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Calendar Archive, April 2006
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From the north, take 270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From the south, take 495 exit 34 (Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Speaker: Peter Jobse, President, Center for Innovative Technology
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 7:00 pm
Place: Corner 7 Cafe, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Attendees are responsible their individual orders.
Contact: Rick Cunningham at
rick@corridor-rd.com.
Sponsor: Life Members Affinity Group
Speakers: John Boghosian, retired physicist
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway headed toward Washington and proceed on Route 123 to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave. Proceed one block to the library on the left.
More Info: Mr. Boghosian took a course in mathematical physics taught by Richard Feynman in 1978 at Hughes Aircraft. His interactions with Dr. Feynman are the basis for this interesting talk.
Contact: John Margosian at 301-365-1257 or
jmargo@ieee.org.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Vacuum Electronics Sources
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Cosponsor: Electron Devices Society
Speaker: Dr. Bruce G. Danly, Naval Research Laboratory
Time: Dinner at 5:30 pm, lecture at 7:00 pm
Place: Updated! American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.acp.org/map.html. Adjacent to College Park Metro station (Green line).
More Info: See Diamond Story below or www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva.
Cost: Lecture free, dinner $15.
Contact: RSVP for dinner reservations (required) by Monday, April 3 to Roger Kaul at 301-394-4775 or r.kaul@ieee.org.
Sponsor: IEEE
Place: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
More Info: The 2006 Student Activities Committee (SAC) Conference offers a suite of competitions with cash prize awards, including a new hardware competition for "brown-bag" design, a student paper competition, micro mouse competition, project
showcase, and the ethics competition. Student branch officers can attend a Leadership Training Workshop.
See www.sacconference.com for deadlines, registration, rules, directions, etc.
Contact: Students should contact their IEEE faculty counselor, or Dr. Shreekanth Mandayam, IEEE Region-2 Student Activities Chair, at 856-256-5333 or
shreek@rowan.edu.
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Wickers Cafe, Tysons Corner Holiday Inn, 1960 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA
Directions: From I-495 or I-66, take Route 267 West. Exit at Route 123 West (Chain Bridge Road). Turn right on International Drive, then left on Greensboro Drive. Look for the Holiday Inn entrance on the left. Free parking.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
Tour of USPS Merrifield Processing and Distribution Center
Sponsor: Engineering Management Society
Cosponsor: Institute of Industrial Engineers (National Capital Chapter)
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Merrifield Processing and Distribution Center, 8403 Lee Highway, Merrifield, VA
Directions: From the Beltway in Virginia, take the Route 50 West exit. At the third traffic light, turn right onto Prosperity Avenue. At the next light, turn right onto Lee highway. Turn right into the first driveway after the service station and park in the lot. Enter the facility through the left-most doors, where someone will direct you to the meeting location.
More Info: This tour will demonstrate the operation of the latest U.S. Postal Service mail processing technology and equipment designed to improve the quality and lower the cost of mail handling. The tour will take approximately 75 to 90 minutes. Please wear comfortable shoes or sneakers; no open toe shoes, sandals or high heels are allowed.
Contact: Important! For security reasons we are required to provide postal officials with the names of the people who are planning to attend. Please contact Albert Henderson at albert.s.henderson@usps.gov or 703-280-7659 with the following information: your name, employer,
email address or business address, and a telephone number where you can be reached in case of a problem at the facility.
Please direct questions about this tour and other EMS activites to Doug Holly at dougholly@ieee.org.
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Identity Federation in Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)
Sponsor: Computer Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter
Speaker: Kenneth Lin, Booz Allen Hamilton; introduction by Tim Weil
Time: Networking and food 6:00 pm; technical presentation 7:00 pm
Place: 1910 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
Directions: From I-495, take the Dulles Toll Road (Route 267) to Exit 12, Reston Parkway. Turn right onto Reston Parkway, right onto Sunset Hills Road, and right onto Oracle Way.
See
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/directions.html#oracle.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Pizza and soft drinks will be served.
Cost: Free for all IEEE members, $4 for all others.
Contact: Please register at least 48 hours in advance at
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/current.html.
For more information, contact T.K. Ramesh at
tkramesh@ieee.org.
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Electric Vehicle Drag Races and All Other Things EV
Sponsor: Power Engineering Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter; Industry Applications Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter
Speakers: Charlie Garlow and David Goldstein
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Hecht’s, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. ARI is on the 7th floor.
If driving, see
www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.htm.
