WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE IEEE
THE NEWSLETTER OF
THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS
ENGINEERS, INC
SOUTH AUSTRALIA SECTION
PO Box 53, Elizabeth, SA 5112
June 2003
ARBN 078 576 495 http:// http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/s_australia/
Chairman’s Column
Dear Colleagues
IEEE Australia Council
The Information Theory Chapter (Alex Grant) is now a joint Chapter of ACT/SA/VIC/NSW Sections.
Northern Territory IEEE members (~35) do not appear to be attached to any of the existing Sections. Following the break up of the IEEE Australia Section (many years ago) it seems that somehow NT was overlooked. Tasmania is attached to Victoria and North Queensland includes parts of New Guinea. At this stage IEEE SA does not include NT and IEEE NSW continues to send its newsletters to NT members.
Asian Control Conference, AsCC 2004
IEEE NSW, and IEEE QLD have joined IEEE SA in the underwriting group of this event to be held 20-23 July, Melbourne. This is the first time that 3 IEEE Sections in Australia have combined in this way. The IEAust Electrical College Board has also agreed to participate, and this again is a first. The U. of Melbourne is the 5th co-sponsor.
IEEE ISSSTA 2004, Sydney, 30 Aug - 2 Sep 2004
IEEE ComSoc has withdrawn from the underwriting of
this event and IEEE NSW has invited IEEE SA (and IEEE SA has agreed) to
co-sponsor this event. Prof. Lars
Rasmussen, ITR, is the Finance Chair.
Standards Australia / SNZ CT/1
The IEEE Australia Council has
endorsed Barney Tomasich
as the IEEE representative on the "Communications Cabling" Committee. Many of the IEEE standards (esp IEEE 802.3) have a big impact on the work of SA/SNZ CT/1, so IEEE representation makes sense. On the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC25/WG3 "Customer Premises Cabling Committee on which Barney represents Australia, there are always IEEE representatives. [Barney.Tomasich@anixter.com]
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Dr Michael E. Evans
Chair, IEEE South Australia Section
June, 2003
IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) in Bangkok, 25-28 May 2003.
Report
by Peter Celinski
The
conference was attended by over 1200 delegates from around the world, and
provided an opportunity to have discussions with internationally recognised
researchers, as a result of which I have been offered free space for one of my
designs on an upcoming test-chip scheduled for August by the Microelectronic
Circuits and Analogue Devices Group, University of Oxford. This will not only save my groups in Adelaide
and in Delft considerable expense, but will hopefully lead to increased future
collaborations between our groups.
I have
also been invited to visit the Microelectronic Systems Group, University of
Oslo, to give a presentation on my research and to visit the laboratory
facilities at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of
Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.
At present I am undertaking a 12 months research fellowship in the Computer Engineering
Group at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. I am working on
a project as part of my PhD at Adelaide University, in the area of high speed
arithmetic circuit design based on Threshold Logic.
Australian International
Conference on Radar Adelaide, Australia, 3-5 September 2003
Sponsored by CSSIP and IEEE
SA Section
Section
Committee Officers for 2003
Chair: Dr Michael Evans
Vice Chair: Dr Zia Ahmed
Secretary: Dr Tim Ferris
Treasurer: Dr Andrew Piotrowski
IP Chair Dr Bevan Bates
Membership Development Andrew Udina
andrew.udina@dsto.defence.gov.au
Professional Activities Bruce Vyden
Bruce.vyden@dsto.defence.gov.au
Awards Dr Zia Ahmed
Educational Activities vacant
Publications Dr Andrew Piotrowski
Chair SP/Comms Chapter: Dr Peter Shoubridge
peter.shoubridge@dsto.defence.gov.au
Chair AP/MTT Chapter: Dr Hedley Hansen
hedley.hansen@dsto.defence.gov.au
Chair C/AES Chapter: Dr Mark Pszczel
mark.pszczel@dsto.defence.gov.au
Chair Computer Chapter: Dr Fred Brown
Chair IT Chapter (SA/ACT) Dr Alex Grant
UofSA Student Branch: Nimrod Lilith
nimrod.lilith@postgrads.unisa.edu.au
Branch
Counsellor Dr Kutlu Dogancay
kutluyil.dogancay@unisa.edu.au
UofAdelaide Student Branch: Leonard Hall
lthall@eleceng.adelaide.edu.au
Branch Cousellor: Brian Ng
Membership
Congratulations to Prof. Chris Marlin from Flinders University who was recently elevated to SMIEEE (Computer Society).
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30 May 02 |
30 May 03 |
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Members |
264 |
274 |
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Senior Members |
28 |
28 |
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Fellows |
1 |
2 |
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Affiliates/Others |
51 |
42 |
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Students |
57 |
82 |
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TOTAL |
401 |
428 |
Congratulations also to Hedley Hanson and Bevan Bates on their appointments as adjunct Assoc. Professors at the University of Adelaide.
As was read in the last newsletter, the late payment grace period had distorted the membership stats. This period has now passed and the statistical comparisons are returning to normal. We are up by 10 ordinary members for the same time last year.
