Instructions for contribution to the 2008 NSF ITR Annual Report

Because we will be applying for a no-cost extension, the NSF ITR Annual Report is due to SPO by Monday, June 30 2008. In order to meet this deadline, we are asking all faculty and students that were funded by the CHESS ITR to submit information to Christopher Brooks by 23 June, as described below. Information is divided into that for students, faculty, and general publications.

The following people received CHESS ITR funding during the June 1, 2007 - May 31, 2008 time period and should submit information for the annual report.

Researcher	Faculty
Alessandro Abate	Prof. Tomlin (summer)
Saurabh Amin	Prof. Sastry, Prof Bayen
Anil Aswani	Prof. Tomlin
Arindam Chakrabarti	Prof Henzinger
Krishnendu Chatterjee	Prof Henzinger (summer)
Abhijit Davare	Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (summer)
Milos Drezgic	Prof. Sastry
Arkadeb Ghosal	Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (summer)
Slobodan Matic	Prof Henzinger
Alessandro Pinto	Prof. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli (summer)
Vinayak Prabhu	Prof. Henzinger
Jonathan Sprinkle	(summer)
Christopher Brooks

If your name appears in the above list, you should complete the appropriate section below. If you only received summer funding, please include papers that you worked on during the summer, but were later published.

Summary:

1. Make a list of your name, citizenship status, publications, collaborators, relevant software, and (if you are faculty) important research results, according to the below specifications.
2. If you are a student or faculty at Berkeley, please enter all relevant publications to the CHESS publications database and send only the titles.
3. Email this to Christopher Brooks (if you are student, CC your advisor), as a student, or as faculty.
4. Do it all before 23 June 2008, 06:00 hours PDT

Note the deadline is 23 June 2008 at 06:00 hours PDT. We will begin assimilating the data on 23 June at 08:00 PDT. If you have not responded by that time, we will contact you and your faculty advisor. This most important part of the annual report to gather is information on publications.

• Students: Go to overview of requirements here
  Or go directly to the email link here:

• Faculty: Go to overview of requirements here
  Or go directly to the email link here:

FAQ:

1. If I have submitted my pubs to the CHESS website, am I done?
   No, you must also submit information such as your citizenship, correct spelling of your name, external and internal collaborators, and (if you are faculty) a list of the students you supported.
2. Why must I resubmit publication information in the email if it is already in the database?
   There are two reasons: (a) because we need to know whether the publication acknowledged the ITR for funding or not, and (b) because while the database will give us all items published during a range, we will also report papers which will be submitted before the end of June that may be published after that time.
3. I tried to submit a publication, but the "Add Publication" link is inactive, or I cannot see it. I have also seen the error code that I don't have 'write permission'. What's going on?
   First, make sure you are logged in. If you are still unable to add a publication, you may not be a member of the 'chess' workgroup. Request membership in that group by visiting the "options" tab, at the right of the Chess Webpage menu bar, or by visiting this link.

Students

If you are a student funded through CHESS, you should contribute to the annual report as requested below:

• Your name, as you prefer to spell it, university, and your department/area (e.g., EECS, ME)
  Example: Estudientos X. Maximillian, UC Berkeley, EECS
• A list of your collaborators and their institution. A collaborator is someone with whom you have authored a paper, or contributed significantly to research software.
  Example: Aandrew Sorenstam, Max Planck Institute for Plank Planar Planning
• A list of your publication titles which you have entered into the CHESS Publications Database, as shown below.
  • Any publication which was or will be published, accepted, or submitted (as appropriate), between 1 June 2007 and 31 May 2008.
  • Please separate publication titles into two groups: those which acknowledged ITR or CHESS funding, and those which did not. You should note that if you are a student being funded by the CHESS Center then all of your publications should acknowledge CHESS as one of your funding sources. Exceptions to this statement are rare. For future reference, you can find the recommended CHESS acknowledgement listing for Berkeley "Chesslocal" students and faculty here.
• A list of software releases, including their descriptions, and websites, which we can list. Please include version information, as well as the contributing authors.
• You can use this student-submission email shell to submit your information. please make sure you CC your faculty advisor.

Faculty

If you are funding students through CHESS, you should contribute to the annual report as requested below:

• Your name, as you prefer to spell it, and your department (e.g., EECS, ECE, ME) and University
  Example: S. Shankar Sastry, UC Berkeley, EECS
• A list of the students whom you have supported on the CHESS project for any portion of this year
• A list of your collaborators and their institution. A collaborator is someone with whom you have authored a paper, or contributed significantly to research software, in the context of CHESS.
  Example: Ian M. Mitchell, University of British Columbia
• A list of important CHESS-related research results which you have accomplished this year, and a brief description of them. In this description, you may refer to publications which you list. The research results portion of the annual report is always the most time-consuming to produce, so any help you can give will ease CHESS staff, and ensure that the ITR receives credit--important for future center funding from NSF.
• A list of software releases, descriptions, and websites, which we can list. Please include version information, as well as the contributing authors.
• A list of your publication titles which you have entered into the CHESS Publications Database, as shown below.
  • Any publication which was or will be published, accepted, or submitted (as appropriate), between 1 June 2007 and 31 May 2008.
  • Please separate publication titles into two groups: those which acknowledged ITR or CHESS funding, and those which did not. For future reference, you can find the recommended CHESS acknowledgement listing for Berkeley "Chesslocal" students and faculty here.
• You can use this faculty-submission email shell to submit your information.

Publications

For questions regarding this page please contact Christopher Brooks .