2009 Annual Meeting (Friday-Saturday 25-26 September 2009)
This year's meeting again coincides with the University's Alumni Weekend, "Meeting Minds". Note that, as usual, there is no need to register for the Alumni Weekend in order to attend the SOUE events, which are free to members (apart from the cost of dinner and/or lunch if chosen).
The Jenkin Lecture will be given by Simon Watts (St John's 1968-71), and Chief Scientist of Thales at Crawley, on Airborne Surveillance Radar; this will take place after lunch on Saturday. Before lunch, we have our customary supporting lectures and the Society's AGM.
In response to requests at recent AGMs, we have also organised a dinner for the Friday night, at the Corner Club, Turl Street. Guests are of course very welcome, as they are for the Saturday too.
The timetable is as follows:
Friday 25 September:
| Dinner at the Corner Club, Turl Street |
Saturday 26 September:
| Coffee in the Thom Building foyer | |||
| David Clifton Early warning systems via machine learning: from jet engines to hospital patients |
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| Dr Byron Byrne Geotechnical Engineering for Offshore Pipelines |
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| SOUE Annual General Meeting (agenda to be notified) | |||
| Buffet lunch in the Holder Building Common Room (for those who have booked it) | |||
| The 22nd Jenkin Lecture Simon Watts MBE FREng Airborne Surveillance Radar Airborne surveillance radars can detect submarine periscopes at long range in high sea states, simultaneously track many ships over a large area of sea and produce images of the ground and targets with spatial resolutions of the order of centimetres. Airborne early warning radars detect, track and classify air targets at ranges of hundreds of kilometres. To achieve this performance, modern radars use highly advanced electronics and signal and data processing systems. This lecture will describe the development and capabilities of modern airborne surveillance radar, illustrating the technology used and performance achieved. |