20101129

CE biweekly meeting

Nov 29, 2010

Personnel

Malin Nilsson will replace Anna-Lena, whose last day will be Dec 3
Georgi Gaydadjiev visited this past weekend

- Aim for getting him here for summer

Ioannis Sourdis still on track for joining us in February
Mirja K, Daniel S, and Ruben A will defend

Teaching

EESD: remapping courses from existing IESD lineup

- Coordinating with CSN, COM, etc

Wokring group for CSN programme

- Elad, Jan J, Tomas O

Research and proposals

SSF: Software-Intensive Systems: 3 proposals

- Security

- Programming Technology

- Parallel computations (Per S, Ulf A, Philippas)

Dave, Reiner, and Aarne in EU "Flagship" project working group
EU proposal work ongoing for Jan 18 deadline

Department issues

Göteborg University has evaluated all departments (RED10)

- CSE came out very well

Chalmers issues

No real news on Software Center

- Supposedly inching closer; needs to happen within a few weeks to make the 2011 budgets

AOI

Getting Kindle, iPad for testing

Budget for 2011

Not easily compared with previous years

- Teaching also handled at division level now

Projected deficit, mainly at teaching side

- Revenue reduciton due to fewer students

- Will distribute figures when trustworthy

Temporary hiring freeze as of Thu Nov 25

- Catarina needs to sign off on any hiring