ACCESS Linnaeus Centre Styrelsesammanträde Onsdag 11 nov 2009, kl. 13.00 Osquldasväg 10, plan 8

Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes Minutes from previous meeting Evaluation of Thematic Projects 2007-2009 [EA] Launch of Seed Projects 2010-2011 [KHJ] Information Status report of Ericsson-ACCESS collaborations [KHJ] Presentation of VINNOVA pilot project [GK,MA] Presentation of ACCESS-TKK collaboration [EA] VR grants awarded to ACCESS researchers [KHJ] New ACCESS Faculty members [KHJ] New Executive Committee members [KHJ] AOB Next meetings

3. Minutes from previous meeting ACTION ITEMS: Map existing personal contacts between ACCESS-Ericsson Send invitation to Internal Seminar Series to Ericsson researchers

4. Evaluation of Thematic Projects 2007-2009 [EA] ACCESS 2007-2009 Internal projects: Traffic Control (Academic Coordinator Ulf Jönsson) Wireless Sensing and Actuation (Academic Coordinator: Karl H. Johansson) Active Estimation (Academic Coordinator: Håkan Hjalmarsson) Radio Resource Management (Academic Coordinator: Mats Bengtsson) MOBBESKAJP (Academic Coordinator: Viktoria Fodor) MONITOR (Academic Coordinator: Mads Dam) Were asked to submit self-evaluation essays listing deliverables (joint publications from at least two research groups) and to answer three review questions: Which was the single most important contribution from the project? Which is the single most exciting idea the group would like to pursue together in the future? Which is the single most important thing learned from the project that ACCESS should not try to pursue in the future?

Projects scorecard Project # Deliver. = joint papers # Deliver. / # Promised # Other papers Traffic Control 1 0.25 5 MONITOR 0.83 8 Radio Res Mngmt 0.2 >1 Wireless Sensing 6 2.0 7 Active Estimation 3 0.33 30 MOBBESK. 2 0.67 13

Executive Committee Feedback ACCESS Executive Committee met on Oct 5 and reviewed the internal projects, with a focus on what has been good/bad about them, and how we should use “projects” in the future to improve ACCESS…. .....clearly, starting new quality collaborations is hard. Most of the projects missed their promised Deliverables. But promoting such collaboration is one main point of ACCESS. We should therefore not give up the requirement that projects promise joint publications from different labs as Deliverables... .....but the number of Deliverables can be scaled back. In the new round it will be # (founding faculty in a project) + 1 (about half of the 2007-2009 projects). .....stating the single most important result of a project is hard. No project answered that question (MONITOR gave 3 results, the other projects none). .....stating the single most important idea that came out of a project is easier. Most projects presented clearly formulated ideas, which indeed also read exciting, both on substance, and in the tone in which they are presented. Executive Committee recommends full funding of all six thematic projects

5. Launch of Seed Projects 2010-2011 [KHJ] Networked Services Distributed Cameras: Project Leader Flierl, 2 Founding Faculty + 3 Other ACCESS Faculty In Network Optimization: Fischione, 5 FF + 3 F Secure Networked Estimation and Control: Dan + Sandberg, 3 FF Communications Infrastructure Cooperative Communication in Multihop Wireless Networks: Fodor + Thobaben, 3 FF Interference Management for Future Wireless Networks: Xiao + Jalden, 5 FF Distributed Management Stochastic Modeling of Networked Systems: Dan + Krishnamurthy, 1 FF Signals and Systems Impairments in Radio Frequency Transceivers and Pilot Design for correlated MIMO channels: Zetterberg, 4 FF Robust Spectral Estimation: Enqvist, 3 FF

5. Launch of Seed Projects 2010-2011 Executive Committee recommends that these eight seed projects are launched Annual budget 200 KSEK per project directed to the project leader(s) Remark In addition, there will be Collaborative Projects, which are other projects within ACCESS that are not supported as Seed Projects and can be led by any ACCESS Faculty ACCESS Faculty needs to participate in one or more Seed Projects or Collaborative Projects

Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes Minutes from previous meeting Evaluation of Thematic Projects 2007-2009 [EA] Launch of Seed Projects 2010-2011 [KHJ] Information Status report of Ericsson-ACCESS collaborations [KHJ] Presentation of VINNOVA pilot project [GK,MA] Presentation of ACCESS-TKK collaboration [EA] VR grants awarded to ACCESS researchers [KHJ] New ACCESS Faculty members [KHJ] New Executive Committee members [KHJ] AOB Next meetings

6 a) Status report of Ericsson-ACCESS collaborations [KHJ] Kartläggning av samarbeten sammanfattad i rapport sammanställd av Mikael Johasson ”Ericsson-ACCESS cooperation: People, projects & possibilities” Innehåll: ERA-relevanta kompetensområden i ACCESS inkl. personer Nuvarande projekt: fokus och kontaktpersoner Kontaktinformation för associerade ACCESS-forskare Preliminär version av rapporten sänd till Mikael Höök 09-10-06 Nästa fas: ACCESS-Ericsson möten

Ericsson-ACCESS samarbete Många kontaktytor, många möjligheter: Forskning: nya projekt (ACCESS, TNG, EIT; externt) Utbildning: bättre samarbete på doktorandnivå. Förslag: ”ACCESS-Ericsson industrial PhD school” Många Ericsson-forskare utbildade inom ACCESS Kan vi hitta ett format för att garantera kontinuitet? Förslag baserat på framgångsrikt samarbete med Scania: fortbildning för ERA ingenjörer med forskarpotential (ta steget utvecklingforskning) industridoktorander kvar i sina tjänster, viss tid på KTH. kurser och handledning från KTH, forskningsproblem formulerade från Ericsson-behov.

