20081114

CE "biweekly" meeting

Nov 14, 2008

Education

Second iteration of Research Course concept

- Way of financing PhD / master level courses

- Draft similar to last one; likely close to final version

Christer C will want staffing plans for all courses
State-of-the-programme meeting for IESD planned

Research

One VR grant for the division (Per S)

- Five total for Department (also Magnus Björk, Devdatt, John, Andrei)

Personnel

Expect three new PhD students in early 2009

- Per L-E, Per S, Sally

Thomas Arts offered the Chair in Software Engineering

- Not yet tied to a department (CSE or ITIT)

- Might help alignment of SE master programmes?

Ricardo del Barrio (PhD student, Malaga) visiting Per S (Dec - Feb)

IT support

Gradual move to new user platform with backed-up home directories at ITS servers and additional large directories locally
Full platforms exist now for Linux and Windows

- testers wanted :-)

Department issues

Reduction of faculty funding for CE in 2009

- Impact not yet fully understood

action plan to increase external funding by 33% (37M -> 50M)

- YFo group will focus on this issue

- Plan for postdocs to offload seniors (see below)

Chalmers issues

VP: Plan to hire postdocs to offload seniors appreciated

- might go through depending on funding

Chalmers has asked all depts. to list topic areas where we are top-2 (3?) in Sweden

- To be used in applying for new faculty funding according to govt. budget (deadline in March/April)

- Working groups will be assigned

No new Linnaeus grants in 2009