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Annual meeting of the Information Theory Society BOGs. Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of the meeting. The meeting will be preceeded by lunch at 12:15, with the formal meeting starting at 1pm, ending at 5:30pm. Please email the society president Andrea Goldsmith at andrea@ee.stanford.edu if you wish to attend the lunch or add something to the agenda for discussion.
Meeting Agenda
12:15: Lunch Begins
1-1:10: Consent: Approval of Meeting Agenda and CISS BoG Meeting Minutes (Draft Minutes)
1:10-1:35: Presidents Report (Andrea Goldsmith), (Presentation)
- Vote: Approve appointed officers for Secretary (Aria Nosratinia) and Treasurer (Nihar Jindal) (Bios)
- Vote: Approve slate of 2010 BoG candidates from N/A committee (Candidate Bios)
- Nominations: Additional BoG nominees
- Nominations: Officer slate for coming year
- Vote: Conference Committee Chair as Voting BoG Member
1:35-2:05: Awards Committee Report (Frank Kschischang)
- Vote on IT Society paper award
2:05-2:30: Membership/Chapters Committee Report (Giuseppe Caire)
2:30-3:05: Publications Committee Report (Ezio Biglieri)
- Vote on new AE appointments (Motani, Lapidoth, Franceschetti, Jafar). (Bios)
3:05-3:30: Conference Committee Report (Alex Grant)
- Report: ISIT 2008 Toronto [report] [budget] (Frank Kschischang)
- Report: ISIT 2009 Seoul [report] (Jong-Seon No)
- Report: ISIT 2010 Austin [report] (Michel Gastpar)
- Report: ISIT 2012 Cambridge [report] (Muriel Medard)
- Report: ITW 2009 Taormina [report] (Ezio Biglieri)
- Report: ITW 2010 Cario [CFP]
- Proposal: ITW 2010 Dublin [proposal] [budget] (Joachim Rosenthal)
- Possible discussion on role of workshops and local access at meetings [discussion document] (Alex Grant/Bruce Hajek)
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:05: Treasurers report (Anant Sahai):
- Update on society budget and planning.
4:05-4:25: Online Committee Report (Matthieu Bloch)
- Vote to approve additional $15K in funds for web software development
4:25-4:45: Student Committee Report (Aylin Yener)
4:45-4:55: Proposal for African Winter School (Hedrik Ferreira)
4:55-5:10: Outreach Committee Report (Muriel Medard)
5:10-5:30: New Business (Open discussion on Society Governance and Committee Structure)
5:30: Adjourn
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