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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - December 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. The Bold and the Brave by WIE and WISE Ottawa December 01, 2009
2. Survive and Thrive in Tough Job Market December 09, 2009
3. Technical talk on Inmarsat I-4 and BGAN Services
December 10, 2009
4. MUSES’09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance
Applications December 11-12, 2009
5. 2010 Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics January 2010
6. Last minute news - Ottawa Section Annual Christmas Dinner
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference September 6-9, 2010
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. TITLE: The Bold and the Brave
SPEAKER: Dr. Monique Frize (IEEE WIE Ottawa member and WISE Ottawa
member/co-founder)
DATE: Tuesday, December 1st 2009
TIME: 5:30 p.m to 7:30 p.m.
LOCATION: University of Ottawa, Colonel By Hall, Tower A, Room 707,
161 Louis-Pasteur
PARKING: as applicable on uOttawa campus
ADMISSION: free
REGISTRATION: rsvp.booklaunch@ieee.org
ORGANIZED BY: WIE Ottawa, WISE Ottawa and University of Ottawa Press
CONTACT: Jennifer Ng, jng@ieee.org
ABSTRACT:
The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have strived throughout
history to gain access to education and careers in science and
engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40
years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that context-
ualize the obstacles women have faced and continue to face in the fields
of science and engineering. She focuses on the history of women’s
education in mathematics and science through the ages, from antiquity
to the Enlightenment. While opportunities for women were often purposely
limited, she reveals how many women found ways to explore science
outside of formal education.
For more details, go to http://ieee.org/go/booklaunch
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2. TITLE: " Survive and Thrive in Tough Job Market"
SPEAKER: Thomas Lavrisa, Regulatory Program Officer at Canadian
Nuclear Safety Commission
DATE: Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
TIME: Registration/Refreshment (18:00 - 18:30); Seminar (18:45- 20:00)
LOCATION: Algonquin T-Building T302.
Map at http://www.algonquincollege.com/main/yourAlgonquinTab/directions/woodroffeMap.htm
PARKING: Free!
ADMISSION: Free!
REGISTRATION: by email to emily.hao.chen@ieee.org
ORGANIZED BY: Engineer in Transition Committee
CONTACT: Emily Chen
ABSTRACT: Curious about your career options?How can you get a job like
theirs? What are the secrets to their success?Don't miss this "Own Your
Career" Seminar, where presenter(s) will share their personal career
journeys with us and provide advice to job seekers. Please be sure to
check http://ottawa.ieee.ca/eit/EiT_Events.html for more details!
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3. Title: Inmarsat I-4 and BGAN Services
Speaker: Marie-Louise Sakkal, Stratos Global
Date: Thursday 10 Dec 2009
Time: Pub supper (optional) 6:00 pm
meeting starts 7h30 pm ends 9h30pm
Location: Bytown "A" Room, RA Centre, Riverside Drive
Parking: free at RA Centre. Go upstairs from the main lobby.
Supper attendees may wish to use the East lot and enter by
the corner door.
Free admission;
Contact: Hugh Reekie h.reekie@ieee.org or 613-728-5343
pre-registration appreciated
Organized by: IEEE-VTS Ottawa Chapter
URL: http://www3.bell.net/max-com/ottawa.vts.html
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4. TITLE: MUSES’09 - Workshop on Multi-Sensor Systems for Surveillance
Applications
SPEAKER: The workshop will consist of several oral presentations
provided by numerous experts in the field.
DATE: December 11 and 12, 2009
TIME: Full days- Exact schedule of will be provided soon.
LOCATION: University of Ottawa, Faculty of Engineering, SITE
Registration Fee Schedule: IEEE Regular Members: … $150
IEEE Retired / Job-seekers: … $50
IEEE Life Members: … $50
IEEE Students: … $50
Members of IET, PEO, OCRI, OTI: … $150
Non-Members: … $200
Students: … $80
REGISTRATION:
Deadline for abstract submission is Thursday, December 03, 2009
The workshop will consist of oral presentations of 30 minutes each.
Submit a short abstract (1/2 page) by e-mail to: petriu@site.uottawa.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Instrumentation and
Measurement Society,
The Ottawa Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society,
TC-30 Security and Contraband Detection of the IEEE I&M Society,
and the School of Information Technology and Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
CONTACT: Emil Petriu <petriu@site.uottawa.ca>,
Voicu Groza <groza@site.uottawa.ca>
ABSTRACT:
This workshop will provide a scientific forum to present and discuss
development aspects of multimodal (video, voice and sound, RFID, perimeter
intrusion, infrared, chemical, etc) intelligent sensor technologies for
geographical location and socio-cultural context-aware security risk
assessment and decision support in human-crowd surveillance applications.
Contributions covering theoretical developments and practical applications,
including but not limited to the following areas, are invited:
• algorithms for the integration of the heterogeneous information from
the surveillance sensors into a coherent multimodal model of the human
crowd behaviour;
• multi granularity-level feedback and human-computer interaction
interfaces for the human users/agents who are the final threat assessors
and decision makers in the specific security monitoring situation.
• image processing and computer-vision algorithms for tracking and
recognition of relevant face and body-language patterns such as facial
emotions, body gait and gestures of the humans in a crowd;
• the measurement and evaluation of the environmental parameters
(background sound, ambient light, etc) that provide contextual
information for specific surveillance task;
• multidisciplinary (human psychology, multicultural sociology, etc.)
context-aware system for the real-time evaluation of threatening
behavioural patterns of humans identified as potential security risk;
OTHER DETAILS:
Sponsors: University of Ottawa, IBM Canada Ltd., Larus Corp.,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
Organizers: Honorary Chairs - Mel Siegel, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
General Chairs - Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Don Aldrige, IBM Canada Ltd.
Technical Program Chairs
Voicu Groza, University of Ottawa, Canada
Emil M. Petriu, University of Ottawa, Canada
Local Arrangement Chairs
Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section, Canada
Albino Cordeiro, University of Ottawa, Canada
Publication Chairs
Rami Abielmona, Larus Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada
Nizar Sakr, University of Ottawa, Canada
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5. Title: 2010 Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics
Date: Friday, Jan 22, 2010
Location: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Main Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
TIME: 8:30am – 11:30am
Speakers:
IEEE PS Distinguished Lecturer: Prof Tetsuya Mizumoto of Tokyo
Institute of Technology: "Optical Nonreciprocal Devices for Integrated
Photonics"
IEEE PS Ottawa Chapter Guest Speaker: Dr Jackson Klein of Optiwave:
“Title TBD”
IEEE PS Ottawa Chapter Guest Speaker: Dr Cristian Popescu of
spectra-nova: “Title TBD”
For more information, please contact: Kexing Liu kexing.liu@ieee.org
Look for the next newsletter for more specific details
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6. Last minute news - Ottawa Section Annual Christmas Dinner
A tentative booking for the IEEE OS Annual Christmas Dinner has been
made for Wednesday, December 16th, 2009, at 5:30PM.
If you would like to attend this year's dinner,please email your
intentions to Section Secretary,
Carolyn MacIsaac (carolyn_macisaac@ieee.org), ASAP -
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B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Results of the previous A&A Review Panel meeting held on October 17,
2009 in Sydney, NSW, Australia. are as follows. Charles E Hickman,
Chaired the A&A Committee, 218 members were elevated, the results
became available in November.
* Cotaras, Frederick Member of Oceanic Engineering Society
* Dubuc, Christian Member of Communications Society
* Hossain, Mohammod Member of Instrumentation and Measurement Society
* Khoury, Tony Member of Communications Society
* Lunscher, Wolfram --
* Panario, Daniel Member of Information Theory Society
Congratulations to the newly elevated Senior Members.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
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2. 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2010-Fall
6–9 September 2010, Ottawa, Canada
http://www.ieeevtc.org/vtc2010fall/
The 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference will be held
6–9 September 2010 at the Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada.
This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society will bring together individuals from academia, government,
and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless,
mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature
world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as
application sessions.
Paper submission details will be published shortly.
Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2010
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C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - November 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Talk on Swarm Intelligence: Where We've Been and Where We're
Going
2. Ten Habits of Highly Successful Board Designers November 02, 2009
3. WORKSHOP on Self Monitoring, Analysis, Record and Testing for Adverse
Reactions to Medication(SMART ARM 2009) November 12-13, 2009
4. Technical talk on Modular Design of Configurable Systems on Chip
5. Technical talk on The Particle Filtering Methodology in
Signal Processing
6. Misc. announcements
7. Technical Talk on Towards Development of Diagnostic Technique
for High Voltage Polymer Insulated Power Cables using the DC
Polarization/Depolarization Measurements November 05, 2009
8. National Career Event- Ottawa November 05, 2009
9. Technical talk on BGAN - A Sophisticated Portable Video Uplink
Satellite Terminal
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference September 6-9, 2010
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. TITLE: Swarm Intelligence: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
SPEAKER: Dr. Russel Ebehart, a Distinguished Lecturer of the CIS,
Professor in the Purdue School of Engineering and Technology at
the Indiana University / Purdue University Indianapolis
DATE: Monday November 02, 2009
TIME: Distinguished lecture (10:30 - 11:30)
LOCATION: Auditorium of Building M-50 at the National Research Council
Campus on 1200 Montreal Rd., Ottawa
PARKING: None
ADMISSION: None
REGISTRATION: None
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE CIS Ottawa Chapter
CONTACT: Nizar Sakr (nsakr@ieee.org) and Rami Abielmona
(rabielmo@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: The definition of, and basic principles of, swarm intelligence
are first discussed. Application areas are listed. Three swarm
intelligence paradigm examples are reviewed: cultural algorithms, ant
colony optimization, and particle swarm optimization. Tracking and
optimizing dynamic systems with swarms is discussed. Recent applications
are summarized: unmanned air vehicle mission planning, putting a person
in the swarm using an NK landscape game, and optimizing resource
allocation. Measuring swarm population diversity, and using non-
parametric statistics for performance metrics are reviewed. Finally,
recent accomplishments of the swarm intelligence field, and challenges
being faced by the field, are outlined.
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2. TITLE: The Ten Habits of Highly Successful Board Designers
SPEAKER: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelist
Bogatin Enterprises
DATE: Monday November 2, 2009
TIME: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
LOCATION: FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive,
Suite 203,Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8K7
URL:http://www.fidus.com
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free, and is on a first to reply by e-mail basis.
Preference given to IEEE EMC/MTT/AP society members.
Seating is limited. E-mail Reservation is required.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter, and
the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapter
CONTACT: Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter
Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca,
Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 277-9311
Dr. Qiubo Ye, Chairman of the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters
Qiubo Ye [qiubo.ye@crc.ca]
ABSTRACT: One can’t learn everything about signal integrity in one hour,
or in one day or even in one week. But most engineers don’t have the time
to spend weeks learning the field. If all you will ever spend studying
signal integrity is one hour, this is the hour you should take.
By leveraging just ten design habits described in this lecture, any
engineer can dramatically improve the signal integrity performance of
their high speed products.
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3. TITLE: WORKSHOP on Self Monitoring, Analysis, Record and Testing
for Adverse Reactions to Medication(SMART ARM 2009)
Honorary Chair: Alessandro Ferrero, President, IEEE Instrumentation
and Measurement Society
General Chair: Rafik Goubran, Professor and Dean, Faculty of
Engineering and Design, Carleton University
DATE: November 12 - 13, 2009
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering,
University of Ottawa
PARKING: Paid parking facilities are available at the University
of Ottawa parking at 801 King Edward Ave (enter off Mann St.)
