Updates from the D-PHYS Department Management 2021/1
Updates from the Department Management and the Departmental Conference (DK) from 5 March 2021.
Composition of the Department Management, Executive Board, and ETH Board
The D-PHYS Department Management Board will remain in its current form until the end of July 2021. However, Niklas Beisert will assume the role of Deputy Director of Studies with immediate effect until the end of July 2021 as his predecessor Manfred Sigrist has been elected Vice Rector for Doctoral Studies. The final composition of the Department Managememt Board will be confirmed at the Departemental Conference at the end of May 2021.
D-PHYS Associate Membership
David Norris is joining D-PHYS as a new associated member.
BSc programme reform and VSETH Survey
The programme reform for the bachelor's degree in mathematics was unanimously approved by the D-PHYS and D-MATH joint instructional committee (GemUK).
The Department of Physics currently offers a Peer Mentoring Programme for first-year students. The pilot project is available initially to first-year female Physics students, but will be made available to all students in all years in the future.
VSETH has asked its members in the survey wiegETHs about their general state of health, mental wellbeing, and their experiences with discrimination and misconduct. This has resulted in five action papers to date. In D-MATH, there is a task force of professors who are raising awareness of these issues among students. There is interest in the Department of Physics to participate in this. The VMP has formed a working group to develop the rules.
Gender Strategy, Diversity and Code of Conduct
- ETH Board adopts the new external page Gender Strategy at the beginning of March 2021.
- AVETH Diversity team. March 2021: Online events on diversity at equal!
- On September 1, 2020, the Regulations on how to proceed in case of inappropriate behaviour came into force. The regulations were established under the leadership of the University Assembly (HV) through several workshops, with the close involvement of all university groups (Conference of Faculty KdL, Mittelbauvereinigung AVETH, Student Association VSETH and Personnel Commission PeKo) and the ombudspersons, and formulated by Legal Services.
ETH Corona-Masterplan as of 1 March 2021
The current ETH-Masterplan applies as of 1 March 2021 and also pertains to members of D-PHYS. Working from home remains mandatory, although exceptions apply to experimental research and teaching, service workshops, and other areas that require a presence on campus.
