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Weekly
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13 October 2014 |
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News and announcements
School
Research Symposium 2014 come along! 28-30
Oct 14 We have a draft program here
for this year's Research Symposium: a whopping 38 advanced PhD and CDT
students will give oral presentations of their research, and more than 50 PhD
and CDT students will give poster presentations. And then there will be
prizes - for the best PhD Thesis and the Best PhD paper (sponsored by IBM,
thanks!), as well as a keynote lecture by Stephen Brewster from the
University of Glasgow. Please put the dates into your calendar:
we count on you for questions, feedback for the presentations - and we are
now looking for volunteers to judge the poster session on Thursday, 30
October, from 15:00: please email Uli
Sattler if you plan to go to the poster session and could help us with
judging posters (we will provide you with a feedback form). Events
Can computers change their minds? 15 Oct 14 Professor Alan Bundy. University of Edinburgh 14:00, Lecture Theatre 1.4, Kilburn Building Successful
reasoning is dependent on appropriate representation of both knowledge and of
successful methods of reasoning. Failures of reasoning can suggest changes of
representation. Reasoning failures can, for instance, take the form of proofs
of false conjectures, failures to prove true conjectures or inefficient
inference. I will illustrate these interactions by drawing on work
multi-agent planning and the evolution of theories of physics. http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/seminars/ Ada Lovelace Day 15 Oct 14 13:30-18:00, Room G107, Alan Turing Building. Keynote speakers: Professor Dame Celia Hoyles, Professor President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Professor of Mathematics Education, University of London Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Professor of Computer Science, The University of Manchester Fiona Crowther, Storage System Development Team Lead, IBM Systems & Technology Lab, Manchester Students and early career academics will also share their stories, and Robogals will provide demonstrations. You are invited to join us on the day but please book. Please email Helen Ryder or go here. School Board meeting 15 Oct 14 15:00, Room 407, IT building Update on Faculty research IT service support; Resources Report; IT Strategy Report Robotics: Current trends and Future Horizons 5 Nov 14 08:45-15:30, The Britannia Hotel, Portland Street,Manchester,M1 3LA Free to attend, registration required. Speakers and titles: · Alan Spreckley, Global Industry Segment
Manager, ABB. (Robotics in Advanced Manufacturing) · Nigel Dawson, FESTO (Developing Future
Robotics Based on Natures Past) · Professor Darwin Caldwell, IIT Genoa
(The Development of Advanced Bipedal and Quadruped Robotics) · Rob Buckingham, Director, UK Atomic Energy
Authority Centre for Remote Applications in Challenging Environments,
(RACE) UK (RAS 2020 Robotics and Autonomous Systems: a National strategy
document) · Paul Mort, Technical Lead, Sellafield
Ltd (Remote Operational Challenges at Sellafield) · Bob Bowen, NNL and Adam Mallion,
OC Robotics (Laser Snake 2) For full details and to reserve a please click here. IBM Women in Technology Day 12 Nov 14 Inspiring more women to embrace a career in IT Event: 10:00 to 16:30, One Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, M1 1RN Deadline to apply: 17 October 2014 BNY Mellon and IBM have teamed together to run a day packed full of fun and advice. This is an ideal opportunity to interact with professionals with a wide spectrum of careers in IT. The day will start with a Welcome Introduction. Participants will then split into groups and be given a mini team project challenge. Prizes will be awarded for a variety of categories set by a panel of judges. The day will conclude with a roundtable and networking session involving a number of Women IT professionals. Refreshments and lunch will be provided. TO APPLY:
Please send an email to: wit-event@uk.ibm.com
including your Name, University, Degree Course and one sentence about why you
want to attend by Friday 17th October
2014. See also, the original flyer. Marie Curie ITN writing event Final reminder that UKRO are holding an information and proposal writing events
for researchers who are interested in applying for the 2015 MSCA 'Innovative
Training Networks' call. Registration is via the UKRO webpage and there are
limited places left. 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 its important to understand
whats 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) Nov
14 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 Southeast Asia Knowledge Partnership - collaboration development awards - call for proposals Key dates Applications
by 31 October 2014 Decision
notification by mid November 2014 Travel
to be completed and reports to be submitted by 6 March 2015 Overview The
British High Commission, Singapore and the British Council announce a call
for proposals through the UK-SE Asia Knowledge Partnership to support the
initial stages of new collaborations between UK and Southeast Asia
researchers and policymakers. Collaborative
Development Awards (CDAs) are mobility grants to support the initial stages
of new collaborations between UK and South-East Asian researchers and
policymakers. The aim of the Awards is to catalyse research collaborations
through new joint project development and access to research funds. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - 3 new Grand Challenges · Putting women and girls at the centre of development · Creating and measuring integrated solutions for healthy birth, growth, and development (part of the All Children Thriving platform) · New interventions for global health Applications for these new challenges will be accepted beginning on 4 November 2014. Please also note that we are still accepting applications for six Grand Challenges Explorations topics. Breast Cancer Campaign Project Grants 5 Jan 15 Deadline: 5 January 2015. Awards of up to £200k for 3 years to fund pioneering breast cancer research. Campaign is committed to supporting young investigators in breast cancer research and encourages applications from talented new postdoctoral researchers. To find out more and apply for a grant please go to our website. Breast Cancer Campaign recently facilitated a Gap Analysis
to identify gaps in breast cancer research, the findings of which were
published in the journal, Breast Cancer Research. 10 critical
gaps in breast cancer research were identified and need to be addressed. 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. New publications G. Duck, G. Nenadic, A. Brass, D. L. Robertson, and R. Stevens. Extracting Patterns of Database and Software Usage from the Bioinformatics Literature. Bioinformatics, 30(17):i601-i608, 2014. http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/30/17/i601.abstract M. Vigo, S. Bail, C. Jay, and R. Stevens. Overcoming the Pitfalls of Ontology Authoring: Strategies and Implications for Tool Design. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 72(12):835 - 845, 2014. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1071581914001013 Have we missed something? If you have some award news that you would
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