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

2. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
Evaluation of Thematic Projects [EA]
Launch of Seed Projects [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. 3. Minutes from previous meeting
ACTION ITEMS:
Map existing personal contacts between ACCESS-Ericsson
Send invitation to Internal Seminar Series to Ericsson researchers

4. 4. Evaluation of Thematic Projects 2007-2009 [EA]
ACCESS 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?

5. 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

6. 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 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
Evaluation of Thematic Projects [EA]
Launch of Seed Projects [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

10. 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
Nästa fas: ACCESS-Ericsson möten

11. 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.

12. 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

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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. Video at ACCESS
400 unique downloads
100 watch live every time

20. 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

21. Website up to date
News, calendar events posted regularly

22. Research in brief
ACCESS the future

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

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

25. 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 Very much appreciated by ACCESS students and creates more understanding

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

30. 7. Any Other Business

31. 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