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Weekly
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16 June 2014 |
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News
from Head of School
Graduation – please register to attend the ceremony The Computer Science Graduation Ceremony will take place on Monday 14th July 2014 at 4.45 p.m. in the Whitworth Hall. There will be a reception in School beforehand starting at 2.30 p.m., with prizegiving at 3.00 p.m. Please come along to the reception to meet your students, their friends and family, and join in the procession at the ceremony to help make it a big event for your students to remember. To attend the ceremony please register at: http://www.staffnet.manchester.ac.uk/news/display/?id=12277 Carole meets the
Queen again Carole Goble attended a technology reception at Buckingham palace in the evening of Monday 9th June with the Queen, Prince Philip and Prince William. The event was organised by UKTI and was attended by many leading Computer Scientists, IT professionals and software companies. Prince Philip reportedly programmed an Acorn computer in 1980. Alan Turing’s Birthday celebrations Alan Turing's Birthday is on the 23rd of this month. Joe Redddington from Royal Holloway is marking the day with flowers http://joereddington.com/projects/flowers-for-turing/
Events
Consortia for Exploratory Research in Security – conference 16 Jun 14 London The Research
Councils UK Global Uncertainties Programme is holding a one-day meeting to
highlight research funded through the CEReS (Consortia for Exploratory Research in
Security) call.
Registration required. SupraBiology: Supercomputing for Systems Biology 16-17 Jun 2014 MIB Lecture Theatre Promoting UK-China collaborations…This BBSRC-sponsored event includes talks by Prof. Pedro Mendes on Simulating Systems Biology (16th) and by from Dr Neil Swainston on Mapping Life (17th). Both days include session on possible common projects and joint research. Registration link:
EPSRC Network for Mental Health Technologies -
Membership/Inaugural Workshop 16-17
Jun 14 The University was recently awarded 3 years funding from EPSRC to
establish a Network for Mental Health Technologies. The network
of researchers, clinicians, industry partners and patient groups will explore
the potential for technology to transform the management and treatment of
mental health conditions, identifying underpinning science and engineering research
challenges, and will work together to address them. The network will aim to
develop a range of research funding proposals in the area of technology for
mental health. 1. If you would like to be listed
as part of the network - please confirm by email to Ruth Norris. 2. Register to attend the Inaugural Plenary Workshop on June 16/17, which will
focus on understanding the clinical need and service delivery context to
co-develop scenarios for technology interventions This network is led by Professor Chris Taylor and is a Partnership
with the MindTech Health Technology Cooperative. The Clinical
Domains to be explored are led by clinicians across: ·
Developmental
Disorders; ·
Serious
Mental Illness; ·
Mood
and Affective Disorders; ·
Dementia The EPS themes to
be explored (led by EPS researchers): ·
Information
Management ·
Sensing
Systems ·
Data
Analytics ·
Human-Computer
Interaction For more
information contact Ruth Norris. ESRC open presentation 18
Jun 14 12:30-13:25, Cordingley Lecture Theatre, Humanities Bridgeford Street building Interested in ESRC funding? There will be an open presentation to staff from the CEO of ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Professor Paul Boyle. The presentation will be introduced by Professor Claire Annesley (Assistant Associate Dean – Research, Humanities) and followed with Q&As. National Women in Engineering Day Lecture 2014:
Celebrating our women in STEM 19
Jun 14 10:30-11:30, School of Chemistry, Chemistry Building, Lecture Theatre G.53 Structure of event: Prof Lesley Yellowlees, Professor of Inorganic Electrochemistry in the School of Chemistry at University of Edinburgh (Athena SWAN Gold Award) and the first woman president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, will join us to share her story; highlighting her proudest moments as a woman in STEM, how she maintains her drive & love of science and remains optimistic that all women can reach their full potential. No need to book. EPSRC theme: IT as a Utility Network+ Meeting 19-20 Jun 14 Southampton Hilton Reports from all
of the ITaaU projects and secondments
will be available together with the following keynote speakers: ·
Joe
McLeod, Global Design Director at ustwo ·
Shenja
Van Der Graaf, iMinds, Belgium ·
Elizabeth
Churchill, Director of Human Computer Interaction, eBay Research Labs at eBay
Inc. ·
David
De Roure, Professor of e-Research at University of Oxford, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre ·
Lizbeth
Goodman, Professor of Inclusive Design & Chair of Creative Technology
Innovation at University College Dublin ·
Food
Standards Agency, UK – tbc Registration
required. Contact Steve Brewer,
Network Coordinator for more information. Join the ITaaU mailing list: http://jiscmail.ac.uk/itutility Centro Hack Weekend Challenge 21-22
Jun 14 Centro will be running a Hack Weekend Challenge with overnight stay at
Centro House, Birmingham. A Hack Weekend Challenge is essentially an intensive session of teams
developing code and from that, a prototype, which may be further developed
