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Head of School
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Events this
Week
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Taking e-science from lag-phase to
log-phase
25 Sep 06
Marco Roos, Integrative Bioinformatics Unit,
University
of Amsterdam
13:00-14:00, Atlas 1
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MEng Company Presentations
New
26 Sep 06
A chance for MEng students, Final Years and
Postgraduates to meet with representatives from a variety of companies to
discuss placement and graduate opportunities. We do hope to have a
good turnout of CS staff as we have a very good response from companies
this year.
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Ontologies and the Semantic
Web
27 Sep 06
School Seminar Series
Prof Ian Horrocks, School of Computer
Science
14:15,
Lecture Theatre 1.5, Kilburn Building
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Welcome Event for Informatics
Staff
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
Research for the Olympics and
Paralympics
29 Sep 06
This is a joint EPSRC - UK Sport initiative aimed
at supporting the quest for gold in the London Olympics and Paralympics in
2012. Three workshops are planned. Each provides a unique opportunity for
researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds to interact with the
UK’s leading athletes, coaches
and support staff. Up to £1.5 million is also available to support
activities to further collaborations established at this
workshop.
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Worlds Biggest Morning
New
29 Sep 06
We are hosting a coffee morning to raise money for
MacMillan Cancer Support, so please come along, bring your cup of coffee
or buy from the counter. Bring cookies/cakes too......it will make
it much more fun! The more the merrier! More
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1030 Staff Common Room
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
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KNOWLEDGE PROGRAMMING WITH
FLORA-2
4 Oct 06
School Seminar Series
Prof Michael Kifer. State University of New York
14:15,
Lecture Theatre 1.5, Kilburn Building
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Retrenchments, Refinements, and the Mondex
Electronic Purse 11 Oct
06
School Seminar Series
Dr Richard Banach, School of
Computer
Science
14:15,
Lecture Theatre 1.5, Kilburn Building
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VOMs for GridPP and the
NGS
13 Oct 06
An overview of the Virtual Organisation Membership
Service and how it is being deployed for GridPP and the National Grid
Service.
1400, Room 1.10 ESNW Access Grid, Kilburn Building
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Future
External
Events
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'Climate Warming/Climate Change'
New
9 Nov 06
Sir David King, Chief Scientific Adviser to the
Government
1430-1530, Whitworth
Hall
Request a ticket by emailing Lesley Sisson as
soon as possible
Young Engineers Presentations – House of
Commons
17 Nov 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.
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Grantsmanship Session New
29 Nov 06
This popular one day course is aimed at new staff
(young as well as recent Appointments who are new to the UK system) as well as more
established members of staff who haven't had any recent interaction with
the EPSRC either as applicants, grant holders or referee/panel
members.
If you would like to register your interest please
email Louise
Rogers
Funding
Opportunities
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EPSRC ICT Platform
Grants
Open
EPSRC invites outline proposals for its
information and communication technology platform grants. Platform grants
aim to provide world-leading UK groups with continuity of
funding for strategic development, longer-term research and international
networking.
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Royal Academy of Engineering Research
Chairs
Open
The Royal Academy of Engineering invites
applications for its research chairs.
Research Chairs are
full-time professorial appointments, in any engineering-related subject.
The academy particularly welcomes proposals of a multidisciplinary nature.
Funding is provided for 5 years.
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RAEng Industrial Secondment
Scheme
Open
An opportunity for university lecturers in
engineering to gain state-of-the-art industrial
experience.
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BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
Open
To help scientists make and establish new contacts
with their international counterparts.
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RAEng Global Research
Awards
Open
Projects in centres of excellence overseas
focussing on stimulating wealth creation and improvements in the quality
of life.
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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.
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EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
26 Sep 06
For talented young researchers, shortly or
immediately after completing a PhD.
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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.
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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.
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Research Council
Follow-on-Funds
27 Oct 06
There is a call for proposals to be submitted to
BBSRC and NERC for ‘Follow-on-Funding’. This funding is designed to bridge
the gap between academic and industrial research, specifically for
commercialisation projects. Proposals need to be submitted via UMIP
and generally require significant input from UMIP on the commercial
exploitation and potential.
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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.
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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.
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Royal Society
University
Research Fellowships
2007
1 Nov 06
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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).
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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.
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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.
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Royal Society Conference
Grants
1 Dec 06
The conference grants scheme supports UK based scientists to either
present their own paper/poster or chair a session at an overseas
conference, where conference participation is the main or sole purpose of
visit. The objectives of this scheme are to enable scientists to
disseminate research findings, establish collaborations and build
international reputations.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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ACM Grace Murray Hopper
Award
31 Oct 06
A prize of $15,000 awarded to the outstanding
young computer professional of the year.
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Computer Science Writing Competition 2006/07
New
31 Jan 07
We want unpublished articles of up to 750 words
about research that’s part of any EPSRC-funded computer science
project. For this competition, computer science means the study of
methods for acquiring, storing, processing, communicating and reasoning
about information, and the role of interactivity in natural and artificial
systems through the implementation, organisation and use of computer
hardware, software and other resources.
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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
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