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Agenda, Board of Governors Meeting, IEEE Information Theory Society, July 6, 2008, Toronto
Logistics
- Date: July 6, 2008
- Venue: City Hall Room, Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto
- Time: 12:00-1:00 pm lunch, 1:00-5:00 pm BoG meeting
- Note: ISIT opening reception is 5:30-8:00 pm
Preliminary Agenda
- Consent: Approval of agenda
- Consent: Approval of minutes of previous meeting [Minutes]
- 1:00-1:10: President's report (Dave Forney)
- 1:10-1:15: Treasurer's report (Anant Sahai) [2009 Budget][Strategic View]
- 1:15-1:30: Editor-in-chief's report (Ezio Biglieri)[pdf]
- 1:30-2:15: Conference Committee report (Alex Grant)
* Brief report: ISIT 2008 Toronto (Kschischang)
* Brief update: ISIT 2011 St Petersburg (Blinovsky/Ephremides)
* Motion: approval of Taormina 2009 ITW proposal (Ezio Biglieri) [proposal]
* Motion: technical co-sponsorship of Allerton Conference [request] [IEEEXplore clarification]
* Proposal: ISIT 2012, Cambridge, MA, USA (Muriel Médard) [proposal] [budget]
* Preliminary Proposal: ISIT 2013, Istanbul, Turkey (Elza Erkip) [proposal] [budget] [venue]
- 2:15-2:30: Student Committee report (Aylin Yener) [Presentation]
* Motion: to make the summer School of Information Theory an annual event
- 2:30-2:45: Chapter of the Year award (Frank Kschischang) [2008 Chapter of the Year Award]
- 2:45-3:00: Break
- 3:00-3:45: Awards Committee report (Andrea Goldsmith) [Awards Committee Report][Presentation]
* Discussion: Improved paper award processes
* Motion: IT Best Paper Award
* Motion: continuation of W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award - 3:45-4:05: Nomination and Appointments Committee (Dave Neuhoff)
* Motion: 2009 BoG slate [pdf]
* Motion: 2009 officer slate (Bixio Rimoldi) - 4:05-4:20: IT Web site report (Nick Laneman) [link]
- 4:20-4:30: Membership outreach update (Muriel Médard) [ppt]
- 4:30-4:35: Time and place of next BoG meeting (Dave Forney)
* Discussion: Allerton Sept. 23? - 4:35-5:00: New business
- 5:00: Adjourn