Sammanträde med styrelsen Linneaus Center ACCESS Autonomic Complex Communication nEtworks, Signals and Systems Sammanträde med styrelsen Tisdag 10 februari 2009, kl. 09.30 Osquldasväg 10, plan 8

Agenda Agenda Member to check the minutes Minutes from previous meeting Information: New co-director Process for ACCESS faculty and research project renewal VINNOVA pilot project Guest researchers incl Tage Erlander Guest Professorship Post-docs Graduate school Distinguished Lecture Series Workshops Budget 2009 AOB Next meeting

3. Minutes from previous meeting ACTION ITEMS (AI): Prepare for allocation of 1700 MSEK in 2009 budget Review TRA distribution Policy for new faculty members in ACCESS

4a) New Co-Director Prof Erik Aurell, Co-Director from Feb 2009 Executive Committee Xiaoming Hu (Gunnar Karlsson) Mikael Skoglund (Lars Rasmussen) Rolf Stadler (Mads Dam) Håkan Hjalmarsson (Anders Lindquist)

4b) Process for ACCESS faculty and research project renewal Background: Two-year goal-oriented projects end Fall 2009. Several new junior faculty eager to get tighter integrated into ACCESS. Director and Co-Director will together with the Executive Committee develop a process for faculty and project renewal

4c) VINNOVA pilot project Innovationsprogram för svensk grundforskning Finansiering: 670 KSEK 2009-02-12 Rekrytering av nyckelpersoner Forskningsinspirerade visioner om framtida innovationer Möjlighetsprövning och demonstrationer

4d) Guest researchers Prof Kim Beom Jun, Sung Kyun Kwan University Dr. Zhixin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences Some upcoming guest researchers Prof Claire Tomlin, UC Berkeley, Spring Semester 2010 (Tage Erlander Guest Professorship) Prof Shankar Sastry, UC Berkeley, Dean of Eng, Spring Semester 2010 Prof Chris Byrnes, Washington University, 2008-2011 (SSF Mobility Grant)

4e) Postdocs Call for 3 new postdocs (total 5 ACCESS postdocs) Deadline May 2009 ACCESS funding 400 KSEK per year up to two years

4f) Graduate School Spring 2008 Nonlinear Systems: Analysis and control, Preparatory course Xiaoming Hu Physics of distributed information systems, Intensive course/workshop Erik Aurell (coordinator) Stochastic Estimation and Control, intensive course Vikram Krishnamurthy Summer School on Entrepreneurship (with the GST) Fall 2008 The generalized moment problem and rational measures, Intensive course Christopher Byrnes Introduction to model order reduction, specialized course Henrik Sandberg WSN programming, intensive course, cooperation SICS-ACCESS Global navigation satellite systems, specialized course, P. Händel

4f) Graduate School Spring 2009 Bayesian networks Game Theory Complex systems Statistical mechanics of game theory Fall 2010 System identification Wireless sensor networks Spring 2010 Nonlinear Systems: Analysis and Control

4g) Distinguished Lecture Series 2008 May: Ozalp Babaoglu, Univ. Bologna June: Vikram Krishnamurthy, Univ. British Columbia August: Chris Byrnes, Washington Univ. September: Radia Perlman, SUN Microsystems November: Amir Averbuch, Tel Aviv Univ. December: Jerome Sgard, Science-Po Univ., Paris

4g) Distinguished Lecture Series 2009 Jan: Asu Ozdaglar, MIT March: Jörg Liebeherr, University of Toronto, Canada April: Bernardo Huberman, HP Lab, USA May: Roger Brocket, Harvard June: István Kollár, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Eco. Preliminary: Yonina Eldar, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

4h) Workshops 1st Student Workshop, 3 Mar 2009 Statistical Mechanics of Game Theory, 27-30 May, 2009 Proposal to organize 2nd CPSWEEK, 13-16 Apr, 2010 Collection of leading IEEE and ACM conferenses: HSCC, IPSN, RTAS, LCTES Estimated 500 participants At KTH with banquet in City Hall Chaired by ACCESS

Budget 2009 Expenses Income 2007 2008 2009 Previous year 6.250 6.250 (0.855+0.375) 1.230 VR 16.725 11.150 Faculty funding 2.200 2.000 Industry funding 1.500 VINNOVA pilot project 0.670 Total 18.925 21.100 16.550 Expenses TRA (18x560) 10.080 (18x525) 9.450 (18x270) 4.860 Grad school 0.400 0.480 Incl ws and sem 2.005 Post-docs 0.500 (4x0.5) 2.000 (5x0.4) 2.000 Mobility 0.440 0.465 Internal projects 1.200 4.800 3.600 Industry projects 1.125 1.875 Public relations & pilot 1.035 Mgmt , adm, OH 0.495 1.575 0.710 12.675 19.870

Agenda Agenda Member to check the minutes Minutes from previous meeting Information: New co-director Process for ACCESS faculty and research project renewal VINNOVA pilot project Guest researchers incl Tage Erlander Guest Professorship Post-docs Graduate school Distinguished Lecture Series Workshops Budget 2009 AOB Next meeting