News from Head of
School
2006/7 Planning Cycle
The School strategic plan and budget for were
finalised and submitted to Faculty last week. As you all know, the
plan builds substantially on the 2005/6 version, which we discussed at
great length, but fills in some gaps and refines some of the
targets. Many thanks to all those who provided feedback. The
plans of all Schools in EPS have now been aggregated, and the overall
outcome for the Faculty will discussed at an EPS Planning Meeting on
Wednesday. This may result in a final iteration of School
plans. I will arrange for the final version of the CS plan to be
posted on the School intranet next week.
Ian Horrocks’ Roger Needham
Lecture
A sizable delegation from the School attended the
presentation of Ian’s Roger Needham award and public lecture at the Royal
Society last week. It proved to be a very enjoyable event, with
Ian’s talk much praised. It was good to see the School in the
spotlight, though the efforts of one of our leading
researchers.
Feedback on External Review of
Research
Many thanks to the members of academic staff (a
large proportion of the total) who attended the meeting convened last week
to discuss the outcome of the external review of the School’s
research. As everyone is aware, we received very favourable comments
from the review panel, so the overall message is positive. More
detailed analysis suggests, however, that there are weaknesses we need to
address, if we are to achieve the level of excellence to which we
aspire. We had a very constructive discussion at the meeting, which
John Gurd and I will be following up with more detailed discussions with
research groups.
Six
speakers – introduction to Grid and middleware
Merrison Lecture
Theatre, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory
Registration
Electronic Design Automation
New
Wed 14 Dec
Professor Andrew Brown. University of Southampton
1415-1515, Lecture Theatre 1.5,
Kilburn
Building
Logic/Philosophy Seminar
New
Wed 14 Dec
Graham Priest, St Andrews &
Melbourne
1600-1700, Room OG19, Humanities Building, Dover
St.
Text Mining - A Cure for Depression?
New
Fri 16 Dec
The Trials, Tribulations and
Fantasies of a Database Curator
Professor Theresa Attwood, Faculty of Life
Sciences
1400-1500 E7 lecture theatre,Renold Building
Regular Seminar Series
See links in
contents bar for information on seminar series organised by the School of
CS, E-Science North
West and National Centre for Text Mining.
Internal Meetings and
Events
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None of general interest this week
Manchester Turing
Lecture
25 Jan 06
Lifestyle access for the
disabled – adding positive drift to the random walk with technology.
Chris Mairs, Data
Connection.
Registration necessary. More
Information
EPSRC Public Engagement
Workshops
8 Feb & 9 Mar 06
Introducing PE to ‘virgins’ and passing on best
practice. Space limited.
More information and
registration.
Genomes to Systems
Conference
22-24 Mar 06
An important conference concerning the latest
concepts and breakthroughs in genomics and systems biology.
Discounted registration before 31 Dec 05
More
Information
Funding
Opportunities
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University of Manchester-IBM Partners
Programme
12 Dec 05
Partners will be working in areas of overlapping
strategic importance to both organisations and through partnership will
work together to achieve organisational goals. They will be supported to
spend time interacting with each other and developing and promulgating an
understanding of each organisation thereby identifying substantive areas
of activity. The programme will also act as an enabler in developing the
IBM-UoM relationship and the understanding between the organisations and
will contribute to the Partners’ personal
development.
If you require further
information/clarification, please do not hesitate to contact
Phil Galvin via e-mail on phil.galvin@manchester.ac.uk
or phone 0161 275 3062
BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
BBSRC's International Scientific Interchange
Scheme (ISIS) provides support to help scientists make and establish new
contacts with their international counterparts. Funding is available to
BBSRC grantholders, and researchers working on BBSRC-supported projects at
BBSRC-sponsored Institutes for travel and subsistence for three main types
of visit. The scheme is open to bids at any time (at least 6 weeks before
travel) with payments being made in advance of any visits. Please note
BBSRC-supported students are not eligible to travel under ISIS support.
More
Information
Research Councils Follow-on
Fund
14 Dec 05
"Follow-on-funds" provide financial support for
projects with a clear commercial concept to accelerate their progress
towards commercialisation. EPSRC funding will be limited to a total of
£285k for UoM, with a maximum for individual projects of £110k under fEC.
There are no restrictions on applications to BBSRC, NERC and PPARC.
Applications will be coordinated by UMIP with Richard
Price the primary EPS contact.
Members of staff interested in applying should complete the attached
template and e-mail to Richard Price
by 4pm on Wednesday 14th December
2005. The final deadline for submissions has also been
confirmed as February
17th 2006. Template
More
information
Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research
Fellowships 14 Dec
05
The Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research
Fellowships were established through the generosity of the Leverhulme
Trust and seek to provide opportunities for academic researchers to be
relieved of all their teaching and administrative duties. These
appointments enable academic researchers to concentrate on full-time
research for up to one year. Applicants must be of postdoctoral
status or equivalent, hold a permanent post in a UK University and be at a
stage in their career when they would particularly benefit from a period
of full-time research.
