ICT PhDs

Fika and council elections 15th december

2011-12-06T15:36:00.001+01:00

Just in time before the Christmas holidays we want to invite you to this year's final PhD student fika. Large amounts of cake and fun were had at the previous two fikas. Please join us again on Thursday 15th December for cake, coffee and conversation. The fika will take place in Electrum, but Forum people lease fight the cold and darkness and join us as well!

At the same time as the fika, we will also have the elections to the 2012 PhD student council. See here if you want to be a candidate We hope that many of you come to vote, so that the council can show to the school that it has democratic support by the PhD students. Forum students that can not make it to Electrum will have the opportunity to vote in Forum after the fika.

* Fika and elections in Electrum *
Where: Cafeteria in Electrum building (Electrum 229) plan3
When: Thursday, December 15th at 15:00-16:00. Candidates will introduce
themselves at 15:15

* Elections in Forum *
Where: Elevator C, 8th floor, coffee room
When: Thursday, December 15th at 16:05-17:00

See you there!
Your ICT PhD student council

Candidates wanted for ICT PhD student council 2012

2011-12-06T15:31:00.000+01:00

As 2011 is coming to an end, it is time again for electing next year's ICT PhD student council. We are looking now for candidates that want to get involved and be part of the next council. The council's goal is to continuously advocate improved quality of the PhD studies, protect PhD students' rights and to organise social activities for the students at the ICT School.

Here is an overview of the things we did during this year:
2 BBQ events
3 Fika events
Introduction day for new PhD students
Election of student representatives for the new PhD programs

Do you want to get involved and be part of next year's council? Please put yourself up as a candidate by replying to this post or sending us an email. The elections will take place on Thursday 15th December 2011 from 3-5pm, together with a Fika. Candidate registration is open until the election starts.

If you have any questions about being a council member, then please send us a mail. Further information can also be found in our constitution .

Fika October 2011

2011-12-06T10:47:00.000+01:00

Welcome back Barbecue

2011-09-06T23:02:00.000+02:00

Fellow PhDs,

Warm greetings from the PhD council, we hope that each of had a wonderful semester with family and friends. If you have not taken a semester, we hope one is taken soon. Now that official activities have resumed and all have returned safe and ready to take on another year, we have new and exciting news for all. Before the summer, we had talked about the Jam sessions, where Chris had collected people from KTH and SU with the intent to share interest in the arts, music etc. Also, at our last BBQ, it was announced that other activities were being planned, so get ready here we go!

September 9th 2011, the ICT PhD student council is having another BBQ welcoming you back. This BBQ has a little twist to it. This event will be co-sponsored by the ICT school. We hope that all of you can join this event. There will be plenty of food (Halal and vegetarian) and non-alcoholic beverages available for you. Also there will be games with prizes associated with them. Lastly, the council is seeking those PhDs who are passionate and want to be a part of implementing change. As we all are well aware, KTH has decided to place PhD studies under different programs. In the ICT program we are now looking for students that want to be representatives of PhD students in the three groups:

- Communications
- Electronic Systems
- Integrated Device and Circuits

You will learn more about being a representative at the BBQ and we hope to find volunteers for these positions soon. If you have further questions, please contact your PhD council or Professor Carl-Michael Zetterling (Bellman).

Again, to allow us to better plan the event, we would ask you to sign up either on facebook or sending an email to the council.

What: ICT PhD student welcome back BBQ
When: 9th September
Where: Kistan Forum Building

See you soon!
Your student council

Barbecue May 2011

2011-05-27T23:19:00.003+02:00

Jam sessions for PhD students

2011-05-04T10:14:00.004+02:00

Starting in summer 2011, there will be a joint event for students from both KTH and SU. The idea is to bring artists of different fields together - musicians, dancers, actors, painters and photographers - and have regular meetings in order to enable creative collaboration.

The whole event is going to be very open - i.e. we do not have any specific "goal" in mind. The main objective is to create a platform for musicians and others being creative together, and above all, to have fun.

Every Friday before summer, there will be weekly open meetings (i.e. no fixed time) in FooBar, starting next week (May 6th). The idea is to gather everybody who is interested, get to know each other, and start coming up with more concrete ideas on what we want to achieve (one idea, for example, is to have regular open Jam Sessions for all musicians at KTH and SU).

FooBar is located on the ground floor (near elevator A) in the FORUM building, Isafjordsgatan 39.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Chris Menne or the ICT PhD Council.

