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Zurich meeting

TMA meeting in Zurich on 7-8 April 2010.

Program:

Day 1, 7th April 2010 (full day)

9:00 – 17:30 TMA-2010 Workshop (see program here). NB: registration is needed, reduced fee by 8th March (register here)

17:30 – 19:00 Joint Apéro TMA/PAM

Day 2, 8th April 2010 (half day)

9:10 – 10:10 PAM opening Keynote talk: “Why, what and how to measure” by Ernst Biersack

10:10 – 10:30 break

10:30 – 11:45 Technical Session on QoE (see details below)

11:45-12:00 short break

12:00-13:00 MC meeting (see  MC meeting minutes)

13:00 – 13:15 STSM  presentations

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NB: The minutes from the previous MC meeting can be found here.

QoE Session: agenda points

  1. Introduction and status update
    Download slides here.
  2. Individual presentations (current and future activities,  ideas for collaboration):
    • Raimund Schatz (FTW)
    • Maria Papadopouli (FORTH – ICS)
    • Patrick Arlos (Blekinge Institute of Technology)
    • Maja Matijasevic (University of Zagreb – FER)
    • Lucjan Janowski (AGH University of Science and Technology)
    • Louis Plissoneau (Orange Labs)
    • Vitor Bernardo (University of Coimbra)

    Download zip file with presentation slides here.

  3. Discussion
  4. Conclusions and next steps

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Logistic details

The TMA Workshop, on April the 7th, will be held in the room F1 of the classical main building of ETH (street address: Ramistrasse 101, 8006 Zurich). Follow the signs from the main entrances of the building and they will guide you to the registration desk and the conference room.

The TMA MC meeting, on April the 8th, will be held in the room E1.1, which is just below the main conference room of TMA and PAM.

Information about hotels here.

Information about travel/local info here.

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Registration procedure

As of January 1, 2010, all the Action procedures are handled by the new e-COST platform. This means that the participants of both Workshop and MC meeting, should receive an official invitation letter from the Grant Holder institution via the e-COST system. In the message, you will find a link you will need to click to confirm or decline your participation.

  • Official MC members will be automatically added to the participants list (i.e., they will automatically receive and invitation letter for the meeting).
  • The MC Substitutes, and the ad-hoc Substitutes should register to the e-COST system https://e-services.cost.esf.org, and have to send an email to cost-ic0703 <at> ftw [dot] at confirming their intention to participate at the meeting. Hence, they will get an official invitation letter. Find here the user guide for the e-COST.
  • Persons willing to attend the meeting, in order to facilitate the logistics, please follow the same procedure as for MC Substitutes and ad-hoc Substitutes, specifying that you are not asking for a reimbursement. The participation to the MC meeting is free of charge.

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NOTES for the MC delegates / Substitutes

  • Maximum number of nights that can be rembuirsed is 3 (2 days of meeting +1) if you arrive the day before (April 6th) and leave on day after (April 9th)
  • Registration fee for the TMA-2010 workshop WILL NOT be rembuirsed.
  • MC members that are willing to nominate a temporary substitute, should send a formal email to their national COST National Coordinator (CNC), in CC to the Chair, Secretary, and to the other MC for the same country. Find here the list of CNCs.
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