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Weekly Newsletter |
21 October 2013 |
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News from the Head of SchoolTake
care around the campus You may have seen in the news that there have been a number of sexual
assaults around the University. Please take care around the campus, and if
you see anybody behaving suspiciously either outside or inside the buildings,
do not hesitate to call security on 0161 306 9966 (external) or 69966
(internal). The number is on the back of your University staff card, you
might also store it in your mobile phone.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24597174
e-cigarettes University Policy is that
smoking is not permitted inside or within 5m of any University building.
E-cigarettes are treated in the same way as any other cigarettes and so are
not permitted. Date for the diary: School Christmas Party The party will be held on Thursday 19th December and
details will follow in a future newsletter and email. Important:
Changes in EU Funding Opportunities
EU Funding is changing significantly. The FP7 programme has been
replaced by Horizon2020 and calls are expected to open at the end of the
year. There is an event in the University on Tuesday to explain ICT funding
under Horizon 2020: Horizon 2020 Information Session on
ICT-related calls 22
Oct 13 ·
Event: 22 Oct
2013, 10.30-12.00, MIB Lecture Theatre ·
1:1 meetings: 22 Oct 2013, between
1 and 3pm, B1c Sackville Street Craig Sharp - one of the UK National Contact Points (NCP) for the
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEIT) - covering the
areas of Information and Communication Technologies, Nanotechnologies,
Advanced Materials, Production Technologies, Biotechnology and Space
Technologies will be visiting the University on 22 Oct to discuss EU funding
opportunities under this part of the Horizon 2020 Programme. 1.
Register for the information session (formal
presentation, including an open Q&A). 2.
Email Liz Fay for 1:1 meetings with Craig (1pm-3pm). Each
meeting slot will be for 20 minutes and places are limited (first come first
served). Please indicate which part of the programme you wish to discuss with
Craig and, where possible, provide information on the progress of any
proposals already underway. The focus of the presentation will be on the NMP area of the draft
work programme – the most recent DRAFT work programme is attached. Please
take a look - the School has overlap with a lot of these areas:
H2020
drafts available EU funding-related documents are placed by the University's EU team
at: Announcements and newsRCUK
starting date changes from 1 Oct 2013 From 1 Oct
Research Council Starting Procedures have been revised: the start of grants may be delayed by up to 3 months for all councils
(previously 6 months for EPSRC). In addition, the start of the grant may
precede the start date shown in the offer letter, but cannot be earlier than
the date of the offer letter itself. EventsResearch
Computing Training Opportunities Oct
and Nov 13 IT Services have a variety of courses running during October and November aimed at helping University researchers (staff & PGR) with their computational research and data analysis. Places are available on the following courses: Introduction to FORTRAN: online course with help available on 22 Oct (online or hands-on); 29 Oct; 5 Nov. Introduction to (Code) Optimisation: 24 Oct Intermediate-level CUDA (GPU Programming), run by NVIDIA: 30 Nov Introduction to Parallel Programming: 31 Oct High Throughput Computing and Condor: 7 Nov Introduction to ParaView viz package: 14 Nov Introduction to OpenMP (shared memory): 15 Nov Introduction to AVIZIO viz package: throughout Oct and Nov upon request Bookings and further information Faculty of EPS open meeting 23 Oct 13 13-14:00, Rutherford Lecture Theatre, Schuster Building. All members of staff in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences are invited to attend a Faculty Open Meeting with Professor Colin Bailey, the Vice-President & Dean. At the meeting Colin will give an update on the Faculty’s current position followed by an open question and answer session on any matters of interest. There is no need to submit questions in advance of the meeting.