ADMISSION: applicable fee or free Applicable fees. Consult the
workshop web site for the regular and the student registration fees.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Section, Ottawa Chapters of IEEE Instrumen-
tation and Measurement Society and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society
CONTACT: Dr. Voicu Groza – VGroza@SITE.uOttawa.ca
ABSTRACT: The foremost challenge in health care is to adequately
monitor the response to medication. This workshop is set to address
this challenge by focusing on the "hard problem" of quantifying the
response to treatment, in view of the recent advances in measurement,
computation, and communication at the interface between life, health,
and medical sciences. As the topic is of universal interest, the
workshop will be a cross-disciplinary, open forum that allows partici-
pants with various backgrounds to explore the issues from different
perspectives.
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4. TITLE: Modular Design of Configurable Systems on Chip
SPEAKER: Dr. Miodrag Bolic, an Associate Professor in the in the SITE
Department at the University of Ottawa
DATE: Monday November 16, 2009
TIME: Talk (18h45 - 20h00)
LOCATION: Room 5084 of the SITE Building at the University of Ottawa
PARKING: None
ADMISSION: None
REGISTRATION: None
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Computer Society Ottawa Chapter
CONTACT: Rami Abielmona (rabielmo@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: Processing requirements of the majority of embedded
applications are growing and often cannot be solved by a single embedded
processor, but by extending the systems with customized configurable
hardware or designing multiprocessing systems. In this seminar, we will
present research performed at the University of Ottawa that deals with
the following aspects of system on chip design: instruction set
extension, configurable processors and hardware accelerators. The
research is directed towards designing a system that will automatically
generate a customized processor and hardware accelerators on an FPGA
platform for the given user code based on input requirements and
constraints.
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5. TITLE: The Particle Filtering Methodology in Signal Processing
SPEAKER: Prof. Petar M. Djuric, Department of ECE, Stony Brook
University, NY
DATE: Monday, November 23rd, 2009
TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and
Engineering (SITE-5084), Boardroom, 5th floor, 800 King Edward Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Map (look for SITE building):
URL: http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/
PARKING: no cost parking on King Edward Ave, Mann Ave and
Green field Ave.
Location map at http://www.protection.uottawa.
ADMISSION: free (Registration required)
REGISTRATION: Send request to Balakumar Balasingam balasing@site.uottawa.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Signal Processing Society,
Oceanic Engineering Society, & Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
(SP, OE, & GRS) in joint venture with the Joint Chapter of
Communications Society & Broadcast Technology Society (ComSoc & BTS)
CONTACT: Balakumar Balasingam balasing@site.uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: Particle filtering is a Monte Carlo – based methodology for
sequential signal processing. It is designed for estimation of hidden
processes that are dynamic and that can exhibit most severe
nonlinearities. Also, it can be applied with equal ease to problems that
involve any type of probability distributions. Therefore, it is not
surprising that particle filtering has gained immense popularity.
In this talk, first, the basics of particle filtering will be provided
with description of its essential steps. Then some important topics of
the theory will be addressed including Rao-Blackwellization, smoothing,
and estimation of constant parameters. Finally, a presentation of most
recent advances in the theory will be given. The talk will contain signal
processing examples which will aid in gaining valuable insights about the
methodology.
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6. Misc Announcements:
AGM & 125th Anniversary:
Ottawa Section ExCom is finalizing the details to bring you these
events in November -- details will be e-mailed soon!
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Membership Renewals: It's that time of the year to renew membership and
keep your IEEE benefits uninterrupted. Something to note ...
IEEE offers the following special circumstances categories:
* Minimum Income
* Retired
* Unemployed
* Disabled
More details are found at
http://www.ieee.org/web/
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7. TITLE: Towards Development of Diagnostic Technique for High Voltage
Polymer Insulated Power Cables using the DC Polarization/Depolarization
Measurements
Speaker: Dr. Mahmoud Abou-Dakka, P.Eng., National Research Council of
Canada, Ottawa, Canada
DATE: Thursday November 5, 2009
TIME: 10:40 a.m. Registration and Networking;
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon Seminar
PLACE: National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa,
Building M-36, Kelvin Room
Parking: No fee at the visitor’s parking.
ORGANIZED & SPONSORED BY: Joint IEEE Ottawa-Montreal Section DEIS
Chapter, IEEE Power and Energy Society Ottawa Chapter, IEEE Ottawa
IMS Chapter, and EPMG of INMS/NRC.
ADMISSION: free but registration is required for security reasons.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail to Mahmoud Abou-Dakka.
Contact: Mahmoud Abou-Dakka, mahmoud.abou-dakka@nrc-cnrc.
Wahab Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org
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8. The National Career Event - Ottawa
http://www.ecarrieres.com/en/
This event follows the previous one held earlier this year and will be
held on Thus., Nov. 5, 2009 from 10AM-5PM at the Hampton Inn & Conference
Centre. The target group is Engineering and Hi-Tech professionals
with a minimum of two years of experience. The Ottawa Section will
be co-staffing the Engineering Institute of Canada booth.
See you there!
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9. Title: BGAN - A Sophisticated Portable Video Uplink Satellite
Terminal
Speaker: Marie-Louise Sakkal, Stratos International
Date: Thursday 10 Dec 2009
Time: Pub supper (optional) 6:00 pm
meeting starts 7h30 pm ends 9h30pm
Location: Bytown "A" Room, RA Centre, Riverside Drive
Parking: free at RA Centre. Go upstairs from the main lobby.
Supper attendees may wish to use the East lot and enter by
the corner door.
Free admission;
Contact: Hugh Reekie h.reekie@ieee.org or 613-728-5343
pre-registration appreciated
Organized by: IEEE-VTS Ottawa Chapter
URL: http://www3.bell.net/max-com/
more details next month.
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B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
No new results were available to publish at the time of preparing this
newsletter.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
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2. 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2010-Fall
6–9 September 2010, Ottawa, Canada
http://www.ieeevtc.org/
The 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference will be held
6–9 September 2010 at the Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada.
This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society will bring together individuals from academia, government,
and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless,
mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature
world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as
application sessions.
Paper submission details will be published shortly.
Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2010
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3. Update on the state of WIE and TISP Ottawa News
WIE Update:
http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-wie
The Ottawa WIE website has been revamped and is now available at
http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-wie . Please check our "Events section to
see what our executives have planned!
As you renew your IEEE membership for next year, consider to add
WIE membership (only $25USD/year). Recent surveys indicated that
over 25% of WIE membership is male. They responded that while they
did not require directly services from WIE, they paid the dues in
order to support the women in the profession and also the women in
their lives who consider/will consider engineering as a career.
So please consider to support.
Reminder that WIE membership is free for students (undergrad and
grad) as well as for Life Members so check WIE when you renew
this year! Please contact for questions, comments, etc -
Jennifer Ng, WIE Ottawa Chair jng@ieee.org
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TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) Ottawa News
http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-
The TISP Ottawa Committee is official. Please check the information
given on the webpage above. The TISP Ottawa committee is currently
looking for volunteers to help with the workshops to the educators.
If you are interested to help out and support our pre-engineering
education efforts, please send email to Jennifer Ng, TISP Ottawa
Champion jng@ieee.org
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C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - October 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Recent Advancements in Photonics –
Celebrating 125th Anniversary of IEEE October 30, 2009
2. FPGA programming competition
3. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) announces the winners of Annual
Student paper competition.
4. Call for papers and Conference-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and
Energy Conference (2009 IEEE CEPEC) October 22-23, 2009
5. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
6. Ten Habits of Highly Successful Board Designers November 2, 2009
7. Misc announcements
8. National Career Event- Ottawa November 5, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference September 6-9, 2010
3. Update on the state of WIE and TISP
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. Celebrating 125th Anniversary of IEEE
Recent Advancements in Photonics–Celebrating 125th Anniversary of IEEE
An IEEE-PS/OPRA/OPIN-OPC/NRC event
A Symposium on the above topic will be held on
Date: Friday, October 30, 2009 at
Location: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Main Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
Time: 12:30pm – 4:30pm
program details will be posted on the IEEE Ottawa Section website
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2. TITLE: FPGA programming competition: Innovate North-America
DATE: Submit proposal by Friday October 30, 2009
TIME: N/A
URL : http://university.altera.com/
PARKING: N/A
ADMISSION: free
REGISTRATION: http://university.altera.com/
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Section, Joint chapter TMC/SSIT/PC
CONTACT: alfredo.herrera@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: Innovate North-America is a multi-discipline engineering
design contest open to all graduate and undergraduate engineering
students in the North-America region. The goal of the annual contest
is to help students to cultivate their design interests of embedded
processor, to improve their design technique, and to make their
creativity and innovation into best practice. All semifinalist teams
received educational material, development software from Altera and
Impulse, and Altera Development kits. The winner and the runners up
will be published at the FCCM Symposium (www.fccm.org), cash prizes
will awarded.
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3. Winners announced by IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter
of Annual Student Paper Competition
IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter is pleased to announce the winner
of the "2009 IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Student
Paper Competition"; Chao Wang of University of Ottawa. His paper
"Simultaneous optical spectral shaping and wavelength-to-time mapping
for photonic microwave arbitrary waveform generation" is an excellent
representation of high quality research and technology advancement.
Congratulations.
The award will be presented at the IEEE PS Ottawa Chapter Symposium
on Advancements of Photonics to be held on Friday Oct. 30 at the
Auditorium of M-50 in NRC. Details of the symposium will follow
shortly. For more information please visit PS Ottawa chapter
web site: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos/
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4. Title: Call for Papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy
Conference (2009 IEEE CEPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: http://www.epec09.com/
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
IEEE Canada - Electrical Power and Energy Conference 2009
Conférence sur l’Énergie Électrique 2009
http://www.ieee.ca/epec09/
"Sustainable/ Renewable Energy Systems and Technologies"
"Les Systémes Énergiques Durables/Renouvelabes Et Les Technologies"
October 22 - 23, 2009, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Registration is open. You would not want to miss this conference
now that the Ontario Government has recently launched the FIT and
microFIT programs that incents renewable energy generators to connect
to the grid.
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5. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: N/A (CLOSED)
Notice of Acceptance: N/A (CLOSED)
Early Registration: N/A
Camera Ready: N/A
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
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6. TITLE: The Ten Habits of Highly Successful Board Designers
SPEAKER: Dr. Eric Bogatin, Signal Integrity Evangelist
Bogatin Enterprises
DATE: Monday November 2, 2009
TIME: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
LOCATION: FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive,
Suite 203,Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8K7
URL:http://www.fidus.com
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free, and is on a first to reply by e-mail basis.
Preference given to IEEE EMC/MTT/AP society members.
Seating is limited. E-mail Reservation is required.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter, and
the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapter
CONTACT: Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter
Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca,
Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 277-9311
Dr. Qiubo Ye, Chairman of the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters
Qiubo Ye [qiubo.ye@crc.ca]
ABSTRACT: One can’t learn everything about signal integrity in one hour,
or in one day or even in one week. But most engineers don’t have the time
to spend weeks learning the field. If all you will ever spend studying
signal integrity is one hour, this is the hour you should take.
By leveraging just ten design habits described in this lecture, any
engineer can dramatically improve the signal integrity performance of
their high speed products.
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7. Misc Announcements:
AGM & 125th Anniversary:
Ottawa Sectopn ExCom is finalizing the details to bring you these
events in November -- details will be e-mailed soon!
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Membership Renewals: It's that time of the year to renew membership and
keep your IEEE benefits uninterrupted. Something to note ...
