1. 4 feb 2013, kl. 13.00 Osquldasväg 10, plan 6
Styrelsesammanträde
4 feb 2013, kl
Osquldasväg 10, plan 6

2. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
Budget 2013 [KHJ]
Information
Process for high-risk seed project [KHJ]
Process for industry seed project [KHJ]
Status on Industry Internship Program [BW]
Status on Undergrad Summer Program [KHJ]
Report from ACCESS Industrial Workshop 2013 [KHJ]
Graduate School [MS]
Mobility program incl postdocs [KHJ]
Distinguished Lecture Series [BW]
Meetings 2013
AOB  

3. 3. Minutes from previous meeting

4. 4. Budget 2013 [KHJ]

5. 4. Budget 2013 14.887 15.149 Expenses Budget 13.738 13.015 Income 2010
2011
2012
2013
Previous year
3.081
1.631
1.857
1.149 VR
10.000
10.500
11.000
Faculty funding
1.805
1.652
1.030
1.500
Industry fund
(double 2009)
Total
14.886
14.783
14.887
15.149
Expenses
Budget
Collaborative projects
6.702
7.020
6.350
4.215
Post-docs
1.775
1.900
2.200
2.000
Mobility
0.280
0.150
0.400
Seed projects
0.800
1.600
2.850
2.700
Industry projects
2.500
Industry seed
0.100
Women network
Undergrad Summer Progr
PR, workshops, DLS, ISS
0.592
1.071
1.245
0.900
Mgmt , adm, OH
0.606
1.185
0.943
1.000
13.255
12.925
13.738
13.015

6. Collaborative projects: founding faculty led projects, total funding equals the funds remaining after the costs below have been subtracted. Individual projects supported according to KTH faculty activity level
Grad school: funding for graduate courses (not included on previous slide) MSEK income and expenses.
Post-docs: incoming ACCESS funded postdocs
Mobility: incoming and outgoing faculty
Seed projects: two-year cross-lab projects and high-risk project
Industry projects: Ericsson collaborative projects
Industry seed: small one-year industry collaboration
Women network: support for equality activities
Undergrad Summer Progr: framework for summer studies
PR, workshops, DLS, ISS
Mgmt , adm, OH

7. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
Budget 2013 [KHJ]
Information
Process for high-risk seed project [KHJ]
Process for industry seed project [KHJ]
Status on Industry Internship Program [BW]
Status on Undergrad Summer Program [KHJ]
Report from ACCESS Industrial Workshop 2013 [KHJ]
Graduate School [MS]
Mobility program incl postdocs [KHJ]
Distinguished Lecture Series [BW]
Meetings 2013
AOB  

8. 5a. Process for high-risk seed project [KHJ]
Background: Review 2012 suggested that ACCESS should encourage more high-risk research
Call for ideas: ACCESS Faculty submit project idea, motivate why high risk and high payoff, not more than 500 words
Evaluation: Pre-selection by EC, decision by Board
Time plan:
Submission deadline: Mar 13
Discussion and EC proposal: May 6
Board decision: May 27
Project start: Jul 2013
Funding: 500 KSEK per year and project over two years with half-time evaluation, nominally 1 project supported

9. 5b. Process for industry seed project [KHJ]
Background: Important with more and new interactions with strategic industry
Call for ideas: ACCESS Faculty submit project idea, motivate why new and why important for ACCESS, not more than 500 words
Evaluation: pre-selection by EC, decision by Board
Time plan:
Submission deadline: Aug 31
Discussion and EC proposal: Sep
Board decision: Oct 15
Project start: Jan 1, 2014
Funding: 100 KSEK per year and project over two years with half-time evaluation (nominally 1 project supported)

10. 5c. Status on Industry Internship Program [BW]
ACCESS PhD students have chosen options:
You take a leave from KTH for 2-3 months to work at Ericsson or ABB on a project in the area of ACCESS, but not necessary directly related to your thesis work.
You keep your KTH salary but relocate to Ericsson or ABB for 2-3 months to work on a joint co-sponsored project more directly related to your current research direction.
14 answers: Most of them prefer option 1 and suggest summer time or just after the summer. One already had a discussion with Ericsson about option 2.
Next steps

