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22 September 2014 |
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News
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Watch SpiNNaker 105 being wired up SpiNNaker 105 contains 103,680 mobile-phone grade (ARM) processor cores and a specialised high-speed network to simulate up to 100,000,000 neurons, or about one mouse worth. Over the summer, Jonathan Heathcote, who graduated from the School in 2013 and is now a PhD student in the APT group, made a time-lapse video of himself wiring up the machine. Read more and see Jonathan in action. The group is working on the design and construction of a machine that will be 10 times larger – a million cores simulating a billion neurones. Dual honour for Prof Tsujii Prof. Jun'ichi Tsujii, a visiting professor in NaCTeM has been awarded the FUNAI Achievement Award-Information Processing Society of Japan. Last month Prof Tsujii was appointed as chairman of the International Committee of Computational Linguistics. ICCL organises the International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING). EPSRC photo competition EPSRC are looking for outstanding photographs of research: http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/events/photocomp2014/ You can see the 2013 winners here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/epsrc/collections/72157646048446795/ News and
announcements
Survey of science and engineering research software The EPS research software survey closes in two weeks on 30th September. The EPS Applications Support Team is undertaking a survey of the science and engineering software used in research within EPS, to help plan future IT support for researchers. To take part in the survey please use the link and follow the instructions; it should take about 5 minutes to complete. https://survey.eps.manchester.ac.uk/TakeSurvey.aspx?SurveyID=l202682 If you have questions about this please email applicationsupport-eps@manchester.ac.uk. First International Workshop on FPGAs for
Software Programmers (FSP) Dirk Koch co-organised the First International Workshop on
FPGAs for Software Programmers (FSP). The FSP workshop was held in
conjunction with the FPL conference in Munich. The full-day workshop
attracted 65 attendees from all continents and we already have several
requests for organizing another issue next year. More details and the program
can be found on the FSP website. New library contact Nick Campbell is taking over from Francoise
Sullivan as Academic Engagement Librarian for the School of Computer
Science. His email address is nick.campbell@manchester.ac.uk.
Events
Improving
everyday interactions with your phone 24
Sep 14 14:00, Lecture
theatre 1.4, Kilburn building. Dr D. Brumby, Senior Lecturer at University College London, hosted by Caroline Jay. RAEng
Research
Forum 26
Sep 14 10:00-17:00 26 September, RAEng, Prince
Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DG Carole Goble is
speaking at the annual Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) event, which
explores the cutting-edge of world-class engineering research, funded by the
RAEng. It provides an excellent opportunity for the worlds of research,
industry, business and policy to meet and exchange views. Registration required. Researchfish reporting taking over from ROS – workshops available Various in Oct 14 From September all 7
Research Councils will be using Researchfish for the collection of
information on the outcomes of Research Council funded research. · Monday 6th
October - Hilton London Euston · Tuesday 7th October - Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel · Wednesday 8th
October - Novotel Edinburgh Centre If you would like to
attend one of these roadshows then please email roh@rcuk.ac.uk with the following information: Regular updates on the project webpage available through: EPS Pensions Chat Room 7
or 21 Oct 14 A chance to discuss pension matters
face-to-face with a member of the Pensions Office on: 7 October (12 to 14:00) in D39 Sackville Street Building OR 21 October (12 to 14:00) in Niels Bohr Common Room, Schuster Building Is there a question you have always to ask about your current or
previous pension? Whichever pension scheme you belong to (i.e. USS, UMSS, NHSPS or
GMPF), you are invited to drop in at the EPS Pensions Chat Room on one of the
above dates to talk to one of our pensions colleagues. They can provide you with answers to all sorts of generic questions or
tell you how to access information about our pension schemes, e.g.: · I’d like to save
more toward my pension: how to do I go about it? · I’ve got a
pension from another employer, what can I do with this? · What would my
family receive if I died in service? · When can I
retire? · How can I find
out how much my pension is worth? · I don’t belong
to a pension scheme: should I join one? As well as having a chance to meet the Pensions team and put faces to
names, you’ll be able to pick up a range of pensions scheme literature. No
appointment is needed. Please note that the team will not be able to offer more personal,
detailed advice at these sessions; if this is what you need please make an
