More effective lectures and tutorials

The HE Academy's UK Physical Sciences Centre has organised a series of workshops around the theme of doing things more effectively.

i) More Effective Lectures,
Wednesday 15th December 2010,
University of Edinburgh

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ii) More Effective Tutorials/Workshops,
12th January 2011,
Loughborough University

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Open Dataset - finding and using their information

Free one-day Open Data Master Classes

To provide individuals with the tools and techniques needed to use and analysis a range of Open Datasets such as school census data, health care provision, crime statistics and transportation data.

The Open Data Master Classes combine theory and practicals with guest lectures from prominent members in the field from government, academia and business. Participants will learn a range of techniques from data collection and processing to data analysis and map visualization.

More details at:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/CGS/EventsItems/Events2010/OpenDataMasterclasses.aspx

More Effective Learning in Laboratories

Wednesday 17th November 2010,
CELS, Nottingham Trent University.

No registration fee for this meeting for those working in UK HE.

More information and booking at:
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/events/detail/2010/more_effective_learning_in_lab

Teaching problem solving: Beyond the single piece jigsaw

17th February 2010,
University of Edinburgh

A range of speakers including representation from the secondary sector will present their views and case studies of practices going on around the UK. the workshop is organised jointly by the IOP Higher Education Group (HEG) and the Physical Sciences Centre.

For more details (incl how to contribute short case study presentations) and to register online, please see the website:

http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/physsci/events/detail/2010/teaching_problem_solving

There is no registration fee for this meeting for those working in UK HE.

Changing Academic PRactice: Implications for future Physical Sciences academics

Wed 4th Nov 2009
10:30-16:00
University of Oxford - Lincoln EPA Science Centre

A colloquium to bring together doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and junior and senior academics to discuss challenges etc for those wishing to pursue an academic career in physical sciences.

More details and registration at: http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/events/forthcoming

Making Web 2.0 Work for You - workshop

Wed 28th Oct 09
09:00-16:15
Leeds - The Old School Board

Focus on implications arising when teaching practice leaves the classroom/VLEs. Examples of practice on integrating new technologies and techniques into teaching.

More details and registration at: http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/events/forthcoming

Workshop for New and Aspiring Lecturers

Fri 30th October 2009 (noon) - Sat 31st October 2009 (1pm)
York - Best Western Monk Bar Hotel.

Delivered by physical science practitioners in a context relevant to chemistry, physics and related disciplines.

More details and registration at: http://www.physsci.heacademy.ac.uk/events/forthcoming

Developing STEM education research practices

Thursday 9 July 2009,
University of Birmingham

Register via the link below to attend this workshop.

http://www.engsc.ac.uk/nef/events/developing-stem-education-research-practices.asp

NeSC - Workshop on Use Cases for Provenance

Workshop on Use Cases for Provenance
April 20, 2009 http://wiki.esi.ac.uk/UseCasesForProvenanceWorkshop
e-Science Institute
15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - Spring 2009 CDK workshop

The Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) team is glad to announce the Spring 2009 CDK workshop
held at the
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI).

So far, 23 participants from Industry and Academia are registered. There is a capacity of 40.

One day of tutorials on how to use CDK and talks on research using the CDK. Free-form developers workshop for the rest of the second day. Both the evening of the 20th and the 21st will be opportunities for enjoying refreshments.

Small nominal registration fee of 50 Pounds.

eCheminfo drug discovery workshop week

Oxford University
20 - 24 July 2009

Workshop groups will study problems with hands-on examples using computational drug discovery methods and discuss issues highlighted by examples and Case Studies presented by instructors. A Case Study set with a focus on Kinases will be used to link all workshop activities throughout the week.

More information on program can be found at:

Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/

Web: http://echeminfo.com/comty_oxfordworkshop09

A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic participants, who may be working in any area of research related to drug discovery. To apply for the bursary please send an email with
a) description of your research (ca. 500 words);
b) your training needs (ca. 500 words),
c) your CV
to echeminfo -[at]- douglasconnect.com by 27 February 2009.

Predictive ADME and Toxicology workshop week

Predictive ADME and Toxicology workshop week at Oxford University 27 – 31 July 2009. A hands-on case study approach using a variety of methods applied to ADME and Tox datasets and endpoints.

More information on program can be found at:

Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/

Pdf: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/files/echeminfoadmetprogramoxford09-1.pdf

Web: http://echeminfo.com/COMTY_oxfordadmet09

A Bursary Award will be used to support the attendance of a selection of academic participants, who may be working in any area of research related to predictive ADME and toxicology.

To apply for the bursary please send, by 20th Feb 09, an email to echeminfo-[at]- douglasconnect.com with:
a) description of your research (ca. 500 words);
b) your training needs (ca. 500 words),
c) your CV

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CALL FOR PAPERS: eScience for Cheminformatics and Drug Discovery

2008 Workshop

Abstracts of papers for presentation at the eScience for Cheminformatics and Drug Discovery Workshop 2008 now being accepted. This workshop will be held in conjunction with the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (e-Science 2008) in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, December 7-12 2008.

More information can be found on the conference website at http://cheminfo.informatics.indiana.edu/eScience2008/ .

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