11. 5d. Undergrad Summer Program [KHJ]
Background: Many of the labs in ACCESS engage talented undergraduate and master students in their research during the summers. This coming summer we plan to organize some joint events for all these students under an ACCESS umbrella.  
Planned events
ACCESS Undergraduate Summer Programme kick-off: June 10th at in lecture room Q2. Introduce ACCESS and lunch is offered to participants.
Joint social activity: Details TBD. The event will be organized around July 1.
Final workshop: August 30th, details TBD. Here the students will present the outcomes of their projects.
ACCESS is responsible for the common costs of these events, but not for student salaries etc.
USP Lead: Henrik Sandberg

12. 5e. Report from ACCESS Industrial Workshop [KHJ]
130 participants, including ABB, Ericsson, Scania, VINNOVA
32 poster presentations
Cost: ca 140 KSEK
Comments
Strong and interesting program
Active discussions during talks and poster session
There could have been more people from outside KTH and main industrial stakeholders. New invitation model?
Innovation Workshop in May 2013 for ACCESS students
SRA ICT TNG workshop Nov 2013 (or later) with substantial ACCESS involvement

13. 5f. Graduate School [MS] Spring 2013 Fall 2012
Advanced performance modeling and analysis, intensive course, M. Telek, TU Budapest
Bayesian networks, preparatory course, T. Koski, KTH
Partially observed Markov decision processes: From filtering to control, intensive course, V. Krishnamurthy, UBC
Fall 2012
Mathematical methods in signals, systems and control, specialized course, C. Rojas, KTH
Research Communication, preparatory course, J. Rose, SU
Probability and random processes for information and systems theory, M. Skoglund, KTH
Mathematical perspectives on spinn glasses, intensive course, A. Barra, U. Rome La Sapienza

14. 5g. Mobility program incl postdocs [KHJ]
Incoming Maria Papadopouli, U Crete, 2011—2013 (part time) John Baras, UMD, (part time) Carolyn Beck, UIUC, Apr-Jul 2013 Geir Dullerud, UIUC, Apr-Jul 2013 Vikram Krishnamurthy, UBC, Apr-Jun 2013 Outgoing György Dán, UIUC Henrik Sandberg, MIT Postdoc Call Deadline Apr 20, 2013

15. 9h. Distinguished Lecture Series [BW]
2013
16 Jan, DLS #66: David Basin, ETH, Monitoring Policy Compliance
 Unconfirmed invitations
Claire Mathieu, Ecole Normale Superieure, expert in streaming algorithms, big data. recently moved from Brown
Marc Mezard, Université de Paris Sud, statistical physics with applications in information theory and computing
Laurent Massoulie, Director of the joint Microsoft-INRIA Research Centre in Paris, communication networks, machine learning
Vincent Poor, Princeton University, games, privacy and distributed inference for the Smart Grid

16. 6. Meetings 2013 ACCESS Board meetings 2013 13:00-14:30 Mon 4 Feb
13:00-14:30 Mon 27 May
13:00-14:30 Mon 14 Oct

17. 7. AOB 

19. OLD PROPOSAL 4. Budget 2013 15.015 14.165 Expenses Exp/Budg Budget
Income
2010
2011
2012
2013
Previous year
3.497
2.075
0.865
-0.485 VR
11.150
11.650
12.150
Faculty funding
1.800
1.600
1.000
Industry fund
1.500
Total
17.947
16.325
15.015
14.165
Expenses
Exp/Budg
Budget
Collaborative projects
8.190
7.020
6.350
4.415
Grad school
1.350
1.300
1.150
Post-docs
1.775
1.900
2.300
2.000
Mobility
0.280
0.203
0.150
0.200
Seed projects
2.050
2.700
Industry projects
Industry seed
0.100
Women network
Undergrad Summer Progr
PR, workshops
0.592
0.935
0.900
Mgmt , adm, OH
0.585
1.002
15.872
15.460
15.500
OLD PROPOSAL