CENotes /
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CE biweekly meeting
Aug 24, 2009
Personnel
- Jörgen Hansson + Robert Fält have accepted offers for SE positions
- Jan Bosch: not committed but looks positive
- Ulf A gives docent lecture Aug 28, 1:15pm, in the EDIT room (3364)
- Eva Paulson has a new process in place for managing new arrivals (including thesis workers)
- Ready for launch in September
- Suggestion that CSE may share personnel officer with ITIT?
- Pierre Kleberger admitted to PhD studies!
Teaching
- Master programme evaluation going on
- Questionnaire has been sent out to previous and current students
- Feedback will go to programme coordinators
- Bachelor programme applications up by ~50% across the board!
- Last admittee's grades much better than last year
- Waiting eagerly for international master programme students
Research and proposals
- 2 new STREPs accepted, with CSE coordination (Computing Sciences)
- Language Technology group receives support from GU
- Looking to hire 5? people
- Sally McKee in consortium for STREP; negotiation on Sep 2
- Staffan Sjödin offers support for further EU grant proposal development
Department issues
- Now possible to recruit assistant professors ("FoAss") locally, without going through central hiring committee
- Need to reassess recruitment process descriptions; previous group will be called in again briefly
- Space wars:
- Corner lounges will be glassed in
- New SE hires will likely work out of Lindholmen
- Further thinking goes on, but all known newcomers this fall are accounted for
Chalmers issues
- ICT one of Chalmers's areas of strength, regardless of grant proposal rejection
- Chalmers-wide risk analysis process will go on during 2009-2010
- Pandemic planning now
- More information will follow; possibly increase staffing levels in labs, classrooms
- New building to be erected at Lindholmen
- Pile driving will disturb personnel there
- Peter Lundin (NS) will contact all dept. personnel there on this issue
AOI
- CSE information and marketing material will be brushed up
- Includes CE web pages
- Lars B will be CE representative in CSE working group, so may contact us all for info
- New Microsoft Exchange calendar system installed (Chalmers-wide)
- Easier synch with PCs, Macs
- Microsoft Sharepoint installed Chalmers-wide
- Includes video conference system
- One conference room will likely be fitted with a telecon setup
- Mail servers will be swapped sometime in the fall
- Migration is easy but needs to be planned, as email access is closed off during migration
- May take minutes for small mailboxes but may need to be scheduled overnight for large ones