It is well known
that the best form of advertisement is by word of mouth. Therefore when you
attend any IEEE sponsored event see if you have any colleagues or friends that
my like to come along. By them taking part is the best way to enthuse their
interest in membership.
Andrew Udina, Membership Development
IEEE GOLD - Young Professionals
If you are an IEEE member who graduated with
your first professional degree within the last ten years, you are automatically
part of IEEE GOLD!
IEEE recognizes that you are a key to the future
of the technical profession. IEEE GOLD can empower you to make the most of your
developing career and to help you find your place in the world of technology.
Make a connection with your peers and colleagues - a GOLDen opportunity awaits
you!
To promote the GOLD Program IEEE SA Section organized a talk
by Dr Tony Lindsay
(MIEEE) titled
Actively Managing Your Career on 6 June 2003. The presentation was open to all
DSTO staff and was followed by pizza and drinks. The event attracted a crowd of 20 people
IEEE SA section wants to establish an IEEE GOLD Group in DSTO
Edinburgh. Currently we are looking for
people to support this effort as either the GOLD group secretary or
treasurer. If you want to be actively
involved in the GOLD group please contact:
Andrew.Piotrowski@ieee.org, or
Sebastien.Wong@dsto.defence.gov.au.
Sebastien Wong and
Andrew Piotrowski
IEEE SA GOLD Initiative Panel
Chapter News
Information Theory
Chapter
Multiple
antenna transmission and reception: Capacity considerations, signal processing,
and space-time code design
Prof.
Ezio Biglieri
Dipartimento
di Elettronica, Politecnico di Torino
Wednesday
16th July 2003 1.00pm
Room
1-6 Building W (SPRI)
University
of South Australia, Mawson Lakes
Abstract
Multiple
transmit and receive antenna techniques have been shown to increase the channel
capacity in wireless communications to an extent that cannot be matched by any
other feasible technique. Recent developments of transmit diversity combined
with error-control coding and signal processing techniques have introduced new
space-time coding schemes and layered space-time architectures that approach
capacity and the performance of optimum interfaces with a manageable
complexity. This talk describes the state-of-the-art in multiple-antenna
transmission, coding, and signal-processing techniques.
http://www.informationtheory.net/Seminars/biglieri.html
Dr Alex Grant, Chair, IT Chapter
Control, Aerospace and Electronic Systems
Chapter
National Experimental Supersonic Transport
(NEXST1) of Japan – Launch Incident Investigation
Dr Takeshi Ohnuki, NAL, Japan
Peter Nikoloff, Nova Aerospace
Monday, 30 June 2003, 5:30pm for 6:00pm
S127, Engineering South, U. of Adelaide
This meeting is jointly sponsored with AIAA Adelaide Section and precedes the AIAA Adelaide Section AGM.
Dr Mark Pszczel, Chair, CAES Chapter
Computer Society Chapter
High
Confidence Security Engineering
Dr
Alex Farkas
Tuesday
22nd July, 6pm
Honours
Lecture Theatre, School of Computer Science
University
of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus Refreshments will be served from 5.30pm.
To assist with catering please email fred@cs.adelaide.edu.au if you will be attending. All are welcome.
Dr Fred Brown, Chair, CS Chapter
AP/MTT Society Chapter
A meeting was held on 10 June at which the offices of the chapter were filled.
Critical for the health of the chapter is for engineers to pursue careers in RF microtechnology and antenna development. Consequently the committee concentrated on discussing strategies to attract undergraduate students to RF engineering activity.
It was decided that the upcoming international Radar 2003 conference in Adelaide provides an opportunity for profiling research relevant to the chapter. To this end, the chapter is to attempt to arrange an exhibition of antennas from DSTO, BAE, CSIRO etc that will coincide with the Radar forum. This is to be planned in cooperation with the University of Adelaide Student branch.
The chapter is also to seek to provide a level of tutorial sponsorship for students at this radar meeting and is to endeavour to provide further support for South Australian students to attend future national MTT and AP forums eg., the biennial Australian Symposia on Antennas (CSIRO) and Workshops in Applications in Radio Science (WARS).
Further details of the chapter’s plans are yet to be finalised
Dr Hedley Hansen , Chair, APMTT Chapter
IEEE SA Travel Grants
The Section provides awards under the "Travel Grant" program to assist students to deliver conference publications. Three post-graduate students have already benefited from this program in 2003, and the Section has recently provided support for attendance at a conference in Australia.
Matthew
Tetlow, University of Adelaide
"Predictive
guidance for booster flyback",
Australian International Aerospace Congress,
Brisbane, 29 Jul–01 Aug 2003
All recipients are required to present their papers to an IEEE audience on their return at a mutually convenient time.
Zia Ahmed, AwardsConvenor
NEWS
RAB
Awards
The
strength of IEEE is the work of the volunteer at the local level. Without the
efforts of the local volunteer, IEEE would not be able to promote the
understanding of the influence of technology on the public welfare. These volunteers need to be recognized for
their efforts, we don't recognize the local volunteers enough for their work or
the impact they have on society.
