Welcome Week Timetable 2011-12

Important information

• Deadline for choices 10:00 Friday 23rd September.
• How to make course unit choices.
• Welcome week information

Monday 19 September 2011

10.00 - 11.45 Registration (IT 407)
11.45 - 12.45 Party/Lunch (IT 406 and 407)
13.00 - 13.15 HoS Welcome (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)
13.15 - 14.45 General Talk - Uli Sattler (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)
14.45 - 15.00 H&S Talk - Eamon Griffin (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)
15.00 - 15.15 Sport at the University talk (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)
15.15 - 16.30 Meet Course Directors

• ACS (full and part time students), (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)
• ACS with IT Management (full and part time students), 2.19, Kilburn Building
• BioHealth Informatics (full and part time students), 2.15, Kilburn Building
• MEng (full and part time students), 401, IT building

16.30 - 17.00 Tour of MBS (for ACS w/ITM only) - Weigang Wang

Tuesday 20 September 2011

Introduction to themes (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)

09.00 - 09.30 Learning from Data
09.30 - 10.00 Advanced Web Technologies
10.00 - 10.30 Computational Biology
10.30 - 11.00 Parallel Computing in the Multi-core Era
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.00 Data Management
12.30 - 13.00 Health Informatics
13.00 - 13.30 Management - Peter Kawalek presenting
13.30 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 16.00 Introductory lab session: Linux Group A Family Name A-M (in MSc lab, 2nd floor, Kilburn Building)
16.00 - 18.00 Introductory lab session: Linux Group B Family Name N-Z (in MSc lab, 2nd floor, Kilburn Building)

REMINDER: Once you have decided from your chosen pathway, if you have one, and themes exactly which courses you wish to take you may register these choices. Course registration is achieved via Campus Solutions. Once completed, print off 'My Class Schedule' and take it to the Student Support Office (LF21, Kilburn Building). The final deadline for course choices is shown on Friday. You can make your choices anytime up until Friday morning. No preference is given to early choices.

Wednesday 21 September 2011

09.00 - 09.20 Introduction to library (Neil Sprunt) Lecture Theatre 1.1
09.20 - 10.00 Online resources and Blackboard (Bijan Parsia) Lecture Theatre 1.1
10.00 - 12.00 COMP609PM: Plagiarism and Malpractice course (Bijan Parsia) (MSc labs, Ground floor lab (G23), Toothill 0 and Toothill 1 labs).
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch. Student representatives organisation in Atlas 2
13.00 - 15.00 Introductory lab session: Software Tools Group A Family Name A-M (in MSc lab, 2nd floor, Kilburn Building)
15.00 - 17.00 Introductory lab session: Software Tools Group B Family Name N-Z (in MSc lab, 2nd floor, Kilburn Building)

Thursday 22 September 2011

Introduction to themes (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)

09.00 - 09.30 Visual Computing
09.30 - 10.00 Mobile Computing
10.00 - 10.30 Security
10.30 - 11.00 Logics and Ontologies
11.00 - 11.30 Break
11.30 - 12.00 Software Engineering
12.00 - 12.30 Text Mining
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 17.15 (Approx end time) Visit to Manchester United

Friday 23 September 2011

REMINDER: Self-registration for your course units should be completed on Campus Solutions as soon as possible, the final deadline is 10.00 TODAY. Print off 'My Class Schedule' and take it to the Student Support Office (LF21, Kilburn Building) by the final deadline of 10.00 hrs. Without this, confirmation by the School of your course unit selection cannot be guaranteed.

09.00 - 09.30 Research Methods and Professional Skills (Lecture theatre 1.1, Kilburn Building)
10.00 - 12.00 Optional catch up lab session and COMP609PM for late arrivals (in MSc lab, 2nd floor, Kilburn Building)
14.00 - 15.00 English Language Issues (John Morley, Mary McGee Wood, John Sargeant) (Lecture Theatre 1.1)
15.00 - 17.00 English Language Testing (MSc labs, Toothill 0 and Toothill 1 labs).