CENotes /
20091019
No CE biweekly meeting
Oct 19, 2009
Personnel
- Four candidates for NS faculty position will be interviewed on Dec 9
- John Hughes will hire Alejandro Russo as a post-doc
- Tomas Sandén (KnowIT) will be consulting with the dept. at 25%; will resign chairmanship of Dept. council as a consequence
Teaching
- Samuel Bengmark to resign as coordinator for IT programme
- Can a replacement be found in D&IT?
- Note that Omstart EDIT may affect the duration of this assignment
- Catarina will take over the SE master programme temporarily
- Realignment with SE master at ITIT
- CS at GU is being evaluated according to the new HSV model for evaluation
- All institutes of higher learning will be thus evaluated
- An unfavorable evaluation may cause loss of examination rights!
- One component will be sampling of thesis reports, to ensure that a minimum level is reached
- Expect new and more detailed guidelines for thesis reports!
Research
- New opportunities to work with Google, incl. possibly funding for graduate students
- See Aarne Ranta
- Research Leaders of the Future: sizable grands from SSF
- Need to be born 1970 or later, PhD 2004 - 2006
- Also ERC Starting Grants from the European Commission
Department issues
- Health screening for all employees coming up
- Budget work for 2010 is going on
- Faculty funding ("fakultetsmedel") up by 3% over 2009
- Distribution model used across Chalmers also used across D&IT
- First allotment according to formulas. Roughly:
- 190' per full faculty member (Universitetslektor and up); plus
- 100' per full professor; plus
- 170' per PhD student graduated during last 5 years; plus
- matching funds for 9% of external funding.
- Result: increase from 3088' to 3860'
- Still some money left to distribute both at the Chalmers and at the D&IT level
AOI
- Email migration today!