[ie-announce] ECSS 2013 - Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors

[Cristina Pereira]

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ECSS 2013 -  9th European Computer Science Summit 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013.html>

Pre-Summit Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors 
<http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013/workshop-for-deans,-department-chairs-and-research-directors.html>

October 7, 2013 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands

*Positioning of computer science within the university: hardcore or 
interdisciplinary: how to reach out?*

Workshop chair: Prof. Mehdi Jazayeri, Faculty of Informatics, University 
of Lugano
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With the expansion of informatics and its ever-growing pervasiveness in 
other disciplines and society in general, department chairs at 
informatics groups face ever-increasing challenges. The goal of the 
workshop is to provide a networking opportunity for department chairs, 
old and new, to share experiences, common challenges, and best 
practices. It provides a forum for strengthening your leadership and 
management competencies by exchanging best practices and by building 
relationships among department heads at European Informatics research 
institutions. This year's meeting focuses on an issue that is raised due 
to the amazing success of computer science: how to position computer 
science within the university, how to collaborate with other 
departments, how to identify interdisciplinary collaborations that 
benefit all parties, how to deal with the explosion of X-informatics and 
computational-X. There are many related issues: should computer science 
offer "service" courses or should we help other departments create their 
own courses? Is doing interdisciplinary research in conflict with doing 
hard-core computer science? Which disciplines are more amenable to 
collaboration with computer science? Should young researchers 
concentrate on computer science or collaboration with other disciplines?

The workshop will be a mixture of discussions/knowledge sharing/exchange 
of practical guidelines in smaller groups. Please bring the issues you 
are facing and approaches you have found to work. Both new and 
experienced department heads are invited for an exchange of best 
practices, new ideas and common challenges. Benefits for participants 
include:

  *      Learning best practices from heads of European Informatics
    departments and research labs
  *      Offering a networking platform for heads of European
    Informatics departments and research labs
  *      Inspiration for improving department processes

*Speakers:*

  * Anthony Finkelstein <http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/>,
    University College London, UK
  * Mehdi Jazayeri <http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/jazayeri/>, University
    of Lugano, Switzerland
  * Tommi Mikkonen
    <http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Etjm/index-international.html>, Tampere
    University of Technology
  *      Wilhelm Schäfer, Paderborn University (/TBC/)


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