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Calendar Archive, March 2008
Tuesday, March 4, 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: IEEE-USA
Time: Tuesday 9:00 am to 7:00 pm; Wednesday 8:00 am to 4:00 pm (some activities are optional)
More Info: U.S. IEEE members are invited to join with hundreds of other engineers and scientists in the 2008 Science, Engineering & Technology Congressional Visits Day to deliver the message that Federally funded research secures the nation's future. The two-day event includes face-to-face meetings with members of Congress, congressional staff, key Administration officials and other decision-makers. IEEE members are briefed prior to the meetings. See www.ieeeusa.org/policy/cvd.
Cost: Free (no travel reimbursement)
Contact: Registration deadline is Feb. 20. IEEE members may register online at the above URL. For registration assistance or for more information, contact Deborah Rudolph at
d.rudolph@ieee.org.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Space Robotics for Science and Exploration
on Planetary Surfaces
Sponsor: Robotics and Automation Society
Speaker: Dr. Edward Tunstel, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: University of Maryland, Kim Engineering Building, Room 1105, 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.
Contact: Raj Madhavan at raj.madhavan@ieee.org.
Time: 8:30 am to 1:30 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: Learn from IEEE's experienced leaders what it takes to run a successful chapter or program. This half day of presentations, discussions and networking will help get you off to a good start. The training is open to all members, but we particularly encourage every chapter to send at least one officer to the session.
Cost: Free, including continental breakfast and lunch.
Contact: Please register by Tuesday, March 4 by sending an email to Elsie Grant at
ncac-scanner@ieee.org with "IEEE Leadership Registration" in the subject line.
Wednesday, March 12, 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-395 (Beltway), take I-66 West to Rte. 267 (Dulles Toll Rd.). Take the Toll Rd. to Exit 16 (Rte. 7, Leesburg Pike). Turn left to proceed East on Rte. 7. Turn right onto Gallows Rd. at the restaurant.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or 703-675-0678.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Electromagnetic Compatibility Society Meeting
Time: 12:00 noon
Place: Washington Laboratories, 7560 Lindberg Drive, Gaithersburg, MD
Directions: From the beltway in Maryland, take I-270 N. Take Exit 8 to Shady Grove Road East. After 3 miles, Shady Grove Road becomes Airpark Road. Continue 1.7 miles, then turn left onto Woodfield Road (Route 124), then left onto Lindbergh Drive.
See www.wll.com/directions.shtml.
More Info: This is a good opportunity to get involved with your local EMC Chapter. This meeting is held in conjunction with the Washington Laboratories Workshop on EMC; all members are invited to attend this event as well.
Cost: Free, lunch included.
Contact: Please RSVP for lunch so we can have a good headcount. Send email to info@wll.com.
Sponsor: Women in Engineering
Cosponsor: Antennas and Propagation Society
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Spezie Restaurant, 1736 L St NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Spezie is one block from the Farragut North Metro station (Red line) and 2.5 blocks from the Farragut West Metro station (Orange and Blue lines).
More Info: All are welcome! Come meet other Women in Engineering members and local women engineers while enjoying Italian cuisine.
Contact: Please RSVP by Sunday, March 16 to Katie Schaffold at katie.schaffold@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Karl Berger
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, March 7 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.
Note: This meeting was originally scheduled for March 11.
Monday, March 24, 2008
IPv6 - The Next Generation of Global Addressing for the Internet
Sponsors: IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology; Association for Computing Machinery; and the Washington Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Leslie Daigle, CTO of The Internet Society
Time: 7:30-9:30 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: This lecture is free and open to the public. ACM or IEEE membership is not required to attend but encouraged. After the lecture all are welcome to join us at The Capitol City Brewing Company at 1100 New York Avenue. See Diamond story below.
Contact: Murty Polavarapu at murtyp@ieee.org.
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Speaker: Dr. Jon Roberts, Roberts Mardula & Wertheim, LLC, Reston
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 8133 Leesburg Pike (Tysons Corner), Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-395 (Beltway), take I-66 West to Rte. 267 (Dulles Toll Rd.). Take the Toll Rd. to Exit 16 (Rte. 7, Leesburg Pike). Turn left to proceed East on Rte. 7. Turn right onto Gallows Rd. at the restaurant.
