This page details upcoming events run by or involving the IEEE ACT Section or its Society Chapters.

End of year barbecue and annual general meeting

The ACT Section Christmas party and AGM will be held from 5.30 pm on 9 December at the Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering at ANU. RSPhysSE is located in the Cockcroft and Carver buildings which are on the southern edge of ANU at the end of Mills road. Family are welcome and entertainment will be provided for young children. 

The AGM will provide a review of the year's activities and elect the committee for 2010. 

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Joint IEEE/ IET/Engineers Australia ITEE College Presentations

These presentation are scheduled for the third Tuesday of the month and are held at Engineering House, 11 National Cct, Barton. The nominal presentation time is 6-7 pm with finger food served from 5.30.

The final presentation for 2009 is by Professor Chris Baker on 17 November. The topic is: Bats and Radar - How 50,000 years of evolution is inspiring new developments in radar.

CEA Technologies technical presentation and site visit, 10 November

The ACT Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society has arranged a site visit for IEEE members and guests to the CEA premises in Fyshwick.CEA specialise in the design, development and manufacture of advanced radarand communications solutions for civil and military applications, and successfully export these technologies around the world. CEA will give an overview of the company's operations followed by a technical presentation and site tour.

Time: 10 November - 5.30 for 6.00 pm

Venue: CEA Technologies Head Office, 59-65 Gladstone Street Fyshwick

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Making 3D models from lots of images

On Thursday 12 November Professor Richard Hartley, from ANU will be giving a presentation at the NICTA (London Cct, City West) seminar room from 6 pm. Refreshments will be available from 5.30. Please rsvp to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

With the availability of large amounts of imagery on the web, and the maturity of techniques for construction of world models from images it is ow possible to construct large-scale models from photographs or videos. The methods used belong to the subject of Multiview Geometry for Vision, which was a major research area in computer vision for much of the 1990s and 2000s.
This talk with give an introduction to the methods used for this, as well as describing the most recent progress in this area, involving the construction f city-wide models.

Blind Audio Source Separation based on Independent Component Analysis

At 11 am on 16 November at the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU, Professor Shoji Makino will be giving a presentation as part of the IEEE Signal Processing society distinguished lecture series. 

This talk describes a state-of-the-art method for the blind source separation (BSS) of convolutive mixtures of audio signals, specially speech. A statistical and computational technique, called independent component analysis (ICA), is examined. We provide examples to show how ICA criteria change as the number of audio sources increases. By achieving nonlinear decorrelation, nonstationary decorrelation, or time-delayed decorrelation, we can find source signals only from observed mixed signals.

Trends of Next Generation Networks and its Issues

At 11 am on 23 November at the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, ANU, Professor Koichi Asatani will be giving a presentation as part of the distinguished lecture series for the Communications society. 

The next generation network concept is designed to be capable of Quality of Service management and controls like in traditional telecommunications networks and to support economical, versatile multi-media applications such as those on the current internet. NGN also provides fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) with generalised mobility, and horizontal and vertical roaming as well as improved security. NGN voice and internet services are attractive from the view points of service flexibility and cost effectiveness and the capability of integrating third-party applications with high dependability and security. The current status of NGN implementation in a commercial offer by NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) is touched upon.

Cooperation at the Network Level

At 11 am on 14 December at RSISE ANU, Professor Anthony Ephremides will be giving a distinguished lecturer presentation. 

The concept of cooperative transmissions in a wireless network evolved from the notion of the relay channel and the MIMO technology. Most of the work to date has focussed on physical layer techniques (such as decode-and-forward) and aimed at characterising the source-to-destination Information-theoretic capacity. We take a different view and exploit the possibility of relaying in a cognitive fashion. That is, we sense unused resources (time-slots and/or frequency bands) and make opportunistic use of these resources for relaying. We consider packets and slots rather than bits and seconds and thus our approach focuses on computing throughput, rather than capacity.