News from Head of School
Charity Book Sale
The 7th Annual
School charity book
sale will take place on Friday 20th November. If you have any
unwanted books, CDs, or DVDs you'd like to donate, please bring them in, to
ACSO, Kilburn Room 2.127.
Please also check out our online Charity Auction - now up to £456!
http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/ACSO/charity.php
New auction items welcome, just bring them in to ACSO.
University Postgraduate Open day – Help needed 25 Nov 09
This is an excellent opportunity for prospective students
to meet us and see the environment and facilities available should they
decide to register for one of our postgraduate programmes in September 2010.
After an overview from Uli Sattler there will be two
research demonstrations taking place within the School from a couple of our
academics.
Volunteers
needed....
We would also like to provide an opportunity for the visitors to chat to
other members of the academic staff to answer any questions on the courses
that they may have.
If you are free between 3:00pm - 4:30pm on the 25th and
able to provide a demo or make yourself available for questions, please
contact Jez Lloyd.
Events
Why Chemistry and the Web Will Benefit from a
ChemSpider 16 Nov 09
Dr Antony Williams, Vice President Strategic
Development, Chemspider
15:00, Atlas rooms, Kilburn Building
School Board: Acting Dean Professor Colin Bailey
& UG Report 18 Nov 09
15:30, Room 407 IT
building
MIB Biotech event 1
Dec 09
The Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre will be hosting
“Perspectives in Systems and Synthetic Biology”. To register for the event please email r.a.le-feuvre@manchester.ac.uk.
WiSET Afternoon Tea and Chat for female students and staff at the School of Computer Science 9
Dec 09
In order to improve and support networking between female
students and staff at the School
of Computer Science, a
regular monthly lunch meeting is planned, with talks and workshops. The first
event will be an informal get-together with a few short talks and
presentations by students about their research and work experience as
computer scientists. Pop in to meet new people, have some chats and a nice
cup of tea! All students (UG and PG) and staff are welcome!
Free tea and snacks!
Wednesday, 9th December 2009, 1-2.30pm, Room IT407 (IT / Kilburn Building).
Prizes and Awards
BBSRC Innovator of the year Call for Applications 16 Dec 09
An annual competition to celebrate the successes of
BBSRC-supported scientists in delivering economic and/or social impact from
their excellent research. Individual
scientists or teams can submit an application detailing their activities that
have resulted in economic and/or social impact.
A prize of £5,000 will be made directly to the winner of
each category, with the overall Innovator of the Year receiving a further
£5,000. For team winners the prize money will be split equally among the
applicants.
An assessment panel will select the best applications under the following 3
categories:
·
Commercial innovator
·
Social innovator
·
Most promising innovator
More
information
Deadline for
applications: 16th December 2009
BCS Lovelace Medal Call for Nominations 18
Dec 09
The Lovelace Medal is presented to individuals who have
made a contribution which is of major significance in the advancement of
Information Systems or which adds significantly to the understanding of
Information Systems.
This year the panel will be seeking nominations relating to contributions in
Information Systems Science, i.e., basic research that has added
significantly to our understanding of Information Systems.
More
information
Deadline for nominations: Friday 18th December 2009
BCS Roger Needham Award Call for Nominations 18 Dec 09
The Award is made
annually for a distinguished research contribution in computer science by a
UK-based researcher within ten years of being awarded their PhD.
"UK-based" means that candidates have been ordinarily resident in
the UK for three years
prior to nomination, or have an equivalent substantial connection to the UK.
More information
Deadline for nominations: Friday 18th December 2009
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