Dr Richard Bowden ran a workshop in association with ECCV entitled Sign Gesture and Activity. This was co-organised by the EU projects Dicta-Sign and Sign-Speak.

Dr David Windridge organised the international workshop ‘Models of Driver Intentionality for Intelligent Vehicle Technology’ which was hosted at CVSSP on Oct 26th.

CVSSP hosted a workshop on the 4th April exploring potential collaborations with Microsoft and their business partners, along with input from Brunel University.

There is substantial interest in developing new classes of semiconductor and thermoelectric materials exploiting the properties of Bismuth. Such materials are increasingly important for the development of optoelectronic, thermoelectric and electronic devices. These include materials for laser diodes (used for optical communications, DVD systems etc.), light emitting diodes solar cells, transistors and spintronic devices. Following on the success of the first international workshop on Bismuth-containing materials held in Michigan in 2010, this meeting will bring together groups undertaking research in the emerging area of Bismuth-containing materials and devices for a focussed three-day workshop. This is an interdisciplinary meeting bringing together physicists, chemists, materials scientists and engineers together to address this important emerging area. Topics will focus on theoretical activities, epitaxial growth, characterisation (optical, electrical and structural) and device performance of interest to both academic and industrial researchers.

This short course course is designed to provide an overview of the fundamental principles associated with microwave and RF antennas and propagation. The course will present the underlying theory in an accessible manner, together with techniques for application of the theory to satellite and mobile communications scenarios as well as broadcasting and indoor wireless applications.

There has been a great advance in IP networking protocols and technologies in the recent years. This course introduces and explains in some depth the principles, protocols, technologies, services and standards used for Internet networking.

The Course provides an introduction to the essential principles of microwave engineering.