7. Organization and management
Most"committee members" and"Team Organizers" (TOs) have extensive experience in managing research training grants, in particular from the previous TMR networks, younger new TOs are generally backed by former TOs. There is virtually no less experienced entire team, participants at less experienced places are satellites of teams that participated in previous TMR networks.
The coordinator (CO) N.J. Mauser has closely participated in the setup and running of the previous HCM and TMR network and DFG, DAAD grants of his former group in Berlin. He is managing his Austrian START prize (1 Mill Euro) and other projects in Vienna. He organized several summer/winter schools, conferences (e.g. Nonlinear Analysis, 2000 $\to$ at Courant) etc. NJM is the founding director of the"Wolfgang Pauli Institute", an interuniversitary, interdisciplinary infrastructure, especially designed to host most efficiently big research training projects.
The following management structure , as sketched in the additional graphic, takes into account the particularly high training need. The committees are supported by 2 advisory boards, the SAB for scientific (cf C.1 b) and the IAB for industry related training aspects (cf C.12) which are not involved in management tasks.
Coordinator (CO) : N.J. Mauser and Scientist-in-charge (SiC) : B. Perthame
The CO is responsible for all management tasks according to the RTN rules. The SiC, his equal partner, is the main responsible for the scientific orientation and quality of the network.
(CO) Coordinator
(SiC) Scientist-in-Charge
(SAB) members of the Scientific Advisory Board
Steering Committee (SC) (6 (7) members)
The SC is involved in all major decisions in the management of the network. The SC consists of the CO and the SiC, as well as two senior members of the two former TMR networks. For decisions on training matters, the head of the TC is added to the SC, thus forming the 7 member SC+. The SC mainly works by e-mail, phone, meetings as well as by a"common workspace" in the network homepage."Video conferences" will be performed (on an experimental basis). SC members : N. Mauser , B. Perthame , P. Degond , P. Marcati , P. Markowich , A. Tzavaras .
(SC) members of the Steering Committee
Training Committee (TC) (8 members)
The TC assists TOs (="Scientists-in-charge-of-the-work") and CO in all training aspects and helps actively the groups in finding young researchers, e.g. in advertisement of open positions. The TC systematically monitors the Pre/Postdoc hiring and can suggest training budget shifts between groups. Once the TC has voted a proposition, it sends it to the SC, which discusses it together with the head of the TC (=SC+). The SC+ then decides by simple majority vote. (More details on the tasks of the TC and its composition are to be found in section C.9.)
Assembly of Team Organizers (ATO) (15 members)
The TOs are the principal partners of the CO in the organization of the network. The CO stays in permanent contact by e-mail with the TOs who act also on behalf of their satellites. At least once a year the CO summons a personal meeting of the ATO (or replacements of their choice.)
Teams and (TO) Team organizers
In order to disseminate abilities in research project management , additional training months have been allocated to the coordinating team. About 12 months of training will be partly dedicated to enable young scientists to help the CO in the scientific coordination, also for the annual reports, midterm review, etc. Female candidates or candidates from the"less experienced" satellites (Poland, Prague, Israel) will be preferred, appointment upon information of the TC, as usual.
(IAB) members of the Relations with Industry Board
In order to disseminate the results of this network, in addition to the usual publications, books etc, the team F1 (Dauphine) will run a preprint server where all results of the network, in particular the joint publications and lecture notes, are posted for the public. The collected preprints of the two previous TMR networks will also be accessible from this web-page. The coordinating team will create a state-of-the-art webpage for this network, where all activities, including advertisements of open training positions, are published.
(ITE) Information Technology and electronic publishing committee
