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Meeting Notes: May 2025

Place: C3:3031 AlbaNova University Centre

Time: Monday, 25-05-26, 12:22 - 13:10

Opening formalities (5 min)

  • Meeting opening

  • Choice of meeting chairperson – board suggests: Ozan

  • Choice of meeting secretary – board suggests: Maria

  • Choice of meeting minutes checker – board suggests: Nils

  • Approval of agenda and meeting procedures.

Meeting started at 12:22, no objections and started the meeting.

Reports & updates (20 min)

  • Update from PADs

    • Teodor: FoA for mathematics: they have an interview/discussion with a candidate in applied mathematics
      For the pure mathematics, they found a person finally

    • Erik for applied physics: new vice unit heads. The PADs took part in some of the interviews, they agreed to give input and nothing was strange as the candidates where reasonable.

    • Viktor for engineering mechanics: question about ethics course, on how they can pass the ethics course grade. Suggestion to add a canvas page for the course (the way they handle the course in physics department). He will email the PA to arrange this.

    • Sai: not updates. TEKMEK days: showing people around the labs and give intro on who they are.

  • FF – errand June 10th (5 min)

    • Discussion of who will take it: Nils and Maria cannot, Ozan cannot and PADs from mathematics cannot. Person who’s taking it in: Erik.

  • T-shirts (Sai) (5 min)

    • T-shirts where distributed to the people. Do not use this website anymore, they ask first the money and then distribute the goods but we want the opposite.

Discussion points (25 min)

  • Time compensation (10 min)

    • Related to the FN meeting, they want the decrease from 92 % to 80 %. Can we say no? They said no. We can look at it and then let them know after the new organization of the engineering mechanics. Nils and Sai will have a meeting on Tuesday to discuss the time we spend this year and they will find out what we need. 40 % for PADs and 40 % for the rest of us is the recommendation from the school. We can ask other schools to know how many PADS they have for a specific number of PhD students. Erik counts the time and it’s more than 4% to one of the PADs of applied physics. 

  • Recurring points: (15 min)

    • FN meeting

      •  There is one in June. Combined with the equality at KTH. Discussion point in equality, they are thinking about adding more females, in order to get an equal amount of women and men in the committees, but this means women do more work because there are fewer, so they need to do more. If we want to start doing that, then more discussions are required about that, so we can keep discussing that. Good opportunity for us to bring that up all the time for discussion. Bring the topic of progress in equality every 3 months or something like this, in a school basis.

    •  Equality at KTH

Development of Current Events/Initiatives (5 min)

  • Next Event Ideas (Contact Maria)

    • Equality workshop agreed to be in September. Barbeque event on the Albanova rooftop for June. August event: hire kayaks close to Albanova for an event .

Additional issues and information (5 min)

  • Next Meeting Location and Date

    • Next meeting in mathematics and at the end of june: Have a poll to decide for the next meeting.

Actions required

Meeting closed

  • Meeting closed at 13:10.