News from Head of
School
CS/Informatics Update
Please make a note in your diaries of the welcome
party we are planning for members of staff from the School of
Informatics who will
be joining us. It will take place on the 29th September
(details below) and it is important that
as many of you as possible turn out to meet our new colleagues and make
them feel at home.
Updating the School Plan
This is the start of a new University planning
cycle and we are beginning work on updating the Strategic Plan for the
School. Working meetings have been arranged for the academic and
administrative staff directly responsible for each of the key areas of
activity in the School, but I would welcome input from any of you.
This is not an empty exercise – not only is it an opportunity for us
to take stock and update our plans, the document will also be the basis
for negotiating with the Faculty our 2007/8 budget. You will find
the 2006/7 plan by following the ‘School Strategy’ link on the left.
It is based on a template specified by the University, which did not
allow for any context setting, so you may also want to look at the 2006/6
plan which is a more complete document. We are currently preparing a
background document that will provide quantitative information on our
performance over the past few years, and will post that on the intranet as
soon as it is available. The deadline for submitting our plan to the
Faculty is likely to be late October, but it would be helpful if you could
send any comments or suggestions to Carmel as soon as
possible.
New Student
System
The self-registration component of the new Student
System was due to go live on the 1st September, but it became
apparent that there were significant problems with the quality of data
that had been transferred from legacy systems. As a result, on-line
registration was delayed until Friday 8th September, to allow
Schools to check their data, thus avoiding more serious problems in the
future. Gill, Elaine, Janet, Kath, Jean and Susie put in a huge
amount of effort over the past week to check the data for CS and have
fixed any remaining problems, with assistance from Stuart Barker from the
Student System project. Many thanks to all of you. I believe we can
now be much more confident that the majority of our students will be able
to register and select appropriate course units without major
problems. I should also thank Carmel, who was mainly responsible for
highlighting the problem, and worked with other Heads of School
Administration to ensure that the danger of a major IT crisis was averted.
Events this
Week
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SLT
Meeting
11 Sep 06
Meeting of the School Leadership Team. Main
business – the School Plan
1415, Atlas 1
Health and Safety Committee
Meeting
14 Sep 06
Regular H&S meeting. Please let your
representative (or if you don’t know who that is, Hilary Kahn) know of any
issues you would like to see raised.
1430, Atlas 2
Retirement
Party
15 Sep 06
Hilary Kahn, Colin Wallis and Mike Cunningham all
retire at the end of September. We will be holding a joint
retirement party for them on Friday to recognise their hard work and
dedication to the School. Please drop in to ACSO, if you would like
to contribute to a collection and/or sign the leaving
cards.
1500, Common Room, Kilburn
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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Welcome Event for Informatics Staff
New
29 Sep 06
We will be hosting an event to welcome staff
transferring to the School from the School of Informatics. Please make every
attempt to attend, since it is important that we make them feel at
home.
1530, Common Room, Kilburn
Future
External
Events
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Young Engineers Presentations – House of Commons
New
12 Dec 06
The annual poster presentation for Young Engineers
at the House of Commons, coorganised by SET for Britain,
is an opportunity to bring the work of the School to a different and
important audience, enhance your CV and, potentially, win a prize.
It is relevant to all PhD students and junior RAs in the School, and those
who have attended in the past have thoroughly enjoyed the event.
Applications are invited by Dr Douglas Naysmith M.P. (Sponsoring
Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Parliamentary and Scientific
Committee) from Younger Engineers in UK
university, industrial, public sector and other laboratories to present
Posters on their research at the event, and to compete for the annual
Awards.
More information to follow.
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
EPSRC Engineering
Visits
Open
Support for salary costs and travel subsistence
for scientists and engineers of acknowledged standing, either from within
the UK or abroad, to visit the
investigator's organisation.
More
Information
EPSRC INTERACT 4th Call for
Proposals
14 Sep 06
INTERACT is the EPSRC programme to establish and
build strong research links between the UK and India, China or Japan. In this 4th call,
applications are invited from UK researchers interested in building
strong networks and collaboration with those in India, China or Japan. Funding is provided for
travel and subsistence and follow-on funds for the establishment of an
international network of activity.
More
Information
Royal Society - Paul Instrument
Fund
14 Sep 06
Provides grants for the construction of novel and
innovative instruments in the field of physical sciences.
