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Calendar Archive, April 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:45 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from the Metro Center station (Red, Orange and Blue lines) and approx. six blocks from the Gallery Place Metro station (Red, Yellow and Green lines).
Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: Tim Weil at trweil@ieee.org or 301-452-3641.
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Northern Virginia Chapter
Speaker: Dr. J. Scott Goldstein, IEEE Fellow
Time: Food and networking at 6:30 pm; Seminar at 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Complimentary pizza and soft drinks will be provided. Non-members are welcome.
Contact: RSVPs by Tuesday, April 1 are appreciated, but walk-ins are welcome. Email Tim Settle at t.settle@ieee.org.
Sponsor: IEEE Region 2
Time:
Place: Pennsylvania College of Technology, 1 College Ave., Williamsport, PA
More Info: The Saturday conference day consists of several competitions, including brownbag hardware, ethics, student paper, Micromouse and project showcase. The day also includes a leadership workshop, a career fair, and a keynote speaker and award ceremony.
See
www.pct.edu/student_orgs/ieee/sac2008/index.asp.
Contact: Local members should contact Jerry Gibbon at j.t.gibbon@ieee.org for more information.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 8133 Leesburg Pike (Tysons Corner), Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-495, take Route 7 West (Exit 47A) toward Tysons Corner. Turn left at Gallows Road. Parking garage is behind the restaurant.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or 703-675-0678.
NEW DATE: This meeting was originally scheduled for April 8.
Sponsors: Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Brian Scales
Time: 11:30 am
Place: American Public Transportation Association, Conference Room, 11th Floor,
1666 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to Farragut North station (Red Line, use K Street exit) or Farragut West station (Orange & Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: All interested persons are invited.
Cost: $15 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Please make reservations by 4:00 pm on Friday, April 4 by contacting Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com or 202-775-3397, or Karl Berger at karl.berger@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Particle Filtering Methodology in Signal Processing
Sponsor: Signal Processing Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Prof. Petar M. Djuric, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, SUNY Stony Brook
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Kim Engineering Building, Room 1110, College Park, MD
Directions: From I-495, exit at Route 1 South, proceed approx. 2 miles, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately turn right onto Paint Branch Drive and the Kim Engineering Building will be on the left (after a stop sign). Free parking after 4:00 pm in Lots T and XX. See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
From the College Park Metro Station (Green line), take the free UM campus shuttle, get off at the first stop, walk back a hundred yards to Paint Branch Drive and look for the Kim Engineering Building on the left. See shuttle schedule at
www.transportation.umd.edu/routes/schedules/CollegeParkMetro.pdf.
More Info: See Diamond story below. All are welcome to attend the lecture and reception that follows.
Contact: teknight@umd.edu or washington.sps@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Northern Virginia and Washington Sections
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Linton Wells II, Distinguished Research Fellow, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, National Defense University
Time: Registration and reception at 6:30 pm; dinner at 7:30 pm; awards presentation at 8:30 pm
Place: Grand Hyatt Washington, 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
Directions: The Grand Hyatt is on the corner of 11th and H Streets NW. There is an entrance to the hotel in the Metro Center station (Red, Orange, Blue lines). See
http://grandwashington.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/services/maps/index.jsp for driving directions.
More info: Join us to recognize distinguished IEEE members in the local area for their contributions.
Cost: $55 for members, $60 for non-members, $25 for students. Corporate sponsorships are $1000 (full table) or $500 (half-table) and include acknowledgement in the program and the Scanner post-event story.
Contact: Reservations are required by Friday, March 28. Please send the names of all attendees and a check payable to "IEEE Washington Section" to IEEE, P.O. Box 6814, Woodbridge, VA 22195. A reservation form appears in the March-April Scanner. For information about corporate
sponsorships, please contact Kiki Ikossi at 703-960-0261 or ikossi@ieee.org.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Overview of Chaos and Its Information Applications
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Speaker: Dr. Christopher P. Silva, Communications & Networking Division, The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California
Time: Reception 5:30 pm, dinner 6:00, lecture 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: This is the third lecture in the MTT-S Lecture Series for 2007-08. All attendees are welcome to meet and greet the speaker at the reception and join the committee for a catered dinner before the lecture. See Diamond story below, or
http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/mtt-wnva/ for speaker information.
Cost: Lecture free; $15 for dinner (reservation required).
