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from the head of department
This week we would like
to congratulate the twelve professors from our department (read below) who
satisfied the criteria for the allocation of assets based on receiving 3 points
for their publications (or on average, 1 point per year) over the last three
years, and each receives 20,000 kroner extra this year! It is great to know that
those who are active receive their well-earned honors for it, but the same
group has also been more appropriate if the department got to distribute all
of the assets equally – including the funds rewarded to their
publications, as had been the case over the previous years. If we now no
longer award the funds received for publications, despite somewhat tightened
circumstances and budget deficits, this might lead to a rather uneven
distribution in which the newly employed will be particularly disfavoured until they themselves get to the point of
being employed for three full calendar years. It is also not very beneficial
to publish with too many co-authors, which in turn destimulates
cooperation which is a necessity, especially in experimental
domains. Of course that 240,000
kroner is a nice income for the department, but it unfortunately helps very
little when it comes to the bottom line budget for 2012 which
is still around 2.9 million kroner in minus. One can turn his head and wait
for the sums of income and expenses, but the reality is that we have a slight
decrease in our basic allocations (income), while our expenses increase with an
excess of 2.5 million kroner as a consequence of changes in rent prices paid
to externally financed positions and particularly increased contribution
margins paid out to UoB. This is equivalent to
approximately 3 positions which must be closed down
unless the department gets the opportunity to keep a larger part of its gross
margin as was the case before, or unless we manage to increase the gross
margins from the externally financed projects. How to tackle these
challenges will also be the topic of the department council’s meeting to be
held this Friday. Feel free to contact the members of the council if you have
any suggestions about this topic. Have a nice weekend, News and general information
A debate with Andreas Wahl
Andreas
Wahl is a physicist and an exposed proponent of natural science. He is a
member of the expert panel of Lyngbø and Hærland’s Big Bang shown on Friday evenings, stands
behind Good Physics and Street Physics at NRK1, and the video-series Real Tricks
at Dagbladet.no. Show up – have fun and get wiser! Photo: Studio Expose/ Linda Varpe- Karlsen,
www.vitenwahl.no Budget 2012 - funds
based on publications
For each of the
employees who have produced at least three publication points in the period of
2008, 2009 and 2010, as most of you already know, there will be available up
to 20,000 kroner in assets to research planned in 2012. The list of persons
satisfying these criteria is now completed, based on data from Cristin and data obtained from the university’s personnel
system. University management specified that this regulation is applicable
only to permanent employees with a 100 % job position and only those employed
as professors, associate professors, heads of department and deans. The
prerequisite for this allocation is that the funds be used for operating
costs defined by the recipients of these funds. For IFT, the following 12 persons
satisfied the criteria and receive 20,000 kroner each via their respective group
budgets: · Graue, Arne · Hansen, Jan Petter · Helseth, Lars Egil · Hoffmann, Alex Christian · Holst, Bodil · Kolstø, Stein Dankert · Kosinski, Pawel Jan · Kvamme, Bjørn · Nystrand, Joakim · Osland, Per · Stamnes, Jakob J. · Østgaard, Nikolai This means that the
department’s income has increased for 240,000 kroner this year. This is
slightly more than the annual funds allocated last year on the basis of
publications. STUDENTs
h-bar
H-bar is run by Fagutvalget of the Physics department and is primarily
for physics students – but the employees are also very welcome! IFT in
the media
Publications registered in ISI Web of Science
o Haaland S.; Svenes K.; Lybekk B.; et al.: A
survey of the polar cap density based on Cluster EFW probe measurements:
Solar wind and solar irradiation dependence JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL
RESEARCH-SPACE PHYSICS
Volume: 117 Article Number: A01216 DOI: 10.1029/2011JA017250 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G,
Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig
W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Oye OK, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Search
for New Phenomena in t(t)overbar
Events with Large Missing Transverse Momentum in Proton-Proton Collisions at
root s=7 TeV with the ATLAS Detector PHYSICAL
REVIEW LETTERS Volume: 108 Issue: 4 Article Number: 041805 DOI:
10.1103/ PhysRevLett.108.041805 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G,
Johansen LG, Kastanas A, Leibig
W, Lipniacka A, Mohn B, Oye OK, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Search
for a heavy Standard Model Higgs boson in the channel H -> ZZ -> l(+)l(-) q(q)over-bar using the ATLAS detector PHYSICS
LETTERS B Volume: 707 Issue: 1 Pages:
27-45 DOI: 10.1016/ j.physletb.2011.11.056 |
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