News from Head of School
School Away
Days
First, this is a reminder that most members of
academic staff should have the School Away Days, in Buxton on the
7th– 8th July, firmly in their diaries. It is
also timely to give you an update on the programme. Although we plan
to spend most of the time on research, we will also devote time to
discussing how we should respond to the recommendations of the University Review of UG Education – a
major initiative that will set the context for our own teaching and
learning activities over the next few years. As background you
should read the Interim
Report that was consider by Senate at its meeting on
the 6th February 2008, and the Minutes
of that meeting. This means that some teaching-only/mainly staff who
might otherwise not have attended should come to that part of the
proceedings. More detail will follow as soon as possible.
Graduation Ceremonies – Another
Reminder
Once again I’d like to ask staff to sign up to
join the platform party for the graduation ceremonies in July. I am
sure you are all aware how much our graduands and their parents appreciate
staff making the effort to help celebrate this special event, and I would
like to encourage all academic staff to consider making the time to get
involved. You don’t need to have any special connection with the cohort of
graduating students, all are welcome. I’d particularly like to
encourage ex-SOI staff to consider signing up for both the ceremonies at which their
former students will be graduating. The CS ceremony (including some
former Informatics students) is at 1430, Thursday 17th July,
with a reception in the School pencilled in for 1200 (to be confirmed
asap). The MBS ceremony (including some former Informatics students)
is at 1230, Friday 18th
July, followed by a reception (details to follow). Each
ceremony is likely to last about an hour. If you are able to help,
please contact Kath Mullins as soon as possible and
ideally by no later than 17th June. For free
hire of academic dress, you will need to provide your highest degree
title, the University where it was obtained and, for PhDs, the awarding
Faculty. You will also need to provide your height and hat
size.
Events this
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Theory and Practice of Computer
Graphics
9-11 Jun 08
Presented by the UK Chapter of the Eurographics
Association (EGUK)
The 26th Conference organised by the UK chapter of the Eurographics
Association will be the sixth Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics
2008 Conference (TP.CG.08). All accepted papers will be published by
Eurographics and held on the Digital Library, and will be available at the
conference.
Venue: Alan Turing Building
More
Information
Arts meets Science, Science meets
Art
10 Jun 08
A series of free Roberts funded summer seminars
for postgraduate research students. These seminars have been
organised by the Graduate Education Team and Jodrell bank and are open to
research students from the University of Manchester. The series of seminars
will explore collaborations across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
Students are also invited to provide posters about their own
cross-disciplinary work. Further events in the series are planned for
15th July and 23rd September.
More
information
NaCTeM Seminar New
11 Jun 08Porting a Lexicalized-Grammar Parser to the Biomedical Domain
Dr Stephen Clark, Oxford University Computing
Laboratory
1400, LG.010 in the MIB building
More
information
VEs – Illusion and Presence
New
11 Jun 08
With views from Mary Whitton, University of North Carolina; Roger
Hubbold, University of
Manchester; Anthony Steed, UCL and others.
Part of the SIGGRAPH series
1400, 1.10 Kilburn
More information
NaCTeM seminar New
12 Jun 08Information Retrieval: from focused to aggregated answers
Professor Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of
London
1400, LG.010 in the MIB building
More
information
Pathways – Career Options for PhDs and Research
Staff 13 & 16 Jun
08
Following the success of last year's inaugural
University
of Manchester PhD
careers event, we are once again collaborating this year across the
University to run a two day event to support all PhDs and research staff
in their career choices. The event will provide access both to
recruitment experts and to individuals who have moved on from University
research posts in the past 10 years. There will also be workshops
providing practical advice on finding and winning the right job (academic
and non-academic). Details and
online registration are now available, and places are limited.
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
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School
BBQ
4 Jul 08
We have special reason to celebrate this year at
the School BBQ because 2008 is the 60th anniversary of
the building of the world’s first programmable computer. Details to
follow.
School Away
Days
7 & 8 Jul 08
The event will take place at The Palace Hotel,
Buxton and will run from approximately 0930 on 7th to 1700 on
8th July, with a reception, dinner and accommodation provided
on the first evening. The main focus will be on research, but we
will also spend time considering how we should respond to the
recommendations of the University Review of UG
Education.
UG
& PG Graduation
Ceremony
17 Jul 08
The graduation ceremony for undergraduate and
postgraduate students will take place on Thursday 17th July at 2.30pm. A
light lunch and drinks will be served from 1215 and prize-giving will be
at 1300. Any members of staff who have been involved in teaching the
former Informatics programmes are also invited to attend the MBS ceremony
and reception which will take place on 18th July. Their ceremony is
at 1230pm followed by a drinks reception from 1400-1530. Please
contact Katherine
Lloyd for further details.
Visit from Professor Nancy
Rothwell
24 Jul 08
Please make a note of this date in your
diary. The Deputy President will be visiting the School, and would
welcome the opportunity to discuss with staff, in an open meeting, the
University’s progress towards achieving its 2015 goals.
