News from Head of School
Digital60 & Industrial
Forum
We now have a very full programme of events for Digital60 Day –
20th
June. The web page provides full details and allows
registration for the Industrial Forum, which includes a Research
Exhibition, Medal Ceremony honouring surviving pioneers of the ‘Baby’
design team, the inaugural Kilburn Lecture, and a Buffet Reception.
These events are open to all, but please register if you wish to attend
any or all of them. Finally, a few reminders for those of you
involved in the Research Exhibition.
·
If you
provided material for a poster, please check the proofs which you should
receive this week; final copy must be with the printers early next
week.
·
If you wish
to run a demo during the exhibition session, let Alex know your
requirements asap – including: electrical supply point(s), wired network
connection (wireless access should be possible), table, etc.
·
Make
arrangements to man your exhibit from 1630 – 1800. There will be
champagne and nibbles to keep you going!
·
If you
provided Alex with a list of guests, invitations have now been sent out;
you may want to check that they have been received and encourage your
invitees to register.
Graduation
Ceremonies
This is a further call for staff to sign up to
join the platform party for the graduation ceremonies in July. I am
sure you are all aware how much our graduands and their parents appreciate
staff making the effort to help celebrate this special event, and
encourage all academic staff to consider making the time to get involved.
you don’t need to have any special connection with the cohort of
graduating students, all are welcome. I’d particularly like to
encourage ex-SOI staff to consider signing up for both the ceremonies at which their
former students will be graduating. The CS ceremony (including some
former Informatics students) is at 1430, Thursday 17th July,
with a reception in the School pencilled in for 1200 (to be confirmed
asap). The MBS ceremony (including some former Informatics students)
is at 1230, Friday 18th
July, followed by a reception (details to follow). Each
ceremony is likely to last about an hour. If you are able to help,
please contact Kath Mullins as soon
as possible and ideally by no later than 17th June. For
free hire of academic dress, you will need to provide your highest degree
title, the University where it was obtained and, for PhDs, the awarding
Faculty. You will also need to provide your height and hat
size.
School PhD Studentships
Following further discussion with the Dean, the
School is now in a position to advertise funded PGR studentships.
Hopefully, this will allow us to hang on to strong candidates who are
already ‘on our books’ and attract additional students to start this
September. The exact details are still being finalised (and will appear in
the newsletter next week), but now would be a good time to use your
contacts to encourage good students to apply.
Exam Board Diary Dates
Please make a note of the
following dates for your diaries (Informatics entries relate to legacy
Informatics UG programmes).
Informatics Mitigating Circumstances Committee:
1000, 11 June, MBS East Informatics Internal Examiners Board
(3rd yr only): 1400, 13 June, MBS East Informatics External
Examiners Board: 1000, 17 June, Atlas 1&2 Informatics Internal
Examiners Board (1st & 2nd yrs): 1000, 25 June,
MBS East
UG Mitigating Circumstances Committee: 1000, 11
June, Atlas 2 UG Internal Examiners Boards: 1000 (3rd yr),
1400 (2nd yr), 1500 (1st yr),13 June, IT 407 UG
External Examiners Board: 1400, 17 June, IT407 UG Joint Maths & CS
Internal Examiners Board(3rd yr): 19 June (time/location
tba) UG Joint Maths & CS Examiners Board (2nd
&1st yr): 1400, 25 June, (location
tba).
PGT Mitigating Circumstances Committee: 20 June
(time/location tba) PGT & MEng Internal Examiners Board: 1400, 23
June, Atlas 1&2 PGT & MEng External Examiners Board: 1400, 25
June, Atlas 1&2
Events this
Week
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Bayesian Inference for Systems Biology Models
New
3 June 08
Andrew Golightly, Newcastle
University
1400, Room 2.15, Kilburn
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
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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
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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
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Information
Pathways – Career Options for PhDs and Research
Staff 13 & 16 Jun
08
Following the success of last year's inaugural
University
of Manchester PhD
careers event, we are once again collaborating this year across the
University to run a two day event to support all PhDs and research staff
in their career choices. The event will provide access both to
recruitment experts and to individuals who have moved on from University
research posts in the past 10 years. There will also be workshops
providing practical advice on finding and winning the right job (academic
and non-academic). Details and
online registration are now available, and places are limited.
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 Cancelled 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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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
Gavin Donald - Undergraduate assistant - SSO
Claire Dickinson - Finance Office assistant -
Finance office
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
None
Management & Professional Staff
None
Administrative Staff
None
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