As you most likely know, the health authorities have decided on stricter general recommendations until mid-November and possibly longer. One such recommendation is to work from home and in general to keep socialising with people other than family members to a bare minimum. Therefore, the Vice chancellor has decided that everyone should work from home as much as possible in this time. In order to be permitted to work in the office, please note that you you need explicit approval from your nearest boss.
Also, as you know, we have been preparing the schedules for the spring semester. The decision to approve the schedules, some with and some without exemptions, was taken earlier this week.
Another important aspect of the pandemic is that we are obliged to register cases of covid-19 that we know of among staff as well as of students. Please contact your nearest boss if you need to report a case. This will of course be treated confidentially and anonymously to protect the integrity of any individuals.
As mentioned before, do follow the updates on the corona virus staff page. For this, see https://staff.mau.se/first-page/puffs/recommendations-regarding-the-novel-coronavirus-covid-19/.
The vice chancellor has made a new decision with regard to the doctoral defenses for the spring semester. In the near future, we expect a couple of licentiate and doctoral defense seminars that of course will be arranged in a digital format.
On Thursday next week, the TS management will have a dialogue meeting the the university management. This meeting is primarily focused on the plans for next year, such as operational planning, budget and recruitment plans.Then, on Friday, the day after, the TS Faculty board will convene and decide about the budget for the coming year. Also, three suggestions for new education degree programmes will hopefully be approved for submission to the Vice Chancellor.
Today and tomorrow, MTM is hosting the Sonja Kovalevsky-days where high school pupils with a particular interest in mathematics meet for inspirational seminars. For further detail, see https://mau.se/kalender/sonjakovalevsky-dagarna2020/.
Professor Paul Davidsson has received a WASP-HS-grant for research about Artificial Intelligenge, see https://mau.se/nyheter/stora-anslag-till-malmo-universitets-ai-forskning/. Also, Carl Magnus Olsson at DVMT together with Dario Salvi at K3 have been granted funding from the Mats Paulsson Foundation.