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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, further information about Registration and Matriculation can be found on 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.
| Time |
Venue (see city map) |
Event |
| 13.00 - 16.30 |
Adam House | University Registration |
| Time |
Venue (see city map) | Event |
| 11.00 - 12.30 | Informatics Forum, G.07 | Welcome to CompSoc! An opportunity to meet members of the Computing Society at Edinburgh. This event is open to all new Informatics taught students and all are welcome to join. |
| 13.30 - 17.00 |
Informatics Teaching Organisation Room 4.02 Appleton Tower |
Informatics Registration for MSc (Taught) and EuMI Students |
| Time |
Venue (see city map) | Event |
| 09.00 - 17.00 |
Informatics Teaching Organisation Room 4.02 Appleton Tower |
DICE
Computing account user details available for collection. Please note: you must register with the ITO in order for your account to be created (see Tuesday 15th) |
| 09.15 - 12.00 | Adam House | University Registration |
| 14.00 - 15.00 |
George Square 07, Room S.1 |
Introduction to the DICE Computing System (A. Downie) |
| Time |
Venue (see city map) | Event |
| 09.30 - 10.00 | Appleton Tower, LT4 | Welcome to Informatics (D. Robertson, S. Anderson) |
| 10.00 - 11.00 | Appleton Tower, LT4 | Introduction to MSc Course, including introduction to Directors of Studies (D. Armstrong, E. Klein, B. Fisher) |
| 11.00 - 11.15 | Appleton Tower, LT4 | Library Services and Resources (A. Nicholson - Informatics Library Rep.) |
| 11.15 - 11.45 | AT Mezzanine (outside LT4) | Break (tea/coffee/biscuits) |
| 11.45 - 12.15 | Appleton Tower, LT4 | Careers (C. MacDonald) An introduction to the Careers Service at Edinburgh, outlining the recruitment activities and timelines of many large employers, highlighting Careers Service resources available, and careers events taking place during semester 1. |
| 12.30 - 14.00 | AT Level 4, 4.13 | Lunch |
| 14.00 - 15.00 | Appleton Tower, AT Level 5 West Lab | TEAM Testing (T. Lynch) This event will help diagnose whether you may benefit from ELTT English courses or materials, which are offered free of charge to non-native speakers on postgraduate programmes at Edinburgh. Students with an English test score below 7.0 IELTS, or equivalent must take TEAM to see whether they qualify for ELTT support, see: http://www.ials.ed.ac.uk/EL/English-Academic/Testing(TEAM).html |
| Time |
Venue (see city map) | Event |
| 09.30 - 10.30 |
Appleton Tower | Introduction to MSc Specialist Areas. Hosted in a number of rooms, allowing students to move between rooms asking questions of the different specialist area advisors. Room 3.01 Intelligent Robotics - S. Ramamoorthy Room 3.03 Cognitive Science - F. Keller Room 3.05 Bioinformatics, Systems & Synthetic Biology - D. Armstrong Room 3.09 Natural Language Processing - P. Koehn Room 3.09 Neural Computation & Neuroinformatics - M. Van Rossum Room 3.11 Music Informatics - A. Smaill Room 4.07 Informatics and Economics - K. Etessami Room 4.12 Theoretical Computer Science - D. Aspinall Room 4.12 Computer Systems & Software Engineering - M. Cintra Room 5.01 Analytical & Scientific Databases - S. Viglas Room 5.03 Knowledge Management, Representation & Reasoning - D. Glasspool Room 5.07 Learning from Data - A. Storkey |
| 09.30 - 10.30 | Appleton Tower, Room 5.08 | EUMI Introductory Meeting - EuMi Director of Studies (E. Klein) |
| 10.30 - 11.00 |
Appleton Tower, Room 3.10 | BREAK (tea/coffee available) |
| 11.00 - 16.00 |
Appleton Tower, LT4 | MSc Course Introductions A series of short 5 minite presentations by course lecturers (in no particular order), giving a flavour of their course, the syllabus, any pre-requisities, etc. http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/level11.html Unfortunately there won't be any time for questions, students may come and go as they wish. LUNCH will be available in AT Level 4, 4.13 from 12.30 - 14.00 |
| 13.00 - 16.30 | Adam House | University Registration |
| 16.00 |
Informatics Forum | School of Informatics General Meeting and Welcome Reception |
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