AUGUST & SEPTEMBER NEWS 2011

Congratulations to Mike Templeton

Dr Mike Templeton has been named an Associate Editor of the journal Water Science and Technology: Water Supply.

 And congratulation on his recent promotion to Senior Lecturer.

Dr Mike Templeton has been promoted to Senior Lecturer.

Following his viva on 1^st September, Simon Parker has been awarded a PhD for his dissertation entitled “Chalk regional groundwater models and their applicability to site scale processes”.

Professor Cedo Maksimovic was invited to give a keynote lecture on the occasion of the celebration of 150th anniversary of the School of Engineering at the National University of Colombia in Bogota.  On 23rd August 2011 he delivered the lecture entitled: "Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems as a part of Disasters Prevention Engineering" (Sistemas de drenaje urbano sostenible como part de la ingeneria de prevencion de disaster).  

Professor Cedo Maksimovic has been invited to deliver a lecture on Urban Fluvial Flood Prediction and Management on the UNESCO Workshop "Sustainable Strategies for Urban Drainage and Flood Protection" to be held on the occasion of the 12th International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD) on 12-16th September in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

The paper: "Urban drainage models for flood forecasting: 1D/1D, 1D/2D and hybrid models" of which the first author is Nuno Eduardo da Cruz Simões, PhD student at EWRE Section, UWRG, Urban Water Research Group  was nominated for the prestigious Paul Harremoes Award which is granted once in three years. The paper is based on Nuno's PhD research under supervision of Prof. Cedo Maksimovic. Nuno’s paper was one of the 3  shortlisted among 130 competing young researchers’ paper and presented in the opening session of the 12th International Conference on Urban Drainage (ICUD) to be held on 12-16th September in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was unanimous decision of the Award Committee that the Award would go to Nuno. The decision was announced on the occasion of the Gala dinner held on Thursday 15^th September.

United Nation University, headquarters of which are located in Bonn, Germany is setting up a new academic unit for developing countries at the University of Mozambique in Maputo.  Prof essor Cedo Maksimovic has been invited to advise the Management Board for development of curricula in the area of Urban Water Systems. The initial Workshop on this programme will be held on 24-25 October in Maputo.

It has been announced recently that the € 7.2 Million EU NWE Intereg project RainGain dealing with testing and  full scale implementation of urban fluvial flood prediction has been approved. The project was initiated by Professor Cedo Maksimovic's research group, it has 15 partners from Belgium, France, The Netherlands and UK, 4 of which are universities (Imperial College London, KU Leuven, ParisTech-EPC and TU Delft). The project will start in October 2011,  Prof. Maksimovic will  coordinate the work package 3 dealing with pluvial fool prediction.