More Info: The National Capital Area Technical Consortium (formerly the GSA Schedule Working Group) will give a brief status report. Dr. Roberts' presentation will follow the business meeting and dinner. See Diamond story below for more information about his talk. Please bring a $50 check payable to "IEEE NCA-CN" for 2008 Consultants' Network dues.
Cost: $25 cash for dinner.
Contact: Monica Mallini at m.a.mallini@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
Speaker: Nelson Perez, Sierra's Edge Inc.
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean, Silver Spring and Gaithersburg.
More Info: See
www.asq509.org/ht/a/GetDocumentAction/i/29285 for a copy of the speaker's presentation. Part 2 is scheduled for Tuesday, April 22.
Contact: Tom Starai at starai@ieee.org.
Sponsor: George Mason University IEEE Student Branch
Speakers: TBA
Time: 11:00 am to 3:00 pm
Place: Meese 3 Conference Room, Mason Hall, 4400 University Drive, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
More Info: Guests are welcome. Pizza and drinks will be served and attendees will receive a T-shirt, courtesy of the GMU IEEE Student Branch and its sponsors.
Cost: Free
Contact: Chris Twombly, student branch president, at
ctwombly@gmu.edu.
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Oracle, 1900 Oracle Way, Reston, VA
Coordinates: 38°57'13"N 77°21'13"W
Directions: From the Dulles Toll Road, take the exit for Reston Parkway North. Take the first right (East) onto Sunset Hills Rd. Take the next right onto Oracle Way.
More Info: All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. The interim chair will conduct elections, present ideas for the future and solicit preferences for speakers and topics.
Contact: Advance registration is required to use the Oracle facility. Please RSVP by March 24 at
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/archives/mar08.htm. Please contact Tom Starai at starai@ieee.org to submit nominations for officers (chair, program director, treasurer and secretary) or to provide suggestions.
Sponsors: Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, and the Washington Academy of Sciences
Time: 1:30-4:30 pm
Place: National Science Foundation, Conference Center, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
More Info: Anyone interested in solar technology is welcome to attend the NPS chapter meeting during the Washington Academy of Sciences' Capital Science 2008 conference. The meeting will feature a film on the University of Maryland's preparations for last year's Solar Decathlon exhibit and competition on the National Mall, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Following the film, student members of the UMD Solar Team will discuss the features and challenging aspects of solar technology as a viable energy alternative in home construction. Plans for the next Solar Decathlon will also be discussed, with highlights and credits to the disciplines of electrical, mechanical, architectural, material and environmental engineering. The attendees will gain a look at what the UMD solar team has already accomplished, where it is today, and where its path is leading in the coming year. Both IEEE members and non-members are invited.
For more information about the University of Maryland team and its award-winning 2007 solar house, see www.solarteam.org.
Cost: Attendees must register for the Capital Science 2008 conference
(see Calendar listing below or
http://washacadsci.org/capsci08/Index.htm).
Contact: Harry Sauberman at
hsauberman@ieee.org or 703-868-3457.
Sponsor: Washington Academy of Sciences (WAS)
Speakers: Keynote speaker: Arden Bement, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). Saturday lunch meeting: Mario Livio, Senior Astrophysicist and Head of the Office of Public Outreach, Space Telescope Science Institute. Sunday lunch meeting: Dr. Maxine Singer, retired President of the Carnegie Institute and Scientist Emeritus at the National Cancer Institute.
Place: National Science Foundation, Conference Center, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
Directions: NSF is one block south of the Ballston Metro station (Orange line), between Wilson Blvd. and Fairfax Drive. Parking is available at Ballston Common Mall for $1 a day on weekends or see the conference website for more options.
More Info: Capital Science 2008 (CapSci08) brings together nearly 20 of the region's scientific and technology societies for a weekend celebration of science and sharing of research results. Plenary sessions include Tissue Ownership: Ethical, Legal, and Policy Considerations, led by Dr. William Gardner, Executive Director, American Registry of Pathology; International Polar Research, led by NSF's Office of Polar Programs; and Science and Engineering in the Courtroom: Ethics and the Expert Witness, led by Mark S. Frankel, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Download the conference poster (PDF file, 364k) and see the conference website at
http://washacadsci.org/capsci08/Index.htm.
Cost: $50 for IEEE members, WAS members & affliates; $100 for non-members; free for students. Online registration is available at the conference website.
