News from Head of
School
Congratulations
Last week the University Promotions Committee
finalised their decisions on this year’s academic promotions. Many
congratulations to Alasdair Rawsthorne and Jim Miles who were promoted to
Chairs, to Doug Edwards who was promoted to Reader, and to Toby Howard and
Suzanne Embury who were promoted to Senior Lecturer. All these
promotions were supported strongly by the School and are richly
deserved.
Research Best Practice
Booklet
The Research Office has compiled a booklet of
research best practice for Research Council applications. The booklet
contains funded applications along with reviewers' comments and responses
to those comments. Copies of the booklet are available from the Research
Office and should be available online shortly.
University Open days – 20th and
21st June
The University Open Days will be held this summer
on Friday 20th and Saturday 21st June. As
usual, the School will be holding events throughout the two days, and
academic members of staff will be required to man the Computer Science
stand in the Schuster Building, and meet, greet and talk
to prospective students and their families. It is really important
that we ensure there is a ‘buzz’ about the place for these events.
Friday 20th June is also Digital60 Day, and we're expecting over 500
schoolchildren and their teachers to descend on the Kilburn and
SCAN Buildings from across the UK, for
the Schools Computer Animation Competition Show and Prize-Giving, a live
video link-up with MOSI, and an inspirational "Computer Science Magic
Show". Volunteers are needed urgently
to help with both events. If you are able to assist –
ideally for at least two hours between 1000 and 1600 – please contact Sophia Lewis-Martyr or James Warnes with your
availability.
Events this
Week
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Collaborative Text Processing for
e-Assessment
28 May 08
Human-Computer Collaborative
Text Processing for e-Assessment
Mary McGee Wood, Computer
Science
1530, Atlas 1, Kilburn Building
CS
Mentors' Drinks Evening New
30 May 08
The CS Mentors will be hosting a Drinks Evening on
Friday, 30th May
2008 (from 5pm) in the courtyard outside the postgraduate
common room. All CS staff and students are welcome to attend.
Alcohol (beer and wine) and soft-drinks will be available (under a
not-for-profit donation scheme) although you can, of course,
BYOB.
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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School
BBQ
4 Jul 08
With 2008 being the 60th anniversary of
the programmable computer we have special reason to celebrate this year at
the School BBQ. Details to follow.
Research Away
Days
7 & 8 Jul 08
The event will take place at The Palace Hotel,
Buxton and will run from approximately 9.30am on 7th to 5pm on 8th July, with a reception, dinner and
accommodation provided on the first evening.
UG
& PG Graduation
Ceremony
17 Jul 08
The graduation ceremony for undergraduate and
postgraduate students will take place on Thursday 17th July at 2.30pm. A light lunch and
drinks will be served from 1215 and prize-giving will be at 1300.
Any members of staff who have been involved in teaching the former
Informatics programmes are also invited to attend the MBS ceremony and
reception which will take place on 18th July. Their ceremony is at
1230pm followed by a drinks reception from 1400-1530. Please contact
Katherine
Lloyd for further details.
Visit from Professor Nancy
Rothwell
24 Jul 08
Please make a note of this date in your
diary. The Deputy President will be visiting the School, and would
welcome the opportunity to discuss with staff, in an open meeting, the
University’s progress towards achieving its 2015 goals.
1315-1400, IT 407
School Board Dates
Wednesday 2nd
July 2008 (Resources Report and
Dean attending)
All meetings take place 1530-1700 in IT
407.
Future
External
Events
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Theory and Practice of Computer
Graphics
9-11 Jun 08
Presented by the UK Chapter of the Eurographics
Association (EGUK)
The 26th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics
Association will be the sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
2008 Conference (TP.CG.08). All accepted papers will be published by
Eurographics and held on the Digital Library, and will be available at the
conference.
Venue: Alan Turing Building
More
Information
Pathways – Career Options for PhDs and Research
Staff 13 & 16 Jun
08
This University-wide event will take place on 13
& 16 June
2008. Dr Jim Boran, in the EPS Graduate Office, is looking
for contact details for any Science and Engineering PhD Alumni (VUM or
UMIST) from within the last 10 years to ask if they would be willing to
share their career success stories with current research postgraduates and
research staff.
