Executive group today

The executive group (Ledningsgruppen, LG) met today. Things of interest that we talked about:

New projects:

• Theoretical justification for additive and quasi additive travel costs in road networks with uncertain travel time (Leonid Engelson, KTH). (How can you specify penalty functions in a scheduling model to get link-additive costs for travel time variability? Rather technical but extremely relevant if you want to include travel time variability into assignment models.)
• ERSA-CTS-JIBS Summer school. Joint project with Jönköping International Business school. For PhD students and other interested, with the preliminary theme "Evaluation and Financing of Infrastructure Investments". Will take place in Aug 2010. Charlie Karlsson (JIBS) is coordinating this.
• A number of projects were endorsed by the LG but will need to go the Board for decision (there is a budget cap under which the LG can decide, after that it goes to the Board).

The scientific council (Mark Wardman, Michel Bierlaire, Stef Proost) visits us Nov 30. Several all of you will have very short (5-10 min) presentations of your research, and everyone is welcome to attend this - it's a good opportunity to get an overview of what the Centre is doing.

And don't miss that the 2-year seminar and buffet party takes place Dec 2! Seminar with several short presentations from 15:00, and then buffet later in the evening.