IEEE offers the following special circumstances categories:
* Minimum Income
* Retired
* Unemployed
* Disabled
More details are found at
http://www.ieee.org/web/
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Ottawa Section Distinguished Lecturer (DL)!
http://www.ieee.org/portal/
congratulations to our Branislav Djokic, Research Officer National
Research Council Canada, Electrical Power Measurements, for becoming
a Distinguished Lecturer for the Instrumentation and Measurement Society
(IMS). http://ieee-ims.org/main/
"IEEE Distinguished Lecturers are engineering professionals who help
lead their fields in new technical developments that shape the global
community. These experts:
* specialize in the field of interest of their Society/Council.
* travel to various technical and regional groups to lecture at events."
Ottawa can now boast that three out of the five IMS DL are in Ottawa.
Branislav joins:
* Shervin Shirmohammadi, Associate Professor at the School of Information
Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada
* Abed (Abdulmotaleb) El Saddik is associate professor at the School
of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE) at the University
of Ottawa
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8. The National Career Event - Ottawa
http://www.ecarrieres.com/en/
This event follows the previous one held earlier this year and will be
held on Thu., Nov. 5, 2009 from 10AM-5PM at the Hampton Inn & Conference
Centre. The target group is Engineering and Hi-Tech professionals
with a minimum of two years of experience. The Ottawa Section will
be co-staffing the Engineering Institute of Canada booth.
See you there!
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B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
The last A&A Review Panel meeting was held on 12 September 2009 in
Saint Louis, MO. Chaired by Charles E Hickman.
* Joslin, Chris -
* Lavrisa, Thomas -
* Liu, Kexing Member of Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Member of Communications Society
Member of Photonics Society (Formerly LEOS)
* Valdes, Julio Member of Computational Intelligence Society
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
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2. 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2010-Fall
6–9 September 2010, Ottawa, Canada
http://www.ieeevtc.org/
The 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference will be held
6–9 September 2010 at the Westin Hotel, Ottawa, Canada.
This semi-annual flagship conference of the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Society will bring together individuals from academia, government,
and industry to discuss and exchange ideals in the fields of wireless,
mobile, and vehicular technology. The conference will feature
world-class plenary speakers, tutorials, and technical as well as
application sessions.
Paper submission details will be published shortly.
Paper submission deadline: 15 February 2010
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3. Update on the state of WIE and TISP Ottawa News
WIE Update:
http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-wie
The Ottawa WIE website has been revamped and is now available at
http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-wie . Please check our "Events section to
see what our executives have planned!
As you renew your IEEE membership for next year, consider to add
WIE membership (only $25USD/year). Recent surveys indicated that
over 25% of WIE membership is male. They responded that while they
did not require directly services from WIE, they paid the dues in
order to support the women in the profession and also the women in
their lives who consider/will consider engineering as a career.
So please consider to support.
Reminder that WIE membership is free for students (undergrad and
grad) as well as for Life Members so check WIE when you renew
this year! Please contact for questions, comments, etc -
Jennifer Ng, WIE Ottawa Chair jng@ieee.org
------------------------------
TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) Ottawa News
http://ieee.org/go/ottawa-
The TISP Ottawa Committee is official. Please check the information
given on the webpage above. The TISP Ottawa committee is currently
looking for volunteers to help with the workshops to the educators.
If you are interested to help out and support our pre-engineering
education efforts, please send email to Jennifer Ng, TISP Ottawa
Champion jng@ieee.org
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - September 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Fracture Repair of the Aging Skeleton Spetember 14, 2009
2. Call for papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE CEPEC)
3. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. National Career Event
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. TITLE: Fracture Repair of the Aging Skeleton
SPEAKER: Prof. Hanspeter Frei, Dept of Mechanical and Aerospace
Eng, Carleton University, Ottawa
DATE: Mon. Sept 14, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment ( 17.45 - 18:00); seminar(18:00 - 19:30)
REFRESHMENT: Light (juice and cookies)
LOCATION: Mackenzie Building 4359, Carleton University
PARKING:Paid Payable at the machine in the lot.Parking lot P2 (Visitors)
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: None
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter
CONTACT: yuuono@sce.carleton.ca or sreeraman@ieee.org
ABSTRACT:
Osteoporosis related fractures are among the most common causes of
disability and are a major contributor to medical care cost in many
parts of the world. Osteoporosis affects 28 million Americans with an
estimated direct cost of 14 billion dollars per year. The surgical
treatment of osteoporotic fractures usually requires the fixation of
bone fragments with screws, which remains a significant clinical
challenge. Bone screw fixations anchored in osteoporotic bone have a
failure rate of up to 35%. In this talk an interdisciplinary approach
will be discussed that combines a novel bone screw anchor, "smart"
orthopaedic implants and tissue engineering to address these clinical
challenges.
______________________________
2. Title: Call for Papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy
Conference (2009 IEEE CEPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: http://www.epec09.com/
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
______________________________
3. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: N/A (CLOSED)
Notice of Acceptance: N/A (CLOSED)
Early Registration: N/A
Camera Ready: N/A
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
______________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Following members were elevated in May 2009 meeting,
Following members were elevated in the A&A meeting held on
June 27, 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA, results became
available in July.
* Parsons, Kieran Member of communications Society
* Raguparan, Masilamany member of Communications Society
* Roy, Dipak
Following members were elevated in the A&A meeting held on August 01,
2009 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa USA.
* Adnani, Nikhil Member of Communications Society
Congratulations to the above Senior Members.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
______________________________
2. A National Career Event will be held for a second time this year
on November 5, 2009, at the Hampton Inn & Conference Centre.
Visit www.nationalcareerevent.com for detail. The IEEE Ottawa Section
will be sharing a booth with the Engineering Institute of Canada.
______________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - August 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
____________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Call for papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy
Conference (2009 IEEE CEPEC) on October 22-23, 2009
2. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan
Conference on Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) on
October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. National Career Event on November 2009
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements Nothing to
report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
____________________________________________________________
1. Title: Call for Papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy
Conference (2009 IEEE CEPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: http://www.epec09.com/
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
____________________________________________________________
2. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the
following: Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference
on Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: N/A (CLOSED)
Notice of Acceptance: N/A (CLOSED)
Early Registration: N/A
Camera Ready: N/A
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
____________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Following members were elevated in May 2009 meeting,
Following members were elevated in the previous A&A
meeting held on 27 June 2009 in Los Angeles, California,
USA, results became available in July.
* Raguparan, Masilamany member of Communications Society
* Roy, Dipak
Congratulations to the above Senior Members.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership
elevation in Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior
Members Page http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
____________________________________________________________
2. A National Career Event will be held for a second time
this year on November 5, 2009, at the Hampton Inn &
Conference Centre. Visit www.nationalcareerevent.com for
detail. The IEEE Ottawa Section will be sharing a booth
with the Engineering Institute of Canada.
____________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - July 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. IEEE Ottawa Section won hosting of ICC 2012 June 2012
2. Technical talk on Converged Services and NGN July 15, 2009
3. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Annual Student Paper
Competition announcement.
4. Call for papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE CEPEC) October 22-23, 2009
5. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
6. Congratulations to the 2009 IEEE Student Graduates,from the Ottawa
Section Officers.
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. National Career Event November 2009
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. IEEE Ottawa Section won hosting of ICC 2012
Thanks to hard work of Wahab Almuhtadi (past Section Chair, and
Communications Society Ottawa Chapter Chair), plus the strong support
of Telus, Ottawa Tourism, Ottawa Convention Centre, and many many
other
local industry and academia supporters, the Ottawa Section has won
the
right to host the prestigious International Conference on Communi-
cations in 2012. It may seem so long away; however, this effort has
taken a year to get to this point and a lot of work is yet to come.
More detail will be provided on our website. In the next few months,
we will be looking forward to contacting those who have already come
forward to help.
The announcement was made on June 17, 2009, at the International
Conference on Communications (ICC) 2009 in Dresden, Germany.
Ottawa beat out other bidding major international cities. ICC 2012
will be held at the Ottawa Convention Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
from June 10 till June 15, 2012. The estimated number of the conference
attendees will be 1500 to 2000. The conference will have a significant
impact in regaining the reputation and business of the Canadian telecom
and high tech companies that are facing many challenges during these
recent years, and would raise the profile and visibility of these
companies. As well as the conference will benefit the academia,
scientific and engineering research, industry and local business
in Ottawa.
ICC2008 was held in Beijing, China www.ieee-icc.org/2008. ICC2009
was
held in Dresden, Germany www.ieee-icc.org/2009www.ieee-icc.org/2009.
ICC2010 will be held in Cape Town, South Africa www.ieee-icc.org/2010,
and ICC2011 will be held in Kyoto, Japan www.ieee-icc.org/2011."
______________________________________________________________________
2. Title: Converged Services and NGN
Speaker: Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer,
Distinguished MTS of Verizon Network and Technology, Waltham, MA,
USA
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 15th, 2009, Refreshments, Registration
and Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced
Technology, Building-T, Room T129
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas.
No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please
register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org
or Patrick Couture Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
More Info: www.ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc
Abstract:
Commoditization of voice service has reached such a state that anyone
with a server to provide registry and addressing (identification)
functions can offer it to the Internet community using the voice over
the Internet protocol (IP) or VoIP technology. Traditional client-server
model has evolved to peer-to-peer model for near-real-time voice and
multimedia (gaming, video, etc.) sessions. Voice mail service is being
replaced by Instant-messaging (for presence-announced users), use
of
Star codes for advanced call/session feature activation is being replaced
by Web based service-provisioning interface, and so on. Similar
revolution is also happening in the areas of IP-based Television (IPTV)
service development and distribution. These are only a glimpse of
what
is possible with the new/emerging converged services paradigm. However,
many issues related to reliability/availability, security/privacy,
mobility, service provisioning and continuity, regulation, operations,
and quality of service and experience (QoS/QoE) still remain open.
In this discussion, we will explore the current activities of the
traditional service providers to find implementable and operable
solutions to these problems in the evolving Next Generation Networks
(NGNs). The objective is to support VoIP, IPTV, and other multimedia
services seamlessly over a variety of interconnected networks using
the
emerging IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and service-oriented architecture
/network (SOA/SON) based standards
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3. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Annual Student Paper
Competition
The IEEE Photonics Society (formerly, the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics
Society) Ottawa Chapter is pleased to announce its annual Student
Paper
Competition.
To participate in the competition:
· You must be a full time graduate / undergraduate student
at a
post-secondary educational institution within the IEEE defined
geographic region of Ottawa Chapter as of June 30, 2009
· You are the first author of an original research paper published
or accepted for publication in a peer reviewed technical journal between
July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009 (N/A as the dates have passed)
in the area of photonics as defined by the
scope of the newly named IEEE Photonics Society.
- To enter the competition, please send the following to the IEEE
Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter Chair via email: kexing.liu@ieee.org
· A letter of endorsement from your academic supervisor
· A copy of the paper published or accepted for publication
- One entry per student
- Entry Deadline: N/A Closed
- Winner
· The winner will be announced by Sept 1, 2009
· The winner will receive a $200 cash prize
· The prize will be given out at the Chapter's Symposium on
Advancements in Photonics in the fall of 2009
- Eligible post secondary institutions
· University of Ottawa
· Carleton University
· Université du Québec en Outaouais
· Algonquin College
· Heritage College
· Cegep de l'Outaouais
-If you have any questions,please contact Kexing (kexing.liu@ieee.org)
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Title: Call for Papers-2009 IEEE Electrical Power and Energy
Conference (2009 IEEE CEPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: http://www.epec09.com/
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: N/A (CLOSED)
Notice of Acceptance: N/A (CLOSED)
Early Registration: July 24, 2009;
Camera Ready: July 31, 2009
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
_____________________________________________________________________
6. Congratulations to the 2009 IEEE Student Graduates from the Ottawa
Section Officers.
