ERCIM is a great organisation with a lot of potential. I am proud that I am the third CWI director since ERCIM’s foundation in 1989 who has become a President of ERCIM, after Cor Baayen and Gerard van Oortmerssen. I will outline my ideas on ERCIM’s strategy below.
The 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017) took place at the Senate House and Birkbeck, University of London, UK, 16-18 December 2017. Tutorials were given on Friday 15th of December 2017 and the COST IC1408 CRoNoS Winter Course on Copula-based modelling with R took place the 13-14 December 2017. The conference took place jointly with the 11th International Conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics (CFE 2017).
Lead by ERCIM member Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the aim of the group is to build a community of European researchers exploring the opportunities for computer science research in the area of blockchain technology. The group was established in the follow-up of the ERCIM workshop on Blockchain Technology in May 2017 in Paris and the special theme of ERCIM News 110 "Blockchain Engineering" in July 2017.
The General Assembly of the ERCIM AISBL, held on 24 October in Lisbon, unanimously elected Jos Baeten, general director of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in the Netherlands as its new President for a period of two years as of January 2018. Jos Baeten succeeds Domenico Laforenza from the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) who served as President of ERCIM since January 2014.
Tim Baarslag from CWI was selected as the winner of the 2017 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award, in a very tough competition with 15 finalists. The award committee recognises Tim’s skills and the results that he has achieved. His enthusiasm for internationally oriented research cooperation, his talent for recognising the potential use of mathematical tools, and his cooperative skills make him a young researcher of outstanding quality.
ERCIM invites researchers to participate in the workshop "WebVR Authoring: Opportunities and Challenges" in Brussels, 5-7 December 2017. The event is organised by W3C and hosted by DigitYser. The primary goal of the workshop is to bring together WebVR stakeholders to identify unexploited opportunities as well as technical gaps in WebVR authoring.
The ERCIM fall meetings 2017 were hosted by our member INESC at Nova University Lisbon from Sunday 22 - Tuesday 24 October 2017. The ERCIM meetings are held in conjunction with the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2017).
Pictures show the rectory building of NOVA University of Lisbon (© NOVA University of Lisbon) and a view of Lisbon (source: skitterphoto.com)
Lisbon, 22-24 October 2017
hosted by INESC
The ERCIM fall meetings 2017 were hosted by INESC in Lisbon from Sunday 22 - Tuesday 24 October 2017.
Please contact Lídia Vilas Boas (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) if you wish to participate and you have not yet registered.
Nova Rectorate
Nova University of Lisbon
Campus Campolide, Rectorate Building
1099-085 Losboa
Coords: 38.733967, -9.160526
FCHS
Faculdade Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA
Avenida de Berna, 26-C
1050-099 Lisboa
Coords: 38.739765, -9.151847
The ERCIM meetings are held in conjunction with the European Computer Science Summit (ECSS 2017). ERCM delegates have the opportunity to participate in the sessions of ECSS. The Cor Baayen Award will be presented during the ECSS/ERCIM Award ceremonies on Tuesday 24 October. ERCIM participants are allowed to participate in ECSS on Tuesday (the day of the joint Awards ceremony) without extra payment. This includes the welcome reception on Monday evening and the conference dinner on Tuesday. Participation on Wednesday requires ECSS registration.
| Sunday 22 October | 17:30-19:30 | ERCIM / IE joint Strategy TG | Hotel Açores Lisboa - Sala Furnas IV |
| Monday 23 October | 9:00-10:30 | ERCIM EEIG board | FCSH - Sala Multiusos 2 |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | FCSH Bar | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Task Group Science | FCSH - Sala Multiusos 1 | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Task Group Human Capital | FCSH - Sala Multiusos 3 | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Task Grop Outreach/Editorial board | FCSH - Sala Multiusos 2 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | NOVA Rectorate | |
| 13:30-15:00 | Task Group meetings (cont.) | FCSH | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break | FCSH Bar | |
| 15:30-17:30 | ERCIM AISBL board | FCSH - Sala Multiusos 2 | |
| 17:30-18:30 | ERCIM / IE joint board meeting | NOVA Rectorate | |
| 19:00 | ECSS welcome reception | Café In (Av. Brasília, Pavilhão Nascente, nº311 | Lisboa 1300-596) | |
| Tuesday 24 October | 9:00-11:30 | ERCIM General Assembly | NOVA Rectorate, Senate Room |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee break | NOVA Rectorate | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Familiarization / presentations | NOVA Rectorate, Senate Room | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | NOVA Rectorate | |
| 15:30-16:30 | Informatics Europe / ERCIM Awards Ceremony at ECSS 2017 | NOVA Rectorate Auditorium | |
| 19:30-22:00 | Conference dinner | Restaurante Aura (Praça do Comércio | Terreiro do Paço, Lisboa 1100-148) |
The local organizing committee recommends the following hotels close to the meeting venue, see a map for directions.
Hotel Principe Lisboa***
SANA Reno Hotel***
Hotel HF Fénix Garden***
SANA Malhoa Hotel****
Novotel Lisboa****
Mercure Lisboa Hotel****
Hotel Açores Lisboa****
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VRE4EIC, an H2020 European research project, coordinated a week of project meetings in Rome 11-15 September 2017 bringing together representatives of major European initiatives involved in environmental multidisciplinary data-driven science.
