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News
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New pulsars found! Since August 9th 2014 five new pulsars have been
discovered and confirmed in the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey using a new
classifier for pulsar candidates, proposed and implemented by CDT student Rob
Lyon. Sally Cooper, a PhD student at Jodrell Bank working with Ben Stappers,
takes a lot of the credit for these finds too. Rob Lyon works with Ben, John
Brooke and Joshua Knowles. Details of the pulsars, catchily named J0317,
J0305, J2057, J2336 and J1814 can all be found at LOTAAS NIH Data Science Centres The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is expected to
announce 11 new Data Science Centres, a Data Discovery Index and a
$100million investment in a Data Commons. Carole Goble attended the NIH
Associate Director for Data Science meeting on 3rd September
and has further information if you are interested. News and announcements
Upcoming provisional Faculty Open meeting
dates Each meeting will run from 13-14:00.
Wednesday
15 October 2014
Wednesday
28 January 2015
Wednesday
13 May 2015
Wednesday
15 July 2015 Members of staff who were unable to attend the most recent meeting held on Wednesday 16 July a recording is available here. If you have any questions or comments about the Open Meetings please contact Rachel Hobson. Events
Survival at the Top - Lecture on The Glass Cliff 18 Sep 14 10:30-11:30, Lecture Theatre B, University Place. The Glass Cliff extends the metaphor of the Glass Ceiling and says that, after having broken through a glass ceiling, women are actually more likely than men to find themselves on a glass cliff, meaning their positions of leadership are risky or precarious.
Professor Michelle Ryan, Professor of Social and Organisational Psychology, University of Exeter will discuss her research on academic leadership, ambition and work-life balance, exploring the environment facing women in positions of leadership.
Debate around the glass cliff phenomenon, as well as the implications for research and practice, is encouraged. Men most welcome! Booking is not necessary. Please email Helen Ryder for further information. The MURDOCK Study: Building a Community-based Registry & Biorepository for Disease Reclassification 19 Sep 14 14:00, Atlas suite, Kilburn building. Dr Tenenbaum, Associate Director for Bioinformatics for the Duke Translational Medicine Institute (DTMI), hosted by Professor Carole Goble. Improving
everyday interactions with your phone 24
Sep 14 14:00, Lecture
theatre 1.4, Kilburn building. Dr D. Brumby, Senior Lecturer at University College London, hosted by Caroline Jay. RAEng
Research
Forum 26
Sep 14 10:00-17:00 26 September, RAEng, Prince
Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5DG Carole Goble is
speaking at the annual Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) event, which
explores the cutting-edge of world-class engineering research, funded by the
RAEng. It provides an excellent opportunity for the worlds of research,
industry, business and policy to meet and exchange views. Registration required. 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 More detailed
information is available now that for Horizon2020 has started (the successor
of FP7 EU programme). EU research funding is important for the School and
its important to understand whats available http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html 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. Contrails: finding understanding and countering crime in the cloud 16
Sept 14 Closing date: 16:00 16 September 2014 Working with the Metropolitan Police Service
and the National Crime Agency, EPSRC and ESRC are jointly requesting proposals for a
research Centre which will improve understanding of, and responses to,
criminal activities and behaviour in the cloud. Featured
Research Outcomes
Did you know
papers featured in the newsletter also go on display in the
Kilburn Building (outside finance: 2.03)? Send your new publications to Robert
Stevens so that more
people get to know about your research. Selected recent publications As well as the 2
papers that featured in the newsletter last week (Molecular
phenotyping of a UK population: defining the human serum metabolome,
Studying the
Evolvability of Self-Encoding Genotype-Phenotype Maps), Josh Knowles has had the
following published over the last year. ·
Population Fluctuation Promotes
Cooperation in Networks, arXiv:1407.8032 [cs.GT], July 2014 ·
Multiobjective Optimization: When
Objectives Exhibit Non-Uniform Latencies, European Journal
of Operational Research, 2014. (To appear). ·
Hellinger Distance Trees for Imbalanced
Streams, in Proceedings of the 22nd International
Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2014 pp. 1969-1974, IEEE Press
(full paper). ·
Ephemeral Resource Constraints in
Optimization, in R. Datta and K. Deb (eds.) Evolutionary
Constrained Optimization, Springer-Verlag. (To appear). ·
GeneGenie: optimized oligomer design for directed
evolution, Nucleic Acids Research, April 2014. doi:10.1093/nar/gku336
(Acknowledgment only). ·
Accuracy and tractability of a kriging
model of intramolecular polarisable multipolar electrostatics and its
application to histidine. Journal of Computational
Chemistry, 2013 34: 1850-1861. ·
On Handling Ephemeral Resource Constraints
in Evolutionary Search. Evolutionary Computation, 21(3):
497-531. MIT Press, Fall 2013. 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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