Mirce Akademy

Welcome to the 30th MIRCE International Symposium 

Thank you for joining us on this historic day for the MIRCE Akademy. It took us three decades to build the current body of knowledge of MIRCE Science that is now seriously challenged by the outbreak of COVID-19, which shown that pandemics, like other rarely occurring catastrophes, have happened in the past and will happen in the future. Although humans cannot prevent dangerous viruses from emerging, we should be prepared to dampen their consequences for the economy and all of society. Thus, the main objective of the Symposium is to address the severe impact of COVID-19 on the Management of Iindustrial Reliability, Cost and Effectiveness across the globe, and to present the best technological, social and economical actions taken to deal with it. 

The MIRCE Akademy is in debt to all the contributing authors for agreeing to share their specific knowledge of COVID-19 with all of us today. The papers will be released in accordance to the time table below, so please refresh the sceen accordingly. To access a paper please click on the highlighted title.

At any time, we can be contacted by email jk@mirceakademy.com or by phone +44 (0)1392 874318. 

15 December 2020: Symposium Programme (GMT)

• 0830-0900: Illustrative history of the MIRCE International Symposia (1992-2020)
• 0900-0940: Pathophysiology of COVID-19: Mechanisms Underlying Disease Severity and Progression, Bohn, M.K., Hall, A., Sepiashvili, L., Jung, B., Steele, S., Adeli, K., Molecular Medicine, Research Institute, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• 0940-1020:The Flow Physics of COVID-19, Rajat Mittal Rui Ni., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA and Jung-Hee Seo, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD21205, USA
• 1020-1030:Virus mechanics: How visualising COVID-19’s molecular structure helps to understand its vulnerabilities, Goupil-Lamy, A., Dassault Systemes, COMPASS 3DExperience Magazine

1030 -1100 Coffee Break

• 1100-1130: COVID-19 as a Mechanism of the motion in MIRCE Science, Dr J. Knezevic MIRCE Akademy, Exeter, UK
• 1130-1200:  Flying Petri Dish: Aircraft Can Accelerate The Spread Of Disease, Patrick Veillette, Ph.D. Aviation Weekly, Washington D.C., USA
• 1200-1230:  What Airline Workers Need to Know about COVID-19, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, USA
• 1230-1300: Federal Aviation Administration Warns on Aircraft Disinfection Risk, Sean Broderick, Aviation Weekly, Washington D.C., USA.

1300 -1400 Lunch Break with a Poster prepared by Chris Burden

• 1400-1420: Fleet Policies & Procedures to Minimise COVID-19 Contagion, Mike Antich, Automotive Fleet, March 23, 2020, USA
• 1420-1430: Keeping the Moscow Metro running safely, World Health Organisation, WHO Spring 2020
• 1430-1440: Strengthening the informal transport sector for safer, more sustainable mobility in Nairobi, Kenya, World Health Organisation, WHO Spring 2020
• 1440-1500: How Latin America is fighting COVID-19, for better and worse, Luke Taylor, BMJ, UK
• 1500-1520: Rural communities responding to Covid-19: field experiences from Bangladesh, Sierra Leone and UK, Dr Robert Hodgson, Hon Coordinator RedR International.
• 1520-1530: ANALYSIS: The Rise Of Sanitary And Contactless Technology, Chen Chuanren, the Southeast Asia and China Correspondent for Air Transport World

1530 -1600 Tea Break

• 1600-1645: The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on the Aviation Sector, House of Commons Transport Committee, British Government, London, UK, 2020
• 1645-1730: COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment: behaviour, ethics, misinformation and policy strategies , The Royal Society, London, UK,  21 October 2020
• 1730-1815: COVID-19 Pandemic Global View: Containment Efforts and Implications, Bob Travica, University of Manitoba, Canada
• 1815-1830: Closing video: Quanta’s Pilots became bus drivers

1830-1900: Photo Memories of the MIRCE Akademy Christmas Dinners (1992-2019)

 1900: Announcement of the 2020 Formula 1 Driver and Team Reliability Champions