More
Information
British Council Researcher Exchange
Awards
18 Sep 06
Applications are invited from researchers at the
beginning of their research careers, with less than ten years active
research experience after the completion of a doctoral degree, or those in
the last year of their PhD. The exchange awards are for funding single or
short term exchange visits for early stage researchers to make
international connections. The maximum award is
£5,000
More
Information
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
26 Sep 06
For talented young researchers, shortly or
immediately after completing a PhD.
More
Information
Leonardo da Vinci Programme for Staff
Exchange
10 Oct 06
For the exchange of expertise, competencies,
innovative methods and practices in relation to vocational training.
Exchanges do NOT need to involve two-way movement of staff. Deadline
for use of the funds and completion of exchanges has been
extended.
More
Information
RAEng/EPSRC Research
Fellowships
13 Oct 06
The Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC are
jointly offering up to ten Research Fellowships. These fellowships
provide five years funding to enable outstanding researchers from all
branches of engineering to establish an independent research career,
normally shortly or immediately after completing their
PhD.
More
Information
ESF Research Networking
Programmes
30 Oct 06
Bringing together nationally funded research
activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or
a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level
with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science.
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.
More
Information
Royal Society
University
Research Fellowships
2007
1 Nov 06
More
Information
EPSRC 2007 Senior Research
Fellowships
1 Nov 06
Applications are invited for the 2007 Senior
Research Fellowships exercise. Senior Research Fellowships are
awarded to outstanding academic scientists and engineers of international
repute with a minimum of 10 years post doctoral experience. Fellows
will be released from their current teaching and administration loads to
devote themselves to research for the period of the award (up to 5
years). The proposed research must be important, timely and should
offer opportunities for major scientific advances. Only a few of
these most prestigious awards are made each year.
More
Information
AHRC-EPSRC-JISC e-Science Research Projects
Scheme
2 Nov 06
EPSRC is a partner in this new e-Science
Initiative. The aim of the scheme is to advance research in the Arts and
Humanities through the use and development of e-Science
technologies. In addition to a total budget of £2 million, six
four-year PhD project studentships are available either as part of an
e-Science Research Grant or as a stand alone.
More
Information
EPSRC 2007 Advanced Research
Fellowships
9 Nov 06
Applications are invited for the 2007 Advanced
Research Fellowships exercise. Advanced Research Fellowships are
awarded to outstanding researchers with between 3 – 10 years of
postdoctoral experience. Fellows are expected to devote themselves to
research for the period of the award (up to 5 years), with the expectation
that they will have established an independent research career of
international standing by the end of the award. Approximately 50 of
these awards are made each year.
More
Information
Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership
Awards
1 Dec 06
To support researchers confronted with the task of
building a research team of sufficient scale to tackle an identified but
distinctive research objective. Each award will be at a level of up
to £800,000 in total for up to five years of work. The intent is that the
funds be used to provide each awardee with ten 'post-doctoral assistant
years' and ten 'research student years' for the grant period, though other
patterns would be permissible.
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.
SIAM/ACM Award in Computational Science and
Engineering 30 Sep
06
The contribution(s) for which the award is made
must be publicly available and may belong to any aspect of computational
science in its broadest sense. The award will include a certificate and a
cash prize of $5,000.
More
Information
ACM Turing
Award
31 Oct 06
ACM's most prestigious technical award is
accompanied by a prize of $100,000. It is given to an individual selected
for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community.
The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to
the computer field. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by
the Intel Corporation.
More
Information
ACM Grace Murray Hopper
Award
31 Oct 06
A prize of $15,000 awarded to the outstanding
young computer professional of the year.
More Information
Research
Awards
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None this week
Staff
News
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Awards and Promotions
None this week
Academic Arrivals
Mikel Lujan-Moreno – APT Career Development
Fellow
Academic Related Arrivals
None this week
Academic Departures
None this week
Research Arrivals
Simon Jupp - BHIG
Research Departures
None this week
Administrative Arrivals
None this week
Administrative Departures
None this week
Sabbatical Leave
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 06 – Sep 07.
Alvaro
Fernandes: IBM Almaden Research Centre
US
Jul 06 – Dec 06.
Milan Mihajlovic:
University of
Maryland, College Park
Jul 06 – Dec 06
Vacancies
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Academic Staff
None
Research Staff
None
Academic-Related Staff
None
Administrative Staff
None
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