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Meeting Notes TCS April 13
Positions update
- Assistant professorship with security specialization under review currently (deadline May 19), about 35 applicants
- 11 special assistant professorship positions: announcement is published
- up to us to spread announcement to people we would be interested in
- Philipp to help with announcement for software construction position
- Danupon to help with announcement for Big Data and eScience position
- There is already an announcement on CRA
- Sonja: should put effort into contacting people ourselves, to make sure candidates end up in our school
- People should let Philipp, Danupon, or Mads know
- Associate professorship in Software Construction: in final stages of preparation, can hopefully be announced soon
- New members of the group:
- Thatchaphol, new PhD student of Danupon
- Christoph (PhD, Aachen) 6-months postdoc with Jakob
- Introduction of Friné, financial officer
- Female postdoc positions: not sure yet how to proceed, to be discussed in faculty group
- If anybody knows about talented female candidate (2 x 1 year) let Mads know about it
- Discussion at school level about another associate professorship with emphasis on basic courses in programming and software technology
- Exact profile not defined, but software technology broadly and CS didactics
- Mats Naslund, researcher at Ericsson security group, application for adjunct professorship
- 20% time affiliation with group, funded by Ericsson
Appointments committee and faculty council
- Johan from now on chairman of faculty appointments committee of all of KTH
- Function of this committee: determining hiring profiles, accept people for promotion (adjunct, lecturer, professor, etc.), only for faculty positions. Not clear on which level of detail.
- Jakob’s question: could Johan influence timing of positions? To be figured out.
Equipment
- Nothing new about computers.
PhD production 14/15
- Faculty allocation is dependent on PhD production.
- Question: how many PhD were produced in the academic year 14/15?
- Will be answered via faculty list
KTH opportunities fund
- Sonja presented KTH opportunities fund (presented by the dean)
- Money from alumni from KTH
- Money for traveling, PhD student projects, etc. (e.g., PhD students want to go to conference)
- Under-used, so worth applying to
- Running applications, no deadlines
- Difference to other grants: might have fewer constraints
- In the past many PhD students got money from this fund
Ways to improve service
- Suggestions solicited for how service of central KTH could be improved
- Michael:
- Service could help more with administration of grants (such as EU Horizon grants)
- Research support: help with procedures of certain grants like Vinnova and SSF
- Jakob: IT support
- Should have 24/7 support for certain things like mail servers
- Crucial when needed, such as on deadline (Monday morning might be too late)
- Viggo: educational support too small, e.g., issues with Ladok, needs more people
- Sonja: improvement of administration routines
- Invitations should be sent out earlier, so that people can attend.
- Michael: could be run by the group to avoid conflicts.
- Dilian: how does single entry point work for people?
- Sonja: service center has improved web pages with categories (below search), provide feedback if links point to the wrong pages!
- Mads: very tedious that all emails and web pages have to be done in both Swedish and English, leads to discrepancies, outdated information, and additional effort.
- Per: helpful to have paper copies at meeting places
- Would be nice to remove tracking links from Numera posts
- Travel refunding takes a lot of time.
—> Email Sonja and Mads about additional feedback for service.
Dilian:
- New agenda item: Masterpieces in TCS course should be discussed at some point. Which forum to use? Should the course be mandatory? And other questions.
