Agenda

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

1. Consent:  Approval of agenda
2. Consent:  Approval of minutes of previous meeting [Minutes]
   
3. 1:00-1:10:  President's report  (Dave Forney)
4. 1:10-1:15:  Treasurer's report (Anant Sahai) [2009 Budget][Strategic View]
5. 1:15-1:30:  Editor-in-chief's report (Ezio Biglieri)[pdf]
6. 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]
   
7. 2:15-2:30:  Student Committee report (Aylin Yener)  [Presentation]
   * Motion:  to make the summer School of Information Theory an annual event
   
8. 2:30-2:45:  Chapter of the Year award (Frank Kschischang) [2008 Chapter of the Year Award]
   
9. 2:45-3:00:  Break
   
10. 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
11. 3:45-4:05:  Nomination and Appointments Committee (Dave Neuhoff)
    * Motion:  2009 BoG slate [pdf]
    * Motion:  2009 officer slate (Bixio Rimoldi)
12. 4:05-4:20:  IT Web site report (Nick Laneman) [link]
    
13. 4:20-4:30:  Membership outreach update (Muriel Médard) [ppt]
    
14. 4:30-4:35:  Time and place of next BoG meeting (Dave Forney)
    * Discussion:  Allerton Sept.  23?
15. 4:35-5:00:  New business
16. 5:00:  Adjourn