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DSDS23 - Wednesday 31 January 2024

0900 - 1010 Registration & Coffee

1010 - 1030 Welcome Address

Professor Andrew Shortland, Director of Research, Cranfield Defence and Security

1030 – 1050 Paper 1:

Surrogate Warfare in Great Power Competition
Leontine von Felbert, King's College London

1050 – 1110 Paper 2:

Toward a New Model of Democracy Promotion for State and Non-State Actors: the
Conceptualization and Impact of the Donald Trump ‘America First’ Foreign Policy
on Democracy and Democratization Process
Jamesleo Oche, Cranfield University

1110 - 1140 Coffee/Tea, Poster, Installation & Exhibition Viewing. Poster Judging

1140 – 1200 Paper 3:

Exploring Cognitive Model that inform Intelligence Analysts' Adoption of AI
Colonel Shaun Lamb, UK Space Command

1200 – 1220 Paper 4:

Polarimetrically Augmented Coherent Change Detection Three Stage Detector for Laboratory
Multistatic Synthetic Aperture Radar
Alexander Hagelberg, Cranfield University, CDS, EWIC

1220 – 1240 Paper 5:

Utilising Digital Image Correlation for the Characterisation of Ground Shock from
Buried Charges
Ross Waddoups, University of Sheffield

1240 - 1245 Introduction to Greg Simpson and the publishers – Content Online, Janes, SPIE and
Taylor & Francis

1245 – 1345 Lunch, Poster, Installation & Exhibition Viewing. Poster Judging

1345 – 1415 Keynote: Insights and Inspiration

Neil Verrall, Dstl

1415 – 1500 3MT Competition:

Introduction and Rules
Chair: Aimee Helliker, Cranfield University

1420 Development of Sustainable PPE for Higher Threat Clearance Operations by

Humanitarian Organisations
Laura Brown, Cranfield University

1425 Green Flow Nitration of Bacterial Cellulose

Bryn Nicol, Cranfield University
1430 Title tbc
Mauro Bonavita, King’s College London

1435 Assessment of the Conceptual and Moral Factors on the Outcome of Conflicts and
Wars: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Perspectıve
Gurkan Yesilyurt, Cranfield University

1440 Investigating the Infestation: Understanding and Communicating Deathwatch Beetle

Activity on HMS Victory
Cathryn Harvey, Cranfield University

1445 From CT to Voronoi - Unravelling the Macramé of Explosives

Jon Miller, Cranfield University

1450 The Theory Supporting Interlayer Optimisation in Ceramic Armour

Daniel Powell, Cranfield University
1500 – 1530 Coffee/Tea, Poster, Installation & Exhibition Viewing Poster Judging

1530 – 1550 Paper 6:

O Two-Photon Dual-Comb LiDAR for Defence Sector Applications
Dr Hollie Wright, Heriot-Watt University

1550 – 1610 Paper 7:

An Experimental Method of Determining Explosive Equivalency When Scaled
Distance Approaches Zero
Roland Alford, Cranfield University

1610 – 1630 Paper 8:

Infrared Thermography as a Non-invasive Scanner for Concealed Weapon Detection
Dr WeeLiam Khor, University of Surrey

1630 Keynote:
Dr Lucy Mason, Capgemini

1700 – 1800 Drinks Reception with canapes

Transport to Blunsdon House Hotel and Leonardo at 1815
 Thursday 1st February 2024
0750 Ellisons Coach pick up from Leonardo Hotel
0810 Ellisons Coach pick up from Blunsdon House Hotel
0830 – 0900 Coffee/Tea Poster, Installation & Exhibition Viewing

0900 - 0905 Welcome

Session Chair: Professor Mark Richardson, Cranfield University

0905 – 0930 Opening Keynote

Andy Bell, Dstl

0930 – 0950 Paper 9:

O Assessing the Pressure Losses During Hydrogen Transport in the Current Natural Gas
Infrastructure using Numerical Modelling
Bonny Thawani, Cranfield University

0950 – 1010 Paper 10:

Protection of Publicly Accessible Locations from Terrorism: Towards a Strategic
Framework for Kenya
James Olela, Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University

