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

2. 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. 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

4. 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)

5. 4b) Process for ACCESS faculty and research project renewal
Background: Two-year goal-oriented projects end Fall 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

6. 4c) VINNOVA pilot project
Innovationsprogram för svensk grundforskning
Finansiering: 670 KSEK
Rekrytering av nyckelpersoner
Forskningsinspirerade visioner om framtida innovationer
Möjlighetsprövning och demonstrationer

7. 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, (SSF Mobility Grant)

8. 4e) Postdocs Call for 3 new postdocs (total 5 ACCESS postdocs)
Deadline May 2009
ACCESS funding 400 KSEK per year up to two years

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

13. 4h) Workshops 1st Student Workshop, 3 Mar 2009
Statistical Mechanics of Game Theory, May, 2009
Proposal to organize 2nd CPSWEEK, 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

14. Budget 2009 Expenses Income 2007 2008 2009 Previous year 6.250
6.250
( ) 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)
(18x525) 9.450
(18x270)
Grad school
0.400
0.480
Incl ws and sem
Post-docs
0.500
(4x0.5)
(5x0.4)
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

15. 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