Ph.D. Student Council - June meeting

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)