06 December 2023 Prof. Peter Vincent (Imperial College London)
The NASA Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, successfully carried out the first ever powered flight on another planet. However, the unique conditions on Mars, including its very thin atmosphere (less than 1% of the density of Earth’s), create challenges for the design of new aerial vehicles for further exploration of the planet....
06 December 2023 Dr. Simon Fraval (University of Edinburgh)
Across the globe, agriculture is under strain from economic and environmental pressures and farmers often have to make decisions in the absence of full information. Earth Observation satellite data can help inform decisions, but the benefits are limited by the complex nature of delineating field boundaries. Research led by the...
12 June 2023 Joseph Lee
The field of quantum computing is developing at a rapid pace, with exciting developments in every sub-field including hardware development and algorithm design. The current era of Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) computers may limit the size of problems we are able to solve on actual quantum hardware, we are...