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Weekly Newsletter |
7 April 2014 |
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News from Head of School
Open Access Publishing required for next REF The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the Scottish Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the Department for Employment and Learning have announced that from 2016 they will expect all articles submitted to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) to be available by open access. More information can be found here. Staff-Student Coding Competition The annual staff-student coding competition took place on Wednesday afternoon. There were 23 teams (6 staff teams, 17 students) who enjoyed an intense 3 hours of coding and pizza eating.
The winning team was Team.class.getDeclaredField("name").get(null) (members: Will Brown and Adrian Nenu, year 1 UG students) In second place was Freefood (members: Stefan Katov and Tomo Simeonov, year 3 UG students) and in third place was Wintemuted (members Dave Lester (staff) and James Knight (PhD student) Congratulations to all who joined in and thanks to the organisers of a great event.
News and announcements
BCS Doctoral Consortium – call for presentations 2 May 14 · Presentation submission closing date: 2 May 2013 (latest) · Registration closing date: 13 May 2014 (latest) ·
Event: 16
May 2014, 9.30am-6pm, BCS London Conference Centre, Covent Garden
For PhD students…Registration is now open for the free 6th annual BCS Doctoral Consortium. The event provides an outstanding opportunity for PhD students (primarily in Computer Science and Informatics) from across the country to network and discuss the latest research. The Consortium includes a Keynote Address, short presentations from some students, with time for questions and discussion, and networking sessions. If you are interested in presenting you must register first. Early registration recommended. Please contact Adrian Hall on doctoral.consortium.london@bcs.org with any queries. Water-related research – NERC web tools Attracting new partnerships with industry, and increasing
the impact research is a major challenge. To help address this, the
Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has developed two new web tools
to help improve industry access to academic expertise. NERC are inviting academics to upload information about water related
expertise and Case Studies onto these two sites.
1. The Directory of UK Water Research is a searchable database listing the expertise of >1000 individual researchers. Using key words to identify expertise, users of the Directory can navigate back to each researcher’s personal webpage on their university website. NERC are particularly inviting staff with expertise in the physical sciences and engineering to be added to the Directory.
2. The Water Research to Business website hosts >50 Case Studies showing how water related research has been used to improve business efficiency and competitiveness, or to support policymakers. WaterR2B seeks to describe industry challenges and solutions from an industry perspective and in the language of industry – and not the language of the research community.
Both websites are being publicised across industry and government departments and are being used by UKTI to identify specialist expertise and to promote the UK on global markets.
NERC leads on water across all Research Councils and hence you are encouraged to upload water related expertise and Case Studies from any disciplinary area. Your feedback is most welcome on how these sites could be improved.
A Guide to Authors is available (contact Sarah Chatwin), and proforma’s are available from each website to assist you upload material. For technical enquiries on uploading content contact Rob Flavin. For general enquiries about the NERC Water Security Knowledge Exchange Programme (WSKEP), please contact Kay Heuser. Astra Zeneca – resources for external academics AstraZeneca (AZ) are collaborating with external scientists more than ever before. They have just launched an exciting initiative to make it easier for researchers to access our compounds and technologies and for collaborations. The AZ openinnovation website is a gateway to the full range of Open Innovation programs, including:
Please send any views on this initiative and further ideas to (Contact us). Comments from workshop Richard Banach participated in the Workshop on Fostering Innovation for Cyber-Physical Systems, Advanced Computing & Manufacturing, 19-20 February 2014, in Brussels, the idea being to garner further interest for an EU proposal in this area. With 17MEUR in the specific Smart CPS budget, and about 150 participants present (i.e. not counting interested individuals who weren't there), Harald Reuss (who some may remember as a colleague here some years back) said "It'll be a slaughterhouse." Events
Teaching with Mobile Devices - Learning from Experience 10 Apr 14 14-16:00, C24 Sackville St Building The EPS eLearning team would like to invite you to an event showcasing best practices within the University of Manchester in the use of mobile technology to enhance teaching and learning. Teaching
with Mobile Devices - Learning from Experience Through a series of presentations, demonstrations and discussions led by academic and learning technologists from the University of Manchester, participants will be introduced to various mobile teaching and learning approaches and see exemplars applied in practice. Speakers include Dr Colin Lumsden from Manchester Medical School, Dr Nathan Proudlove from Manchester Business School, Dr Richard Kirkham from the school of MACE and Professor Niels Walet from the school of Physics & Astronomy. Please bring your own devices (laptop, tablet, mobile and etc.) with internet access. There will be some live interactive demonstrations! To register, please go to Eventbrite at http://epsmobile.eventbrite.com Emerging
Technology Conference for Scientific Computing 11 Apr 14 Scientific computing has advanced rapidly in
recent years enabling modelling and simulations that are groundbreaking and
revolutionary in their scope and accessibility. The emergence of novel hardware has been
key to this development (GPUs, hybrid chips, FPGAs, multi-cores, etc.)
