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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear C-IoT Management Group,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>1) C-IoT Away Day<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">At the last management meeting, we talked about holding an away day and tentatively marked 25 April for it. Please could you now indicate at
<a href="https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdoodle.com%2Fpoll%2F82wwqutef2rvsxme&data=01%7C01%7C%7C569104ef31f24381ef7908d69362451f%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C1&sdata=u%2FDivb%2F3mEN%2BY8%2FTFf4TLGvk9NwiDYpKoL2BLl%2FEZ%2Bo%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://doodle.com/poll/82wwqutef2rvsxme" shash="TZpa4yb/9fVukAutNDbY58TyXbcre9BpDrb2pU8g//dItz+poD1L6Cw+vd4ctgqU15vW6SA9AG+VWuOI/ZPCZ3DXIEWcF2TcfmGM+h1v1Za8Vbx/xEQJr4kPuwo+mdcFcwJKHLxovGZ/swP1DPDO61tcpg1T6XyhDLxZCrK8dLo=">
https://doodle.com/poll/82wwqutef2rvsxme</a> whether or not you will attend, before we book venues/catering etc? If you cannot attend, please don’t just ignore the Doodle: enter your name but don’t tick the box!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>2) Smart Cities<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Centre’s next major event is the Afternoon on IoT for Smart Cities on Wednesday 06 March. The agenda (<a href="https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/event-06march18">https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/event-06march18</a>) is coming together,
but if you have any suggestions for speakers – particularly from industry – please can you get in touch with me or Seb urgently?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>3) PhD Recruitment<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Finally, we’re running a C-IoT PhD information session for prospective students next week, see
<a href="https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/event-20feb2019">https://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/event-20feb2019</a>. If you have an IoT-related project that has funding for a PhD student, let me know and I can highlight this.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#00557F;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Dr Geoff Merrett<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#00557F;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Associate Professor |
<a href="http://www.c-iot.ecs.soton.ac.uk/"><span style="color:#00557F;text-decoration:none">Head of Centre for IoT and Pervasive Systems</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Electronics and Computer Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Southampton, UK, SO17 1BJ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:5.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">t: +44 (0)23 8059 2775<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">e:
<a href="mailto:gvm@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><span style="color:#0563C1">gvm@ecs.soton.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#0563C1">geoffmerrett.co.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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