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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 New University building (in Dutch: "Nieuwe Universiteitsgebouw"). Construction of this new building on the VU campus started in the fall of 2014.
Information :
- 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
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.
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.
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
Newcomers
- Newcomers Welcome document [[1]]
- Need to know more about the benefits (how to apply for a benefit, citizen service number) etc. - visit the website of the Tax Office [[2]]
Evaluation procedures
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
- [Jaargesprek] For English click here [[3]].
- [Nieuw in dienst]
- [Gastvrijheid] For English click here [[4]].
- [Hooglerarenbeleid] For English click here [[5]].
For public holidays in 2021.2022 and 2023 click here[[6]].
PhD Training
Contact person [mailto: j.urbani@vu.nl, Graduate school director: Dr. Jacopo Urbani]
- PhD information sources
- Click here [7]]for Doctorate regulations
- Hora Finita PhD registration form needs to be filled in no later than 3 months after starting date. Contact one of the key users (i.e. one of the respective secretaries) to initiate the registration process.
- IMPORTANT: Make sure you attach certificate/proof of attendance of each attended course when registering EC's in Hora Finita!
- Scientific Integrity Course (October 2020). This is a mandatory course for PhD students, which means that if you don't pass it then the process cannot continue. Please be aware that the course is composed of two parts. You must upload a proof that shows that you completed both of them.
- For HORA FINITA QUICK REFERENCE CARD click here [8]]
- Checklist:
You must provide a 30 EC training program by filling in a copy of the “Template training program”; do not submit the form for approval until you have uploaded the training program.
- Note that you can obtain at most 3 EC in total for being Teaching Assistant for courses and at most 3 EC in total for supervising bachelor/master projects. The new (pilot phase) course “training for education” can also give 3 EC.
Make sure the promotor(s) and copromotor(s) are filled in 100% correctly and ask your intended (co)promotors to double-check it before you submit the form.
Make sure you have uploaded an authenticated degree certificate.
Finally, be aware that from July 2021 all PhD theses will be scanned against plagiarism by the department (not your supervisor).
Organisation
Management
- Management team
- Jaap Heringa (head of department)
- Herbert Bos (education)
- Patricia Lago (research)
- Dick Bulterman (guest)
- Peter Boven (department manager)
- Office managers
- Caroline Waij
- Mojca Lovrencak
- Hellen Drooger
- Coordination new building
- Dick Bulterman
- Marco Otte
- Kees Verstoep
Education
- Education coordinators
- BSc + MSc CS, MCSec, B+M IS : Sara Lusini
- BSc + MSc AI: Selma Zaghow
- MSc BISB: Marlies van Daalen
- Curriculum directors ("Opleidingsdirecteuren")
- Bachelor programs IS: Stefan Schlobach
- Bachelor programs AI: Michel Klein
- Bachelor Program CS: Thilo Kielmann
- Minor Deep Programming (coordinator): Atze van der Ploeg
- Master Computer Science: Thilo Kielmann
- Master PDCS: Cristiano Giuffrida
- Master Artificial Intelligence: Annette ten Teije
- Master Information Sciences: Patricia Lago
- Master Bioinformatics & System Biology: Sanne Abeln
- Programme Committee (Opleidingscommissie) BSc Computer Science
- Atze van der Ploeg(chair)
- Fabio Massacci (member)
- Lin Wang (member)
- Studentmembers: S.V. ter Wee, E. Kalkan, P.J. Ellsiepen