Student- och doktorandrekrytering Civilingenjörerna har drastiskt minskat i andel bland våra forskarstuderande Vi har kompenserat detta genom att rekrytera från våra internationella masterprogram Wireless Systems – mest populära programmet alla kategorier på KTH 70% av studerande på avancerad nivå kommer från utlandet 2011 – införande av terminsavgifter förväntas minska antalet sökande utanför Europa med 80%. Vi behöver hitta nya vägar att rekrytera forskarstuderande! Direktrekrytera på en internationell marknad, t ex annonsera ACCESS Grad School, Marie Curie (EURO-Signal), ”praktikplatser”, industridoktorander

Ericsson industrial PhD-students affiliated to ACCESS labs Ignacio Más Ivars 2008 (LCN) David Wisell 2007 (Signal Processing) Göran Klang 2003 (Signal Processing) Mikael Prytz 2002 (Opt&Sys) Jonas Karlsson Lic 1998 (Signal Processing)

PhD graduated from ACCESS and now at Ericsson Bergman, Svante Ph.D. 2009 Mowlér, Marc Ph.D. 2009 Jing Fu PhD 2008 Hammarwall, David Ph.D. 2007 Werner, Karl Ph.D. 2007 Volodya Grancharov Ph.D. 2006 Andersson, Tomas Ph.D. 2005 Kai, Yu Ph.D. 2005 Harald Pobloth , Ph.D. 2004 Jöngren, George Ph.D. 2003 Astély, David Ph.D. 1999 Göransson, Bo Ph.D. 1997 Parkvall, Stefan Ph.D. 1996

6 b) VINNOVA pilot project [GK,MA] The pilot project consists of three tasks: Hiring of key person to run the activities Distribution of the high level visions that motivates the ACCESS research Demonstrator to enhance communication with society Funding: 670 KSEK

ACCESS Communication plan Aims at making ACCESS research activities more visible to sponsors and the public. Developed by the ACCESS Faculty together with consultants from Nordisk Kommunkation during Spring 2009

Activities …priorities we narrowed down together Map target groups Website up to date Coherent description of ACCESS Promote ACCESS research and results Show researchers within ACCESS List ACCESS in research papers

What we have done so far Video at ACCCES Internal seminar series Newsletter Research in brief FAQ Collaboration partners CPS Week 2010 Student workshop List with all target groups Website up to date In the following I’m just gonna mention a few of them… Internal target groups ACCESS External target groups Peer groups KTH Potential PhD student and undergrad. students Funding organizations Industy Society

Video at ACCESS 400 unique downloads 100 watch live every time

ISS: Internal Seminar Series Presentations every month during 2009 Xiaoming Hu Erik Aurell Henrik Sandberg Håkan Hjalmarsson Karl Henrik Johansson Bo Wahlberg Rolf Stadler Mads Dam Bastiaan Kleijn Mikael Skoglund Peter Händel Mats Bengtsson Ulf Jönsson Magnus Jansson Lars Kildehöj Rasmussen Very much appreciated by ACCESS students and creates more understanding

Website up to date News, calendar events posted regularly

Research in brief ACCESS the future

Newsletter News, what’s up and changes External and internal target group Every second month, except over summer Subscribe to RSS feed

Industrial collaboration on website The icons are clickable and lead to company homepage

Upcoming activities A boiler plate (common description). Logo. Seminar for journalists. How our research benefit society - Popular versions. What we do illustrated in images. Industrial workshop. Emphasize industrial collaboration projects. Common recruitment poster. ACCESS on Facebook. Tailored messages to target groups. It’s time to sign up for 2010. Very much appreciated by ACCESS students and creates more understanding

6 c) ACCESS-TKK collaboration [EA] Workshop, October 1-2, 2009 About 30 participants (KTH and TKK), information available on ACCESS web Return meeting in Helsinki fall of 2010 is planned Interesting opportunities for future collaborations in EIT and with the new Aalto University in Helsinki Double diploma MSc in progress between Wireless Systems at KTH and Comm Engineering & Radio Communications at TKK (Mats Bengtsson, KTH) Alava/Aurell/Orponen

6 d) VR grants awarded to ACCESS researchers About one third of the framework grants for strategic research in ICT was awarded to ACCESS researchers (4 out of 12 grants) Former ACCESS postdoc got VR foass position Several VR research projects

6 e) New ACCESS Faculty members ACCESS Faculty includes the Founding Faculty and György Dán, Per Enqvist, Carlo Fischione, Markus Flierl, Victoria Fodor, Ather Gattami, Joakim Jaldén, Supriya Krishnamurthy, Henrik Sandberg, Ragnar Thobaben, Ming Xiao and Per Zetterberg

6 f) New Executive Committee members Karl Henrik Johansson, Director Erik Aurell, Co-Director Mikael Skoglund (Ulf Jönsson), Director ACCESS Graduate School Xiaoming Hu (Gunnar Karlsson), Networked Services Mikael Johansson (Lars Rasmussen), Communication Infrastructure Rolf Stadler (Mads Dam), Networked Services Peter Händel (Anders Lindquist), Signals and Systems Marie Androv, Publication Relations Officer

7. Any Other Business

8. Next Meetings Proposals 14:00-15:30 Mon 1 Feb 2010 13:00-14:30 Tue 27 Apr 2010 14:00-15:30 Tue 9 Nov 2010