Action Items

-Tom will submit handbook to OGSR
-Tom will contact Darwin, confirm 2nd years don't need NRSA by January 30th
		-Darwin will do an email vote via bio grad committee
-Gert and Terry will work on an IGERT (pre-proposal  due Feb)
-David will work on an NIH (spring deadline)
-Terry will work on funding with CalIT2
-Terry will give qual description  to EJ so that it gets into the handbook
	-Philip will check it over to see if it jives with students
-A travel grant policy should enter the handbook
-EJ will get a official faculty list out  
	-all faculty ever  on the steering committee or currently have a student,  about 24 faculty 
-Steering committee will elect someone to the admissions with Marla
-Students who want to improve the website:  contact  EJ with proposal



Meeting organized by SUBCOMS

1. Student Affairs - EJ + Student reps
		-Website is at the Salk.   Links are in place. 
		-compneuro.salk.edu
		-Concept:  keep it simple,  so we can always update it.   
		-pretty is okay,  but NEVER loose functionality, always  html friendly
		-student website is not the "public face" -- do what we want 
		-student section: have a simple password to access personal info, if database 
		-how often are students elected?  Once a year,  summer, Reps can be re-elected,  ideally staggered so that there is continuity over time.  
		-One "junior" and one "senior" rep
		-Hand book is final on Dec 8th, change comment s should come before then
2. Academic - David,  Massimo
		- Academic planning meeting is soon - if interested contact Leif or Bayle
		-Gert C. is taking over winter quarter  
		-D. Kleinfeld's biophysics  is revamped,   linear systems will be added in
		-Spring: linear algebra and network models,  plasticity and control systems
		-There are no retroactive classes imposed.    (i.e. current second years will not be required to take the newly created "ideal comp sequence")
		-exception to course requirements should be submitted to academic committee, 
		-comp neuro students should attend  research rounds in their 1st and 2nd years,  this is a requirement ,  if you are beyond your second year you do not retroactively have to make up classes if you didn't do them.  
		

3. Funding- Terry, David,  Pam, Gert
		-Gert is starting a new focus IGERT (pre: Feb,  full: Aug)
			-Engineering,  Sensing, VLSI
		-  NIH training grant,  specifically  for computational neuroscience.   
			-David  is point person (RFP coming out this Friday,  pre: spring)
		-Corporate sponsors
			-working with  Development  Office, but they may be "ineffectual"
			-Cal-IT2 may be a good contact,  has better Development Office
		-No one got Microsoft fellowships,  but future applications were encouraged   by Microsoft


3. Budget sub committee
		
		-Previously met to plan how to allocate funds if we renewed IGERT,
		-Goals of funding levels, as seemed the most fair, given the resources
		-The spirit of what we talked about for IGERT funds will be maintained
		- "we want to try to meet commitments that we made,  but we can't promise what we don't have"
		- "but we want to be fair about it when it comes in"  
		- "IGERT level for all students is unachievable"

		-Q: Some 2nd year students got a letter saying that they will have old IGERT money until June.  Is that true?  
		Tom: Yes, that's actually when the $ runs out.  This date is later than previously mentioned because less money was spent than expected .

		-The biology department will find a way to make $500 available for conference travel expenses.  If a student has an outside alternate 			source (NSF = 300/yr) then bio will supplement up to $500.  

		-Coming soon: One less TA required if you get a full tuition stipend


4. Quals:
		-Consistency of expectation for quals.  Terry will adjust the quals description in the student handbook to match what will be true about quals.



5. Bootcomp - <nothing recorded, little mentioned>



6. Admissions   - Marla (neuro rep on bio admission com), Justin  + unknown CN faculty
		-Marla will have a co-reader for new students, this will be a comp person
		-Small number of students should be co-recruited with neuroscience


7. Uberstrategy  -Terry & Henry
		-Neuroscience  (Medschool)  + CompNeuro  (Biology; Arts and Sciences)  
		-Old rivalries and politics lying in the background;
		-More formal reorganization at a higher  level  is more difficult.  It takes time and $.  But it is happening at a 2-10 year scale.

8. Communications - Pam
		-Pam is off the steering committee
		-she may be loosely  associated, but not actively enrolled


9. International Program - Henry

		-Max Plank Institute,  Germany is funding Computational  neuroscience  well,  we have contacts to Friburg,  Gottingen,  Munich,  Potsdam
		-NSF $ available for students ,   Friburg recommended, "organized," 
		-Axel Borst will visit in January , 13th-14th

10. Admissions - Cathy
11. Accounting - Christy
12. Omsbudsman -  Henry