1010 – 1030 Paper 11:

SSARVI: A Novel Algorithm for Sparse 3D SAR Imaging with Multistatic
Geometries
Richard Welsh, Cranfield University

1030 – 1100 Coffee/Tea, Poster, Installation & Exhibition Viewing

1100 – 1120 Paper 12:

Temperature-Bias Compensation of Low-Cost Inertial Sensors – Possible or Pipe
Dream?
Dariusz Maton, Cranfield University

1120 – 1135 Opening Address:

Professor Leon Terry, Pro-Vice Chancellor Research and Innovation,
Cranfield University

1135 – 1145 Peter Wilkins, Ploughshare

1145 – 1200 DASA Presentation

Dr Mark Helliker, DASA

1200 Award Presentation

1215 Closing Address

 Posters
1 Metasurface Solutions for Space and Defence Applications
Dr Kai Sun, University of Southampton

2 Extending The Threads of Macramé-like Features in Explosives

Jonathan Miller, Cranfield University

3 High-efficiency Optimised Microbolometer Designs Using Layered W Doped VO2 Thin-

films
Callum Wheeler, University of Southampton

4 Development of Sustainable PPE for Higher Threat Clearance Operations by

Humanitarian Organisations
Laura Brown, Cranfield University

5 Extremophile Molecular OFET Materials Through Intermolecular Interactions

Edward Cook, University of Edinburgh

6 The Phishing Game: An Analog Game to Defend UK Organisations From Phishing

Niklas Henderson, University of East Anglia

7 Double Emulation of an Oxidation Model

Conor Crilly, Bristol University

8 Assessment of the Conceptual and Moral Factors on the Outcome of Conflicts and
Wars: An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Perspectıve
Gurkan Yesilyurt, Cranfield University

9 Method development for compression testing of synthetic ballistic gelatine

Emma Clarke, University of Sheffield

10 Investigating Behavioural Heterogeneity of Robots in a Patrolling Task

Connor York, University of Bristol

11 Comparative Nitration of Bacterial and Vegetal Derived Cellulose

Bryn Nicol, Cranfield University

12 Investigating the Suitability of Multi-robot Patrolling Algorithms for Collective Perception

in Different Environments
Zachary Madin, University of Bristol

13 Safety, Security and Terrorism at Large Music Events

KT Sonnen, Coventry University

14 Development of Automated Microfluidic System for Actinide Separation and Analysis

Shuang Yu Han, The University of Manchester

15 Validating Multi-Robot Patrolling Strategies in Adversarial Environments

James Ward, University of Bristol
16 Experimental Modelling with Theoretical Validation of Liquid Crystal Display Elements
for UAV Optimal (Optical) Stealth
Chris Lavers, University of Lincoln

17 Environmental Temperature and Material Characterisation of Planar Microwave

Evanescent Sensors for Environmental Analysis
Chris Lavers, University of Lincoln

18 Performance Characteristics and Permittivity Modelling of a Surface Plasmon

Resonance Sensor for Non-destructive Metal Surface Monitoring in a Saline Maritime
Environment
Chris Lavers, University of Lincoln

19 Microstructural Analysis of Copper Samples Subject to Multiple High Velocity Impacts

John-Joesph Stephson, Cranfield University

20 Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Intelligence Analysis: Trust, Identity,
New Requirements
Angeliki Martinou, Brunel University London

21 Experimental Measurement of TNT Equivalency for Contact Charges

Roland Alford, Cranfield University

22 Title tbc
Stacy Snook, Coventry University

23 The Complexity of Interlayer Optimisation in Ceramic Armour

Daniel Powell, Cranfield University

Digital Images
1 It’s All in the Details
Bailey Henwood, Conflict Armament Research

2 Explosive Macramé!
Jon Miller, Cranfield University

3 Futurism and Intelligence Analysis

Angeliki Martinou, Brunel University London

4 AI Empowered Concealed Object Detection

Yichen Kelly Chen, University of Cambridge

Installations
1 Bailey Henwood, Conflict Armament Research

2 Pete Norton, Cranfield University

3 Alice Mintoff, Cranfield University