News from Head of
School
Undergraduate Open Day
Please could you all consider signing up to
participate in the final University Undergraduate Open Day next Saturday, 4th October. Open Days
are usually well-attended, and play an important part in UG recruitment.
As usual, there will be events in the School, plus a stand in
the Schuster
Building, but
currently we do not have commitment from sufficient staff to run these
successfully. Talks and demos are organised, but we need more of you
on hand to give the place a ‘buzz’ and meet informally with potential
students and their parents. It is impossible to overstate the
importance of a vibrant and successful undergraduate programme to the
School, and I strongly encourage as many of you as possible to help in
this relatively painless way. Attendance at these events is taken
into account in academic load calculations. Volunteers are needed between 1000 and 1600 to fill 2 hour
slots. Please contact Bernard to sign
up or for more details.
Approval to Spend
This is a reminder that, currently, you still need
approval from Ursula to spend any amount over £100 from a reserve account
or student (STD) support
account. This level of control is necessary because, once again, we have
had to agree to a challenging savings target for non-pay expenditure, but
reasonable requests are generally approved. Proposals for
expenditure of over £100 from affected accounts should be sent to Ursula by email,
providing the following information:
·
research
group
·
individual
who will benefit
·
account
number against which expenditure is requested
·
amount of
proposed expenditure
·
brief
details of the purpose of the expenditure including, in the case of
conference attendance, a comment on the status of the
conference
·
consequences
of not spending the money.
Book Announcement
Second-Order Quantifier Elimination: Foundations,
Computational Aspects and Applications by Dov M. Gabbay, Renate A.
Schmidt, and Andrzej Szalas
Studies in Logic: Mathematical Logic and
Foundations, Vol. 12, College Publications 2008, 308 pages, ISBN
978-1-904987-56-7
More
Information
Events this
Week
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Meeting of the School
Board
1 Oct
The main item will be the Budget Report and the
Dean will also be attending. If anyone would like to place an item
on the agenda, or offer a question to the Dean, then please contact Bryony with the
information. Apologies from CJT, but this clashes with an RAE
subpanel meeting.
University Undergraduate Open Day
New
4 Oct
We still need staff to assist with the final 2008
University Undergraduate Open Day, which will take place on Saturday 4 October
2008. As usual, the School of Computer
Science will be manning a stand in the Schuster Building and holding events in the
School involving presentations and demos, followed by a chance for
visitors to talk informally to members of academic staff and
students. Volunteers are needed between 1000 and 1600 for 2 hour
slots; please contact Bernard for more
details.
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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AI via Neural Processing
New
8 Oct 08
Dr Chris Huyck. Middlesex
University
1415, Lecture Theatre 1.4, Kilburn Building
More
Information
School Board Dates
1 October - Budget Report
and Dean attending
26 November - UG Report
4 February - PG Report
25 March - External Affairs Report
6 May - Research Report
1
July - Resources Report
All meetings take place 1530-1700 in IT
407.
Future
External
Events
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University's Foundation Day
Lecture
8 Oct 08
Professor Joe Stiglitz, Chair, Brooks World
Poverty Institute.
As you may be aware, the University marks its
foundation each year with a Foundation Lecture given by someone of
renown. The President and Vice-Chancellor would like to invite as
many members of staff as possible from across the University to attend
this prestigious event. If you are interested in attending, please
request a ticket by emailing Lesley
Sisson
UMIP free seminar on consulting
New
13 Oct 08
The University of Manchester Intellectual Property
Ltd (UMIP) would like to invite you to its free seminar on ‘Consulting’ during the morning of
Monday 13 October. The
seminar will consist of presentations made by a number of experienced
individuals from academia and industry who will share their experiences of
consulting. More
Information & Registration
1000-1300 (Regiatration & coffee 0930), CTF,
46 Grafton
Street
Faculty Meeting New
15 Oct 08
The meeting will follow a similar structure to the
last one in April in that the first half of the meeting will be used to
provide an update on the Faculty's current performance and the second
half will be an open question and answer session. The
Dean will open the meeting with an overview of the Faculty's
financial position, focussed on the five year forecasts,
and this will be followed by a brief update from each
of the Associate Deans on the key priorities within their
areas. Questions for the Dean to Fiona Campbell
please.
Funding
Opportunities
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RAEng - Leverhulme Trust Senior Research
Fellowships
14 Nov 08
These Fellowships provide an opportunity for
mid-career academics based in UK universities to be relieved
of their administrative and teaching responsibilities, for between one
academic term and a year, in order to concentrate on full-time research in
any engineering discipline. The award provides a grant to cover the
cost of a replacement member of staff for the period of the Fellowship to
carry out the teaching and administrative responsibilities of the
researcher. A support fund of up to £2,500 is also available as part of
the Fellowship.
More
Information
RAEng Research Student Development Fellowships
New
1 Dec 08
These fellowships are worth £10,000 each and are intended to add
value to PhD and EngD students by
funding training and development activities which complement their
research oriented education. The scheme is open to all research students
who are entering their second year in the academic term beginning
September/October 2008. Deadline for applications: 1st December
2008. For more information visit: More
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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caGRID
Funding Body: National
Institution for Health
PI: Carole Goble
Award Amount:
$200000
Semantically Annotated Provenance Collection
Funding Body: Eli Lilly
PI: Carole Goble
Award Amount: $150000
IBM Faculty Award
Funding Body:
IBM
PI: Liping Zhao
Award Amount: £15649
Data Mining Approach to Pricing Decision Support
for Retail
Funding Body:
KSS
PI: Xiao-jun Zeng
Award Amount: £21000
Visiting Fellowship for Dr Klaus Havelund
Funding Body: Royal
Academy of
Engineering
PI:
Howard Barringer
Award Amount: £5774
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 & Technical
Departures
None this week
Administrative Arrivals
None this week
Administrative Departures
None this week
Sabbatical Leave
Alasdair
Rawsthorne: 80% secondment to
Transitive Technologies
Oct 07 – Sep 08. - continuing
John
Keane: Academic Year 2008/09
Len
Freeman: April to Sept 2009
John
Gurd: Academic Year
2009/10
Liping
Zhao: Sept 2008 to Mid Jan 09, and Mid
July 09 to mid Jan 10
Josh
Knowles: Feb 2009 for 6
months
Rizos
Sakellariou: Lent term 2008-09, Summer
term 2008-09, Michaelmas Term 2009-10 (2
semesters)
Xiao-Jun
Zeng: January 2009-April 2009
Ning
Zhang: January 2009 – June
2009
Vacancies
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Academic Staff
None
Research & Technical Staff
Research
Fellows in Text Mining (2 posts)
School of
Computer Science
Closing date: 08/10/2008. Ref EPS/80936.
Management & Professional Staff
None
Administrative Staff
None |