appointment with the Pensions Office by emailing pensions@manchester.ac.uk. Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Manchester event 16 Oct 14 In its capacity as UK
National Contact Point for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, the UK
Research Office is holding an information and proposal writing event for
researchers which is hosted by University
of Manchester on 16 October 2014. This event could be quite helpful to anyone planning to participate in
Marie Curie ITN application. This event is open to all UK researchers, so the
places will be taken up quite quickly. So, please register at the
earliest by completing the online registration form available from the event website. 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 for 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 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. H2020 and High Performance
Computing (HPC) Want to know
more about HPC opportunities in H2020? The
e-infrastructure special interest group of the Knowledge Transfer Network has
made some slides available. Some upcoming
calls include: ·
FET Proactive funding opportunities: Towards exascale
high-performance computing
deadline November 2014 REMINDER: British Council Research Links Travel
Grant 30 Sep 2014 Closing date: 30 September
2014 Travel grants are available under the Researcher Links initiative, as part of the Researcher Links - Newton Fund, and separately as Researcher Links. Researchers based in the UK and one of the partner countries may apply to spend up to 3 months in a research institution, either in the UK (if researcher is based in a partner country), or one of the partner countries (if researcher is based in the UK). Research visits funded by successful travel grant applications must take place before 31 Mar 2016. REMINDER: Joint EPSRC and POST postgraduate initiative 2015 3 Oct 2014 Closing date: 3 October
2014 For EPSRC-funded PhD students: looking to make your CV stand out? A 3-month secondment opportunity to the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology (POST) is open to EPSRC-funded PhD students. EPSRC and Rail Safety call 9 Oct 2014 Closing date: 16:00
9 October 2014 EPSRC and the Rail Safety and Standards Board (RSSB), supported by Department for Transport (DfT) invite research proposals working towards the joint research call on the impact of new materials on the whole-life cost of railway assets. EPSRC IAA 7th call 15
Oct 2014 Closing date: noon 15 October 2014 EPSRC has awarded the University over £3.2M
to deliver an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) and extended the running date
until 31st March 2017. Funding is available for work based on
EPSRC-funded research under the following mechanisms: • Relationship
Incubation • Concept
& Feasibility Scheme • Exploitation
Secondment • Academic
Secondment Sean Bechhofer, Simon
Harper and Uli Sattler have all been previously successful with
this scheme. RCUK- CONFAP (Brazil) Newton
Call for projects 17
Oct 2014 Closing date: 16:00 17 October 2014 RCUK and the Brazilian Council of State
Funding Agencies are inviting applications for the Newton Fund RCUK-CONFAP
Research Partnerships call. The aim of this call is to provide flexible
short-term support for small-scale (up to 12 months; max £50k) research and
networking activities, with the objective of establishing sustainable collaborations
between UK and Brazilian researchers. Applications must specifically address
poverty alleviation or development issues, particularly: · Health · Urban
transformations · Food energy
water environment nexus · Biodiversity
ecosystems and resilience · Economic
development and welfare reform Applications across all research areas are
also eligible, as long as they make a strong case for UK-Brazil collaboration
and are ODA compliant. Successful grants will be announced in December 2014
with start dates as soon as possible after this announcement. A single, joint
application should be developed by the Brazilian and UK applicants using the
application form available to download from the call page. Transforming approaches to improving hearing aid
technology 27
Nov 14 Closing date: 27 October 2014 This call encourages Engineering,
Information and Communication Technologies, Physical and Mathematical
Sciences researchers to develop disruptive technologies for use in hearing
aid devices. Featured
Research Outcomes
Did you know…papers featured in the newsletter also go on display in the
Kilburn Building (outside finance: 2.03)? Send your new publications to Robert
Stevens so that more
people get to know about your research. Selected recent publications · Tim Clark, Paolo Ciccarese, Carole A. Goble: Micropublications: a semantic model for claims, evidence, arguments and annotations in biomedical communications. J. Biomedical Semantics 5: 28 (2014) · Carole A. Goble: Better Software, Better Research. IEEE Internet Computing 18(5): 4-8 (2014) · Andi Drebes, Karine Heydemann, Nathalie Drach, Antoniu Pop, and Albert Cohen. * 2014. Topology-Aware and Dependence-Aware Scheduling and Memory Allocation for Task-Parallel Languages. ACM Trans. Archit. Code Optim. 11, 3, Article 30 (August 2014), 25 pages. DOI=10.1145/2641764 Have we missed something? If you have some award news that you would
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