20110516

CE "biweekly" meeting

May 16, 2011

Personnel

Ann-Margret Alsin (personnel officer) to retire in July
Mafijul to defend (June 10)
Negotiations w/ Georgi Gaydadjiev ongoing
Planning for Fulbright professor Dave Whalley in 2011 -- 2012
Recruitment of PhD students for new projects to commence

Teaching

D, IT, GU students invited to Department Council meeting

- Quite satisfied about education in general

- Would like more contacts with industry, and (IT students in particular) more relevant basic science

SE teaching halls at Lindholmen may be delayed

- Start of semester in jeopardy?

Research and Proposals

EU funding for KARYON (Elad S.)
SSF project for ST being adjusted for budget reduction

- Currently looking at 2 FoAss, 1 PhD student

SSF project for CE/NS: budget adjustment done, close to contract, student recruitment to follow
DeSyRe under negotiation (Sourdis)
Gaydadjiev adds FASTER (FP7 project)

CSE issues

OK to schedule only 10% teaching for new PhD students from now on

- Need to check with division head and with director of studies

Space crunch due to research application success

- Difficult to find new space inside building (S2, EoM also growing)

- Axel Persson will develop a few scenarios (Reclaim Idéläran? Repurpose large professor offices? etc.)

- No easy solutions, no quick decisions. Sensitive issue.

Chalmers issues

IT support will be offered also for Macintoshes!

- Currently 15% of desktops are Macs, 10% are Linux boxes

- Overhead will go up marginally

Information screens will be set up in entrances

AOI

Very positive feedback in VP session with Head of Dept

- Should identify criteria and indicators for success at division level!

Possibility to influence the strategy of SSF for 2012 - 2017

- New decisions of sub-areas to support