\, the open access movement has quietly emerged and developed rapidly. Twenty years later\, it has been in full swing. The open access business model\, typified by the author paying the article processing charge (APC)\, is steadily replacing the traditional subscription model. At the same time\, transparent and open review methods and tools are introduced into the review process of submissions\, and the core functions of academic journals to advance trusted research and maintain scientific research integrity continue to be played. The disadvantages of using impact factors only to evaluate journal publishing performance and judging articles (research results) by journals’ achievements have been recognized by more and more people\, and the emerging evaluation indexes have attracted more and more attention. \n从1665年皇家学会创办《哲学汇刊》到现在350多年的绝大部分时间里，读者付费、机构订阅一直是学术期刊出版的基本商业模式。进入新世纪，开放获取运动悄然兴起、迅速发展，20年过去已成燎原之势。以收取作者论文处理费（article processing charge）为典型代表的开放获取商业模式正逐步取代传统订阅模式。与此同时，透明、开放的评审方式、工具被引入对投稿论文的评审流程，学术期刊促进可信的研究、维护科研诚信的核心功能继续得以发挥；以期刊影响因子论英雄、以刊评文（研究成果）的弊端被越来越多的人认识，新兴的指标体系日益受到瞩目。 \nBio of Speaker\n \nDr Shuai Yan (颜帅博士) is currently an independent consultant since 2020. Since November 2021\, Shuai started to work with the STM Association (International Association of Scientific\, Technical and Medical Publishers) as its China Consultant. From 2017 to 2020 Shuai worked with Springer Nature Greater China as director of academic relationships (including government relations). From 2011 to 2017 he was at the Tsinghua University Press (TUP) as an associate chief editor and TUP’s director of Journal Publishing\, and the editor-in-chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). He worked at the Journal Publishing Department of the Beijing Forestry University from 1985 to 2011\, starting as an assistant editor and up to the director of the Department. He had served as the President of the Society of China University Journals (CUJS) from 2004 to 2019\, the Vice President of the China Periodicals Association (CPA) from 2012 to 2018\, and the Vice President of the China Editology Society for Scientific Periodicals (CESSP) from 2015 to 2021. \n颜帅，国际科学、技术与医学出版商协会中国顾问。1985年毕业于北京林业大学，获学士学位。2003年9月在北京林业大学获管理学博士学位。曾任北京林业大学期刊编辑部主任，清华大学出版社副总编兼期刊中心主任、《清华大学学报（自然科学版）》主编，Springer Nature大中华区学术关系总监。曾兼任中国高校科技期刊研究会理事长，中国期刊协会副会长，中国科技期刊编辑学会副理事长，教育部科技委管理学部委员，中国科协学术与学会工作专门委员会委员。曾在国际组织兼任过：ORCID指导委员会委员、ISO《期刊编排格式》修订组成员、国际学术与专业出版商协会（ALPSP）理事（Council Member）等。 \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87232940017?pwd=Z050ZEZsNHJjWTdNYldHT2gvTHVHZz09 \nMeeting ID: 872 3294 0017\nPasscode: 307449 \nOne tap mobile\n+442034815237\,\,87232940017#\,\,\,\,*307449# United Kingdom\n+442034815240\,\,87232940017#\,\,\,\,*307449# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/ksEmsBqhN
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-shuai-yan/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220429T153000
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SUMMARY:ABCP-TBIS-IDHIMIA Joint Lecture: Textile Electronic Bioengineering: Towards Digital Health
DESCRIPTION:Title\nTextile Electronic Bioengineering: Towards Digital Health \nSpeaker\nProfessor Henry Yi Li (李翼教授)\, Professor and Chair of Textile Science and Engineering\, University of Manchester\, UK & Chairman\, Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society (TBIS) \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nUnder the pressure of COVID19 pandemic and a global trend of ageing population\, health systems in many countries are subject to substantial budget pressure to meet the healthcare needs. Reduction of hospital bed days by achieving earlier discharge becomes inevitable to cut down the NHS expenditure. However\, without appropriate healthcare\, patients are at the risk from isolation\, depression\, strokes and fractures caused by falls in the home\, as well as the post-operative complications\, which will result in increasing hospital readmission rates. It has been identified that 80% of face-to-face interactions with the NHS are unnecessary if appropriate technologies could be developed to mitigate these problems. \nTo address the healthcare grand challenge\, there is an urgent need to develop advanced technologies for creating innovative remote home based personalized digital healthcare technologies. This could be achieved by developing advanced techniques to engineer advanced materials (e.g. graphene) into and/or onto textile fibres\, which will be interfaced with human body and internet mobile devices and cloud computational modelling and simulation of physiological and biomechanical behaviours of human body\, as well as its interactions with clothing and external environment. Thus\, smooth real time healthcare monitoring\, diagnosis\, advice and risk/emergency warnings to patients and their medical doctors could be provided in an invasive and seamless fashion. \nTo achieve the goals\, a scientific theoretical framework needs to be developed to address the key scientific and technical challenges involved\, including: (1) Establish scientific understanding and engineering principle to fabricate advanced nano-scale functional materials such as graphene into flexible and strong smart fibres with sensing\, energy harvesting\, energy storage and/or actualization functions; (2) Develop advanced manufacturing techniques to produce advanced wearable smart textile materials (fabrics) using the smart fibres; (3) Develop science of design and engineering principles of system integration of smart fabrics with micro-electronics to produce smart devices; (4) Derive technical solutions to integrate smart devices with wireless data communication technologies to transfer data to cloud servers; (5) Develop cloud-based database\, data analysis techniques\, as well as computational modelling and simulation of human biological behaviour\, material functional performance and their interactions with external environments to establish digital biological health avatar with AI based diagnosis capability for individuals; (6) Develop technical solutions to provide real-time medical professional diagnosis and feedback to individuals and/or healthcare workers. Careful consideration of the ethics\, risks and regulation of such technology is vital from its inception\, as the success of this work will challenge both individual patients’ healthcare and wellbeing and the organization of timely medical intervention to save lives and reduce healthcare expenses. In this lecture\, the scientific foundation of textile electronic bioengineering and the development international standards are reviewed. \nThis lecture is jointly organised by the ABCP (Association of British Chinese Professors\, 全英华人教授协会)\, TBIS (Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society) and IDIHMIA (International Digital Health and Intelligent Materials Innovation Alliance). \nKeywords: textile electronic bioengineering\, advanced materials\, smart wearables\, engineering design\, cloud computational modelling and simulation\, digital health\, international standard development \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Yi Li (李翼教授) is a Life Fellow of Royal Society of Art and International Biographical Association and Fellow of the Textile Institute\, and adjunct professors of several universities in China and member of several professional bodies. He is the Chairman of Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Society and the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics. By securing over £10 million research funding and obtaining support from various government funding bodies and industry\, he established the Textile Bioengineering Framework to conduct systematic research in textile thermal bioengineering\, biomechanical engineering\, sensory bioengineering and biomedical engineering\, with significant research outputs in biomaterials\, nano scale drug delivery systems\, nano fibre based scaffolds and textile devices for tissue engineering and stents\, graphene and 2D material fibres and fabrics\, smart e-textile materials and components\, intelligent wearables\, textile material functional testing and characterization\, digital apparel and clothing functional design\, cloud computational technology for fashion bid data business models\, textile ecological and carbon footprint and industry sustainability and strategic technology roadmap development\, which has become an international platform of design and engineering textiles to promote industry-university cooperation and accelerate technology transfer. On-going projects include EU H2020 “Welding e-textile for interactive clothing” and “Fashion Bid Data Business Models”. \nHe has supervised over 60 PhD students and more than 140 research personnel. He has over 500 scientific publications\, including 422 SCI/CPCI papers and peer reviewed conference papers with 14\,448 citations and h-index of 63 and i10-index 251 as being recognized as an international leading expert in smart functional textiles. He is selected on the list of “Highly Cited Researcher” in 2013 by THOMSON REUTERS. He owns more than 80 patents\, including 46 patents granted in China\, USA and Australia and 27 IP properties transferred to industry. With over 120 invited keynote/plenary lectures in conferences\, he has more than 56 awards on outstanding research papers\, patent inventions and technology transfer. Some of the inventions from his team have been successfully commercialized\, developed as testing standard\, and sold globally. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/82743097940?pwd=d0ZUekF1MGFQS3dpK21QcUk1Y1FUZz09 \nMeeting ID: 827 4309 7940\nPasscode: 218658 \nOne tap mobile\n+442034815237\,\,82743097940#\,\,\,\,*218658# United Kingdom\n+442034815240\,\,82743097940#\,\,\,\,*218658# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kUfWfbrRI
