News from THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS NO rd October 2013

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1 News from THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS NO rd October 2013 Content: Welcome to our new employees: Transfer of 4 persons from CBU to II Presentations by Jan-Joachim Rückmann 1st and 8th November Join us on the next Informatics hike, Damsgårdsfjellet 5th November Christmas Party Friday 29th November at New application period for the cottages at Ustaoset deadline 1st November Announcement of the faculty s funds and legacies for 2014, deadline 1st December Årets foreleser 2012/13 på MN-fakultetet: Thomas Spengler Seminar about digital exam, 13th and 14th November, register within 28th October Midler til Open Access-publisering Horizons lecture 28th October at HMS/HSE-seminar 13th November at VilVite ************** Welcome to our new employees: Transfer of 4 persons from CBU to II We are pleased to announce that we have 4 new colleagues from CBU. They will continue with their current work, but now as part of Department of Informatics. This change is a consequence of CBU (Computational Biology Unit) being moved from Uni Research to UiB, this unit is now a unit at the department. The 4 employees constitute the service group at CBU,providing bioinformatics services to Norwegian researchers, particularly within the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry, biomedicine, and microbiology. Online services are developed based on the research activity at CBU, and the service group assists in making newly developed tools available online. The 4 persons are: Kjell Petersen, Senior Scientist, leader, from Norway Kanthida Kusonmano, Service Scientist, from Thailand Kidane M. Tekle, Scientific Programmer, from Ethiopia Christian Andreetta, Scientific Programmer, from Italy You are all most welcome!

2 Presentations by Jan-Joachim Rückmann 1 st and 8 th November Our new professor will give a set of presentations this autumn. These presentations will be on Fridays at 10:15am in Room 3137 at the Department of Informatics. They will take around minutes with subsequent open discussion. All colleagues are welcome to the presentations. The remaining dates are 01/11/13 and 08/11/13 with the following (tentative) titles: 1 November 2013: On Saddle Points in Nonconvex Semi-Infinite Programming 8 November 2013: Max-Type Objective Functions: A Smoothing Procedure and Strongly Stable Stationary Points Join us on the next Informatics hike, Damsgårdsfjellet 5 th November We have had 8 great hikes so far this year, to Fløien, Rundemanen, Ulriken, Lyderhorn, Gravdalsfjellet, Gulfjellet, Blåmanen and Løvstakken. There is definitely room for more participants in the group, and the current members would like to invite you all to join the next hikes. We walk at a reasonable pace, talk about job matters or any other items, and enjoy the nature, the view and the company of our colleagues. The next hike will be to Mount Damsgårdsfjellet at Tuesday 5 th November. Please register by sending an to anne.lien@ii.uib.no within Friday 1 st November. Christmas Party Friday 29 th November at Christmas time will soon be coming up, and an invitation to the Department of Informatics Christmas Party will be distributed by shortly. The party will be arranged Friday 29 th November at 19.00, at the Kalfaret Brygghus, This is the former production site of Hansa Brewery, and contains today a microbrewery, a brewery museum, and a very nice restaurant. This will be an excellent occation to gather with your colleagues and the students, and you are most welcome to join! New application period for the cottages at Ustaoset deadline 1 st November It is now opened to apply for U-heimen, Ottesheimen and Butten at Ustaoset for the winter period 5 January until 30 March The school winter holiday is included in this period. Please use the UiB electronic cabin system by logging in with your registered username and password. Upon initial application you must enter some information for example invoice address. All applications must be registered in the electronic cabin system to be included in the draw.