into a complete App. Whilst participation in the Hack Weekend Challenge
is unpaid, there are intangible benefits such as increased experience and
kudos for the participating teams and individuals. Prizes include Apple
products and High Street vouchers. The event is being targeted at students and recent graduates from the
UK and wider Europe and we are inviting them to form teams of two or three to
work overnight to develop a European travel app. We will provide the data
sets, plus food and refreshments. The event is for over 18s only. More information can be found here or by emailing education@centro.org.uk. National Women
in Engineering Day Event 2014: Reaching Your Full Potential 23
Jun 14 13:00-16:30 (bus departs from University of Manchester at 12:00) Concorde Hangar, Manchester Airport. WiSET (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) event to
celebrate women in STEM. We will hear inspirational stories, discuss
challenges and share personal experiences. We will host technical tours of
Concorde alongside a structured networking session with female engineers,
scientists and technologists from academia and industry. Our keynote address
will be given by Dr Danielle George, Reader in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering and Associate Dean for Teaching & Learning. Our industrialists, so far, include
AkzoNobel, Atkins, Cargill, IBM and Unilever. Booking is essential – email Helen Ryder to book or sign up via the online Google form. School seminar: The
Geometry of Shape 2
Jul 14 Professor Stephen Marsland, Massey University, New Zealand. 14:00, lecture theatre 1.4, Kilburn building Abstract Shapes -- loosely defined as smooth curves and surfaces where size,
orientation, and position are irrelevant -- appear in many areas of signal
processing, not least image analysis, including medical images. In this talk
I will give an overview of the field from an unashamedly partisan viewpoint
and highlight applications in a variety of areas. Some parts of the work are joint with Carole Twining. University Finite Element Club: Faster simulation for Fracture Mechanics 11 Jul 14 The next University of Manchester Finite Element Club meeting will be held on Friday 11th July from 10:00-12:00. The format of the meeting is an open workshop organized and chaired by Dr Lee Margetts and Dr Jonathan Boyle. In the meeting, attendees will discuss how to tackle the issue of long run times for engineering simulations involving fracture. Participants are invited to give "lightning talks" about their research to encourage discussion. The event is open to PhD students, researchers, academic and support staff. Please note that registration is required. Click here for further info and registration. Visit by EPSRC
ICT theme 3
Sept 14 As mentioned at the last school board, we've organised a visit to the school by the EPSRC's ICT theme. Liam Blackwell, leader of the ICT theme, will be joined by several of the portfolio managers on the visit. Details will be circulated at a later date, but expect the day to involve: 1. A talk by Liam Blackwell on what's happening now and in the near future in the ICT theme. 2. A session for early career researchers 3. Meetings of groups of researchers with relevant portfolio managers. 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. CHIST-ERA call 2014 definition: invite 17-18 Jun 14 Event: 17-18 June 2014, Istanbul (Turkey) Call expected: October 2014 The CHIST-ERA ERA-NET is a consortium of funding organisations in Europe with programmes supporting ICST. The consortium is itself supported by the EU’s Future & Emerging Technologies scheme (FET). CHIST-ERA promotes multidisciplinary and transnational ICT research with the potential to lead to significant breakthroughs. The funding organisations jointly support research projects selected in the framework of CHIST-ERA, in order to reinforce European capabilities in selected topics. For 2014 the two new and hot topics are: ·
Resilient Trustworthy Cyber-Physical
Systems ·
Human Language Understanding
Remember…funding may be available from the School to attend this event – contact Rizos.Sakellariou@manchester.ac.uk for information. 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. Sophia Ananiadou, Paul Thompson, Raheel Nawaz, John McNaught and
Douglas B. Kell. event-based text mining for biology
and functional genomics. Briefings in Functional Genomics James Malone, Andy Brown, Allyson Lister, Jon Ison, Duncan Hull,
Helen Parkinson and Robert Stevens. The Software Ontology (SWO): a resource
for reproducibility in biomedical data analysis, curation and digital
preservation. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 2014, 5:25 doi:10.1186/2041-1480-5-25 http://www.jbiomedsem.com/content/5/1/25 Fu, X. and Ananiadou, S. (2014). Improving the Extraction of Clinical
Concepts from Clinical Records. In: Proceedings of the 4th
Workshop on Building and Evaluating Resources for Health and Biomedical Text
Processing, Reykjavik, Iceland, ELRA Alnazzawi, N., Thompson, P. and Ananiadou, S. (2014). Building a semantically annotated corpus
for congestive heart and renal failure from clinical records and the
literature. In: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on
Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi), Gothenburg, Sweden, pp.
69-74, Association for Computational Linguistics 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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