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/abcp-tbis-idhimia-joint-lecture-henry-yi-li/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Digital Economy and Global Coopetition
DESCRIPTION:Title\nDigital Economy and Global Coopetition \nSpeaker\nProfessor Ke Rong (戎珂教授)\, Deputy Director\, Institute of Economics\, School of Social Science\, Tsinghua University\, China \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nThis speech will explore the new trends emerged in the digital economy in the global landscape\, including the coopetition in the digital infrastructure\, sustainability of consumer internet\, commercialisation of industrial internet and the building of a data-oriented factor market. By learning from these four aspects\, this speech will also provide some implications for practitioners as well as suggest some research agenda. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Ke Rong (戎珂教授) is currently the Deputy Director at the Institute of Economics\, School of Social Science at the Tsinghua University in China. He earned his PhD degree from the University of Cambridge\, after obtaining a bachelor’s degree at the Tsinghua University. Before joining Tsinghua\, he was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Exeter and the Bournemouth University in the UK and a visiting scholar at the Harvard Business School in the US. \nHis current research interests focus on Business/Innovation Ecosystems\, Digital Economy\, and Data Ecosystems. He has published over 60 refereed articles for journals including the Journal of International Business Studies (UTD24)\, Production and Operations Management (UTD24)\, Management Organization Review and Journal of International Management. He has been the principal investigator of several research projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China and the British Academy\, along with leading firms such as Huawei\, Bytedance\, Haier\, Tencent and China Mobile. These projects explore the business ecosystem and the platform strategy in several emerging industries in the global landscape such as digital economy\, integrated chips\, data market\, 3D printing\, electric vehicles\, mobile internet and sharing economy. He has received several awards for his academic work\, including becoming a Distinguished Young Scholar under the elite ‘Changjiang Scholars Programme’ of China’s Minister of Education. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Digital Economy and on the editorial board of leading journals like Long Range Planning and Cross Cultural & Strategic Management\, and is a member of the Expert Network of World Economic Forum. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/87830228334?pwd=dEF4aWtCNE00K05rMys4ejc4cU9NQT09 \nOne tap mobile\n+442080806592\,\,87830228334#\,\,\,\,*862025# United Kingdom\n+443300885830\,\,87830228334#\,\,\,\,*862025# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kns0G65GE \n 
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-ke-rong/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
ORGANIZER;CN="ABCP (Association of British Chinese Professors%2C %E5%85%A8%E8%8B%B1%E5%8D%8E%E4%BA%BA%E6%95%99%E6%8E%88%E5%8D%8F%E4%BC%9A)":MAILTO:contact@abcp.org.uk
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Towards Evolutionary Developmental Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Title\nTowards Evolutionary Developmental Artificial Intelligence \nSpeaker\nProfessor Yaochu Jin (金耀初教授) MAE FIEEE\, Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Minister of Education and Research\, with the Faculty of Technology\, Bielefeld University\, Germany & Distinguished Chair in Computational Intelligence\, Department of Computer Science\, University of Surrey\, UK \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nThis talk discusses the main limitations of the deep learning approach to artificial intelligence and proposes to overcome its limitations by means of an evolutionary developmental approach. I will first provide a brief introduction to the evolution and development of biological brain and nervous systems. Then preliminary results on computational modelling of neural and morphological evolution and development are presented. These results reveal that energy minimization is one main principle behind the organization of nervous systems and there is a close coupling between brain and body in evolution and development. Finally\, computational models of activity-dependent neural plasticity embedded in the reservoir computing are briefly shown and their influences on the learning performance of echo state networks and spiking neural networks are given. This talk is concluded with an outline of possible future research. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Yaochu Jin is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor for Artificial Intelligence endowed by the German Federal Minister of Education and Research\, with the Faculty of Technology\, Bielefeld University\, Germany. He is also a Distinguished Chair in Computational Intelligence\, Department of Computer Science\, University of Surrey\, Guildford\, UK. He was a “Finland Distinguished Professor” of the University of Jyväskylä\, Finland\, “Changjiang Distinguished Visiting Professor” of the Northeastern University\, China\, and “Distinguished Visiting Scholar” of the University of Technology Sydney\, Australia. His main research interests include data-driven evolutionary optimization\, multi-objective optimization\, evolutionary learning\, secure and privacy-preserving machine learning\, and evolutionary developmental systems. \nProfessor Jin is presently the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems and the Editor-in-Chief of Complex & Intelligent Systems. He is a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE) and Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE).\n \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/81060825619?pwd=djk2dVdsTTlwUDRrdi9zYW10ejZ4dz09 \nMeeting ID: 810 6082 5619\nPasscode: 253002 \nOne tap mobile\n+442039017895\,\,81060825619#\,\,\,\,*253002# United Kingdom\n+442080806591\,\,81060825619#\,\,\,\,*253002# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kFh6oLamT \n 
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Decoding autism - insights from Chinese ASD cohorts
DESCRIPTION:Title\nDecoding autism – insights from Chinese ASD cohorts \nSpeaker\nProfessor Zilong Qiu (仇子龙研究员)\, Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology (Institute of Neuroscience)\, Chinese Academy of Science\, Shanghai\, China \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nAutism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex neurodevelopmental disorder causing impairments in social communication and stereotypical behaviors\, often with developmental delay or intellectual disabilities (DD/ID). Accruing evidence indicates that ASD is highly heritable and genome-wide studies on ASD cohorts have defined numerous genetic contributors. Notably\, since most of these studies have been performed with individuals of European and Hispanic ancestries\, thus there is a paucity of genetic analyses of ASD in the East Asian population. Here\, we performed whole-exome sequencing on 772 Chinese ASD trios\, combining with a previous 369 ASD trios\, to identify de novo variants in 1141 ASD trios. We found that ASD without DD/ID carried less disruptive de novo variants than ASD with DD/ID. Surprisingly\, we found that expression of genes with de novo variants in ASD without DD/ID were enriched in a subtype of human neural progenitor cells. Importantly\, some ASD risk genes identified in this study are not present in the current ASD gene database\, suggesting that there may be unique genetic contributors to ASD with the East Asian ancestry. We validated one such novel ASD candidate gene – SLC35G1 by showing that mice harboring heterozygous deletion of Slc35g1 exhibited defects in social interaction behaviors. Together\, this work nominates novel ASD candidate genes and suggests that genome-wide genetic studies in ASD cohorts of different ancestries are essential to reveal the comprehensive genetic architecture of ASD. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Zilong Qiu got his bachelor degree in 1998 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai\, and received his PhD degree from Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology\, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2003. From 2003 to 2009\, he did his postdoctoral fellow in Dr Anirvan Ghosh’s lab at the University of California\, San Diego\, US. He joined the Institute of Neuroscience in July 2009 as Principal Investigator and the Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Basis of Neural Plasticity. His major research interests are molecular basis of neural plasticity. \n仇子龙研究员从事自闭症、瑞特综合征等神经发育疾病的生物学研究，研究成果阐述了神经发育疾病的遗传、分子与神经环路机制，并建立了自闭症的非人灵长类动物模型。自闭症的非人灵长类动物模型工作入选科技部2016年“中国科学十大进展”，中国科协2016年“中国生命科学十大进展”。 \n仇子龙研究员课题组长期受中科院、科技部、国家基金委等项目资助。