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Weekly Newsletter |
3rd May 2010 |
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News from Head of SchoolMedal of Honour to Jun’ichi Tsujii Congratulations to Jun'ichi Tsujii, scientific director of
NaCTeM, who is to be awarded the prestigious medal of honour with purple
ribbon by the government of Staff Departures Magnus Rattray and Neil Lawrence will be leaving us
shortly for Chairs in a new institute in President Visit to School The president will be visiting the school on the afternoon of Monday 10th May; from 2:45 to 3:30 there will be an open session for all staff in IT 407, which will include a short presentation and an extended question and answer session. Feedback Policy The university’s policy on Feedback to Undergraduate and Postgraduate Taught Students has now been published, for implementation in the forthcoming academic year. As such, academic staff and programme directors need to ensue that steps are taken, where required, to move towards compliance. School Plan The school plan has been reviewed by faculty, and is thus no longer a draft. The plan forms the basis for the agendas of school leadership team meetings, and thus we will be tracking progress through the year. EventsConstraint Handling Rules 5 May 10 Prof Thom Fruehwirth, 14:00, Atlas 1, School Board meeting: Research Report 5 May 10 15:30, IT building room 407 JF Wilkinson Lecture of the The convergence of clinical medicine, engineering and computing: new horizons in healthcare delivery Dr George Poste, FRS Coffee from 17:00, lecture from 17:30pm - MANDEC Centre. This is a lecture theatre above the SIGGRAPH: State of the Art in Game Console Graphics 14
May 10 Naty Hoffman, Activision Inc 14:00, Room 1.10, Seminar on SAP Research and Collaboration Opportunities 17 May 10 13:00-14:00, Atlas 1, SAP Research carries
out research in a wide range of computer science subjects in which the school
has an interest (e.g. Service Oriented Architectures,
Virtualization/Parallelism, Semantics and Ontologies, Web 2.0 Applications),
and some contacts already exist between staff in the school and SAP Research.
SAP interact with universities in a range of different ways, including: Extreme-End Remote Scientific Visualization 20 May 10 AVS/Express Roadmap presentation and company visit. 13:30, Room 1:10 |
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