NExT Meeting at Royal Holloway

Wednesday 15 October 2008

For directions and buildings on campus see here

If you are coming by car you must register by Friday 10 October with Denise.Denman@rhul.ac.uk giving your name and car registration number. A place will be reserved for you close to the i symbol on the north-east side of the Founder's Building (square figure of eight on the campus plan). If you cannot find your space ask at the information point (Reception).

10:30 Steering Committee for committee members only

Agenda

1. Election of chair and deputy chair
2. Consideration of the draft constitution
3. Applications and appointment process for the fellowships/lectureships
4. PDRA Funding
5. Bids for Trash.PhD places
6. Bids for EuroMasters places
7. Setting up of a Visitor Programme
8. Redesign and maintenance of the NExT webpages
9. Placements within industry

12:30 Lunch for all

13:30 Full NExT meeting

• 13:30 Oral report from the Steering Committee
• 13:45 Each group will make one or two presentations for a maximum of 30 minutes total outlining their current programme of research

  RAL

  Claire Shepherd-Thermistocleous and Costas Andreopoulos

  RHUL

  Pedro Teixeira-Dias and Stewart Boogert

  Southampton

  Sasha Belyaev

  Sussex

  Simon Peters and Stefan Huber

• 15:45 Tea
• 16:00 Discussion
• 17:00 End of meeting