News from Head of
School
Promotion to Senior
Lecturer
Congratulations to Xiao-Jun Zeng and Liping Zhao,
recent arrivals from Informatics, on their promotion to Senior Lecturer.
This is an auspicious start to their membership of the School, and I
am sure you will all join me in wishing them both continued success in
their academic careers.
Extreme Blue Success
Congratulations also to Robert Craig, one of our
final-year Computer Science students, who has received exciting
recognition from IBM for work he started during his summer vacation.
Robert played a key role in developing a piece of business software called
ESP, as a participant in IBM's international Extreme Blue programme. The company has now taken
the unusual step of announcing their intention to take his work further.
Further details are available in an IBM press
release.
EPS Call for Academic
Promotions
Although we have yet to receive the official call
from Faculty, the School will need to consider cases for promotion to
Senior Lecturer and Reader soon. Now is the time for any of you this
might affect to discuss with your line-manager whether there is a case
that should be submitted this year and, if so, to start preparing
it. You will need to have completed the work-up of your submission
by mid January, allowing time for your line-manager to prepare a
supporting statement for consideration by the School Promotions Committee,
in the first place.
EPS Collaborative Training Account
This is to alert you all
to the fact that there is an internal source of funding for PhD
studentships that we should aim to exploit. The University has
Collaborative Training Account (CTA) funding, administered by our Faculty.
Some of the money has been earmarked to provide part funding for PhD
students, with the balance coming from industry or other external
collaborators. This provides companies with a relatively low-cost,
low-risk opportunity to work with the University, taking what may be a
valuable first step in building a longer term relationship. There
are regular deadlines throughout the year – details below. The Faculty web
site provides more
information, or email Simon
McKenna.
Events this
Week
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Methodologies and Tools for Heterogeneous
Platforms
15 Nov 06
Design Methodologies and Tools
for Heterogeneous Platforms
Prof Roger Woods, Queen's University of
Belfast
1415, Lecture Theatre 1.5, Kilburn Building
More
Information
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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EA Games
Event
29 Nov 06
The Technology Behind the
Computer Games Revolution
Fred Gill, Chief Technical Officer, EA Games NW
Development Studio
An event for year 11 and 12 secondary school
students to raise awareness of computer science and motivate them to take
an interest in the subject. Intended to be informative and
fun. Help required – please contact Mahalia if you are prepared to
participate.
1600-1830, Lecture theatre 1.1 and the Lower First
area, Kilburn Building
Children in Need/Christies Book Sale
1 Dec 06
The 4th Annual (!) Computer Science Charity Book
sale will take place this year on Friday 1 December, with proceeds going
to Children In Need and Christies Hospital. This year has a new twist,
in that we are holding the event in conjunction with Manchester Computing.
Please bring donations to ACSO, Room 2.127.
Postgraduate Open
Day
6 Dec 06
An all day event with centrally organised
activities in the morning and School presentations and demos in the
afternoon. Demos required.
President’s
Visit
28 Feb 07
The President and Vice-Chancellor will be visiting
the School. Please make a diary note – more details nearer the
time.
1400-1600
Future
External
Events
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Young Engineers Presentations – House of
Commons
17 Nov 06
The annual poster presentation for Young Engineers
at the House of Commons, co-organised 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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IST 2006 Event Helsinki
21-23 Nov 06
This year's edition of the most important European
event in the field of Information Society Technologies will coincide with
the launch of the EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and
Development.
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Information
Grantsmanship Workshop
29 Nov 06
This popular one day course is aimed at both new
staff and more established members of staff who have not had recent
interactions with the EPSRC either as applicants, grant holders or
referee/panel members. To register your interest please email Louise
Rogers
Mathematical and Statistical Aspects of Molecular
Biology 29-30 Mar
07
With participants from mathematics, statistics,
computer science, bioinformatics, biology and related fields, the MASAMB
meetings provide an intimate setting for exchange of ideas in
methodological and applied research. Research students and scientists
newly entering the field of genomic research are particularly welcome. To
be considered for a talk or poster, authors should submit a one page
abstract describing their research. This abstract will be used to select
presentations and should provide an overview of the research objectives,
methods and results.