- Progr. Coord Int Double degree MSc in SE: Ivano Malavolta
- OLC MSc Computer Science + Master CSec
- Joerg Endrullis (chair)
- (member)
- Ivano Malavolta (member)
- Erik van der Kouwe (member)
- Alban Ponse (Uva)
- student members: Emil Dudev, Menno Vermeulen, Casper van Eck
- OLC BSc and MSc Information Sciences
- Victor de Boer (chair)
- Ilias Gerostathopoulos (member)
- Daan Raven (studentmember)
- Daan de Ruijter (studentmember)
- Sumeyye Aydin (studentmember)
- OLC B.Sc. and M.Sc. Artificial Intelligence
- Charlotte Gerritsen (chair)
- Wan Fokkink
- Michel Klein
- Eliseo Ferrante
- Studentmembers: Bente van Noppen, Kim Boersma, Annelore Pieters, Isabella Hoppe, Sodia Fraile and Selma Muhammad
- OLC Business Analytics
- Guszti Eiben (member)
- OLC Bioinformatics & System Biology
- Johan Westerhuis (UvA, chair)
- Filipe Branco dos Santos (UvA)
- J.H. van Heerden (member)
- Juami van Gils (member)
- Mendel Engelaer (member)
- student memebers: Daan Hazelaar, G. Koster and Massimiliano Paesani
- Minor coordinators
- Minor data Science:
- Minor Information Sciences: Emitza Guzman
- Minor Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Laura Hoekstra
- Minor Deep Programming: Atze van der Ploeg
- Master coordinators
- Computer Science – Track CSS: Herbert Bos
- Computer Science – Track FCC: Femke van Raamsdonk
- Computer Science – Track IWT + PCS: Jacopo Urbani
- Computer Science - Track SEG: Ivano Malavolta
- Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems: Alexandru Iosup
- Artificial Intelligence: Mark Hoogendoorn
- Bioinformatics and Systems Biology: Anton Feenstra
- Honours Programme coordinators
- CS: Alexandru Iosup
- AI: Charlotte Gerritsen
- Procedures and admin: Selma Zaghow
- Bachelor Project coordinators
- CS: Aniel Bhulai
- AI: Vera Stebletsova
- IS: Sara Lusini
- Master Project coordinators
- CS: Natalia Silvis
- PDCS: Cristiano Giuffrida
- AI: Mark Hoogendoorn
- IS: Tobias Kuhn
- Study advisor bachelor
- BSc CS, IS and AI (first year): Hiltje Osinga
- AI (second and third year): Vera Stebletsova
- Study advisor master programs
- Natalia Silvis
- Exam committees
- Mark Hoogendoorn(chair exam committee Informatics)
- Tobias Kuhn(secretary exam committee Informatics)
- Alex Iosup (member exam committee Informatics)
- Age Smilde (UvA) (member exam committee Informatics)
- TA contracts
- Selma Zaghow
- "Vakwerkgroep" (outreach to prospective students)
- Michel Klein (chair)
- Sebastian Osterlund
- ntb
- Vertical docteam CS Programs
- Animesh Trivedi (chair)
- Internationalisation committee
- ntb
- Diversity Officer
- Animesh Trivedi (member)
- Beta Faculty
- Henri Bal (member HPC board)
- Jacopo Urbani/ Anton Feenstra (PhD coordinator graduate school CS)
- Guszti Eiben (UTC)
- Patricia Lago (Scientific board member VU ASI)
- Femke van Raamsdonk (member Library committee)
- Herbert Bos (member Ethical committee)
Research
- Network Institute
- Ivano Malavolta (Director)
- AMSEC
- Herbert Bos (Director)
- HI-center
- Frank van Harmelen (Director)
- ARW (Scientific council)
- Henri Bal (chair)
- Annette ten Teije (member)
- Andy Pimentel(UvA) (member)
- Femke van Raamsdonk (member)
- Amsterdam Data Science centre
- Jaap Heringa (Director)
- ASCI Research School
- Henri Bal (board member)
- IPA Research School
- Wan Fokkink (chair)
- SIKS Research School
- Koen Hindriks (chair)
- IPN
- Patricia Lago (board member)
- Herbert Bos (chair SIG Security)
- Other
- Dick Bulterman (board member Informatics Europe)
- Ivano Malavolta (board member VERSEN)
- Patricia Lago (board member WIRE (Women Inf Res EU))
- Staff
- Workers council
- Anton Feenstra (medezeggenschap member)
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