Sammanträde med styrelsen Linneaus Center ACCESS Autonomic Complex Communication nEtworks, Signals and Systems Sammanträde med styrelsen Torsdag den 15 maj 2008, kl. 09.30 Osquldasväg 10, plan 8

Sammanträde med styrelsen Dagordning Föredragningslista Utseende av justeringsman Föregående mötesprotokoll, bifogas Information Nya projekt Workshops - ACCESS Industrial Workshop, EU-US workshop DLS Forskarskolan VR utvärdering Scientific advisory board Gästforskare Postdoc tjänster - nuvarande tjänster samt ny utlysning Övrigt Nästa möte

3. Föregående mötesprotokoll ACTION ITEMS (AI): Invite SAB members Ottersten VINNOVA call Ottersten Postdoc policy Ottersten VR evaluation Ottersten Distribute evaluation report to board Ottersten Post agreement on intranet Ottersten

4. Information – New Projects (2008) VINNOVA Banbrytande IKT, 100 MSEK – 2 projects to ACCESS (4 to KTH) reSENSE – 7.5 MSEK, 3 years – M. Johansson together with SICS NECS – 10 MSEK, 3 years – K.H. Johansson, M. Skoglund Branschforskningsprogrammet SERAN – 4.3 MSEK, 3 years – M. Johansson Multi-antenna Transmission and Scheduling in IMT-Advanced – 3 MSEK, 3 years – M. Bengtsson Övrigt WINNER+ CELTIC/Vinnova – 4.2 MSEK, 3 years – B. Ottersten, M. Skoglund DiSC – 1.35 MSEK, 2 years – R. Stadler together with SICS

4. Information – New Projects (2008) EU/FP7 4WARD – 1 MSEK, 2 years – M. Dam SENDORA – 4.3 MSEK, 3 years – M. Skoglund FeedNetBack – 4.5 MSEK, 3 years – K.H. Johansson, M. Skoglund, U. Jönsson WIDE – 3 MSEK, 3 years – M. Johansson VIKING – 3.5 MSEK, 3 years – K.H. Johansson, G. Karlsson Vetenskapsrådet INFLOW – 2 MSEK, 3 years – M. Dam MIMO – 4.5 MSEK, 3 years – B. Ottersten Scalable robust control – 2.25 MSEK, 3 years – U. Jönsson

4. Information - Workshops ACCESS Industrial Workshop 2008 Launch partnership program Exciting program with industrial and academic speakers >150 participants >40 poster presentations Talks available online at www.access.ee.kth.se/AIW08

4. Information - Workshops EU – US workshop 16 June, 2008 Theme: Networked information and control systems Mobility and autonomy in cyber-physical systems Robustness and security of large-scale infrastructures Wireless sensing and control for embedded networks Aim: Gather key researchers - research challenges and emerging industrial trends Jointly organized with CITRIS (UC Berkeley) and EC ICT FP7 Keynote presentations: Ruzina Bajcsy, UC Berkeley Björn Gudmundsson, Ericsson Steven Glaser, UC Berkeley Open problem discussions with short position statements Target about 30 participants More info at www.access.ee.kth.se/EU-US08

4. Information Distinguished Lecture Series March: Richard M. Murray, CalTech, http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/wiki/Main_Page April: Graham C. Goodwin, Univ. of Newcastle, http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/~gcg441/goodwin.html May: Ozalp Babaoglu, Bologna http://www.cs.unibo.it/~babaoglu/  June: Vikram Krishnamurthy, http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~vikramk/  

4. Information – 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

4. Information - VR evaluation Evaluation report – submitted 29 Feb Hearing 15 April Participants: Gudmundson, rector Ottersten, director Johansson, co-director Skoglund, director graduate school Wahlberg, board member Focus on Organization and Leadership

4. Information – Scientific Advisory Board P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois http://black.csl.uiuc.edu/~prkumar/ Martin Vetterli, EPFL http://lcavwww.epfl.ch/~vetterli/ Communications Infrastructure, Signals and Systems Theory Radia Perlman, Sun Fellow and honorary doctor of KTH waiting approval from Sun http://research.sun.com/people/mybio.php?uid=28941 Proposed meeting date in early fall

4. Information – Guest Researcher Longer visits (supported with 40kkr/month) Beom Jun Kim – 12 months, 6 months supported by ACCESS, host computational biology T.V. Sreenivas – 3 months, host SIP Ana Perez – 6 months, host signal processing (decision by EC pending) Shorter visits (supported by giving short courses) Christopher Byrnes – 2 months, host sys. & opt. Vikram Krishnamurthy – 2 months, host control

5. Postdoc Positions 18 April – Call opened 30 May – Application deadline 13 June – Labs forward candidates 17 June – decision by EC Renewal of existing postdocs Decision by EC on 17 June based on CV Publication list including working papers, please indicate research that has been initiated at KTH. Short research statement (1-2 pages) with short description of KTH activities and plans if the position is extended.

Sammanträde med styrelsen Dagordning Föredragningslista Utseende av justeringsman Föregående mötesprotokoll, bifogas Information Nya projekt Workshops - ACCESS Industrial Workshop, EU-US workshop DLS Forskarskolan VR utvärdering Scientific advisory board Gästforskare Postdoc tjänster - nuvarande tjänster samt ny utlysning Övrigt Nästa möte, tisdag 25 november 9.30-11.00