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Information
Funding
Opportunities
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Teaching &
Learning (T&L) Innovation
Funding
20 Nov 06
The third round of bids for Teaching and Learning
Funding for Schools is now open. Please contact Pete
Jinks (the School’s Learning
Enhancement Officer) if you are
interested.
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Information
BBSRC Systems Biology
(SABR)
27 Nov 06
Recently, the BBSRC announced a new Systems
Biology call. As Manchester already has a Systems Biology
Centre (MCISB, see www.mcisb.org), we are in a very good
position to apply for funding. Dieter Weichart, on behalf of Prof.
Doug Kell (Director of the MCISB), would like to take the initiative in
coordinating potential SABR bid(s) from the University (but not bids to
the related ESB initiative). If you are interested in participating
in a proposal please send a brief (few sentences) response to Dieter
Weichart, cc to Douglas
Kell outlining your proposed
research.
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Information
International Research Mobility
Scheme
30 Nov 06
Research opportunities from one week to six months
in the US,
China and mainland
Europe for staff and postgraduate
students.
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Information
IBM-UoM Partners
Programme
30 Nov 06
Last year Kung-Kiu Lau became one of the first
“University
of Manchester-IBM
Partners”. Academic staff are now invited to
apply for the 2007/8 scheme. It is important to the School that we
grasp this opportunity to engage with the company, who have much to offer
all our activities.
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Information
University CTA
Studentships New
30 Nov 06
Part funding for PhD studentships, in
collaboration with industry or other qualifying organisations. 2007
deadlines: 24 Jan, 28 Mar, 30 May, 25 Jul, 26 Sep, 28 Nov. Decisions
are normally announced in less than three weeks.
More
information (or by contacting Simon
McKenna).
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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Information
Toshiba
Fellowhips
15 Dec 06
Toshiba in association with the EPSRC invites
applications from European scientists to join one of its high technology
research teams in Japan.
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Information
DTI Technology Strategy -
Competitions for Funding
New
08 Jan 07
The Autumn 2006 Competition for Funding was
launched in London last week and the Technology
Priority Areas are as follows:
-Network security: Human vulnerabilities in
network security (£5m)
-Moving towards the zero emission enterprise: A
challenge to business to reduce their diverse negative environmental
inputs (£10m)
-Emerging energy technologies: Low carbon energy
technologies (£8m)
-Bioscience and healthcare: Technologies for
development and manufacture of biopharmacueticals
(£7.5m)
-Sensors and imaging for medical, security and
environmental applications (£7.5m)
-Plastic electronics: Novel materials, deposition
and patterning techniques (£5m)
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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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Information
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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Information
RAEng Industrial Secondment
Scheme
Open
An opportunity for university lecturers in
engineering to gain state-of-the-art industrial
experience.
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Information
BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
Open
To help scientists make and establish new contacts
with their international counterparts.
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Information
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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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.
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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.
EPSRC Computer Science Writing Competition
2006/07
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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Royal Academy of
Engineering MacRobert
Award
31 Jan 07
The UK's premier award for
innovation in engineering. The Award, first presented in 1969, honours the
winning company with a gold medal and the team members with a prize of
£50,000. The presentation of the Award recognises the successful
development of innovative ideas in engineering. It seeks to demonstrate
the importance of engineering and the role of engineers and scientists in
contributing to national prosperity and international
prestige.
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ERCIM Cor Baayen Award New
15 April 07
The Cor Baayen Award is awarded each year to a
most promising young researcher in computer science and applied
mathematics. The award was created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM
President. Nominations should be made by a staff member of the
university or research institute where the nominee is undertaking
research. Self nominations are not accepted.
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Information
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Sabbatical Leave
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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