仇子龙研究员于2016年获中科院上海分院杰出青年科技创新人才奖，2016年获国家基金委“杰出青年”科学基金，2017年获药明康德生命化学研究奖，2017年任中科院特聘研究员，2018年晋升中科院神经所高级研究员，2018年入选科技部“中青年科技创新领军人才”，2019年入选中组部“万人计划“与上海市优秀学术带头人。 \n仇子龙研究员还长期致力于自闭症与生命科学的科普工作，与知识分子、果壳网公众号等科普新媒体长期合作，撰写了大量自闭症与生命科学方面的科普文章，多次参加中科院SELF、墨子沙龙、一席、造就、上海科普大讲坛等科普活动，荣获2018年上海市科普教育创新二等奖与上海市科技系统优秀志愿者称号，2020年获得全国科普工作先进工作者称号。 \nSelected Publications: \n\nYang\, K.\, Shi\, Y.\, Du\, X.\, Wang\, J.\, Zhang\, Y.\, Shan\, S.\, Yuan\, Y.\, Wang\, R.\, Zhou\, C.\, Liu\, Y.\, Cai\, Z.\, Wang\, Y.\, Fan\, L.\, Xu\, H.\, Yu\, J.\, Cheng\, J.\, Li\, F.\, Qiu\, Z. (2021) SENP1 in the retrosplenial agranular cortex regulates core autistic-like symptoms in mice. Cell Reports 37\,109939\nWu\, S.\, Li\, X.\, Qin\, D.\, Zhang\, L.\, Cheng\, T.\, Chen\, Z.\, Nie\, B.\, Ren\, X.\, Wu\, J.\, Wang\, W.\, Hu\, Y.\, Gu\, Y.\, Lv\, L.\, Yin\, Y.\, Hu\,X.\, Qiu\, Z. (2020) Induction of core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders by in vivo CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing in the brain of adolescent rhesus monkeys. Science Bulletin. 66:937-946\nLi\, S.\, Yuan\, B.\, Cao\, J.\, Chen\, J.\, Chen\, J.\, Qiu\, J.\, Zhao\, X.\, Wang\, X.\, Qiu\, Z.\, Cheng\, T. (2020) Docking sites inside Cas9 for adenine base editing diversification and RNA off-target elimination. Nature Communications11(1):5827\nCheng\, T.\, Li\, S.\, Yuan\, B.\, Wang\, X.\, Zhou\, W.\, Qiu\, Z. (2019) Expanding C–T base editing toolkit with diversified cytidine deaminases. Nature Communications10: 3612\nCai\, Y.\, Cheng\, T.L.\, Yao\, Y.\, Li\, X.\, Ma\, Y.\, Bao\, J.\, Li\, L.\, Zhao\, H.\, Zhang\, M.\, Qiu\, Z\, Xue\, T. (2019) In vivo genome editing rescues photoreceptor degeneration via a Cas9/RecA-mediated homology-directed repair pathway. Science Advances 5(4):eaav3335\nLi\, X.\, Yu\, B.\, Sun\, Q.\, Zhang\, Y.\, Ren\, M.\, Zhang\, X.\, Li\, A.\, Yuan\, J.\, Madisen\, L.\, Luo\, Q.\, Zeng\, H.\, Gong\, H.\, Qiu\, Z. (2018) Generation of a whole-brain atlas for the cholinergic system and mesoscopic projectome analysis of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA. 115(2):415-420\nDang\, T.\, Duan\, W.\, Yu\, B.\, Tong\, D.L.\, Cheng\, C.\, Zhang\, Y.F.\, Wu\, W.\, Ye\, K.\, Zhang\, W.X.\, Wu\, M.\, Wu\, B.\, An\, Y.\, Qiu\, Z.\, Wu\, B.L. (2018) Autism-associated Dyrk1a truncation mutants impair neuronal dendritic and spine growth and interfere with postnatal cortical development. Molecular Psychiatry23(3):747-758\nQiu\, Z. (2018) Deciphering MECP2 – associated disorders: disrupted circuits and the hope for repair. Current Opinion in Neurobiology 48:30-36 (Invited review)\nWen\, Z.\, Cheng\, T.L.\, Li\, G.Z.\, Sun\, S.B.\, Yu\, S.Y.\, Zhang\, Y.\, Du\, Y.S.\, Qiu\, Z. (2017) Identification of Autism-Related MECP2 Mutations by Whole-Exome Sequencing and Functional Validation. Molecular Autism 8:43\nYang\, K.\, Yu\, B.\, Cheng\, C.\, Cheng\, T.L.\, Yuan\, B.\, Li\, K.\, Xiao\, J.H.\, Qiu\, Z.\, Zhou\, Y.X. (2017) Mir505-3p regulates axonal development via inhibiting autophagy pathway by targeting Atg12. Autophagy 13:1679-1696\nLiu\, Z.\, Li\, X.\, Zhang\, J.\, Cai\, Y.\, Cheng\, T.\, Cheng\, C.\, Wang\, Y.\, Zhang\, C.\, Nie\, Yan.\, Chen\, Z.\, Bian\, W.\, Zhang\, L.\, Xiao\, J.\, Lu\, B.\, Zhang\, Y.\, Zhang.\, X.\, Sang\, X.\, Wu\, J.\, Xu\, X.\, Xiong\, Z.\, Zhang\, F.\, Yu\, X.\, Gong\, N.\, Zhou\, W.\, Sun\, Q.\, Qiu\, Z. (2016) Autism-like behaviors and germline transmission in transgenic monkeys overexpressing MeCP2. Nature. 530:98-102\nCheng\, T.\, Wang\, Z.\, Liao\, Q.\, Zhu\, Y.\, Zhou\, W.\, Xu\, W.\, Qiu\, Z. (2014) MeCP2 suppresses nuclear microRNA processing and dendritic growth by regulating the DGCR8/Drosha complex. Developmental Cell 28:547-560\n\nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/89985512497?pwd=NzlmTHRleUd3dWV3T1VXczBTKzdNQT09 \nMeeting ID: 899 8551 2497\nPasscode: 317509 \nOne tap mobile\n+442034815237\,\,89985512497#\,\,\,\,*317509# United Kingdom\n+442034815240\,\,89985512497#\,\,\,\,*317509# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kdNNLLbQBE
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/abcp-webinar-zilong-qiu/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210924T140000
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Photocatalysts for clean fuels and chemicals production: Materials and Fundamental
DESCRIPTION:Title\nPhotocatalysts for clean fuels and chemicals production: Materials and Fundamental \nSpeaker\nProfessor Junwang (John) Tang (唐军旺教授) MAE FRSC\, Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering\, Department of Chemical Engineering\, University College London\, UK \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nNowadays both fuels and the majority of chemicals production are derived from fossil fuels\, together with the unavoidable generation of substantial GHG. Thus clean chemical processes for both fuel production and chemical synthesis are highly sought after. \nPhotocatalysis\, a process to drive the chemical reactions by renewable solar energy or artificial light generated from renewable electricity\, provides such a zero/neutral carbon process in which all the reactions of interest can be operated under very mild conditions (eg. at room temperature and atmospheric pressure) [1]\, thus is also a low-cost and safe technology [2]. \nPhotocatalysis in particular favors the activation of stable molecules as their activation is used to require substantial energy input and is kinetically very sluggish\, including water splitting to H2 fuel\, CO2 conversion\, N2 reduction to ammonia\, and natural gas/shale gas activation to high-value chemicals by photocatalysis (the concept of artificial photosynthesis). \nAlthough photocatalysis provides a strong potential for activation of such small and extremely stable molecules (H2O\, N2\, CO2\, CH4 etc) under mild conditions\, to achieve this potential is a huge challenge. Stimulated by our research outcomes on the charge dynamics in inorganic semiconductor photocatalysis\, which reveal that the low conversion efficiency in the artificial photosynthesis is due to both fast charge recombination and large bandgap of an inorganic semiconductor [3]\, we developed novel material strategies for activation of these molecules\, e.g. H2O\, CO2\, CH4 and N2. \nIn water splitting to H2 fuel\, we found out that by improving the degree of polymerisation of a polymer e.g. C3N4 the charge recombination was substantially mitigated [4]. Based on this fundamental understanding\, the complete water splitting to H2 fuel in polymer photocatalyst-based suspension system under visible light has been demonstrated for the first time [5]. Furthermore\, a junction\, which is composed of the carbon nitride photocatalyst and carbon quantum dots (mCD) synthesised by a novel microwave method\, was used to directly reduce CO2 by H2O into methanol driven by visible photocatalysis [6]. The mCD possesses unique hole-accepting nature\, prolonging the electron lifetime (t50) of carbon nitrides by four folds compared to the electron-accepting carbon dots fabricated by conventional methods (sCD)\, favoring a six-electron product. Thus this new photocatalyst stably produces methanol with nearly 100% selectivity for CO2 conversion at room temperature. \nCH4 activation is widely regarded as the “holy grail” in the catalytically chemical process\, the highly dispersed atomic level iron species were synthesised on TiO2 photocatalyst by us\, which shows an excellent activity for CH4 conversion\, resulting into ~97% selectivity towards alcohols operated under ambient conditions by a one-step chemical process [7]. On the other hand\, a C-TiOx photocatalyst with a Ti3+/Ti4+ ratio of 72.1% represents a rather high reaction rate of N2 reduction to NH3 (109.3 umol g-1 h-1) with a record apparent quantum efficiency of 1.1% at 400 nm\, promising a process for H2 synthesis from water and in-situ storage into ammonia [8]. \nReferences\n[1] Wang\, Y.\, Vogel\, A.\, Sachs\, M.\, Sprick\, R.S.\, Wilbraham\,L.\, Moniz\, S.J.A.\, Godin\, R.\, Zwijnenburg\, M.A.\, Durrant\, J.R.\, Cooper\, A.I.\, Tang\, J.\, Nature Energy\, 2019\, 4\, 746-760.\n[2] Wang\, Y.\, Suzuki\, H.\, Xie\, J.\, Tomita\, O.\, Martin\, D. J.\, Higashi\, M.\, Kong\, D.\, Abe\, R.\, Tang J.\, Chemical Reviews\, 2018\, 118(100)\, 5201-5241.\n[3] Tang\, J.\, Durrant\, J. R.\, & Klug\, D. R. Journal of the American Chemical Society\, 2008\, 130(42)\, 13885-13891.\n[4] Martin\, D.J.\, Qiu\, K.\, Shevlin\, S. A\, Handoko\, A.D.\, Chen\, X.\, Guo\, Z\,. Tang\, J. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition\, 2014\, 53 (35)\, 9240-9245.\n[5] Martin\, D.J.\, Reardon\, P. J. T.\, Moniz\, S. J. A.\, Tang\, J.\, Journal of the American Chemical Society\, 2014\, 136\, 12568-12571. Highlighted in Chemical & Engineer News on Sep. 10\, 2014.\n[6] Wang\, Y.\, Liu\, X.\, Han\, X.\, Godin\, R.\, Chen\, J.\, Zhou\, W.\, Jiang\, C.\, Thompson\, J.F.\, Bayazit\, M.\, Shevlin\, S.\, Durrant\, J.R.\, Guo\, Z.\, Tang\, J.\, Nature Communications\, 2020\, 11\, 2531.\n[7] Xie\, J.\, Jin\, R.\, Li\, A.\, Bi\, Y.\, Ruan\, Q.\, Deng\, Y.\, Zhang\, Y.\, Yao\, S.\, Sankar\, G.\, Ma\, D.\, Tang\, J.\, Nature Catalysis\, 2018\, 1\, 889-896.\n[8] Han\,Q.\, Wu\, C.\, Jiao H.\, Xu\, R.\, Wang\, Y.\, Xie\, J.\, Guo\, Q.