News from Head of
School
New University Finance
System
The new University Finance System went live on
1st June. There have been numerous problem’s with its
introduction and there has been huge dissatisfaction across the University
with the changeover. It is a tribute to John, Marie, Duressa and
Claire in our Finance Office that most of you are probably unaware of all
this. Through their hard work and professionalism the new system has
been introduced in CS with very few problems and, for most of us, the
changeover has been virtually seamless. It is easy to take
excellence for greanted, but I’d like to record my thanks to the members
of the Finance team for a job well done.
CS/Informatics
Staff in the School of Informatics have had an opportunity
to consider whether they think their research best fits into CS or MBS and
final transfer decisions have been made for most staff. A small number of
cases will take a few more days to resolve, for example where staff may
have missed the recent announcements about the future of the School of
Informatics due to
absence on holiday. I am sure you are all anxious to know which
staff will be joining us and I hope I will be able to let you have that
information within the next few days. I am grateful for your patience with
a process which has turned out to be more protracted than originally
expected.
Head of School Disappears!
I will be on holiday from the end of this week, so
this will probably be the last newsletter for several weeks. Roger
Hubbold will be deputising as HoS whilst im am away. I hope that
those of you taking a holiday during August will have an enjoyable
break.
Events this
Week
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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.
Future School
Events
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Relations and Kleene Algebra in Computer Science
New 29 Aug - 2 Sep 06
ReLMiCS
06 - Joint 9th International
Conference on Relational Methods in Computer Science and the 4th
International Workshop on Applications of Kleene Algebra. The conference
includes a PhD training programme.
Organised by the School of
Computer
Science.
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Information
Future
External
Events
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Interdisciplinary Summer School on Complex
Systems
20 – 29 Aug 06
From Individual to Collective
Behaviour in Large-Scale Complex Systems
Organised by the Schools of Computer Science,
Mathematics and Physics
St.
Martin's College,
Ambleside.
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Information
Funding
Opportunities
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RAEng Industrial Secondment
Scheme
Open
An opportunity for university lecturers in
engineering to gain state-of-the-art industrial
experience.
More
Information
BBSRC International Scientific Interchange Scheme
(ISIS)
Open
To help scientists make and establish new contacts
with their international counterparts.
More
Information
RAEng Global Research
Awards
Open
Projects in centres of excellence overseas
focussing on stimulating wealth creation and improvements in the quality
of life.
More
Information
EPSRC Engineering
Visits
Open
Support for salary costs and travel subsistence
for scientists and engineers of acknowledged standing, either from within
the UK or abroad, to visit the
investigator's organisation.
More
Information
Royal Society Short Visits from the UK
1 Sep 06
To initiate one-to-one collaborations, explore
opportunities to build lasting networks and gain access to complementary
equipment, data observations and ideas.
More
Information
Royal Society Conference
Grants
1 Sep 06
Supports
UK based scientists to either
present their own paper/poster or chair a session at an overseas
conference.
More
Information
Royal Society Research
Professorships
8 Sep 06
10-15 years support for internationally recognised
scientists of outstanding achievement and promise. Applications are
particularly welcomed from scientists currently resident outside the
UK and who wish to
return.
More
information
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
26 Sep 06
For talented young researchers, shortly or
immediately after completing a PhD.
More
Information
Leonardo da Vinci Programme
New
10 Oct 06
Leonardo Funding AVAILABLE for
Staff Exchange
For the exchange of expertise, competencies,
innovative methods and practices in relation to vocational training.
Exchanges do NOT need to involve two-way movement of staff. Deadline
for use of the funds and completion of exchanges has been extended to 10
October 2006. More
Information
ESF Research Networking
Programmes
30 Oct 06
2006 Call for
Proposals
Bringing together nationally funded research
activities for four to five years, to address a major scientific issue or
a science-driven topic of research infrastructure, at the European level
with the aim of advancing the frontiers of science.
More
Information
Royal Society Research
Grants
1 Nov 06
Seed corn funding for new projects. For research
scientists at an early stage of their career or established scientists
wishing to change the direction of their research.
More
Information
Royal Society
University
Research Fellowships
2007
1 Nov 06
The timetable for 2007 has been brought
forward. The Scheme will open on Monday 26 June 2006.
More
Information
Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership Awards
New
1 Dec 06
To support researchers confronted with the task of
building a research team of sufficient scale to tackle an identified but
distinctive research objective. Each award will be at a level of up
to £800,000 in total for up to five years of work. The intent is that the
funds be used to provide each awardee with ten 'post-doctoral assistant
years' and ten 'research student years' for the grant period, though other
patterns would be permissible.
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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.
ACM Grace Murray Hopper
Award
31 Oct 06
A prize of $15,000 awarded to the outstanding
young computer professional of the year.
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Information
Research
Awards
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None this week
Staff
News
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Awards and Promotions
None this week
Academic Arrivals
None this week
Academic Related Arrivals
Amanda Banks – Learning Technologist -
PEVE
Academic Departures
None this week
Research Arrivals
None this week
Research Departures
None this week
Administrative Arrivals
None this week
Administrative Departures
None this week
Sabbatical Leave
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.
Milan Mihajlovic:
University of
Maryland, College Park
Jul 06 – Dec 06
Vacancies
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Academic Staff
None
Research Staff
Research Associate (2 posts)
Advanced Processor Technologies Group - SpiNNaker
Project
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Information
Academic-Related Staff
None
Administrative Staff
None
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