placing the power of supercomputers from 5-10 years ago inside our mobile
devices. The hardware being developed
by the major vendors continues apace however, faster than the scientific and
industrial communities can keep up! To address this need, we are launching a
new conference at the University of Manchester focusing on how to exploit and
optimise Emerging Technology (EmiT) for scientific computing. We are bringing together leading key
figures in the scientific computing community, the end users of new software
& hardware in industry and the vendors including INTEL, nVidia, mathworks
to discuss all these issues. We invite you to join us at this 1-day inaugural
event and be part of the exciting collaboration between all the major players
to lead the next generation of ideas and development. Women in Science Panel Discussion 22 May 14 Kanaris Lecture
theatre, Manchester Museum. Panellists
for this discussion include Professor Dame Nancy Rothwell (President and Vice
Chancellor of the University), Professor Dame Tina Lavendar (Professor of
Midwifery), Professor Dame Nicky Cullum (Professor of Nursing) and Professor
Helen Gleeson (Professor of Physics). You
can sign up now for this event (100 places) by emailing Helen Dutton to secure your place. Hacktivism; a joint event between the People's History Museum and Working Class Movement Library 7-8 Jun 14 Hacktivism:
The Unlocking Ideas Hackathon Saturday 7 June – Sunday 8 June, 13:00 – 13:00, Islington Mill. Unlocking Ideas Worth Fighting For, a collaborative project between
the People’s History Museum and the Working Class Movement Library, is
excited to announce details of its 24 hour hackathon weekend. From
13:00 on Saturday 7 June to 13:00 on Sunday 8 June, Unlocking Ideas Worth
Fighting For is inviting programmers, campaigners, designers and anyone
in between to team up in Salford’s Islington Mill and create the next
generation of protest tools. During
the last two centuries the people demanded change by taking to the
street. From the Chartists to the suffragettes to the peace movement,
those demanding change expressed their views publicly by bearing the tools of
protest; placards, banners and posters. Now,
activism is being redefined by the digital age. MyDavidCameron.com started this process; we’re looking at where it goes
from here: could campaign music make the world a better place? Could
short notice protests be bigger and better? Could movements realise
what material has the biggest impact? Get
inspired by these questions and more and use the digitised collections of the
People’s
History Museum and Working
Class Movement Library
to hack new ways of speaking truth to power. WiFi will be supplied and enabled by the fantastic Get Me Connected making sure you can get connected on the device (or devices) of
your choice at any time. Food will be provided and our event hosts, Islington
Mill, will kindly be putting on an honesty bar for the event. Booking
is via eventbrite and
please check the People’s History
Museum and Working Class Movement Library events pages for
more information. Hacktivism is a free event, suitable for adults. Funding Opportunities
Research Support Office Please contact us through researchsupportcsm@manchester.ac.uk. There is information about support for grant writing, submission and successful examples at http://staffnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ and through EPS. The EPS blog The Word contains features News, Events and comment relevant to Postgraduate Researchers, Research Staff and Supervisors or PIs. Important: Changes in EU Funding Opportunities More detailed information is available now that Horizon2020 has
started (the successor of FP7 EU programme). EU research funding is important
for the School and it’s important to understand what’s available http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html Reminder - H2020 information available EU funding-related documents are placed by the University's EU team
at: A great resource recommended by the ICT
National Contact Point is http://www.ictic.org/,
which also provides handy overview documents. External
Horizon 2020 events Various Details on upcoming events are available,
including focuses on graphene, HBP
and FET. Funding opportunities brochure Do you want to see the funding opportunities highlighted in this
newsletter all in one place? Wait no longer! The first monthly Manchester CS
Funding Opportunities brochure is available. Hardcopies available in the
staff common room and soon to be online:
Send any comments
to Sarah Chatwin. Reminder - NERC IAA 9 Apr 13 Closing date: noon 9 April 2013 The NERC
Pilot Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
makes funding available (for previously NERC-funded research) to: • develop
early stage contact and strategic alignment between business and academics
through Relationship Incubation Please contact the Knowledge Exchange Team
to discuss potential applications. LMS Computer Science Small Grants - Scheme 7 15 Apr 14 Closing date: 15 Apr 2014 The London Mathematical Society (LMS) supports short visits for collaborative research at the interface of Mathematics and Computer Science. Up to £500 is available either for grant holder visits to another institution within the UK or abroad, or by a named mathematician from within the UK or abroad to the home base of the grant holder. The applicant should be a mathematician based in the UK and non LMS members will need to ask an LMS member to support the application. Featured Research Outcomes
Did you know… papers featured in the newsletter also go on display in the Kilburn Building (outside 2.7)? Send your new publications to Robert Stevens so that more people get to know about your research. Sampo Pyysalo,
Sophia Ananiadou: Anatomical entity mention
recognition at literature scale. Bioinformatics 30 (6): 868-875 (2014) http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/6/868
Source code,
resources all freely available from http://nactem.ac.uk/anatomytagger. DYVERSE: From
formal verification to biologically-inspired real-time self-organizing
systems. E.M. Navarro-López. Computation for Humanity - Information
Technology to Advance Society. Editors: Pieter J. Mosterman, Justyna Zander.
ISBN-10:1439883270, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis. Chapter 12, pp. 301-346, 2013. Group and total
dissipativity and stability of multi-equilibria hybrid automata. E.M.
Navarro-López, D.S. Laila. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol.
58(12), pp. 3196-3202, 2013. 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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