All the Ottawa Section Officers welcome these graduates into the
start of a new stage in their life and hope that IEEE will continue
to
bring them more benefit.
Contact one of the officers (www.ottawa.ieee.ca) for further service.
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Following members were elevated in May 2009 meeting,
Following members were elevated in the previous A&A meeting held
in
May 2009, results became available in June.
* Boukerche, Azzedine Member of Communications Society and
Computer Society
* Haythornthwaite, R Member of Laser and Electro-Optics Society and
Components, Packaging, and Manufacturing
Technology Society
* Rudra, Angsuman Member of Communications Society
Congratulations to the above Senior Members.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2. A National Career Event will be held for a second time this year
on November 5, 2009, at the Hampton Inn & Conference Centre.
Visit www.nationalcareerevent.com for detail. The IEEE Ottawa Section
will be sharing a booth with the Engineering Institute of Canada.
_____________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - June 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. Engineering Aspects of Electromagnetic Shielding June 04, 2009
2. Development of Diagnostic Measurement Techniques for Power
Equipment Using Radio Sensing,Computational Electromagnetic
Method, and Signal Processing June 05, 2009
3. Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis
of Uncertain Systems June 15, 2009
4. Technical talk on Converged Services and NGN July 15, 2009
5. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Annual Student Paper
Competition announcement.
6. 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC) October 22-23, 2009
7. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
8. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June
5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. TITLE: Engineering Aspects of Electromagnetic Shielding
SPEAKER: Dr. Sergiu Radu, SUN MicroSystems Menlo Park, California
DATE: Thursday June 4, 2009
TIME: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
LOCATION: FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive,
Suite 203,Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8K7
Directions: www.fidus.ca
PARKING: Free
ADMISSION: Free, and is on a first to reply basis.
Preference given to IEEE EMC/MTT/AP society members.
Seating is limited.
Pizza and soft drinks will be served
REGISTRATION: E-mail Reservation is required.
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter, and the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP
Chapter
CONTACT: Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter
Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca,
Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 277-9311
Dr. Qiubo Ye, Chairman of the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters
Qiubo Ye [qiubo.ye@crc.ca]
ABSTRACT: Every electronic equipment use some type of shielding, and
from a theoretical point of view, electromagnetic shielding is among
the difficult areas of EMC. The lecture is introducing basic shielding
concepts, insisting on their practical limitations, and presents the
typical engineering problems associated with shielding. Among the
aspects discussed are the materials used for shielding, chassis
resonances, shielding integrity problems (seams, joints, apertures,
perf patterns), aperture coupling and shield's grounding.
_____________________________________________________________________
2.Title: Development of Diagnostic Measurement Techniques for Power
Equipment Using Radio Sensing, Computational Electromagnetic Method,
and Signal Processing
Speaker: Dr. Masatake Kawada, University of Tokushima,
Tokushima, Japan
DATE: Friday June 5, 2009
TIME: Registration and Networking: 1:40 p.m.;
Seminar: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
PLACE: National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa,
Building M-50, Room 115.
Parking: No fee at the visitor’s parking.
REGISTRATION: maboudakka@ieee.org
ORGANIZED & SPONSORED BY: Joint Chapter of IEEE Ottawa-Montreal
Section DEIS, IEEE Ottawa PES Chapters, Ottawa IMS Chapter,
Ottawa RS Chapter, and EPMG of INMS/NRC
ADMISSION: Free but registration is required for security reasons.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail to Mahmoud Abou-Dakka.
URL: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/#Development
_____________________________________________________________________
3. Title: Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis of
Uncertain Systems by
Speaker: IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Dr. Graziano Chesi
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University
of Hong Kong
DATE: Monday, June 15, 2009.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking; 6:30 – 9:00
p.m.
Seminar from 7PM-8PM.
PLACE: Algonquin College, Woodroffe Campus, T-Building, Room T-302.
PARKING: free after 5:00 p.m. at the green #9 and red #8 areas.
Admission: Free. Registration is required.
Registration: To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail:
raedabdullah@ieee.org
Organized by: IEEE Ottawa Reliability Society and Algonquin College
Student Branch
Abstract The stability and performance analysis of dynamic systems
affected by structured uncertainties usually requires the solution
of
non-convex optimization problems. A possible way to tackle such
problems is to construct a family of convex relaxations which provide
upper or lower bounds to the solution of the original problem. In
this
talk, convex relaxations for several robustness problems are presented
by exploiting classical results and providing new insights on the
theory
of homogeneous polynomial forms. In particular, a general framework
is
introduced for dealing with positivity of forms via the solution of
linear matrix inequalities, which are a special class of convex problems.
Lyapunov analysis of uncertain systems affected by time-invariant
or
time-varying uncertainty, computation of the parametric robust stability
margin, robust performance analysis for polytopic systems, are examples
of
problems addressed within the proposed framework. This talk is based
on
the new book "Homogeneous Polynomial Forms for Robustness Analysis
of
Uncertain Systems" by G. Chesi et al. (Springer, 2009, in press)
http://www.eee.hku.hk/~chesi/
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Title: Converged Services and NGN
Speaker: Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer,
Distinguished MTS of Verizon Network and Technology, Waltham, MA,
USA
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 15th, 2009, Refreshments, Registration
and Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced
Technology, Building-T, Room T129
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas.
No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please
register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org
or Patrick Couture Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
More Info: www.ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc
Abstract:
Commoditization of voice service has reached such a state that anyone
with a server to provide registry and addressing (identification)
functions can offer it to the Internet community using the voice over
the Internet protocol (IP) or VoIP technology. Traditional client-server
model has evolved to peer-to-peer model for near-real-time voice and
multimedia (gaming, video, etc.) sessions. Voice mail service is being
replaced by Instant-messaging (for presence-announced users), use
of
Star codes for advanced call/session feature activation is being replaced
by Web based service-provisioning interface, and so on. Similar
revolution is also happening in the areas of IP-based Television (IPTV)
service development and distribution. These are only a glimpse of
what
is possible with the new/emerging converged services paradigm. However,
many issues related to reliability/availability, security/privacy,
mobility, service provisioning and continuity, regulation, operations,
and quality of service and experience (QoS/QoE) still remain open.
In this discussion, we will explore the current activities of the
traditional service providers to find implementable and operable solutions
to these problems in the evolving Next Generation Networks (NGNs).
The objective is to support VoIP, IPTV, and other multimedia services
seamlessly over a variety of interconnected networks using the emerging
IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and service-oriented architecture/network
(SOA/SON) based standards
_____________________________________________________________________
5. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Annual Student Paper
Competition
The IEEE Photonics Society (formerly, the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics
Society) Ottawa Chapter is pleased to announce its annual Student
Paper
Competition.
To participate in the competition:
· You must be a full time graduate / undergraduate student
at a
post-secondary educational institution within the IEEE defined
geographic region of Ottawa Chapter as of June 30, 2009
· You are the first author of an original research paper published
or accepted for publication in a peer reviewed technical journal between
July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009 in the area of photonics as defined
by the
scope of the newly named IEEE Photonics Society.
- To enter the competition, please send the following to the IEEE
Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter Chair via email: kexing.liu@ieee.org
· A letter of endorsement from your academic supervisor
· A copy of the paper published or accepted for publication
- One entry per student
- Entry Deadline: June 30, 2009
- Winner
· The winner will be announced by Sept 1, 2009
· The winner will receive a $200 cash prize
· The prize will be given out at the Chapter's Symposium on
Advancements in Photonics in the fall of 2009
- Eligible post secondary institutions
· University of Ottawa
· Carleton University
· Université du Québec en Outaouais
· Algonquin College
· Heritage College
· Cegep de l'Outaouais
-If you have any questions,please contact Kexing (kexing.liu@ieee.org)
_____________________________________________________________________
6. Title: 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: TBA
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
7. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter
are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
8. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: N/A (CLOSED)
Notice of Acceptance: N/A (CLOSED)
Early Registration: July 24, 2009;
Camera Ready: July 31, 2009
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
no new results available at this time to publish.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop
will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.
All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.
An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu
The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline has expired
on January 23,2009.
Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
_____________________________________________________________________
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IEEE OTTAWA NEWSLETTER - MAY 2009
Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) http://web.ncf.ca/fi942
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. General-Purpose EM Solver(GEMS): A New Simulation Tool for
Modeling Large-Scale Electromagnetic Systems on Parallel Platforms
(Two technical presentations). May 05, 2009
2. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
3. Why Technical Writing Matters and What It Can Do for Your Career
May 13, 2009
4. A Talk on Reliability May 21, 2009
5. Development of Diagnostic Measurement Techniques for Power
Equipment Using Radio Sensing,Computational Electromagnetic
Method, and Signal Processing June 05, 2009
6. Technical talk on Converged Services and NGN July 15, 2009
7. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Annual Student Paper
Competition announcement.
8. 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC) October 22-23, 2009
9. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
10.Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) R7 (Canada) workshop
May 15-16, 2009
3. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009
4. IEEE Biometric Summer School, Toronto May 24-30, 2009
5. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June
5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
6. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009) May 3 - 6, 2009
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
_____________________________________________________________________
1. Title: General-Purpose EM Solver (GEMS): A New Simulation Tool
for
Modeling Large-Scale Electromagnetic Systems on Parallel Platforms
Subtitle 1: Large-Scale Electromagnetic Systems Solving Techniques
Subtitle 2: A 3-D High performance EM Simulation Tool: GEMS software
and System
SPEAKER: 1. Raj Mittra, RAM Associates, State College, PA USA 16803
2. Wenhua Yu, 2COMU, State College, PA USA 16801
DATE: Tuesday May 5, 2009
TIME: 11:00am – 1:00pm
LOCATION:Room 4124, Mackenzie Engineering Building,
Carleton University
PARKING: applicable charge
ADMISSION: free
REGISTRATION: not required
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT, CPMT, EMC Chapters and
Department of Electronics, Carleton University
CONTACT: qiubo.ye@crc.ca
ABSTRACT: Given the recent trend whereby the designer of an EM
device or a complex system thinks that it is imperative to carry out
a “sanity check” before entering into the fabrication
stage, a reliable
and general-purpose EM solver has become highly-desired as well as
invaluable part of the engineer’s toolkit. However, it is not
uncommon
for the designer to run into a roadblock when attempting to simulate
many real-world problems, due primarily to the inability of the
available EM software modules to handle problems that require large
number of degrees of freedom (DoFs), which can often run into billions.
GEMS, a unique computer code which is recent entry into the EM software
scenario, was originally developed under the sponsorship of the U.S.
Navy, who needed to solve large and complex shipboard antenna problems,
such as phased arrays with thousands of elements sharing a common
platform, e.g., the mast of a ship, but found that the existing
commercial softwares were highly inadequate in their ability to solve
large problems that required a large number of DoFs to model them.
GEMS is based on the parallel FDTD algorithm, and it has been designed
to efficiently simulate large and complex EM problems using a group
of
distributed computers. Another desirable and unique feature of GEMS
is that it provides a combination of EM software and hardware including
network, operating system, I/O and storage, and optimized processors
and memory. The talk will describe some of the features of GEMS,
illustrated by numerous real-world examples that involve the simulation
of large and complex EM problems, including antennas; antenna arrays;
electronic packaging; RF and microwave circuits; bio-electromagnetics;
and EMC/EMI, to name just a few.
_____________________________________________________________________
2. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday May 13, 2009 to Friday May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
3. Title: Why Technical Writing Matters and What It Can Do for Your
Career
Speaker: Kerry Surman, Professor, Algonquin College, Ottawa
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009.
