Minutes - Postdoc Committee Meeting 29.1.2018

Meeting date: Monday 29 January 2018 at 13.00-14.00

Meeting place: Nygaard 297

Meeting subject: Post Doc Committee

Attendees: Ira Assent, Ivan Bjerre Damgård, Gerth Stølting Brodal, Gianluca Mezzetti, Henrik Korsgaard

 Apologies: Ranald Clouston, Zahra Jafargholi, Thomas Dinsdale-Young

 Minute Taker: Malene Andersen

  AGENDA

 1. Ph.D. and Postdoc retreat 2018

 

a. Time: 1 June

b. Place: Randers Regnskov: www.regnskoven.dk   

c. Program (tbc!):

Kl. 09.00 Let morgenmad

Kl. 12.00 Frokostsandwich inkl. 1 vand eller sodavand

Kl. 15.00 Eftermiddagskaffe og -kage

Kl. 18.00 Grillbuffet

Kl. 21.00 Regnskoven lukker

d. Suggestion for workshop topics

 

2. Post Doc Events 2018 

a. Feb/March: Topics, suggesstions etc.?

b. 1 June: Retreat in Randers Regnskov

c. Aug/Sept: Annual postdoc lunch with Lars Arge and Mogens Nielsen giving talk about grant and how to apply for grants

d. Dec: Christmas Event.: Topics, suggestions etc.?

  

3. AOB 

a.       Future meetings: Suggestion – 2 meetings a year, one each semester

 

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Five suggestions for relevant topics:

 1. Idea generating - How to generate good research ideas? How to stand out with your research and projects.

 2. Interdisciplinary research collaborations - From an academic point of view. Tips and tricks on networking opportunities => This might be interesting as one of the events for the autumn semester.

 3. The research funding system in EU and DK.

 4. Research strategies; different researchers, different strategies. How to combine research with conferences, personal life etc. incl. how to organize research groups.

 5. Award 'Show' incl. presenting a 10 pages paper

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The following suggestions for the retreat workshop programme were agreed on:

Workshop I: Idea generating + The research funding system (how to fund the ideas generated in first part)

Workshop II: Panel discussion on research strategies with talks from different CS-people

 

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We agreed to go with the following topic for the March event: Student BA project. This is a field under development, so it would be good to have the postdocs evaluate this initiate at the event and get their feedback.

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See suggestions for topics and workshop program above

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Aug/Sept. Event: We usually invite for a postdoc lunch with Lars Arge and Mogens Nielsen on how to write a good research grant application but would also be interessting if we could have the interdisciplinary research as a topic. Must be discussed at the next postdoc committee meeting.

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Christmas Event: Must be discussed at the next meeting postdoc committee meeting.

 

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It was decided to reduce the amount of annual meeting in the postdoc committee from 4 to 2, one in the beginning of each semester.

Gianluca Mezzetti stepped out of the postdoc committee => Malene will ask around if anyone might be interested in replacing him.

We need an overview of the current amount of postdocs at CS => Malene will check with Jan Frederiksen.

 

Next meeting in the Postdoc Committee: August 2018.