Barbecue May 2011

Jam sessions for PhD students

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

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

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

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

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

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.