Contact: Please RSVP for dinner only by Thursday, April 10 to Roger Kaul at
r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775, or to Bruce Levine at bruce.levine@ieee.org.
NEW DATE: This meeting was originally scheduled for April 15.
Sponsor: Electron Devices Society
Speaker: Dr. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, Virginia Commonwealth University
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: George Mason University, Main Campus, Science and Technology II (ST2) Building, Room 100A (Dean's Conference Room), 4400 University Drive, Fairfax, VA
Directions: See
www.gmu.edu/gmu/Directions-to-GMU.html. Visitor parking is located in the Parking Deck near the Performing Arts Center. Please present parking ticket for validation before leaving the meeting. Consult campus map at
http://coyote.gmu.edu/map/fairfax.html or the information kiosk on the third level of Parking Deck for directions to the building.
More Info: See Diamond story below. Refreshments will be available.
Contact: Dimitris Ioannou at dioannou@gmu.edu.
Sponsor: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Chris Martin, Current Technologies, Richmond, VA
Time: Refreshments 6:00 pm, program 6:30-8:00 pm
Place: Oakton Library, 10304 Lynnhaven Place, Oakton, VA
Directions: The library is at the corner of Lynnhaven and Hunter Mill Rd., one short block from Rt. 123 on Hunter Mill Rd. See
www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/ok/direct.htm.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for non-members.
Contact: RSVP to Fred Pearson at 571-227-3259 or fred.pearson@unisys.com, or Jeff McWhirt at jmcwhirt@mitre.org.
Sponsor: Communications Society (Washington Chapter, Northern Virginia Chapter); Computer Society
Speaker: Adam Vincent, Layer 7 Technologies Corp.
Time: Light refreshments and networking at 6:30 pm; Presentation at 7:00 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions: See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: RSVP by Tuesday, April 15 to Debi Siering at
siering@ieee.org.
NEW DATE: This class was originally scheduled for April 9-11.
Sponsor: IEEE Washington Section
Speaker: Charles Lord, P.E., Triangle Advanced Design & Automation
Time: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Place: ITT Technical Institute, 14420 Albemarle Point Place, Chantilly, VA
More Info: Registration is full; names are being placed on a wait list. This 3-day workshop is part of the Washington Section's Continuing Education series. For details, see
www.tadatraining.com/usb/.
Cost: $1295 for IEEE members; $1595 for non-members
Contact: Wally Lee at w.h.lee@ieee.org.
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society; American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG; and the Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Time: 6:30 pm
Speakers: Nelson Perez, Sierra's Edge Inc. and Ernest Ambrose, CompSci Resources, LLC
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean, Silver Spring and Gaithersburg. Addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. Pizza will be served. Advance registration is required to enter the facilities.
See a href="http://www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499">
www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499 for details and to register.
(Please check this link again because rooms at the locations are subject to change.)
Cost: Free
Contact: Tom Starai at starai@ieee.org.
Sponsor: Life Members
Speaker: TBA
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Dolley Madison Library, 1244 Oak Ridge Ave, McLean, VA
Directions: Take Exit 46 from the Beltway and proceed on Route 123 North to McLean, VA, about 2 miles. After crossing Old Dominion Dr., turn left at the next street, Ingleside Ave., and then left on Oak Ridge Ave. The library is on the left.
More Info: Refreshments will be served.
Contact: Amarjeet Basra at 703-324-2821 or amarjeet.basra@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
This talk introduces recent advances and algorithms for adaptive detection and estimation. In particular, emphasis is placed on how rank reduction can assist in successfully processing low powered signals in complicated colored noise signal environments. Examples will be presented from a multidisciplinary perspective.
J. Scott Goldstein is a Vice President and Group Chief Scientist at SAIC and has over 20 years of experience in the fields of radar, sonar, communications, navigation, and imaging sensors. He has performed fundamental research and development in the technical areas that support C3I and ISR functions. He has also conceived, designed and developed new programs within DARPA, the national intelligence community and the individual military services that apply advanced technology to solve our nation’s most difficult problems, often in unexpected ways. In addition, he provides technical leadership in a number of programs developing advanced sensor systems and novel mission capabilities. Dr. Goldstein is a SAIC Technical Fellow and the chairman of the Tech Fellow council, which serves as the premier science and technology advisory board for this Fortune 500 Company of 44,000+ employees with over $8B in annual revenue.
