News from Head of
School
Ian Horrocks’ Roger Needham Lecture
Ian Horrocks will be receiving his Roger Needham
award and presenting the Annual Roger Needham Lecture at the Royal Society
on Wednesday. A sizeable group of us will be there to support him,
and I’m sure that other colleagues would like to extend their
congratulations and good wishes. I gather that the lecture is a
sell-out!
Staff Meeting
Academic staff will have received a message about
the extraordinary staff meeting that has been convened for Wednesday (see
below). The aim is to discuss, in general terms, the individual and
School quality profiles that were generated for the External Review.
If you were ‘returned’ in the exercise you should have received your
personal profile by now. John Gurd and I will answer any questions
you may have, and will outline what we believe are the implications for
the School. As you all know, although the overall result for CS was
very positive, there were warning signs (noted by the panel) that we
cannot afford to ignore. I am keen to involve you all in discussing
how we can take the next steps to further strengthening our research
profile.
CS-Informatics Review
The External Review Implementation Group has been
set up and will meet for the first time next Monday (12th
December). The membership is as follows:
Professor Simon Gaskell (Chair – Associate VP for
Research)
Professor Bob Wood (Deputy Chair)
Professor
Luke Georghiou (Faculty of
Humanities)
Professor John Keane
(Informatics) [alternate Professor Trevor Wood-Harper
]
Professor Alistair Sutcliffe (Informatics) [alternate
Professor Linda Macaulay]
Professor Chris
Taylor (Computer Science) [alternate Professor
Roger Hubbold]
Professor
Simon French (MBS)
Professor Mike
Newman (MBS)
Professor Rob Procter (Social
Sciences)
Professor Tom Gibbons (Law)
Dr. Chris Davies (Environment
and Development)
Professor Yaron
Matras (Languages, Linguistics and
Cultures)
I’ll keep you up to date with
developments.
Professor Rod Coombs, VP
for Innovation and Economic Development
1300-1400 Lecture Theatre
1.1, Kilburn
Building
NW-Grid Seminar
Tues 13 Dec
Six
speakers – introduction to Grid and middleware
Merrison Lecture
Theatre, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
Registration
Regular Seminar Series
See links in
contents bar for information on seminar series organised by the School of
CS, E-Science North
West and National Centre for Text Mining.
Internal Meetings and
Events
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Extraordinary Meeting of Academic Staff
New
7 Dec 05
Feedback on personal and School research quality
profiles
1300-1400, Room 2.15
Constructive Mathematics
Day
9 Dec 05
The meeting, which will consist of invited
lectures in the general area of constructive mathematics and its
foundations, has been arranged at rather short notice – sparked by the
fact that both Nicola Gambino will be visiting Manchester from Montreal
(with MIMS funding) and Peter Schuster will be on a visit from Munich (as
a PhD external examiner). In addition we are pleased that Michael
Rathjen (Leeds), Giovanni Sambin (Padua)
and Steve Vickers (Birmingham) have also agreed to give
talks. This was made possible by the support of MIMS and the School
of CS.
Room G15, Newman Building. More
Information
BCS Roger Needham
Lecture
7 Dec 05
Ian Horrocks will be receiving his BCS Roger
Needham award and presenting the eponymous lecture at the Royal Society,
London.
Manchester Turing
Lecture
25 Jan 06
More
Information
EPSRC Public Engagement
Workshops
8 Feb & 9 Mar 06
Introducing PE to
‘virgins’ and passing on best practice. Space limited.
More information and
registration.
Genomes to Systems
Conference
22-24 Mar 06
An important conference concerning the latest
concepts and breakthroughs in genomics and systems biology.
Discounted registration before 31 Dec 05
More Information
Funding
Opportunities
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University of Manchester-IBM Partners
Programme
12 Dec 05
Partners will be working in areas of overlapping
strategic importance to both organisations and through partnership will
work together to achieve organisational goals. They will be supported to
spend time interacting with each other and developing and promulgating an
understanding of each organisation thereby identifying substantive areas
of activity. The programme will also act as an enabler in developing the
IBM-UoM relationship and the understanding between the organisations and
will contribute to the Partners’ personal
development.
If you require further
information/clarification, please do not hesitate to contact
Phil Galvin via e-mail on phil.galvin@manchester.ac.uk
or phone 0161 275 3062
BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
BBSRC's International Scientific Interchange
Scheme (ISIS) provides support to help scientists make and establish new
contacts with their international counterparts. Funding is available to
BBSRC grantholders, and researchers working on BBSRC-supported projects at
BBSRC-sponsored Institutes for travel and subsistence for three main types
of visit. The scheme is open to bids at any time (at least 6 weeks before
travel) with payments being made in advance of any visits. Please note
BBSRC-supported students are not eligible to travel under ISIS support.
