CENotes /
20120120
CE "biweekly" meeting
Jan 20, 2012
Personnel
- Welcome (back) to Ruben Titos
- Junior faculty positions being recruited for ST
- Senior faculty position in formal methods (space left by Reiner): recruitment starting
- Aris A. has "finally" turned down Chalmers offer
- Remains in Rome
- SE: poised to start negotiations with two faculty candidates
- Lars Kollberg has passed away
- Information about funeral, etc when available
- Rolf (teaching), Lars (CAD support), and Arne (other) working on how to replace him
Teaching
- New vice prefect for undergraduate and masters education: Miroslaw Staron
- Will want to reduce number of courses with less than 15 students
- Blue11 (GU evaluation):
- CS: programmes v. good, except attrition
- SE: shortage of teaching staff
Research and Proposals
- "Generic Skills" course package has been introduced in PhD education
- New proposal in E-science (Per S, Devdatt, Peter Damaschke, ...)
- Initiative for a Chalmers "Institute for Advanced Science"
- An AoA for basic science
- Software Center: tape-cutting on Feb 14
- If your Valentine does not suggest otherwise, you might attend
CSE issues
- Annual reports
- Please make sure statistics on publications etc. are complete and correct
- Time to report sideline activities again
- 2011 bookend soon done
- Looks like travel costs have gone down for dept? Do we publish less?
- PhD mingle on Feb 3
Chalmers/GU issues
- Adm. director Eva Lejdbradt has been fired
- Result of internal audit
- Karin Markides receives a 3 year extension as President
- Student disapproval
- Proposed docuemnt on student representation floated
- Severe objections from ILG; response to be less than charitable
- Jan Smith: High interest in GU for cooperation w/ Chalmers