Grants

UNIVERSITY OF SURREY Research contracts Professor I. Hindmarch, Pounds 72,000 from Bayer AG (activities of daily living project); Dr J. Bowler, Pounds 165,000 from Rolls-Royce plc (flaw characterisation for turbine disc inspection) and Pounds 142,657 from the Defence Research Agency (application of eddy-current inversion to problems of non-destructive evaluation).

Research grants Professors J. Smith and H. Muller-Steinhagen, Pounds 244,715 from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (validation of the use of air-water for stimulating bubbly vapour-liquid flows); Professor C. Clayton, Drs M. Mathews and G. Reed, Pounds 119,006 from the EPSRC (stiffness of soils and weak rocks at very small strains); Professor L. Hollaway, Dr G. Parke and Mr C. Howard, Pounds 64,780 from EPSRC (strengthening of bridges using polymeric composite materials); Dr J. Illingworth and Mr J. Windeatt, Pounds 170,538 from EPSRC (finite element snakes for depth data fusion and surface inspection); Drs D. Ewins, P. Richards and W. Balanchandran, Pounds 142,945 from EPSRC (microengineered neural signal transducer development); Professor J. Kittler and Mr M. Bober, Pounds 138,445 from EPSRC (low bitrate video coding based on general motion model and object segmentation); Professor P. Evans and Dr A.

Kondoz, Pounds 1,197 from EPSRC (source and channel coding for mobile multimedia) to be continued