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Weekly
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19 January 2015 |
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News and announcements
Kilburn Club: Careers with Computing 27 Jan 15 The next meeting of the School’s Kilburn Club will take place on Tuesday 27th January and the topic of this meeting will be "Careers with Computing". Led by Dr Suzanne Embury and Dr David Rydeheard, this will be an exciting and innovative event where teachers will have an opportunity to talk with computing practitioners across a wide range of sectors, from traditional computing companies, through media and entertainment, to the wealth of new applications of computing. The intention is that the evening’s activities will produce documents that teachers can use as careers guidance and skills advice. If you’d like to attend and have the chance to network with our key contacts from local Schools, feel free to join us in the Staff Common room from 17:30. Newest CS
Research Newsletter out now! The winter edition of our School Research Newsletter is out. Take a look at our REF results and some recent research news stories from Computer Science. Electronic version: http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/our-research/news/ Hard copies: will be available outside KB2.7 this week. Contact Sarah Chatwin with any comments or ideas for future editions.
Brussels Info Day Richard Banach attended the recent Brussels Info Day on the forthcoming calls on the Internet of Things, Low Power Computing and Factories of the Future. Interest in the IoT was enormous, in the other topics much lower. One payoff for attending and presenting at similar events in areas close to one's interests is the contacts it can bring that may prove potentially useful down the line (due to the fact that everyone else there is potentially looking for project partners too). This applies not only for proposals aimed at the headline call, but can prove useful more widely for other types of call in the future. One piece of gossip that goes round concerns the typical success rate of proposals in H2020: from 7% down to 3% (in the case of one call). RETHINK big Synthesis
Workshop On 9-10
December 2014, the RETHINK big
team from Manchester attended the project’s Synthesis Workshop in Barcelona. https://www.flickr.com/photos/128324525@N07/sets/72157649704321441/ Football success Congratulations to Jez Lloyd for being part of the winning team at Wednesday's inaugural university wide staff five-a-side tournament representing EPS-PSS. Events
Ximbio/UMIP research reagent event 20/21 Jan 15 Tuesday
20th January: Michael Smith Building Wednesday
21st January: MIB John Garside Building. Ximbio (www.Ximb.io) is the research reagent business
unit from Cancer Research Technology (CRT), the development and
commercialisation arm of Cancer Research UK. Researchers
interested in learning how Ximbio can help increase the global visibility of
their new and already developed research tools, and help manage requests for
those reagents, are invited to contact Dr
Melanie Hardman from Ximbio (or call on 020 3469 6449 or 07733 220175) to
arrange a one-to-one discussion. Alternatively Melanie will be available at
the Ximbio exhibition stand on the dates given above. Bio-health lunch meetings 21 Jan 15 13:00, 2.33, Kilburn building. There is a large amount of activity in the bio-health area across the School. Knowledge of what's happening in this area is not as widespread as it could be. To try and counteract this and to promote cross-fertilisation and some hybrid vigour, we'd like to start an informal monthly bio-health lunch meeting forum for news, views, gathering opinion, asking questions and so on. We'll do a round table and talk about what we'd want such meetings to do, how often and where. Please feel free to bring your lunch. Contact Robert Stevens or Goran Nenadic for more details. Practical IEEE Session for EPS 28 Jan 15 12:30-14:30, E7, Renold Building. Understand more about publishing
in IEE journals with this practical session by IEEE, presented by Julia
Stockdale. For
more information contact Hazel
Bentley. Vice President and Dean’s EPS Faculty Open Meeting 28 Jan 15 12-13:00,
G53, Chemistry building, number 61
on the interactive map.