TIME: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Advanced Technology
Building (T), Room T129.
PARKING: No fee at the visitor’s parking. Please respect restricted
areas.
Organizers: IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities, PES Chapter, and
Algonquin College Student Branch
Contact: Patrick Couture <Cout0009@algonquincollege.com>,
Wahab Almuhtadi <almuhtadi@ieee.org>
Admission: Free. Registration required.
Abstract: Well-planned and well-written technical writing is the
key
to your success as a professional, and to the success of your
organization. Effective technical writing must possess two qualities:
usability and persuasiveness. Both qualities must be defined from
the reader’s perspective. Usability and persuasiveness are examined
in various technical communication processes and products of
particular relevance to engineers, scientists and other technology-
oriented professionals, including technical reports, project and
research proposals, project reviews and evaluations, and technical
papers. Special attention is given to IEEE publications and
documentation style.
_____________________________________________________________________
4. A Talk on Reliability
Title: Microelectronics Reliability: It's evolution from Military
to
Commercial Requirements.
SPEAKER: Dr. Ray Haythornthwaite,
DATE: May 21, 2009
ORGANIZED &
SPONSORED by:Ottawa Chapters of Reliability Society, Pohotonics
Society, Computer Society AP/MTT Joint Chapter,
LOCATION: TBA
CONTACT: Raed Abdullah - Raedabdullah@ieee.org
Bio of the Speaker:
Dr. Ray Haythornthwaite started in R and D the early days of micro-
electronics manufacture before turning to reliability. At the
Communications research centre, he had important reliability roles
in the Canadian space program and was responsible for the reliability
of the first gallium arsenide amplifier in space. He led teams performing
destructive physical analysis and failure analysis on the Canadarm
and
space station programs while at QRL Analysis. In the last 15 years
had
has been senior scientist and engineer at Canada’s world renowned
reverse engineering companies, Chipworks and Semiconductor Insights
where he had ample opportunity to see microelectronics technology
evolving . At Chipworks he led a team that recovered data from a memory
chip in the Swissair disaster. He is now retired and busy consulting..
Abstract:
The talk will be in two parts. The presentation will be maths free
with abundant illustrations of the internal structure of modern
microcircuits. The first part covers practical reliability in a rapidly
changing world where device sizes are approaching physical limits,
yet
are more complex and cheaper. It shows why the traditional reliability
approach is no longer valid and how the need for survival has guided
the
industry to consider reliability seriously. The second part describes
how physics and chemistry based reliability analysis is used to determine
when traditional fabrication methods must be abandoned, and as a vital
tool for selecting new and reliable technologies in both wafer
fabrication and packaging that are appropriate to the commercial high
volume market.
_____________________________________________________________________
5.Title: Development of Diagnostic Measurement Techniques for Power
Equipment Using Radio Sensing, Computational Electromagnetic Method,
and Signal Processing
Speaker: Ms. Dr. Masatake Kawada, University of Tokushima,
Tokushima, Japan
DATE: Friday June 5, 2009
TIME: Registration and Networking: 1:40 p.m.;
Seminar: 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
PLACE: National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa,
Building M-50, Room 115.
Parking: No fee at the visitor’s parking.
REGISTRATION: maboudakka@ieee.org
ORGANIZED & SPONSORED BY: Joint Chapter of IEEE Ottawa-Montreal
Section DEIS, IEEE Ottawa PES Chapters, Ottawa IMS Chapter,
Ottawa RS Chapter, and EPMG of INMS/NRC
ADMISSION: Free but registration is required for security reasons.
To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail to Mahmoud Abou-Dakka.
URL: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/#Development
_____________________________________________________________________
6. Title: Converged Services and NGN
Speaker: Dr. Bhumip Khasnabish, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer,
Distinguished MTS of Verizon Network and Technology, Waltham, MA,
USA
Date & Time: Wednesday, July 15th, 2009, Refreshments, Registration
and Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced
Technology, Building-T, Room T129
PARKING: at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted
areas.
No fee after 5:00 p.m.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please
register by e-mail contacting: Wahab Almuhtadi at almuhtadi@ieee.org
or Patrick Couture Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
More Info: www.ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc
.
Abstract:
Commoditization of voice service has reached such a state that anyone
with a server to provide registry and addressing (identification)
functions can offer it to the Internet community using the voice over
the Internet protocol (IP) or VoIP technology. Traditional client-server
model has evolved to peer-to-peer model for near-real-time voice and
multimedia (gaming, video, etc.) sessions. Voice mail service is being
replaced by Instant-messaging (for presence-announced users), use
of
Star codes for advanced call/session feature activation is being replaced
by Web based service-provisioning interface, and so on. Similar
revolution is also happening in the areas of IP-based Television (IPTV)
service development and distribution. These are only a glimpse of
what
is possible with the new/emerging converged services paradigm. However,
many issues related to reliability/availability, security/privacy,
mobility, service provisioning and continuity, regulation, operations,
and quality of service and experience (QoS/QoE) still remain open.
In this discussion, we will explore the current activities of the
traditional service providers to find implementable and operable solutions
to these problems in the evolving Next Generation Networks (NGNs).
The objective is to support VoIP, IPTV, and other multimedia services
seamlessly over a variety of interconnected networks using the emerging
IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) and service-oriented architecture/network
(SOA/SON) based standards
_____________________________________________________________________
7. IEEE Photonics Society (LEOS) Ottawa Chapter Annual Student Paper
Competition
The IEEE Photonics Society (formerly, the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics
Society) Ottawa Chapter is pleased to announce its annual Student
Paper
Competition.
To participate in the competition:
· You must be a full time graduate / undergraduate student
at a
post-secondary educational institution within the IEEE defined
geographic region of Ottawa Chapter as of June 30, 2009
· You are the first author of an original research paper published
or accepted for publication in a peer reviewed technical journal between
July 1, 2008 and June 30, 2009 in the area of photonics as defined
by the
scope of the newly named IEEE Photonics Society.
- To enter the competition, please send the following to the IEEE
Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter Chair via email: kexing.liu@ieee.org
· A letter of endorsement from your academic supervisor
· A copy of the paper published or accepted for publication
- One entry per student
- Entry Deadline: June 30, 2009
- Winner
· The winner will be announced by Sept 1, 2009
· The winner will receive a $200 cash prize
· The prize will be given out at the Chapter's Symposium on
Advancements in Photonics in the fall of 2009
- Eligible post secondary institutions
· University of Ottawa
· Carleton University
· Université du Québec en Outaouais
· Algonquin College
· Heritage College
· Cegep de l'Outaouais
-If you have any questions,please contact Kexing (kexing.liu@ieee.org)
_____________________________________________________________________
8. Title: 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: TBA
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
9. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter
are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
10. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: N/A (CLOSED)
Notice of Acceptance: May 29, 2009;
Early Registration: July 24, 2009;
Camera Ready: July 31, 2009
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Results of the A & A meeting held in March 2009 became available
some time in April, by then it was too late to include in the April
Newsletter.
March 2009 Results:
* Harb, Moufid -- Member of Computational Intelligence Society
April 2009 Results:
* Erdogmus, Hakan -- Member of Computer Society
* Zheng, Jun -- Member of Communications and VTS Society
Congratulations.
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2.TITLE: TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) R7 (Canada) workshop
SPEAKER: Various speakers from local Montreal government officials
and academia
DATE: Friday May 15th – Saturday May 16th 2009
TIME: Friday 4:30PM to Saturday 4:00PM
LOCATION: Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain link
REGISTRATION: Deadline N/A – please contact Jennifer Ng,
jng@ieee.org
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE EAB (Education Activities Board) and Montreal
Section
CONTACT: Jennifer Ng (member of EAB PECC and Ottawa Section executive
member S’91 M’95 SM’07) jng@ieee.org
ABSTRACT:The purpose of this workshop is to help IEEE members improve
the teaching of and in pre-university schools (primary schools, middle
schools and high schools). In this workshop, IEEE members will learn
how
to work with teachers of pre-university schools, and how to conduct
hands-on sessions for these teachers on engineering topics. The teachers
will then use these sessions on a regular basis with their own students.
The expectation is that IEEE members who completed the workshop will
contact local schools in months and years to come, and will work with
their teachers on lesson plans that demonstrate engineering and
engineering design. Examples of such lesson plans are available at
http://www.tryengineering.org/lesson.php
_____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
_____________________________________________________________________
4.IEEE Biometric Summer School, Toronto.
DATE: May 24-30, 2009
Application deadline – N/A Closed. This is part of the 2009
IEEE Emerging Technologies Summer Series, an ongoing set of
intensive programs that exposes “emerging” and cross-disciplinary
fields to young scholars (i.e.: graduate students, post-docs and new
faculty) at higher education institutions. The school is an intensive
week of lecture, panels, labs and interactive group work designed
to
provide a comprehensive overview of current topics in biometrics with
emphasis on technologies, applications and research issues. For
online application and additional details please visit the website
at
http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca/events/ieee2009.
_____________________________________________________________________
5. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop
will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.
All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.
An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu
The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline has expired
on January 23,2009.
Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
_____________________________________________________________________
6.Title: 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009)
Date: May 3-6, 2009
Location: Delta Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers for Review N/A CLOSED
Notification of Acceptance N/A CLOSED
Final Paper Submission Deadline N/A CLOSED
Author’s Registration Deadline N/A CLOSED
Advance Registration Deadline N/A CLOSED
Website: http://www.ccece09.org/
For more information contact: CCECE ‘09 Conference Secretariat,
Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
A1B 3X5;
Ph: (709) 737-7467, Fax: (709) 737-4042, Email: contact@ccece09.org
_____________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08)
Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. "Multipoint Real-Time Signal Analysis" April 02, 2009
2. EMC/EMI Issues in Biomedical Research (location 1) April 02, 2009
3. EMC/EMI Issues in Biomedical Research (location 2) April 02, 2009
4. A New Multibase Number Representation and Its Cryptographic
Applications April 17, 2009
5. Impact of Renewable Energy Resources on the Electrical
Power System Stability April 17, 2009
6. Two presentations on the subject of Radar for Surveillance in
Canada's 200 Km ECZ April 21, 2009
7. Marine Renewable Energy - Growing Canada’s Renewable Energy
Supply April 23, 2009
8. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
9. 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC) October 22-23, 2009
10. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
11.Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) R7 (Canada) workshop
May 15-16, 2009
3. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009
4. IEEE Biometric Summer School, Toronto May 24-30, 2009
5. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June
5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
6. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009) May 3 - 6, 2009
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1. TITLE: Multipoint Real-Time Signal Analysis
SPEAKER: Dr. Nikhil Adnani, ThinkRF Corp., Ottawa, ON, Canada
DATE: Apr. 2 (Thur.), 2009
TIME: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
LOCATION: Room 4124, Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton University
PARKING: applicable charge
ADMISSION: free
REGISTRATION: no
ORGANIZED BY: AP/MTT joint chapter
CONTACT: Qiubo Ye
ABSTRACT: An increase in spectrum utilization is driving the need
to use it more efficiently. Digital modulation formats, packet-data,
dynamic channel assignments and frequency hopping waveforms are some
of the techniques used to achieve this goal. These time-varying
transmission signals present new challenges for detection and analysis
in real-world operating environments. For instance reliable capture
of such waveforms with traditional test equipment such as swept-frequency
spectrum analyzers is difficult. As well, newer equipment such as
vector
and real-time spectrum analyzers are not well-suited to autonomous
operation or cost-effective field deployment in real-world settings.