Previously, Dr. Goldstein led a complex program at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where he brought together the capabilities of two Defense agencies, three DoD service laboratories and one university to successfully develop a novel product for the intelligence community. He also was one of three principals leading an in-house program on the detection of underground facilities and participated in classified sensor programs while at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Prior to this, Dr. Goldstein served as the Vice President and Chief Scientist of Adaptronics, Inc., was a Shackelford Fellow with the Radar Systems Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, worked on sensor programs at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and was a consultant to the Army Research Laboratory.
Dr. Goldstein is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences and a member of the IEEE Radar Systems Panel. He is an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at Virginia Tech, where he has successfully supervised three Ph.D. candidates and taught courses on radar systems and signal processing. He was elected to the 2003 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Program as one of the Nation’s 100 outstanding young engineers. He also received the 2002 IEEE Fred Nathanson Radar Engineer of the Year Award. Recently Dr. Goldstein was appointed to a three-year term on the IEEE Signal Processing Society Awards Board and is chairing a session on nonproliferation at the 2008 National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Program. He has authored or co-authored over 100 refereed technical publications. He previously served twice as the chair of the IEEE Northern Virginia Section, once in the 1980's and once in the 2000's. Dr. Goldstein is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu.
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Friday, April 11, 2008
Particle Filtering Methodology in Signal Processing
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 distribution. 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 many signal processing examples which will aid in gaining valuable insights about the methodology.
Petar M. Djuric received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Belgrade in 1981 and 1986, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island in 1990. From 1981 to 1986 he was a research associate with the Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Vinca, Belgrade. Since 1990 he has been with Stony Brook University, where he is professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering. He works in the area of statistical signal processing, and his primary interests are in the theory of modeling, detection, estimation, and time series analysis and Monte Carlo-based methods for signal processing. He applies the theory to problems that arise in a wide variety of disciplines including wireless communications, sensor networks, medicine, and biology.
Dr. Djuric is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 2007, he received the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He has served on numerous technical committees and has been on the editorial boards of various journals.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Overview of Chaos and Its Information Applications
The field of chaos, a complex random-like behavior found in nonlinear dynamical systems, has continued to mature internationally in its real-world application to information transmission and processing. This presentation will first provide the basic framework for the applied chaos segment that follows, introducing the general terminology/characteristics of chaos and its synchronization, followed by its important advantages and implications for engineering applications. A wide-ranging list of application areas will be highlighted, covering analog/digital encryption, noise signal processing, baseband through optical communications, radar, cellular nonlinear networks (analog computer), electronic measures, and bifurcation engineering. Technology development examples, status and future outlook will also be included, as well as hardware development work at The Aerospace Corporation on chaos-based RF communications and radar.
Dr. Christopher P. Silva received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in electrical
engineering, in 1982, 1985, and 1993, respectively, from the University of California at
Berkeley. Professor Leon O. Chua directed his graduate work with an emphasis on nonlinear circuit and system theory. His dissertation work was on the analytical detection of chaotic dynamics in nonlinear circuits, which included a detailed rigorous study of the qualitative dynamics of both the well-known double-scroll chaotic circuit and second-order analog phase-locked loops.
He joined the Electronics Research Laboratory of The Aerospace Corporation in 1989 and is currently a Senior Engineering Specialist in the Communication Electronics Department, Communications & Networking Division. He has been the principal or co-investigator on several internally funded research projects addressing nonlinear microwave CAD, private/secure communications and radar by means of chaos, and the characterization and compensation of nonlinear satellite communications channels, the latter of which has evolved into an advanced technology development for several military space programs.
He has given many invited talks at conferences, society meetings, universities, industry, and laboratories on the applications of nonlinear techniques to communications and signal processing, along with corresponding publications in various venues.
Dr. Silva is a Fellow of IEEE, a Senior Member of AIAA, and a member of AAAS, AMS, and SIAM.
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The primary threat to continued downscaling of electronic devices, as envisioned in the celebrated Moore's law, is excessive power dissipation on a chip. As device dimensions shrink, the power loss incurred during switching a device does not reduce commensurately, resulting in rapid increase of power dissipation per unit area. Ultimately, this can cause chip "meltdown." The only solution is to seek a radical new paradigm where the power dissipation is drastically reduced.
