News from Head of
School
Welcome to 2006
Welcome back to what I hope will be a happy and
productive New Year for all of you. With the window of opportunity
closing for submitting journal papers in time for RAE 2008, and
significant developments on the teaching front, we have a challenging year
ahead of us. The best of luck in all your
endeavours.
Support Staff Away Day
One of the most important challenges we face is
that of promoting academic excellence by developing a professional
administration, able to free up the time of academic staff for research
and teaching, whilst working to enhance the external image of the
School. With this in mind, there has been a major reorganisation of
administrative support over the past few months, reinforced by several new
appointments. This week, all our administrative and support
staff will be getting together for 24 hours, to spend time thinking
about how they can best support the academic mission of the School and,
hopefully, have some fun too. For those of you not fortunate enough
to be attending, this means that all
administration offices will be closed on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday
morning.
Research Review
Following the external review and our internal
feedback meeting, John Gurd and I are keen to do everything we can to help
individuals, and the School as a whole, to further improve our already
strong research performance. We will be discussing with the
professoriate how this might best be achieved, but in the meantime, it
would be very valuable if every member of academic staff could start to
develop an explicit plan for raising his/her game in the coming year,
however well s/he is currently doing. One of the clear messages to
come out of the review is that none of us can afford to be complacent, and
that we still have some way to go if we are to achieve our target of
becoming the top CS School in the UK, and in the top 25
internationally.
Robust Semantic Processing for Information
Extraction New
13 Jan 06
Dr Ann Copestake,
University
of Cambridge
1400-1500, E7 lecture
theatre, Renold Building
NaCTeM Seminar, More
Information
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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Support Staff Away Day New
11-12 Jan 06
Bower Hotel Chadderton. Coach leaves from
lay-by on Booth St
E, 1200 Wed 11
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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Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
New
31 Jan 06
Call for Proposals. The Isaac Newton
Institute for Mathematical Sciences is a national research institute in
Cambridge.
It aims to bring mathematical scientists from UK universities and leading
experts from overseas together for concentrated research on specialised
topics in all branches of the mathematical sciences from pure mathematics,
applied mathematics, and statistics, to engineering, computer science,
theoretical physics and mathematical biology. The Institute now
invites new proposals for programmes for 2008 onwards.
More
Information
BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
Open
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.
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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
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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.
More
Information
RAEng
Industrial Secondment Scheme New
Open
The Industrial Secondment Scheme provides an
invaluable opportunity for university lecturers in engineering to gain
state-of-the-art industrial experience.
Applicable to engineers of all
disciplines, the Scheme's objective is to enable the secondees to impart
the fruits of this experience to their students through teaching, through
case studies using up-to-date material and, in the longer term, through
course design. The benefits also accrue to the host organisation which
gains a temporary but highly qualified member of staff, and to the
university which has the opportunity of strengthening its links with
industry. The Scheme provides funding for the university to employ a
temporary replacement for the secondee. In this way it minimises the
effects on the normal flow of teaching, and makes it easier for
universities to release members of staff for secondment. The Scheme has
also been well received by industry, and many organisations have indicated
a willingness to offer places to engineering academics: where possible The
Royal Academy of Engineering helps in the 'matchmaking
process'.
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Royal Academy of Engineering Global
Research Awards New
Global Research Awards provide an opportunity for
engineers currently engaged in research and development to undertake
projects in centres of excellence overseas. Projects should focus on
activities which could help stimulate wealth creation and improvements in
the quality of life, supporting the international development of research
networks and encouraging the uptake of globally competitive technology in
the UK.
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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.
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.
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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
None this week
Academic Departures
None this week
Research Arrivals
Boris Motik - IMG
Research Departures
Holger Knublauch - HBIG
Administrative Arrivals
None this week
Administrative Departures
None this week
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
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Research Staff
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Administrative Staff
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