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Weekly Newsletter |
30 April 2012 |
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News from Head of School Administration
News from Head of SchoolUrsula Hayes leaving the School Ursula Hayes will be leaving the School on Monday 30th April after over 26 years in the School. Ursula worked on the Alvey ‘Flagship’ project, in PEVE, in the Research Office and most recently as Head of School Administration. Ursula leaves to become the Head of School Administration in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and on behalf of the School I wish her well in her new job. For those who were unable to attend the leaving party, the photos can be found here: http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~jtl/PHOTOS/12-04-26-URSULA-LEAVING-small/index.html
Rupert Ford leaving the School Rupert is moving to STFC Daresbury in May but will continue to spend ~1 day a week in the School for the next 18 months. He hopes to continue collaborations with colleagues in the School in future and we look forward to continuing to see him when he visits. John Latham: University Distinguished Achievement Award I am delighted to report the President’s decision that John Latham should be awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal for Teacher of the Year 2012, after a nomination by the Faculty of EPS. The award will be presented at a special ceremony on Friday 29 June. Student successes Sam van Lieshout, Jenny Ward, Ben Marshall and Pez Cuckow came 3rd in UK in the Microsoft Imagine Cup. The team designed a novel medical sensor system running entirely from a mobile phone. The system, called "Project Sky High", monitored ultrasound and blood pressure details, using low-cost components and a smartphone. The team was praised by the judges for their economical design, and implementation of a novel communications protocol. Luke Torjussen, a final year student supervised by Robert Stevens, has been shortlisted by the judges in the "Little Chip Student Awards". http://www.bigchipawards.com/page.asp?id=3648 School enters Greater Manchester Cycle Challenge Last year the school came 2nd in the Greater Manchester Cycle Challenge - what about winning it this year? All you need to do is (1) register and (2) log your trips between Monday 14th May and Tuesday 5th June. You don't need to log each of them individually, and it only takes a couple of minutes. Go to www.tfgmcyclechallenge.org.uk and register as: Organisation: The University of Manchester Department: School of Computer Science May Ball May 7th The annual Computer Science Society May Ball, organised by the students, is being held on Saturday May 7th in the Palace Hotel. Please support the students by joining in, staff will be very welcome. Details here: http://cssoc.cs.manchester.ac.uk/ Bin the bin The bin the bin scheme is being introduced to the Kilburn and IT buildings in phases. It has already happened on the ground floor of Kilburn. The IT labs and lower first floor of Kilburn should now have recycling bins in place, the first and second floors will receive recycling bins shortly. I have proposed that bins remain in offices for around six weeks after the recycling bins are introduced, and it is proposed that the bins in the IT building and the lower first be removed on Friday 1st June. Please use the time between the recycling bins being introduced and the removal of office bins to inform Eamon of any problems with the location of the recycling bins and to find ways to use them. The University waste co-ordinator (Simon Atkinson) will attend our next School board meeting to discuss the scheme - Wednesday May 2nd, 3:30pm (IT407). Do you care about the School’s history? There is a duty waiting to be allocated for somebody to care for the School’s exhibits, posters, artefacts and web pages relating to its history. This year is the 50th anniversary of the Atlas computer and there will be an event on 5th December to celebrate. The event is being organised by members of the original team, but we should upgrade our exhibits before we welcome them. If you are proud of the School’s contribution to Computer Science, please let me know. Open day – all hands on deck... It is University Open Day on 22nd and 23rd June. These events are very important in encouraging the students of the future to apply here. The School needs to recruit the best students in the country in order to have the educational environment that we all want. The 22nd June is a particularly busy day for the School and we will need academic staff who don’t normally do open days to help out. If you haven’t already volunteered to help out, please respond to Saba’s email of 25th April, or just let her know when you can help: Saba Mirshafiei <saba.mirshafiei@cs.man.ac.uk> Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Computer_Science,_University_of_Manchester It comes up on the first page of a Google search for Computer Science Manchester. If you would like to add something to it, please do. Andre Geim on the BBC Beautiful Minds programme, BBC Physicist Professor Andre Geim's constant search for new ideas has led to some extraordinary discoveries, from levitating frogs to a tape that sticks to surfaces like a gecko's foot. He reveals how his playful approach to his research helped him uncover the properties of graphene, the world's thinnest material, and won him the Nobel Prize for Physics with Kostya Novoselov. EventsCANCELLED: Machine
Learning, Compilers and Mobile Systems 1
May 12 The above seminar from Hugh Leather has
been cancelled.
School Board
meeting 2
May 12 15:30, IT building room 407. Research Report and PGR report Elsevier Author Seminar 3 May 12 10:00-12:30, G22, Mansfield Cooper. The session will involve looking at the publishing process in scientific journals from writing to review and authors’ rights.
Those interested can book a place at My Manchester under the library tab, and then training courses or via the Training calendar under Seminar for Researchers. You must book at least two days in advance. EPSRC Regional Meetings Various EPSRC are holding 3 Regional Meetings during May to highlight progress made against our Delivery Plan and to discuss how we can continue to work together to ensure that we maintain, if not improve, the UK’s relative international research standing in the face of increased competition.
Regional Meetings will be held in Newcastle (3rd May), Birmingham (11th May) and London (23rd May) further information regarding timings and registration can be found on our website following the links included above. Hyperspectral Imaging Cameras 4 May 12 09:00-16:00, Lecture Workshop in Room 4.205, University Place building A previous speaker at the local ACM SIGGRAPH seminars, is running a show-and-tell workshop for hyperspectral imaging cameras. STM in the Small: Trading Generality for Performance in Software 9 May 12 Dr Tim Harris. Microsoft Research, Cambridge 14:15, Kilburn Lecture Theatre 1.4 Funding OpportunitiesSchool Research Office There is information about support for grant writing and submission at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ Student Futures: Sustainability at the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering interface 25 May 12 Expression of interest: An opportunity for EPSRC-sponsored doctoral students to undertake a residential training workshop focused on tool and techniques to enhance creative problem solving and idea generation. Closing Date: 25 May 2012 EPSRC Healthcare Technology Challenges for Engineering 28 May 12 Expression of interest: EPSRC invites proposals for research projects of up to three years in length, for novel and creative engineering research to tackle challenges within healthcare. Closing Date: 28 May 2012 EPSRC Fellowships Various Fellowships are available in a number of priority areas here. Applications can be submitted at any time and will be processed on a rolling basis - further information on the application and peer review process here. If you experience any problems, please contact the EPSRC webteam. |
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