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Friday February 22 2013 |
From the head of department
Following the
informative meeting on construction work in the building two weeks ago, there
have been some questions over the validity of the presented information, regarding
the new number of offices and the need for new working space in the future. Below
follows a more detailed description of the numbers we have estimated, and
which will vary as long as we are in the reconstruction process. We would
have gladly presented finished plans for the entire building, but instead ask
for your understanding since this is a time consuming process and we need to
plan along the way with the actual reconstruction. It is great to hear a
lot of positive feedback from several working groups, as well as to hear
their possible suggestions. Associate professors thus also get the same
possibilities as professors to express their opinions. Have a great weekend, News and
general information
Reconstruction – estimate of
the number of new offices and the need in the future
The
number of new offices at our department is as previously emphasized, is not
just estimated on the basis of sharing the professors’ offices – although
that seems to be the controversial point. In fact, it is a sum of several
measures: At the onset of 2013, we counted 36 scientific employees at our
department – 26 of them had a bigger office space. In addition, we intend to
share 4 larger rooms and some of the lab space in the 2nd and 4th floor will
be turned into office space, as well as planning to construct 10 offices in
the administrative area where there are now only 7 offices. We plan to use
the offices which have no airing possibilities and cannot be used as steady
work places, into storage places and similar. We are moving the equipment,
books and other thing which are possible to move to the storage space in the 1st
floor, in order to increase as much as possible the quality space on the
higher floors within the building which will be the working space. We intend
to keep 15 larger rooms, partly to be used by students, PhD and Postdoc scholars
and partly to be used by various working groups. A greater number of smaller
rooms provides us also with greater flexibility, as
well as a better use of space for all the sporadic users, such as all in II-positions,
several of our emeriti, guests and some PhD-students (e.g. company subsidized
PhDs). We have said that this will in general provide us with approximately 25
new smaller offices. A number of these will have to house two project employees,
since the majority of these share smaller offices. We have otherwise endowed the
room next to the canteen as the meeting room in cases where the bigger
offices are not sufficiently big. The
estimate on the need of space is based on data projection from DBH (Database
for Statistics on Higher Education), cross-checked with our own statistics. The
result also matches the estimates done by the committee which worked on the
strategic plan in spring 2011. A scenario based on the last three years indicates
a net growth in the number of project employees of 12 per year, or for a more
moderate scenario based on the last 9 years, the number would add up to 6 new
employees per year. For the upcoming years, the first scenario is more likely
to occur. Further in the future, the estimated numbers might be somewhere
between the two, but the uncertainty is therefore even higher. For our department, the most important thing
is that this reconstruction will increase our working space in the future. It
may hurt now, but gives possibilities and joy in the future. Discipline evaluation day March
7 – Teaching-free day
Thursday, March 7, we
will have the traditional annual subject evaluation day. The entire day is dedicated to students who willdirect their critical lights at their courses and all
the classes will therefore be cancelled. Open information meeting on the Norwegian Research Council’s strategy
for internationalization
All
interested parties are welcome to attend the seminar
Monday, March
4, from 9:30- 10:15 in Auditorium 3, Realfagsbygget STAff
We have
the pleasure of wishing our new colleague a warm welcome to our department:
PhD
h-bar
On Tuesdays, every even-numbered
week, we organize pub-lectures at H-bar. More info at H-bars facebookside. H-bar is run by the
department’s Fagutvalget, and is primarily aimed at
department’s students – but employees are also welcome! IFT in
the media
Publications registered in ISI Web of Science
o Csernai,
Laszlo P; Yan, Yu-Liang; Cheng, Yun; Zhou, Dai-Mei; et al.: HYDRO-PACIAE, a hydrodynamic and transport
hybrid model for ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions JOURNAL OF
PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume: 40 Issue: 2 Article Number: 025102 DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/40/2/025102 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas
A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn
B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Search
for squarks and gluinos
with the ATLAS detector in final states with jets and missing transverse
momentum using 4:7 fb(-1) of root s=7 TeV proton-proton collision data PHYSICAL REVIEW
D Volume: 87 Issue: 1 Article Number: 012008 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.012008 Published: JAN 22 2013 o ALICE
Collaboration: Altinpinar S, Djuvsland
O, Fehlker D, Haaland O,
Huang M, Kanaki K, Langoy
R, Lien J, Liu L, Loenne PI, Nystrand J, Roed K, Rohrich D, Skjerdal K,
Ullaland K, Øvrebekk G, Wagner B, Yang B et
al.: Pseudorapidity Density of Charged Particles in p plus Pb Collisions at root s(NN)=5.02 TeV
PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Volume:
110 Issue: 3 Article Number: 032301 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.032301 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas
A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn
B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Time-dependent
angular analysis of the decay B-s(0) -> J/psi phi and extraction of Delta
Gamma(s) and the CP-violating weak phase phi(s) by ATLAS JOURNAL OF HIGH
ENERGY PHYSICS Issue: 12 Article Number: 072 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)072 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas
A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn
B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Search
for R-parity-violating supersymmetry in events with
four or more leptons in root s=7 TeV pp collisions
with the ATLAS detector JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS Issue: 12 Article Number: 124 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)124 o ATLAS
Collaboration: Buanes T, Burgess T, Eigen G, Johansen LG, Kastanas
A, Leibig W, Lipniacka A, Mohn
B, Rosendahl PL, Sandaker H, Sjursen TB, Stugu B, Tonyan A, Ugland M et al.: Search
for pair production of massive particles decaying into three quarks with the
ATLAS detector in root s=7 TeV pp collisions at the
LHC JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Issue: 12 Article Number:
086 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP12(2012)086 o Kotopoulis, Spiros; et al.,
Postema, Michiel: High-frequency
transducer for MR-guided FUS BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING-BIOMEDIZINISCHE
TECHNIK Volume: 57 Supplement: 1 DOI: 10.1515/bmt-2012-4135 Published: SEP 2012 |
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