More Info: A light dinner buffet will be served, followed by the program. For more information about the speakers, see Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members
Contact: RSVP to Monica Mallini at 703-387-6021 or m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Northern Virginia and Washington Sections
Speaker: Dr. Ruth David, President and CEO, ANSER (cancelled due to illness)
Reception: Registration and reception at 6:30 pm; dinner at 7:30 pm; awards presentation at 8:30 pm
Place: Rockville Doubletree Hotel, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD
Directions:
From Northern Virginia, take I-495 into Maryland to Exit 38, I-270 North. Exit at Montrose Road East. Go 1.7 miles to Rockville Pike (Route 355) and turn left. Continue 0.6 mile to the hotel on the right.
From the Frederick area, take I-270 South and follow above directions.
From the Greenbelt area, take I-495 to Exit 34, Rockville Pike (Route 355), turn north and go 3 miles to the hotel on the right.
Parking Update: Hotel parking is free for this event (attendees will be given a code to exit the garage).
More info: Join us to recognize distinguished IEEE members in the local area for their contributions.
Cost: $45 per person.
Contact: The reservation deadline has been extended to Monday, April 17. Please send the names of all attendees and a check payable to "IEEE Washington Section" to Debra Meale, P.O. Box 6814, Woodbridge, VA 22195. A reservation form is printed on p. 8 of the March-April Scanner.
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Tech Tour: An Applied Learning Experience for the EMC Practitioner
Cosponsors: Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Washington and Northern Virginia Chapter, Baltimore-Annapolis Chapter, and Washington-Southern Maryland Chapter
Speakers: Blaise Corbett of the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, VA; and others
Time: Presentations 12:30-4:00 pm; reception with the speakers
4:00-5:00 pm
Place: The Columbia Sheraton Hotel, 10207 Wincopin Circle, Columbia, MD
More Info: This meeting will feature three industry speakers with extended presentation formats.
Cost: Free but you must register on line at
techtoursite.com.
Diamond Stories
The Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) is a state-chartered nonprofit corporation that accelerates the next generation of technology and technology companies. CIT provides programs and services for technology researchers, technology entrepreneurs and small technology businesses in Virginia and, through national programs, across the country.
Most of you know CIT for its distinctive building overlooking the Dulles Toll Road. Built with the assistance of the National Endowment for the Arts, the building is truly unique. But the real story is what the Center does to support and accelerate technology development.
CIT President Peter Jobse will talk about CIT's mission, programs and performance, and will provide examples of what CIT is doing today to spur technological advancements. He will discuss ways in which the organization aids companies of all sizes and will identify the various programs the center has to offer, such as the GAP Investment Fund for Virginia's early-stage tech firms and the Connect program to unite advanced technology start-ups with large scale technology consumers.
Jobse joined Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology in October 2002 as executive vice president and COO, and in May 2003 was promoted to president. Prior to joining CIT, he held a number of senior management positions with organizations such as EDS, ArcSight, and Condor Technology Solutions.
He serves on a number of boards and committees, including the Virginia Research and Technology Advisory Commission, the Virginia Institute for Defense and Homeland Security, the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce, the Virginia Space Authority, Virginia's A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership (VPMEP) Board of Trustees, and the Northern Virginia Technology Council.
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Thursday, April 6, 2006
Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Wave Vacuum Electronics Sources
The millimeter and sub-millimeter wave through THz frequency bands are receiving considerable attention for many applications. Source technologies for providing power in these frequency bands are available from a wide range of both solid-state and vacuum electronic technologies. This seminar will present an overview of vacuum electronic based source technologies for the realization of high power oscillators and amplifiers in the 30 GHz to 1 THz frequency range. Devices to be discussed in this overview will include slow-wave devices such as TWTs, BWOs, and orotrons or Smith-Purcell FELs. Fast-wave devices such as gyrotrons and their varients will also be discussed. Examples will include NRL developments of a 10 kW average power 94 GHz gyro-klystron amplifier, and recent work by a variety of groups on higher frequency sources.
Bruce Danly received a B.A. from Haverford College (1978), and a Ph.D. from MIT (1983), both in physics. From 1983-1995, he was on the research staff at the MIT Plasma Fusion Center, where he developed high power microwave and millimeter wave sources for fusion and advanced accelerator applications.
In 1995, Dr. Danly joined the Naval Research Laboratory, as Head, high Power Devices Section, Vacuum Electronics Branch, where he carried out work on high power vacuum electronic devices, including gyro-amplifiers for radar applications and high data rate communications TWTs. In January 2006, he assumed the position of Head, Microwave Technology Branch, Electronics Science and Technology Division. The branch carries out fundamental and applied research in wide bandgap power semiconductors, high-speed low-power-consumption antimonide-based compound semiconductors, and innovative microwave control components. Dr. Danly is a member of APS and IEEE, and was elected Fellow of the IEEE in 2003.
