20110916

CE "biweekly" meeting

Sep 16, 2011

Personnel

Applications for FP PhD positions look good

- 15 serious ones

DeSyRe students selected, will start on Oct 1

- Alirad Malek, Stavros Tzilis

Teaching

Dave W to teach new compilers course in SP2
AI course will be taught following the Stanford open initiative

Research and Proposals

Software Center contacts are about to be signed

CSE issues

PhD student followup meetings to be booked with Jan J or Koen L-C
Human Entrance to be used for extra services when recruiting

- Talk to Div head and personnel officer

Alumni regathering in place of summer party?
Web needs to be updated!

- 5% of one student

Economy

Estimates based on 2nd 3rd of year have arrived

- CE much better than initial estimates, but still in the red

- Have not analyzed figures yet

Aim to present figures and analyses a VP meeting

- Mid October; will Doodle

Chalmers/GU issues

New purchasing routines w/ designated purchasing personnel on the way in

- New support system on the way (to mimic GU?)

Perils of “offentlig upphandling”: MUST MUST MUST MUST go through travel agency when flying!

- Via Travel is currently the only travel agent we can use!

- Train trips can be bought via SJ

Chalmers pension administration to go via SPV henceforth
New award for excellent research-oriented MSc theses

- Talk to Elad

AOI

New videoconference client for Mac available
ICT Initiative Seminar, Sep 20-21: “Future world-class information and communication engineers”