CENotes /
20100419
CE "biweekly" meeting (ha!)
April 19, 2010
Personnel
- Welcome (back) to Magnus Själander!
- Marina Papatriantafilou up for promotion to Biträdande Professor
- Miroslaw Staron will coordinate the SE master programme
- A new Biträdande Lektor (FoAss with tenure? This is GU, so other rules than at Chalmers) will be recruited for Computing Sciences
- Two affirmative responses for the CHAMPP PhD positions [plus one more after the meeting]
- Angelos Arelakis
- Dmitry Knyagin
- Alen Bardizbanyan
- Katarina Vemdal will not return as administrative director after her parental leave
- Eva Paulson has gone on to other permanent position within Chalmers
- Need to recruit replacement, again :-(
- Katarina V. will be in for a few days to help handle urgent matters
- Rebecca Cyrén will move to Lindholmen with the SE troops
- The ICT Styrkeområde position is nearing a decision
- Presentations this week postponed due to airline problems
- Several strong candidates
- CSE may make an offer to best-qualified candidates even if the Chalmers-funded position ends up elsewhere
Research and proposals
- VR deadline just passed...
- Some individual proposals (Ulf A. More from division?)
- Per LE partner in framework allocation grant proposal w/ Johan Liu of MC2
Teaching
- Rolf Snedsböl will take over as Director of Studies for the CE and NS areas
- Further reduction in admission of international students
- Down by half from last year
- Not necessarily evenly distributed across programmes
- Overview of master programmes yet to start
Department issues
- Mary Sheeran resigns from leader group for the ICT Styrkeområde
- Dave Sands possible replacement
Chalmers issues
- EDIT current "best guess":
- Three separate BSc programmes (E, D, IT)
- IT at Lindholmen
- No decision yet!
AOI
- Medarbetarsamtal going on
- Several faculty members stuck abroad due to airline stoppage
- Per S (California)
- Lena P (Massachusetts)
- Mary S, John H (Japan)
- Andrei S (Beijing)
- ... and probably more