Research to Enterprise Summit
17 Jun 08
Research to Enterprise is an exciting event, organised by MSEC
(Manchester Science Enterprise Centre) and funded by EPSRC (Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council), designed to raise the profile of
enterprise at the University of Manchester. Research to Enterprise
will be an opportunity for researchers in all faculties, whether at
postgraduate, postdoctoral or staff level to be inspired to become more
enterprising in whatever their career holds for them in the future be it
academia, industry or in starting their own business. Alasdair
Rawsthorne is one of the guest speakers. To book, please contact Claire
Gill.
Arts meets Science, Science meets
Art
10 Jun, 15 Jul, 23 Sep 08
A series of free Roberts funded summer seminars
for postgraduate research students. These seminars have been
organised by the Graduate Education Team and Jodrell bank and are open to
research students from the University of Manchester. The series of seminars
will explore collaborations across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
Students are also invited to provide posters about their own
cross-disciplinary work.
More
information
Manchester Parallel Programming Summer School
11-22 Aug 08
Run by RCS, this annual summer school aims to
teach you all you need to know to start writing your own parallel code in
MPI or OpenMP. If you are new to scientific programming (Fortran or C) you
can attend the Fortran course prior to the summer
school.
More
Information & registration
BCS International Academic
Research
Conference
22-24 Sep 08
Visions of Computer
Science - Preliminary Call for Papers
and Participation
The British Computer Society is launching its
first International Academic Conference. Full paper submissions are being
solicited in all areas of research covering the broad field of Computer
Science and Engineering (CSE). The conference will be organized in
sessions and mini-tracks, each devoted to a theme or area, and will
include a small number of invited presentations. The topics included
are deliberately broad to reflect the rich texture and intellectual vigor
of CSE. Venue: Imperial
College London
More
Information
Funding
Opportunities
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JSPS Short-Term Award
Programme
30 May 08
A call for applications from pre and post doc
researchers to the JSPS research programme – an opportunity for funded
short term research in Japan.
Mor
Information
Industrial Secondment
Scheme
Open
The Industrial Secondment Scheme provides an
invaluable opportunity for engineering teaching staff in Higher Education
institutions to gain state-of-the-art industrial experience.
Applicable to engineers of all disciplines, the scheme's objective is to
enable the secondees to impart the fruits of this experience to their
students through teaching, through case studies using up-to-date material
and, in the longer term, through course design. The benefits also accrue
to the host organization which gains a temporary but highly qualified
member of staff, and to the university which has the opportunity of
strengthening its links with industry.
More
Information
UoM Knowledge Transfer
Challenge
Open
The KT Challenge offers small grants for concept studies and feasibility studies. If you are
interested in developing ideas in collaboration with an industrial partner
– developing new technology, or applying existing technology in an
industrial setting – please contact Constantinos
Astreos.
EPSRC Encouraging Postdoctoral Mobility Between
Disciplines
Open
EPSRC would like to encourage the transfer of
outputs of research between different research disciplines as well as
aiding the career development of EPSRC funded PDRAs. In the first instance
an extra year of support will be offered. Transfers between the
engineering and physical science disciplines and the life sciences are
encouraged. There are no closing dates for proposals.
More
Information
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.
More
Information
Royal Academy of
Engineering Research
Chairs
Open
Full-time professorial appointments, in any
engineering-related subject. The academy particularly welcomes proposals
of a multidisciplinary nature. Funding is provided for 5
years.
More
Information
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
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.
None currently open
Research
Awards
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None this week
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
Charlotte Hooson-Sykes - IMG
Administrative Departures
None this week
Sabbatical Leave
Alasdair
Rawsthorne: 80% secondment to
Transitive Technologies
Oct 07 – Sep 08.
Steve
Pettifer: Manchester
Interdisciplinary Biocentre
Academic year
2007/2008
Robert
Stevens: Web Intelligence Technologies
Lab, Natural Language processing Group, Department of CS, University of
Sheffield.
Semester two 2007/08
Plus short-term visits to: The text-mining group
at the European bioinformatics Group & The bio-Technology Group at the
Technical University of Dresden
Renate
Schmidt: NICTA, Australian
National University, Canberra
February – Mid-Sep 2008
Vacancies
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Academic Staff
None
Research & Technical Staff
Project
Manager - National Centre for Text Mining
Closing date: 20/05/2008. Ref EPS/80094.
Management & Professional Staff
None
Administrative Staff
None
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