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Congratulations to CDT student Joseph Myers Hill who won a poster prize at the 2021 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference. He was given the 'Red Sock Award' for his poster titled 'A Family of Non-Monotonic Toral Mixing Maps'. His poster can be viewed in the online gallery here.
Leading experts in the transmission of airborne pathogens are calling for tighter regulations to control air quality in buildings – as a way of reducing the spread of COVID-19 and other illnesses. Writing in the journal Science, the 40 scientists said: “A paradigm shift is needed on the scale that occurred when Chadwick’s Sanitary Report...
Read the monthly news updates from the Sorby Lab Suites on the Geosolutions Leeds webpage, which includes updates of work done by CDT students and staff.
CDT Co-Director, Prof Cath Noakes gives a short overview on COVID-19 and the role of engineering in managing transmission for IMechE in the following video.
As a leading expert on the spread and transmission of Covid-19, Prof Cath Noakes OBE has the attention of the highest level of UK government. In April 2020, Covid-19 had not long pushed the UK into full lockdown when Cath received an email. “It came out of the blue and it was a little unnerving,”...
Katie Piper interviews leading health and scientific experts, asking them common questions about COVID-19, including CDT Co-Director Cath Noakes. Katie asks a panel of experts about the new strains, the science behind recommended behaviours, and how to stay motivated as lockdown restrictions continue. Watch the interview between Katie Piper and Cath Noakes on YouTube.
Journal of Fluid Mechanics Webinar Series: Cath Noakes, University of Leeds Date/Time: Friday 12th February, 2021. 4:00 pm GMT/11am EST Title: Infection transmission in the built environment – the interface of biology, fluid dynamics, design and human behaviour Abstract: COVID-19 has presented us with the most difficult healthcare and societal challenge we have faced in living memory. To understand the...
Applications for Leeds International Summer School (LISS) 2021 are open!Earn credit and immerse yourself in British culture this July. Join the programme for two or four weeks and choose from over 20 academic modules. Read more about Leeds International Summer School. The Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics team, led by Rob Sturman have developed a Fluid Dynamics module for...
Prof Cath Noakes will be a keynote speaker for the upcoming WES (Women's Engineering Society) Annual Conference, which will be taking place online on 20th-21st April 2021. Read more about the event, WES (Women's Engineering Society) Annual Conference.
Researchers at the University of Leeds invited KS3 school children to take part in a national science photography competition, aiming to explore the wonders of everyday fluid dynamics. Teachers were invited to submit a photograph or video that captures fluid dynamics in action, through experimentation or real-world observation. The entries were judged and prizes were awarded...