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Weekly Newsletter |
24 February 2014 |
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News from Head of School
Steve Furber wins the BCS Lovelace Medal Steve Furber has been awarded the prestigious BCS Lovelace Medal. The Lovelace medal was established in 1998 and is administered by the Awards Committee of the BCS Academy of Computing. The Lovelace medal is presented to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the understanding or advancement of Computing. Windows
installation
WiSET Event –
Build your self confidence March
3rd WiSET (Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) Event, Monday 3 March 2014 University Place, Room 4.204, 14:00-15:30 This workshop aims to boost confidence and self-belief, questioning why we lack confidence, asking for perceptions of confidence and how we can tackle confidence. The session will be facilitated by Stephanie Walters, Staff Training and Development Unit, who has extensive experience in delivering assertiveness training to staff across our University. Men are welcome. Go to http://www.wiset.eps.manchester.ac.uk/events/ to view the programme. Annual May Ball May
9th CSSOC has announced this year’s May Ball "Computer Science, Languages, and Religion & Theology bring you The Midnight Masquerade May Ball." https://www.facebook.com/themayball2014 The LAST CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS is Thursday 27th February, Announcements and news
Ramp up the Red event success We have finally finished counting the pennies from the Ramp Up the Red day after a few late donations. Between ourselves, Chemical Engineering and the Student Services Centre we raised a whopping £405.96 for the British Heart Foundation!
Abseiling for The Christie Bryony Quick will be abseiling from the top of the Manchester United Football Stadium on 23 March to raise funds for the important Christie charity. Support your secretary at the link below! http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/QuickRelief Events
Current and Future uses of Semantic Web
Technologies at the BBC 26
Feb 14 Dr Yves Raimond,
BBC Research & Development 14:00, lecture
theatre 1.4, Kilburn building IET and BCS Turing Lecture 2014 26
Feb 14 17:30-21:30,
Lecture Theatre A, University Place, The University of Manchester Register for the prestigious Manchester Turing Lecture:
Beyond Silicon and much, much more by Dr Bernard Meyerson, VP Innovation and
IBM Fellow. WiSET – Build your self-confidence WiSET
(Women in Science, Engineering and Technology) 3
Mar 14 14-15:30, Room
4.204, University Place This workshop
aims to boost confidence and self-belief, questioning why we lack confidence,
asking for perceptions of confidence and how we can tackle confidence. The
session will be facilitated by Stephanie Walters, Staff Training and
Development Unit, who has extensive experience in delivering assertiveness
training to staff across our University. We will also
hear personal stories from three of our leading ladies, Prof Helen Gleeson
(Physics and Astronomy), Dr Alice Bows-Larkin (MACE) and Dr Aline Miller
(CEAS). You are invited
to join us on the day, booking not essential. If you would like to book please
email Helen Dutton or go
to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h2ga9LulG--pHaUCZn-RcCvSmvImaai9tg22YGWlF1Q/viewform
Men are also
welcome to join! Horizon 2020 Leadership in Enabling Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) Surgeries 5 March 2014 10am –
12pm B18b Sackville Street Building 6 March 2014 1pm –
3pm Council Chamber,
Sackville Street Building 25 March 2014 10am –
12pm B18b Sackville Street Building 26 March 2014 2pm –
4pm B18b Sackville
Street Building Leadership in Enabling and Industrial
Technologies (LEIT) is a
key element of Horizon 2020 and aims to support the development of
technologies underpinning innovation across a range of sectors. Liz Fay
and the Business Engagement Team will be holding surgeries throughout March
to provide expertise to interested H2020 participants from both the EU
position (what is required for a proposal) but also from a Business
Engagement point of view especially regarding the issue of increased Technology Readiness Level (TRL). The Business Engagement team
will be able to provide some insight into what is expected for success when
TRLs are close to market. The surgeries
will begin with an introduction from Liz Fay and the Business Engagement
Team; you may then book individual 10 minute slots. Please contact Rupa Sharma to book a slot for your preferred date
and time. External Horizon 2020 events Various Details on upcoming events are available, including focuses on graphene, HBP and FET. EPSRC early career researcher funding internal
seminar 6 Mar 14 11-13:00, University Place 4.213 Alex Casson (EEE), supported by Caroline Jay (CS), invites all self-defined 'early career researchers' to an internal seminar to share information on EPSRC funding especially in the ICT theme. This internal dissemination session is being run to spread the EPSRC messages further, to help researchers who couldn't attend the recent EPSRC events, and to build on the current early career researcher networks within the university. Please email alex.casson@manchester.ac.uk if you wish to attend. Eli
and Britt Harari Graphene Enterprise Award 2014 7 Mar 14 · Registration closing
