AGENDA- Shared below. The final version of the agenda will be shared a few days before the event, including poster titles.

SESSION 1 10:00-10:30- Assembly, registration and networking
10:30-11:00- Keith Dingwall on "Impact Research"
11:00-11:30- Rory Porteous on "Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework"
11:30-12:15- Samantha Oakley on "Trusted Research"
12:15-13:15- Lunch break 🥪
13:15-13:50- Helen Mulvana “Development of ultrasound approaches to earlier disease detection and treatment”
13:50-14:25- Steve Neale “Size Scaling in Touch Free Particle Control”
14:25-15:00- Jack Stevenson “Miniaturising Ultrasonic Surgical Devices for Robotic Integration”
15:00-15:35- Andrew Feeney “Ultrasonically assisted recycling and recovery of electronic waste”

SESSION 2 15:35-16:15- Assembly, registration, networking over tea and coffee ☕︎
16:15-16:30- Margaret Lucas- C-MIU overview
16:30-17:30- Bruce Drinkwater guest speaker giving the Dugald Cameron lecture *
17:30-19:30- Evening reception (Drinks/ Canapés ) and Poster presentation over networking
19:30 Session closed

* Presentation Title: Acoustic beams – from tractors to artificial muscle via metasurfaces (abstract shared below)
Talk abstract: Acoustic (or ultrasonic) beams are used widely in engineering, science and medicine. Beams are integral to medical and non-destructive testing imaging systems where the focal spot size determines resolution. However, these beams can become distorted, e.g., when propagating through polycrystalline metals or across the skull into the brain. Beams are also key to techniques that use the acoustic radiation force to transfer momentum to manipulate objects, i.e., acoustical tweezers or tractor beams. Here the beams must be carefully shaped to create the correct local force field. This talk describes the ideas behind the experimental techniques for the creation of beams. Acoustic holograms and metasurfaces lead to particularly exquisite control of beam shape yet are currently static. Arrays of individual emitters can provide dynamic beam control but are currently lower in resolution. In this talk these approaches are explained and example devices introduced. Throughout the talk the various applications of acoustic beams are highlighted including both imaging and biomedical manipulation. The latter has enabled the creation of artificial tissues such as muscle.

Guest speaker's biography: Professor Bruce Drinkwater obtained B.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from Imperial College, London, UK, in 1991 and 1995 respectively. Bruce then joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, where he has been involved in a diverse range of engineering topics including non-destructive testing, condition monitoring as well as metamaterials, ultrasonic levitation, and haptics. He has worked on ultrasonic arrays for over 20 years, and this is a common theme that links together many of his research interests. The ultrasonic imaging methods, and algorithms he helped develop, known as Full Matrix Capture (FMC) and the Total Focusing Method (TFM), are now in widespread use by industry where they have improved the safety of aircraft, power stations and other complex engineering structures. He is Head of the UNDT research group at the University of Bristol, Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Innovation in NDE and Editor-in-Chief at NDT&E International.