CENotes /
20110221
CE "biweekly" meeting
Feb 21, 2011
Welcomes
- Ioannis Sourdis has joined from Delft
- Andras Vajda is an industrial PhD student from Ericsson (Per S advises)
Personnel
- Andrei S has advanced to 2nd round in ERC Starting Grant competition
- Junior faculty (FoAss) recruitments ongoing for other divisions
- Profiles are being nailed down here
Teaching
- New Chalmers-wide rules for master theses will be laid down
- PhD mingle considered a success
- Should be model for Chalmers
- Economy: discussion ongoing
- Teaching budget for CE reviewed, again
- Good hope for solution with voluntary retirements
Research and proposals
- Research group leader council will be re-organized
- Proposed task: to identify opportunities for Wallenberg applications
- New rule for PhD students: must be hired by Chamers, so no stipendiate solutions
- Exception: Industrial PhDs
- Exception: students hired at other universities (Högskolan Väst etc)
- Other exceptions must be cleared by VP of PhD education
CSE issues
- For VP1 (plan for next year), Chalmers asks CSE to address expected student shortfall
- CSE gets 1.4MSEK from AoA Transport
- Colloquium discussed in ILG and considered appreciated
- Wider topical distribution would be an improvement
- Up to us researchers to make sure!
- Annual performance review (medarbetarsamtal) coming up (will Doodle)
Chalmers issues
- Salary revision coming up
- No specific figures in the collective bargaining agreement
- More info and Doodle next week
AOI
- iPad and Kindle still available for test
- Reservation list on the CSE Wiki