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Weekly Newsletter |
17 January 2011 |
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News from Head of SchoolPresident and Vice-Chancellor’s visit 1 Feb 11 There will be an open staff meeting from 14:50 in Atlas 1 for the President and Vice-Chancellor’s visit. This will include an opening address (c. 5 minutes) from the President which will then be opened up into a general question and answer session (c. 35 minutes). Research Profiling Exercise (RPE) This is a reminder that the deadline for entry of RPE data is 12:00 noon on 31st January. The updating of e-Scholar entries on publications is particularly important, as this will be key in providing a profile for individuals, and thereby for the school. The school profile will be important, in that the university is likely to use the RPE for informing investment decisions. Thus the stronger our profile, the easier it will be to make cases for investments in the school. Full guidance on the 2010 exercise, including the criteria and working methods for each of the assessment panels, can be found at:
http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=8249
A set of FAQs is also available at:
http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=8270 School Plan 2011: Comments Invited The draft school plan for 2011 is now available for comment from: http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/newsletter/cs_operational_plan_11v1.doc Please feel encouraged to suggest additions, removals or
changes, to the relevant Head of Function and/or to Computer Architecture Lectureship Following on from the earlier consultation on academic appointments in the school, approval has been obtained for a new lectureship in Computer Architecture. Further details will follow when the advert is released in the next few weeks; please start to consider if you know any promising candidates who might be encouraged to apply. SurveyEPSRC: ICT Research – The Next Decade StrategyAs EPSRC seeks to achieve its strategic goals of Delivering Impact, Shaping Capability and Developing Leaders, the ICT Programme would like to engage with the research community on how we maximise our alignment with these objectives and implement our new Delivery Plan. Our aim is to involve the ICT community in the development of strategy for the ICT programme, in the context of our new Delivery Plan, and explore the direction and shape this should take. This continuing engagement with the ICT community follows on from the recent successes of the ICT Theme Days and Photonic Systems Workshop where a number of common and specific issues were identified across the ICT portfolio. These resulted in a number of positive steps being taken by the ICT Programme and the ICT research community. Amongst these were, the ExICTe workshop which was held in February, the starting of an early career campaign and formation of an early career focus group, more engagement in the development of European funding opportunities, and the formation of networks between researchers. We recently held a two day workshop where members of the community were asked the following questions: What does the strategic plan mean for the ICT Programme? What should the priorities be for ICT research going into the next decade? How can ICT research contribute to future research challenges? To build on the information gathered at the workshop and to engage as widely as possible with the whole ICT community, the ICT team has also published a survey based on the questions above. We would be grateful if you could forward this email to anyone you feel would be interested in responding. The survey can be found at http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/epsrc/ict_research-the_next_decade and will be open from the 8th December 2010 to the 11th February 2011. Responses will be used to feed into discussion on future strategy for the ICT Programme. EventsCLOSING DATE: 5pm Friday 14th January SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY TO UKICTPioneers@epsrc.ac.uk
For how to enter and information on the prizes go to: tinyurl.com/UKICTPioneers This exciting competition is open to all 2nd and 3rd year ICT related subjects include but are not restricted to Electronics, Communications, Computer Science and Human-Computer Interfaces and Photonics. Shortlisted candidates and their supervisors will be invited to a VIP research exhibition and awards event in London on 23rd March 2011 attended by senior government and business representatives; providing a superb opportunity to get yourself noticed and make fantastic contacts in both the industrial and academic research communities.
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