PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
ACADEMIC CONFERENCES
DOCTORAL TRAINING CENTRE IN FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS AND DEVICES
FROM MATERIALS TO DEVICES
MONDAY 25 FEBRUARY
Sir Robert Hadfield Building, Mappin Street, S1 3JD
In February, the Engineering & Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) will open the call for a new round of Centres for Doctoral Training (CDTs). CDTs offer more focussed technical and non-technical training over a 4 year PhD programme in EPSRC priority areas, one of which has been identified as ‘Functional Materials’. This open day will outline how the ‘Doctoral Training Centre in Functional Materials & Devices’ plans to drive innovation in SMEs and OEMs in the functional materials and device sector by providing interdisciplinary PhD level research and training within integrated laboratories that house state of the art equipment for materials synthesis, processing, device design/modelling and characterization.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - RUSSIAN AND SLAVONIC STUDIES
SOCIALIST REALISM IN EASTERN EUROPEAN LITERATURES: ORIGINS, INSTITUTIONS AND DISCOURSES
FRIDAY 15 & SATURDAY 16 MARCH
Humanities Research Institute, 34 Gell Street, S3 7QY
Free entry, no need to book. For further information Email: socreal.eceu@gmail.com
Information about the conference programme can be found at:
http://socialist-realism-in-eceu.blogspot.hu/
Joint India/UK symposium on
HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS: PROGRESS TOWARDS THERAPY. CONTRIBUTIONS FROM DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY
MONDAY 8 - WEDNESDAY 10 APRIL
The Octagon Centre, Western Bank, S10 2TG
Professor Peter W Andrews and Professor Harry Moore of the Centre for Stem Cell Biology, in collaboration with Professor Maneesha Indamer of the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scienctific Research, India, will be running this joint India/UK symposium. The meeting will bring together key researchers from India and the UK to discuss the progress in developing applications for pluripotent human stem cells and address how developmental biology is contributing to that progress.
Early bird registration, before 25 March £25.
MEMBERS OF UNIVERSITY STAFF: Entry is free to members of the University of Sheffield, but registration is essential to reserve your place, contact n.childs@sheffield.ac.uk