Board and General Assembly minutes from FraMCoS-6, Catania, Italy.
Minutes for the IA-FraMCoS Board of Directors & Advisory Board Meeting at Catania, Italy During the conference at Catania, two separate board meetings were held. The minutes for the two meetings are given separately below. First Meeting Date: June 18, 2007 Attendees: Alberto Carpinteri (AC), President Byung-Hwan Oh (BO), President-Elect Victor C. Li (VL), Past-President Christopher K.Y. Leung (CL), Secretary Rolf Eligehausen (RE) and Henrik Stang (HS), Members of the Advisory Board Apologies: Hemlin Jennings, Treasurer Sarah Billington, Bhusan Karihaloo, Milan Jirasek, Jaime Planas, Victor Saouma, Franz Ulm, Members of the Advisory Board Proposals for the Organization of FraMCoS-8 Four separate proposals for the organization of FraMCoS-8 were received from: (1) Prof. Victor Saouma, from University of Colorado, Boulder, US (2) Prof. Franz Ulm, from MIT, Cambridge, US (3) Prof. Gonzalo Ruiz, from Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain (4) Prof. Jan van Mier, from ETH Zurich, Switzerland At the start of the meeting, Prof. Ruiz and Prof. van Mier gave presentations on their ideas about the organization of FraMCoS-8. After delivering the presentations and addressing questions from the Board, the two candidates left the room, and discussion was held among the Board Members. In view of the fact that the proposals from both U.S. candidates were rather brief, and they were not present at the conference to provide more detailed information, the Board decided to select the organizer of FraMCoS-8 between the two proposals from Europe. However, the Board would encourage the U.S. candidates to apply again next time. Since each of the two European proposals has its own strength, a decision could not be reached at the meeting after extensive discussions. AC suggested to have some more thoughts on the proposals, and then meet again before the General Assembly to make the final decision.