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href="http://www.informatics-europe.org/ecss/ecss-2013.html">ECSS
2013 - 9th European Computer Science Summit</a><br>
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Workshop for Deans, Department Chairs and Research Directors</a></font><br>
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<font face="Calibri">October 7, 2013 - Amsterdam, The Netherlands</font><br>
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<b><font face="Calibri">Positioning of computer science within the
university: hardcore or interdisciplinary: how to reach out?</font></b><br>
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<font face="Calibri">Workshop chair: Prof. Mehdi Jazayeri, Faculty
of Informatics, University of Lugano</font><br>
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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?<br>
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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:<br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"> Learning best practices from heads of
European Informatics departments and research labs</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"> Offering a networking platform for
heads of European Informatics departments and research labs</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"> Inspiration for improving department
processes</font></li>
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<font face="Calibri"><b>Speakers:</b><br>
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<li><font face="Calibri"> <a
href="http://www0.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/a.finkelstein/">Anthony
Finkelstein</a>, University College London, UK</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"> <a
href="http://www.inf.usi.ch/faculty/jazayeri/">Mehdi
Jazayeri</a>, University of Lugano, Switzerland</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"> <a
href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/%7Etjm/index-international.html">Tommi
Mikkonen</a>, Tampere University of Technology</font></li>
<li><font face="Calibri"> Wilhelm Schäfer, Paderborn University
(<i>TBC</i>)</font></li>
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