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Events

Daniel Kroening is one of the speakers at the TECS Week: TCS Excellence in Computer Science Conference at the Tata Research Development and Design Centre in Pune, India in early January 2010. Click here for the conference website.

Events

Professor Jim Davies, Programme Co-Chair of the Third International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, shared the platform at the opening session with President Álvaro Uribe Vélez, the Colombian Head of State. President Uribe gave an inspiring opening address on the importance of ICT to Colombia in terms of democratic security, investor confidence, education and training, healthcare, and administrative transparency.

Studentships

Verification of Shared-Memory Concurrent Software

Miscellaneous

According to a recent ranking, Oxford is the top place in Europe for Computer Science (ETH second, Cambridge third). Click here to see the Academic Ranking of World Universities in Computer Science 2009 online.

Awards

Congratulations to Marta Kwiatkowska and Georg Gottlob on the award of European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigators Grants totalling approximately 4.4M euro over 5 years. Only 9 such grants in computer science have been awarded for the whole of Europe. Advanced grants are advertised as being "For exceptional research leaders only" so this is a wonderful endorsement of Marta's and Georg's distinction. Click here to view the ERC website.

Studentships

Two 3-Year EPSRC Funded DPhil Studentships

Miscellaneous

The OWL 2 Language, which Ian Horrocks helped to develop, became a W3C Recommendation on Tuesday 27th October 2009. Click here to read the press release online. The Oxford main website also features a press release: 'Wiser OWL learns to unravel doctor talk'.

Vacancies

Translation of Biophysical Modelling into the Heart of the Clinic

Studentships

The Computing Laboratory invites applications for full and partial scholarships for D.Phil (Doctor of Philosophy) to commence in October 2010

Miscellaneous

Our new Undergraduate Brochure is now out. Click here to download a copy.