1. 14 okt 2013, kl. 13.00 Osquldasväg 10, plan 6
Styrelsesammanträde
14 okt 2013, kl
Osquldasväg 10, plan 6

2. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
Budget for 2014 [KHJ]
ACCESS funding beyond 2016 [GL]
Information
ACCESS-Ericsson industry projects [KHJ]
Postdoc Call 2013 [KHJ]
Status on Industry Internship Program [BW]
Report from Undergrad Summer Program [KHJ]
Upcoming workshops and events [KHJ]
Mobility program [KHJ]
Distinguished Lecture Series [BW]
Graduate School [MS]
Meetings 2014
AOB  

3. 3. Minutes from previous meeting

4. 4. Budget for 2014 [KHJ]

5. 12.342 11.104 12.689 Expenses Budget 10.915 Income 2011 2012 2013 2014
Previous year
2.086
812
-1.396
0.189 VR
10.000
10.500
11.000
Faculty funding
1.652
1.030
1.500
Total
13.738
12.342
11.104
12.689
Expenses
Budget
Collaborative projects
7.020
6.350
4.215
4.639
Post-docs
1.900
2.200
1.400
2.400
Mobility
0.150
0.400
Seed projects
1.600
2.850
2.500
High risk seed
0.600
Industry seed
0.050
Women network
0.010
0.040
Undergrad Summer Progr
0.060
PR, workshops, DLS, ISS
1.071
1.245
0.900
Mgmt , adm, OH
1.185
0.943
1.000
12.926
10.915

6. High risk seed: two-year high-risk high-payoff projects
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
Post-docs: incoming ACCESS funded postdocs
Mobility: incoming and outgoing faculty
Seed projects: two-year cross-lab projects
High risk seed: two-year high-risk high-payoff 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
Grad school: budget handled separately, not included on previous slide. Funding for graduate courses MSEK income and expenses
Industry projects: budget handled separately. Ericsson collaborative projects decided by industry advisory board MSEK income and expenses

7. 5. ACCESS funding beyond 2016 [GL]

8. Agenda Approval of today’s agenda Member to check the minutes
Minutes from previous meeting
Budget for 2014 [KHJ]
ACCESS funding beyond 2016 [GL]
Information
ACCESS-Ericsson industry projects [KHJ]
Postdoc Call 2013 [KHJ]
Status on Industry Internship Program [BW]
Report from Undergrad Summer Program [KHJ]
Upcoming workshops and events [KHJ]
Mobility program [KHJ]
Distinguished Lecture Series [BW]
Graduate School [MS]
Meetings 2014
AOB  

9. 6a. ACCESS-Ericsson industry projects [KHJ]
Extended projects
— , 2 x 500 KSEK
M. Johansson, DORIS
M. Skoglund, METIS
New projects
— , 500 KSEK
J. Karlsson, “Beyond Nyquist: mathematical fundamentals for transmissions of increased efficiency”
M. Bengtsson, “Optimally light-weight radio interfaces”
C. Fischione, “LTE development for enabling smart grid services”
R. Stadler, “Big data analytics for cloud network management”
M. Dam, “Tamperproof runtime monitoring for embedded devices”
L. Rasmussen, “MTC-oriented ACCESS—Ericsson project”
Project agreements

10. 6b. Postdoc Call 2013 [KHJ] Received more than 130 applications
Generated 15 nominations from ACCESS faculty
New postdocs 2013
Mohammad Reza GHOLAMI (ACCESS PI: Magnus Jansson)
Liqun FU (Mikael Johansson)
Athanasios (Sakis) GIANNETSOS (Panos Papadimitratos)
Jana TUMOVA (Dimos Dimarogonas)

11. 6c. Status on Industry Internship Program [BW]
ABB
2 PhD students Summer 2013
Ericsson
2-4 PhD students under negotiations
Next steps

12. 6d. Report on Undergrad Summer Program [KHJ]
Background: Engage talented undergraduate and master students in research during the summer. Joint events for students under an ACCESS umbrella. 15 students hosted 2013.
Events
Kick-off June.
Joint social activity at Gröna Lund on July 1.
Final workshop August 30.
ACCESS is responsible for the common costs of these events, but not for student salaries etc.
Lead: Henrik Sandberg
Great success! Continuation and
extension next year

13. 6e. Upcoming workshops and events [KHJ]
Fall 2013
Scandinavian workshop on testbed based wireless research, Stockholm, November 27, 2013
Spring 2014
ACCESS Scientific Workshop
Fall 2014
ICT for the Future Society, SRA ICT TNG demo project week at the Technical Museum, Call deadline Oct 31

14. 6f. Mobility program [SB]
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 M. Telek, TU Budapest, 2013? Michael Rabbat, McGill University, Jan-Jul 2014 Bengt Ahlgren, SICS, Fall 2013 Outgoing György Dán, UIUC, Jan-Apr 2013 Henrik Sandberg, MIT, Jan-Dec 2013

15. 6g. Distinguished Lecture Series [BW]
2013
Walter Willinger, Chief Scientist at Niksun, Inc., Princeton, USA, September 19, 2013, at 13:15
H. Vincent Poor, Princeton University, USA, October 24, 2013, at 13:15
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA, November 22, 2013
Abdelhak  Zoubir, TU Darmstadt, December 6, 2013
2014 
Jan 2014, Open
Feb 2014, Open
Ali Sayed, UCLA,  March 2014
April 2014, Open
May 2014, Open

16. 6h. Graduate School [MS]
+ intensive course by Ali Syed, UCLA

17. 7. Proposed Meetings 2014 ACCESS Board meetings 2014
13:00-14:30 Mon 3 Feb
13:00-14:30 Mon 26 May
13:00-14:30 Mon 13 Oct

18. 8. AOB