News 2012
CMS Film students have their work screened at the Odeon, Leicester Square (May 12)
 MSc students and staff at the Odeon |
CMS Masters students in Cinematography and Post Production recently attended the Odeon, Leicester Square to see their own films screened. This is Europe's premiere movie theatre and is known throughout Hollywood as the "Cathedral". The Engineering Manager, Mr. Mark Nice who is a BKSTS council member along with Dr. Chris Woollard, the course leader, was able to show our students the very latest techniques in ultra high definition 4K digital cinema presentation along with traditional 35/70mm film.
Watching their films on a 60 ft. gigantic screen with one of the best sound systems in the world was a unique experience, and one that is enjoyed by all of the big movie premiers. It is very important that we are able to present our films to the highest standards of the film industry. Details of the MSc programme - Pictures from various events and masterclassesCMS Lecturer Dr Mona Ghassemain wins IEEE award (Apr 12)
 Dr Mona Ghassemain |
Last year Senior Lecturer Mona Ghassemain was nominated by the school for the IEEE Outstanding Branch Counselor and Advisor Award in recognition of her sterling work at setting up and supporting IEEEgreen the CMS student branch of the IEEE.
Mona has helped to secure funding for the society, enabled them to create an effective website, has mentored the students effectively encouraging them to have a high participation in the society and has inspired them to publish several papers. Mona received the award in March 2012 at the IEEE UK & RI 2012 AGM. IEEEgreen websiteSecond year computing students create robot (Apr 12)
 Robot in action |
Senior Lecturer George Samakovitis was delighted when a group of his 2nd year Organisational and Project Management students produced this unusual robot from scratch. The robot can be guided through a mobile phone-based interface using a variety of platforms (PC, ipad, iphone etc) from anywhere using Skype. Dr Samakovitis commented that 'The students used a wide variety of technologies (e.g. distance sensors and more) and were able to demonstrate significant engineering acumen. Their design process and documentation was also quite impeccable'.
The group consists of the following students: Liam Price, Michael Payne, Joshua Holding, Craig Millgate, Gary Kelly and Ibanda Tex Tembi. Watch the robot on You Tube!BKSTS accreditation for MSc Cinematography programme (Apr 12)
 BKSTS logo |
CMS is delighted to announce that the BKSTS have awarded full accreditation for our relatively recent film production programme MSc Cinematography and Post Production. This enables us to participate in regular film industry events held in central London and present student work annually at the National Film Theatre BKSTS screening.
The report made several positive comments including: 'The fact that students on both post graduate and graduate programmes have access to master classes delivered by practitioners of the status of Billy Williams is to be commended.'and
'The panel thought the course content, delivery and organisation, as well as the technical support, the equipment and facilities all underpinned the industrial relevance.' Details of the MSc programme - Pictures from various masterclasses
Robin Vidgeon BSC FBKSTS delivers masterclass for MSc film students (Mch 12)
 Robin Vidgeon with students |
The distinguished Cinematographer Mr. Robin Vidgeon BSC FBKSTS recently delivered several masterclasses for our Masters degree in Cinematography and Post Production.
Robin used a script written by him especially for the Masters students at Greenwich and assisted the students in the development of their own film projects. Robin was impressed with the quality of our provision saying "They are very lucky to be able to use some of the best maintained equipment I have seen at any school. On top of that, a well equipped studio, and a good selection of lights. I think that any student who gets a place in this department will be well taught to face the modern film world." More pictures of the masterclass - Complete quote from Robin VidgeonFilm graduate now working for Deluxe (Mch 12)
 Simone Nesti |
Simone Nesti graduated in 2011 with a Masters in Cinematography and Post Production. He is now working as an assistant feature film editor for Deluxe Soho on one of their latest projects: 'Seven Psychopaths' by Martin McDonagh.
During his studies at Greenwich he received tuition in feature film editing from our guest lecturer and experienced editor, Michael Johns g.b.f.t.e.. 'Bringing in distinguished film industry professionals is a feature of the programme,' says programme leader Dr Chris Woollard. Simone decided to specialise in the Post Production aspects of film making during his studies here. This will be the first major feature film credit for Simone's resume. Cinematography and Post Production at GreenwichNew Computer Security, Audit, Forensics and Education Newsletter (Mch 12)
 C-Safe logo |
The Centre for Computer Security, Audit, Forensics and Education have produced the first edition of their newsletter CSAFE. A key contributor to this is final year undergraduate, Ryan Heartfield who runs his own IT consultancy firm providing IT solutions to small businesses.