Invitation to PhD student fika

2011-03-23T12:03:00.003+01:00

We, the ICT PhD student council, have some exciting news for you! Our aim is to gather the PhD students in ICT to increase communication and interaction. Therefore we have started a series of events that will take place throughout the year, e.g. music events, BBQ evenings, a social trip in Sweden, games and Fika events.

Are you also wondering about who and where all those other PhD students in Forum and Electrum are? Or do you just like cake and coffee? If yes, then we would like to invite you to join us for the first ICT PhD student fika on Thursday 31st March! The PhD council will provide coffee/tea and cakes/snacks. We only have one request and that is YOUR presence. Our intent is for you to meet and mingle with other students. Sounds good? Here is all neccessary information:

What: The 1st ICT PhD student fika
Who: All ICT PhD students
When: Thursday, March 31st at 14:00
Where: Cafeteria in Electrum building (Electrum 229) plan3

And please join our Facebook group to be informed about all events we are organizing: https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=100917853285244
Hope to see you there!

PhD student council meeting with PhD studies advisor Fredrik Häggström

2011-03-07T23:32:00.001+01:00

The March meeting of the ICT PhD student council will take place on upcoming Wednesday, the 9th of March. We are very happy that this time we are joined by KTH's PhD studies advisor Fredrik Häggström, who will be available to answer questions regarding the PhD process. You are all very welcome to join us for the meeting and talk with Fredrik and the council about any questions, problems or suggestions you might have.

Agenda:

16:00 - 17:00 Meeting with Fredrik
17:00 - 18:00 Regular council meeting
Meeting room B447, Electrum

2010 Election Results

2010-12-01T17:44:00.000+01:00

Four board members were elected. The results are as follows:

Terrance Burks: 7 votes
Olof Götberg: 3 votes
Katharina Rasch: 5 votes
Mohsin Saleemi: 3 votes

The next meeting of the council will take place in January 2011.

ICT PhD Council - December 2010 Meeting

2010-12-01T17:40:00.000+01:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Natalja Nikitina

1) Constitution update
The revised constitution (2010-12-01) was approved by all board members.

ICT PhD Council - November 2010 Meeting

2010-11-03T18:04:00.000+01:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Christian Menne

1) Upcoming elections
Elections for the ICT PhD council will take place on the 1st of December. We will also announce it via the mailing list and on Facebook shortly. Baki Cakici will be performing the duties of the election committee.

2) Future social events
Chris suggested organising a monthly jam session for ICT PhDs. He will talk to the student unions active in the Forum to see if they have any space we can use for the event regularly. Magnus will check if there are other options available in ICT or in Kista.

Olof will send an email draft to the council to start an ICT PhD jogging group.

3) Revising the constitution
The council will discuss the revisions via email and meet again in November to approve the new document.

Orientation Day 2010 Slides

2010-10-27T17:39:00.000+02:00

Slides from the ICT PhD orientation day 2010:

Welcome from the ICT PhD Student Council (Magnus Berntsen)

SULF & PhD student rights (Lars Abrahamsson & Fredrik Häggström)

2010-10-01T16:29:00.000+02:00

ICT PhD Council - October 2010 Meeting

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Stefano Bonetti
Terrance Burks
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Natalja Nikitina
Mohsin Saleemi

1) Kista BBQ - October 13th, 2010
The council will be organizing a BBQ for all ICT PhD students on the 13th of October at the Forum building (room Kistan). More information available here.

2) Orientation Day in October
Baki will send a doodle link to the council to set a date for the orientation day. We will try to have it in the second half of October. All responsibilities for the organization are listed in last month's meeting minutes.

ICT PhD Council - September 2010 Meeting

2010-09-02T11:56:00.000+02:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Stefano Bonetti
Terrance Burks
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Mohsin Saleemi
Pamela Gonzalez Sanchez

1) Orientation Day in October
We will decide on a date based on when the invited speakers are available. Magnus will contact the speakers. Olof will arrange finances. As soon as we have decided on the date we will book the room and Baki will send the invitation letter to the mailing list. Magnus and Stefano will update the documents from last year.

2) BBQ 2010
Preliminary date is September 30th, depending on the availability of the locale.

ICT PhD Council - June 2010 Meeting

2010-06-02T17:12:00.000+02:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg

1) Promoting Doktorandsektionen events
Doktorandsektionen is organising a BBQ on the 11th of June at 18:00. For more information, see the Facebook event. Magnus will send an email to the ICT list about the event.

2) Improving organization of courses
Final internal deadline for "program" submissions is in September. We will wait until then to see how the new PhD programs will be organised.

3) ICT BBQ in July
Olof will send an update about financing later this week, we will decide on date, time and location after that.

