Time: 24-25 Jan

Location: Electrum in Kista

Lunch with Academic Advisors (board + executive committee)

13 -13.45 Background and summary of what HMI has accomplished so far. Questions.

The graduate school

How the graduate studies are built up and common experiences in the HMI education.

14.30-16.00 Presentations of project themes

We should select a couple of project themes. Maximum three for each HMI center: Linköping and Stockholm.The two main criteria should be 1. that the themes naturally covers large and interesting subsets of the individual themes for the graduate students and 2. that the themes can facilitate the process to explicate research themes for future centers of excellence. 20-30 minutes presentations for each by the senior researchers on each site.

16.30-20 Poster session

Each HMI graduate student is invited to make a poster, which describes the personal research theme and the progress during the last year.

Dinner

Lectures by the Academic Advisors

Detailed agenda and themes to be decided in discussion with the academic advisors. Some open feedback from the advisors could be included here.

Lunch

13-15 Feedback from and discussion with the advisors based on the impressions from the HMI activities and the monday presentations and posters (board + executive committee).

What can be done to improve quality and efficiency?

Planned continuation of the HMI activities (center of excellence).

Discussion.

How do we achieve a deeper international exchange?