20091116

CE biweekly meeting

Nov 16, 2009

Research and proposals

Great results at VR this year!

- Per S, Per L-E, Sally, and Lars: funding for CHAMPP, a four-student framework allocation grant

- Per S also won an industrial PhD student grant

- Similar results at SET

Small coordination action for HATS (Reiner H)
Hopefully a smaller Ericsson project for one year (Sally, Per S)
Google will visit the department on Dec 2-3

Personnel

Jan Jonsson new pro-prefect from Jan 1, 2010
Koen Claessen new Director of Studies for PhD education from same date
Josef Svenningsson to Ericsson at 50%
Rogardt Heldal to Ericsson for 1 year
Division to recruit 6 new PhD students imminently
Victoria Ewers (student administration) will go on leave

- Annette Kolster will stand in for her, although not full time

Teaching

Problems reported where exam administration seem to have lost exam sheets (not completed exams); supposedly dealt with and should not repeat
Rules for master thesis projects and for their reports will be tightened up

Department issues

Economy is strong short-term

- Can spend money on recruiting more female students (as the Rektor has told us to do). How?

- Sally's proposal: send a delegation to the Grace Hopper conference for women in computing (http://gracehopper.org)!

OTOH, Dept may lose some of the tail end of the Chalmers Foundation funding
Space crunch at Johanneberg due to external-funding successes

Eva Paulson is in communication with Chalmersfastigheter

Door key management to be taken over by Tiina and Rebecca

Chalmers issues

10 junior faculty positions to be posted in connection with the Chalmers areas of strength

- Posted on Nov 26, application deadline on Jan 11

- We should all encourage good candidates to apply!

- Max 5 years since PhD

- If we get someone to apply, we should also think already about evaluators

Discussion about dual leadership for Strength Areas (CEO + COO?)

- No consensus; likely to be case by case

University to go for environmental certification in 2010
President Markides plans to move her office to Lindholmen when the new building (Kuggen) is ready

AOI

Good time to propose courses and conference trips, esp. for full-time teachers