[Cmi-board] request from Chevening and Seasons Greetings
Sarvapali Ramchurn
cmi-hog at soton.ac.uk
Fri Dec 21 13:44:59 GMT 2018
Hi all,
Please see below the request from the Chevening for two academics to give talks on automation and AI to all Chevening scholars.
This should happen sometime end of March. Can you please let me know if you are interested in presenting at that event? Or if you have any colleagues who might want to do this?
I take this opportunity to thank you all for all your contributions to CMI. It’s been a very successful year and I hope we can build on this for 2019.
I wish you all a Merry Christmas and the very best for the year ahead!
Regards,
Gopal
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Prof. Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn
Professor of Artificial Intelligence,
Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence
Electronics and Computer Science,
University of Southampton, UK.
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> From: International-Scholarships <international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: Request for AI speaker event: "Chevening Explores" with University of Southampton
> Date: 17 December 2018 at 09:03:31 GMT
> To: Sarvapali Ramchurn <sdr1 at soton.ac.uk>
>
> Dear Gopal,
>
> I’ve had some more detail from Chevening on what they’re looking for:
>
> Dates: w/c 25-31 March
> Timings: either 6pm-8pm on an evening or daytime on the Saturday
> Format: open to either a set of talks from academics on their research or a panel discussion or a combination
> Topic:
>
> I’m looking to focus on a topic around automation and globalization; something along the lines of “the Fourth Industrial Revolution in a globalized world”. With the scholars coming from various walks of life from around the globe, we would be looking to add a development context to it perhaps with the question: in this age of automation and artificial intelligence, is globalization happening evenly? This is all quite tentative and I’d be happy to gain input from the experts in the field in reframing the question to something more topical
>
> How does that sound?
>
> Best wishes,
> Zoe
>
> Zoe Carroll
> International Partnerships Manager
> International Office
> University of Southampton
> Room 3107, Building 37, Highfield Campus
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 1931 (Ext. 21931)
> www.southampton.ac.uk/international <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/international>
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> From: Sarvapali Ramchurn <sdr1 at soton.ac.uk>
> Sent: 16 December 2018 13:02
> To: International-Scholarships <international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk>
> Subject: P: reply from Matthew at Chevening Re: Request for AI speaker event: "Chevening Explores" with University of Southampton
>
> Thanks Zoe. Good to know. Let me know when you find out more.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gopal
>
> —
> Prof. Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn
> Professor of Artificial Intelligence,
> Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence
> Electronics and Computer Science,
> University of Southampton, UK.
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> On 13 Dec 2018, at 14:55, International-Scholarships <international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk <mailto:international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> Hi Gopal,
>
> Thank you for your quick reply. I’m pleased to hear that this is something you could likely support. I will go back to Chevening for extra information.
>
> There’s one Chevening scholar studying MSc in Computer Science this year. Student ID 29972531.
> Last year I can see that there were three: two in MSc Energy & Sustainability w/EPE and one MSc Computer Science.
>
> Best wishes,
> Zoe
>
> Zoe Carroll
> International Partnerships Manager
> International Office
> University of Southampton
> Room 3107, Building 37, Highfield Campus
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 1931 (Ext. 21931)
> www.southampton.ac.uk/international <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/international>
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> From: Sarvapali Ramchurn <sdr1 at soton.ac.uk <mailto:sdr1 at soton.ac.uk>>
> Sent: 13 December 2018 12:30
> To: International-Scholarships <international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk <mailto:international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk>>
> Subject: Re: Request for AI speaker event: "Chevening Explores" with University of Southampton
>
> Hi Zoe,
>
> It sounds like something we could support. It will depend on dates and availability of our teams. If you can firm up a date and a specification of key topics you’d want us to cover, it would help.
>
> BTW I don’t think ECS has Chevening scholars... do we?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gopal
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 13 Dec 2018, at 11:45, International-Scholarships <international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk <mailto:international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
> Dear Prof. Ramchurn,
>
> Prof. Lewin has suggested that I get in touch regarding this opportunity. I work in our International Relations team and manage our external scholarships and funding bodies, including Chevening.
>
> We have been approached by the Chevening Secretariat with a request to host a lecture event for them on an AI topic. They do mention Dame Wendy Hall as a desired speaker, but I think they would still be interested in hearing from us even if she is not available (full details in their email below).
>
> My question is whether the Centre for Machine Intelligence at ECS might be in a position to support this event in March 2019, by providing two speakers on this theme?
>
> Organisation and administrative support for the event could be offered by our team.
>
> Some brief context on the Chevening Scholarship programme:
>
> - This is the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s flagship scholarship programme, aimed at developing future international leaders
> - UoS is one of 48 partner Universities in the UK
> - UoS receives 15-20 international fully funded scholars through this programme each year. All scholars are studying for a 1 year taught masters programme
>
> Benefits of participation in the lecture series:
>
> - Raise awareness of UoS, and our ECS department specifically, amongst the wider Chevening population – we know that word of mouth is an important channel to market for (Chevening reported that in the 2017/18 cycle 16% of applications were influenced by alumni/current scholar)
> - PR opportunity to show our partners that we are an active participant in this prestigious scholarship scheme
>
> I’d love to hear from you if this is something we can look into offering.
>
> Best wishes,
> Zoe
>
> Zoe Carroll
> International Partnerships Manager
> International Office
> University of Southampton
> Room 3107, Building 37, Highfield Campus
> Southampton SO17 1BJ
> Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 1931 (Ext. 21931)
> www.southampton.ac.uk/international <http://www.southampton.ac.uk/international>
>
> From: Matthew Kon <Matthew.Kon at chevening.org> <mailto:Matthew.Kon at chevening.org>
> Sent: 20 November 2018 17:14
> To: International-Scholarships <international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk> <mailto:international-scholarships at soton.ac.uk>
> Cc: Lydia Wood <Lydia.Wood at chevening.org> <mailto:Lydia.Wood at chevening.org>
> Subject: "Chevening Explores" with University of Southampton
>
> Dear Zoe,
>
> I hope this reaches you well. My colleague Jenny has referred me to you as main contact at University of Southampton for the Chevening Programme Team.
>
> With the academic year in full swing, the Chevening Secretariat continue to plan a range of enrichment activities for our current scholars. I’m writing today to enquire on the possibility to work with the University of Southampton on a lecture within our Chevening Explores…” series this academic year. I’m currently planning a lecture within the theme of the Fourth Industrial Revolution on a topic and title yet to be decided.
>
> Our events are delivered exclusively for Chevening Scholarship and Fellowship holders and for this event we would be looking for a venue with established speakers. Professor Dame Wendy Hall’s impact scoping the UK national strategy on artificial intelligence is an area that piqued our interest from the University of Southampton. Our intentions with an event such as this is to deliver an engaging lecture that would ignite further debate and discussion on this topical matter.
>
> Lecture proposal:
> ? March 2019, with some flexibility.
> ? Up to 60 Chevening Scholars and Fellows
> ? Up to two speakers from University of Southampton
>
> I’m going to be away on annual leave returning on Tuesday, but please do let us know if you have any questions or require any further information. If there is a particular department who may be more appropriate to contact, please do let me know.
>
> Best wishes,
> Matthew
>
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