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UvA-VU cooperation
Process Documents
General
- February 2017: background information Science in Amsterdam (in Dutch)
- Toelichting op de Amsterdamse bètasamenwerking en het huisvestingsprogramma
- February 2017: housing of Science in Amsterdam
- Amsterdamse beta-samenwerking: ondersteuning met huisvesting en faciliteiten
- January 2017: concerns students (in Dutch)
- Response UvA and VU boards to student concerns
- July- - November 2015: documents about Science in Amsterdam (in Dutch)
- Speelveld en Spelregels
- Onderrwijsvisie
- Afwegingskader Locatie Opleidingen
- Kaders voor Bachelor-programma's
- Medezeggenschap
- Uitgangspunten
- November 2015: cooperation of technology centers UvA & VU science faculties (in Dutch)
- Samenwerking en programma van wensen huisvesting Technologie centra VU-UvA-
Specific for Computer Science
- February 2017: Information Sciences Education in Perspective (in Dutch)
- Brief van UvA Opleidingsdirecteuren over "Informatica Onderwijs in Perspectief"
- December 2016: questions about NU building
- responses to questions about NU building from UvA study association VIA and faculty student council
- November 2016: information NU facilities
- presentation VU campus organisation about facilities in NU building for study associations
- May 2016: report 3rd survey committee on bachelor programs
- Final report (in Dutch)
- March 2016: formal decision by dean to start preparation for joint department
- Decision plus motivation (in Dutch)
- Roadmap (in Dutch)
- November 2015: request for joint department
- Proposed name of the joint department: Amsterdam Department of Informatics (ADI).
- Document (in Dutch): Verzoek instelling ADI
- March 2015: Program of Requirements and Policy Choices
- See separate page: PvE 18 March 2015
- November 2014: Dosier Informatics
- On 11 November the Faculty Board distributed a "Dossier Informatics" (in Dutch) to staff members and students. It contains details of ongoing activities with respect to UvA-VU cooperation in the Informatics domain. Amongst others, it contains the report of the survey committee for the joint Master programs.
- 2011-2012: First survey committee ("Verkennimgscommissie")
- Two documents (in Dutch)
Specific for Physics & Astronomy
- January 2017: documents for decision about housing (in Dutch)
- FTE's en functies
- Biofotonica & Standplaatswijziging Natuurkunde
- February 2016: decision about request DPA
- letter of Dean to councils about decision w.r.t. requests joint institutes (in Dutch)
- November 2015 - May 2015: location curricula Physics & Astronomy
- Compilation of documents (in Dutch)
- November 2015: Letter of Intent DPA
- Letter of intent (in Dutch)
Specific for Earth, Ecology & Environment
- January 2017: information Department of Earth Sciences (AAW)
- fte's, functes (in Dutch)
- October 2016: report potential master tracks
- suggestions for master tracks (in Dutch)
- December 2014: report VC2
- report 2nd survey committee
Specific for SRON
- June 2014: agreement scientific cooperation SRON/UvA/VU
- Kaderovereenkomst wetenschappelijke samenwerking SRON/VU/UvA
New Building
The plan of UvA and VU is to house their department of Informatics in the New University building (in Dutch: "Nieuwe Universiteitsgebouw"). Construction of this new building on the VU campus started in the fall of 2014. The current schedule says that the building will become operational in the second quarter of 2018. .
Information :
- Poster work streams (in Dutch) This poster shows the timing of the different streams of work for the NU building. Note that the first seven floors are meant for general educational, cultural and recreational activities. Floors 8-13 hosts offices. We expect that UvA+VU Informatics will occupy 2-3 of these floors.
- VU page about the new building (text in Dutch, video in English; there is also an English page, but it is poorly translated and lacks the link to the video)
- Video of the architect with an animation of the interior of the building (June 2014; interestingly enough not linked from the VU page above)
Research
Research evaluation
Period 2009-2014 :
Amsterdam Data Science
VU Computer Science and the UvA Institute for Informatics have founded, together with CWI and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences HvA, the Amsterdam Data Science center (ADS). For more information see for example the videos of ADS researchers.
The role of Paul Groth (who joins Elsevier in January 2015) in the ADS management committee will be taken over by Sanne Abeln and Henri Bal.
Research themes
During 2014 the two departments have organised discussion meetings around size research themes, to which all staff members were invited:
- Computer systems
- Socio-Technical systems
- Automated learning systems
- Foundations of informatics
- Intelligent systems
- Computational science
It appears that these research themes overall provide a reasonable to good coverage of ongoing work in the two institutions. These themes might therefore serve as a starting point for internal organization of a joint department.
Focus areas
Together UvA and VU have formulated three focus areas (in Dutch "speerpunten") which characterise the profile the joint research:
- Data & Decisions
- Performance & Security
- Socio-technical systems
The focus areas are externally oriented. They are not meant to replace the research themes above, nor require a unique allocation of researchers to one area.
Research evaluation
In the national research evaluation for the period 2009-2014 the two departments have delivered a self-evaluation report under joint editorship. The report has separate UvA/VU sections on the results of the reporting period and a joint section on the vision for the future.
Guszti Eiben and Annette ten Teije coordinated the VU work on this report; Paola Grosso did the same for the UvA side.
Education
Cooperation with UvA is at the moment mainly in the context of Master programmes. The start of this cooperation actually predates the discussions on UvA-VU cooperation in the Sciences domains. Together, we can offer a strong and attractive collection of Master programs. The complementarity of the UvA and VU Informatics groups is the key rationale.
