Notes regarding postdoc committee:
0. Purpose
Forum to discuss topics of interest to postdocs and initiatives
to improve working conditions for postdocs.
Postdoc committee will meet and decide on topics for postdoc lunches
and make recommendations on topics (which will be discussed at the postdoc lunches)
Postdoc committee will meet approx. 4 times a year, in advance of postdoc lunch.
Postdoc committee is responsible for organizing postdoc lunches,
approx. 4 times per year.
1. Members
Faculty members are appointed by HoD.
Initial postdoc members were chosen at the postdoc lunch meeting
2013-09-10
(everyone was invited, no formal election, should be a reasonable
representation across research groups).
Faculty:
Lars Birkedal <birkedal@cs.au.dk> (chair of committee)
Ira Assent <ira@cs.au.dk>
Postdocs:
Jan Midtgaard <jmi@cs.au.dk>
Clemens Klokmose <clemens@cs.au.dk>
Robert Brewer <rbrewer@cs.au.dk>
Claudio Orlandi <orlandi@cs.au.dk>
Administrative Asst.:
Ann Eg Moelhave <aem@cs.au.dk>
2. Mailing lists:
postdoc@cs.au.dk - reaches all the people employed as postdocs
postdoc-udvalg.cs@maillist.au.dk - for the postdoc committee
Mailing lists are maintained by
Jan Frederiksen <janfre@cs.au.dk>
3. Facebook group.
Jan Midtgaard <jmi@cs.au.dk> also maintains a facebook group for
postdocs. Sign up by email.
4. Homepage
A home page for the postdoc committee with minutes, slides, etc. will be made
asap.
5. Some possible future topics (to be decided on by the postdoc committee)
- follow-up on APV
- how to advise student projects
- talk on how to obtain tenure (e.g., by Michael Schwartzbach)
- talk on Danish and European Funding System (e.g., Mogens Nielsen)
- talk on tenure track system implementation at AU (e.g., by Lars Arge)