SoPS-Comm Meeting 4 - June28, 2006

Attendees: Sehat Nauli (SN), KP and AG.

This was a short meeting which primarily discussed the details and possibilities of joint events between the career (and other) committee(s) and communications. The aim was to identify facets of other committee events that dealt with periodic information delivery to postdoc community.

SN suggested a workshop that presents statistics about job availability in contrast to the number of postdocs to reveal the reality of the supply&demand equation. A possible format is to have a speaker present statistics followed by a discussion panel that would evaluate strategies for personal decision making from multiple perspectives.

SN would try to set up sample polls to gather information from postdoc community about the direction to tailor future events.

KP and AG discussed releasing another newsletter in july if not superceeded by the townhall meeting.