Congratulations to the Masters Class of 2011, and our PhD students, who graduated today. Students were invited to a reception in the school to celebrate their achievement with staff, friends and family. Our graduates have moved on to a wide variety of interesting and challenging employment opportunities, and we wish them all well with their future careers.
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Funded Research Studentships
The School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews has funding for students to undertake PhD research in any of the general research areas in the school:
http://www.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/research
We are looking for highly motivated research students with an interest in these exciting research areas. Our only requirements are that the proposed research would be good, we have staff to supervise it, and that you would be good at doing it. We have up to 6 funded studentships available for students interested in working towards a PhD. The studentships offer costs of fees and an annual tax-free maintenance stipend of about £13,590 per year for 3.5 years. Exceptionally well qualified and able students may be awarded an enhanced stipend of an additional £2,000 per year. Students should normally have or expect at least an upper-2nd class Honours degree or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
For further information on how to apply, see our postgraduate web pages. The closing date for applications is March 1st 2012 and we will make decisions on studentship allocation by May 1st 2012. (Applications after March 1st may be considered, at our discretion.) Informal enquiries can be directed to pg-admin-cs@st-andrews.ac.uk or to potential supervisors.
St Andrews CS students win DevXS
Congratulations to Computer Science undergraduates Elliot Davies and Sam Elliott who, along with Andrei Mustata from the University of Glasgow, won the DevXS “hackathon” at the University of Lincoln. Their team used datasets from the Guardian to develop a university guide.
Elliot Davies pitching their project
Palindromic moment
How did you mark the palindromic moment? Did it involve chocolate fingers and giant chocolate buttons?
Events across the UK also marked Armistice Day with a two-minute silence.
Open Minds Lecture Series 2011
Throughout St Andrews Week the University opens its doors, and invites members of the public, students and staff to attend lectures.
Ian Gent’s CS1005 lectures, Computer Science and Video Games, will feature in the event. A timetable of events and location details can be found on the University website.
Computer Science as Stand-up Comedy
Chris Jefferson, postdoctoral researcher in the School of Computer Science, did a short stretch as a stand-up comedian for Bright Club Dundee. His act talked about humour, dating and gaming, all from a computer scientist’s perspective. The piece is now on youtube.
Workshop on Computational Logic in honour of Roy Dyckhoff
The University of St Andrews is hosting a 2-day workshop on Computational Logic in honour of Roy Dyckhoff, who has retired this year.
The workshop will be held in Parliament Hall at the University of St Andrews on November 18-19, 2011, and is very generously sponsored by the SICSA Modelling and Abstraction Theme. Topics include Proof Theory, Natural Deduction, Verification, Combinatory Logic and Semantics.
More details, including the programme can be found at: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~lengrand/Events/Dyckhoff/index.php?page=programme
Attendance at the workshop is free to SICSA researchers, but we do ask you to register through the web site so that we can arrange catering.
Event details
- When: 18th November 2011 - 19th November 2011
- Format: Workshop
Baby Fish Fry
Why has there been so much activity and excitement around the fish tank this week?
Baby Cichlids have been spotted hiding amongst the rocks. Let’s hope they grow large enough, not be eaten, when they make a bid for freedom.
Photographing the camera shy proved rather tricky. Masih finally succeeded this morning.
One from the archives: Plans for new computer science building
November 2002, and plans were unveiled in the university news, for a new Computer Science Building. Stages of the build were photographed for posterity.
Electronic Voting System
An electronic voting system, developed by Ross and Stuart, was used to conduct the election for the new Rector. Full results are available in the University News.