News from Head of
School
Undergraduate Open Day Sat 24th
June
The first Undergraduate Open Day for 2006 is fast
approaching. I am extremely grateful to those of you who have
offered to help, but more academic staff are still needed if the event is
to be a success. The School has two 90 minute slots 1130-1300 and
1300-1430. Each slot involves a 30 minute presentation on the
attractions of studying here, a tour, demos, and a 'meet & greet'
session, where prospective students and their parents can meet staff and
existing students informally. So far we have volunteers for the demos but
we still need to staff the presentations and meet & greet
sessions. I am conscious that I am asking for volunteers at what is
already a very busy time of year when many of you are already feeling
overburdened, but the effect of falling undergraduate entries on the
School budget is a major concern. It is important that we all make
the most of every opportunity to turn things around by attracting
prospective students. If you are able to help out anytime between
1000 1600 on Saturday 24th
June please contact Sophia or Bernard in the External Affairs Office.
End of Year Results
Many thanks to all of you who worked so hard to
enable us to hold the internal examiners meeting for final year students
on Friday. It was a major achievement to meet the original deadline, in
spite of all the difficulties. I know that the major load fell on a
small number of individuals, to whom we are all grateful. It looks
as though we will be able to reach robust decisions for most, if not all,
final year students at the External Examiners Meeting tomorrow (1400,
Tuesday 20th June). We are particularly grateful to those
of you who are still working hard to finalise as many of the marks as
possible particularly to 3rd Year Lab
Organisers.
Career Development
Fellowship
The recent flurry of recruitment activity comes to
an end this week with presentations and interviews for a Career
Development Fellowship funded by the School. The details of the
talks are below, and I encourage
as many of you as possible to attend.
New Arrival
Congratualtions to Duressa Kenbata on the arrival
of a baby girl Tigist Catherine. Congratulations to the proud parents
and welcome to Tigist.
Events this
Week
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UG Exam
Boards
20 Jun
06
Tue 20
Jun: UG External Exam Board
(3rd
& 4th years
only)
Career Development Fellowship
New
21 Jun 06
Statistical learning with
general proximity measures
Dr Elzbieta Pekalska - Delft University of
Technology, Netherlands & School of Computer Science, University of
Manchester
1615, Atlas 1
Career Development Fellowship
New
22 Jun 06
Archiving Procedures in
Multiobjective Optimization
Joshua Knowles - School of Chemistry, University of Manchester
0930, Atlas 1
Career Development Fellowship
New
22 Jun 06
Mechanical Generation of
Correct Linear Algebra Algorithms
Paolo Bientinesi, PhD candidate, University of Texas at Austin
1130, Atlas 1
Career Development Fellowship
New
22 Jun 06
Learning and Inference with
Gaussian Processes
Neil Lawrence - Department of Computer Science,
University
of Sheffield
1400, Atlas 1
Career Development Fellowship
New
22 Jun 06
Hierarchical and modular
reasoning in extensions and combinations of
theories.
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max-Planck-Institut fόr
Informatik, Saarbrucken
1600, Atlas 1
Requirements
and Technologies for
Provenance
22 Jun 06
ENSW technical meeting. Volunteers required
to give 10-15 min presentations.
1400 1700, ESNW Access Grid room, adjacent to
1.17 Kilburn
Email Dean Kuo or visit wiki
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.
Future School
Events
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UG Exam
Boards
3 Jul
06
Mon 3
Jul: UG Internal Exam Board
(1st
& 2nd years
+ remaining 3rd & 4th
year)
Research
Retreat
29 - 30 Jun 06
Palace Hotel, Buxton
Programme under
development, input welcomed (email
Ursula)
School UG Graduation
Party
5 Jul 06
We will be celebrating the
graduation of our UG students
1430 1530, prize-giving
1445, graduation ceremony 1645.
School
BBQ
14 Jul 06
Details to follow
Future
External
Events
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Microsoft Invites you on a Deep Dive!
27 29 Jun 06
The UK Academia Team is partnering with DevelopMentor, to host an intense,
hands-on technical event for academics in June 2006.
More
Information & Registration
CLASS (Clerical and Secretarial Support)
Network:
30 Jul 06
One Day Conference giving staff the opportunity to
attend a range of personal and professional development sessions and the
chance to network with colleagues from across the University.
More
details and Registration
Interdisciplinary Summer School on Complex
Systems
20 29 Aug 06
From Individual to Collective
Behaviour in Large-Scale Complex Systems
Organised by the Schools of Computer Science,
Mathematics and Physics
St.
Martin's College,
Ambleside.
More
Information
Lunchtime Yoga Classes Karon
Mee
Every Tues
1200 1300 Tues, Staff House
UMSA members £1.50; non-UMSA £2.00 per
class
Funding
Opportunities
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RAEng Industrial Secondment
Scheme
Open
An opportunity for university lecturers in
engineering to gain state-of-the-art industrial
experience.
More
Information
BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
Open
To help scientists make and establish new contacts
with their international counterparts.
More
Information
RAEng Global Research
Awards
Open
Projects in centres of excellence overseas
focussing on stimulating wealth creation and improvements in the quality
of life.
More
Information
BBSRC Research Equipment Initiative (REI)
2006
28 Jun 06
For the purchase of mid-range multi-user,
multi-project equipment.
More
Information
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
26 Sep 06
For talented young researchers, shortly or
immediately after completing a PhD.
More
Information
Royal Society Research
Grants
1 Nov 06
Seed corn funding for new projects. For research
scientists at an early stage of their career or established scientists
wishing to change the direction of their research. The objectives of
the scheme are to increase the availability of equipment and consumables
for high quality research.
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.
The IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
1 Jul 06
For exceptional contributions to information
sciences, systems and technology.
More
Information
The IEEE John von Neumann
Medal
1 Jul 06
For outstanding achievements in computer-related
science and technology.
More
Information
Research
Awards
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A
Scalable Chip Multiprocessor for Large-Scale Neural Simulation
Funding Body: EPSRC
PI: Steve Furber
Award Amount: £797300
Staff
News
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Awards and Promotions
None this week
Academic Arrivals
None this week
Academic Departures
None this week
Research Arrivals
None this week
Research Departures
None this week
Administrative Arrivals
None this week
Administrative Departures
None this week
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.
Vacancies
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Academic Staff
None
Research Staff
Research Associate BHIG Sealife
Project
More
information
Academic-Related Staff
Manchester Centre for MesoScience and NanoTechnology:
Senior Experimental Officer and Technical
Director
More
information
Bioinformatics Curator myGrid
Project
More
information
Administrative Staff
None
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