3 Application forms and information can be found on the Ansattsidene (Employee Pages) under «Mitt ansattforhold» - «Velferd» - «Velferdshytter til utleie».use your UiB username and password to login. The application deadline is 1 st November, drawing will be done 4 th November. Announcement of the faculty s funds and legacies for 2014, deadline 1 st December The deadline for applications for funds from the faculty s funds and legacies for 2014, is 1 December The amount available for allocations will be decided by the Fund and Legacy board at the University of Bergen in February No grants were given in 2013, but in previous years a total of NOK 400, ,000 has been made available for allocations. For applications, please see The applications will be assessed by a committee appointed by The Faculty board. The successful applicant should submit a precise project description where the purpose of the application, which fund or legacy you are primarily applying to, and the period for which you are applying, should be made clear. The project must be in accordance with the purpose of the fund/legacy. Students at the University of Bergen are encouraged to apply for student-legacies: The application is to be submitted electronically before 1 December 2013 to: okonomi@mnfa.uib.no. Applications sent elsewhere might not be considered. The granting of funds will take place mid-april Link to other funds and legacies at the University of Bergen. Årets foreleser 2012/13 på MN-fakultetet: Thomas Spengler Førsteamanuensis Thomas Spengler, på Geofysisk institutt, er kåret til årets foreleser for undervisningsåret 2012/2013 på MN-fakultetet. Vi gratulerer! Seminar about digital exam, 13th and 14th November, register within 28 th October Norgesuniversitetet og UHR sin ekspertgruppe for digital vurdering og eksamen inviterer til seminar i Bergen i samarbeid med Universitetet i Bergen (UiB) 13. og 14. november Seminaret vil ha en

4 praktisk tilnærming til temaet med fokus på gode eksempler, nye muligheter, erfaringsdeling og klargjøring av felles utfordringer. Målgruppe for seminaret er faglige, tekniske og administrativt ansatte, ledere og andre som er opptatt av seminarets tema. Seminaret vil bli avviklet på Jusbygget, Dragefjellet, Magnus Lagabøtes plass 1. For informasjon om program, påmelding og praktiske opplysninger, se Midler til Open Access-publisering På UiBs styremøte den ble det vedtatt å etablere en budsjettpost for dekning av kostnader ved Open Access-publisering. Budsjettposten er en forsøksordning i 3 år. Det er satt av til sammen 1, 5 millioner kroner til dette formålet i Midlene er fordelt til fakultetene og Universitetsmuseet etter førsteamanuensis og professorstillinger, samt dekaner og instituttledere. En eventuell utvidelse av ordningen skal vurderes ved budsjettbehandlingen for Det ble etter tilbakemelding fra fakultetene og museet avgjort at Universitetsbiblioteket administrerer budsjettposten etter gitte retningslinjer. Hovedpunktene er: Kun korresponderende forfattere som er tilknyttet UiB som ansatt, ph.d.-kandidat eller masterstudent kan søke om støtte. Publikasjonen må være tilgjengelig Open Access umiddelbart etter publisering. Ordningen inkluderer både publisering i Open Access-tidsskrift (gold) og frikjøp av enkeltartikler i tradisjonelle tidsskrift (hybrid). Publikasjonen må være registret på nivå 1 eller 2 i Database for statistikk om høgre utdanning (DBH), eller dokumentert innmeldt. Publikasjonen må være fagfellevurdert. Ordningen er i utgangspunktet ment til vitenskapelige artikler, men andre typer publikasjoner, for eksempel bøker, kan inkluderes der det finnes gode, kvalitetssikrede løsninger. Ordningen skal evalueres underveis. Ansatte, ph.d.-kandidater og masterstudenter kan søke om midler her: UB deltar gjerne på avdelingsmøter eller lignende for å informere om ordningen. Kontakt bora@uib.no for mer informasjon. Horizons lecture 28 th October at Particles and the Nature of All Things - Horizons lecture by David Kaplan on Monday 28th October, Egget, Studentsenteret. The event starts with a snack and refreshments (from 15.45) in advance of the lecture that begins at 16.15

5 The Horizons lectures series by The faculty of mathematics and natural sciences aims at reaching staff, students and other interested parties, with a focus on major scientific questions and challenges. HMS/HSE-seminar 13th November at VilVite Dere inviteres herved til et felles HMS-seminar for MN-fakultet onsdag 13. november på VilVite. Målgruppen er ledere, verneombud, HMS-koordinatorer, fakultetsstyret, medlemmer av Informasjons- og drøftingsutvalget, HMS-utvalgsmedlemmer ved instituttene og alle andre interesserte. Vi ber dere spre denne informasjonen til andre personer dere mener kan være aktuelle for dette seminaret. For nærmere informasjon og påmelding, se følgende lenke: