Agenda

Agenda, Board of Governors Meeting, IEEE Information Theory Society, May 4, 2008, Porto

Logistics

  • Date: May 4, 2008
  • Venue: Palacio da Bolsa , Porto, Portugal
  • Time: 1:00-2:00 pm lunch, 2:00-6:00 pm BoG meeting

Preliminary Agenda

  1. Consent:  Approval of agenda
  2. Consent:  Approval of minutes of previous meeting [ pdf ]
  3. Consent:  Approval of technical co-sponsorships [ pdf ]
    * NETCOD 2009
    * International Conference on Information Theoretic Security
    * XII International Symposium on Problems of Redundancy in Information and Control Systems [ pdf ]
  4. 2:00-2:15:  President's report  (Dave Forney)
  5. 2:15-3:00:  Editor-in-chief's report [ pdf ] (Ezio Biglieri)
    * Motion:  phase out Correspondence section [pdf ]
    * Motion:  discontinue printing of annual index (continue on-line) [ pdf ]
    * Discussion:  policy on prior conference publication
  6. 3:00-3:30:  Conference Committee report [ pdf ] (Dan Costello)
    * Report links (for information): [ ITW09 Bergen ] [ ISIT09 ]
    * ISIT07 organizers report (for information)
    * Motion:  approval of Austin 2010 ISIT proposal [ slideshow ] [ proposal ]
    * Preliminary proposal: ITW 2009 Volos, Greece [ proposal ] [ budget ]
    * Preliminary proposal: ITW 2009 Taormina, Italy [ proposal ]
    * Discussion:  dual Mediterranean ITWs in 2009?
  7. 3:30-3:45:  Women in Engineering proposal (Muriel Médard)
  8. 3:45-4:00:  Break
  9. 4:00-4:30:  Treasurer's report (Anant Sahai)
    * Discussion:  Overall IT Society financial strategy [ pdf ], [ forcast ], Strategic view of the Budget 2009
  10. 4:30-4:45:  Awards Chair Report  [ppt]  [ doc ] (Andrea Goldsmith)
  11. 4:45-5:15:  Student Committee report [ pdf ] (Aylin Yener)
    * Motion:  proposal for Servetto endowment
    * Motion:  proposal for Goutmann endowment
  12. 5:15-5:30:  Fellow Committee report [ pdf ] (Dan Costello)
  13. 5:30-5:45:  IT Web site report [ pdf ] (Nick Laneman)
  14. 5:45-6:00:  New business
  15. 6:00:  Adjourn