This issue contains information about:- shortcourses
- articles about a new malware, Duqu, and the security isses of social networking
- an interview with a CMS security expert Dr Diane Gan.
Royal Society Award for young CMS researcher (Feb 12)
 Andrew Kao |
Dr Andrew Kao has been granted a prestigious £10,000 award by the Royal Society to continue his pioneering research on the effect of magnetic fields on metal alloys and has also been chosen to present his work to Parliament next month.
Andrew, part of the CMS Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis Group, has to display his findings at the Science, Engineering and Technology (SET) for Britain exhibition in the House of Commons on Monday 12 March, competing against 60 other up-and-coming researchers for a winner's medal and £3,000 cash prize. By using computer modelling to simulate the physics of the process, Andrew has shown that using magnetic fields can alter the microscopic structure of metal alloys. This research has many possible applications such as: producing aero-engine turbine blades that operate at very high temperatures, creating lower cost/weight alternatives to traditional copper wiring, increasing the strength of lightweight components for cars, or improving steel quality for construction.University news article
Maths graduates give advice to current students (Feb 12)
 Some of the speakers |
On 15th February the Mathematics department hosted an event funded by The National HE STEM Programme Mathematics Curriculum Innovation Fund and organised by Noel-Ann Bradshaw, Nadarajah Ramesh and Elena Moreno.
Seven University of Greenwich maths graduates returned to speak to current maths students about their careers and how their degrees had helped them obtain these positions. Students were given advice by the graduates such as to 'make the most of part-time jobs and volunteering opportunities such as MathSoc'. Two of the graduates, Alex Cole (Copyright Licencing Agency) and Charlene Mliswa (PwC), had gone on to do Masters courses at the London School of Economics and another two, Petr Simecek (HMRC) and Selvin Sunassee (Mindshare), had undertaken a year's industrial placement during their degree. The event was a great success with student comments including 'I really found this very helpful and informative and I hope that the lecturers can organise events like these more often'. 'A great way to find out what employers want'. One of the graduates, Justin Williams, now working as an Actuary with Hiscox, said 'Thank you so much for inviting me to the event yesterday, which I thought was a great success! I really would like express my delight with the turn-out and reception from the current students.' Other graduates included: Geoff Bunce who is working as a rail consultant and Mike Wakeling a web analyst for Bookatable.com. As well as the graduates there were also presentations from Emma McEntee, a maths student currently on a placement year with Pfizer, and Cordelia Osewa-Ediae, a graduate from the Business School now working with the Adab Trust.Graduate presentations - HE STEM Curriculum Innovation projects .
MSc graduate wins award (Feb 12)
 Sadeck Meyakhan |
One of our graduates, who is currently working as an Analyst Programmer for a large financial Institution, has won an award from us for his achievements on his MSc degree programme.
Sadeck Meyakhan was born and grew up in Port Louis (Mauritius) and moved to London in 2001 when he got married. Whilst studying for his BSc (Hons) in Computing from Portsmouth University he worked as a software development manager responsible for creating and maintaining systems to process credit card applications for Royal Bank of Scotland. To enhance his skills and qualifications, he decided to come to the University of Greenwich to undertake an MSc in Enterprise Software Engineering. He was awarded this in July 2011 with Distinction. Such was the level of his achievement on his MSc programme that he has recently been awarded a CMS School Prize for outstanding academic achievement. We wish Sadeck and his family every success for the future.CMS expert speaks out on Italian cruise ship disaster (Jan 12)
 Ed Galea |
Professor Ed Galea, director of the CMS Fire Safety Engineering Group and a world-leading expert on modelling evacuation procedures, has been interviewed by several news channels, including BBC and Sky News, on the evacuation procedures that the Italian cruise ship The Costa Concordia would have put into place when disaster struck.
He said that ideally people should be assembled in the designated areas well before the vessel takes on a serious heel and if it heels to more than 20 degrees, then it is unlikely that the lifeboats will be able to be launched. He pointed out that for a ship of that size, it would probably take 40 minutes to an hour to get people assembled let alone evacuated. Ed pointed out that it was the first day of the cruise so the passengers would not have known the lay out of the ship. "It would have been disorientating in normal circumstances and to make matters worse they hadn't done the drill. All of these things added to making the assembly process more difficult than it should have been."Guardian interview - Sky interview - Today Programme, Radio 4 - University news article .
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