ICT PhD Council - May 2010 Meeting

2010-05-11T16:00:00.001+02:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Stefano Bonetti
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Natalja Nikitina
Pamela Gonzalez Sanchez

1) Study Plans
Ex-DSV students that have moved to KTH can choose to stay with their old DSV study subjects (which determines the course credit requirements, among other things), or they can switch to one of the KTH subjects.

2) BBQ & Social Events
From now on, the ICT council will promote the events organized by the PhD student chapter (Doktorandsektionen). You can subscribe to the mailing list of the chapterby sending an e-mail to doktorander-request@dr.kth.se with the word "subscribe" in the message body. The new date for the ICT BBQ is July 2nd.

ICT PhD Council - April 2010 Meeting

2010-04-08T12:15:00.000+02:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Stefano Bonetti
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Natalja Nikitina

1) Communication: How to reach all ICT PhD students?
Baki will set up a Facebook group for the ICT PhD council. Magnus will send the introduction email with both the Facebook group link and the blog link to the doktorander mailing list. News about the upcoming BBQ plan will also be included. We will also consider sending the meeting minutes every month to the mailing list. Stefano will contact the admin in order to add the blog link to the THS website.

2) Improving organization of ICT PhD courses
Currently there are 4 study plans that apply to ICT PhDs. It is not clear which student should follow which plan because the areas overlap. Council members will check their study plans & Ladok for relevant information and report back.

3) E-voting
Baki will contact IT to find a sustainable solution for hosting the elections.

4) Other Issues
Olof will clarify funding issues for student activities organized by the council. Preliminary date for the BBQ is May 21st.

ICT PhD Council - March 2010 Meeting

2010-03-04T13:51:00.001+01:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Natalja Nikitina
Liu Pei

1) E-Voting
We will prioritize moving the blog to the ICT domain and discuss e-voting after the move is complete. Two alternatives exist: an external voting system or a solution in cooperation with the IT department.

2) Moving the blog to the KTH domain
Magnus & Baki will work on it and report next month.

3) Improving course organization
We'll examine the current study plans that Natalja pointed out. Magnus will contact others and email with updates within the month.

4) Doktorander mailing list
The mailing list issue is solved and now includes all students at ICT that appear in Ladok. We will write a brief email to the list introducing the council.

ICT PhD Council - February 2010 Meeting

2010-02-04T15:45:00.000+01:00

Participants
Magnus H. Berntsen
Stefano Bonetti
Baki Cakici
Olof Götberg
Liu Pei

1) Check funding promises: Scholarship students, minimum salary issues
Stefano informed the council of the agreements that took place in 2009.

2) Mailing list for ICT PhDs
Baki will start working on this by contacting IT and will report back at the next meeting.

3) Status of ex-DSV students
The council has received preliminary information about the status of these students. Baki & Natalja will cross-check the old DSV list to ensure no one is missing.

4) Improve organization of ICT PhD Courses
Magnus was contacted about a plan for future PhD programs. Everyone will check the current situation in their unit and report back.

5) List of events that require funding
Social activity (BBQ?) in May.
Orientation Day, October.
Lecture by invited speaker, late 2010.

6) Other Issues
More information on PhD salaries on the web site (Magnus).
Regulations for co-supervisors (Baki).
Sofia Jonsson meeting (Magnus).

ICT PhD Council - 2010 Planning Meeting

2010-01-21T17:46:00.000+01:00

Participants
Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen
Olof Götberg
Baki Cakici
Natalja Nikitina

The calendar has been updated to include all ICT PhD Council meetings scheduled in 2010. A preliminary agenda for each meeting is available under event details.

ICT PhD Council - January 2010 Meeting

2010-01-13T19:05:00.000+01:00

Participants
Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen
Stefano Bonetti
Baki Cakici
Natalja Nikitina
Liu Pei

1) The FA (Graduate Studies Committee) meeting
Magnus attended the meeting and reported on relevant issues.

2) DSV/KTH Separation
Baki and Natalja will find out how the DSV/KTH split will be resolved. A preliminary list of questions is as follows:

What unit will the ex-DSV students belong to?
Who is the administrator and/or head for the unit(s)?
Will the students need to move their offices? If so, where?
What will happen to KTH students with supervisors employed by SU?
How will the salaries of moving students be decided?

3) Next meeting: February 3rd 2010, at 16:00 (preliminary).

