PhD Orientation Day 2009

Dear fellow Ph.D. Students,
thank you very much for such a good Ph.D. Orientation Day!

The slides from the meeting are now available as a .pdf file on this blog. You find them here:
Ph D Orientation Day 2009

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Ph.D. Orientation day - October 23, 2009

Dear fellow ICT Ph.D. student!
The time for the Ph.D. Orientation Day has arrived!

When: Friday, October 23, 2009.
Where: Sal B, Forum
Hosted by the ICT Ph.D. Student Council

Program:
10:00–10:30 Welcome message by the Dean of graduate studies, and
vice-Dean of the ICT school, Carl Gustaf Jansson. (Sal B)
10:30–12:00 Welcome by the ICT Ph.D. Student Council. (Sal B)
12:00–13:00 Lunch (Forum restaurant)
13:00–14:30 Campus tour
14:30–15:30 Fika (Forum)
Later in the evening: mingle downtown

Lunch is offered by the school to Ph.D. students registered up to one year ago (i.e. the second semester of 2008).

Why should you attend the Ph.D Orientation Day:

• We will discuss your rights and duties as a Ph.D. student.
• We will describe the school organization and structure together with the Dean of graduate studies.
• We will introduce the ICT Ph.D. Student Council
• We will answer your questions regarding all aspects of Ph.D. Student life and work at ICT.
  

All the above can be extremely useful to you during your Ph.D. studies, as it was for us. So, join the meeting, and bring your colleagues with you!

See you then!

The ICT Ph.D. Student Council

ICT Ph.D. Council October Meeting

Participants:

Stefano Bonetti - MP
Constantinos Giannoulis - SYSLAB/DSV
Dina Pamela Gonzalez Sanchez - COS
Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen - MP
Zhechao Wang - SC

Previous points:

a) Make final corrections to the Welcome document, and create .pdf. (Magnus)
Done
b) Check Calle Jansson availability for Ph.D. Orientation Day: October 7 or 23 (Stefano)
October 23
c) Book a room for the Orientation Day (Constantinos)
Sal B, October 23, 09:00-12:00
d) Check possibility of getting the lunch and the fika paid by the school (Stefano)
Preliminary positive response (to be confirmed)
e) Check possibility of getting folders, pens and printouts from the school (Stefano)
Waiting for response
f) Check possibility of Ph.D. student pub on Friday, October 23 (Stefano)
Have to ask
g) Check opening Nymble on friday 23 (Magnus)
Have to ask

Updated action items

• provide comments on the ICT structure and constitution document by Monday, Oct. 12th. (Constantinos will put it together and make it available)
  
• provide comments on the Orientation day announcement (both email and blogpost) by tomorrow morning. (Stefano will send it out and all of us will circulate the news)
• presentation for the orientation day will be available for comments (in draft mode) after Monday, Oct. 12th.
• call the Sophia for pen, folders and printouts. (Stefano)
• regarding the student pub and beer after the orientation day we'll head to the city. Place to be decided.
• next meeting is at Tuesday Oct- 20th at 13:30 at DSV, Forum. Things to be finalized: define governing body and presentations, folders and printouts (worst case print it ourselves), lunch and fika (worst case scenario on each student's expense), make the last announcement on the 21st.