date: 7 March 2014 · Event: 13 March 2014, 17:30-21:30, UoM · Closing date: 12:00 11 April 2014 The Eli and Britt Harari Graphene Enterprise Award, in association with Sir Andre Geim, is a £50k annual award to help establish new enterprises in graphene at The University of Manchester. The competition is open to both individuals and teams. Teams can contain up to 6 people but at least 50% of the team must be PhD students, Postdoctoral Research Associates or alumni of the University who graduated in either 2012 or 2013. To register for the networking event, email Lisa Heywood. Emerging Technology Conference for Scientific Computing 11 Apr 14 Scientific
computing has advanced rapidly in recent years enabling modelling and
simulations that are groundbreaking and revolutionary in their scope and
accessibility. The emergence of novel
hardware has been key to this development (GPUs, hybrid chips, FPGAs,
multi-cores, etc.) placing the power of supercomputers from 5-10 years ago
inside our mobile devices. The
hardware being developed by the major vendors continues apace however, faster
than the scientific and industrial communities can keep up! To address this
need, we are launching a new conference at the University of Manchester
focusing on how to exploit and optimise Emerging Technology (EmiT) for
scientific computing. We are bringing
together leading key figures in the scientific computing community, the end
users of new software & hardware in industry and the vendors including
INTEL, nVidia, mathworks to discuss all these issues. We invite you
to join us at this 1-day inaugural event and be part of the exciting
collaboration between all the major players to lead the next generation of
ideas and development. Funding Opportunities
Research Support Office Please contact us through researchsupportcsm@manchester.ac.uk. There is information about support for grant writing, submission and successful examples at http://staffnet.cs.manchester.ac.uk/reso/ and through EPS. The EPS blog The Word contains features News, Events and comment relevant to Postgraduate Researchers, Research Staff and Supervisors or PIs. Important:
Changes in EU Funding Opportunities Information sessions and draft documents
are becoming available for Horizon2020 (the successor of FP7 EU programme).
EU research funding is important for the School so please keep an eye-out for
information – calls are expected to open at the end of the year. Reminder - H2020 drafts
available EU funding-related documents are placed by
the University's EU team at: A great resource
recommended by the ICT National Contact Point is http://www.ictic.org/,
which also provides handy overview documents. Reminder - EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account – 5th call 5 Mar 14 Closing date: 12
pm 5 March 2014 The 5th IAA call for proposals is open.
Funding is for research based on EPSRC funded research: ·
Relationship Incubator Scheme – To develop early stage contact and strategic alignment between
business and academics ·
Concept Development and Feasibility Study Scheme – To bridge the gap in support for early stage commercialisation of
ideas ·
Exploitation Secondment Scheme and Academic
Secondment Scheme - To increase the
exchange of knowledge through mobility of people between the University and
user organisations Simon Harper and Sean Bechhofer have both previously been successful in IAA
calls. Biomedical Catalyst: Developmental Pathway
Funding Scheme (DPFS) 18
Mar 14 Outline
deadline: 16:00 18 March 2014 The MRC’s DPFS funds (£250k min., normally
2 yr) academic-led pre-clinical development and early clinical testing
of novel therapeutics, devices and diagnostics, including “repurposing”
clinical studies. DPFS scheme supports projects whose goals are to improve
prevention, diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment of significant health needs,
or that focus on developing research tools that increase the efficiency of
developing interventions including: ·
Developing and testing
novel devices ·
Developing and testing
diagnostics Biomedical Catalyst 28
May 14 Registration
deadline: 28 May 2014 Closing date: 4
June 2014 The TSB and MRC Biomedical Catalyst programme
has funding available (£250k–2.4M) for Early and
Late stage awards to support SME-led collaborations with academia, to develop
solutions for: ·
disease prevention and
proactive management of health and chronic conditions ·
earlier and better
detection and diagnosis of disease leading to marked improvements in patient
outcomes ·
highly effective treatments that are tailored to patients' needs and either
modify the underlying disease or offer potential cures. Support is
available for projects arising from any sector or discipline that are aimed
at addressing healthcare challenges. Example solutions may include (not
limited to); stratified healthcare (both therapy and diagnostic components),
regenerative medicine, diagnostics, eHealth and mHealth
solutions, enabling medical technologies and devices. Featured Research Outcomes
Did you know… papers featured in the newsletter also go on display in the Kilburn Building (outside 2.7)? Send your new publications to Robert Stevens so that more people get to know about your research. Have we missed something? If you have some award news that you would like us to know about please contact Sarah Chatwin. |
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The first of the new double glazed opening
windows are being installed by the goods lift on the 2nd floor of the
Kilburn Building. All of the 2nd floor windows that face into the
courtyard will be replaced. This will inevitably cause disruption to the
occupants when their windows are changed and to everyone else through noise.
Hopefully the improved heat insulation and the ability to open the windows
will compensate for the disturbance. If this experiment goes well we hope
that Estates will replace other windows in the Kilburn building.