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News from Head of SchoolNetwork Problems I am pleased to report that continued effort has resulted in greatly improved network performance in our student labs. Despite considerable effort the previous week, it was clear by early last week that the level of performance was still unacceptable. Since then, work on the student fileserver – including a significant memory upgrade, relocation to the main School backbone, and tweaking the NFS parameters – plus provision of a wrapper for Firefox – transferring configuration files onto local disk – have led to performance that is, in most respects acceptable, with three large laboratory classes running successfully in parallel on Thursday afternoon. Further upgrades planned to address remaining issues include replacement of the student email server and provision of local NIS/DNS servers for the Lamb lab. Many thanks again to all those (named last week) who pulled out all the stops to resolve a serious and challenging set of problems. Open Staff MeetingCan I draw your attention to the open meeting for
all staff which UG and PGT Exams DeadlineA brief reminder that today is the deadline for the submission to the Student Support Office of all first semester exams and marking schemes. Events this
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Machine Learning Seminar New 20 Oct 08 Approximate inference in continuous time discrete and hybrid stochastic systems Guido Sanguinetti 1400, Atlas 1, Kilburn building
Open Staff Meeting for all CS staff 22 Oct 08 There will be an Open Staff Meeting for all CS
staff on Wednesday, 22nd October at Impact of Experience on Software Developer Performance New 22 Oct 08 Dr Derek Jones. Knowledge Software Ltd 1415, Lecture Theatre 1.4, Regular Seminar SeriesSee links
in contents bar for information on seminar series organised by the
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We will once again be supporting the Breast Cancer Campaign by holding a Wear it Pink Day. We will run a tombola and need prizes. If you have any bottles (wine, beer etc), chocolates or new items you are willing to donate then please bring them to ACSO. All donations gratefully received |
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We will once again be running our annual Children in Need Booksale and online auction. Further details will be sent round in due course. Books and auction items gratefully received in ACSO. |
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.
Support for Academically-Led Conferences Various
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Manchester-
28th October 2008
Other venues available.
Tea and coffee will be available at
Speakers will include Dr David Fergusson, Deputy
Director, Training, Outreach and Education, the National e-Science Centre
and researchers at
More Information &
registration
Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Scheme New 31 Oct 08
The Royal Academy of Engineering’s visiting
fellowship scheme provides funding to enable an academic engineering
department in a
RAEng - Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships 14 Nov 08
These Fellowships provide an opportunity for
mid-career academics based in
More
Information
HPC2-Europa2 Call for Applicants 15 Nov 08
The HPC-Europa Consortium is happy to announce
that the Transnational Access Programme will continue up to the end of
2012. This is an EC-funded programme of short collaborative research
visits with access to
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:
"Follow-on-funds" provide financial support for
projects with a clear commercial concept to accelerate their progress
towards commercialisation. Funding is available for up to 12 months
for typically over £100k based on research from ongoing or completed EPSRC
supported projects. An approximate total of £1.5M is available
nationally with £4.5M of applications invited for consideration.
Proposals need to be submitted via the University’s technology
transfer company (UMIP). The University has been successful in 8 out of 11
proposals submitted during the past three years which has generated nearly
£1 million of research income. Grantholders interested in applying
for this funding should complete the attached two-page form and send it to
ian.proctor@umip.com before
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.
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 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.
EPSRC invites outline proposals for its
information and communication technology platform grants. Platform grants
aim to provide world-leading
Full-time professorial appointments, in any engineering-related subject. The academy particularly welcomes proposals of a multidisciplinary nature. Funding is provided for 5 years.
An opportunity for university lecturers in engineering to gain state-of-the-art industrial experience.
To help scientists make and establish new contacts with their international counterparts.
Projects in centres of excellence overseas focussing on stimulating wealth creation and improvements in the quality of life.
Support for salary costs and travel subsistence
for scientists and engineers of acknowledged standing, either from within
the
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.
The Royal Academy of Engineering has established a
prize fund to identify entrepreneurial researchers working in
The award will be presented to an individual or
team demonstrating considerable entrepreneurial promise and the potential
to benefit the
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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
Academic Staff
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Closing date: 22/10/2008. Ref EPS/ 80479.