<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thanks to all who helped out with the PhD evening event today. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The turnout was exactly as I hoped for (30 attendees) but we also have 60 people who initially signed up for the event and indicated their preferences for a PhD topic. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We will now use all this data to invite them to apply for PhDs and drum up further interest in our core research areas.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We’ve been asked to put the slides online - please let me know if that’s OK.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, it would be useful to share any important feedback we should pass on to EREC with respect to the issues that students worry about when applying for PhDs.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Gopal</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">—<br class="">Dr. Sarvapali D. (Gopal) Ramchurn<br class="">Associate Professor</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Director, Centre for Machine Intelligence,<br class="">Electronics and Computer Science,<br class="">University of Southampton, UK.<br class="">t: +44 (0) 2380599309<br class="">w: <a href="http://www.sramchurn.com" class="">http://www.sramchurn.com</a><br class="">l: Rm 4021, B32, University Road, Southampton.</div>
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