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Weekly Newsletter |
13 June 2011 |
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News from Head of SchoolFirst
2+2 Agreement Signed! The school has signed an agreement with The Communication University of China (CUC), whereby students from CUC who have completed their first two years of study with good grades and who satisfy our normal English language requirements can enter the second year of our undergraduate programmes. The scheme allows for up to 15 students per year to join the second year of our undergraduate computer science programme, which means that this agreement could potentially provide an annual income to the school of over £300K, even with the discount negotiated as part of the agreement. Establishing such 2+2 agreements has been an important goal for the school, as part of our wider strategy of opening new non-government income streams. Thanks to those who have contributed to putting the arrangement in place, who include Liping Zhao, Ian Watson and Jim Miles. Liping has been particularly important to taking the contact through to completion, and will also be involved in managing the relationship. RCUK
Research Equipment Funding Changes RCUK have brought in some major changes to the way they fund equipment on research grants. From now on, the cost of any items of equipment more than £10K will need to be funded 50:50 by the research councils and the school. As this has a potentially significant impact on the School/Faculty budgets, the Faculty has put in place some new procedures. With immediate effect, for any RCUK proposals that require equipment over £10K, PIs will need to complete the Faculty Research Equipment Form (link below) and submit it to the Research Office. This will then need to be signed off firstly by HoS, and then by the Dean and Head of Faculty Finance, so staff should ensure there is sufficient time for this process to be completed before submission is due. Please could I also ask all staff who will be needing equipment over £10,000 to discuss this with the Research Office early in the proposal writing process. FAQs - Changes to funding requests for research equipment from 1 May 2011 Research
Equipment Administration Guidance Research Councils UK Equipment Guidance (pdf) RCUK
DETAILS REQUIRED FOR ITEMS OF CAPITAL OVER THE OJEU THRESHOLD EventsCareers event for PhD researchers 10-15 Jun 11PATHWAYS 2011:
the essential careers event for all PhD researchers *Friday 10th June: Explore your Options A full day of Q
& A panels with PhD qualified experts and professionals from a wide range
of sectors including academia. *Monday 13th
June: Succeed at
interview and assessment A series of workshops and practical sessions to help
you secure your ideal job, either inside or outside academia. *Wednesday
15th June: PhD and
Research Career Zone Talk to employers
who recruit PhDs & researchers and learn how to market your experience
effectively. Venue: The University of Manchester Free places for
all University of Manchester PhD staff and researchers. One, two or all three
days - your choice. Each year over
400 Manchester researchers attend. Find out more and book a place Research Computing Courses Various June/July 11There are still
places left on the following courses for UoM
researchers. IT Services for
Research is running a series of courses aimed at staff and postgraduates who
run computer simulations as part of their research. The following courses
(all 1-day except where noted) are: ·
Introduction to Research Computing Tues 21 June (morning) ·
Programming Techniques for Research Computing Weds 22 June (morning) ·
Intro to Parallel Programming with OpenMP
& MPI Fri 1 July ·
High Throughput Computing using Condor Weds 20 July ·
Programming in MATLAB Thurs 21 July ·
Shared Memory & Multicore Programming
with OpenMP Tues 22 March ·
Parallel Computing using the Message Passing Interface (MPI) Tues 26
July Beyond the PhD: Academia vs Industry 17 Jun 11 14:00
– Start of the session (participants introduce themselves) 14:30
– Start of the panel discussion 15:30
– End of Panel discussion followed by a networking session IT building room
407 Conventional
myth that PhDs are for academia and bachelors and masters are for industry is
changing as more and more companies focus on research and development
activities as part of their business. Research methodologies and office
culture being practised in the industry may or may not be similar to that of
academia. It is interesting to see how the PhD program has helped individuals
to succeed in both academia and industry and of course it might even help
current PhD students to have a different perspective on their future. In the
light of this, mentors of the School of Computer Science, University of
Manchester, are organising an event in which people from industry and
academia express their views on the subject. Participating
People Dr.
Daniel Owen – IBM (Manchester) Dr.
Ugo Ekweozor – Solution
Analyst at Computer Sciences Corporation Dr.
Matt Horsnell – Research Engineer at ARM Dr
Barry Cheetham – Senior Lecturer, University
of Manchester Prof
Ulrike Sattler – Professor, University of Manchester Dr Simon Harper
- Lecturer, University of Manchester Tea,
coffee and snacks will be served throughout the session. School barbecue 8 Jul 11 The
School summer barbecue will be held from 15:00 on Friday 8 July in the quad
area. Please bring your own drinks. Introduction to Implementing Ontologies in the Web Ontology Language (OWL) 11 & 12 July 11BioHealth Informatics group at the University of Manchester are pleased to invite you to participate in their internationally renowned OWL Ontology tutorials. Number of Places and Cost In total there are 15 places. The cost of the course is £350 per day. Registration and
Further Information To register and for further information please visit the website at: http://www.nweh.org.uk/ViewCourses.aspx Graphene: Materials in the Flatland 19 Jul 1111:00, G51 School of Chemistry The W L Bragg Lecture of The University of Manchester 2011 will be presented by Physics Nobel Laureate Professor Kostya Novoselov, of the Schuster Laboratory, The University of Manchester. This is an open lecture and there is seating for 250. It will last slightly over an hour and will be followed by a soft drinks mixer. The Lecture will be Chaired by Prof Sine Larsen of the University of Copenhagen, President of the International Union of Crystallography. The Vote of Thanks will be given for the University of Manchester by Dr Cinzi Casiraghi. Poster including the lecture abstract can be found here. Contact John Helliwell for further information. |
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