ICT PhD Council - January 2010 Meeting

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

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

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

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

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

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.