OCCASION College of Physical Sciences: SENATE REPORT 2008 PROFESSOR ALBERT A. RODGER VICE-PRINCIPAL, HEAD OF COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF.

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OCCASION College of Physical Sciences: SENATE REPORT 2008 PROFESSOR ALBERT A. RODGER VICE-PRINCIPAL, HEAD OF COLLEGE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN

Main achievements New School structure implemented New discipline: Archaeology 110 students; currently featured in Antiquity & European Journal of Archaeology Graduate School Admissions Unit created Student recruitment: Population highest for College at almost 2200; Major new programmes across all disciplines including Chemical Engineering (9% of intake), Subsea Engineering; 2+2 in Computing Science with South China Normal University. Petroleum Engineering planned for next Session Challenge: Student home recruitment and retention

Main achievements Infrastructure – refurbishment programme started Challenge: Extending refurbishment programme to all College buildings & working in an active construction environment Internationalisation Conferences: Artificial Intelligence, Complex Systems, Oceans 2008; 80+ CEO visits; Launches of new initiatives at Offshore Europe & OTC Houston: New links formed with Japan (bioresources), Mexico, Singapore, US (Energy); Additional international sixth century appointments including Bremen (Laser Engineering), Wisconsin Madison (Archaeology), UCSB (Engineering) and CUNY (Human Geography) Challenge: Continuation of Sixth Century recruitment campaign linked to fund raising

Main achievements Research management: meta-themes, RAE submission Engagement in research pooling Fully engaged in SRPE (lead role – AU income £4m), SAGES, ScotChem. Planned engagement in SUPA, SICSA & ScotGrid. 5 new Joint Research Institutes; 100 th KTP recorded; Energy Futures Chair appointed Grant income Major new awards (>£3m) in: Systems Biology; Subsea Drilling; Geoscience Applications in April £31m; most successful year for securing scholarships eg Talisman, Technip, Chevron, Total, Fugro, MCS. New Institutes: Transport, Marine Biodiscovery, Subsea

ASPIRATIONS To be recognised in key areas as having world class excellence To develop international partnerships which reinforce the College’s claims to excellence To complete the full refurbishment of the College buildings To create an Institute of Physical Sciences To lead and to engage in further research pooling initiatives To promote cross-College working especially with reference to Systems Biology/Mathematical Modelling of processes To grow and sustain the staffing and student profile to ensure balanced budgets and to underpin our ambitions To ensure and enable greater engagement with key industries

RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP NORTHERN National Subsea Research Institute

RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP NORTHERN ITF / SSUK MOU Objective – to define and deliver a UK national programme for research, development and implementation of Subsea technology Partnership between ITF / SSUK / Northern Research Partnership (NRP) Establish a Subsea centre of excellence: The National Subsea Research Institute (NRP) First meeting of the Subsea Technology Advisory Group (STAG) – May 26 th ITF has secured participation of Shell, Maersk, COP, CNR, Venture, Total, Nexen, ChevronTexaco, Talisman, BP, Eon and Expro Other SSUK invited participants include Subsea 7, Oil and Gas UK, Technip, FMC, GE Vetco Gray and OT2K Announced by Energy Minister at Westminster last week "