HMS Seminar Series 2014

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 20 June 2014

Time:

12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Room:

219

UQ Location:

Connell Building (St Lucia)

Event category(s):

Full Description:: We have two featured seminars on Friday 20th June 2014.

Professor Martin Lames is visiting from TUM (Technical University Munich). His research interests are in performance analysis, talent research, technology in sports, theoretical modelling of game sports, reliability and validity of position detection and has recently been involved in a study on goal line technology in football. He will present in Room 219 from 12pm-1pm on Friday 20th June

The second hour of presentations are from researchers who are preparing to attend the World Congress of Biomechanics in Boston in July. Ben Hoffman, Dominic Farris and Glen Lichtwark will present their research to the school in room 219 from 1pm-2pm on Friday 20th June. The titles of the presentations are as follows:

Protection from exercise-induced muscle damage in the absence of changes in medial gastrocnemius fascicle behaviour in humans in vivo- Ben Hoffman

Paradoxical effects of elastic ankle exoskeletons on plantar-flexor muscle mechanics and energetics - Dominic Farris

The influence of tendon compliance on gastrocnemius energetics during running at different speeds - Glen Lichtwark