Ph.D. Council - December meeting

2009-12-31T16:47:00.000+01:00

1. Participants
Stefano Bonetti
Baki Cakici
Natalja Nikitina
Dina Pamela Gonzalez Sanchez
Olof Götberg
Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen
Liu Pei

2. Role definitions for the Ph.D. Council 2010
After a unanimous vote by the participant of the Council meeting, the roles for the Ph.D. Council year 2010 are the following:

President: Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen
Vice-president: Natalja Nikitina
Treasurer: Olof Götberg
Secretary: Baki Cakici

3. Planning for 2o10
Despite some accomplishments this year, there are still several issues where the situation for the Ph.D. students needs to be improved. Here is a list of such issues where the Ph.D. Council plans to be active during the next year:

a) check that the promises about the funding of Ph.D. students are kept;
b) in particular, check the details of the funding of CSC and HEC scholars;
c) better organization of the Ph.D. courses;
d) obtain the funding of the Ph.D. Council, as promised by the ICT school, and organize activities to use that money (orientation day, workshops, social events);
e) solve eventual problem with the mailing list for ICT Ph.D. students;
f) communicate and guide (ex-)DSV Ph.D. students after the reorganization;
g) implement the electronic vote for the next ICT Ph.D. Council elections;
h) get the blog on ICT school domain.

4. Next meeting
Next meeting is planned on January 13, 2010, at 16:00, in Forum. (Room to be announced.)

Everyone is welcome to join!

Election results

2009-12-03T13:42:00.001+01:00

The final results of the election for the Ph.D. Council 2010 are the following:

Hårdensson Berntsen, Magnus, 15 votes
Nikitina, Natalja, 14 votes
Götberg, Olof, 12 votes
Cakici, Baki, 9 votes
Pei, Liu, 8 votes
Gonzalez Sanchez, Dina Pamela, 7 votes

Total number of participants at elections: 19.
Total number of valid ballots: 19.
Total number of votes: 65 (maximum of 4 votes per ballot).

The elected members of the ICT Ph.D. Council 2010 are: Hårdensson Berntsen, Magnus; Nikitina, Natalja; Götberg, Olof; Cakici, Baki.

The four posts, President, vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary will be assigned at the next Ph.D. Council meeting.

ICT Ph.D. Council November Meeting

2009-11-04T15:36:00.000+01:00

Participants:

Baki Cakici - DSV
Constantinos Giannoulis - DSV
Dina Pamela Gonzalez Sanchez - Communication Systems
Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen - Material Physics
Natalja Nikitina - DSV
Liu Pei - Electronic Systems
Stefano Bonetti - Material Physics

Elections

Elections for the Ph.D. Council 2010 will take place on Wednesday, December 2, 2009. The room for the election will be announced later on this blog.

Four (4) elected members will be chosen for the role of President, vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary of the Council. The function of the different roles are explained in the Constitution of the Ph.D. Council, that will soon appear on this blog.

All Ph.D. Students have the right to vote and to be eligible candidates. Last day to register as a candidate is Friday, November 27, 2009. Simply add your name in a comment to this post.

At present, the candidates are (in alphabetical order):

Cakici, Baki
Gonzalez Sanchez, Dina Pamela
Götberg, Olof
Hårdensson Berntsen, Magnus
Nikitina, Natalja
Pei, Liu

The sessions of the Ph.D. Council will always be open to non-elected members.

PhD Orientation Day 2009

2009-10-29T10:25:00.001+01:00

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

View more documents from Cωνσtantίnoς .

Ph.D. Orientation day - October 23, 2009

2009-10-07T11:38:00.000+02:00

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

2009-10-05T15:51:00.000+02:00

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.

Ph.D. Student Council - September extra - meeting

2009-09-18T14:13:00.000+02:00

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

2. Action items before the Ph.D. orientation day
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

5. Next meeting
Next meeting is planned on October 5, 2009, at 15:00, in Electrum.

Everyone is welcome to join. As already said, we would like to have at least one Ph.D. Student from each Activity Base. At the moment we have people from COS (Communication Systems), ISS/DSV (Information and Software Systems), MP (Materials Physics), and SC (Semiconductor Devices). We still miss someone from ECS (Embedded Electronic and Computer Systems) and OP (Optics and Photonics)

Ph.D. Student Council - September meeting

2009-09-04T16:42:00.000+02:00

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

2. Presentation of the Ph.D. orientation day
Magnus, Pamela and Zhechao presented the documents they prepared. These papers will be distributed at the Ph.D. orientation day. They are all available for editing as Shared Google Documents.

Suggested date for the meeting: October, 7 or October, 23. Final decision to be taken given the availability of Calle Jansson, vice-dean and responsible of Graduate Education at the ICT school.

