1. EC Mar 24, 2014: Agenda Postdoc call [JJ]
ACCESS-Ericsson project contract [KHJ]
Seed project evaluations [SB]
High-risk seed evaluations [KHJ]
Industry seed [KHJ]
Mobility grant application [KHJ]
ACCESS operation and beyond [KHJ]
Next meetings and faculty lunch [KHJ]
AOB

2. 1. Postdoc call [JJ]

3. 2. ACCESS-Ericsson project contract [KHJ]

4. 3. Seed Project Evaluation [SB]

5. Old Seed Projects ( )
Final funding chunk depending on project performance. Timeline:
Call for self-evaluation out March 31
Deadline for self-evaluations Aug 31
Discussion at EC September
Board decision Oct 13

6. Old Seed Projects (2012-2014) List of projects:
Cross-Layer Security (Project leader: Henrik Sandberg)
Optimal Multimedia Sensing, Storage and Transmission in Wireless Networks (Project leader: Carlo Fischione)       
NetCV - Networked Computer Vision (Project leader: Viktória Fodor)       
Sparsity in Signal Processing and System Identification (Project leader: Christian Rojas)       
Distributed Detection in Wireless Networks (Project leader: Tobias Oechtering)

7. Self-Evaluation Deliverables promised/delivered
Publications made, submitted
Goals reached, not reached
Collaboration added that would not have happened anyway
Progress achieved
Synergies of competencies found
What is the single most important contribution that came out of the project?
What is the single most exciting idea from the project that the group would like to pursue together in the future?
What is the single most important thing learned from the project that ACCESS should not try to pursue in the future (could be research problems, ways of collaborating etc.)?

8. 4. High-risk seed evaluations [KHJ]
One-year evaluation of the projects
Shaping up networked systems through controlling their statistical moments, Dimos Dimarogonas and Xiaoming Hu
An information theory beyond bits, Tobias Oechtering
Suggest which project to continue a second year

9. 5. Industry seed [KHJ]
Insurance industry cooperation seed project, Peter Händel
Big linked data analytics, Sarunas Girdzijauskas
Evaluation?
New call 2014 with possible extensions?

10. 6. Mobility grant application [KHJ]
Application by Supriya Krishnamurthy Financial request: 100 KSEK (from Krishnamurthy’s ACCESS project) This is regarding a visit in May (dates around 1st-31st May) by Professor David Eric Smith (Santa Fe Institute NM and George Mason University, Washington D.C) Professor Eric Smith will be visiting for a month and working with Supriya Krishnamurthy at Fysikum, on Large-deviations of Non-equilibrium Stochastic processes. A brief description of this topic follows: Large deviation theory may be roughly defined as a theory which studies rare events whose probability decays exponentially. This form of the probability distribution is also common in equilibrium statistical mechanics where the rate function is simply (the negative of) the entropy. Recently, it has been possible to explicitly calculate a 'large deviation functional' for some non-equilibrium systems. This functional has information on steady states as well as fluctuations (including rare fluctuations) about this steady state. Recently (along with Eric), we have tried to take a look at these results using a different formalism, which has several advantages over those commonly used. In this visit, we intend to follow up on some of our preliminary results. One contribution to Access could be a seminar by Professor Smith in which he can talk about some of our results in the context of simple models of evolutionary games. A title and abstract are included below.

11. Seminar
Symmetry, and consequences of collective fluctuations in evolutionary-game dynamics
Professor Eric Smith
Symmetry has been used for decades to classify the universal behaviors of
evolutionary models of population-dependent fitness at the level of
population-mean behavior. The same symmetry ideas can be equally useful to
classify fluctuation effects, and some surprising and (at least mathematically)
important new phenomena arise. The proper use of symmetry in evolutionary
dynamics overlaps with areas of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics that have
received major advances within the last fifteen years. In this talk I will
mostly review qualitative classes of symmetry-related behaviors, with emphasis
on their importance for robust modeling. I will also give a short sketch of
how these ideas embed in larger treatments of non-equilibrium statistical
mechanics, and will be happy to follow up with listeners who are interested in
more technical detail.

12. 7. ACCESS operation 2014-2016 and beyond [KHJ]
Need to define a sustainable ACCESS operation
Inputs (income), outputs (activities), organization
ExCom to lead development and implement plan
Engage ACCESS faculty through meetings and workshops
Actions:
Form workgroup to briefly present at Board meeting
Extra faculty lunch in Jun
Plan for Sep workshop (replace Jun workshop)
Inputs to 2015 budget
Benchmark with other centers

13. 8. Next Meetings [KHJ] ExCom Fall 2013 12:00-14:00 Mon 13 Jan
12:00-14:00 Mon 17 Feb
12:00-14:00 Mon 24 Mar
12:00-14:00 Mon 28 Apr
12:00-14:00 Mon 19 May
12:00-14:00 Mon 16 Jun
Board meetings 2014:
13:00-14:30 Mon 3 Feb
13:00-14:30 Mon 26 May
13:00-14:30 Mon 13 Oct
Faculty lunches
12:00-14:00 Wed Feb 12: Theme: ACCESS Workshop & Undergrad Summer Program 12:00-14:00 Wed May 7: Theme: University ranking

14. 9. AOB