Second BRICKS Newsletter
This is the second newsletter of the BRICKS project.
The goal of this newsletter is to keep all researchers
involved informed and up to date. With the appointment
of Martine Roeleveld (see below) we hope to get the
BRICKS information and communication flowing on a
regular basis. In order to do so your contribution
will be highly appreciated as well. In case you have
an interesting post for our newsletter, please send an
email to
info@bsik-bricks.nl
Note that this newsletter and all other news relevant
to BRICKS are also published on the BRICKS website
at
www.bsik-bricks.nl
October 3 2006: BRICKS Combined Advisory/Project Board Meeting
As announced earlier, there will be a combined meeting
of the advisory board and the project board on October
3, at 13:00-16:30 hrs at CWI, Amsterdam. More
information will be sent by mail soon and will
appear at
the meeting's webpage.
Martine Roeleveld new BRICKS PR officer
As of August 1 2006 Martine Roeleveld started as a
scientific reporter / public relations officer for
BRICKS. She graduated in both Communication Management
and Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam. For
the past six years she has worked as a program
coordinator for the MSc in Media Technology and the
mastertrack Bioinformatics at LIACS (Leiden Institute of
Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University).
Martine will be working for the BRICKS Consortium in
order to promote BRICKS internally as well as externally
to the press and public. Amongst other things she will
be responsible for writing press releases, newsletters,
the creation of brochures, events organization and the
BRICKS website. She will attend meetings and conferences
in order to carry out BRICKS' objectives and to build a
network with people involved.
Contact details:
CWI, Kruislaan 413
P.O. Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam
T: 020-592 4092
F: 020-592 4199
E: martine.roeleveld@cwi.nl,
info@bsik-bricks.nl
BRICKS Posters at SIREN 2006
SIREN: Scientific ICT Research Event Netherlands 2006
Thursday 12th October 2006, 09.30H - 17.00H
Educatorium, De Uithof, Utrecht
BRICKS will participate in SIREN 2006. Therefore, we would
like to invite you to think about ways to promote your
BRICKS research. Attending and showing BRICKS results at
SIREN 2006 will be one of the opportunities to take our
public relations one step further. In order to get the
attention the BRICKS program deserves, the BRICKS
management strongly encourages each project to create at
least one poster, preferably a poster for each BRICKS PhD
and/or post doc. If you need help with the design of your
poster, please feel free to contact
martine.roeleveld@cwi.nl
Our public relations really can get a boost when people
(and future reviewers) participating in SIREN 2006 see lots
of interesting research aspects and BRICKS logos passing
by. Obviously you can reuse these posters for future
conferences and other promotional activities as well, so it
is worth the investment of your time. For example, for the
BRICKS symposium early 2007 and the midterm review we will
need posters for each BRICKS PhD and post-doc. So we would
highly appreciate your input for SIREN!
Please keep in mind the following dates and info:
- Poster title (and project number): 4 September
- Camera ready poster PDFs: 18 September
- NWO requires the following information before 4 September (by email to
siren@nwo.nl,
cc: info@bsik-bricks.nl:
- The definitive title of the poster and an abstract of 100 or 200 words.
- Mention that the research was funded by BRICKS by adding the BRICKS
logo and the appropriate acknowledgement line.
- For the logo, see
http://www.bsik-bricks.nl/images/bricks_vignet.png
- For the initial BSIK projects, the ack line is:
"Part of this research has been funded by the Dutch BSIK/BRICKS project."
- For the project under the FOCUS grant, the ack line is:
"This research has been partially funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific
Research (NWO) under FOCUS/BRICKS grant number 642.xxx.xxx."
(replace xxx.xxx by the grant number given by NWO)
- The name(s) of the coordinators, (co-)authors and the institution/organization.
- The email address(es) and web site(s) of the researcher(s).
- For more information on production details:
http://www.informaticaplatform.nl/siren/posters
FOCUS 2005-2006
We are happy to announce the acceptance of 10
new BRICKS projects in the context of the
BRICKS/FOCUS open competition ; 5 of them have
already started in 2005:
-
Advancing the real use of proof assistants.
Project started on: September 1 2005.
Dr. J.H. Geuvers, Dr.P.H.J.M. Corbineau,
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
-
Geometric algorithm design for geographic environments.
Project started on: September 1 2005,
Dr. M.J. van Kreveld, Dr. J. Luo, Dr. M. Grantson,
Universiteit Utrecht
-
A verification grid for enhanced model checking .
Project started on: October 1 2005,
Prof. dr. ir. B.R.H.M. Haverkort, Dr. K. Klai, Dr. M. Weber, Dipl.Inf. G.W.M. Kuntz,
Universiteit Twente
-
Infinite objects, computation, modeling and reasoning.
Project started on: October 1 2005,
Prof. dr. J.W. Klop, Dr. D. Hendriks, Drs. C.A. Kupke, Drs. J. Ketema,
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
-
Modeling and analysis of QoS of component-based designs.
Project started on: December 1 2005.
Dr. M.I.A. Stoelinga, Dr. H. Boudali, Dr. L. Cloth, Dhr. A.P. Nijmeijer,
Universiteit Twente
Second FOCUS round, proposal accepted June 2006:
-
A common framework for the analysis of reactive and timed systems.
Awarded on June 20 2006,
Dr. ir. T.A.C. Willemse,
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
-
Cracking a scientific database.
Awarded on June 20 2006,
Prof. dr. M.L. Kersten,
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
-
Distributed implementations of adaptive collective decision making.
Project kick off: December 1 2006,
Prof. dr. K.R. Apt,
Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica.
-
Visual information retrieval based on synthetic imagery.
Awarded on June 20 2006,
Dr. M.S. Lew,
Universiteit Leiden
-
Bayesian decision support in medical screening.
Awarded on June 20 2006,
Dr. P.J.F. Lucas,
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Spin-off Personal Space Technologies
The research group MSV2 (Interactive virtual environments) has
started a spin-off initiative with Gallium Europe. Together
they form
Personal Space Technologies in which
3D visualization technology is evolving towards smaller,
cheaper, and more flexible 3D visualization and interaction
systems with greater resolution.
Personal Space Technologies brings 3D, immersible technology
into the office and the lab at a fraction of the cost of
traditional virtual reality systems like a cave, a power wall
or workbench.
The Personal Space Station (PSS) comes complete with wireless
interaction tracking, wireless head tracking and a flexible
virtual reality application programming interface.
Acknowledgment and logos
All publications reporting about BRICKS-funded research
need to include this acknowledgment:
Part of this research has been funded by the Dutch BSIK/BRICKS project.
Please add an acknowledgment slide to your (PowerPoint)
presentations including the sentence above and the BRICKS logo
at:
http://www.bsik-bricks.nl/images/bricks_vignet.png
Finally, please mail the citation details (preferably in
BibTEX) of all your BRICKS-related publications to info@bsik-bricks.nl.
This ensures that your results will be timely disseminated
among your BRICKS colleagues, but also saves you, your project
leader and us a large amount of work at the end of the year!
Note: the same applies to any BRICKS-related presentations.
Agenda
September 4 + September 18: deadline posters SIREN 2006
October 3: Advisory Board / Project Board meeting, 13:00 hrs. at CWI, Amsterdam
October 12: SIREN 2006, 9:30-17:00 hrs. Educatorium, Utrecht
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