The proposed program is the following:
10:00 - 11:30 Welcome to Ph.D. students from Ph.D. students
11:30 - 12:00 Welcome to Ph.D. students from Calle Jansson
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 14:30 Campus Tour
14:30 - 16:00 Fika and social activities

3. Presentation of the draft of the constitution of Ph.D. Council
Stefano and Constantinos presented the draft of the constitution of the Ph.D. Council. Main objective of this document is to set some simple rules on how and when to elect the Ph.D. Council members .

4. Action items.
a) Collect and upload on Google Docs the latest version of the welcome documents. (Magnus)

b) Contact Calle Jansson for availability (Stefano)

c) Contact School administration on possibility of getting KTH signed folders and pens, to be delivered at the orientation day. (Stefano)

d) Create a "Contact list" for the people in the administration which are involved with Ph.D. students issues. (Stefano)

e) Finalize the Ph.D. Council constitution. (Constantinos, Stefano)

5. Next meeting
Next meeting is planned on September 14, 2009, at 13:30, in Forum. Everyone is welcome to join. As already said, we would like to have at least one Ph.D. Student from each Activity Base. At the moment we have people from COS (Communication Systems), ISS/DSV (Information and Software Systems), MP (Materials Physics), and SC (Semiconductor Devices). We still miss someone from ECS (Embedded Electronic and Computer Systems) and OP (Optics and Photonics)

Ph.D. Student Council - June meeting

2009-06-24T15:19:00.000+02:00

1. Participants
Stefano Bonetti - MP
Constantinos Giannoulis - SYSLAB/DSV
Christian Valenzuela Köhnenkamp - MP
Zhechao Wang - SC

2. Brief summary of Ph.D. students rights
We went briefly through the final draft of the document and the table jointly written together with the Ph.D. Student Chapter. The aim of these documents (that will be formatted and printed out) is to give all newly employed Ph.D. Students an overview of their rights and a first, quick, answer to the most common questions and problems. Draft of these documents will be available on this blog.

3. Report on FU committee and School board meetings.
The last week of May and the first of June, I attended the meetings of the Graduate Education Committee (FU - forskarutbilding) and of the ICT school board. The meeting with the FU committee had the aim to give an overview of the new organization of the school. Most of the informations were on the document I sent out in May, and which will be available on the blog as well. The ICT school board meeting was also an introduction to the school organization, since it was the first with the new board.

4. Planning of the Ph.D. Student Council actions.
Every member of the Ph.D. Council is welcome to contribute to the actions we decide to take. We identify an "action leader" only for organizational reasons.

a) Write down a constitution for the Ph.D. Council and an Organizational Chart of the ICT school. (Shared Google documents, Constantinos/Stefano responsible)

b) Maintenance of the blog. (Stefano/Constantinos)

c) Planning of the orientation day for Ph.D. students, that should take place at the beginning of October. (Shared Google document, Magnus, Zhechao, Pamela responsible)

d) Feedback to the FU committee about the type of information on Ph.D. studies that should be present on the school homepage. Other universities homepage can be a good source of inspiration. (Shared Google document, Christian responsible)

e) Problems to be brought at the school board level. (Stefano)

5. Next meeting
Next meeting is planned on September 2, 2009, at 13:30. Everyone is welcome to join. As already said, we would like to have at least one Ph.D. Student from each Activity Base (the newest official name, the previous was Research Group). At the moment we have people from COS (Communication Systems), ISS/DSV (Information and Software Systems), MP (Materials Physics), and SC (Semiconductor Devices). We still miss someone from ECS(Embedded Electronic and Computer Systems) and OP (Optics and Photonics)

Kista Science Seminar: Dark matter, Dark Energy and Black Holes

2009-05-19T10:21:00.000+02:00

The ICT School recently started a set of seminars of general scientific interest, to be held ideally the last Friday of each month. The first one was given by the head of Ericsson research, showing the strategy of the company for the coming year. The second one was given by the director of the construction of the European Spallation Source (ESS) in Sweden. The third one is scheduled on Friday, May 29. You can find more information here:

http://www.kth.se/ict/kalender/seminar/1.37985

All Ph.D. students are of course very welcome to join, and you will be offered coffee and pastries before the seminar. We think that there are many good aspects with this event. First, you get to hear what is going on at the edge of the research world in different fields, which are not yours. Usually the speakers are very good delivers, so that you can actually relax and enjoy the talk. Second, the idea of the seminars is very popular in many other universities, but not so much here (yet). We think that having seminaries is a very positive thing, and if you think the same, please come and show that we, Ph.D. students, appreciate the initiative. Third, but not less important, we can use that moment to get to know each other.

Therefore, join the Kista Science Seminars!

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