Committees

Ewert Bengtsson
International:

• Editorial board member of "Machine Graphics & Vision", 1994-
  Comment: Published by Polish Academy of Sciences
• Editorial board member of "Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine", 1995-
  Comment: Published by Elsevier
• Senior member of the "Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers", (IEEE) 2004-
  Comment: Member since 1974.
• Member of "The International Society for Optical Engineering", (SPIE)
• Member of "Eurographics", the European Association for Computer Graphics, 1998-
• Programme Committee of WSCG'07
  Comment: International conference series in Computer Graphics and Image Analysis held in Plzen, Czech Rèpublic in February each year
• Programme Committee of European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2007
• Programme Committee of the International Conference on Mass-Data Analysis of Images and Signals in Medicine, Biotechnology, Chemistry and Food Industry, MDA 2007
• Expert evaluator for the European Research Council Starting Grant call 2007
• On the EU Project ENLIGHT Program Management Board
  Comment: 2 telephone meetings

National:

• Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Section VII: Basic and Interdisciplinary Engineering Sciences. 200610-
• Member of the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), 199809-
  Comment: Elected member of this, the oldest scientific society in Sweden. (2 meetings.)
• Chair of the Virtual Faculty of Information Technology, UU, 199807-200712
  Comment: The faculty is responsible for coordinating all aspects of the information technology field at UU. The faculty board has about 15 members. 4 meetings and additionally 4 preparatory and follow up meetings.
• Advisor to the Rector on Information Technology at UU, 199802-
  Comment: One of five advisors appointed to lead the strategic planning of UU and give advice to the Rector, together forming "Rektorsrådet" the Rector's advisory council.
• Chair of the WWW management board of UU, 200001-200712
  Comment: (3 meetings.)
• Project leader for a National IT User Centre, NITA, 200008-200712
  Comment: Established a Swedish national IT user centre funded by Vinnova and UU and in cooperation with industry. During 2007, a few informal meetings concerning future financing and cooperation plans took place. (3 meetings.)
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 199904-
  Comment: Representing the Virtual IT Faculty, responsible for managing the economy of the network.
  (5 meetings.)
• Member of the UU student cooperation group, 200001-
  Comment: A group where the leadership of the university and the student unions meets to discuss matters of common interest. (3 meetings.)
• Member of the board of the Uppsala Multidisciplinary Center for Advanced Computational Science (UPPMAX), 200303-
  Comment: (6 meetings.)
• Member of the IT-cluster group, 200108-200712
  Comment: A group under the chairmanship of Uppsala municipality with the task of promoting the IT business activity in Uppsala by making the present competence and activity known to the local, national and international community. All kinds of organisations are represented on the committee. Bengtsson represents UU. (2 meetings.)
• SUUS IT group, 200503-200712
  Comment: Representing UU on the group for cooperation between universities in the Stockholm region in the IT field. (3 meetings)
• Board of EHealth Centre at UU, 200508- 
  Comment: Member of the board of this Centre representing the faculty of Science and Technology.
  (3 meetings)
• Member of the scientific board of Hillevi Fries Research Scholarship Foundation.
  Comment: A Swedish foundation that accepts applications and gives out research grants for urology research. The board has three members. (2 meetings.)
• On the steering committee for the project "rational web publishing" at UU, 200610-200712
  Comment: (5 meetings and additionally 5 informal planning meetings.)
• Program Committee of the National Medical Engineering Conference 2007, Örebro, 200704-200710 
  Comment: (4 meetings)
• On the prioritization committee for medical engineering for the Swedish Research Council, VR NT-A,
  070917-18
  Comment: A 2-day meeting
• Dissertation committee for Claes Lundström, CMIV, Linköping, 070914
  Comment: Title: Efficient medical volume visualization - an approach based on domain knowledge.
• Expert evaluator for grant applications to the Swedish Research Council Post Doc Grant Programme
• Expert evaluator for grant applications to the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT
• On the prioritization committee for "Light" applications for the Visualization call managed by the Knowledge Foundation, KK-stiftelsen.
• On the steering group for the Intranet/Employee portal planning project at UU 200703-200708
  Comment: (3 meetings)
• On the faculty recruitment committee for information technology 200707-
  Comment: (1 meeting)
• On the cooperation group for units supporting IT in learning at UU 200710-
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• Non voting member of the UU Library Board 200711-
  Comment: (1 meeting)
• On the steering group of the information flow analysis project of the Faculties of Medicine and Pharmacy at UU, 200701-200711
  Comment: (8 meetings)
• On the Department Head Council of Polacksbacken, "Prefektrådet"
  Comment: (2 meetings)
• On a planning group for a joint project on Visualisation in surgery planning involving several universities and companies.
  Comment: (8 meetings)

