News from Head of
School
CS/Informatics Update
The next few months will see significant change,
as we implement the agreement between EPS and Humanities following on from
the review of CS and Informatics. As you will have seen from the
bulletin which I circulated separately last week, an Informatics
Implementation Group has been established to work through all the
repercussions, and will be issuing detailed progress reports on a regular
basis. We expect the assignment of staff from the School of
Informatics to CS and
MBS to be finalised this week, bringing the first phase of the
process to an end; welcome events for the staff who will be joining us
will be arranged as soon as possible after that. Probably the most
significant recent development is the workshop which took place last week
to kick off the process of agreeing future programmes in the broad area of
Informatics (subsuming CS). This achieved buy-in from the stakeholder
Schools (particularly CS, MBS/Informatics and EEE) to the notion that our
offerings, as a University, need to be radically reorganised so as to
present a coherent set of options to potential applicants. The
workshop established a framework for proceeding as a matter of urgency,
with the aim of advertising new UG programmes for 2008 entry and PGT
programmes for 2007 entry. Thanks to everyone who
participated.
Undergraduate Admissions
Congratulations to Graham, Andy, Bernard and
Sophia and all those involved in UG Admissions and Clearing over the last
few weeks. Numbers of firm acceptances, both Home and Overseas, are higher
than at this time last year and the overall entry standard is also higher.
Although we are unlikely to meet our aggressive UG targets for 06/07, this
is still a magnificent result especially considering that there was a 15%
drop in applications this year.
Events this
Week
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Training Events for New First Year
Project
5 & 7 Sep
As previously announced, there will be two
workshops this week in preparation for the new, EBL based, project
we are introducing into our first year in September. The project
will be supported by the tutorial system and will make new demands on
tutors. If you are a first year tutor, are interested in being one,
or just want to find out what's going on, please sign up for one of these
workshops. The two sessions will be complementary and as
free-standing as possible. If you have not already done so, please
let Kath Mullins (mailto:kath@cs.man.ac.uk) know if you
wish to attend either session.
1300 (both days), CEEBL Suite, Sackville
St Building. Lunch
provided.
Open Meeting on the Information Systems
Programme
5 Sep
Dugald Mackie, Vice Principal and Chair of the IS
Programme Board, will host an Open Meeting on "2015 - The Investment in
IS" at which he will outline the benefits that each of the new information
systems will provide and the timescales for their delivery. He will also
talk about developments in the email and calendar system, personal storage
and the web, how the new systems are being made to work together and
future IS plans. After his presentation, Dugald will answer questions from
the audience.
1300, Lecture Theatre 1 (Room B10), Manchester Business
School East
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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School Retirement Party
New
15 Sep 06
Hilary Kahn, Colin Wallis and Mike Cunningham all
retire at the end of September. We will be holding a joint
retirement party for them on Friday 15th September at 3pm in the staff
Common Room, to recognise their hard work and dedication to the
School. If anyone would like to contribute to a collection and/or
sign the leaving cards, then please drop in to ACSO.
1500, Common Room, Kilburn
Future
External
Events
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Fellowships for Researchers Event
(EPS)
New
6th Sep 06
The Faculty of EPS is hosting a Fellowships for
Researchers half day information event. Speakers from The Royal
Society, EPSRC, The Royal Academy of Engineering & others will be in
attendance to provide information about available fellowships, as well as
other grants particularly suited for those new to research e.g. First
grant schemes. Current fellowship holders will also be sharing their
experiences and throughout the session there will be lots of opportunities
for those attending to ask questions. Information and application
forms for all the fellowships currently open will be available on the
day.
Colleagues are advised to register their interest
in attending by contacting Louise
Rogers as soon as
possible.
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 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 INTERACT 4th Call for Proposals
New
14 Sep 06
INTERACT is the EPSRC programme to establish and
build strong research links between the UK and India, China or Japan. In this 4th call,
applications are invited from UK researchers interested in building
strong networks and collaboration with those in India, China or Japan.