More Information
Toshiba Fellowship
Programme
2006
15 Dec
05
Toshiba, supported by the EPSRC (Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council) is offering outstanding European
scientists the opportunity to join one of its high-technology research
teams in Japan for up to two years.
The Toshiba Fellowship Programme is open to PhD level researchers of
EU nationality currently working in a UK academic institution. The
research areas vary broadly from year to year in the field of science and
engineering. The Programme offers the successful Fellow a generous package
including a fixed salary and travel to and from Japan.
More
Information
BBSRC Industry Interchange
Programme
16 Dec 05
The movement of people is considered one of the
best forms of knowledge transfer and there is potentially great benefit to
the UK economy and society from
supporting such opportunities. BBSRC is piloting the Industry Interchange
Programme to support the short-term exchange, in either direction, of
researchers between the science base and industry. The objective of the
Programme is to support Interchanges that provide strategic advantage to
the UK science base and industry
arising from reciprocal access to facilities, expertise and/or knowledge,
and an increased understanding of scientific issues of common
concern.
More
Information
Weizmann Institute Visiting Professorships
New
31 Dec05
The Visiting
Professorships are available to suitable candidates from all countries.
They are intended for outstanding scientists from institutions of higher
learning and research institutions, who have achieved appropriate
recognition in their fields of activity and who hold the rank of Full
Professor (or an equivalent rank) in their home institutions. The
Visiting Professorships are awarded for a period of from two months to a
maximun of one year and provide financial remuneration in accordance with
the Weizmann Institute salary scale for visiting scientists. (The average
stay is three months.) Recipients are eligible for a round trip air fare
(at the cheapest direct commercial fare) for the awardee and spouse, and
rent-free housing.
More
Information
EPSRC Senior
Media
Fellowships
26 Jan 06
The Public Engagement Programme invites
applications for Senior Media Fellowships. These enable leading
researchers to devote time to develop a higher media profile. The aim is
to advance public engagement with the physical sciences, mathematics and
engineering via the broadcast and written media. Senior Media Fellowships
are intended to be used for active development of media opportunities (not
research, scholarship or teaching).
More
Information
Royal Commission Research
Fellowships
23 Feb 06
The scheme of 1851 Research Fellowships is
intended to give a few young scientists or engineers of exceptional
promise the opportunity for conducting research for a further period of
two years. Approximately six awards are made each year. Candidates in
science subjects must normally be in possession of a PhD degree, or in the
final stages of their PhD studies.
The Fellowships are open to
candidates in any of the physical or biological sciences, in mathematics,
in applied science, or in any branch of engineering.
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Information
Prize and
Award
Opportunities
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We have acknowledged the need to raise the profile
of the School both nationally and internationally. Nominating
individuals for awards, and working actively with others to ensure that
deserving individuals are nominated is one way of doing
that.
Roger Needham
Award
21 Dec 05
The Roger Needham Award, sponsored by Microsoft
Research, and established in memory of the late Roger Needham, is for a
distinguished research contribution in computer science by a UK based researcher within ten
years of their PhD. It consists of a £5000 prize together with an
opportunity to give a public lecture on their work.
More
information
IEEE Internet
Award
31 Jan 06
The IEEE Internet Award was established by the
IEEE Board of Directors in June of 1999. It is presented annually for
exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for
network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. This award can
be given to an individual or team of up to three.
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The IEEE Koji Kobayashi
Award
31 Jan 06
The IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and
Communications Award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in
1986 for outstanding contributions to the integration of computers and
communications. This award can be given to an individual, multiple
recipients, or a team.
More
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The IEEE Emanuel R Piore
Award
31 Jan 06
The IEEE Emanuel R. Piore award is presented
annually to an individual, or team of two individuals, for outstanding
contributions in the field of information processing, in relation to
computer science, deemed to have contributed significantly to the
advancement of science and to the betterment of society.
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None this week
Awards and Promotions
None this week
Academic Arrivals
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Academic Departures
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Research Arrivals
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Research Departures
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Administrative Arrivals
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Administrative Departures
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Sabbatical Leave
Andrei
Voronkov: Microsoft Research, Redmond USA
Aug 05 – Aug
06.
Ian
Horrocks: University of Bozen-Bolzano, Bell Labs, and Stanford University
Feb 06 – Sep
06.
Peter
Aczel: Nijmegen University, and Maths Institute at the
University
of Munich
Jan 06 –
Sep 06.
Alasdair
Rawsthorne: 80% secondment to
Transitive Technologies
Oct 05 – Sep 06.
Alvaro
Fernandes: IBM Almaden Research Centre
US
Jul – Dec 06.
Academic Staff
None
Research Staff
None
Administrative Staff
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