More
Information
Research Councils Follow-on
Fund
14 Dec 05
"Follow-on-funds" provide financial support for
projects with a clear commercial concept to accelerate their progress
towards commercialisation. EPSRC funding will be limited to a total of
£285k for UoM, with a maximum for individual projects of £110k under fEC.
There are no restrictions on applications to BBSRC, NERC and PPARC.
Applications will be coordinated by UMIP with Richard
Price the primary EPS contact.
Members of staff interested in applying should complete the attached
template and e-mail to Richard Price
by 4pm on Wednesday 14th December
2005. The final deadline for submissions has also been
confirmed as February
17th 2006. Template
More
information
Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research
Fellowships 14 Dec
05
The Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research
Fellowships were established through the generosity of the Leverhulme
Trust and seek to provide opportunities for academic researchers to be
relieved of all their teaching and administrative duties. These
appointments enable academic researchers to concentrate on full-time
research for up to one year. Applicants must be of postdoctoral
status or equivalent, hold a permanent post in a UK University and be at a
stage in their career when they would particularly benefit from a period
of full-time research.
More Information
Toshiba Fellowship
Programme
2006
15 Dec
05
Toshiba, supported by the EPSRC (Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council) is offering outstanding European
scientists the opportunity to join one of its high-technology research
teams in Japan for up to two years.
The Toshiba Fellowship Programme is open to PhD level researchers of
EU nationality currently working in a UK academic institution. The
research areas vary broadly from year to year in the field of science and
engineering. The Programme offers the successful Fellow a generous package
including a fixed salary and travel to and from Japan.
More
Information
BBSRC Industry Interchange
Programme
16 Dec 05
The movement of people is considered one of the
best forms of knowledge transfer and there is potentially great benefit to
the UK economy and society from
supporting such opportunities. BBSRC is piloting the Industry Interchange
Programme to support the short-term exchange, in either direction, of
researchers between the science base and industry. The objective of the
Programme is to support Interchanges that provide strategic advantage to
the UK science base and industry
arising from reciprocal access to facilities, expertise and/or knowledge,
and an increased understanding of scientific issues of common
concern.
More
Information
EPSRC Senior
Media
Fellowships
26 Jan 06
The Public Engagement Programme invites
applications for Senior Media Fellowships. These enable leading
researchers to devote time to develop a higher media profile. The aim is
to advance public engagement with the physical sciences, mathematics and
engineering via the broadcast and written media. Senior Media Fellowships
are intended to be used for active development of media opportunities (not
research, scholarship or teaching).
More
Information
Royal Commission Research
Fellowships
23 Feb 06
The scheme of 1851 Research Fellowships is
intended to give a few young scientists or engineers of exceptional
promise the opportunity for conducting research for a further period of
two years. Approximately six awards are made each year. Candidates in
science subjects must normally be in possession of a PhD degree, or in the
final stages of their PhD studies.
The Fellowships are open to
candidates in any of the physical or biological sciences, in mathematics,
in applied science, or in any branch of engineering.
More
Information
Prize and
Award
Opportunities
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We have acknowledged the need to raise the profile
of the School both nationally and internationally. Nominating
individuals for awards, and working actively with others to ensure that
deserving individuals are nominated is one way of doing
that.
Roger Needham
Award
21 Dec 05
The Roger Needham Award, sponsored by Microsoft
Research, and established in memory of the late Roger Needham, is for a
distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within ten
years of their PhD. It consists of a £5000 prize together with an
opportunity to give a public lecture on their work.
More
information
IEEE Internet
Award
31 Jan 06
The IEEE Internet Award was established by the
IEEE Board of Directors in June of 1999. It is presented annually for
exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for
network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. This award can
be given to an individual or team of up to three.
More
Information
The IEEE Koji Kobayashi
Award
31 Jan 06
The IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and
Communications Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in
1986 for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and
communications. This award can be given to an individual, multiple
recipients, or a team.
More
Information
The IEEE Emanuel R Piore
Award
31 Jan 06
The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore award is presented
annually to an individual, or team of two individuals, for outstanding
contributions in the field of information processing, in relation to
computer science, deemed to have contributed significantly to the
advancement of science and to the betterment of society.
More
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Awards and Promotions
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Academic Arrivals
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Academic Departures
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Research Arrivals
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Research Departures
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Administrative Arrivals
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Administrative Departures
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Sabbatical Leave
Andrei
Voronkov: Microsoft Research, Redmond USA
Aug 05 – Aug
06.
Ian
Horrocks: University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bell Labs, and Stanford University
Feb 06 – Sep
06.
Peter
Aczel: Nijmegen University, and Maths Institute at the
University
of Munich
Jan 06 –
Sep 06.
Alasdair
Rawsthorne: 80% secondment to
Transitive Technologies
Oct 05 – Sep 06.
Alvaro
Fernandes: IBM Almaden Research Centre
US
Jul – Dec 06.
Academic Staff
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Research Staff
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