Currently, the following Master cooperations exist:
- Computer Science (since Sep 2013)
- Master program offered by the VU. UvA staff teaches 30% of the courses.
- Computational Science (since Sep 2013)
- Master Program offered by UvA. VU staff teaches about 30% of the courses
- VU Information Sciences and UvA Information Studies (since Sep 2011)
- These two one-year Masters have a coordinated program with a similar structure. Students follow courses at both universities.
- Artificial Intelligence (expected to start in Sep 2015)
- Master program offered by UvA. This will be a "classical" technical AI program, which builds on the strongly complementary AI expertise in both universities. VU staff will teach about one-thrid of the courses.
- Socially Aware Computing (expected to start in Sep 2016)
- Master program offered by the VU, with substantial participation from UvA staff. This program is intended for students of the VU bachelor Lifestyle Informatics, but also for students from Computer Science and Information Science bachelors.
Background
- Video "Two perspectives on Computer Science" by Maarten van Steen
Personnel
Evaluation procedures
- UD (Assistant Professor) Tenure Track (under construction)
- UHD (Associate Professor) (under construction)
Career information
- Career development guidelines
- Support information for (personal) grants (presentation VU Grant Service desk, 12 March 2015)
Work satisfaction reports
These documents are all in Dutch.
- 2015 Werkbelevingsonderzoek
- Uitkomsten per faculteit/dienst
- Uitkomsten voor afdeling Informatica
eHRM
- Revisie eHRM proces jaargesprekken en aanstellingen (2015)
- Status juni 2015
- Papieren prototypes (juni 2015)
PhD Training
Contact person Annette ten Teije
- PhD Training Form PhD Training Form (to be filled in 3 months after starting date or 1st of April 2016, required for all PhD students who started after April 1st 2015)
- Scientific Integrity Course (mid March 2016). This is a mandatory course for PhD students. Next edition of this course is Nov. 2017.
- PhD information sources
Organisation
Management
- Management team
- Guus Schreiber (head of department)
- Stefan Schlobach (education)
- Guszti Eiben (research)
- Kris de Jong (department manager)
- Office managers
- Caroline Waij
- Mojca Lovrencak
- Coordination new building
- tbd
- Marco Otte
Education
- Educational coordinator
- Otto Schrofer
- Curriculum directors ("Opleidingsdirecteuren")
- Bachelor programs: Stefan Schlobach
- Masters Computer Science & PDCS: Wan Fokkink
- Master Artificial Intelligence: Evert Haasdijk
- Master Information Sciences: Hajo Reijers
- Master Bioinformatics & System Biology: Jaap Heringa
- Portfolio coordinators UvA-VU
- Bachelor programs: Wan Fokkink
- Master programs: Andy Pimentel
- OLC BSc Computer Science
- Femke van Raamsdonk (chair)
- Jacco van Ossenbruggen
- Natalia Silvis-Cividjian (advisor)
- OLC MSc Computer Science + PDCS
- Joerg Endrullis (chair)
- Spyros Voulgaris
- Ivano Malavolta
- Alban Ponse (Uva)
- OLC Information, Multmedia & Management and Master Information Sciences
- Henrik Leopold (chair)
- Victor de Boer (member)
- Patricia Lago (member)
- Matty Huntjes (advisor)
- OLC B.Sc. Lifestyle Informatics
- Michel Klein (vz)
- Annette ten Teije
- Tobias Kuhn
- OLC M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence
- Michel Klein (vz)
- Annette ten Teije
- Tobias Kuhn
- OLC Business Analytics
- Guszti Eiben (member)
- OLC Bioinformatics & System Biology
- Anton Feenstra (chair)
- Jaap Heringa (advisor)
- Master coordinators
- Computer Science – Track CSS: Herbert Bos
- Computer Science – Track FCC: Femke van Raamsdonk
- Computer Science – Track IWT + HPC: Spyros Voulgaris
- Computer Science - Track SEG: Patricia Lago
- Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems: Wan Fokkink
- Information Sciences – Track BIS: Hajo Reigers
- Information Sciences – Track W&M: Victor de Boer
- Artificial Intelligence: Mark Hoogendoorn
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Jaap Heringa
- Study advisors bachelor
- CS and IMM - year 1: Natalia Silvis
- CS and IMM - year 2+3: Matty Huntjes
- Lifestyle Informatics: Vera Stebletsova
- CS - year 1 - international students: Romy Blankendaal
- Exam committees
- Hans Akkermans (chair exam committee Informatics)
- Mark Hoogendoorn (secretary exam committee Informatics)
- Tibor Bosse (member exam committee Informatics)
- "Vakwerkgroep" (outreach to prospective students)
- tba (chair)
- Mark Hoogendoorn
- Jesper Hoeksema
- Internationalisation committee
- Tibor Bosse
Research
- Network Institute
- Ivar Vermeulen (Director)
- ARW (Scientific council)
- Henri Bal (chair)
- Guszti Eiben
- Alfons Hoekstra (UvA)
- Patricia Lago
- Amsterdam Data Science centre
- Henri Bal (management team)
- Sanne Abeln (management team)
- National evaluation 2015
- Annette ten Teije (author VU report)
- Guszti Eiben (author VU report)
- Frank van Harmelen (national coordination)
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