All are welcome. Seats will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. Dalton Nuclear seminar series 30 Oct 13 14:00, Lecture Theatre G.53, Chemistry building Monitoring Redox Speciation of Actinides Using Optical Fingerprinting, Dr Louise Natrajan. There will be light refreshments afterwards. This is the first of the Dalton Nuclear Seminar Series and is hosted by the Centre for Radiochemistry Research (CRR). The Dalton Seminar Series is to promote exchange and offer informative events of The University of Manchester institutions and facilities associated with Dalton Nuclear Institute (DNI). The Series will continue in November and December, with seminars organised by the Materials Performance Centre and the Research Centre for Radwaste and Decommissioning. Tyndall Manchester seminar 30 Oct 13 17:00, C1, George Begg Building, Sackville Street Is natural gas the answer to the UK’s energy challenges? Professor Jim Watson, Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre and Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Sussex For further information please email Amrita Sidhu. EPS Investment showcase 12 Nov 13 12-15:00, Innovation Centre on Grafton Street. The University of Manchester recently signed a deal with IP Group plc for Proof of Principle (POP) funding to support early stage spin out opportunities. This event brings together spin out entrepreneurs from early stage projects to AIM listed companies in the IP Group portfolio to discuss their experiences and aspirations. The event will be hosted by Dr Cassie Doherty, Head of Relationship with The University of Manchester Agenda • 12.00-12.45: Lunch • 12.45-14.00: Speaker Presentations • 14.00-14.30: Panel Discussion • 14.30-15.00: Coffee and Networking 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/ and the EPS
blog The Word contains features News, Events and comment
relevant to Postgraduate Researchers, Research Staff and Supervisors or PIs. REMINDER
Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) 23
Oct 13 · Closing date: noon 23 Oct 2013 EPSRC has awarded The University of Manchester over £3.2M
to deliver an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA), which runs from 2012-15 for
knowledge exchange based on EPSRC research (following on from the Knowledge
Transfer Account). · Relationship Incubation (up to £10k available) Engaging with businesses and business communities to sow the seeds of new collaboration and enhance strategic engagement · Concept Development and Feasibility Studies (up to £30k available) Support for the very early stages of transforming research outputs into commercial opportunities · Exploitation Secondments (up to £60k available) Flexible support for secondments between The University of Manchester and businesses and other organisations
Both Simon Harper and Sean Bechhofer have been successful in previous calls. Big
Data - Expressions of Interest 15
Nov 2013 The Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) invites
Expressions of Interest for data services connected to PRACE (Partnership for
Advanced Computing in Europe) large-scale
computational projects. The focus of the EoI is solely on data services that
need to be tightly coupled to a PRACE
computing system. 2-page
EoIs should be submitted to eoi-bigdata@prace-ri.eu before
15 Nov 2013. See the webpages for more details on
what should be included. British
Council Researcher Links Travel Grants 24
Nov 2013 The British
Council has launched a call for early-career
researchers to propose an international research placement.
Researchers that reside in the UK can apply for up to £7695 to spend up to 3
months at a university or research institution in one of the nineteen partner
countries, and those residing in one of the partner countries can apply for
funding to come to the UK. All research areas are covered, including the
natural sciences, humanities and social sciences, but some countries have
priority areas. The countries involved in this call are; Brazil, Mexico,
Colombia, Morocco, Egypt, Qatar, South Africa, Nigeria, Russia
(Humanities and Social Sciences only), Turkey, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan,
Pakistan, Thailand, Indonesia, South Korea, Vietnam, Bangladesh and the US
(Humanities and Social Sciences only). Closing date: 24 Nov 2013 Global
Innovation Initiative grants 16
Dec 2013 At least 20 grants of between £100-150k are available from
the Department of State (US) and BIS (UK) for 3-way collaborations between UoM, a US
partner and a partner from Brazil, China, India
or Indonesia. The aim is to strengthen global multilateral collaboration
through grants to university consortia focusing on science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-related issues of global significance
that foster cutting-edge multinational research and strengthen institutional
international partnerships. Digital
Economy Fellowships 31
Jan 2013 The RCUK Digital Economy (DE) Theme Fellowships for up to 5 yrs are available in the priority areas of: ·
Social
Computing (Early Career Researchers only) ·
Business and
economic models (Early Career Researchers only) ·
Advancing the
internet of things for DE (Early Career and Established Career Researchers) For further guidance,
please contact DigitalEconomy@epsrc.ac.uk
or Ben Rendell on 01793 444540. Research Professional is a useful search engine for finding
other funding opportunities. Research OutcomesmyGrid news The school's myGrid team are presenting the Android
application Using Taverna Mobile, researchers can browse existing
scientific The application is open source and is planned to be
released in the Carole Goble keynote talk Carole Goble gave a keynote talk at this year's ISMB/ECCB
in Berlin on 23rd July 2013. The title was "Results may vary: what is
reproducible? Why do open Sardar F. Jaf and Allan Ramsay. Towards the Development of
a Hybrid Parser for Natural Languages. 2013 Imperial College Computing
Student Workshop, Andrew V. Jones and Nicholas Ng (editors). PP: 49--56.
(Awarded best paper prize) Have 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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