1. ACCESS Linneaus Centre
Styrelsesammanträde
Tisdag 19 maj 2009, kl
Osquldasväg 10, plan 8

2. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
ACCESS faculty and faculty renewal
Evaluation procedure for Thematic Projects
Call for Seed Projects and Collaborative Projects
Information
Postdoc call
Upcoming workshops
Mobility
Distinguished Lecture Series
Internal Seminar Series
Graduate School
Discussion
Opportunities Ericsson-ACCESS collaboration
Opportunities ACCESS KTH-TKK collaboration
AOB
Next meetings

3. 3. Minutes from previous meeting
ACTION ITEM:
Proposal for ACCESS faculty and research project renewal

4. 4. ACCESS faculty and faculty renewal

5. ACCESS Founding Faculty
Definition The founders of ACCESS including those that have replaced founders. Today: Erik Aurell, Mats Bengtsson, Mads Dam, Peter Händel, Håkan Hjalmarsson, Xiaoming Hu, Magnus Jansson, Karl Henrik Johansson, Mikael Johansson, Ulf Jönsson, Gunnar Karlsson, Bastiaan Kleijn, Anders Lindquist, Björn Ottersten, Lars K. Rasmussen, Mikael Skoglund, Rolf Stadler, Bo Wahlberg Decision Made by ACCESS Founding Faculty Preparation of decision Made by Executive Committee

6. ACCESS Faculty
Definition The assistant professors, associate professor and full professors involved in ACCESS activities, including ACCESS founding faculty Today: ACCESS founding faculty, György Dán, Carlo Fischione, Markus Flierl, Victoria Fodor, Ather Gattami, Supriya Krishnamurthy, Henrik Sandberg, Ragnar Thobaben, Ming Xiao Decision Made by Director Preparation of decision Made by Executive Committee

7. 5. Evaluation procedure for Thematic Projects 2007-2009
See document

8. 6. Call for Seed Projects and Collaborative Projects 2010-2011
See document

9. 7a. Postdoc call
1-3 new ACCESS postdoc positions supported with 400 KSEK per year for up to two years
May 31 is deadline for ACCESS Founding Faculty to propose candidate, who should be supported by at least two groups within ACCESS and be affiliated to an ACCESS Thematic Area
ACCESS Executive Committee will propose a ranking of the applicants June 15

10. 7b. Upcoming workshops
1st ACCESS Student Workshop, Hässelby Slott, Mar 3, 2009
Statistical Mechanics of Game Theory, Mariehamn, Åland, May 27-30, 2009
A Celebration of the Field of Systems and Control, KTH, Sep 9-11, 2009
KTH-TKK Workshop, TBD, Oct 1-2, 2009
CPSWEEK, KTH, April 12-16, 2010

11. 7c. Mobility Current incoming Kim Beom Jun, Sung Kyun Kwan University
Zhixin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Future incoming
Claire Tomlin, UC Berkeley, —06
Shankar Sastry, UC Berkeley, —06
Roy Smith, UC Santa Barbara, —07
Chris Byrnes, Washington University, ?
Future outgoing
Bo Wahlberg, Stanford, —

12. 7d. Internal Seminar Series
New bi-weekly internal seminar series to deepen interdisciplinary research collaboration among all ACCESS researchers. Once a year, each faculty member presents their research to PhD students and postdocs.
2009
18 March: Xiaoming Hu, "Active Sensing and Control for Mobile Systems"
1 April: Erik Aurell, "Heuristics for solving constraint satisfaction problems"
15 April: Henrik Sandberg ""Simplification of Dynamical Models"
29 April: Håkan Hjalmarsson, "System Identification of Complex and Structured Systems"
13 May: Karl Henrik Johansson, "Wireless Control"
3 June: Bo Wahlberg, "Performance Analysis of High Volume/Low Latency Marketplace Systems"
17 June: Rolf Stadler, "Decentralizing Management"

13. 7e. Distinguished Lecture Series
: Asu Ozdaglar, MIT
: Jörg Liebeherr, University of Toronto
: Bernardo A. Huberman, HP Labs
: Roger Brockett, Harvard University
: Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University
Lectures are filmed by KTH Learning Lab and posted at the ACCESS homepage from Apr 2009.

14. 7f. Graduate School 1st Student Workshop, Hässelby Slott, 3 Mar 2009
Spring 2009
Complex systems
Statistical mechanics of game theory
Game theory, preparatory course
Bayesian networks, preparatory course
Fall 2009
Principles of Wireless Sensor Networks
System identification
Spring 2010
Nonlinear Systems: Analysis and Control

15. 8. Discussion
Background: ACCESS is involved in the strategic proposal on Mobile Communication & IT and the EIT proposal. Plan for potential implementations.
Opportunities Ericsson-ACCESS collaboration
Opportunities ACCESS KTH-TKK collaboration
[Opportunities SICS-ACCESS collaboration to be discussed at next board meeting]

16. 9. Any Other Business
New ACCESS homepage
ACCESS in KTH’s DN appendix

17. 10. Next meetings A proposal is one more meeting 2009:
13:00-14:30, Tue Nov 10, 2009