[Tccc] CALL FOR TRAINING SCHOOL on ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN LARGE SCALE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

Carlos Guerrero carlos.guerrero
Thu Feb 2 11:53:24 EST 2012


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2 nd COST 804 TRAINING SCHOOL on ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN LARGE SCALE 
DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS*

April 24-27, 2012. Palma de Mallorca, SPAIN
http://cost804trainingschool.uib.es

*Deadline for applications for participation and travel grants: 20 
February 2012*

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*DATES:* Tuesday 24 April (09h) to Friday 27 April 2012 (13h)
*LOCATION:* Palma de Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain

*SCOPE*
Eligibility: This COST 804 course is addressing Early stage 
researchers   (as defined under COST rules, = less than PhD+ 8 years' 
experience) and PhD candidates / MSc thesis candidates from all COST 804 
Action countries. Industry participation from COST 804 Action countries 
is also highly welcome subject to approval. For all other cases contact 
the Coordinators.

Scope: The scope of the training school is to address /energy 
efficiency/ in design, modelling and operations, starting from the 
hardware/software level, to the functional level, to operations and 
adaptation, and finally to trade-off & adoption of the proposed 
measures, in a wide diversity of networks with associated facilities. 
These networks include: computer networks, communication networks, power 
networks and smart grid, home networks with elements of other networks.  
Will be highlighted the main approaches, the state of the art in 
research and industry, and the performance/ QoS / cost trade-offs.
The participants should expect to get an overview of the field 
represented by the COST 804 Action www.cost804.org 
<http://www.cost804.org>, and detailed knowledge supplementing their 
focussed research topics. They will in the process network between 
themselves and with the Action participants

*COURSE CONTENT (course plan and lecturers to follow later) (non 
exhaustive)*
-Backgrounder on Green ITC technologies (emissions profiles, 
regulations, policies, stakeholders)
-Efficient energy consumption in IT infrastructures incl. data centers 
and corresponding algorithms
-Energy efficiency analysis in computer grids
-Energy efficiency in wired communications networks
-Energy efficiency in wireless communications networks
-Joint use of energy and information in power networks and smart grid
-Power consumption of electronic circuits and Thermal emissions from 
electronic systems
-Power electronics and DC hardware energy optimisation
-Trade-off, selection and decision-making methodologies
Furthermore, significant time will be devoted to panels on specific 
topics, on early stage researcher's summary of their work, on industry 
overviews, and on introduction to public COST 804 reports...

*SOCIAL ACTIVITIES*
It is envisaged to organize during the course period a social event or 
cultural excursion (not covered by COST)

*ORGANIZATION:*
-Local host : Assoc. Prof. Carlos JUIZ, Computer Science Dept. (Anselm 
Turmeda Building) , University of Balearic Islands , Carretera de 
Valldemossa km 7,5, ESP 07122 Palma de Mallorca Tel: +34-971-172048  
Email: cjuiz at uib.es
-Assistant local host: Dr Carlos Guerrero email: carlos.guerrero at uib.es
-Scientific Training school coordinators:
a) Prof. L-F Pau, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark email: lpau at nypost.dk
b) Prof Paul Borza, University of Transsylvania, Romania email: 
paul.borza at yahoo.com

*APPLICABLE RULES FOR APPLICATIONS and TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATIONS*
Participation and travel grants: /Attendance of the COST Training school 
is free to all accepted applicants./
/Eligible applicants must submit an application for participation, and 
eventually an application for travel grant./
/Applicants satisfying normal eligibility criteria (see above) can apply 
for participation and possibly also qualify for individual travel 
grants./ Some applicants can also be accepted without travel grant by 
COST, and must then secure own travel & subsistence funding.
The rules applying for COST supported Training schools are given in the 
COST Vademecum documents downloadable from: 
http://www.cost.esf.org/participate/guidelines.
The preliminary acceptance of participation is decided by the 
Coordinators and Local host.
An individual travel grant application should be based on the most 
economic accommodation arrangements and on the most economic travel 
arrangement (from place of work). The grant awarded can be less than the 
amount applied for. The amount applied for cannot exceed the 
reimbursement rates set by the COST 804 Action .The individual travel 
grant awards are preliminarily decided by the Coordinators and Local host.
Training school approval:  The Training School is not approved formally 
at this stage by COST, and only becomes formally approved once the final 
list of participants (trainees and lecturers) is finalized, program 
finalized, and budget, all get approved by COST.
It is stressed that COST mandates a minimum number of trainees for a 
Training school, and that there must be balance between COST Action 
member country participation counts, as well as between applicant 
categories and genders.
Final acceptance of individual participation and travel grants:  The 
preliminary participation decision and preliminary awarded grant 
decision become final once COST has formally approved the Training school.

*WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE INTERESTED TO ATTEND AS A TRAINEE*
*DEADLINE: 20 February 2012*
At this stage, prospective applicants are asked to send by email to all 
Coordinators, Local host and Assistant to Local host, an electronic 
Application, signed by themselves and by supervisor/manager, with the 
following elements:
-Name, address, email, telephone
-Host Institution, and country
-Is institution/company a COST 804 Action member: Yes/No
-Is institution/company located in a COST 804 Action member country: Yes/No
-Short resume (20 lines max)
-Short description of on-going research or relevance of the envisaged 
Training school to you and your host institution (10 lines)
-Estimate of most economic travel arrangement cost from your normal 
place of work to Palma de Mallorca (in Euros)
-Statement:" If the COST 804 Training school takes place and the 
trainee's application is approved, the trainee commits to attend+ 
participate; this is approved by his host institution represented by the 
supervisor signing below; applicant will be solely responsible for 
paying accommodation and meals"
-Signatures by applicant and supervisor

If applicant has a double affiliation, it must be stated. Travel from 
non-COST 804 partner countries cannot be covered.
The preliminary acceptance and preliminary travel grants awards will be 
notified by email on or before 05 March 2012. Final acceptance is about 
one month before the Training school, subject to COST procedures.
Participants attending and participating in the Training school , and 
who have received final acceptance of participation (and eventually of 
travel grant) will have to keep ALL original travel receipts (with exact 
dates, times and prices) , make one set of copies, to be attached to the 
reimbursement forms, which can only be  official COST acceptance forms. 
Payment will be by COST 804 Action grant holder institution.

*LOGISTICS*
Lecture location:
All lectures, panels etc... will be held at:
Jovellanos Building, Balearic Island University, (http://www.uib.es), 
[map 
<http://maps.google.es/?ll=39.639467,2.644352&spn=0.002388,0.004823&t=h&z=18&vpsrc=6>]
The university and the city center are connected by metro (15 minutes 
and 1 euro) and by bus (20 minutes and 1, 5 euros), with high frequencies.
Hotel(s)
Rooms at the following hotel can be reserved if booking is confirmed 
with Local Hosts at least one month in advance (with exact arrival and 
departure dates):
Hotel Abelux **, 40Euros per single room, including breakfast
http://www.hotelabelux.es/  This hotel has also double rooms at 56 
Euros, incl. breakfast. [map 
<http://maps.google.es/maps?q=hotel+abelux&hl=es&ll=39.581886,2.650495&spn=0.001145,0.002411&sll=39.580567,2.651289&sspn=0.001195,0.002411&vpsrc=6&hq=hotel+abelux&t=h&z=19>]
The organizers cannot be held responsible if other hotels are chosen, or 
late reservations are made.
All guests will have to pay themselves the full hotel bill (room, meals 
and miscellaneous) at the end of the stay, and the training school 
cannot be held responsible for this payment.
Lunches
All the lunch menus in the university are below 10EUR with two dishes, 
desert and a drink. Each participant must pay meal herself/himself.
Dinners etc.
In the city, for dinners, the prices are higher, in the hotel district 
there are plenty of restaurants with a wide range of prices (very cheap 
and very expensive).Each participant must pay meal herself/himself.
*DISCLAIMER*
COST, COST 804 and the organizers cannot be held responsible if the 
Training school is cancelled or moved to another date. Applicants are 
asked not to book travel until final decisions are notified.






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