1. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 Welcome to Stefan Hallerstede Andy Gravell

2. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 Postgraduate Research Training in DSSE Mike Poppleton See ECS Intranet page … Staff and Postgraduates: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/staff/https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/staff/ Information for PhD Students: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/staff/pgr.phphttps://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/staff/pgr.php DSSE page: http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/ and … DSSE Postgraduate & Research Lab Site: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dsse/index.php https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dsse/index.php

3. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 What’s involved in PgR Training ? First things/ Induction: DSSE Welcome event – today DSSE first group seminar – Weds 24/10 – Prof. Peter Henderson DSSE seminar every Weds 1300 … School Induction events: Briefing – Mon 29/10, 1230-1330 PG Training Fest day 1 – Thurs 1/11, 0930- PG Training Fest day 2 – Thurs 8/11, 0930- International Supper – Thurs 8/11 evening

4. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 From Mon 5/11, 2-4pm every Monday … 5/11 – briefing & discussion, Mike Poppleton 12/11 – Introduction to DSSE Advanced Course programme, Prof. Vladimiro Sassone … 3/12 - Poster session – 2 nd, 3 rd years, RF’s First Mondays – student seminars DSSE PgR Training

5. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 Advanced short course programme “A programme of short courses will be presented by academic staff, introducing topics of broad cultural relevance to the group. The courses will be at an advanced level yet intended to introduce principles and methods in topics across Foundational Computer Science and Software Engineering, thus forming a broad postgraduate education for the first years” Monday afternoons

6. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 SIGs Specialist theme-focussed groups that meet regularly, organised by lab members. Each SIG has a particular focus, thus is aimed at a subset of the group, while remaining open to all lab members SIGs are owned by students and research staff Four SIGs in operation 06/07: Foundations SIG Software Engineering SIG B SIG – running since 05/06 Logic and Knowledge SIG – joint with IAM

7. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07 Work hard and Have a good time!

8. DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07