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Newsletter of the Central Texas Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. Archives of The Analog can be found on the CTS web site here.Published monthly. Deadline for inclusion is the 26th day of the previous month. Send submissions, comments, questions to John Purvis, Editor, john.purvis@ieee.org CONTENTSGeneral Interest Local Chapter ActivitiesConferences, Events and Other MeetingsLocal IEEE Conferences, Events and WorkshopsNon-IEEE Meetings and Events of interest suggested by the membership Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Events and Information Career Tips, Tools and Gadgets IEEE EXTERNAL LINKS
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General InterestChairman's ColumnIt
is the time of year for Chapters to start planning for next years
activities. Elections of new officers should be completed this month
and reported. Chapter budgets for 2013 are due to the Section Treasurer
by November 30th.
This is the the start of the IEEE membership renewal season, by now you should have received your membership renewal reminder. In conjunction with IEEE-USA, IEEE has a special offer for US members. Refer a colleague to IEEE. If they join before December 31, they'll get a $25 discount off their first year membership, and you'll get a gift. Go to https://ieee.fluidsurveys.com/s/ieee-usa/ to refer them now. GlobalSIP is a new flagship IEEE Signal Processing Society conference that will be held in Austin Dec. 3-5, 2013. The focus of this conference is on signal and information processing and up-and-coming signal processing themes. It is comprised of 18 concurrent symposia that are tied together through co-location, common timing, a shared plenary, non-overlapping oral lecture sessions, parallel poster sessions, and a single registration fee. For more information and registration go to https://www.ieeeglobalsip.org/. Kenny Rice Back to TOP Membership DevelopmentNew
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Novel Single-Source Integral Equation for Accurate
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Vladimir Okhmatovski, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada |
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Accurate modeling of current flow in 3D conductors has
important applications in signal integrity analysis of high-speed interconnects, time-domain analysis of power delivery in transmission lines, and various other areas. In our recent work (Menshov, IEEE T-MTT, Dec. 2012) we proposed a new rigorous single source integral equation for magnetostatic analysis of 2D transmission lines and full-wave transverse-magnetic scattering on cylinders of arbitrary cross-sections. The new integral equation is derived from the classical Volume Electric Field Integral Equation (V-EFIE) through representation of the internal field in the object in the form of the single-layer ansatz. This converts the V-EFIE into the form of a surface integral equation featuring only a single unknown function on the surface of the object. It also features a product of surface and volume operators, terming new equation the Surface-Volume-Surface EFIE (SVSEFIE). The SVS-EFIE equation was shown to be rigorous in nature and produce error controllable solution of the magnetostatic and full-wave problems in 2D. In this seminar, we discuss generalization of the SVS-EFIE formulation to 3D for the magnetoquasi-static analysis of current flow in conductors of arbitrary cross-sections. Such analysis has been foundational to the inductance extraction problems (Kamon, et.al., IEEE T-MTT, Sep. 1994) in VLSI interconnects, bond-wires, and other types of transmission lines. Due to its rigorous nature, the proposed new 3D SVS-EFIE formulation produces the same accuracy as the V-EFIE based solution but with a substantially reduced number of degrees of freedom in its moment method discretization: The number of unknowns in the proposed SVS-EFIE is approximately the square-root of the number of degrees of freedom in the standard V-EFIE. |
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The CEDA chapter normally meet on the 3rd Thursday of every month. This meeting is open to the public and interested parties. Additional details will be posted at the website. If you have any questions about this meeting or this group, please contact zhuoli@ieee.org.
