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EventsInaugural EPS / BP lecture 11 Feb 13 5pm in the Great Hall, Sackville Street Building. The lecture will be delivered by John Baxter, Group Head of Engineering for BP and will cover oil exploration from the early days in Persia through to current deepwater oil exploration. This event provides EPS staff and students with a unique opportunity to learn more about BPs role in oil exploration and hear directly from the senior discipline engineer across the BP Group.
We would like to encourage as many staff and students to attend the lecture as possible. A drinks and canapιs reception will be held after the lecture with the event closing at around 6.45pm. Attendance is exclusively through pre booking via email to Cath Brocklehurst by the end of Friday 25th January 2013. Funding OpportunitiesSchool Research Office Please contact us through researchsupportcsm@manchester.ac.uk. There is information about support for grant writing and submission at http://www.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ Bright ideas awards - the big pitch: Nanoscale design of functional
materials 26
Feb 2013 ·
Closing date: 4pm 26 Feb 2013 Outline applications for up to £250k are
being invited by the EPSRC for transformative research projects in nanoscale design of
functional materials. The call is aimed at the systematic design
and construction of materials and devices based on structures at the
nanoscale. The objective is to be able to dial up a desired property using
new principles rather than proceeding by trial and error, and to assemble
targets cheaply in large quantities. Individuals are invited to submit outline
applications for projects of up to 18 months. High risk applications are
expected and welcomed. NEMODE Network+ 3K Research Placements Call 1 April 2013 ·
Closing date: 5pm 1 April 2013 Funding
for research placements aimed at PhD students or junior research fellows
is available from the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, New Economic Models in the
Digital Economy (NEMODE) network. Placements must take place in
commercial or government entities in the UK and overseas(e.g.
industry, academia, research centres, public bodies, NGOs) and are limited to
3 months (UK based) or 6 months (overseas). Placements should involve working in the
following areas: Technical innovations relevant to the DE (e.g. Internet of things, Cloud Computing paradigm, Big Data) Societal changes in the DE The concept of value in the DE Value proposition platforms Value creating systems (e.g. partnerships, constellations, capabilities, competences) in the DE Intellectual Property issues in the DE. New Business Models in the DE Entrepreneurship Digital start-ups Impact of DE in existing supply chains Impact of the DE in public sector (e.g. Open Data, transparency, government) Digital Marketing Privacy, security and trust in the DE. Virtual property Crowd funding Digital technologies as enablers of servitized business models. Case studies for teaching purposes (e.g. Impact of DE in UK firms, strategic management) A brief (3
page) proposal should be submitted by 1 April via e-mail to K.V.Alves@exeter.ac.uk
and successful applicants will be notified by the 1st May 2013. Innovate UK 2013 - networking event 11-13
Mar 2013 ·
Early fee registration (£99) deadline: 18 Jan 2013 (£125
thereafter) This 3 day event by the UK
Technology Strategy Board and UK Trade & Investment will take place on 11-13 March 2013 in
London and includes sessions on commercialisation of research and market
opportunities. Innovate UK is the UK's largest, multi-sector, networking
event for business, academia and government, bringing together 4,000 people
to do business and collaborate. Research and Grant AwardsCongratulations to all those involved in the following successful awards! AXLE - Advanced Analytics for EXtremely Large European Databases Mikel Lujan, Gavin Brown, Javier Navaridas (with 4 other EU partners) Funding body: European Commission Award amount: £423K (SCS) The objectives of the AXLE project are to greatly improve the speed and quality of decision making on real-world data sets (i.e. extremely large, secure, complex, widely used etc.). AXLE also aims to make those improvements generally available through high quality open source implementations via the PostgreSQL and developing new hardware accelerators prototyped with FPGAs. AXLE will work with challenging datasets as follows:
These datasets allow us to use data immediately, as well as giving us a deep grounding in real world use cases. The legal and privacy aspects of the Portavita data (medical data of patients) make security considerations real as well. We will investigate scenarios where the whole European population of 500 million with its medical data is stored. This highly sensitive data will be anonymised for tests, avoiding any legal or ethical issues from using the data. Have we missed something? If you have some award news
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