At this seminar a new high-performance, field-deployable, intelligent
wireless signal analyzer (WSA) will be introduced. WSA s are low-power,
compact, and can be networked with one another to create a multipoint
system for waveform detection over large geographic areas. In addition
to time, frequency and amplitude the system adds location information
to signal detection and analysis. The WSA enables a broad range of
applications including SIGINT, interference analysis, collaborative
spectrum sensing and wireless test & measurement. With 100MHz
real-time
analysis bandwidth and almost 70dB dynamic range, the WSA has key
specifications comparable to high-end test equipment.
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2.TITLE: Technical presentation by Prof. Ji Chen, Dept. of Electrical
&
Computer Engr., Univ. of Houston, on "EMC/EMI Issues in Biomedical
Research", jointly organized by the the IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT Chapter
and the IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter.
DATE: April 02, 2009 (Thursday) at 12:00pm-1:00pm: Room 4124 Mackenzie
Engineering Building (ME), Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By
Drive, Ottawa (Campus Map: Building #10)
Free admission, but is on a first to reply basis. Preference is given
to
IEEE AP/MTT/EMC society members. Seating is limited. E-mail reservation
is required.
Contact :
Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter
[Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca], Office:(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613)
277-9311
Dr. Qiubo Ye, Chairman of the IEEE Ottawa Joint AP/MTT Chapter
[qiubo.ye@crc.ca]
Further info: http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca/ap_mtt/home/
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3.IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Presentation hosted jointly by the
IEEE Ottawa EMC Chapter and the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters.
Speaker : Prof. Ji. Chen, Dept. Electrical & Computer Eng.,
Univ. of Houston
TITLE : EMC/EMI Issues in Biomedical Research
Date : Thursday April 2, 2009
Time : 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location : FIDUS SYSTEMS Inc., 900 Morrison Drive,
Suite 203,Ottawa, Ontario, K2H 8K7
Admission: Free, and is on a first to reply basis.
Preference given to IEEE EMC/MTT/AP society members.
Seating is limited. E-mail Reservation is required.
Contact : Dr. Syed Bokhari, Chairman, IEEE Ottawa EMC chapter
Syed.Bokhari@fidus.ca,
Office :(613) 828-0063 Ext. 377, Cell: (613) 277-9311
Dr. Quibo Ye, Chairman of the IEEE Ottawa MTT/AP Chapters
Qiubo Ye [qiubo.ye@crc.ca]
Abstract:
The interactions between electromagnetic signals and biomedical systems
lead to safety considerations for medical devices and patients. In
this
talk, we will present some recent investigations on the EMC/EMI issues
related to these scenarios. In particular, we will discuss
(1) safety evaluation for pregnant woman under walk-through metal
detector,
(2) thermal and temperature evaluation of pregnant woman models under
MRI RF coil,
(3) effects of implantable devices within human subject models under
MRI coils, and
(4) the interactions between vehicular mounted antenna and bystanders
with implantable medical devices.
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4.TITLE: A New Multibase Number Representation and Its Cryptographic
Applications
SPEAKER: Dr. Ali Miri, Professor, SITE, University of Ottawa
DATE: Friday April 17, 2009
TIME: 10:00-11:30
LOCATION: Room 5084, SITE Building, University of Ottawa
ADMISSION: Free
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Computer Society Ottawa Chapter
CONTACT: Rami Abielmona, rabielmo@ieee.org
URL: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/cs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16&Itemid=39.
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5. Title: Impact of Renewable Energy Resources on the Electrical
Power System Stability
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mo El-Hawary, IEEE Fellow, IEEE PES Distinguished
Lecturer, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Canada
DATE: Friday April 17, 2009
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:30 p.m.;
Seminar: 07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced
Technology, T-Building, Room T129.
Parking: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots
8
(green) & 9 (red). Please respect restricted areas. Map: to view
the
map, click here.
ADMISSION: All welcome - Free.
REGISTRATION: pre-registration Registration required. To ensure a
seat,
please register by e-mail contacting: almuhtadi@ieee.org,
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE PES Ottawa Chapter, Reliability Chapter,
IEEE Ottawa Section Educational Activities, Women in Engineering
Affinity Group, and Algonquin College Student Branch.
CONTACT: details - Wahab Almuhtadi, Branislav Djokic, Raed Abdullah
and
Patrick Couture. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/pes/ottawa
ABSTRACT: Renewable energy resources for electric power generation
are gaining momentum as the next great, green hope to substitute
for less environmentally-friendly electrical energy sources. This
trend places new challenges to the electric system operator in assuring
both angle and voltage stability of the system. This need becomes
more
significant with the increase in penetration levels of renewable
generation sources. The generator types, their dynamic performance,
and interactions with electric grid will discussed at this presentation.
Reference will be made to situations where special devices and mitigation
technologies are deployed successfully.
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6. TITLE: Workshop: Radar for Canada's 200Km Economic Zone
TOPIC 1: Overview of Tracking and Data Fusion Techniques
SPEAKER 1: Dr Zhen Ding - DRDC Ottawa
TOPIC 2: HF Surface Wave Radar for Surveillance in Canada's 200 Km
ECZ
SPEAKER 2 : Dr Tony Ponsford, Raytheon Canada
DATE: Tuesday April 21, 2009
TIME: Presentation 1 - 19.30; bar break 20.15;
Presentation 2 - 20.30
Meet and greet - from 19.00; bar opens 19.15
LOCATION: Naval Officer's Mess, 78 Lisgar St - Crowsnest, upstairs.
PARKING: on steet or use City Hall underground parking
ADMISSION: free of chrage
REGISTRATION: appreciated - h.reekie@ieee.org 613-728-5343
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Ottawa Chapters, AESS, Computational Intelligence,
Robotics & Control Systems, and IET-UK Ottawa Network.
CONTACT: Hugh Reekie - h.reekie@ieee.org 613-728-5343
ABSTRACT: 1 - A review is given to the current technical solutions
and future trends for multiple target tracking and data fusion.
Applications are presented from Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) with
HF Surface Wave Radar and Above Water War (AWW) for navy ships.
ABSTRACT: 2 - There is a need to locate and identify ships operating
within the Canadian 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Recent advances in technology provide more systematic surveillance
of
targets. This talk presents a overview of a network-centric approach
to maintaining a Canadian dynamic picture of surface activity within
the EEZ.Details: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.AESS.html
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7.TITLE: Marine Renewable Energy - Growing Canada’s Renewable
Energy
Supply
SPEAKER: Melanie Nadeau, P.Eng., Manager, Marine Energy
CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada
DATE: Thursday, April 23, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment (18:30 - 19:00); seminar (19:00 - 20:00)
LOCATION: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Advanced Technology
Building (T), Room T129
(http://www.algonquincollege.com/main/yourAlgonquinTab/directions/woodroffeMap.htm)
PARKING: No fee at the parking lots 8 and 9 at the time of seminar.
Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free
REGISTRATION: branislav@ieee.org, almuhtadi@ieee.org,
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/ea/
ORGANIZED BY: Educational Activities, Power and Energy Chapter,
Women in Engineering Affinity Group, and Algonquin College Student
Branch
CONTACT: Branislav Djokic and Wahab Almuhtadi
ABSTRACT: In Canada, marine energy R&D and technology demonstrations
are occurring on both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, keeping Canada
at the forefront of marine energy device development. Canadian technologies
and research facilities are on the leading edge in several of the
areas
within this emerging industry. The marine energy R&D aims to advance
the
commercialization of wave, tidal, and water current energy technologies
with potential for a strong and sustained future in manufacturing,
deployment and power generation.
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8. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to Friday, May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
9. Title: 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: TBA
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
10. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter
are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
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11. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: April 4, 2009
Notice of Acceptance: May 29, 09;
Early Registration: July 24, 09;
Camera Ready: July 31, 09
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
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B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
No A & A meetings were held since the previous meeting in February 2009
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
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2.TITLE: TISP (Teacher-In-Service-Program) R7 (Canada) workshop
SPEAKER: Various speakers from local Montreal government officials
and academia
DATE: Friday May 15th – Saturday May 16th 2009
TIME: Friday 430PM to Saturday 4PM
LOCATION: Montreal Marriott Chateau Champlain link
REGISTRATION: Deadline April 17 – please contact Jennifer Ng,
jng@ieee.org
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE EAB (Education Activities Board) and Montreal
Section
CONTACT: Jennifer Ng (member of EAB PECC and Ottawa Section executive
member S’91 M’95 SM’07) jng@ieee.org
ABSTRACT:The purpose of this workshop is to help IEEE members improve
the teaching of and in pre-university schools (primary schools, middle
schools and high schools). In this workshop, IEEE members will learn
how
to work with teachers of pre-university schools, and how to conduct
hands-on sessions for these teachers on engineering topics. The teachers
will then use these sessions on a regular basis with their own students.
The expectation is that IEEE members who completed the workshop will
contact local schools in months and years to come, and will work with
their teachers on lesson plans that demonstrate engineering and engineering
design. Examples of such lesson plans are available at
http://www.tryengineering.org/lesson.php
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3. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
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4.IEEE Biometric Summer School, Toronto. May 24-30, 2009
Application deadline – March 13, 2009. This is part of the
2009
IEEE Emerging Technologies Summer Series, an ongoing set of
intensive programs that exposes “emerging” and cross-disciplinary
fields to young scholars (i.e.: graduate students, post-docs and new
faculty) at higher education institutions. The school is an intensive
week of lecture, panels, labs and interactive group work designed
to
provide a comprehensive overview of current topics in biometrics with
emphasis on technologies, applications and research issues. For
online application and additional details please visit the website
at
http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca/events/ieee2009.
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5. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop
will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.
All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.
An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu
The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline is
January 23,2009.
Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
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6.Title: 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009)
Date: May 3-6, 2009
Location: Delta Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers for Review Friday December 5 Monday,
December 22, 2008
Notification of Acceptance Friday Feburary 6,2009
Final Paper Submission Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Author’s Registration Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Advance Registration Deadline Friday April 3, 2009
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: CCECE ‘09 Conference Secretariat,
Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
A1B 3X5;
Ph: (709) 737-7467, Fax: (709) 737-4042, Email: contact@ccece09.org
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C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
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contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. SDR Based Power amplifiers/Transmitters for Advanced Wireless
and Satellite Communications March 06, 2009
2. Adaptive Filtering Games for designing Reconfigurable Sensor
Networks March 17, 2009
3. Compensation of Long Input Delays for Unstable Nonlinear and
PDE Systems March 19, 2009
4. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
5. 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC) October 22-23, 2009
6. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
7. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. Recent Advances in Frequency Domain Equalization March 05, 2009
Montreal
3. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009
4. IEEE Biometric Summer School, Toronto May 24-30, 2009
5. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June
5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
6. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009) May 3 - 6, 2009
7. New Membership Benefits
8. IEEE Canada 2009 Major Achievement award winner
9. IEEE Canada 2009 major Service award winners
10.IEEE Fellows news
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
Nothing to report.
D. Manage Your Subscription
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1.TITLE:SDR Based Power amplifiers/Transmitters for Advanced Wireless
and Satellite Communications
SPEAKER:Fadhel Ghannouchi, Fellow IEEE, Fellow IET and Distinguish
Microwave Lecturer
ICORE Professor and Senior Canada Research Chair,
Director, iRadio Laboratory (http://www.ucalgary.ca)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Schulich School
of
Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada
DATE: March 6 (Friday), 2009
TIME: 3:30 ¨- 4:30 pm
LOCATION:Mackenzie Engineering Building, Carleton University
PARKING:applicable charge
ADMISSION:free
REGISTRATION: No
ORGANIZED BY: the IEEE Ottawa CPMT, AP/MTT, and CAS/EDS/SSC Chapters
and Department of Electronics, Carleton University
CONTACT:qiubo.ye@crc.gc.ca
ABSTRACT:The next wave in the information revolution will consist
of
bringing intelligence to the information and communication technology
ICT) sector, allowing seamless and intelligent networking and
communication between different users using different services and
operators. This will lead to the convergence of communication
technologies, aiming at the development and deployment of cooperative
and ubiquitous networks that involve existing and future wireless
and
satellite communications systems.