The
RAB Awards and Recognition Program seeks to honor the outstanding efforts of
some of the most invaluable IEEE Volunteers who have made substantial Regional
contributions through innovative projects, exemplary leadership, service, and
by fulfilling the goals as related to Transnational Activities. Each prestigious award has a unique mission
and criteria, and offers the opportunity to honor distinguished colleagues,
inspiring teachers and corporate leaders. We are currently accepting
nominations for the following RAB Awards:
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RAB Leadership Award
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RAB Larry K. Wilson Transnational Award
These awards, the most prestigious RAB has to offer, are designed to recognize outstanding efforts by IEEE volunteers. These are NOT technical achievement awards. The deadline for nominations is 15 October 2003. You can submit award nominations online by visiting the following web page: http://www.ieee.org/rabawards.html.
SECTIONS' CONGRESS 2002 REPORT
The
final report from Sections Congress 2002 is now available at
http://www.ieee.org/sc. To view the document, click on "2002" and
then "Final Report" in the left menu bar. Visitors who experience
difficulties accessing the large PDF file may request a print copy by
contacting Donna McClelland at d.mclelland@ieee.org.
Additionally,
Regional Activities is soliciting ideas for a theme for the next Sections
Congress to be held 14-17 October 2005 in Tampa, Florida USA. To submit topics
and participate in the theme discussion, visit the IEEE Section/Chapter
Volunteer Virtual Community at
http://www.ieeecommunities.org/section-chapter_vol or send ideas to Tracy
Hawkins at t.hawkins@ieee.org.
Eighth IEEE
International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques and Applications
30 August - 2 September, 2004, Sydney
Call
for Papers
With
new developments in wireless technology, the scope of spread spectrum (SS)
application has expanded to include new and unexpected areas. Developments in
3G systems based on SS / CDMA have reached a level of maturity where commercial
products and operational networks are in place. WLAN systems based on SS have
exhibited enormous growth in popularity even during a period of slow acceptance
of other technology. Newer areas such as MIMO systems and, Ultra wideband
systems herald impressive performance improvements for the future.
ISSSTA 2004 will highlight theoretical performance of
existing and future systems, as well as novel applications and implementations
of spread spectrum technology. MIMO systems and Ultra wideband will
join the list of topics, which will include: Information theory of SS, MIMO channels,
Performance bounds, capacity limits, SS signal processing including Ultra
wideband, Sequence and waveform design, Signal acquisition and tracking, Coding
and modulation for SS and multi-user systems, Information security LPI, LPD
Receivers and diversity techniques, Space-Time coding for SS systems, Adaptive
equalization, channel estimation and SS signal, detection, Interference
suppression and cancellation, Multiple access techniques and capacity analysis,
Antenna arrays, multi-sensor channels, Remote sensing, radar, sonar and
positioning system performance, Multicarrier CDMA, Performance of SS/CDMA MIMO
and multi-sensor systems, Ultra wideband (UWB) systems, Resource allocation,
power control, Ad-hoc SS/CDMA networks, Performance of SS/CDMA satellite
systems, 4G System concepts, Quantum applications, Tools for
system analysis, Integrated circuit design and
implementation Communications using chaos
Submission
Deadlines
The deadline for submission is 1 February 2004, with notification
of decisions by 1 April 2004. Camera ready copies must be submitted by 1
June 2004. Information for electronic submission of papers will be posted
at a later date. Inquiries to paper submissions should contact the chairs or http://www.isssta2004.org
General
Enquiries
Dr. Ian Oppermann
CWC, University of Oulu
PO Box 4500, FIN-90014,
Finland
Email: Ian.Oppermann@ee.oulu.fi
5th Biennial Asian Control
Conference
Melbourne, 20-23 July 2004
Sponsored by IEEE (SA, NSW, QLD), IEAust,
U. of Melbourne
19th August THE
DEFENCE PAYLOAD ON THE OPTUS C1 SATELLITE
Host IEEE Mr Allan
Jeffs and Mr Peter Kerr, Information Networks Division, DSTO.
Hear about the
Defence communication capabilities offered by Australia’s newest satellite and
DSTO’s research program into advanced satellite ground terminals.
16th September WIND
GENERATION IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Host IEE Mr Paul
Driver, Customer Development Manager, and Mr Mark Denton, Project Manager
Starfish Hill Project, ETSA Utilities. A look at the new Starfish Hill wind
generation plant on the Fleurieu Peninsula and associated connection to the SA
electricity system.
Chapman Hall,
Engineering House, 11 Bagot Street, North Adelaide, Light tea commences at 5:30
pm and the meeting at 6:15 pm
Conference Schedule
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Date |
Conference |
City |
Website |
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3-5 September, 2003 |
Australian International Conference on Radar (RADAR 2003) |
Adelaide |
http://www.plevin.com.au/radar |
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20-23 July, 2004 |
5th Biennial Asian Control Conference |
Melbourne |
http://ascc2004.ee.mu.oz.au |
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30 August - 2 September, 2004 |
8th IEEE International Symposium on Spread Spectrum Techniques, Applications (ISSSTA) |
Sydney |
http://www.isssta2004.org |
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4-9 September, 2005 |
IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) |
Adelaide |
http://www.informationtheory.net/conference |