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| Topic/Title | Meeting the Cybersecurity Challenges and Needs of the
Nation. |
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| Speaker | Dr. Gregory B. White Director of the Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) Associate Professor of Computer Science at UTSA Dr. Gregory White has been involved in computer and network security since 1986. He spent 30 years with the Air Force and Air Force Reserves. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1995 conducting research in the area of Computer Network Intrusion Detection and he continues to conduct research in this area today. Dr. White has been involved in security instruction for many years. He taught at the U.S. Air Force Academy for seven years where he developed and taught courses on Computer Security and Information Warfare. He helped build the nation’s first undergraduate information warfare laboratory while at the Academy and twice received the Academy’s Computer Science Research Excellence Award. At UTSA Dr. White continues to develop and teach courses on computer and network security. He has also been very active in the development and presentation of cyber security exercises for states and communities around the nation and with the development of training designed to help states and communities develop viable and sustainable cyber security programs. He very active in development of cyber security competitions and was instrumental in the development of the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and the CyberPatriot National High School Cyber Defense Competition. Dr. White has written numerous articles and conference papers on computer security. He is also the co-author for five textbooks on security and has written chapters for two others. His current research interests include an examination of organizational issues affecting computer security, high-speed intrusion detection, infrastructure protection, community cyber incident response, and the development of the Community Cyber Security Maturity Model (CCSMM). |
| Abstract | The threat of cybersecurity attacks to communities,
states, and the nation is growing. Reports of individuals and
organizations attacking various parts of the nation’s critical
infrastructures are no longer a rare occurrence in the media.
Nationally, leaders in the government have called for thousands of
individuals to enter the security career field. This talk will
address this growing need for security professionals and how the nation
is attempting to meet this need. It will also include a
discussion of how state and local governments can, and should, get
involved in encouraging a “culture of security”. |
| Date/Time | Tuesday, November 19, 2013; Dinner 6:30, Networking
7:15, Program 7:30 |
| Location | Conference Room B, University Center, St. Mary’s
University, San Antonio, TX |
| Cost | Dinner will be in the St. Mary’s Cafeteria downstairs
in the University Center. They have an all you can eat buffet for
$8.50 plus tax. Each person will pay for his or her own
meal. We will have a block of tables so we can sit together –
look for Small IEEE Computer Society Signs on the tables. Dinner
is optional. You are welcome to skip dinner and come only to the
technical presentation. |
| Reservations | Not Required but for head count please email Dr.
Djaffer Ibaroudene, dibaroudende@stmarytx.edu
, or call (210) 431-2050 |
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See
our website for directions and parking, https://www.ieee-cs-cts.org You can see more about this meeting at: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/21175 |
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| Topic/Title | Mobile Security: What's Hot and What's Not? |
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| Speaker | Dan Sharoni |
| Speaker Bio | Mr. Dan Sharoni is a strategic architect
and subject matter expert (SME) in the emerging enterprise
mobility ecosystem. He focuses on aligning growing
enterprise analytics, productivity and security requirements with
transformative smart mobile devices, such as iPhone and iPad. Mr.
Sharoni was the Emerging Enterprise Mobility Lead at Accenture
Technology Labs as an executive, technology innovator and project
manager. He has over fifteen years of experience in emerging mobility,
wireless network, Web 2.0, multimedia & collaboration.
Dan is a practitioner of the complete Software Development Life Cycle
(SDLC), as well as an Agile practitioner as a Certified Scrum
Master (SCM). He has brought wide and deep architectural
knowledge in leading enterprises including Accenture, Hewlett
Packard and Adobe. He is passionate about distributed
computerized music with research work presented at SIGGRAPH and
JAVAONE. Mr. Sharoni holds two US Patents, Currently
Dan is at the McCombs Graduate School of Business at the University of
Texas at Austin, graduating as M.Sc. in
Technology Commercialization. Dan holds Mr. Sharoni holds
two US Patents, a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in
Haifa, Israel. Currently Dan is at the McCombs Graduate School of
Business at UT graduating as M.Sc. in Technology Commercialization. |
| Abstract | A quick overview of enterprise mobile security around
the BYOD at the current state of the market covering existing
anddeclining mobile platforms |
| Date | Nov 20, 6:30 p. m. |
| Location | PoK-e-Jo's Restaurant, 2121 W. Parmer Lane at Lamplight
Village, Austin TX 78727 |
| Cost | $5 minimum cost for restaurant, supper optional at
extra cost. |
| Reservations | Not required. All interested parties are invited
to attend. For more information, go to: https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r5/central_texas/cn/index.html |
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