Contact: Kiki Ikossi at ikossi@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Thursday, March 6, 2008
Space Robotics for Science and Exploration
on Planetary Surfaces
The first half-century of space exploration has seen significant accomplishments by robotic spacecraft that have flown by and orbited planets throughout our solar system. Current and future phases of space science and exploration have a major focus on landing and operating robots on planetary surfaces. This talk provides an overview of some of the robotics technologies receiving attention today to enable needed capabilities for current and future missions on the surfaces of other planets. The representative state of the art on missions operating today will be touched on including Mars rover mechanisms for mobility and manipulator placement of science instruments, autonomous navigation and related sensor-based perception, and the semi-autonomous operation of rovers from Earth. Future challenges will also be highlighted in the context of advanced applications that will require robots to perform work on planet surfaces alone, with other robots, or with/for astronauts.
Edward Tunstel joined the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in the fall
of 2007 as a Space Robotics and Autonomous Control Lead in the Space Department. Before joining APL, he was the Advanced Robotic Controls Group Leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed autonomous control and navigation algorithms, software, and systems for robotics research and space flight projects for 18 years. His most recent project was the Mars Exploration Rovers mission for which he served as a flight systems engineer for autonomous rover navigation and, more recently, as the mobility and robotic arm subsystem lead for surface mission operations.
Dr. Tunstel earned B.S. and M.E. degrees in mechanical engineering at Howard University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of New Mexico. He has authored over 110 refereed publications in journals and conferences and co-edited three books, including Intelligence for Space Robotics published in 2006. A senior member of IEEE, Dr. Tunstel is Vice President for Conferences and Meetings for the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society, and Chief Technologist of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Space Special Interest Group. He is also active in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Technical Committee on Space Robotics and the SMC Technical Committee on Robotics & Intelligent Sensing.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
IPv6 - The Next Generation of Global Addressing for the Internet
Development of the IPv6 standard began a decade ago when it became apparent that the explosive growth of the Internet was going to outstrip the availability of globally unique IPv4 addresses. Today, the standard is ready, the end of the IPv4 public allocation is in sight, and the transition to IPv6 is poised on a knife edge between evolving business interests, evolving allocation policies, and the need for a global collaborative strategy to effect the transition. Will the Internet survive? Absolutely. But, what it looks like going forward is intimately connected to renewed commitment to collaborative development of the common Internet resource.
This talk will present a perspective of the current state of the Internet's global addressing and review the technical and policy implications going forward.
Leslie Daigle has been actively involved in shaping the Internet's technical evolution for more than a dozen years. Her role with the Internet Society is to provide strategic leadership on important technical issues as they relate to ISOC's ongoing programs.
She has worked with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1995, and has been an appointed member of the related Internet Architecture Board (IAB) since 2000. As the elected chair of the IAB from 2002 to 2007, Leslie steered the IAB and the related IETF through a period of important industry and institutional change by working with diverse technical groups to align their interests and develop sustainable relationships.
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How does the security clearance process work? How do you get a clearance? What do they want to know? What happens when things go wrong?
Security clearances are extremely important in the Washington area, where billions are spent on defense and homeland security efforts. However, there is a Catch-22 in that you need a clearance to get classified work, but you must have the work to apply for a clearance. This talk will discuss that problem and ways to deal with it, how the clearance process works, various pitfalls and factors you need know to get a shot at lucrative classified work.
Jon L. Roberts is the senior partner in Roberts Mardula & Wertheim, LLC of Reston, Virginia and managing director of its consulting arm, ROTECH, LLC. Dr. Roberts practices in security clearance law, patents, copyrights, trademarks and litigation related to these areas. He has consulted with Fortune 500 companies on their security clearance needs and has litigated numerous clearance cases for companies and individuals. He has been cleared at various levels for more than 30 years.
Dr. Roberts began his career as an aerial photographer and scientific advisor to the Intelligence and Reconnaissance Division at the Rome Air Development Center, Griffiss Air Force Base, N.Y. Dr. Roberts earned his law degree from George Washington University National Law Center in 1984, his Ph.D. in environmental and resource engineering from Syracuse University in 1979, his M.S. in analytical photogrammetry from Syracuse University in 1974, and his B.S. from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1970.
Dr. Roberts has had extensive scientific and engineering experience as a senior staff scientist at General Electric and in a variety of research and research management positions in the federal government. He holds numerous U.S. and international patents for communications, health-related, homeland security, and piracy-thwarting inventions.
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