Induction (Freshers' Week) Timetable for 2007

For information about Freshers' week and the events planned please visit the University's main website. The University also organises a series of events for international Students and further details are available from the International Office Website.

Your first task is to register formally (part of the matriculation process) with the University. See below for the times of the registration sessions. If you need more information about Registration and Matriculation this is available from the Registry Website.

You will also need to register with the School of Informatics (this allows us to confirm your attendance, provide you with up to date details of the Induction timetable and provide you with your DICE computer username and password). It is helpful if you first register formally with the University. Please check below for the appropriate registration session.

Please note that all Postgraduate Research Students (MSc by Research, MPhil and PhD) must register formally with the University before registering with the School.

Monday 10 September 2007

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
12.30 - 16.30	Adam House	UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION (more information)	All Students
14.00 - 16.30	Informatics Teaching Office Room 5.01 Appleton Tower	Informatics Registration for MSc (Taught) and EuMI Students	MSc (Taught) Students EuMI Students

Tuesday 11 September 2007

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?

10.00 - 12.15	McEwan Hall	University Introduction for research postgraduate students	Research Students
14.30 - 16.15	McEwan Hall	University Introduction for taught postgraduate students	MSc (Taught) Students
14.00 - 16.30	Informatics Teaching Office Room 5.01 Appleton Tower	Informatics Registration for Postgraduate Research Students (MSc by Research, MPhil and PhD) NOTE: You must formally register with the University before registering with the School of Informatics.	Research Students
16.30	Teviot Row House	Postgraduate Research Students Reception	Research Students
10.00 & 11.00	Room 3218, James Clerk Maxwell Building	TEAM testing (tests may also be taken at Hill Place more information)	EU & Overseas Students

Wednesday 12 September 2007

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
09.15 - 12.30	Adam House	UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION (more information)	All Students

Students who have not completed UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION by the end of the Wednesday session will have to go to Registry (Old College) to complete the registration formalities.

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
09.30 - 11.00	Informatics Teaching Office Room 4.02 Appleton Tower	Informatics DICE accounts	MSc (Taught) Students
11.00 - 12.00	Lecture Theatre B David Hume Tower	Getting started on the DICE computer system (Roger Burroughes)	All Students
12.00 - 13.00	Basement Area (outside Refectory) David Hume Tower	Pizza Lunch with Tea & Coffee	All Students
13.00 - 16.00	Lecture Theatre B David Hume Tower	Welcome to Informatics 13.00 What is Informatics? (Michael Fourman) 13.30 Introduction to postgraduate study (Don Sannella) 14.00 Library Services and Resources (Sarah Kelly) 14.15 Stanford Link (Michael Clouser) 14.30 BREAK (Tea/Coffee available in the Basement Area) 15.00 Introduction to the Informatics Institutes: - Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (Chris Williams) - Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications (Dave Robertson) - Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems & Human Communication Research Centre (Mark Steedman) - Institute for Computing Systems Architecture (Mike O'Boyle) - Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour (Sethu Vijayakumar) - Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (Philip Wadler)	All Students
16.00 - 17.00	Lecture Theatre B David Hume Tower	Introduction to MSc Course (Douglas Armstrong) To include introduction to MSc DoSs	MSc (Taught) Students

Thursday 13 September 2007

Thursday has been set aside for Institute/Site based events.

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
15.00 - 16.00	depart from Appleton Tower (ending at Buccleuch Place, helping students attend the next event)	Introductory Tour of the Central Area A short walking tour of the central campus including the Informatics buildings (Appleton Tower, Buccleuch Place and Forrest Hill), leaving from AT Front Steps.	All Students
16.00	Level 7, Appleton Tower	Reception for Students based at Appleton Tower	Students based at Appleton Tower
16.00	Rooms 2510/2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building	Reception for Students based at King's Buildings	Students based at King's Buildings
16.00 - 18.00	HCRC Conference Suite 2 Buccleuch Place (right of the Office of Lifelong Learning)	Welcome to Language at Edinburgh Reception Refreshements will be availalbe	Language at Edinburgh Students
16.30	Jim Howe Room Forrest Hill	Reception for Students based at Forrest Hill	Students based at Forrest Hill

Friday 14 September 2007

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
9.00 - 10.30	David Hume Tower	Introduction to MSc specialisms. Hosted in a number of rooms, allowing students to move between rooms asking questions of the different specialism advisors: The following talks will take place in David Hume Tower: - Room 4.01 - Bioinformatics (Douglas Armstrong) - Room 4.01 - Computational Systems Biology (Douglas Armstrong) - Room 7.01 - Databases (Wenfei Fan) - Room 7.18 - Neural Computation and Neuroinformatics (Mark van Rossum) - Room 8.13 - Knowledge Representation & Reasoning (Alan Smaill) - Room 8.16 - Natural Language & Language Engineering (Philipp Koehn) - Room 9.01 - Computer Systems & Software Engineering (Bjoern Franke) - Room 9.01 - Fundamentals of High Performance Computing (Bjoern Franke) - Room 11.18 - Theoretical Computer Science (Kousha Etessami) - Room 11.01 - Learning from Data (Amos Storkey) - Room 12.18 - Intelligent Robotics (Gillian Hayes)	MSc (Taught) Students
9.00 - 10.30	Room 4.18 David Hume Tower	EuMI Introductory Meeting An opportunity for the EuMI students to meet with their Director of Studies to discuss the specific elements of the EuMI course.	EuMI Students
10.30 - 11.00	Basement Area (outside Refectory) David Hume Tower	BREAK - Tea/Coffee will be available.	MSc (Taught) Students
11.00 - 13.30	Lecture Theatre B David Hume Tower	MSc Course Introductions A series of short 5 minute presentations by course lecturers (in no particular order), giving a flavour of their course, the syllabus, any pre-requisites, etc. http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/level11.html Unfortunately there won't be time for questions, students may come and go as they wish.	MSc (Taught) Students
12.30 - 16.30	Adam House	UNIVERSITY REGISTRATION (more information)	All Students
16.00	Lecture Theatre 5 & Main Concourse Appleton Tower	School of Informatics General Meeting and Welcome Reception	All Staff and Students

Monday 17 September 2007

The University will be CLOSED for a local public holiday, but the International Office will be hosting a Study Orientation Day for International Taught Postgraduate Students.

TUESDAY 18 September 2007

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
16.00	Grange Room, KB House	Science & Engineering Reception. A reception to welcome all postgraduate students to the community of scientists and engineers at the Unversity	All Students

Thursday 20 September 2007

Time	Venue (click for location)	Event	Who For?
13.00	Level 3 Appleton Tower	Edinburgh University Hoppers Lunch A welcome lunch for all postgraduate female students joining the community of women scientists in Informatics. For more information about Edinburgh Univesrity Hoppers click here.	Women within Informatics

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