i++ School Newsletter

former student named new ceo at vericorder technology

esrc studentships for 2012-13 entry

The University is offering 16 ESRC fully-funded studentships worth up to £18,000 for talented postgraduates within the Doctoral Training Centre.  Collaborative co-funded studentships are also available.  All studentships are open to Home and EU students.  To find out more about the Doctoral Training Centre see: www.essex.ac.uk/dtc.  To apply online for a postgraduate place and then for an ESRC studentship, see www.essex.ac.uk/pgapply.

iet anglian coastal network technical presentation competition

This year's competition will be held on Thursday 8th March at 6.30 pm in 1N1.4.1.  Participants should give a 10-minute technical presentation to a small audience.  There are 2 prizes, one of £150 and one of £75.  Both the winner and runner-up will also receive a year's free membership of the IET and the winners name may be forwarded for consideration for presentation in the IET worldwide "Present Around the World" final.  If interested please email Palani Ramaswamy as soon as possible.  Further details are available on this poster.  A briefing session will also be held on Wednesday 29th February at 6.30 pm in LTB B, here are further details of this.

student surveys

STUDENTS - WANT TO LET US KNOW WHAT LIFE IS LIKE AS A STUDENT? PLEASE DO!! The National Student Survey and the University's Student Satisfaction Survey are now running! Plus you could also win one of many fantastic prizes, including iPads, graduation packages and vouchers!! Please see http://www2.essex.ac.uk/academic/offices/smo/survey.htm and enter your views now!!

phd success

John Oyekan has passed his PhD with minor editorial corrections.  John successfully completed his PhD research in 3 years, funded by an EPSRC DTA Research Studentship.  The title of his thesis is "Visual mapping of invisible substances using Unicellular Swarm Intelligence" and has published 13 conference and journal papers  based on his research findings.  He has worked as a part-time research officer on EU SHOAL project and made a good contribution.  John was supervised by Prof Huosheng Hu and his examiners were Prof Alan Winfield (UWE) and Prof John Gan (Essex).  Many congratulations to John!

undergraduate of the year award deadline fast approaching

Time is running out to win a 12-week summer internship with BT as well as a brand new laptop! 

The deadline for the TARGETjobs IT and Computer Science Undergraduate of the Year Award, sponsored by BT, is 31st January 2012.  Pre-final year students can enter who are studying any of the following: electronics, electronic engineering, maths, physics, IT, computer science and closely related disciplines.  Academic staff please encourage your students to apply!  Entry should be made at http://undergraduateoftheyear.com

forthcoming seminars

The next seminar will be:

1st February - Speaker: Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College - London, Title: The Formal Characterisation of Socio-Economic Principles for Self-Organising Electronic Institutions.

Further details on this and future seminars can be found here.