General Information
Information about the group, including the group membership, alumni, visitors' information and vacancies.
 

Research Activities
Information on the group's research, including current projects (including the Kappa pages about the constrainedness project), grants, publications, and  research reports.

Events
Information about various conferences and workshops (like the inaugural ConsNet-99 meeting) in which group members are involved.

Online resources
Information about online resources maintained by group members including CSPLib, a benchmark library for constraints.
 

NEWS

Karen Petrie and Tien Ba Dinh
(July 4, 2003)
Karen Petrie and Tien Ba Dinh, students of Barbara Smith at Huddersfield, are taking part in NASA's summer internship programme. They are two of only three successful applicants from the UK, and their success has featured in a number of press articles, for example today in the Fife Herald, as well as on Radio Leeds. More details on Huddersfield University's news pages.

Dr Dan Black
(March 12, 2003)
Yesterday, Dan Black successfully defended his PhD thesis at Leeds University, and he has been awarded the degree subject to minor corrections. His supervisor was Barbara Smith and external examiner was Patrick Prosser. Many congratulations to Dan.

Kostas Stergiou
(February 25, 2003)
Yesterday, Kostas Stergiou started a lectureship at the University of the Aegean, following military service. We are delighted to welcome Kostas back as a member of the APES group.

Radiotherapy Research
(January 30, 2003)
While not directly related to his APES research, Tom Kelsey's research of the effect of radiotherapy on women's fertility is being featured in a number of news sites, for example at Nature Science Update, and BBC News Online.

Dr Brahim Hnich
(January 20, 2003)
Many congratulations to Brahim Hnich, who passed his PhD viva last Friday. His thesis jury included Mark Wallace and Edward Tsang. Brahim joined APES in Cork last year.

EPSRC Peer Review College
(November 19, 2002)
Ian Gent, Patrick Prosser, and Barbara Smith have all been invited to join EPSRC's new Peer Review College, the body which helps EPSRC to allocate funding in the UK. Barbara, Patrick and Toby Walsh are current members of the College.

Ian Miguel
(October 1, 2002)
Many congratulations to Ian, who has been given the BCS/CPHC Distinguished Dissertation award, one of only three in the UK for the whole of Computer Science. Ian's PhD thesis is available from our 2001 publications page

Ian Gent
(October 1, 2002)
Ian has today been promoted to Reader at the University of St Andrews. This is a part time appointment, as Ian spends the other half of the working week with his daughter.

Dr Colin Layfield
(September 5, 2002)
Colin had his PhD viva yesterday and we are happy to announce that he was awarded the PhD (subject to minor corrections, as usual). Prof Peter Cowling of Bradford was the external examiner. Colin was supervised by Barbara Smith at Leeds, and now works for CODA in Harrogate.

APES Wedding
(July 20, 2002)
Andrew Rowley and Gayle Stirling were married today in Arbirlot, near Arbroath. We have a few snapshots of the day on-line.

Kostas Stergiou
(July 13, 2002)
We are delighted that Kostas Stergiou has been elected a lecturer at the Department of Information and Communication Systems of the Aegean University, Samos, from March 2003.

APES PhD's online
(July 12, 2002)
Josh Singer's PhD thesis is now on-line, from the 2001 publications page.

Prof Toby Walsh
(June 24, 2002)
Many congratulations to Toby Walsh, who is taking up a position as research professor at University College Cork. The Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) recently awarded him 1.5 MEuro to set up a research group at the Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C). He has also taken on the position of deputy director of the 4C lab, which itself was set up by a 6 MEuro SFI award to Gene Freuder.

Dr Elias Oliveira
(September 27, 2001)
Many congratulations to Elias, who successfully defended his thesis yesterday, subject to minor corrections.

APES PhD's online
(July 10, 2001)
For the first time we have put up PhD theses on the APES pages. The first to go up are Kostas Stergiou's (2001 publications page) and Stuart Grant's (1997 publications page).

Dr Ian Miguel
(July 4, 2001)
Yesterday, Ian Miguel successfully defended his PhD thesis subject to minor corrections. Many congratulations to Ian, who joined APES as a researcher at York last year.

Dr Josh Singer
(April 28, 2001)
We are delighted that Josh Singer successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday, subject only to minor corrections. Our congratulations to Josh. After a holiday in Latin America, Josh has started work at Parc Technologies, joining Stuart Grant as an APES alumnus there.

Dr Kostas Stergiou
(Feb 28, 2001)
We are delighted that Kostas Stergiou has successfully defended his PhD thesis today. Many congratulations for this well deserved result, and thanks to Christian Bessiere for conducting an excellent examination.