Higher Education Group Meeting - Physics and Social Complexity

Institute of Physics
Higher Education Group Meeting
Physics and Social Complexity

Wednesday December 1 2010

Institute of Physics,
76 Portland Place, London


The programme brings together academics from Sociology and from Physics to describe their research programmes with policy advisors who will discuss applications. The meeting will end with a discussion of the potential role of social physics in undergraduate progammes. The meeting will be of interest to those responsible for designing research-led curricula in physics.

There is a charge of £25 for this meeting payable on the day.

Advanced booking is essential:
please contact Daxa Patel at the Department of Physics in Leicester
(dp204 -at- le.ac.uk) to reserve a place.

ResearcherID: your e-publication list

Use EndNote and EndNote Web to manage your personal publication list in ResearcherID, a free author community where you can create your own profile to eliminate author misidentification. Search ResearcherID to find collaborators and more. New features include:

Connect to EndNote Web from any ResearcherID page to manage your publication list, perform online searches and edit records in one click.

Compare your publication list with Web of Science to add Times Cited details automatically.

The best part is you can use the same login/password for ResearcherID and EndNote Web as for personal area of Web of Knowledge.

For databases:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/is/databases-a-z

My EndNote Web:
http://myendnoteweb.com

Register with your university email address.

UseMyAbility

UseMyAbility website results from a Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS) project on employability and disability.

Sections for students, university staff and employers at:

http://www.usemyability.org/

Presentations available WoK - Bibliometric Course.

Following the recent Web of knowledge Bibliometric course, the three presentations are available:

1. Researcher Evaluation.
2. The Metrics.
3. Using Bibliometrics.

See the Mimas Web of Knowledge Service for UK Education web site at: http://wok.mimas.ac.uk/support/documentation/#presentations


In addition, there is the Thomson Reuters White Paper.

Using Bibliometrics: A Guide to Evaluating Research Performance with Citation Data which can be viewed at:
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/m/pdfs/325133_thomson.pdf

IADIS: International Conference Mobile Learning 2011

10 to 12 March 2011
Avila, Spain.

Call for paper deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 29 November 2010

The conference seeks to provide a forum for the discussion and presentation of mobile learning research.

http://www.mlearning-conf.org/

JISC Online Conference Innovating e-Learning

Online conference
23-26 November 2010

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/elearningpedagogy/elpconference10.aspx

JISC Legal 10 Year Anniversary: Top Ten Tips

Designed to assist navigating the advantages ICT brings.

http://www.jisclegal.ac.uk/Default.aspx?tabid=243&id=1740

More effective lectures and tutorials

The HE Academy's UK Physical Sciences Centre has organised a series of workshops around the theme of doing things more effectively.

i) More Effective Lectures,
Wednesday 15th December 2010,
University of Edinburgh

More information


ii) More Effective Tutorials/Workshops,
12th January 2011,
Loughborough University

More information

Global Horizons festival

The events run from 13-20 November.

Many events are FREE and staff, students and the general public are welcome.

A full programme and booking details are online at:
http://www.ed.ac.uk/global-horizons

Among the highlights are international music and dance concert – Rhythmic World - which includes African drumming, flamenco, Brazillian Capoeira, Punjabi dance, Italian song, Georgian singing, Egyptian belly dancing, and Middle Eastern music.

The Global Horizons programme also includes:
- a 5 a-side mini world cup tournament (we hope staff will join in);
- a Bhangra Dance Workshop and a Georgian Singing workshop
- A Mexican Fiesta! Celebrating 200 years of Mexican independence
- a photography and film competition
- information for students about studying/working abroad, and about working in the UK for international students

RSE Beltane Prize for Public Engagement

Nominees are invited from all disciplines, and all organisations, across Scotland for this new prize to reward and celebrate public engagement with research, jointly founded by Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Edinburgh Beltane for Public Engagement.

Two Prizes will be made:

i) The RSE Beltane Senior Prize for Public Engagement, awarded to an individual with long standing experience of this field.
ii) The RSE Beltane Innovators Award, for an emerging talent.

The closing date is 31st January 2011.

http://www.royalsoced.org.uk/research_fellowships/beltane.htm

Open Dataset - finding and using their information

Free one-day Open Data Master Classes

To provide individuals with the tools and techniques needed to use and analysis a range of Open Datasets such as school census data, health care provision, crime statistics and transportation data.

The Open Data Master Classes combine theory and practicals with guest lectures from prominent members in the field from government, academia and business. Participants will learn a range of techniques from data collection and processing to data analysis and map visualization.

More details at:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/CGS/EventsItems/Events2010/OpenDataMasterclasses.aspx

Using social media to communicate your research

Wednesday 10th November
Teviot Row Dining Room
1.00 - 2.00 (sandwich lunch from 12.30.)

Further details with link to booking on MyEd at:

http://erirsd.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/using-social-media-to-communicate-your-research-learning-lunch/

Using Technology to Enhance Learning in Physical Sciences

Wednesday 8th December 2010,
Leeds

There is no registration fee for this meeting for those working in UK HE.
More details at:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/events/detail/2010/using_technology_to_enhance_learning

More Effective Learning in Laboratories

Wednesday 17th November 2010,
CELS, Nottingham Trent University.

No registration fee for this meeting for those working in UK HE.

More information and booking at:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/events/detail/2010/more_effective_learning_in_labs

Combining text and visual features for information retrieval

ICCS/HCRC Seminar Series,Dina Demner-Fushman
http://www.iccs.inf.ed.ac.uk/seminars/

DATE: 22 October 2010 - 11am

4.31/33, Informatics Forum
10 Crichton Street

Portobello book festival

Fri 8th Oct - Sun 10th Oct.

Childrens events, family history, food, fitba' and Ian Rankin.

More from the website at:
http://www.portobellobookfestival.co.uk

Modelling in physics: getting our students to think like physicists

20th October 2010,
Higher Education Academy,
York

Contributions (25-30 min talk with time for discussion) to the workshop are invited. Contact David Sands by emailing, d.sands -at- hull.ac.uk

There is no registration fee for this meeting for those working in UK HE.

Registration is available online at:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/events/detail/2010/modelling_in_physics

IMCIC 2011 - extended submission date

extended submission deadline for The 2nd International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2011, (March 27th - 30th, 2011 - Orlando, Florida, USA) which will be held jointly with The SPRING 5th International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management: KGCM 2011

The extended submission deadline, for both conferences, is October 13th, 2010. Check the conference web site for the other deadlines.

http://www.2011iiisconferences.org/IMCIC

Main Library - Centre for the History of the Book Seminars, autumn 2010

1-2pm.
Meet at the Centre for Research Collections' reception - level 6, Main Library.

Everyone welcome. No booking required.

Tuesday 21 September
Michael Turnbull - "Rosslyn Chapel: New Perspectives"

Friday 8 October
Jonathan Wild (University of Edinburgh) - "The Edwardian Literary Scene"

Friday 22 October
Brian Hillyard (National Library of Scotland) - "Ruddiman's Printing Business"

Friday 12 November
Elizabeth Henderson (University of St. Andrews) - "Brothers in Benefaction: Scot of Scotstarvit and Drummond of Hawthornden"

Friday 26 November
Alison Wiggins (University of Glasgow) - "Bess of Hardwick's Letters (1522-1608): material readings and editing online"

Friday 10 December
Andrew Wiseman (University of Edinburgh) - "A' Cur Clach air a' Chàrn: The Scottish Gaelic Texts Society (1934-2009)"

Ninth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (AHM 2010)

13-16 September 2010,
City Hall,
Cardiff.

More information from the website at:
http://www.allhands.org.uk/registration