Agenda

Kick-off meeting

Meeting no. 1 /2006

19^th – 20^th January 2006 in Vienna

Venue:

ftw. Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien

Donau-City Str. 1

1220 Wien

Thursday 19^th January 2006, Project Steering Committee Meeting

Required participants:

a) designated PSC members as listed in the CA: Ari Hottinen, Holger Boche, Giorgio Taricco, Gerald Matz, Helmut Bölcskei, Ezio Biglieri, Christoph Mecklenbräuker (cfm), unavailable PSC members need to appoint a proxy or change the representative.

b) Workpackage leaders (Gerald Matz, Helmut Bölcskei, Giorgio Taricco)

c) Horst Rode, financial manager of ftw., Katja Kapfer, ftw. project controlling

Optional participants: all MASCOT researchers.

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch at restaurant “Sa Vanh”

14:00 – 18:00 PSC Meeting

Proposed PSC meeting agenda:

1. 14:00 cfm: formal appointment of project steering committee (PSC)
1. the signed originals of the Consortium Agreement are handed over to the PSC members.
2. 14:15 cfm: scheduling of the next PSC meetings during 2006 and 2007)
1. PSC mailing list was created on January 17, 2006: mascot_psc@ftw.at
2. For discussion: Do we need a software tool for voice/video/web conferencing, such as the tool used in NewCom or Cisco MeetingPlace (used in MAGNET Beyond)?
3. 14:30 cfm: travel-related procedures: Is it true that travels outside of Europe need special endorsement from the PSC or Coordinator? to be checked by Christoph. Or otherwise the travel costs might not be eligible.
4. 14:45 overview presentations by workpackage leaders,

                             14:45 – 15:00 Giorgio Taricco: WP3 presentation

                             15:00 – 15:15 Gerald Matz: WP1 presentation

                             15:15 – 15:30 Andy Burg or Nadia Khaled: WP2 presentation

5. 15:30 cfm+Horst Rode: downpayment of EC / rules for payments from the trust account,
1. downpayment of approx. 1,2M€ received (78% of budget for first 18 months)
2. We have 40 days to do something about it
3. Current list signatories (Horst Rode, Markus Kommenda, Franz Hlawatsch, Gerald Matz)

                                                               i.      update required?

4. Banking information of each partner requested
5. Coordinator’s proposal: We transfer 78% of the funding for the first 12 months to each partner until February 08, 2006. This corresponds to roughly 2/3 of the downpayment.
6. Budget planning excel sheet for the first year
5. 16:30 cfm +Katja Kapfer: EC reporting: quarterly management reports, yearly reports.
1. Quarterly management reports
6. 16:45 cfm +Katja Kapfer: MASCOT roadmap, Milestones, Required decisions, Deliverable deadlines
1. Request from EC for extended project summary until Jan 30, 2006.
2. Concertation meeting (Brussels, 22-23 March 2006)
3. Deliverable responsibilities, submission deadlines
7. 17:00 cfm +Marcin Davies: logical organisation of the MASCOT repository
1. website, http://www.ist-mascot.org/
2. MASCOT knowledge database implemented with "plone" and hosted on the same server as the NoE FP6-IST-TARGET. http://plone.ist-mascot.org/
3. Additional MASCOT sftp file exchange?
8. cfm: review of publication policy,

                             Wording of the official “Acknowledgement”

                             MASCOT logo design

                             Webpage design

10. cfm: review of IPR and licensing policy,

                             Wording of the official “Acknowledgement”

MASCOT logo design (discussion of available proposals, alternative offer from graphics designer “feelhower works”)

                             Webpage design

11. cfm: organisation of MASCOT-related workshops at international conferences,

                             EUSIPCO 2006 Special Session

                             IST Mobile Summit 2006: Do we want a MASCOT booth?

                             http://www.nt.tuwien.ac.at/research/research-topics/mobile-communications/links/conferences/

                             t.b.d.

12. relationship to other projects (FP6-IST-Winner, FP6-IST-4MORE, ...), nationally funded projects at various Partners
13. any other business

Thursday 19^th January 2006, Kick-off meeting

Expected participants: all MASCOT researchers.

19:00 – 22:00         Kick-off Dinner at the “Gasthaus zu den drei Hacken”, Singerstraße 28, 1010 Wien

22:00 – 03:00         Social event ;-)

Friday 20^th January 2006

Expected participants: all MASCOT researchers.

09:00-09:30 cfm: Welcome, MASCOT overview, objectives, goals, standardisation.

09:30-11:00 WP3 “Performance Limits”

presentations + discussion round + offers for collaboration on joint papers

Chair: Giorgio Taricco, Politecnico di Torino

11:00-11:30 coffee break / informal discussions

11:30-13:00 WP1 “Space-Time Code Design and Baseband Transceiver Algorithms”

presentations + discussion round + offers for collaboration on joint papers

Chair: Gerald Matz, Vienna University of Technology

13:00-14:00 lunch break

14:00-15:30 WP2 “VHDL Reference Designs and Testbed Integration”

presentations + discussion round + offers for collaboration on joint papers

Chair: Andy Burg or Nadia Khaled, ETH Zürich

15:30-16:00 closing
 

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