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MANCHESTER 1824	School of Computer Science
Weekly Newsletter	2 March 2009
Contents News from HoS This Week School Events External Events Funding Opps Prize & Award Opps Research Awards Staff News Vacancies Links News Submissions Newsletter Archive School Strategy School Intranet School Seminars ESNW Seminars NaCTeM Seminars	News from Head of School Sabbatical Leave Applications The School has only received one preliminary application for sabbatical leave to commence in academic year 10/11. Although the original deadline has passed, please could I encourage you to consider whether you would like to put in a preliminary case for leave in 10/11. Please note that academic staff are no longer required to take their period of leave abroad. An initial indication of intention to submit should be sent to Ursula by Friday 6^th March, with the full outline by 31^st March. Outlines will need to contain the following brief information about the proposed sabbatical: Location Purpose Period Impact on teaching/admin duties Events Analysis of Diversity Mechanisms for Global Exploration 23 Feb 09 Peter Oliveto, University of Birmingham 14:00, Atlas 1, Kilburn building Machine learning seminars New Funding and Award Opportunities top None this week. Research Awards top Automated Biological Event Extraction from the Literature for Drug Discovery Funding body: BBSRC PI: Sophia Ananiadou Title: Automated Biological Event Extraction from the Literature for Drug Discovery Award amount: £364,729 Funding body: Royal Society PI: Konstantin Korovin Title: Optimisation and Evaluation of Automated Reasoning Systems Award amount: £46,940 Funding body: EPSRC PI: Toby Howard Title: UK Schools Computer Animation Competition 2009 Award amount: £30,481 CIs: Graham Gough and Alex Walker. Team: Mandi Banks, Ros Cooper, Ursula Hayes, Chris Page, Rina Srabonian, Bernard Strutt.