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8 July 2013 |
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News from the Head of SchoolRoyal Society Summer Exhibition The Royal Society has issued its annual call for exhibits for the 2014 summer science exhibition. “The summer science exhibition aims to inspire the public and school students with science by exhibiting cutting-edge research in an interactive way”. It also provides high profile visibility of your work. This year’s exhibits are listed here: http://sse.royalsociety.org/2013/ in which the most obvious CS exhibit is “Quantum revolution Using photons for secure networks, spooky teleporters and awesome computers”. The School has previously exhibited graphene, which mwas a great success. If anyone is interested in exhibiting their research there, Aravind Vijayaraghavan or Ernie Hill could let you know what’s involved. The Dean will pay all the expenses of creating the exhibit and attending the exhibition. AnnouncementsNaCTeM success NaCTeM has a
total of 11 papers accepted at the ACL 2013 conference (the 51st Annual
Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (http://acl2013.org/))
and associated workshops. In particular,
one of NaCTeM's submissions to the 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop &
Interoperability with Discourse (LAW-VII & ID) has won the LAW challenge
after careful evaluation by the members of the LAW-VII & ID programme
committee. Based on their recommendations, the paper has received an award of
US $2500 to cover the authors' travel expenses. The workshop is to be held at
ACL 2013, August 8-9. The details of this paper are as follows: Mihăilă,
C., Kontonatsios, G., Batista-Navarro, R. T. B., Thompson, P., Korkontzelos,
I. and Ananiadou, S. (To appear). Towards a Better Understanding of Discourse:
Integrating Multiple Discourse Annotation Perspectives Using UIMA. In
Proceedings of the 7th Linguistic Annotation Workshop & Interoperability
with Discourse (LAW-VII & ID), Sofia, Bulgaria, Association for
Computational Linguistics. Details of all of
NaCTeM's accepted can be found here: http://www.nactem.ac.uk/newsitem.php?item=244 Update from Steve Flint - ADR for Internationalisation Vale EPS met with
Vale (Brazil), a very
large multinational that has very few current links with UK research. Slides
on SCS research were presented at the meeting (along with others), to provide
the company’s R&D division with information. Initial areas of
interest could be around remediation of mine sites/water/etc., materials and
possibly autonomous vehicles BUT please look at the PDF on Vale’s research
priorities and their general profile and let Sarah Chatwin know of any areas of interest. QNRF Prof. Steve Flint
gave a presentation on the UK research landscape at a UUK meeting on the Qatar National Research Fund and heard a presentation on the QNRF.
Action Plan
Please see PDF for more details. EventsWomen in IT event 9
Jul 13 11.30-14:00,
Tuesday 9 Jul 2013, room 4.38 Simon Building The annual Women in IT event is
open to all staff and postgraduates at The University of Manchester as well
as welcoming colleagues from Manchester Metropolitan University. Gillian Arnold, Director of Tectre is guest speaker
(winner of the 2012 Cisco / Everywoman
in Technology award for Technology Inspiration of the year and is a
nominee for the Computer
Weekly Most Influential Woman in UK IT 2013. She also currently
sits on the board of directors for WISE/UKRC). The full
schedule and
registration is available through the hyperlinks. Adoption of
ICT to improve security and trust in the UK food chain 1
Sep 13 ·
Closing date: 01 Sep 2013 ·
Event: 2-3rd Sep, Galgorm Manor Hotel,
County Antrim, Northern Ireland Call for
participants: An opportunity to influence future planning for pilot
projects and secondments and to find out about future funding opportunities
at the RCUK’s Digital Economy theme is running a 2-day
Residential workshop to explore best practice from around the UK and
beyond and strive to identify tools and ICT systems that can be harnessed to
improve food product security, traceability, nutritional benefits and
consumer confidence. Funding OpportunitiesResearch Support Office Please contact us through researchsupportcsm@manchester.ac.uk. There is information about support for grant writing and submission at http://staffnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ Summer Request Please contact Sarah Chatwin with brief details of any applications that you are considering submitting over the summer period to help with our planning process. Thank you. The
Word – EPS blog for Graduate and Researcher Development The Word
contains features News, Events and comment relevant to Postgraduate
Researchers, Research Staff and Supervisors or PIs such as the upcoming
workshop: Designing and embedding impact into our research
processes (25 September 2013). RAEng
Industrial Secondments Scheme 30
Sep 13 ·
Closing date: 5pm 30 Sep 2013 The Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondments Scheme provides teaching staff with the opportunity to work on a collaborative project with industry, to gain up to date knowledge and first-hand experience of current industry working practices, enabling them to improve the quality and industrial relevance of their teaching. Whilst in industry, the secondee may pursue a research project to further enhance knowledge transfer in engineering between those in industry and those in academia. The scheme is open to engineers from all disciplines and provides funding to cover the salary cost of the applicant paid pro-rata against the amount of time to be spent at the industry host. Awards can be for any period up to 6 months full-time or a maximum of a year pro rata. NERC
Independent Research Fellowships 1
Oct 2013 · Closing date: 4pm 01 Oct 2013 The NERC Independent Research Fellowships (IRFs) will replace the previous schemes (Postdoctoral and Advanced Fellowships) and is designed to develop scientific leadership among the most promising early-career environmental scientists, by giving all Fellows 5 years' support, which will allow them sufficient time to develop their research programmes, and to establish international recognition. NERC IRFs are open to any nationality, but the fellowship must be based at an eligible UK research organisation. Applicants may not have a permanent academic position in a university or equivalent organisation. Applicants may have up to a maximum of 8 years of full-time postdoctoral research experience between the PhD certificate date and the closing date of the fellowship competition. Secondments
between academic and industrial, commercial or governmental research groups 31
Oct 13 ·
Closing date: 31 Oct 2013
· Usability and the user experience in digital environments · Ethics, education and skills in utility computing environments · Social computing platforms, open data and the rights of the individual · Smart spaces, the Internet of Things and diversity · Security, trust, and governance in digitally connected communities ·
Economics and the
sustainability of services in particular sectors e.g. media, education,
government, libraries, retail or transport Successful
applicants will have to produce a report and blog on their experience.
Secondments must start by early Feb 2014 and have finished by 8 Aug 2014 Research Professional is a useful search engine for finding other funding opportunities. Featured Research OutcomesHave we missed something? If you have some award news
that you would like us to know about please contact Sarah Chatwin. |
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