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School
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Weekly Newsletter |
4 April 2011 |
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News from Head of SchoolNew Post in Computer Engineering A new Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in Computer Engineering has been agreed with the faculty. The school thus currently has the following open academic posts:
The faculty has a policy that once a post has been agreed, it stays open until it is filled, to remove pressure to appoint in any one round. This clearly helps to raise the bar on quality, and we will re-advertise for the last post above in due course. Future of Support
for Research Exploitation - Closure of Manchester Informatics Ltd.
Manchester
Informatics was a school company that supported exploitation and consultancy
activities. Last year, the Dean stated
that school companies, including Manchester Informatics ltd. (MIL), were required
to be closed as part of a process of simplifying the University's company
holdings. As a result, MIL ceased trading at the end of November 2010. Support for
exploitation activities, including consultancy, non-research/service
contracts and licensing etc., will, in future, be provided through the
school's Research and Exploitation Office, and Graham Riley will continue to
be a point-of-contract in the school through that office in his new role as
(part-time) Research Exploitation Advisor. Contracts and other activities
that would have been run through MIL will now be channelled through the
University Contracts Office and UMIP, as appropriate, in line with procedures
followed in other schools. It is anticipated
that the funds held in MIL on behalf of the various research groups that have
traded through the company over the years will be made available to the
relevant research groups in the school to support their future research
activities. The Credit Suisse Android
Application Competition
Congratulations
to Josh Nolan for winning the Manchester section of the Credit Suisse
sponsored Android Application competition held at Credit Suisse's offices in
Canary Wharf London on Wednesday 30th March. Josh won an Apple iPad computer for his idea for a configurable training game
for staff and customers of the investment bank. Runner up was Ben Cope,
winning a voucher worth £250 with his idea for enhanced calendar app linking
meetings with auto phone silencing, team projects and team members. Other
finalists each winning £100 were Yifan Miao, Matt
Oakes and Nicolae Caprarescu
with ideas for an investment banking assistant, a system administration tool and
an intelligent web crawler. Students from
Southampton took part in a parallel competition. Next year, Credit Suisse hope to role out the competition to a wider range of Universities
as part of their recruitment campaign. Nick Filer and Andrew Robinson from SCS with staff from Credit Writing Tutorial Service for Computer Science This is an opportunity for one-to-one advice to individual students about their writing on a weekly basis. The tutorials will take place on Wednesday afternoons 16.00 – 17.00 in Samuel Alexander (LG7.2) Other times are available to students but they will not be with Robert. Suisse were
judges for the Manchester section of the competition. Students who wish to make use of this service should book the tutorial one week in advance via Rachel Sinnott: http://www.ulc.manchester.ac.uk/english/academicsupport/tutorial-service/
Members of staff may find that they will wish to refer some of their students to this service, which we hope to be able to provide up until mid June.
There will be no charge for this service as it constitutes part of our University-wide support for international students.
John Morley, Director, University-wide Language Programmes EventsA systems approach to cognition in robotics 6 Apr 11 Dr Jeremy Wyatt. University of Birmingham 14:15, Lecture Theatre 1.4, Kilburn Building Liverpool Distinguished Computer Science Lecture 6 Apr 11 Strategic Behaviour and the Science
of Social Networks
Michael Kearns, Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/ldcsl/kearns.html Funding OpportunitiesRoyal Society collaboration and travel schemes Following the latest Comprehensive Spending Review, the Society has unfortunately had to discontinue the International Travel Grants scheme and International Joint Projects scheme. Instead applications for international collaborations will from now on be managed through a new International Exchanges Scheme. However, the Society will unfortunately no longer be able to support conference attendance through this scheme. Whilst we acknowledge that conference attendance is important in raising the profile of UK science and scientists, the Society felt that facilitating international collaborations should be the priority during a period of budget constraints. The International Exchanges scheme will be launched next week - please check the website on Monday 4 April for further details and scheme notes. Research AwardsThe UK Schools Animation Competition "Animation12" PI: Toby Howard and the Animation team. Funder/Amount: £12,300 (Google) and £14,000 (NESTA). |
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