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. MDC PGR
Conference Travel Fund for EPS 31
Jul 15 or until allocated Closing
date: Apply asap (first come, first served). Decisions will be made at
the monthly EPS Graduate Committee meetings up until 31 July 2015 or until
the Fund is fully allocated. The Manchester Doctoral College (MDC) has granted the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences a small amount of funding to support Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) attending national or international research conferences. This fund enables PhD researchers in their 2nd year or later to apply for support to attend a conference where they have been accepted to present a talk or a poster. You must be presenting or the Fund cannot support you. A major stipulation of the Fund is that it only be used in situations where funding has first been looked for externally. Full details and application form Research
Collaborations with BRAZIL - Royal Academy of Engineering Closing date: 10:00 on Monday 26 January, 2015. The Newton Research Collaboration Programme provides up to £24k funding to support exchanges of 3-12 months between researchers in science and engineering disciplines from the UK and Brazil. The lead institution must be from the UK and all research collaborations under this call must begin between March 1st 2015 and March 31st 2015 and end by March 31st 2016. More details can be found here. The call is financed by the UK Government’s Newton Fund which supports R&D and innovation links between the UK and select developing countries. TASCC: Towards Autonomy - Smart and Connected Control 29 Jan 15 Closing date: 16:00, 29 January 2015. The EPSRC Engineering and Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Themes in partnership with Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) are inviting outline proposals that explore research in the area of 'Smart and Connected Control' around the central challenge of moving towards a fully autonomous car. http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/tascc/ RCUK Digital Economy Fellowships in DE priority areas 28 Feb 15 Closing date: 28 Feb 2015
· Social computing · Business and economic models ·
Advancing the Internet of
Things for DE Please email your intention to submit in advance. For further guidance, please contact digitaleconomy@epsrc.ac.uk Royal
Society-DFID Africa Capacity Building Initiative 19 Mar 15 Closing date: 19 March
2015. This programme is for scientists who want to develop collaborative
research consortia between scientists in sub-Saharan Africa and a research
institution in the UK. The Royal
Photographic Society International Images for Science 23 Mar 15 Closing date: 23 March 2015 Calling all scientists, photographers, researchers and students this is an opportunity to submit your photographs of scientific importance. We encourage images that document all fields of science, including the application of science to engineering, from the microscopic to the astronomic. 100 final images will be selected by a judging panel to form a touring exhibition that will open during the British Science Festival in Bradford 2015. International Images for Science is supported by Siemens. 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. EMPATHY: Enriching Metabolic PATHwaY models with evidence from the literature Prof. Pedro Mendes; Prof. Sophia Ananiadou; Dr Neil Swainston; Prof. Douglas Kell; Dr Rafal Rak Funding: £742k Funders: BBSRC and Unilever A number of genome-scale metabolic network models exist, but abundant evidence indicates that even mature ones are highly incomplete. It is certain that evidence for many of the 'missing' reactions already exists, but is hidden in the literature, and with more than 23 million papers in PubMed alone, no one can read them. The aim of this 3 year project is to utilise text mining to extract information necessary for the construction of metabolic network models from the large number of scientific articles that are published daily. The results of these analyses will be presented to model developers, who will judge and extract this information to develop existing metabolic models further. Based on NaCTeM's existing text mining infrastructures, Argo and PathText, we will integrate text mining solutions with metabolic models for management and reconstruction. The outcomes or deliverables of this research will be:
Selected publications O'Mara-Eves, A., Thomas, J., McNaught, J., Miwa, M. and S.
Ananiadou: "Using
text mining for study identification in systematic reviews: a systematic
review of current approaches"; Systematic Reviews (2015) 4:5, DOI:
10.1186/2046-4053-4-5 Samantha V. Adams, Alexander D. Rast, Cameron Patterson, Francesco Galluppi, Kevin Brohan, José-Antonio Perez-Carrasco, Thomas Wennekers, Steve Furber, Angelo Cangelosi; Neural Information Processing, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 8836, 2014, pp563-570. Proton transport through one-atom-thick crystals; S. Hu, M.Lozada-Hidalgo, F. C. Wang, A. Mishchenko, F. Schedin, R. R. Nair, E. W. Hill, D. W. Boukhvalov, M. I. Katsnelson, R. A. W. Dryfe, I. V.Grigorieva, H. A. Wu, A. K. Geim:Nature
516, 227–230, doi:10.1038/nature14015
Congratulations to the following students on their successful PhDs! Georgios Kontonatsios (supervised by Prof. Sophia Ananiadou; co-supervised by Dr Ioannis Korkontzelos) for the thesis: Automatic Compilation of Bilingual Terminologies from Comparable Corpora.Keng Yap Ng (supervised by Dr Kung Kiu Lau) for the thesis: Incremental construction of component-based Systems: A study based on Software Component Models.
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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