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Advanced Structures Group News

  1. KAS voted best Part IB Lecturer, 2009-2010, by second year undergraduates, February 2010
  2. Shape Shifting Structures article features in The Cambridge Engineer, Freshers Edition, pp. 20, October 2010
  3. KAS's Royal Society Exhibition team feature in the BBC news channel, CUED news, the University news, and even You Tube, June 2010
  4. KAS wins Silver Award from the Royal Aeronatical Society for his 2009 paper with Dr Matt Santer, Imperial College; "Optical Space Telescopes Structures: the State of the Art and Future Direction", June 2010
  5. KAS to present at the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition in June-July 2010
  6. KAS voted best Part IB Lecturer, 2008-2009, by second year undergraduates, July 2009
  7. KAS's letter on his formative childhood experiences with "Lego" appears in the Engineering & Technology Magazine, vol.4(5), March 2009
  8. Alex Norman successfully examined on his doctoral thesis, "Multistable and Morphing Corrugated Shell Structures", March 2009
  9. "Watch This Space: Special Feature" in the The Triple Helix: 800 Years of Contributions from Cambridge, January 2009
  10. Group members come top in departmental poster competition, December 2008
  11. KAS gives invited lecture on "Morphing Shells: Concepts and Analysis", to the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, September 2008
  12. Eduard Toews successfully examined on his doctoral thesis, "Active Hyperhelical Structures", June 2008
  13. Feng Xu successfully examined on his doctoral thesis, "Skin Biothermomechanics and Thermal Pain", May 2008
  14. Radio interview about 9/11 research on "Nightline with Graham Mabury", Perth's Newstalk 882, 05 March 2008
  15. KAS elected Fellow of Cambridge Philosophical Society, February 2008
  16. 9/11 study by KAS, to be published in ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, offers peer-reviewed scientific explanation for the total and rapid collapse of WTC Towers, post collapse initiation, BBC Science/Nature On-line, September 2007
  17. KAS voted best Part IIB Lecturer by final year undergraduates, June 2007
  18. KAS appointed to Acting Senior Tutor, Corpus Christi College, May-October 2007
  19. KAS appointed to a University Senior Lectureship effective from October 2007
  20. Report in Research Horizons, issue 2 of the University of Cambridge research magazine, February 2007
  21. Profile in the Pelican, issue 11 of the magazine for Alumni of Corpus Christi College, February 2007
  22. KAS elected Member of the Institute of Maths and its Applications (MIMA) and conferred the Chartered Mathematician designation (CMath), 20 October 2006
  23. Shape shifter, October 2006, British Council, UK Science news
  24. Roll Me Up a Laptop, 06 October 2006, Varsity Fresher Edition, page 5
  25. Roll-up Screens Moving Closer, 21 September 2006, BBC Technology On-line
  26. Scientists Develop Technology for Roll-up Laptop Screens, 21 September 2006, University press release
  27. Rolling Out the Future, 20 September 2006, Cambridge Evening News
  28. Feature article, Anglian Television News, 12 September 2006
  29. Roll-up Lap-Top Screens for Truly Portable Computing, 11 September 2006, CUED News Item


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