Agenda
Agenda, Board of Governors Meeting, IEEE Information Theory Society, Sept. 23, 2008, Champaign, IL
Logistics
- Date: Sept. 23, 2008
- Venue: Room 301, Coordinated Science Laboratory, 1308 West Main St, Urbana IL 61801 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL)
- Time: 3:00-7:00 pm
- Note 1: A van will meet the American Eagle flight from Chicago O'Hare that arrives in Champaign at 2:20 pm. The BoG meeting will not start until this van arrives. Please let Bruce Hajek know if you plan to take this van.
- Note 2: Allerton opening reception is 7:30-9:30 pm at the Champaign Country Club. All BoG meeting attendees are invited. Please carpool to the Champaign Country Club.
Preliminary Agenda
- Consent: Approval of agenda
- Consent: Approval of minutes of previous meeting [pdf]
- 3:00-3:15: President's report (Dave Forney)
- 3:15-3:30: Division IX Director's report [pdf] (Fred Mintzer)
- 3:30-3:45: Publications: Transactions on Mobile Computing (Dave Forney)
* Motion: Withdrawal from technical co-sponsorship of TMC [pdf][cover 1][2][3][4] - 3:45-4:30: Conference Committee report (Alex Grant)
* Report: ISIT 2008 (Frank Kschischang) [pdf]
* Proposal: ISIT 2013, Istanbul (Elza Erkip) [proposal pdf] [budget pdf]
* Preliminary proposal: ITW 2010, Cairo (Hesham El Gamal) [pdf]
* Preliminary proposal: ITW 2010, Ireland (Marcus Grefarath) [pdf] - 4:30-4:45: Awards Committee report (Andrea Goldsmith) [report][presentation]
* Announcement: Open call for nominations for Shannon Award [doc]
* Preliminary proposal: Revised awards by-laws [pdf]
* Update: W. R. G. Baker Prize Paper Award [IEEE proposal] - 4:45-5:00: Break
- 5:00-5:45: Outreach (Dave Forney)
* Report: Membership/Chapters Committee (Frank Kschischang) [pdf]
* Proposal: Distinguished Speakers program (Frank Kschischang) [pdf]
* Report: Outreach committee (Muriel Médard) [pdf]
* Report: Expanded role for Membership/Chapters Committee and IT Schools policy (Dave Forney and Andrea Goldsmith)
* Proposal: 2009 European Winter School, March 2009, Norway (João Barros) [pdf]
* Proposal: 2009 Summer School, August 2009, Chicago (Aylin Yener) [ppt] - 5:45-6:00: Nomination and Appointments Committee (Dave Neuhoff)
* Motion: 2009 N&A committee - 6:00-6:15: Constitution and By-Laws Committee (Dave Neuhoff)
* Motion: miscellaneous by-law revisions [pdf] - 6:15-6:30: IT Web site report (Nick Laneman) [link]
- 6:30-6:45: Locations of 2009 BoG meetings (Andrea Goldsmith)
* Proposal: CISS Baltimore Mar. 18; ISIT Seoul June 28; ITW Taormina Oct. 11 - 6:45-7:00: New business
- 7:00: Adjourn

