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Meeting Notes: March 2025

Place: OB18

Time: Monday, 25-03-24, 12:08- 13:16

Opening formalities (5 min)

  • Meeting opening at 12:08

  • Choice of meeting chairperson – board suggests: Ozan

  • Choice of meeting secretary – board suggests: Nils

  • Choice of meeting minutes checker – board suggests: Sai

  • Approval of agenda and meeting procedures.

    • Council had no objection to the above suggestions and procedures. However, Teodor is replaced with Nils as meeting secretary since Nils joins via Zoom.

Reports & updates (20 min)

  • Update from PADs

    • Discussion about JML workshop and not all faculty wants to attend

    • Discussion about FoA hiring

      • Looking for FoA in mathematics, low interest in general

    • Discussion about "Medarbetarsamtal".

      • PhD students should not skip the meetings.

      • The default option should be to have a meeting.

    • New alternative to Licenciate

    • Problems with grading reports of peers

    • Salary ladder

      • Lots of PhD students stuck in step 1. Problem with the ladder not incentivizing people to teach. It is not always specified in the contract how much teaching PhD students should have.

  • Update Regarding Shirts (Sai)

    • There will be a poll in Slack, we viewed different alternatives.

Discussion points (25 min)

  • FF Errands (5 min)

    • Excel sheet 

      • Nils shares excel sheet with documentation of who takes which interview. Document the time it takes and note it in the excel sheet.

  • License to Serve Alcohol at KTH (Sai) (5 min)

    • If you want to serve alcohol in events you have to take a course, sign up if you want to take the course. 

  • Seminar on Visualize your Science (Nils/Sai)

    • Idea: Introduce a shorter alternative to the whole course.

  • Newsletter (Ozan)

    • Sai has written a summary of the work of the SCI council and it will be sent for the new newsletter.

  • FOA Committee (Ozan, Erik, Teodor) (3 min)

    • Good applicants from applied physics and bio-physics. All applied physics candidates will be interviewed, one bio-physics candidate will be interviewed. One candidate will be interviewed from mathematics. One candidate from applied mathematics will be interviewed.

Recurring points: (12 min)

  • FA-PA meeting

    • If you have points to address, contact Sai.

  • FN meeting

  • Equality at KTH

    • We want to increase the equality at the SCI school. Plans on having a workshop on JML in applied physics, but it’s tricky to design the workshop. Suggestion: the equality office could help. Discussion on if the faculty and students should have separate workshops. Pros and cons with both alternatives. Many PhD students already have a mandatory JML course, so maybe the workshop should not be mandatory for PhD students, but it should be mandatory for faculty.

    • Other schools have specific JML meetings, maybe that could be good for SCI as well.

Development of Current Events/Initiatives (5 min)

  • Next Event Ideas (Contact Maria)

    • We can book Osqvik if we want.

    • Kayaking another option.

    • If you have ideas you can always contact Maria.

Additional issues and information (5 min)

  • Next Meeting Location and Date

    • Next meeting is at Teknikringen on 28th April at 12:00.

  • New FF Errands

  • PhD Career Event

    • One should sign up if you want to attend. Also, volunteers are needed.

  • PhD Survey

    • Try to spread the survey among the PhD students.

  • PhD Chapter Meeting

    • Will be held on wednesday.

Actions required

  • No action required.

Meeting closed

  • Meeting closed at 13:16