1315-1400, IT 407
School Board Dates
Wednesday 2nd July 2008 (Resources
Report)
All meetings take place 1530-1700 in IT
407.
Future
External
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Research to Enterprise Summit
17 Jun 08
Research to Enterprise is an exciting event, organised by MSEC
(Manchester Science Enterprise Centre) and funded by EPSRC (Engineering
and Physical Sciences Research Council), designed to raise the profile of
enterprise at the University of Manchester. Research to Enterprise
will be an opportunity for researchers in all faculties, whether at
postgraduate, postdoctoral or staff level to be inspired to become more
enterprising in whatever their career holds for them in the future be it
academia, industry or in starting their own business. Alasdair
Rawsthorne is one of the guest speakers. To book, please contact Claire
Gill.
Bike2Work
Day
18 Jun 08
If you are interested in cycling to work but
perhaps don't know of a good route, or are nervous about cycling alone in
traffic, you now have an opportunity to try it out. Wednesday
18th June is Bike2Work Day and cyclists from the ‘HEP'
institutions are organising a number of rides to work in the morning from
around Manchester, arriving at the new Bridgeford Street Bike Park at
around 8:30am.
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Information
Arts meets Science, Science meets
Art
15 Jul, 23 Sep 08
A series of free Roberts funded summer seminars
for postgraduate research students. These seminars have been
organised by the Graduate Education Team and Jodrell bank and are open to
research students from the University of Manchester. The series of seminars
will explore collaborations across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences.
Students are also invited to provide posters about their own
cross-disciplinary work.
More
information
Manchester Parallel Programming Summer School Cancelled 11-22 Aug 08
Run by RCS, this annual summer school aims to
teach you all you need to know to start writing your own parallel code in
MPI or OpenMP. If you are new to scientific programming (Fortran or C) you
can attend the Fortran course prior to the summer
school.
More
Information & registration
BCS International Academic
Research
Conference
22-24 Sep 08
Visions of Computer
Science - Preliminary Call for Papers
and Participation
The British Computer Society is launching its
first International Academic Conference. Full paper submissions are being
solicited in all areas of research covering the broad field of Computer
Science and Engineering (CSE). The conference will be organized in
sessions and mini-tracks, each devoted to a theme or area, and will
include a small number of invited presentations. The topics included
are deliberately broad to reflect the rich texture and intellectual vigor
of CSE. Venue: Imperial
College London
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Information
Funding
Opportunities
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Industrial Secondment
Scheme
Open
The Industrial Secondment Scheme provides an
invaluable opportunity for engineering teaching staff in Higher Education
institutions 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 organization which gains a temporary but highly qualified
member of staff, and to the university which has the opportunity of
strengthening its links with industry.
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Information
UoM Knowledge Transfer
Challenge
Open
The KT Challenge offers small grants for concept studies and feasibility studies. If you are
interested in developing ideas in collaboration with an industrial partner
– developing new technology, or applying existing technology in an
industrial setting – please contact Constantinos
Astreos.
EPSRC Encouraging Postdoctoral Mobility Between
Disciplines
Open
EPSRC would like to encourage the transfer of
outputs of research between different research disciplines as well as
aiding the career development of EPSRC funded PDRAs. In the first instance
an extra year of support will be offered. Transfers between the
engineering and physical science disciplines and the life sciences are
encouraged. There are no closing dates for proposals.
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Information
EPSRC ICT Platform
Grants
Open
EPSRC invites outline proposals for its
information and communication technology platform grants. Platform grants
aim to provide world-leading UK groups with continuity of
funding for strategic development, longer-term research and international
networking.
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Information
Royal Academy of
Engineering Research
Chairs
Open
Full-time professorial appointments, in any
engineering-related subject. The academy particularly welcomes proposals
of a multidisciplinary nature. Funding is provided for 5
years.
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Information
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.
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Information
RAEng Global Research
Awards
Open
Projects in centres of excellence overseas
focussing on stimulating wealth creation and improvements in the quality
of life.
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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
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.
None currently open
Research
Awards
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None this week
Staff
News
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Awards and Promotions
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Academic Arrivals
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Academic Departures
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Research Arrivals
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Sabbatical Leave
Alasdair
Rawsthorne: 80% secondment to
Transitive Technologies Oct 07 – Sep 08.
Steve
Pettifer: Manchester
Interdisciplinary Biocentre
Academic year
2007/2008
Robert
Stevens: Web Intelligence Technologies
Lab, Natural Language processing Group, Department of CS, University of
Sheffield.
Semester two 2007/08
Plus short-term visits to: The text-mining group
at the European bioinformatics Group & The bio-Technology Group at the
Technical University of Dresden
Renate
Schmidt: NICTA, Australian
National University, Canberra
February – Mid-Sep 2008
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Academic Staff
None
Research & Technical Staff
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Management & Professional Staff
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