\, Tang\, Advanced Materials\, 2021\, 33\, 2008180. \nBio of Speaker\nProf. Junwang Tang is a Member of Academia Europaea\, a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow\, Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences\, Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Professor of Materials Chemistry and Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at University College London. He received his BSc in Chemistry from the Northeastern University (1995)\, MSc in Materials from the Institute of Metal Research (1998)\, and PhD in Physical Chemistry from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (2001)\, China\, respectively. Then he undertook his JSPS fellowship in the National Institute for Materials Science\, Japan (2005) and a senior researcher in Chemistry at Imperial College London (2009). Prof. Tang joined the current department in 2009 as a Lecturer and was later promoted to Senior Lecturer (2011)\, Reader (2014)\, and Full Professor (2017). His research interests encompass photocatalytic small molecule activation (eg. CH4\, N2\, H2O\, C6H6 and CO2) and microwave catalysis (e.g. plastic recycling)\, together with the investigation of the underlying charge dynamics and kinetics by state-of-the-art spectroscopies. In parallel\, he also explores the design of the chemical reactors for the above-mentioned processes\, resulting in >180 papers published in Nature Catalysis\, Nature Energy\, Nature Reviews Materials\, Chemical Reviews\, Chem. Soc. Rev. Materials Today\, Nature Commu.\, JACS\, Angew Chemie with >17\,000 citations. Prof. Tang has also received many awards\, the latest of which are the RSC Corday-Morgan Prize 2021 and Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow 2021\, besides the Runner-up of IChemE Research Project 2020\, IChemE Business Start-Up Award 2019 and the 2018 IPS Scientist Award. He also sits on the Editorial Board of four international journals\, e.g. the Editor of Applied Catalysis B and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Advanced Chemical Engineering\, Associate Editor of Chin. J. Catal. and Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering besides sitting on the Advisory Board of 7 other journals. \nHow to Participate\nJoin the webinar using the following Zoom Meeting link: \nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85397388469?pwd=T0FIVlAwT0xWSm9VS1phbUtwQi9YQT09 \nMeeting ID: 853 9738 8469\nPasscode: 199584 \nOne tap mobile\n+443300885830\,\,85397388469#\,\,\,\,*199584# United Kingdom\n+441314601196\,\,85397388469#\,\,\,\,*199584# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kBwtUC39p
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/abcp-webinar-junwang-tang/
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: The potential role of Antigen specific T cell responses in SARS-Cov-2 infection and COVID-19 disease progression
DESCRIPTION:Title\nThe potential role of Antigen specific T cell responses in SARS-Cov-2 infection and COVID-19 disease progression (抗原特异性T细胞反应在新冠病毒感染及疾病进展中的潜在作用) \nSpeaker\nProfessor Tao Dong (董涛教授)\, Professor of Immunology\, University of Oxford; Founding Director (Oxford) of CAMS-Oxford joint International Centre for Translational Immunology; Founding Director (Oxford) of Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Oxford Institute (COI) \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nI will give a brief introduction on:\ni) The role of the adaptive immune system\nii) Virus specific T cells and how virus antigens (epitopes) are processed and presented in infected cells\niii) Key determinants of antiviral efficacy in T cells \nI will then discuss what we currently know about SARS-Cov-2 specific T-cell immunity and the research my laboratory is undertaking in order to evaluate SARS-Cov-2 specific T cell responses in greater depth\, and the questions that might be relevant to the future development of therapies and vaccination:\ni) Establishing tools and reagents to study SARS-Cov-2 specific T-cell responses\nii) Establishing a platform to evaluate the potential immune escape of viral variants and newly occurred circulating virus strains\niii) Understanding the role of SARS-Cov-2 specific T cell in natural infection\niv) Investigating how T-cell memory responses are established following natural infection or vaccination\, and the potential implication in subsequential infection and disease outcome. \nBio of Speaker\n \nTao Dong has held the post of Professor of Immunology in the MRC Human Immunology Unit at Oxford University since 2014 and is a Senior Fellow at University College Oxford. She served as a member of the UK Medical Research Council Infection and Immunity board between 2016-2020. She is founding director of CAMS Oxford joint international Centre for Translational Immunology since 2013\, and founding director (Oxford) of CAMS Oxford Institute based in Nuffield Department of Medicine\, Oxford University since 2019. \nTao originally gained a BSc degree in Physiology from Fudan University\, Shanghai\, China in 1987. She moved to Oxford University in 1993 where she received a DPhil degree in Immunology in 1998 for work carried out under the supervision of Professors Sarah Rowland-Jones and Sir Andrew McMichael on qualitative changes in HIV-specific cytotoxic T cells associated with HIV disease progression. During her postdoctoral training\, where she continued to study immune responses to HIV\, she expanded her research interests to include work on influenza virus infection\, which led her to start her own independent research group. In 2010 she became the Head of the human anti-viral and anti-cancer cytotoxic T cell laboratory and a Program Leader in the MRC Human Immunology Unit at Oxford University. Since 2013\, her research has expanded to cancer\, with a central goal being to identify determinants of the ability of human tumour-specific cytotoxic T cells to control human tumour development and metastasis. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic\, Tao’s team has been working with colleagues in Oxford\, UK and in China\, testing samples taken from SARS-Cov-2 positive patients\, and trying to understand why some people with a COVID-19 infection are able to fight it off successfully\, while others get really ill. Tao’s team believes understanding the immune response to COVID-19 is going to be key to defeating it. \nHow to Participate\nJoin the webinar using the following link: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/95203741145?pwd=Y0RDd1RuRVpmaW8zOWJPcFkzblkxUT09 \nMeeting ID: 952 0374 1145\nPasscode: 435732 \nOne tap mobile\n+442080806592\,\,95203741145#\,\,\,\,*435732# United Kingdom\n+443300885830\,\,95203741145#\,\,\,\,*435732# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/ac9a5xVS5U \n 
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/abcp-webinar-tao-dong/
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: 跨越死亡谷 (Over the Valley of Death)
DESCRIPTION:Title\n跨越死亡谷 (Over the Valley of Death) \nSpeaker\nDr Lewis Liu (刘震宇博士)\, IP Group大中华区董事总经理 \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in Chinese. \nAbstract\n这边的服务器浅吟低唱累牍连篇\n那边的挖掘机引吭高歌热火朝天\n阶梯教室里深入浅出博古论今气象万千\n交易大厅中跌宕起伏纵横捭阖羽化成仙\n天才与疯子，前瞻与炒作，如何一线之间？\n纯粹的科学和逐利的资本，是否不共戴天？\n岁末年初\n肉桂美酒圣诞树\n开启壁炉，登陆Zoom\n一同跨越死亡谷\n照亮科技成果产业化之路 \nBio of Speaker\n刘震宇 博士 现任英国伦敦证券交易所上市公司IP Group集团大中华区董事总经理；全英清华校友会前秘书长、副会长，现任顾问。 \n刘震宇博士是英国和欧洲一线高科技投资机构中的极少数华人投资人之一。他负责广义清洁技术（能源环保、新能源汽车、新材料、半导体、物联网等）领域的全投资周期和投后管理，在多家英国本土受资企业担任董事。加入 IP Group之前，刘博士作为联合创始人、CEO创建了CamGaN公司，从事硅基氮化镓（GaN-on-Si）的技术转移和产业化；公司被英国最大半导体公司之一以极富竞争力的价格收购，被英国政府和英国工程与物质科学研究委员会（EPSRC）列为英国近年来技术产业化的经典案例。他拥有剑桥大学材料科学博士学位和清华大学学士学位。 \nIP Group是全球领先的专注于科研成果转化投资的独立商业机构；拥有三十余所英美澳顶级高校和科研院所资源和网络（包括剑桥大学、牛津大学、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、悉尼大学等），丰富的科研成果转化、运营和退出的经验，完全市场化的运作机制和资本、人才、财务、法务等全方位的服务能力。IP Group创立于2001年，是富时250指数成分股。 \nHow to Participate\nJoin the webinar using the following link: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/92021485952?pwd=WlU3QW5xVjBMOVFDT2RjL3Q4K2Y1QT09 \nMeeting ID: 920 2148 5952\nPasscode: 163409 \n 
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/abcp-webinar-lewis_liu/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Development of Academic Leadership – A Personal Perspective
DESCRIPTION:Title\nDevelopment of Academic Leadership – A Personal Perspective \nSpeaker\nProfessor Max Lu (逯高清教授) AO DL FREng FMCAS FAA FTSE FTWAS\, President and Vice-Chancellor\, University of Surrey \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, I will share some personal perspectives on academic leadership\, through my experience and learning on my journey as a scholar\, academic leader and university leader. My career started in China and then took me to Australia for further studies\, and has spanned more than 30 years and several countries such as China\, Australia\, Singapore\, USA and UK. \nApart from hard work\, there are soft skills and attributes that are important to academic leadership. Just being excellent in teaching and research is not enough to be recognised as an academic leader. Excellence augmented by personal attributes such as humility\, empathy and good communication skills is critical a successful leader. Being resourceful and proactive could also enhance one’s competitiveness and leadership. In this webinar I look forward to sharing and exchanging views with colleagues across the Chinese British Professors community. