1. 1 Student Induction Day for SICSA Prize Students and supervisors

2. 2 What’s up? 10.45-11.00 Coffee and registration 11.00-11.10 Welcome and Introduction Jon Oberlander 11.10-11.30 Icebreaker event Jon Turner 11.30-12.45 Student PresentationsJon Oberlander 12.45-1.45 Lunch 1.45-2.00 Intro to the Graduate AcademyIan Sommerville 2.00-3.00 Challenges for Supervision Jon Turner 3.00-3.15 Tea 3.15-3.45 Introduction to SGA PG trainingIan Sommerville inc. Entrepreneurship trainingDanny Helson 3.45-4.45 Mediated communication Colin Allison Paul Cockshott

3. 3 Where from? Strathclyde Edinburgh Glasgow Stirling St Andrews Abertay Dundee Robert Gordon Aberdeen Heriot Watt

4. 4 Who’s here? 1. Bai, XiEdinburgh Dave Robertson 2. Fan, Zhengjie Aberdeen Jeff Z Pan 3. Fountain, Trevor Edinburgh Mirella Lapata 4. Kelly, Tom Glasgow Ron Poet 5. Keyhanipour, Amir Hosein Glasgow Iadh Ounis 6. Khajeh-Hosseini, Ali St Andrews Ian Sommerville 7. Kammar, Ohad Edinburgh Gordon Plotkin 8. Kotthoff, Lars St Andrews Ian Miguel 9. Maternaghan, Claire Stirling Kenneth J Turner 10. Meedeniya, Dulani St Andrews Juliana Bowles 11. Petrovic, Sasa Edinburgh Miles Osborne 12. Qi, Lin Heriot-Watt Mike Chantler 13. Tan, Niyue Edinburgh Miles Obsorne 14. Wanderley Goes, Luis F.EdinburghMarcelo Cintra 15. Wu, Yanghui Robert GordonJohn McCall

5. What’s going on?  How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? –Distributed, pervasive, varied … sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power  How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age? –Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering  How do we build and work with the systems of tomorrow? –Distributed, pervasive, varied … sometimes big and powerful, sometimes small and low power  How can we “right-scale” in the petabyte age? –Securing, interfacing, modelling, engineering

6. 6 OK, how? To help meet that challenge, we must sustain and enhance Scotland’s research excellence in Informatics and Computer Science. We must collaborate to compete To help meet that challenge, we must sustain and enhance Scotland’s research excellence in Informatics and Computer Science. We must collaborate to compete

7. 7 Can we build it?  9% UK population  20% UK research council computing grants  19% UK’s top researchers (RAE2001)  More research is world class/internationally recognised –71% in SICSA vs 63% in UK (RAE2008)  Unparalleled in the UK, European-leading, world class Rest of UK Scotland

8. 8 Can we build it? AcademicResearch PhD

9. 9 Who’s going to build it? Governing Board Advisory Committee Advisory Committee Research Committee Research Committee Graduate Academy Graduate Academy Securing Practical networking Performance analysis Network security formalisms Web languages Interfacing Modelling Computational group theory System and performance modelling Model checking Applications Engineering Socio-technical systems Agents and autonomics Complex interactions Speech and language HCI Information retrieval Machine learning

10. 10 Who’s going to build it?  SICSA is about people: –4 themes for networking –7 research fellows –30 new academics –60+ international visitors –80 international students  You!  SICSA is about people: –4 themes for networking –7 research fellows –30 new academics –60+ international visitors –80 international students  You!