May 2006
PPARC KITE Club - Technology and Industry News – May 2006
This month’s issue of Technology and Industry News focuses on forthcoming events.
1. KITE Club Games Technology meeting – 28th June
2. IoP Successful SMEs event – 12th June
3. Research Facilities Workshop – 11th September
4. Defence & Aerospace Workshop - October
5. Can you help? – a technology request
1 KITE Club Games Technology meeting, London – 28.6.06
Have you developed simulation or modelling techniques which could be applied in computer games, animation and cinematographic post processing? We held a small but very successful meeting in November 2004 with a number of companies in these industries. This has yielded three new partnerships between PPARC-funded research groups and companies in this sector. The forthcoming meeting will discuss the outcomes of these collaborations and promote further projects. We are keen to engage with PPARC-funded research groups who would like to work with industry in this sector.
Registration is at http://www.qi3.co.uk/events/event.asp?EventID=134 - please contact Mark Littlewood for further information and a chance to present your work.
2 IoP Successful SMEs event, London – 12.6.06
The IoPs 2006 ‘Successful SMEs’ event will be held on the afternoon of Monday 12 June. The theme will be technology management for small businesses, with presentations from experts in the context of physics-based SMEs, and personal accounts of the experiences of several companies. There will be ample opportunity for discussion, and the event will finish with a reception.
Attendees will be a mixture of representatives from businesses (particularly SMEs), universities, research centres, business support organisations and finance bodies. For details of the programme and registration please visit http://industry.iop.org/bpn/Events/Forthcom/12Jun06/index.html
3 Research Facilities workshop – 11th September 2006
The first event integrating industry’s varied interests in scientific research facilities such as CERN, ESO, ESA and their component experiments will be held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory on 11th September by the Research Facilities Special Interest Group of the Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network.
This event will be an opportunity for us to showcase technology opportunities and requirements to industry, and for companies to tell us about their technology offerings and requirements. Facilities or individual experiments are now invited to register interest in attending, exhibiting, or in running a 1-hour parallel session to develop industrial interest in any of the following areas:
• Collaborative technology development, supply of goods and services for future facilities
• Opportunities for Knowledge Transfer in technology domains of interest to industry
• Access opportunities whereby industry may use facilities under contract
Future facilities such as ELT, SKA, Aurora, Darwin, ILC, XFEL are particularly encouraged to participate.
For further information and to register your interest, please contact Ravi Rathod or David Rafe.
4 KITE Club Defence and Aerospace Industry Workshop - October
Following the success of the first KITE Club Defence and Aerospace SIG meeting in March, we shall be holding a larger scale workshop in October. The objective is to engage further with industry in this sector for collaborative development. The defence and aerospace sector also presents numerous opportunities for ‘spin-in’ of technology for the PPARC programme.
Registration will open soon, so please contact Glyn White to register your interest in this event.
5 Can you help? A Technology Request
A company has asked us for ideas in two areas:
• Measurement of impurities in Tritium gas. To do this mass spectrometry is required. However, isobaric overlaps mean that high resolutions (>2500 to fully separate T from H3+) are required. Traditionally this has been done by magnetic sector mass spectrometry.
• We wish to remove all (100%) solvent from an HPLC output. Traditional methods such as nebulisation and membrane desolvation do not get to the very low (<1ppm) levels of solvent removal that we require. We would be interested in any novel technology that could help in this application.
Please contact Mark Littlewood if you think you can help this company.
Contacts:
KITE Club Innovation Advisors and CERN UK Technology Transfer Officer. Nathan Hill: email: nathan.hill@qi3.co.uk Tel: 01223 422405. Also Mark Littlewood mark.littlewood@qi3.co.uk, Glyn White glyn.white@qi3.co.uk, Ravi Rathod ravi.rathod@qi3.co.uk and David Rafe david.rafe@qi3.co.uk. For enquiries about the Basic Technology Research Programme, please call 01223 422407. For enquiries about the Sensors Knowledge Transfer Network Advanced Instrumentation and Research Facilities Special Interest Groups, please call 01223 422406. Registration for events is available via www.qi3.co.uk/events
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