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Research School Irregular
Published: Thursday, 18 November 2021A newsletter for PGR
Research School Irregular - Contents
- 1. Training course: Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets - 7-8 December 2021
- 2. The Blockchainers Society
- 3. Christmas Bake Sale in Kilburn
- 4. What can AI do for Arts, Culture & Creativity Research at UoM? | Register today!
- 5. RISCS Community Workshop: Secure Development Practices Education - REGISTER
- 6. Opportunity for PhD students | Conception X Cohort 5
- 7. ARM Center of Excellence Internships
[ top ]Owning Your Research Project
Training course: Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets - 7-8 December 2021
The University of Manchester at Harwell (UoMaH) is bringing the imaging community together by delivering courses covering a broad range of imaging capabilities available at Harwell’s national facilities. Recognising the need for advanced training skills in the Harwell campus, a network of academic and industrial partners working at UoMaH, 3Dmagination, Diamond, ISIS, and Finden have jointly developed training courses at different levels to meet this need. The current course topics cover fundamentals of X-ray tomography, visualisation and quantification of tomographic data, nailing the 4D: a close-up to the DVC technique; and we will be expanding soon to X-ray phase-contrast imaging, neutron tomography, X-ray diffraction and diffraction contrast tomography.
The first of these courses, ‘Visualisation & quantification of tomographic datasets’ will take place on 7th & 8th December 2021, at the RAL Visitors Centre on the Harwell Campus.
Further information and registration details for this course can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/training-course-visualisation-and-quantification-of-tomographic-datasets-registration-204409031917
[ top ]Professional Development (and Networks)
[ top ]Wider Research Community
Christmas Bake Sale in Kilburn
Breaking News!
We are holding a Christmas charity bake sale on Tuesday 14th December from 10-11am...just in time for your coffee break!
We are inviting people to bake and donate their bakes to the sale too. So get your pinny on and BAKE!
Christmas jumpers optional! Come and pick up something delicious and make a donation to our charity this year: Wood Street Mission. HOME - Wood Street Mission
Mel, Marion, Angel and Karon
What can AI do for Arts, Culture & Creativity Research at UoM? | Register today!
Date: Wednesday 15th December 2021
Time: 15:00 – 16:30
Register here
New technologies in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are providing unprecedented access to cultural heritage, creating new cultural experiences, offering new ways to respond to key research questions in arts, languages, and cultures, and redefining the media and cultural and creative industries landscape. This highly interdisciplinary area opens up a number of exciting possibilities for research, teaching, knowledge exchange, and business engagement.
This internal event will highlight and map out expertise, strengths and possible directions and areas of future development on AI in arts, languages, culture, and heritage at the University of Manchester. Researchers from across the University of Manchester’s Digital Futures network will spotlight their research in these areas.
Join us to find out more about the University’s research in AI and the Arts and explore possible collaborations.
This is a cross-theme event between the Digital Futures Creative & Heritage and Data Science & AI themes.
Presentations:
Welcome and Context
Dr Kostas Arvanitis, Digital Futures Creative and Heritage Lead
AI Trends, Directions and UoM Strengths
Professor Sophia Ananiadou, Deputy Director, Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Modelling User Engagement with Interactive Media
Jonathan Carlton, PhD student, School of Computer Science
Discovering Novel Pathways through Collections: A Museum Recommender System
Lukas Noehrer, PhD student and Co-Organiser of the Alan Turing Institute AI&Arts Group
Using computational linguistics to detect markers of Parkinson's disease in typing data
Dr Colin Bannard, Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
AI use in creativity and communities (provisional title)
Dr Anita Greenhill, Senior Lecturer, AMBS
Dr Joe Ravetz, Future-Proof Cities Lead for Manchester Urban Institute
Experimenting with AI in the Library
Ian Gifford, Head of Digital Development, John Rylands Library
Sad Dog Eating: Composition strategies, hybridisation and distributed creativity with Machine Learning
Zakiya Leeming, Doctoral Composer at the Centre for Practice and Research in Science and Music (PRiSM), Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM)
Classifying Biometric Data for Novel Musical Expression within Composition
Chris Rhodes, PhD Candidate in Music Composition at NOVARS Research Centre
AURA MACHINE: Machine Learning & Musique Concrete
Vicky Clarke, Artist in Residence at NOVARS, European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital CreativityRISCS Community Workshop: Secure Development Practices Education - REGISTER
RISCS Community Workshop on the topic of Secure Development Practices Education, which will take place on the 8th December, between 2pm and 5pm GMT (online). This workshop is held in cooperation with the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA).
The UK National Cyber Security Strategy 2016 - 2021 emphasised the importance of making technology secure by design and developing the cyber security skills pipeline. Despite this emphasis, it's unclear how effective HEIs are at imparting Secure Development Practices knowledge and skills to the thousands that graduate from UK universities each year.
Such practices entail more than writing code. They encompass the broader design and engineering practices that produce usable and secure software. We already know the transfer of know-how from Secure Development Practice research to practice is slow, but is it equally slow from research to education too? It's also unclear where in the curricula such knowledge should be embedded, what expertise is needed to deliver and evaluate this knowledge, and -- given limited literature in Secure Development Practices education -- what Computer Science education challenges we need to overcome. Finally, given the interdisciplinary nature of Cybersecurity, how do we engage and support those delivering social science and humanities programmes to incorporate education around design theories and practices for security.
The objective of this half-day online workshop, which will be run in collaboration with the Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA), is to bring together a community of researchers, practitioners, and educators broadly in ‘Secure Development Practices education’. The workshop will include the HMG perspective of this topic, a panel with invited speakers discussing the challenges and opportunities in Secure Development Practices education, and breakout groups on different aspects of this theme. Workshop participants will get the chance to network with likeminded collaborators, and take the first steps in growing a UK community in Secure Development Practices education.
[ top ]Industrial Placements and Internships
Opportunity for PhD students | Conception X Cohort 5
Applications for Conception X Cohort 5 will be opening soon!
In the meantime, we are hosting online Discovery Sessions for PhD students to find out more about the Conception X programme and the application process.
Would you be able to send the following message to your PhD student community, along with the attached Programme Overview? Please let me know if there are any other ways we can communicate this opportunity with your students? Social media channels, newsletters, etc?
Conception X Cohort V
Conception X is the UK’s leading deep tech venture programme that helps PhD students turn their research into early stage startups. Over the past three years, Conception X has helped more than 200 PhD students acquire entrepreneurial skills and launch their own startups. To find out more about the programme and how you can apply, sign up for a Discovery Session on the 16th of November or the 15th of December and hear directly from alumni teams about how Conception X has helped them get where they are.
Conception X is a non-equity and zero-fee programme open to all PhD students in the UK. The programme runs from March to November every year and to find out more please see our website or join one of our Discovery Sessions listed above. Any questions feel free to get in touch with the Conception X Hub Manager Olivia Ash olivia@conceptionx.org.
ARM Center of Excellence Internships
Arm Research has opened various internships for next summer targeted at both under and post-graduate levels in different research areas, ranging from hardware to software engineering. You can obtain further information at https://careers.arm.com/early-careers.