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10 September 2012 |
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News from the Head of SchoolAtlas 50th anniversary December 5th On December 5th
2012 the School will host a 50th anniversary of the Atlas
computer. Full details can be found here: http://elearn.cs.man.ac.uk/~atlas/ There will be
various ways in which staff can help out, specific requests will follow. We
will be looking for volunteers to capture information about the School’s
history and particularly the various physical artifacts that we have while we
have the opportunity to speak to people who designed and/or used them. There
remains an unfilled School Duty of History Co-ordinator that I will be
filling shortly, anyone who would find that an interesting job to do, please
get in touch. Staff campus tours Campus tours
for staff are taking place on the 11th, 12th and 13th September. They
will last no longer than an hour and in addition to broadening your knowledge
of the University, the tour will also be a good opportunity for some light
exercise! The tours will go ahead rain or shine so it may be worth bringing
your umbrella! This tour will
show you around the main buildings at the University and give you some
general information on the history of the buildings and which schools are
based in them. Whether you have worked at the University for 2 weeks or 10
years, if you would like to feel more confident about directing students
around the University then this tour will be helpful to you. The tours are
in response to staff reports that at last year's welcome week, the
majority of queries from students involved asking for directions. However not
all staff were able to do this as they had not visited the buildings in
question. As the University is dedicated to improving the students'
experience, this tour will be invaluable to staff who would like to be
involved in this process. To book a place
on the tour please visit http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/supporting-students/campus-tours-for-staff or email Kelly Rowe for further details. Participants required to take part in a study looking at the impact of mood on task performance From Jane
Owens: We are looking
for volunteers to take part in a Psychology study that involves completing 6
short self-report questionnaires, a visualisation task and a computerised
puzzle task. If you decide
to take part of the study then it will take place in the Zochonis building on
the University of Manchester Campus. The study will
last approximately 45-60mins. First and second year Psychology students will
be given 4 credits (subject to availability) or £5 in return for taking part.
Non Psychology students will receive £5 for taking part. The current study excludes anybody who has experienced Psychosis and/or have received a diagnosis of any psychotic illness e.g. Schizophrenia This project
has been approved by the University of Manchester, research ethics committee: Reference
number: 11323 Study
title: Study
investigating the effect of mood on task performance Contact
details For details and
to take part or for further information, please contact Jane Owens (jane.owens-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk). 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. H. Barringer, D. M. Gabbay & J. Woods, “Temporal, numerical and meta-level dynamics in argumentation networks”, Argument & Computation, 3:2-3, 143-202, July 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19462166.2012.704397 H. Barringer, D. M. Gabbay & J. Woods, “Modal and temporal argumentation networks”, Argument & Computation, 3:2-3, 203-227, July 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19462166.2012.704399 H. Barringer, Y. Falcone, K. Havelund, G. Reger and D. Rydeheard, “Quantified Event Automata: Towards Expressive and Efficient Runtime Monitors”, Proceedings of FM 2012: Formal Methods, LNCS, volume 7436, pages 68-84, August 2012. EventsRobot seminar 10 Sept 12 Talk & demonstration of the the NAO humanoid robot for Research and Education. They took part in our Animation12 hands-on activities and are interesting and fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNbj2G3GmAo ICO Alan
Turing Centenary Lecture 11
Sept 12 The ICO celebrates the life of Alan Turing with inaugural lecture.
2012 is the 100
year anniversary of the birth of mathematician, code breaker, logician and
computer scientist Alan Turing. Alan Turing is widely considered to be the
father of computer science and artificial intelligence.
We hope to arrange similar lectures in the future to highlight important issues connected to the Information Commissioner’s Office’s work. Funding OpportunitiesSchool Research Office There is information about support for grant writing and submission at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ Computational Science and Engineering: Software for the Future 4 Dec 12 Closing date: 16:00 on 04 December 2012 Issue date: 22 August 2012 Category: Invitation for proposals Related themes: ICT, Research infrastructure This call is being issued in support of EPSRC’s Software as an Infrastructure strategy. Up to £7M will be committed to this call, subject to the quality of proposals received.
Funding is available for projects focused on the development of software that is used in computational science and engineering. This covers the development of novel code, the development of new functionality for existing codes, and the development and re-engineering of existing codes. Strategic drivers are: developing code that is future-proof; a focus on software sustainability; community building and networking; and skills acquisition. In order to allow maximum time for selection of appropriate reviewers and panel members, all applicants must email EPSRCsoftware@epsrc.ac.uk by 16:00 1 October 2012, indicating their intention to submit. This email should contain a list of potential investigators and their institutions, and a one-paragraph summary of the potential research proposal. Please note: holders of Stage 1 projects from the HPC Software Development Call should apply for their Stage 2 project under this call. |
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