1 student induction day for sicsa prize students and supervisors
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Student Induction Day
for SICSA Prize Studentsand supervisors
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sicsa* What’s up?
10.45-11.00 Coffee and registration
11.00-11.10 Welcome and Introduction Jon Oberlander
11.10-11.30 Icebreaker event Jon Turner
11.30-12.45 Student Presentations Jon Oberlander
12.45-1.45 Lunch
1.45-2.00 Intro to the Graduate Academy Ian Sommerville
2.00-3.00 Challenges for Supervision Jon Turner
3.00-3.15 Tea
3.15-3.45 Introduction to SGA PG training Ian Sommerville
inc. Entrepreneurship training Danny Helson
3.45-4.45 Mediated communication Colin AllisonPaul Cockshott
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sicsa* Where from?Where from?
StrathclydeStrathclyde EdinburghEdinburgh
GlasgowGlasgow
StirlingStirlingSt AndrewsSt Andrews
AbertayAbertay
DundeeDundee
Robert GordonRobert GordonAberdeenAberdeen
Heriot WattHeriot Watt
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sicsa* Who’s here?
1. Bai, Xi Edinburgh Dave Robertson2. Fan, Zhengjie Aberdeen Jeff Z Pan3. Fountain, Trevor Edinburgh Mirella Lapata4. Kelly, Tom Glasgow Ron Poet5. Keyhanipour, Amir Hosein Glasgow Iadh Ounis6. Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali St Andrews Ian
Sommerville7. Kammar, Ohad Edinburgh Gordon Plotkin8. Kotthoff, Lars St Andrews Ian Miguel9. Maternaghan, Claire Stirling Kenneth
J Turner10. Meedeniya, Dulani St Andrews Juliana Bowles11. Petrovic, Sasa Edinburgh Miles Osborne12. Qi, Lin Heriot-Watt Mike Chantler13. Tan, Niyue Edinburgh Miles Obsorne14. Wanderley Goes, Luis F. Edinburgh Marcelo Cintra15. Wu, Yanghui Robert GordonJohn McCall
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What’s going on?What’s going on?
How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow?
– Distributed, pervasive, varied …• sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power
How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age?
– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering
How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow?
– Distributed, pervasive, varied …• sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power
How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age?
– Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering
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sicsa* OK, how?
• To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science.
• We must collaborate to compete
• To help meet that challenge,we must sustain and enhanceScotland’s research excellencein Informatics and Computer Science.
• We must collaborate to compete
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sicsa* Can we build it?
9% UK population 20% UK research council computing grants 19% UK’s top researchers (RAE2001)
More research is world class/internationally recognised– 71% in SICSA vs 63% in UK (RAE2008)
Unparalleled in the UK, European-leading, world class
Rest of UK
Scotland
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sicsa* Can we build it?
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
Academic Research PhD
SICSA personnel
2001
2007
Academic Research
PhD
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sicsa* Who’s going to build it?
Governing BoardGoverning Board
AdvisoryCommittee
AdvisoryCommittee
ResearchCommittee
ResearchCommittee Graduate
Academy
GraduateAcademy
SecuringSecuring
•Practical networking
•Performance analysis
•Network security formalisms
•Web languages
InterfacingInterfacing ModellingModelling
•Computational group theory
•System and performance modelling
•Model checking
•Applications
EngineeringEngineering
•Socio-technical systems
•Agents and autonomics
•Complex interactions
•Speech and language
•HCI•Information retrieval
•Machine learning
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sicsa* Who’s going to build it?Who’s going to build it?
SICSA is about people:– 4 themes for networking – 7 research fellows– 30 new academics– 60+ international visitors– 80 international students
You!
SICSA is about people:– 4 themes for networking – 7 research fellows– 30 new academics– 60+ international visitors– 80 international students
You!
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