Advisory Committee

The ERCIM Advisory Committee is set up to:

• advise the ERCIM President and Board of Directors on overall strategic directions in ICT and applied mathematics including the portfolio of Working Groups
• evaluate Working Group performance in the process as defined by the Projects Task Group on a schedule defined by the Executive Committee and report to the Board of Directors
• evaluate the final stage of selection of the Cor Baayen Award
• comment on any ERCIM publications such as strategic reports for the European Commission as requested by the Board of Directors
• propose changes to any aspect of the operation of ERCIM which is beneficial
• undertake any other tasks requested of it by the Board of Directors.

The Advisory Committee reports to the President and hence to the Board of Directors.

The current members are:

Gérard Berry
Chief Scientist, Esterel Technologies, France
Professor at Collège de France (http://www.college-de-france.fr)

Michael L. Brodie
Computer Scientist

Chris Horn
IONA Technologies, Ireland

Frank Kelly
Professor of the Mathematics of Systems in the University of Cambridge, UK

Kurt Mehlhorn
Director, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Erik Sandewall (Rapporteur)
Professor of Computer Science at Linköping University, Sweden

Alexander "Lexâ" Schrijver
Mathematician at the Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
and professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Ulrich Trottenberg
Fraunhofer-Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI), Germany

Mazin Yousif (Chair)
Chief Technology Officer, Avirtec Corporation, USA