Funding is provided for travel and subsistence and follow-on funds for the
establishment of an international network of activity.
More
Information
Royal Society - Paul Instrument Fund
New
14 Sep 06
Provides grants for the construction of novel and
innovative instruments in the field of physical sciences.
More
Information
British Council Researcher Exchange Awards
New
18 Sep 06
Applications are invited from researchers at the
beginning of their research careers, with less than ten years active
research experience after the completion of a doctoral degree, or those in
the last year of their PhD. The exchange awards are for funding single or
short term exchange visits for early stage researchers to make
international connections. The maximum award is
£5,000
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Information
EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
26 Sep 06
For talented young researchers, shortly or
immediately after completing a PhD.
More
Information
Leonardo da Vinci Programme for Staff
Exchange
10 Oct 06
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.
More
Information
RAEng/EPSRC Research Fellowships
New
13 Oct 06
The Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC are
jointly offering up to ten Research Fellowships. These fellowships
provide five years funding to enable outstanding researchers from all
branches of engineering to establish an independent research career,
normally shortly or immediately after completing their
PhD.
More
Information
ESF Research Networking
Programmes
30 Oct 06
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
More
Information
EPSRC 2007 Senior Research Fellowships
New
1 Nov 06
Applications are invited for the 2007 Senior
Research Fellowships exercise. Senior Research Fellowships are
awarded to outstanding academic scientists and engineers of international
repute with a minimum of 10 years post doctoral experience. Fellows
will be released from their current teaching and administration loads to
devote themselves to research for the period of the award (up to 5
years). The proposed research must be important, timely and should
offer opportunities for major scientific advances. Only a few of
these most prestigious awards are made each year.
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Information
AHRC-EPSRC-JISC e-Science Research Projects Scheme
New 2 Nov 06
EPSRC is a partner in this new e-Science
Initiative. The aim of the scheme is to advance research in the Arts and
Humanities through the use and development of e-Science
technologies. In addition to a total budget of £2 million, six
four-year PhD project studentships are available either as part of an
e-Science Research Grant or as a stand alone.
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Information
EPSRC 2007 Advanced Research Fellowships
New
9 Nov 06
Applications are invited for the 2007 Advanced
Research Fellowships exercise. Advanced Research Fellowships are
awarded to outstanding researchers with between 3 – 10 years of
postdoctoral experience. Fellows are expected to devote themselves to
research for the period of the award (up to 5 years), with the expectation
that they will have established an independent research career of
international standing by the end of the award. Approximately 50 of
these awards are made each year.
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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.
SIAM/ACM Award in Computational Science and
Engineering
New 30 Sep 06
The contribution(s) for which the award is made
must be publicly available and may belong to any aspect of computational
science in its broadest sense. The award will include a certificate and a
cash prize of $5,000.
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Information
ACM Turing Award New
31 Oct 06
ACM's most prestigious technical award is
accompanied by a prize of $100,000. It is given to an individual selected
for contributions of a technical nature made to the computing community.
The contributions should be of lasting and major technical importance to
the computer field. Financial support of the Turing Award is provided by
the Intel Corporation.
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Information
ACM Grace Murray Hopper
Award
31 Oct 06
A prize of $15,000 awarded to the outstanding
young computer professional of the year.
More Information
Leverhulme Trust Research Leadership
Awards
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.
More
Information
Research
Awards
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None this week
Staff
News
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Awards and Promotions
None this week
Academic Arrivals
Marjahan Begum – Teaching Fellow
Adrian Albin-Clark– Teaching Fellow
Academic Related Arrivals
None this week
Academic Departures
None this week
Research Arrivals
Wei Xing – IMG
Yangoran Tanoh – Bioinformatics Curator -
IMG
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
None
Academic-Related Staff
None
Administrative Staff
None
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