Gunilla Borgefors
International:

• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), 2007-
  Comment: Senior member since 1998
• Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 1998-
• Member of the Advisory Committee of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2006-
• Area editor of Pattern Recognition Letters, 2004-
  Comment: On the editorial Board since 1998. Published by Elsevier.
• Editorial Board member of Image Processing and Communications, 1994-
  Comment: Published by the Institute of Telecommunications, Bydgoszcz, Poland.
• Editorial Board member of Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: Advances in Mathematical Theory and Applications, 1993-
  Comment: Published by Interperiodica Publishing in cooperation with the "Cybernetics" Scientific Council, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Editorial Board of the book series Computational Imaging and Vision, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003-
• Steering committee for Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery (DGCI) conferences, 2000-
• Programme committee for 9th Int. Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing (PRIP'07) Minsk, Belarus, May 2007
• Programme committee for 8th Int. Symposium on Mathematical Morphology (ISMM 2007), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October 2007
• "Rapporteur" on the committee for the habilitation of David Coeurjully, LIRIS laboratory, University Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France, 071205 
  Comment: Title: Algorithms for analysis and modelling in discrete geometry (in French)

National:

• Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (Kungliga Vetenskapssocieteten), Member No. 19, 2000-
  Comment: Elected member of this, the oldest scientific society in Sweden (founded 1710).
• Member of Swedish Parliamentarians and Scientists, 1987-
  Comment: Members are elected. Only one scientist per field admitted.
• Nomination Committee, Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA)
• Permanent member of Appointments board, Faculty of Forest Science, SLU, 199907-
  Comment: (5 meetings.)
• The Prize and Reward committee of the Faculty of Forestry, SLU, 200601-
• Language committee, UU TN-faculty 200610-200812 
  Comment: The main task of this committee is to encourage the use of good written and spoken Swedish at the faculty, especially regarding under-graduate education. (4 meetings.)
• Celsius-Linné committe, UU TN Faculty, 200705- 
  Comment: The committee selects the speakers for the annual Celsius and Linné lectures. (2 meetings.)
• Member of the Board of UpGIS, the net for Geographical Information Systems at UU, 199904-
  Comment: Representing UU TN Faculty.
• Dissertation committee of Magnus Evestedt, Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 071210 
  Comment: Title: Parameter and state estimation with information-rich signals

Tommy Lindell
International:

• Affiliate Associate Professor and Officer for Valle Scandinavian Exchange Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, 1985-

Ingela Nyström
International:

• Governing Board Member, International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR), 2002-
• Programme committee member of the 12th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2007), Vienna, Austria, 0701-08
• Programme committee member of MICCAI 2007 Workshop: Interaction in Medical Image Analysis and Visualization, Brisbane, Australia, 0701-11
• Programme committee member of Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis (SCIA 2007), Aalborg, Denmark, 0701-06

National:

• Board member of Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis (SSBA), 2000-
  Comment: President 2002-2006
• Program chair of SNIC Interaction 2007, Uppsala, 0707-11
• Dissertation committee of Malin Ljungberg, Dept. of Information Technology, UU, 070420 
  Comment: Title: Design of High Performance Computing Software for Genericity and Variability
• Dissertation committee of Karljohan Lundin Palmerius, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, Norrköping, 070525 
  Comment: Title: Direct Volume Haptics for Visualization

Stefan Seipel
International:

• Programme Committee for Eurographics/IEEE VGTC Symposium on Visualization (EuroVis2007), Norrköping, 0701-05
  Comment: Member of the nomination committee.
• Programme Committee for MICCAI 2007 Workshop: Interaction in Medical Image Analysis and Visualization, Brisbane, Australia. 0701-11

National:

• Vice-chair of the SIGRAD organisation (Svenska föreningen för grafisk databehandling) 2004-
  Comment: On the Programme Committee for SIGRAD 2007, Uppsala
• Expert evaluator/advisor for a lecturer position, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 0710
  Comment: 4 applicants.
• Dissertation committee of Torbjörn Alm, Dept. of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 070315
  Comment: Title: Simulator Based Design: Methodology and Vehicle Display Applications

Stina Svensson
International:

• IAPR-TC18 discrete geometry, 20061117 
  Comment: Vice-chair (one of two) for Technical Committee no. 18 of IAPR.