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Department of CS newsletter
Published: Thursday, 22 December 2022Weekly newsletter for the Department of CS
Department Newsletter - Contents
[ top ]News from Head of Department
Season's Greetings
As we approach the end of the calendar year, I want to thank you all for your engagement and hard work during the past semester, and for the support you have given me as the new HoD. I wish you a restful and peaceful break over the next couple of weeks, and look forward to seeing you all in 0x7E7.
Research Networking Event Registration Reminder
Please do remember to register for our research networking event please on January 24th via this form.
Andrew
Erika Buzink-Wallis
[ top ]News and announcements
International Funders Workshop: The Future of Research Software in November.
https://www.researchsoft.org/blog/2022-11/
This was an important meeting of global funders organised by Research Software Alliance (ReSA) and Netherlands eScience Centre to discuss the future of research software funding.
I keynoted as you can see in the picture. Hurrah for Manchester!
Carole
Building Access during the Christmas closure
The final working day at the University before Christmas and New Year is Thursday 22 December 2022 – buildings will begin to close after 5pm on that day. The University will re-open on Tuesday 3 January 2023.
Access to campus during the Christmas closure & General Building Support
Access to the Kilburn and IT Building during the Christmas closure should be limited to exceptional circumstances only. Please be aware that during the Christmas closure period there will not be any PS staff support and support from University Estates (House Services), and Campus Security will be reduced. Building heating will be turned off for environmental sustainability.
Please check that all rooms and valuables have been made secure before leaving. Switch off all lights, electrical items and equipment that will not be needed and dispose of all perishables from fridges, kitchenettes and offices.
Please remember to turn off any small radiators!
In the event of an emergency, please contact the University’s Security Services on 0161 306 9966.
Ruth Maddocks
[ top ]Events
Atlas seminar 11th January 2023
The next Atlas seminar will take place on 11th January 2023, in Kilburn Lecture Theatre 1.3, 2pm – 4pm.
Speaker: Stefan Schulz
Title: Interoperability standards for clinical text processing
Abstract:
Healthcare and biomedical research are probably among the areas best served by semantic aretefacts of all kinds. Nevertheless, narrative data remains a cornerstone of clinical communication and documentation.
The need for semantic interoperability has increasingly promoted representations of EHR content using ontologies and terminologies (models of meaning) such as ICD, SNOMED CT, LOINC, together with information patterns (models of use) such as HL7-FHIR.
Despite major advances in NLP over the past decade, processing clinical narratives with the goal of instantiating interoperable information structures such as FHIR resources still faces major challenges.
Future approaches to overcome this situation need to integrate data-driven language models (relying on annotated clinical texts) with symbolic knowledge, such as that provided by domain ontologies.
Bio:
Stefan Schulz holds a full professiorship at the Institute of Medical Computer Sciences, Statistics and Documentation, Medical University of Graz, Austria. He does research in Artificial Intelligence and Computing applied to Health Care and Life Sciences, in particular on EHRs, secondary use of clinical data, text and data mining in clinical document repositories, biomedical knowledge representation, ontologies and terminologies and classification systems (including SNOMED CT). Stefan works in addition at Averbis GmbH, Freiburg, Germany as Head of Medical Research Projects. Averbis is a leading provider of NLP solutions tailored to medical language in Germany. More information at https://user.medunigraz.at/stefan.schulz/
We hope to see you there!
Language in the Field - Governmental Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence
You are invited to a talk at Lancaster University, open to staff and students from Manchester, Lancaster, MMU and Salford
Linguistics has broad applications to a wide array of fields, from banking security and military intelligence to interview contexts and malware analysis. In this talk we will provide an understanding of what the real-world applications of linguistics and Natural Language Processing look like from the perspective of practitioners working in Government and why we care about language. This talk should be of especial interest to anyone considering linguistics as a future career.
Date: Monday, January 16, 2023
Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Attendance strictly by registration only. Find out more and register here
[ top ]Research News
UKRI website user satisfaction survey 2022
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/2YJBG62?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Please spare 3 minutes to help us improve your experience on the UK Research and Innovation website.
Sarah Chatwin
Research Support contacts
The Research Services team is now made up of the following people:
Research Support Manager: Sarah Chatwin
Research Support Officers: Natalia Stefanovic, Chantel Murtagh, Sarah Watson and Liz Hulme
Research Support Assistant: Annette HaworthContact the following people directly for support with your proposals and researcher recruitment:
Natalia Stefanovic
- Advanced Processor Technologies
- Natural language processing and text mining
Chantel Murtagh
- Systems and Software Security
- Information Management
- Formal Methods
Sarah Watson
- Nano-engineering and Spintronic Technologies
- Machine Learning and Robotics
Elizabeth Hulme
- Human Computer Systems
- Autonomy and Verification
Merry Christmas from all of us in Research Support!
Innovate Knowledge transfer partnerships (KTPs): round 5
Deadline: 25-Jan-23
For academics collaborating with a company. KTPs last 1-3 years with the KTA (Knowledge Transfer Associate) working at the company.
The UoM has very good success rate with KTPs. If you are interested in applying to the scheme please contact the KE Team (ke@manchester.ac.uk) asap as they provide invaluable advice.EPSRC: Explore the requirements of exascale software for UK science
Deadline: 21 February 2023
Grants must start by 1 June 2023 for 18 months (worth up to £500k at 80% fEC).
Apply for funding to explore emerging exascale software and algorithms requirements for UK science.
This funding is through the Exascale Computing: Algorithms and Infrastructures Benefiting UK Research (ExCALIBUR, www.excalibur.ac.uk/) programme, which is part of the Strategic Priorities Fund.You can be from any area of the UK research community (not necessarily a researcher working within EPSRC’s remit). Applicants must engage with 1 or more of the funded ExCALIBUR projects as part of their proposal and a letter of support must be provided by the group.
[ top ]Sustainability and Green Impact News
Food Waste Recycling - University trial starts in January 2024
As part of a University trial, food waste bins will be placed in all staff kitchens in Kilburn and Information Technology at the start of January.
The bins will be emptied daily/several times a week by the cleaning staff who will remove the bags of food waste and replace them with new bags and give the bins a quick clean/wipe. The food bags they remove will be taken to food waste wheelie bins (240L) at existing bin store locations and these will be emptied by our waste contractors, Veolia (ES) UK Ltd on a weekly or fortnightly basis. They will take this waste to their Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) in Trafford Park to be bulked up, before it is transferred to Anaerobic Digestion (AD) facilities in Warwickshire operated by Biogen.
Please remember to clean up after yourselves in the kitchens and do not leave food out!