This lecture completes the 2005-06 MTT series of lectures about emerging technologies and systems. The lecture series will resume in the Fall.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2006
Identity Federation in Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG)
The completion of the Human Genome Project sparked the development of many new tools for today's biomedical researcher to use in finding the mechanism behind disease. However, the lack of common infrastructure has prevented life science research institutions from being able to mine and analyze disparate data sources. Research facilities have been working with islands of isolated data and informatics tools. The inability to share technologies and data among different cancer research institutions can severely hamper the research process. The Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project was created to provide the organizational framework that could tackle these issues.
The National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB) built
the caBIG prototype to satisfy simple data integration and share use cases using the Globus Toolkit. In anticipation of 1000+ grid services in the production release, Booz Allen Hamilton was asked to examine the current caBIG authentication and authorization architecture, propose a notional Federated Identity Management (FIM) architecture, evaluate a list of candidate technologies, and provide guidance on how to create identity federation in caBIG.
This presentation starts with the evolution of grid computing and Web services technology, illustrates the challenges of identity federation across many security domains, and presents a recommended FIM architecture. Findings of every grid technology evaluated, such as Globus Toolkit, Shibboleth, GridShib and Signet, will be presented and mapped to the proposed FIM architecture. The combination of FIM scenarios, architecture and technologies provides critical insights to create identity federation in a complex data sharing environment.
Kenneth Lin, a senior consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, is an enterprise technical and security architect with eight years of professional experience managing the development, integration, and architecting secure business solutions. He focuses on implementing large-scale, technical projects with highly diverse, cross-functional teams. He is experienced in a variety of enabling technologies including service oriented architectures, grid computing, FEA, identity federation, Web services, public key infrastructure and smart cards. Lin holds B.S and M.S. degrees in computer science from National Chiao-Tung University at Taiwan and an M.S. degree in electronic commerce from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP).
Tim Weil, a security architect with Booz Allen Hamilton, will provide an introduction to Lin's talk. With more than 20 years experience in data processing, communications engineering, and information assurance, Weil's technical areas of expertise include enterprise security architecture, FISMA compliance, identity management, and network engineering. He is a senior member of IEEE and serves as Washington Section Editor of the IEEE Scanner. He has also been a technical editor for several IEEE publications. His degrees include an M.S. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. in sociology from Immaculate Heart College. He is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
Electric Vehicle Drag Races and All Other Things EV
Ask any electric power company, and they will tell you that it is a lot more fun to race electric cars, especially with help from kids, than it is to push a 765-kV power line through an unwilling community. We welcome Charlie Garlow and David Goldstein, who will talk about drag racing electric vehicles for fun, saving money, national security and environmental protection. They will also discuss the new concept of plug-in hybrid electric cars, which can be described as “Toyota Prius on steroids.” With more batteries for a longer "battery only" range and new battery technologies, plug-ins may spark the electric vehicle revolution!
National security issues, i.e., importing oil from politically volatile regions, are a major reason that "neo-conservatives" have allied themselves with environmentalists in advocating plug-in hybrid electric cars. The plug-in hybrids use clean, renewable energy, such as electricity from wind and solar resources. Setting new drag racing times is the incentive for "gear heads" to compete in the National Electric Drag Race Association races. Have we mentioned that promoting a clean environment is lots of fun? This forum will explore all these issues and more. Check out these websites: www.powerofdc.com, www.pluginaustin.org, and www.nedra.org, and come with plenty of questions for the experts, and find out how you can get involved with the local EV community.
David Goldstein has been an electric vehicle consultant for more than 30 years, having built/repaired/driven/designed electric vehicles of all sorts for government and private parties. He has been the President of the Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington, D.C. (EVA/DC) since the first 1973 oil crisis. EVA/DC’s most recent project is the reconstruction of MIT’s solar-assisted two-seater electric three-wheeled vehicle, which can be viewed at www.evadc.org. He is also a consultant to Altair, a battery components company that is promoting lithium ion nanotechnology.
Charlie Garlow is vice president of EVA/DC and a proud owner of an all electric, battery powered Chevy S-10 pickup truck, which he races at the June NEDRA drag races every year. A clean air enforcement lawyer with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by day, Charlie believes in walking the walk, talking the talk, and driving the jive! Charlie also helps to organize the Junior Solar Sprint races for middle school students. The races use a solar panel and an electric motor on board a car of the student’s design in drag races every May, with East Coast Championship races in Massachusetts every June.
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