School of CS newsletter

As announced at School Board, journal articles and conference proceedings accepted for publication after 1 April 2016 must be open access if they are to be submitted to the next REF, and must be fully open access within 3 months of acceptance http://www.hefce.ac.uk/pubs/year/2014/201407/

The University is conducting a 3 month trial of a system developed in consultation with the School that should make it a lot easier to meet HEFCE requirements.  If the author accepted manuscript is uploaded here: www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/ref/oa the Library will find the final published version and upload it as soon as it is available, taking account of any embargoes set by the policy of the publisher and will complete the eScholar entry.

This is a trial – if it is seen to work and encourages more submissions then it may be adopted but evidence that it works will be needed.

Thanks to Robert Stevens and Steve Pettifer for helping the library to create something that should be easy to use.

Deadline: 12 May 2015

In preparation for an away day that will focus on updating our energy research strategy, Ian Cotton, Director of Manchester Energy, is asking all colleagues involved in energy research to complete a short questionnaire. The questionnaire is your opportunity to describe what support would best benefit your energy research. The findings will feed into the away day which will be attended by colleagues from across the University. To access the survey visit http://goo.gl/M57FVc and for more information email info.energy@manchester.ac.uk. 

Deadline: 16:00 22 May 2015

Event: 24 June 2015 (Birmingham area)

https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/energysystemsworkshop/

As part of its contribution to the RCUK Energy Programme, EPSRC is inviting Expressions of Interest to attend a one-day workshop to engage in discussion to identify research challenges in the area of systems integration of energy supply and demand.

Deadline for applications: 09 June 2015 (12 noon)

http://www.mhs.manchester.ac.uk/secure/business/fund/

P2D runs from 1^st August 2015 to 31^st June 2016 and is internally managed by the Business Engagement Team. The fund is designed to support early interactions and knowledge exchange between industry and academic researchers across the biomedical space via. The competition is structured around two schemes:

• Relationship Incubator Scheme (max duration 6 months, max grant £10k): Aimed at academics with research of potential interest to industry, looking to identify new partners or build early stage relationship with existing partners
• Industry Secondment Scheme (max duration 9 months, max grant £50k): Aimed at academics who have already identified areas for potential commercial/translational development of specific MRC research outputs e.g. 
  • ​Pilot projects
  • Small collaborative research projects
  • Proposal development for larger grants
  • Partnership development

Please contact Sarah.chatwin@manchester.ac.uk for the presentation containing more information

Please contact naomi.chandler@manchester.ac.uk (Business Engagement Officer | Faculty of Medical and Human Sciences) at the earliest possible opportunity to discuss your ideas.

• Professor Tsujii has been appointed (from the 1st May 2015) Director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Center at the national institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Japan.
  https://unit.aist.go.jp/airc/en/intro/index.html

• NaCTeM received funding from BBSRC (£40K) to support BBSRC's classification of  its portfolio of research grants.
  PI: S. Ananiadou