Welcome to

DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07

Welcome to

Stefan Hallerstede

Andy Gravell

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/

• Information for PhD Students: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/staff/pgr.php

• DSSE page: http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

• and …

• DSSE Postgraduate & Research Lab Site: https://secure.ecs.soton.ac.uk/dsse/index.php

DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07

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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

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 – 2nd, 3rd years, RF’s• First Mondays – student seminars

DSSE

PgR

Training

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

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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

DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07

•Work hard and

•Have a good time!

DSSE Welcome seminar,17/10/07