News from Head of
School
Digital 60 & Industrial
Forum
Congratulations to all concerned, for an
absolutely fantastic series of events last Friday. The day did much to
enhance the reputation of the School, both internally and externally … and
was fun too. Thanks to all of you – and I know there were many – who
contributed. Although it can be invidious to name names, I’d
particularly like to thank Bernard Strutt and Toby Howard who moved
mountains. The success of the animation event was particularly
encouraging, enthralling over 500 school children on the day and,
hopefully, inspiring computer scientists of the future. It’s also
appropriate to remember that Hilary Kahn was very much involved in the
early stages of planning the event but, sadly, did not live to enjoy it.
Finally, I’m sure you would all like to join me in congratulating Steve
Furber on an outstanding inaugural Kilburn Lecture, which managed to
capture the interest of aficionados and public alike. A good day was
had by all!
Google
Event
Google have selected Manchester as one of a
‘handful of top CS departments in the UK’ invited to send a member of
academic staff and five students to a half-day event in London on 2nd July. The
objective of the event as ‘to cultivate discussion between the technology
leaders of today and tomorrow around the future of technology in the
workplace – specifically in relation to Cloud Computing and the
consumerisation of IT’. They want us to select promising students,
interested in distributed systems, and with leadership qualities, who we
believe are likely to become CIOs in the future. We are looking for
a member of academic staff to attend the event and help select students
from amongst our UG and PG cohorts. If you are interested, please contact James
Warnes as soon as
possible.
Research & Teaching
Away-Days
The programme for the away-day event has now been
drafted and appears below. Please
note the addition of the T&L session on the afternoon of the
8th. If you were not scheduled to attend the Research
Away-Days, but would like to attend the T&L session on Tuesday, please
email Anna
Smethurst asap, indicating whether you will need
lunch.
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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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.
1530 onwards
School
Away-Days
7 & 8 Jul 08
The event will take place at The Palace Hotel,
Buxton. 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.
Day 1 July 7th
0930 Registration
1000 Opening (CJT)
1030 Introductions to
first 5 Grand Challenge Topics
1145 Tea/Coffee
1215 Break-out Groups:
each group to discuss 1 topic – prescriptive group membership
1315 Lunch
1430 Groups report back
1530 Tea/Coffee
1600 Discussion (with mini
breakouts): promoting interaction between research groups
1730 Break
1800 Reception and posters
1900 Dinner
Day 2 July
8th
0900 Introductions to
second 5 Grand Challenge Topics
1015 Break-out Groups -
each group to discuss 1 topic each - prescriptive group membership
1115 Tea/Coffee
1145 Groups to report
back and wrap up of research element of the days
1300 Lunch
1400 Discussion:
University review of Teaching and Learning introduced by Prof Tony Brown
1700
Close
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
2 July
2008 (Resources
Report)
1 October - Budget Report
and Dean attending
26 November - UG Report
4 February - PG Report
25 March - External Affairs Report
6 May - Research Report
1
July - Resources Report
All meetings take place 1530-1700 in IT
407.
Future
External
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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
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
More
Information
Funding
Opportunities
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Newton International
Fellowships
4 Aug 08
A new multi-million pound initiative to fund
research collaborations and improve links between UK and overseas researchers has
been launched. The Newton International Fellowships aim to attract
the most promising, early stage, post-doctoral researchers working
overseas, who do not hold UK citizenship, in the fields
of humanities, engineering, natural and social sciences. The scheme
provides funding to successful candidates for up to 2 years to work with
research groups at a UK research Institution and to
establish long term international collaborations.
More Information
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.
More
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.
More
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.
More
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.
More
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.
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
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
None this week
Academic Arrivals
None this week
Academic Departures
None this week
Research Arrivals
None this week
Research Departures
None this week
Administrative Arrivals
None this week
Administrative Departures
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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
Vacancies
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Academic Staff
None
Research & Technical Staff
Research
Associate
School of Cancer and Imaging Sciences
Closing
date: 27/06/2008. Ref MHS/80564.
Research
Fellow in Text Mining
School of Computer Science
Closing date:
15/07/2008.
Ref EPS/80023.
Management & Professional Staff
None
Administrative Staff
PGR
Admissions Officer
School of Computer Science
Closing date:
01/07/2008.
Ref EPS/80479. |