A critical element in enabling the convergence of different
communication systems is the development of software defined radio
(SDR) systems that can be used across different frequency bands and
for multi-standard applications. This SDR has to be developed to
support different frequency carriers and modulations schemes
concurrently, in addition to being power- and spectrum-efficient,
in
order to be able handle high data rates, while being less energy-
hungry and more environmentally friendly.
The design of power amplifiers as critical components in any SDR
based communication terminal has to be considered closely together
with the system architecture, in order to ensure optimal system level
performances in terms of linearity and power efficiency. This implies
the use of adequate transmitter architectures that convert the analog
baseband information to architecture dependent amplifier driving
signals, such as sigma-delta, EE&R, Polar and LINC architectures.
This talk lays out the principles behind SDR systems and examines
the
design of software-enabled linear and highly efficient RF/DSP
co-designed power amplifiers/transmitters for multi-standard and
multi-band applications. Recent advances and practical realizations
will also be presented and discussed.
_____________________________________________________________________
2.TITLE:Adaptive Filtering Games for designing Reconfigurable Sensor
Networks
SPEAKER:Prof. Vikram Krishnamurthy, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia
DATE: Tuesday, March 17th, 2008,
TIME: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
LOCATION: University of Ottawa, School of Information Technology and
Engineering (SITE-5084), Boardroom, 5th floor,800 King Edward Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
PARKING:Paid parking facilities are available. See map
http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION:free
REGISTRATION: Balakumar Balasingam balasing@site.uottawa.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Signal Processing,
Oceanic Engineering, & Geoscience and Remote Sensing (SP, OE,
& GRS)
in joint venture with the Joint Chapter of Communications Society
&
Broadcast Technology Society (ComSoc & BTS).
CONTACT: Balakumar Balasingam balasing@site.uottawa.ca
URL:http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca/comsoc/IEEE_Seminar_AdaptiveFilteringGamesforDesigningReconfigurableSensorNetworks.pdf.
ABSTRACT:This seminar deals with decentralized sensor activation and
management in large scale sensor networks using game theoretic
methods. Using recent results in economics, we describe how the theory
of global games gives a powerful paradigm for designing decentralized
data-aware sensor activation algorithms in dense sensor networks.
We
show that the Nash equilibrium of the sensor network has a simple
threshold structure and exhibits a remarkable phase transition as
more
data is collected. Next, we describe how decentralized adaptive
filtering algorithms with regret matching can be deployed in sensor
networks to guide network behavior to a satisfactory operating point.
A major theme of the talk will be the focus on structural properties
that result in numerically efficient algorithms rather than brute
force computational methods. Another key paradigm of the talk is the
idea of sensors learning from data and other sensors – this
is
different to the traditional paradigm of sensors learning from data
alone. This seminar should be of interest to researchers and
practitioners in signal processing, sensor design, control systems
and economics/applied mathematics.
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3.Title:Compensation of Long Input Delays for Unstable Nonlinear and
PDE Systems
SPEAKER: Dr. Miroslav Krstic, Distinguished Lecturer. Distinguished
Professor and Director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
at UC San Diego. He is a Fellow of IEEE and IFAC
DATE & LOCATION: Evening of Thursday, March 19, 2009.
Details wll be available later.
Contact: RaedAbdullah(at)ieee.org or visit Ottawa.ieee.ca
by March 10th.
ADMISSION: Free to all – IEEE members will get the opportunity
to
network prior to the presentation and snack.
ABSTRACT: Input delays create challenges in stabilization problems
in many applications for unstable plants. I will present new designs
for global stabilization of broad classes of nonlinear systems with
long input delays. I will also introduce problems where the length
of
the input delay is highly uncertain, or even completely unknown, and
present adaptive control designs for stabilization in the presence
of
this and other parametric uncertainties. In addition to input delays,
I will discuss other infinite-dimensional input dynamics, such as
those that combine convective and diffusive phenomena. Finally, I
will show designs for PDEs with long input delays, such as unstable
reaction-diffusion equations and anti-stable wave equations.
_____________________________________________________________________
4. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to Friday, May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: http://www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Title: 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: TBA
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
6. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter
are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
7. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: Feb 27, 09;
Notice of Acceptance: May 29, 09;
Early Registration: July 24, 09;
Camera Ready: July 31, 09
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Following members were elevated to Senior Member status in
February 2009
* Booth, Brian James Member of Areospace & Electronis Systems
* Signal Processing Society
* Gage, William A. Member of Communications Society
* Harrison, Robert Member of Magnetics Society
* Moicrowave theory & Techniques Society
* Kark, Anatol W. Member of (Society not known)
* Tao, Yuming Member of Microwave theory & Techniques
* Solid State Circuits Society
* Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!
*
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2. Title: "Recent Advances in Frequency Domain Equalization"
Speaker: Professor David Falconer -
Broadband Communications and Wireless Systems Centre
Dept. of Systems and Computer Engineering , Carleton University
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1S 5B6
email : ddf@sce.carleton.ca
Date: Thursday March 5th, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: Room EV002.184", Concordia University (corner Guy and
Ste.
Catherine Montreal) http://www.concordia.ca
Contact: Anader Benyamin-Seeyar <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
Organized by: IEEE Montreal Communications & IT Chapter
Abstract Frequency domain equalization (FDE) has emerged in recent
years as an effective and computationally efficient reception
technique for broadband orthogonal frequency division multiple
access (OFDMA) or single carrier (SC) wireless systems. OFDMA is
preferred for downlinks (base station to terminals) future wireless
systems, as it facilitates simple and efficient resource allocation.
SC, or variations of it, is preferred for uplinks (wireless terminals
to base stations) since it maximizes power amplifier efficiency.Both
OFDMA and SC, in combination with FDE and powerful coding techniques,
yield excellent performance in highly frequency selective single-
and
multi-user channels.We survey recently proposed frequency and spatial
domain equalization techniques for single carrier and related
modulation and multiple access systems in multi-cell environments.
The techniques discussed include iterative block equalization, a new
analysis tool for turbo equalization, efficient pilot and channel
estimation schemes, and the effects of transmitter power amplifier
nonlinearities. Finally, we point out prospective applications to
future-generation broadband wireless systems.
Biography
Dr.David Falconer received the B.A. Sc. degree in Engineering Physics
from the University of Toronto and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. After a year as a postdoctoral
fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden he
was
with Bell Laboratories from 1967 to 1980. During 1976-77 he was a
visiting professor at Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden.
Since
1980 he has been with Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, where he
is now Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor in
the
Department of Systems and Computer Engineering.
His current research interests center around beyond-third-generation
broadband wireless communications systems. He was Director of
Carleton’s Broadband Communications and Wireless Systems (BCWS)
Centre from 2000 to 2004. He was the Chair of Working Group 4
(New Radio Interfaces, Relay-Based Systems and Smart Antennas) of
the
Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF) in 2004 and 2005. He received
the 2008 Canadian award for Telecommunications Research, a 2008 IEEE
Technical Committee for Wireless Communications Recognition Award,
and will receive the 2009 Fessenden Award (Telecommunications) from
IEEE Canada. He is an IEEE Life Fellow.
_____________________________________________________________________
3. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
_____________________________________________________________________
4.IEEE Biometric Summer School, Toronto. May 24-30, 2009
Application deadline – March 13, 2009. This is part of the
2009
IEEE Emerging Technologies Summer Series, an ongoing set of
intensive programs that exposes “emerging” and cross-disciplinary
fields to young scholars (i.e.: graduate students, post-docs and new
faculty) at higher education institutions. The school is an intensive
week of lecture, panels, labs and interactive group work designed
to
provide a comprehensive overview of current topics in biometrics with
emphasis on technologies, applications and research issues. For
online application and additional details please visit the website
at
http://www.ipsi.utoronto.ca/events/ieee2009.
_____________________________________________________________________
5. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop
will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.
All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.
An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu
The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline is
January 23,2009.
Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
_____________________________________________________________________
6.Title: 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009)
Date: May 3-6, 2009
Location: Delta Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers for Review Friday December 5 Monday,
December 22, 2008
Notification of Acceptance Friday Feburary 6,2009
Final Paper Submission Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Author’s Registration Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Advance Registration Deadline Friday April 3, 2009
Website: http://www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: CCECE ‘09 Conference Secretariat,
Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
A1B 3X5;
Ph: (709) 737-7467, Fax: (709) 737-4042, Email: contact@ccece09.org
_____________________________________________________________________
7. NEW MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS
Through the efforts of John Grefford, the 2003 & 2004 IEEE Ottawa
Section Chair and still volunteer, a very competitive home and auto
insurance plan is now being offered through thePersonal check out
their fees(http://www.ottawa.ieee.ca -click on the icon)that may just
pay for your membership fees a few times over.
_____________________________________________________________________
8. IEEE Canada 2009 Major Achievement Award Winners:
Congratulations to David Falconer, a Fellow of IEEE residing in the
Ottawa Section, is a Professor of Systems and Computer Engineering
at
Carleton University in Ottawa. He is receiving the R.A. Fessenden
Award (Telecommunications) for outstanding technical contributions
to the area of data transmission in both wireline and wireless
environments.
_____________________________________________________________________
9. IEEE Canada 2009 Major Service Award Winners:
Congratulations to John Grefford, a Senior Member of IEEE and a
Fellow of EIC residing in the Ottawa Section, is Program Support
Officer with Defence Construction Canada. He is receiving the J.J.
Archambault Eastern Canada Merit Award for dedicated and outstanding
service to the IEEE Ottawa Section, IEEE Canada and EIC.
_____________________________________________________________________
10. IEEE Fellows News:
Congratulations:
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario for contributions
to
interactive haptic audio visual systems. John Lodge, IEEE-F, Ottawa,
Ontario, for contributions to the application of signal processing
and communications theory. David Parnas, IEEE-F, Ottawa, Ontario,
for contributions to software engineering Also, congratulations to
Dr. Maike Luiken,the 2005 Ottawa Section Chair, who will be receiving
an Engineering Institute of Canada Fellowship at the upcoming EIC
Awards Gala to be held in Ottawa early this month.
_____________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
Nothing to Report.
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Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. IEEE AESS Ottawa Chapter & IET Ottawa Network joint presentation
New Developments in Satellite Communications Februay 12, 2009
2. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
3. 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC) October 22-23, 2009
4. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
5. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
***Student Branches Events
6. IEEE Connects! 2009
(Event organised by the Carleton Univ. uOttawa & Algonquin College
Student Branches) February 27th 2009
7. Algonquin College Students Branch Election Update:
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009
3. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June
5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
4. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009) May 3 - 6, 2009
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
1. Patents for Starting and Growing a Business February 10, 2009
D. Manage Your Subscription
_____________________________________________________________________
1. TITLE: New Developments in Satellite Communications:
Sophisticated Spacecraft & Modulation Methods
SPEAKER: Ali Shoamanesh, Telesat Canada
DATE: Thursday, February 12 2009
TIME: Pub supper 06.30 pm - 07.30 pm
Presentation 08:00 pm - 09.30 pm
LOCATION: RA centre 2451 Riverside Drive, Courtside A. East block
PARKING: Park in east lot - no charge
ADMISSION: Free admission - all are welcome
REGISTRATION: pre-registration for presentation and/or supper
appreciated
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE AESS Ottawa Chapter & IET Ottawa Network
CONTACT: Hugh Reekie 613-728-5343 h.reekie@ieee.org
URL http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.AESS.html
ABSTRACT: Types of satellite communications (FSS, BSS, MSS),
generative and non-generative payloads. A sophisticated Telesat
Satellite (Anik F2) - with multi ka-band spot beams and access to
the Internet the types of modulation used.
