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CE biweekly meeting

June 1, 2009

Personnel

Lars Bengtsson is now a Docent. Congratulations!
Rolf Snedsböl receives the IT student pedagogical price (again)!
Interviews for SE faculty positions this week
Post-doc recruitment ongoing; Per S to interview two candidates this week

Teaching

Applications for all EE, CSE, IT programmes are up

- 40% to 100% for the different programmes

Admissions at master level have been reduced by about 35 slots for the programmes within the dept.
Proposal to reduce admissions at bachelor level by about 10%
Better students (hopefully)
Less funding for teaching (ramps down over ~3 years)

Research and proposals

Strategic initiative proposal feedback arrived on May 28
ICT: OUtstanding (5/5)

- LU + LiU + BTH + HH, KTH + SU also Outstanding

E-Science @ CHalmers: Excellent (4/5)
Transportation: Excellent (4/5)
Production: Excellent (4/5)
E-Science @ GU: unclear to me

Department issues

Semiannual meeting with Univ. President on May 26
Extremely brief summary of feedback:

- Fix up the SE situation!

- Increase international exchange!

- Improve gender balance, esp. among PhD students!

Chalmers issues

New salaries are ready; will be communicated individually
Strategical partnership with Ericsson seems to be in the works

- Unclear how we could benefit

- Per S has gotten cold calls from Ericsson researchers lately!?

AOI

Dept. summer party on June 9

- Respond to Doodle poll if not done already!

Division web pages should be brushed up!
Suggested timeslot for seminar series with NS: Fridays at 10 or 13

- Not every week -- maybe once a month?