Monday 3rd September 2018

11:00

Arrival, tea/coffee

Foyer/Mezzanine

11:20-11:30

Welcome and introductory remarks

C27

11:30-12:00

Guest Lecture - Plant Phenotyping; A New Challenge for Biomedical Imaging and Image Analysis: Professor Tony Pridmore, School of Plant Sciences, University of Nottingham

C27

12:00-12:30

Session 1 Power Pitches (11 posters) (Chair Nick Long)

C27

12:30-13:15

Lunch and put up posters (Sessions 1 and 2 Power Pitch presenters)

Foyer/Mezzanine

13:15-14:15

Session 2 Power Pitches (21 posters) (Chair Nick Long)

C27

14:15-15:30

Poster session (Sessions 1 and 2 Power Pitch presenters), tea/coffee

B23

15:30-16:15

Guest Lecture - Talk on Setting up Monica Healthcare: Professor Barrie Hayes-Gill, School of Electronic Engineering, University of Nottingham

C27

16:15-17:15

Session - How to Construct a Successful Research Grant

• Advice from a Grant Skills Training expert Jonathan Hollands and Manjeet Mundey (20 mins)
• Advice from a CDT scientist: Sue Francis (20 mins)
• Summary of the Grant Challenge and final ground rules: Peter Jezzard
• Questions

C27

17:15-

Students gather in research grant groups to plan grant applications before and during self-organized dinner. 'Write a proposal to an EPSRC strategic call for using medical technologies including imaging to improve the understanding, diagnosis, management or treatment of dementia.' Maximum budget is £750k (excluding academic staff costs) and you can assume that it costs £40k to employ a post-doctoral research assistant for a year.'

https://epsrc.ukri.org/newsevents/multimedia/writing-strong-application…

Please take down posters(Sessions 1 and 2 Power Pitch presenters)

Tuesday 4th  September 2018

9.00-10:00

Session 3 Power Pitches (22 posters) (Chair Michael Chappell)

C27

10:00-10:45

Guest Lecture - Why won't you adopt my brilliant new sequence?:Dr Matthew Clemence, Philips

C27

10:30-11:00

Tea/coffee and put up posters (Sessions 3 and 4 Power Pitch presenters)

B23

11:00-11:30

Session 4 Power Pitches (10 posters) (Chair Michael Chappell)

C27

11:30-13:15

Poster session (Sessions 3 and 4 Power Pitch presenters); Lunch at 12:15

B23; Foyer/Mezzanine

13:15-15:15

Student-led session

C27

15:15-15:30

Tea/coffee 

B04,B05,C29,C30

15:30-19:30

Finalizing grant applications; CDT directors meeting

C29, C30; B04, B05  

20:00

Dinner

Cavendish Hall

Wednesday  5th September 2018

8.45

Deadline for submission of grant applications (send to henry.bowler@nottingham.ac.uk)

9:15-10:30

Grant peer reviewing and preliminary scoring - (Each student to review 2 grants, Peter Jezzard, Michael Chappell, Richard Bowtell, Sue Francis, Paul Glover to each review 4 applications)

C29, C30

10:30-11:15

Groups to convene and "rank" grants, tea/coffee

C29, C30

11:15-12:45

Mock Grant Panel - Grant presentations and panel questions (drawing on student reviews)

C27

12:45-13:30

Lunch

Foyer/Mezzanine

13:30-14:15

Final Grant Panel discussion and grant ranking

C27 Please take down posters

14:30-15:30

Optional Lecture - Oxygen Enhanced MRI: Professor Geoff Parker, Manchester

C04