All "charge-based" electronic devices unfortunately have a fundamental shortcoming when it comes to power dissipation. Charge is a scalar quantity that only has a magnitude. If it is used to encode digital information, then the binary bits 0 and 1 must be demarcated by a difference in the magnitude of the charge. Switching between the logic levels will entail changing the magnitude of charge stored in a digital device (e.g. a transistor) which inevitably causes current flow. This leads to an I2R dissipation (I=current and R=resistance in the path of the current). There is no way to avoid this dissipation.
Unlike charge, the spin of an electron is a "pseudo vector" with a fixed magnitude but a variable polarization (direction). By placing an electron in a magnetic field, one can make the polarization bistable, so that only polarizations that are either parallel or anti-parallel to the field are allowed eigenstates. These two polarizations can encode classical logic bits 0 and 1. Switching of bits will now merely require toggling the spin without physically moving the electron in space to cause a current. This promises extremely low power logic circuits.
This talk by Dr. Supriyo Bandyopadhyay of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, will present the Single Spin Logic paradigm where bits are encoded in spin polarizations of single electrons confined in semiconductor quantum dots. The dots are arranged on a wafer in a certain way and special members in the array are designated as input ports. The spins in the input dots are aligned with local magnetic fields to conform to the input data string. The input dots communicate the data to the other dots via nearest neighbor exchange coupling. This process takes the system to a many body excited state. The interacting spins are then allowed to relax to the many-body ground state by emitting phonons. By cleverly arranging the dots, one can engineer the exchange interactions in such a way that when the ground state is reached, the spin polarizations in certain dots, designated as output ports, always conform to the correct output in accordance with the truth table of a specific logic gate. Different logic gates are configured with different arrangements of the quantum dots just as different transistor layouts configure different logic gates in traditional circuits. This paradigm is "wireless" since there is no need for current flow and exchange interaction plays the role of wires to ferry logic signals.
Dr. Bandyopadhyay will elucidate this paradigm by showing how the universal NAND gate is implemented. Any combinational or sequential circuit can be derived from the NAND gate. I will also show that this paradigm can reduce power dissipation in digital circuits by a few orders of magnitude. In fact, the power dissipation per bit flip will be shown to be kTln(1/p) [k=Boltzmann constant, T = absolute temperature and p = bit error probability], which is the fundamental (technology-independent) Landauer-Shannon limit for irreversible logic. This talk will conclude by identifying promising pathways to realizing Single Spin Logic, focusing on organic nanostructures where we have recently demonstrated spin relaxation times as log as 1 second at a temperature of 100 K.
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Surge Protection design has evolved extensively over the past 30 years. The presentation will include a live demonstration showing the potential effect of temporary over-voltages on today’s surge protection components. The discussion will provide an update to the changing face of the surge protection industry including the extensive expansions to safety standard UL1449; and field application issues arising from the use of traditional surge protection components. The discussion also explores the impact of temporary over-voltages on surge protection components; reviews published recommendations from IEEE Std 1100-2005 (Emerald Book) cautioning the integration of surge protection within switchboards; and summarizes the forthcoming changes to the Surge Protection performance standards NEMA LS1.
Chris Martin is the Surge Protection Product Manager for Thomas & Betts Power Solutions in Richmond, VA. T&BPS manufacture the top two leading brands for the surge protection industry, Current Technology and Joslyn. Previously, he was production engineer for TVSS products and data center power infrastructure including digital static transfer switches and power distribution units.
Other career highlights include five years as product engineer/program manager for Viasystems, Inc. managing key accounts for Lucent Technologies, Alcatel, General Dynamics, Ericsson, and Marconi; three years as site engineer for AT&T's special projects division in Keflavik, Iceland and one year as lead engineer at the Naval Undersea Surveillance Command Center Norfolk, VA. Chris received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Virginia Military Institute.
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XML firewalls are a new category of network device that filter Internet Protocol (IP) packets for eXtensible Markup Language (XML) data. These firewalls are an important component of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), as they protect application servers from malicious XML attacks.
Adam Vincent has extensive experience in SOA and fielding enterprise class security solutions for both the commercial and government sectors. He worked for Mitre Corporation and specialized in SOA security and cross boundary information sharing. While at Mitre, he taught classes on SOA vulnerability assessment and XML firewalls to the Federally Funded Research & Development Center (FFRDC) and government personnel. Currently with Layer 7 Technologies Corp., Mr. Vincent has gained valuable insights into the commercial industry while consulting for organizations in their pursuit of secure SOA enablement, and he has become a trusted subject matter expert in advising both the Department of Defense and intelligence community in their goal of net-centric enablement.
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