_____________________________________________________________________
2. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to Friday, May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers
in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
3. Title: 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: TBA
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
4. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter
are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over
1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
5. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: Feb 27, 09;
Notice of Acceptance: May 29, 09;
Early Registration: July 24, 09;
Camera Ready: July 31, 09
Website: www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst2009.com
______________________________________________________
** Student Branches:
6. TITLE: IEEE Connects! 2009
SPEAKER: Alexander Macklin; Jennifer Ng; Ibrahim Gedeon
DATE: Fri Feb 27th 2009
TIME:
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm Registration
6:25 pm - 6:30 pm Welcome
6:30 pm - 6:50 pm Speaker 1: G. Alexander Macklin,Gowlings LLP.
6:50 pm - 7:00 pm Q&A
7:00 pm - 7:20 pm Speaker 2: Jennifer Ng, Abbott Point of Care
7:20 pm - 7:30 pm Q&A
7:30 pm - 8:20 pm Dinner
8:20 pm - 8:50 pm Speaker 3: Ibrahim Gedeon,Telus Inc.
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm Q&A
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm Door Prizes
9:10 pm- 10:30 pm Info Booth Display by Sponsors
LOCATION: Rideau Room, Sheraton Ottawa Hotel, 150 Albert Street,
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5G2
PARKING: unconfirmed
ADMISSION: Early Bird Tickets Special!
IEEE Members*:$10 Non-members:$15
Regular Tickets
IEEE Members*:$20 Non-members:$25
REGISTRATION: by dropping by the IEEE Carleton Student Branch or
IEEE Uottawa Student Branch
ORGANIZED BY: IEEE Carleton Student Branch, IEEE Uottawa Student
Branch, IEEE Algonquin Student Branch
URL:http://www.ieeeconnects.com
CONTACT: Jieyi Rong: jieyi.rong@ieee.carleton.ca ;
Andrew Shaver: andrewshaver@ieee.org
ABSTRACT: IEEE Connects! is a formal dinner event that aims to bridge
the gap between students and their career goals. Students and
employers will have the opportunity to network with each other in
a
friendly environment along with professionals and academics
representing the field of Engineering. Successful professionals
from
the field of engineering will share their experiences to illustrate
how a student can prudently plan their career in the present day
context and embark into his most desired professional career.
_____________________________________________________________________
7. Algonquin College Students Branch Election Update:
A meeting was held on January 22, 2009 to elect a new executive
body
as listed below:
Chair, Patrick Couture at Cout0009@algonquincollege.com
Co-Chair, Andrew Jacques at jacques.andy@gmail.com
Secretary, Emily Chan at chan.emily.m@gmail.com
Treasurer, Dominic Moon at moon0038@algonquincollege.com
In addition to electing the new executives some of the points
discussed are summarised below, This is a fresh start for this group
and need to organise a few internal meetings before putting forth
a
plan of action and set firm dates. At the forefront of the activities,
there is a need to quickly initiate a targeted recruiting campaign
at
Algonquin College to get our membership up from only 8 student
members at present as per the available data.
For this activity we are looking at staffing a stand for a full
week
2 to 3 hours a day. Anticipated needs for this campapign will be
to
create some posters targeting School of Advance Technology students
and give aways & promotional material.
Some of the other ideas put forth in this regard are:
invite Industries that employ IEEE members to take part in a carrier
fair at Algonquin College.
IEEE friendly inter disciplinary competitions within the College.
Montly group discussion for students in their final year project
where people can discuss any issues they have and possibly get
assistance from other IEEE members.
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Following members were elevated to Senior Member status in
January 2009
* Jong, Yvo De Society Membership not known
* Eatock, Brian Society Membership not known
* Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!
** IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation
in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm
and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca
and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange
new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details,
visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
_____________________________________________________________________
3. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop
will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on
the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.
All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.
An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu
The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline is
January 23,2009.
Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
_____________________________________________________________________
4.Title: 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009)
Date: May 3-6, 2009
Location: Delta Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers for Review Friday December 5 Monday,
December 22, 2008
Notification of Acceptance Friday Feburary 6,2009
Final Paper Submission Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Author’s Registration Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Advance Registration Deadline Friday April 3, 2009
Website: www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: CCECE ‘09 Conference Secretariat,
Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
A1B 3X5;
Ph: (709) 737-7467, Fax: (709) 737-4042, Email: contact@ccece09.org
_____________________________________________________________________
C. Non-IEEE News and Events/Announcements
1. Ottawa Patent Agency Incorporated is hosting a lunch-hour
seminar on ‘Patents for Starting and Growing a Business’
for OCRI,
the well-respected Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation.
This seminar is an introduction to patents for inventors and
entrepreneurs. Topics covered include:
ž What is a patent?
ž Who is an inventor?
ž What can be patented?
ž Cost vs Benefit analysis – Patents for Starting a Business
ž Patent Portfolio for Growing a Business
Time: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Place: OCRI’s Entrepreneurship Centre at Ottawa City Hall
110 Laurier Ave. W., Ground Floor Ottawa, Ontario K1P 1J1
The seminar will be presented by Peter Kwa, P.Eng., Dipl.-Ing.,
United States and Canadian Patent Agent. Peter talks to inventors
as
an inventor himself with 11 patents granted and having established
his own, award winning patent agency. Invitation is open to all
to
attend this free seminar! More information is
available at http://www.ottawapatentagency.com or contact at any
of
options posted at
http://www.ottawapatentagency.com/contact
or download brochure
http://www.ottawapatentagency.com/images/February10_Announcement.pdf
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Email: ottawanews@ieee.org
Editor: Khalid Mahmood (M'89 SM'08) Email:kmahmood@ieee.org
News Submission: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/submit.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Website: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/
Newsletter on the Web: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/news/
_____________________________________________________________________
contents list
IN THIS ISSUE:
A. IEEE Ottawa Section Events
1. The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory May 13-15, 2009
2. 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC) October 22-23, 2009
3. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012)
4. Call for papers for IEEE International Carnahan Conference on
Security Technology 2009 (ICCST 2009) October 5-10, 2009
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in Ottawa Section
2. 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
Hamilton, Ontario May 12-15, 2009
3. First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop June
5 - 8, 2009
Salt Lake City, Utah
4. 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009) May 3 - 6, 2009
C. Non-IEEE News and Events Announcements
nothing to report
D. Manage Your Subscription
_____________________________________________________________________
1. TITLE: The 2009 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory
SPEAKER: There will be probably over 50 speakers. However,
the program will only be available after the submission deadline
and the review process.
DATE: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 to Friday, May 15, 2009
TIME: registration/refreshment Information can be found on the
workshop web site.
LOCATION: School of Information Technology and Engineering (SITE),
University of Ottawa http://www.uottawa.ca/maps/maincampus.html
PARKING: See http://www.protection.uottawa.ca/en/parking-map.html
ADMISSION: Applicable fees. Consult the workshop web site for the
regular and the student registration fees.
REGISTRATION: www.site.uottawa.ca/CWIT09
ORGANIZED BY: Canadian Information Theory Society
CONTACT: Ali Miri, Email: Ali.Miri@uottawa.ca
ABSTRACT: This workshop provides an opportunity for researchers
in
Information Theory to meet and discuss aspects of their work. Work
presented would include new results in (but not limited to) the
following areas: information theory and statistics, coding theory
and practice , communication systems, cryptology and data security,
signal processing, and Data networks.
_____________________________________________________________________
2. Title: 2009 IEEE Canada Electrical Power and Energy Conference
(2009 IEEE EPEC)
Date: October 22 - 23, 2009
Location: The Conference will be held at the Hotel Holiday Inn
Select Located at 99 Viger Ave West, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Website: TBA
For more information contact:
Anader Benyamin <anader.benyamin@ieee.org>
_____________________________________________________________________
3. IEEE International Conference on Communications(ICC 2012)
The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter
are
preparing a bid for hosting the prestigious ICC event in 2012. This
event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over
1000
registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers,
the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be
appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org
_____________________________________________________________________
4. Call for papers:
IEEE Ottawa Section is a Technical Sponsor for the following:
Topic: IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology
2009 (ICCST 2009)
Date: October 5 - 10, 2009
Location: Renaissance Hotel, Zurich, Switzerland
Important Dates:
Abstract Submission: Feb 27, 09;
Notice of Acceptance: May 29, 09;
Early Registration: July 24, 09;
Camera Ready: July 31, 09
Website: www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: science@iccst-209.ch
_____________________________________________________________________
B. IEEE News
1. New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section
Following members were elevated to Senior Member status in
November 2008
* Couillard, Jean Susbcriber of Technology Management
* Package (EM 014)
* Kropp, Carl Member of Industry Applications Society and
* Power Engineering Society
* Wu, Yuejian Member of Electron Devices Society
*
* Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!
*
* IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
For details and updated news about Senior Membership elevation
in
Ottawa, visit IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Members Page
http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm
_____________________________________________________________________
2. TITLE: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009
SPEAKERS: on the web site.
Date: May 12, 2009 - May 15, 2009
TIME: http://www.cctc2009.ca
Location:The CCTC2009 will be held on the campus of McMaster
University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
PARKING: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ADMISSION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
REGISTRATION: http://www.cctc2009.ca
ORGANIZED BY: The CCTC2009 is organized by the Engineering Institute
of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies.
DETAILS: http://ieee.ca/news/2008/jun2008.htm and
http://www.cctc2009.ca
CONTACTS: http://www.cctc2009.ca and click on Contact
ABSTRACT: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009)
is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy
advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange
new
information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global
warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep
abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation
of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.
The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It!
emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and
administrative responses to address issues associated with the
impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details,
visit
the "Call for Papers" page.
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3. The First "Women in Electromagnetics (WiEM)" Workshop
will be held
at the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, Utah June 5 - 8, 2009.
The workshop will feature sessions covering many topics of current
interest in electromagnetics and antennas. A training session on
the
use of the ANSOFT simulation package, in addition to sessions related
to career development will also be included in the program.
The name WiEM suggests ONLY that most of the lecturers will be female,
but all participants are very welcome to the workshop.
All participants are asked to present a poster on their research.
An
abstract of the poster needs to be submitted along with the
registration form. Details are provided on the WiEM Workshop website.
http://wiem.eecs.ucf.edu
The registration fee is $120 and the registration deadline is
January 23,2009.
Some funds are available for covering domestic travel and expenses
for the participants. Due to limited seating, the registration may
close early. The Workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society.
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4.Title: 22nd IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer
Engineering 2009 (CCECE 2009)
Date: May 3-6, 2009
Location: Delta Hotel, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Important Dates:
Submission of Papers for Review Friday December 5 Monday,
December 22, 2008
Notification of Acceptance Friday Feburary 6,2009
Final Paper Submission Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Author’s Registration Deadline Friday March 6, 2009
Advance Registration Deadline Friday April 3, 2009
Website: www.iccst2009.com
For more information contact: CCECE ‘09 Conference Secretariat,
Faculty of Engineering, Memorial University, St. John’s, NL
A1B 3X5;
Ph: (709) 737-7467, Fax: (709) 737-4042, Email: contact@ccece09.org
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