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Lu is President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Surrey. He is a member of the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology and serves as Board Director for UKRI and National Physical Laboratory. He chairs the UK Forum for Responsible Research Metrics. He is also Deputy Lieutenant of Surrey and a patron of the charities Transform and The Surrey Youth Focus. \nProfessor Lu lectured at Nanyang Technological University from 1991 to 1994. He then held various academic and leadership positions at University of Queensland\, including Provost and Senior Vice-President\, before taking up his current role in 2016. \nAt Queensland\, Professor Lu founded the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Functional Nanomaterials and served as its director for eight years. He was awarded the Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship twice in 2003 and 2008. \nA pre-eminent chemical engineer and nanotechnologist\, Professor Lu is a highly cited academic in Chemistry and Materials Science. He has published over 500 journal papers\, with 65\,500 citations and an h-index of 126. He is co-inventor of 25 granted international patents and has been honoured with numerous awards\, including Le Fevre Medal\, Exxon Mobil Award\, Chemeca Medal\, PV Danckwerts Lecture\, the Medal of the Order of Australia\, and China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award. \nHow to Participate\nJoin the meeting using the following Zoom link: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/95672011357?pwd=QVo1L2VMaXJFaWozTzJ6QmRHQUpZZz09 \nMeeting ID: 956 7201 1357\nPasscode: 895985 \nOne tap mobile\n+442034815237\,\,95672011357#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,895985# United Kingdom\n+442034815240\,\,95672011357#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,895985# United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abJlCdIi0a
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-max-lu/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201014T140000
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Oxford Rapid Test for SARS-CoV-2
DESCRIPTION:Title\nOxford Rapid Test for SARS-CoV-2 \nSpeaker\nProfessor Zhanfeng Cui (崔占峰)\, Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering\, Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR)\, University of Oxford\, UK \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nThe Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our lives significantly in multiple dimensions. Community screening and repeated testing play an important role in easing travel restrictions and promoting economic recovery. Currently the common RT-PCR viral tests require a dedicated laboratory\, infrastructure of collecting and transporting samples\, skilled operators and special machines. Moe important the turn around time from sampling to result is long and also it is not cheap. What we need is a cheap and rapid POCT (point of care test) similar to the antibody test but it tests whether the individual gets the virus and is infectious. In this talk I will share our experience in developing the Oxsed RaViD Direct\, a rapid test for SARS-COV-2\, that can be deployed almost anywhere without needs for infrastructure and equipment. The idea was conceived in Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR) and most of the R&D was done in Oxford\, due to lockdowns. The technology is based on RT-LAMP (reverse transcription-loop mediated isothermal amplification)\, and the direct detection of SARS-COV-2 from sampling (swab\, saliva and mouth wash) to result can be completed within 30-40 min. The mouth wash protocol is far better received\, particularly suitable to children. With a collective effort of an interdisciplinary team\, we were able to deliver a commercial product within 6 months from the kick-off of the project. \nBio of Speaker\nZhanfeng Cui is the Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering since the chair was created in 2000. He is the Founding Director of Oxford Suzhou Centre for Advanced Research (OSCAR)\, an R&D centre wholly owned by the University of Oxford located in Suzhou Industrial Park. He was educated in China and moved to the UK after his PhD from Dalian University of Technology. He was postdoc in Strathclyde University (88-91) and Lecturer in Edinburgh University (91-94)\, before joining the Department of Engineering Science as a faculty member in 1994. He was elected to a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2013. His research focuses on enabling technologies for regenerative medicine and bioprocessing. In the COVID-19 pandemic\, he led a team of researchers and developed the Oxford Rapid Test\, Oxsed RaViD Direct\, which is commercialised by a social venture spin-out\, Oxsed Limited. Their work was recognised by the Royal Academy of Engineering President’s Special Award. \nHow to Participate\nJoin the meeting using the following Zoom link: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/96727519912?pwd=SGVYemJNYTZnTlBqbG9mNFJNenpsQT09 \nMeeting ID: 967 2751 9912\nPasscode: 609594 \nOne tap mobile\n+442080806592\,\,96727519912#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,609594# United Kingdom\n+443300885830\,\,96727519912#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,609594# United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/axW4wgZL
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/abcp-webinar-zhanfeng-cui/
LOCATION:virtual
CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200924T150000
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Universities UK International (UUKi) and its work
DESCRIPTION:Title\nUniversities UK International (UUKi) and its work \nSpeaker\nVivienne Stern\, Director\, Universities UK International (UUKi) \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nThe speaker will give an overview of the work of Universities UK International\, and set out the current context for international activity in UK universities\, including the impact of Covid 19; Brexit and recent policy and political developments. \nBio of Speaker\nVivienne Stern is the Director of Universities UK International (UUKi) which represents UK universities around the world and works to enable them to flourish internationally. \nVivienne has over 20 years’ experience of working in higher education policy and politics at national and international level. Prior to her role in UUKi\, Vivienne was Head of Political Affairs at Universities UK\, and led the sector’s response to several major pieces of legislation relating to universities. Before that she worked for the Chair of the House of Commons Education Select Committee\, and as policy specialist working on topics including quality\, student experience\, innovation and university-business links. \nShe is a member of several Boards and advisory committees\, including the Education Sector Advisory group of the Department for Education /Department for International Trade; the Board of UKRI’s Fund for International Collaboration; the British Council’s Education Advisory Group. \nShe is a graduate in English Literature from the University of Cambridge.​ \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/95417572475?pwd=ZTcwdGVpSndrcGZJbzMwTkpHYUxVZz09 \nMeeting ID: 954 1757 2475\nPasscode: 744321 \nOne tap mobile\n+443300885830\,\,95417572475#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,744321# United Kingdom\n+441314601196\,\,95417572475#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,744321# United Kingdom \nFind more numbers: https://zoom.us/u/actxmDWaOF
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-uuki-vivienne-stern/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200904T160000
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Working with Industries on Renewable Energy and Electrification
DESCRIPTION:Title\nWorking with Industries on Renewable Energy and Electrification \nSpeaker\nProf Zi-Qiang Zhu (诸自强教授) FREng FIEEE FIET\, Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group\, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering\, University of Sheffield \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nElectrical machines and drives are a key technology for numerous market sectors\, including industrial drives\, domestic appliances\, renewable energy\, automation\, robots\, electrified transportation such as electric vehicles\, fast trains\, more electric aircrafts\, and electric ships\, etc. This presentation will focus on industrial co-operation on renewable energy and electrification to illustrate the development of novel research concepts and their impact on successful commercial applications. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Z.Q. Zhu is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He received B.Eng. and M.Sc. degrees from Zhejiang University in 1982 and 1984 respectively\, and a Ph.D. degree from The University of Sheffield in 1991. He was a Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer at Zhejiang University for four years before joining The University of Sheffield in 1988 where he became a professor in 2000 and has been a Royal Academy of Engineering/Siemens Research Chair since 2014. Since 2008\, he has been Head of the Electrical Machines and Drives Research Group\, which also hosts 8 research centres including the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Advanced Electrical Machines and the EPSRC Future Electrical Machines Manufacturing Hub. \nProfessor Zhu is Academic Director of the Sheffield Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Research Centre for off-shore wind power generation (2009-)\, Director of three Midea Electrical Machines and Control Systems Research Centres for domestic appliances and automation (2010-)\, and Director of the CRRC Electric Drives Technology Centre for fast train propulsion (2014-). Currently\, he is leading the EPSRC Prosperity Partnership on “A New Partnership on Off-shore Wind Power”. His research interests include design\, modeling\, and control of permanent magnet machines and control systems for a wide range of applications\, including electric vehicles\, wind power generators and domestic appliances. His research activities are extensively sponsored by the UK government and the global industries\, the outcomes being exploited successfully for commercialisation by Siemens\, Midea\, Toyota\, Nissan\, Valeo\, Rolls-Royce\, and CRRC etc. \nHe is the author/co-author of >200 patents and >1200 refereed papers including >450 IEEE Transactions and IET Proceedings papers\, which are cited extensively with a Sci citation of >19000/h-index=73 and a Google citation of >33000/h-index=90. He is the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Nicola Tesla Award and the 2019 IEEE Industry Application Society Outstanding Achievement Award\, the 2019 Foundation Prince Albert II de Monaco Award\, and the 2018 Guandong Province Science and Technology International Co-operation Award. He received 34 Best Paper Awards\, including 6 IEEE/IET society/journal awards. He has supervised 80 graduated PhD students and 35 post-doctor Research Associates. \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/96993437164?pwd=QytuYXhGMTZjVjdsRFROR3IxUUhxUT09 \nMeeting ID: 969 9343 7164\nPasscode: 990006 \nOne tap mobile\n+443300885830\,\,96993437164#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,990006# United Kingdom\n+441314601196\,\,96993437164#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,990006# United Kingdom \nDial by your location\n+44 330 088 5830 United Kingdom\n+44 131 460 1196 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5237 United Kingdom\n+44 203 481 5240 United Kingdom\n+44 203 901 7895 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6591 United Kingdom\n+44 208 080 6592 United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/abkEjl6GiR
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-zi-qiang-zhu/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20200828T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20200828T170000
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: The challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis
DESCRIPTION:Title\nThe challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis: the management and business implications of COVID‑19 from an Asian perspective \nSpeaker\nProf Yipeng Liu (刘毅鹏教授)\, Professor in Management and Organisation Studies\, Founding Director of the Research Centre for China Management and Global Business (CMGB)\, Henley Business School\, University of Reading\, UK \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nAbstract\nIn this talk\, the speaker will introduce his recent research work on the challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis. Below is the abstract of the paper: \nOn March 11\, 2020\, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak a pandemic. As the evolution and implications of the COVID-19 crisis are still unfolding\, we posit that exploring the experiences and strategic responses of Asian countries may shed light on ways to combat COVID-19 for the rest of the world. In this paper\, we first articulate the importance of resilience\, strategic agility\, and entrepreneurship in the context of the fight against COVID-19. Then\, with the focus on China\, South Korea\, and Singapore\, we discuss the impact COVID-19 is having on economies and businesses\, governmental support for businesses and societies\, and implications for global supply chain disruptions. We hope that the global health system will recover quickly\, and that the world economy will be revitalized with the contributions and collaboration of science (including social science)\, industry\, and governments. \nReference \n\nLiu\, Y.\, Lee\, J. M.\, & Lee\, C. 2020. The challenges and opportunities of a global health crisis: the management and business implications of COVID-19 from an Asian perspective. Asian Business & Management\, 19(3): 277-297\n\nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Yipeng Liu is a full Professor in Management and Organisation Studies and Founding Director of the Research Centre for China Management and Global Business at Henley Business School\, University of Reading\, UK. His research interests centre on mergers and acquisitions\, innovation\, entrepreneurship and global talent mobility\, and emerging markets. He has broad professional experience in management consulting\, venture capital\, business development and engineering in Asia\, Europe\, and North America. He has published over 70 academic papers\, including leading journals such as Human Resource Management\, British Journal of Management\, Journal of World Business. His paper on knowledge transfer in cross-border acquisitions won the International Business Review 2017 Best Paper Award. His recent book is Research Handbook of International Talent Management (Edward Elgar\, 2019). \nhttps://www.henley.ac.uk/research/research-centres/china-management-global-business \nHow to Participate\nJoin Zoom Meeting: \nhttps://zoom.us/j/96033279996?pwd=blhKZlhzQXkyZTJwc1RDb2tRWlBwZz09 \nMeeting ID: 960 3327 9996\nPasscode: 292389 \nOne tap mobile\n+442080806591\,\,96033279996#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,292389# United Kingdom\n+442080806592\,\,96033279996#\,\,\,\,\,\,0#\,\,292389# United Kingdom \nFind your local number: https://zoom.us/u/acQ4GxU7BX
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-yipeng-liu/
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CATEGORIES:ABCP Virtual Seminar Series
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Kinematics That Entails Metamorphic and Reconfigurable Mechanisms
DESCRIPTION:Title\nKinematics That Entails Metamorphic and Reconfigurable Mechanisms \n理论运动学奠定了变胞机构与可重构机构与可重构机器人基础 \nSpeaker\nProf Jian S. Dai (戴建生教授) FIEEE FASME FRSA FIMechE CEng\, Chair Professor of Mechanisms and Robotics\, Advanced Kinematics and Reconfigurable Robotics Lab\, Department of Engineering\, School of Natural and Mathematical Sciences\, King’s College London \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English\, but slides will be bilingual (English and Chinese). \nAbstract\nThis talk presents the study of advanced kinematics and fundamental theories and their relations to Lie groups and Lie algebra through finite screws and is to be followed by the kinematics entailed reconfigurable mechanisms and robots. The intrinsic theory in the kinematics study provides a foundation of development of reconfigurable mechanisms and robots in their various forms\, leading to a two-decade innovation in metamorphic mechanisms\, reconfigurable robots and evolutionary parallel robots. With change of order of a kinematics system\, the mechanism changes its mobility and presents its different topologies.\nThe talk gives a philosophical view over the entwinement between robotics and arts\, presents decades of development in origami robots\, arts robots\, metamorphic robots\, rehabilitation robots and reconfigurable robots. This entwinement is elevated by mathematical tools\, particularly the advanced kinematics with screw theory and its relations to Lie groups and Lie algebra through finite screws. With change of the order of a screw system\, a robot mechanism changes its mobility and presents its different topologies for variable tasks. \nExtensive applications of the reconfigurable mechanisms and robots are to be presented in the aspects of assembly\, packaging\, food industry\, domestic robots\, walking robots\, origami robots\, rehabilitation robots and medical robots\, leading to Robots of Future in the decades ahead. \n本讲座将介绍高级运动学和基本理论及其贯通有限旋量与李群和李代数关系的前沿研究，以此开辟了变胞机构子领域与可重构机构与可重构机器人大领域。高教运动学研究中的内在理论为各种形式的可重构机构和可重构机器人开发奠定了基础，从而引出了二十年创新的变胞机构，可重构机器人及其进化的并联机器人。随着运动系统顺序的改变，该机构改变了其运动性并呈现出不同的拓扑。 \n该演讲从哲学角度进一步探讨了机器人科学与艺术之间的缱绻，并介绍了折纸机器人，艺术机器人，变胞机器人，康复机器人和可重构机器人数十年来发展。这种缠绵可以通过数学工具来提升，尤其是采用旋量理论的高级运动学，以及通过有限旋量与李群和李代数的关系。随着旋量系统顺序的改变，机器人机构改变了其活动度与自由度，并针对不同任务产生出不同拓扑，以适应不同环境与不同需求。 \n可重构机构和可重构机器人的广泛应用在组装，包装，食品工业，家用机器人，步行机器人，折纸机器人，康复机器人和医疗机器人等方面得到展示，从而在未来几十年中实现“未来机器人”。 \nBio of Speaker\nProf Jian S. Dai (戴建生教授) FIEEE FASME FRSA FIMechE CEng\, is Chair of Mechanisms and Robotics and a pioneer in reconfigurable mechanisms and robots\, in origami robots\, in ankle rehabilitation robots and in metamorphic robots. He established the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the sub-field of metamorphic mechanisms in robotics\, a concept that could bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots\, and efficient but non-flexible machines\, and their applications to health\, home and manufacture. \nProfessor Dai received a BEng in 1982 and an MSc in 1984 from Shanghai Jiao Tong University\, and received a PhD in Advanced Kinematics and Robotics from the University of Salford in the UK in 1993. \nProfessor Dai is the recipient of 2015 ASME Mechanisms and Robotics Award and the recipient of 2020 ASME Machine Design Award. In the first lifelong achievements award\, he is the 27th recipient since 1974. In the second lifelong achievements award\, he is the 58th recipient since 1958. The citation of 2020 ASME Machine Design Award is for pioneering contributions in establishing the field of reconfigurable mechanisms and the subfield of metamorphic mechanisms; and for making a lasting impact through research\, application\, teaching and service that have made it possible to bridge the gap between versatile but expensive robots and efficient but nonflexible machines. \nProfessor Dai received many other awards including 2010 Overall Supervisory Excellence Award by King’s College London\, 2012 ASME Outstanding Service Award and 2012 Mechanisms Innovation Award\, together with three best journal Paper Awards and six conference best paper awards with the 2018 Crossley Award\, 2019 AT Yang Award in Theoretical Kinematics. Professor Dai was elevated by IEEE in 2017 as IEEE Fellow with citation as ‘for contributions to reconfigurable and metamorphic mechanisms in robotics’. \nProfessor Dai has published over 600 peer-reviewed papers\, 8 authored books\, 3 edited books\, and 30 book chapters\, with Google h-index of 55\, and i10 index of 220\, and citation number over 12000 including a book on Geometrical Foundations and Screw Algebra in Mechanisms and Robotics\, a book on Evolutionary Design of Parallel Mechanisms\, a book on Screw Algebra and Lie Groups\, Lie Algebra and a book on Screw Algebra and Kinematics Approach for Mechanisms and Robotics. He serves as a Subject Editor of Mechanism and Machine Theory\, Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Mechanical Design\, and Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science. \nProfessor Dai is Founder of the prestigious conference series IEEE International Conference on Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots (IEEE ReMAR) and organizer of a series of conferences\, workshops and symposia with major scientific relevance (e.g.\, ASME M&R\, IEEE ICRA). \nProfessor Dai has graduated over 40 PhD students who are now faculty members of world-leading universities (e.g.\, University College London\, Queen Mary University London\, Purdue University\, Wollongong University\, Curtin University\, Tecnologico de Monterrey (ITESM))\, and affiliated with prestigious cooperative companies (e.g.\, Cambridge Consultants\, Goldman Sachs) and becoming successful entrepreneurs (e.g.\, Movendo Technology\, AITREAT Pte Ltd\, Novus Altair\, DH Robotics\, and DR Robotics). \n戴建生教授是2015年美国机械工程师学会（ASME）“机构学与机器人学终身成就奖” 获得者，2020年美国机械工程师学会（ASME）“机械设计终身成就奖” 获得者。2020年获奖词为：为建立可重构机构领域和变胞机构子领域做出了开拓性与奠基性贡献；并通过研究、应用、教学和服务对机械设计产生了持久性影响，弥合了通用但昂贵的机器人与高效但不灵活的机器之间的鸿沟。为国际理论运动学与可重构机构学权威专家，在国际机构学与机器人学中享有盛誉。现为英国伦敦大学国王学院机构学与机器人学讲席教授。 \n戴建生教授长期从事理论运动学、机构学与机器人学的基础理论与应用研究，在国内外发表学术论文600余篇，其中国际期刊论文400余篇，出版专著10余部，被引用 12000余次，h-指数55，i10-指数220。戴建生教授是美国电气电子工程师学会（IEEE）Fellow，美国机械工程师学会（ASME）Fellow，英国机械工程师学会（IMechE）Fellow，英国皇家文艺学会（RSA）Fellow。被授予 IEEE Fellow 时的贡献词为：贡献于世界机器人的可重构机构与变胞机构。 任 IFToMM（世界机构与机器联合会）英国区主席，曾任 ASME 英国与爱尔兰区主席，在多个国际学术期刊与学术组织任职。除了2015年与2020年的终身成就奖外，获得了多项国内外学术奖励与荣誉，多项国际期刊最佳论文奖，包括 Journal of Systems and Control Engineering 2009年、2011年最佳期刊论文奖，伦敦国王学院 2010年度最佳博士生指导教师全校奖（3000名教职1名），2012年 ASME杰出服务奖，中国机构学学会2012年“学术创新奖”和“国际学术交流奖”，2018年 Crossley Award，与2019年 AT Yang 理论运动学奖。已培养博士40余名，其中10余位在中国、英国、美国、意大利、澳洲、墨西哥等一流大学任教，10余位在世界各地含中国、意大利、英国、新加坡与墨西哥创办机器人高科技公司。 \nHow to Participate\nThe webinar is open to all for free. The system allows up to 150 participants. \nPlease connect from your computer using the following link: \nhttps://global.gotomeeting.com/join/401022813 \nYou can connect from web browser (which may require installing a web browser extension) or install the GoToMeeting app on your computer to join. \nYou can also dial in using your phone.  (For supported devices\, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.) \nUnited Kingdom: +44 20 3713 5028 (One-touch: 442037135028\,\,401022813#)\nAccess Code: 401-022-813
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-jian-s-dai/
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: The impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare and societal costs in China
DESCRIPTION:Title\nThe impact of COVID-19 on the healthcare and societal costs in China \n新冠疫情对中国卫生系统和社会经济的冲击 \nSpeaker\nDr Huajie (Lily) Jin (金桦杰博士)\, Senior Health Economist\, King’s College London\, UK \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nPresentation Slides\nhttp://abcp.org.uk/files/virtual_seminars/20200717-Huajie_Jin.pdf \nAbstract\nCOVID-19 swept through China in 2020\, with over 83\,000 confirmed cases reported by the end of June 2020. In order to estimate the economic burden of COVID-19\, we conducted a cost-of-illness study to estimate the healthcare and societal cost of COVID-19 in 31 provincial-level administrative regions in China. The main cost components included identification\, diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19\, compulsory quarantine and productivity losses for all affected residents in China during the study period. Input data were obtained from government reports\, clinical guidelines\, and other published literature. The total estimated healthcare and societal cost associated with the outbreak is 4.26 billion RMB (0.62 billion USD) and 2\,647 billion RMB (383 billion USD)\, respectively. The main components of routine healthcare costs are inpatient care (41.0%) and medicines (30.9%). The main component of societal costs is productivity losses (99.8%). Hubei province incurred the highest healthcare cost (83.2%) whilst Guangdong province incurred the highest societal cost (14.6%). \nOur study highlights a large economic burden of the recent COVID-19 outbreak in China. Evidence indicates that the control measures to prevent the spread of disease incurred substantial productivity costs amounting to over 2% of China’s annual GDP. The results of this study provide evidence to justify significant investment in prevention and control measures for future outbreaks. \nRelated papers from speaker \n\nHuajie Jin et al.\, “Estimating the cost-of-illness associated with the COVID-19 outbreak in China from January to March 2020\,” medRxiv\, doi: 10.1101/2020.05.15.20102863\, May 2020\nJidi Zhao et al.\, “Disease Burden Attributable to the First Wave of COVID-19 in China\, and the Effect of Timing on the Cost-Effectiveness of Movement Restriction Policies\,” preprint with The Lancet\, doi: 10.2139/ssrn.3605199\n\nBio of Speaker\nDr Huajie Jin (Lily) has been a Senior Health Economist at King’s College London since 2013. Her role at King’s involves designing and conducting economic evaluations for or a range of policymakers and research organisations\, including the NHS England\, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)\, the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)\, Medical Research Council (MRC)\, as well as voluntary sector and commercial organisations. Before joining King’s\, Lily used to work on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) clinical guidelines for three years. Between Year 2011-2013\, Lily was an honorary Research Fellow of Cardiff University\, and an Honorary Research Associate of Swansea University. \nLily’s research focuses on health economic modelling\, trial-based economic evaluations and systematic reviews. She has conducted economic evaluations for a range of healthcare interventions\, including screening tests\, diagnostic tests\, drugs\, radiotherapies\, and service-level interventions\, such as trainings for GPs\, and liaison modes between primary care and secondary care services. Her work has been published in journals such as The Lancet Psychiatry\, BMJ\, PharmacoEconomics\, PLOS One and JAMA Network Open. She was the principal health economist of three NICE clinical guidelines and three NICE Medtech innovation briefings (MIBs). \nHow to Participate\nThe seminar is open to all for free. The system allows up to 150 participants. \nPlease connect from your computer using the following link: \nhttps://global.gotomeeting.com/join/577964533 \nYou can connect from web browser (which may require installing a web browser extension) or install the GoToMeeting app on your computer to join. \nYou can also dial in using your phone.  (For supported devices\, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.) \nUnited Kingdom: +44 330 221 0088 (One-touch dial:+443302210088\,\,577964533#)\nAccess Code: 577-964-533
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-huajie-jin/
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Existential Crisis and Challenges of Energy Transition
