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January's Graduate School Conference was a great success, with a large attendance and very positive feedback.
The following new external grant awards have been announced:
Bidding activity continues strongly. The following table shows recent bids:
| Principal Investigator | Project Title | Value | Funder |
| Ana Sendova-Franks | The Collective Intelligence of Movement in Ants | £17,000 | Leverhulme Trust |
| Ana Sendova-Franks | Understanding Dynamic Social Networks Using Ant Colonies as a Model System | £460,000 | EPSRC |
| Ian Parmee | A Consortium to find Robust Solutions to Combinatorial Optimisation Problems | £55,370 | EPSRC |
| John Lanham | UWE - Bath IeMRC Electronics Costing Project | £34,000 | EPSRC |
| Tony Solomonides | MaTTrIX |
1,200,000 Euros (to consortium) |
EU - Marie Curie |
| Lyndon Smith | Optics and Photonics 2006 Conference Grant | £1,380 | Royal Society e-Gap |
| Alistair Clark | Mentoring African Research in Mathematics | 0 | Nuffield Foundation |
| Chris Melhuish | Equipment Bid: Rapid Prototyping 3D Printer to Support Robotics Research | Equipment only | EPSRC |
| Thomas Pearce | Analysis of Grinding Burn | £2,500 | DARA |
| Sean Watson (HLSS), Ian Parmee | Culture As An Emergent Process | 393,942 Euros | EC |
| Melvyn Smith | Facial Recognition using Photometric Stereo | £255,082 | EPSRC |
| Quan Zhu | Incoming short visit from Mexico | £3,900 | Royal Soc E-Gap |
The Launch event for the Institute for People-centred Computation (IP-CC) took place on the Thursday, 2nd March. The event was very successful with around forty-five attendees of which the majority was from industry. The Institute has emerged from the EPSRC 'Discovery in Design' cluster and is a joint venture between Bristol UWE and the Universities of Bristol, Cardiff and Cambridge. The evening comprised short presentations, poster displays and a buffet. Interest in the Institute is high and the degree of commercial interest is particularly encouraging. Visit http://www.ip-cc.org.uk/ and / or contact Ian Parmee for more information, membership forms and details of coming events.
The following new programmes have been announced to start in September, subject to validation: MSc Grid Computing, MSc Music Technology, MSc Mechanical Engineering, MSc Robotics.
Congratulations to Ali Maheri, research student in the Computational Mechanics Research Group, who represented UWE and CEMS at the annual IMechE showcase lectures by PhD students at the University of Bath on 10th March.
Paul Bremner, Adam Budd, Barry Dean have begun research degrees since January.
As part of the 200 year anniversary of I.K. Brunel, Bristol TV company 123 Media are staging a competition between Bristol, UWE and Bath to find the Brunels of the future. CEMS, jointly with FAS, has entered a team of two PhD students, Matt Studley and Adam Budd, to present their project entitled 'New Brains for New Robots - the challenge of programming a wet brain'. Filming of the project has taken place and the TV programme will be broadcast on ITV West on 20th April.
In January Alan Winfield, together with co-editors Alan Osborne and Vivian Pope, launched their book Distant Action and Correlation in Modern Physics: the Balanced Universe, published by the Edwin Mellen Press.
Early in January CEMS hosted the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) Residential Workshop, attended by some 100 Year 12 students, their teachers, and around 40 engineers from industry. The EES forms part of the Royal Academy of Engineering's BEST programme, which aims to engage and inspire thousands of young people to opportunities in science, engineering and technology.
Dylan Evans wrote a comment piece entitled 'The Savage Solution' for The Guardian, published 27 February. Link: www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1718616,00.html
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