MANCHESTER 1824	School of Computer Science
Weekly Newsletter	9th July 2012
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 the Head of School Graduation: meet your students Tuesday 10^th July is graduation day. Students and their friends and family like to meet their tutors/supervisors and if you can’t make it to the ceremony, please come along to the reception afterwards – starting when people return from the ceremony (11:15-11:30), prizegiving at 12:00. Animation 12 Friday 13^th is Animation 12 Festival day: http://animation12.cs.manchester.ac.uk/festival/festival Heating and ventilation survey From 11th to 16th July a survey of the Kilburn Building will be being conducted as a part of the heating and ventilation system feasibility study. During this time the survey team will be measuring air flows in all rooms and no adjustments will be made to the system. University Intranet Survey Your chance to say what you think of the University Intranet: http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/eupdate/display/?id=260&newsItemId=8458&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=eUpdate Featured publications this week (by Robert Stevens) This is a regular section in the weekly newsletter. This is a small step to help us all to know what research is happening in the School and what is being published. Please continue to add all of your new publications to eScholar, but also send ones that you wish to advertise in the newsletter to Robert.Stevens@manchester.ac.uk. Miwa, M., Thompson, P., McNaught, J., Kell, D. B. and Ananiadou, S. (2012). “Extracting semantically enriched events from biomedical literature”. BMC Bioinformatics, 13: 108 (DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-13-108>) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/13/108/ Miwa, M., Thompson, P. and Ananiadou, S. (2012). “Boosting automatic event extraction from the literature using domain adaptation and coreference resolution”. Bioinformatics 28(13): 1759-1765 (DOI<http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bts237>) http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/bts237?ijkey=oTLQoB9dzQDyjzV&keytype=ref Kim, J.-D., Pyysalo, S., Nédellec, C., Ananiadou, S. and Tsujii, J.(Eds.) Selected articles from the BioNLP Shared Task 2011. BMC Bioinformatics 13 (Suppl 11) http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/supplements/13/S11 Events Dynamic Superposition: A Framework for Propositional and First-Order Reasoning 11 July 12 Professor Christoph Weidenbach, Max-Planck-Institut fur Informatik. 14:15, Lecture Theatre 1.4, Kilburn Building. More Information Faculty Open Meetings The dates for the Faculty Open Meetings for the next academic year are as follows: Wednesday, 10^th October 2012 – 1400-1500 hours venue TBC Wednesday, 23 January 2013  – 1400-1500 hours venue TBC Wednesday, 24^th April 2013  – 1400-1500 hours venue TBC Wednesday, 24^th July 2013  – 1400-1500 hours venue TBC School Seminar: Title & Abstract tba 11 July 12 14:15, Lecture theatre 1.4, Kilburn building. Professor Christoph Weidenbach, Max Planck Institute. EEE seminars 17 July 12 The School of EEE has arranged 2 seminars on 17 July Tuesday, 12-14:00 in D45a Sackville Street Building. 12:00-13:00 Professor Reza Zoughi (FIEEE) from Missouri University of Science & Technology, USA will talk about "Microwave and millimetre-wave imaging for NDE". Professor Zoughi is the Executive Vice President of IEEE I&M Society and was the Editor-in-Chief of the Trans. on Instrum. and Meas. He is also an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. 13:00-14:00 Professor Xiaochuan Pan (FIEEE) from University of Chicago, USA will talk about "X-ray image reconstruction for medical applications". Professor Pan is well known in the field. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging, IEEE Trans. Biomed Eng., and Phys. Biol. Med. Funding Opportunities School Research Office There is information about support for grant writing and submission at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ Prize & Award Opportunities Wolfson Research Merit Award 10 July 12 For outstanding scientists who would benefit from a five year salary enhancement to recruit them to or retain them in the UK. http://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/wolfson-research-merit/ University Research Fellowship 13 Sept 2012 For outstanding scientists in the UK at an early to mid-stage of their research career who have the potential to become leaders in their field. http://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/university-research/ Brian Mercer Feasibility Award Brian Mercer Feasibility Award (Rolling round). For scientists who wish to investigate the feasibility of commercialising an aspect of their research. http://royalsociety.org/grants/schemes/brian-mercer-feasibility/