DESCRIPTION:Title\nIs there an existential crisis which requires complete decarbonization in the next 30 years and if so\, what are the challenges of the required energy transition? \nSpeaker\nProf Gautam Kalghatgi FREng FIMechE FSAE FCI FISEES\, Visiting Professor\, Oxford University (Engineering Science); formerly worked at Shell Research in the UK and Saudi Aramco in Dhahran \nLanguage\nThe talk will be delivered in English. \nPresentation Slides\nhttp://abcp.org.uk/files/webinars/20200703-Gautam_Kalghatgi.pdf \nVideo Recording\nhttp://abcp.org.uk/files/webinars/20200703-Gautam_Kalghatgi.mp4\nAbstract\nThere is widespread belief that unless “something is done”\, the world will go through an “existential crisis” because of climate change. As a result\, several initiatives calling for drastic and rapid cuts in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are gaining traction. However\, empirical evidence shows that\, over the past many decades\, all measures of human development have improved significantly; food production has increased consistently; the earth is greening; deaths attributed to extreme weather have decreased by 95%; there is no statistical evidence that droughts\, floods and forest fires have increased or that the rate of sea level rise is abnormal. In any case humanity has coped with past climate change (rise in temperature) caused substantially by human activities. Nevertheless\, there is widespread belief that the precautionary principle requires that in order to avoid future catastrophe\, the world requires to decarbonise completely and quickly. However\, currently fossil fuels supply around 85% of global primary energy. Replacing this with carbon-free energy\, even after assuming a 40% reduction in demand because of improved efficiency\, will require the world to build over 3100 nuclear power stations of 3 GW each or over 7.8 million 3 MW wind turbines. Simultaneously\, existing energy infrastructure has to be dismantled e.g. gas boilers have to be replaced by electric heating\, aviation and steel and cement industries have to be largely shut down …Such change is unlikely to happen\, particularly as poorer countries try to grow their economies and continue to use fossil fuels. Hence it is better to shift policy towards adaptation i.e. make societies more resilient to the effects of climate change e.g. better flood defences. \nCurrently\, wind and solar supply 1.33% of global primary energy consumption of 581 exajoules. All alternatives to fossil fuels start from a very low base and have significant barriers to unlimited growth. The talk will then focus on transport\, particularly\, battery electric vehicles to illustrate this point. Even by 2040\, 85-90% of transport energy will come from petroleum- based fuels powering internal combustion engines (ICE) because of the large scale of the problem. It is imperative that ICE engines are improved to maintain the sustainability of transport and there is great scope for such improvement. Banning the sale of ICE vehicles by 2035\, as the U.K. government proposes\, will stop R&D in this area and close the cheapest and easiest path to cleaner and better transport which requires all available technologies to be used sensibly. \nBio of Speaker\nGautam Kalghatgi worked for 31 years at Shell Research in the UK followed by 8 years in Saudi Aramco in Dhahran before retiring in June 2018. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Oxford University (Engineering Science) and has held similar academic appointments in the past at Imperial College\, London; KTH Stockholm; TU Eindhoven and Sheffield University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering\, SAE\, IMechE and the Combustion Institute and an Honorary Fellow of the International Society for Energy Environment and Sustainability (ISEES). He is on the International Board of Directors of the Combustion Institute\, on the editorial boards of several journals and has served on many international advisory boards\, e.g.\, for CCRC in KAUST. He has published around 130 papers and a book\, “Fuel/Engine Interactions”\, on combustion\, fuels and engine research and on transport energy. This work is cited widely with an H index of 51 on Google Scholar and 44 on Scopus. He has a BTech from IIT Bombay (1972) and a PhD from Bristol University (1975) in Aeronautical Engineering. His PhD project was on supersonic aerodynamics\, more particularly\, on shock interactions. He did post-doctoral research on turbulent combustion at Southampton University (1975-1979) before joining Shell. \nThe speaker can be reached via email Kalghatgig@gmail.com. \nHow to Participate\nThe seminar is open to all for free. The system allows up to 150 participants. \nPlease connect from your computer using the following link: \nhttps://global.gotomeeting.com/join/357810925 \nYou can connect from web browser (which may require installing a web browser extension) or install the GoToMeeting app on your computer to join. \nYou can also dial in using your phone.  (For supported devices\, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.) \nUnited Kingdom: +44 20 3713 5028 (One-touch dial-in: +442037135028\,\,357810925#)\nAccess Code: 357-810-925 \nCo-Organising Organisations\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-gautam-kalghatgi/
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SUMMARY:ABCP Webinar: Energy Storage for a Net (Nearly Net) Zero Carbon Energy Future
DESCRIPTION:Title\nEnergy Storage for a Net (Nearly Net) Zero Carbon Energy Future \n热能存储与净（近）零碳能源系统构建 \nSpeaker\nProfessor Yulong Ding (丁玉龙) CEng FIChemE FRSC\, Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage\, University of Birmingham\, UK \nLanguages\nThe talk will be delivered in English but the slides will be bilingual in English and Chinese. \nAbstract\nThe global impacts of the changing climate have become increasingly visible in recent years. To address such a colossal challenge\, the UK took the lead in the world to adopt a highly ambitious target in 2019 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. This target\, together with legislated carbon budgets\, implies that more radical emissions cuts across the economy would be needed. Although the greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by 45% in the UK since 1990\, the reduction so far has been largely achieved within the power sector by the transition away from coal and towards gas and renewable generation. Significantly more difficult challenges remain ahead of us. \nThis talk will start with an overview of the world final energy consumption\, together with recent renewable penetration and energy efficiency data. These data will be analysed to show the true challenges from a decarbonisation perspective. Attention is then paid to the most popular emerging energy technologies\, including electrification of transport\, hydrogen economy\, carbon capture and storage\, and hydrogen ironmaking. These energy processes as currently configured will be shown to be highly energy inefficient\, leading to a new thermal challenge. Advanced planning for a radically new energy infrastructure would be needed if we do not want our next generations to face similar energy challenges as we do today and indeed over the past few decades\, such as retrofitting measures for our homes. An attempt is then made to establish a multi-vector-based energy network with a potential to resolve the challenge. \nThe transition to a net (nearly net) zero carbon energy future is likely to catalyse the creation of many new businesses. Inevitably\, this will place many conventional energy businesses to a vulnerable position or even out of business if they are not prepared for or resist to the changes. This will be briefly discussed if time allows. \nBio of Speaker\nProfessor Yulong Ding (丁玉龙) CEng FIChemE FRSC is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham. His current research covers both fundamental (multiphase transport phenomena across length scales) and applied (new energy conversion and storage technologies) aspects. \nHe invented liquid air energy storage and cryogenic engine technologies and led the initial stage of their developments and validation\, which are respectively commercialised by Highview Power and Dearman Engine\, two UK engineering companies. He developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage and associated large-scale manufacture technologies\, leading to large scale commercial applications with a total installation of ~1.2GWh so far. \nHe is a receiver of three IChemE Global Awards – Energy\, Research Project and Outstanding Achievement Awards in 2019; Distinguished Energy Storage Individual Award (Beijing International Energy Storage and Expo\, 2018); Cryogenic Energy Storage Research Chair Award (Royal Academy of Engineering\, 2014); Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize\, Advanced Compressed Air Energy Storage System\, 2014); Energy & Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award (Liquid Air Energy Storage\, ‘The Engineer’ Magazine\, 2011). \nHe has published over 450 technical papers with ~250 in peer-reviewed journals (H Index of ~ 63)\, filed over 70+ patents\, and co-founded Dispersia Ltd and Jinhe Energy Co Ltd\, and more recently Kelvin Thermotech Ltd. He has served as a consultant to AnSteel Group\, P&G\, Shell Global Solutions\, GSK\, Pfizer and CREG over the last 20 years. He currently serves on IChemE Publication Medal Assessment Panel\, European Technology and Innovation Platform Working Group on Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIPSNET)\, and editorial boards of Journal of Energy Storage (Wiley)\, Journal of Thermal Science (Springer)\, Particuology (Elsevier)\, and Energies & Applied Science (MDPI). \nHow to Participate\nThe seminar is open to all for free. The system allows up to 150 participants. \nPlease connect from your computer using the following link: \nhttps://global.gotomeeting.com/join/269845517 \nYou can connect from web browser (which may require installing a web browser extension) or install the GoToMeeting app on your computer to join. \nYou can also dial in using your phone.  (For supported devices\, tap a one-touch number below to join instantly.) \nUnited Kingdom: +44 330 221 0097 (One-touch: tel:+443302210097\,\,269845517#)\nAccess Code: 269-845-517
URL:https://abcp.org.uk/event/webinar-yulong-ding/
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