More information on Consultants Networks: https://www.ieeeusa.org/business/whatis.asp
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| Topic/Title | Advances in Neural Engineering Research and Education |
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| Speaker | Dr. Metin Akay, John S. Dunn Professor of Biomedical Engineering , University of Houston, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society |
| Abstract | Neural
Engineering is a new discipline which unites engineering, computer
science, physics, chemistry, and mathematics with cellular, molecular,
cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, to understand the
organizational principles and underlying mechanisms of the biology of
neural systems, and to study the behavior dynamics and complexities of
neural systems in nature. Therefore, it deals with many aspects of
basic and clinical problems associated with neural dysfunction
including representation of sensory and motor information, electrical
stimulation of the neuromuscular system, analysis and visualization of
complex neural systems from the single-cell to the system levels,
as well as development of novel electronic and photonic devices and
techniques for experimental probing, neural simulation studies,
development of human-machine interfaces, and artificial vision sensors
and neural prosthesis. Neuroscience has become a more quantitative and information-driven science since emerging implantable and wearable sensors from macro to nano and computational tools facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of neural data. Complexity analysis of neural systems provides physiological knowledge for organization, management and mining of neural data with advanced computational tools. Investigations of complex neural systems and processes require an extensive collaboration between biologists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and engineering to improve our understanding of complex neurological process from system to gene. |
| Date/Time | Friday, 1 November, 6:00 – 8:00 PM |
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| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/21327 |
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Bjorn’s Audio Video |
| Notes | This
is a joint meeting with the Communications and Signal Process joint
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The Engineering Management Society has become the Technology Management Council. Information about meetings can be found in the sections for Technology Management Council - Austin and Technology Management Council - San Antonio
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| Topic/Title | IEEE GOLD will be having a happy hour event tentatively
on 11/21 at the Flying Saucer in San Antonio. |
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November 21 5:30pm |
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Please send an email to Devon Ryan <devon.ryan@ieee.org> with your name, email address and IEEE society memberships. |
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Flying Saucer 11255 Huebner Rd #212 |
| Notes |
More information on GOLD: https://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/gold/index.html
GOLD Launches Mentoring
Connection Webinar
Are you interested in becoming a mentor
or finding a mentor to help with your professional
development?
If the
answer is yes, check out a free new IEEE Graduates of the Last Decade
(GOLD) webinar aimed at
helping mentors and mentees connect with each other. Learn more at https://bmsmail3.ieee.org:80/u/17953/32170
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For more information, contact Ray Chen
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| Topic/Title | Product Safety Engineering Society Symposium - Recap of
the Symposium held in Austin |
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| Speaker | Gary Schrempp, Dell and other contributors |
| Abstract | This meeting will cover the high points of the product
safety symposium for those who were unable to attend the symposium.
Please note that this is our combined November/December meeting. There
will be no other CTPSES meetings in November and December other than
this one. |
| Date/Time | December 10, 2013 / 7:00 – 8:30pm |
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| Location | Dell Parmer South Campus, Building 4, Victoria
Conference Room (just inside the door). |
| Notes | What did you miss this year? With all of the
events held, some simultaneously, it was impossible to get to
everything. Take a minute to reflect on the great presentations,
fun events, and friends reconnected as we go through the highlights of
this year’s Symposium. We will also take a look at the plans for
next year. |
We encourage you, others in your organization, or other interested parties to participate in our meetings. The PSES meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 6:30pm, with the program starting at 7:00pm. For further information about the PSES, please contact Dale Ritzen at (512) 651-5338.
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Dr. Metin Akay, John S. Dunn Professor of Biomedical Engineering , University of Houston, a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society |
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Neural
Engineering is a new discipline which unites engineering, computer
science, physics, chemistry, and mathematics with cellular, molecular,
cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, to understand the
organizational principles and underlying mechanisms of the biology of
neural systems, and to study the behavior dynamics and complexities of
neural systems in nature. Therefore, it deals with many aspects of
basic and clinical problems associated with neural dysfunction
including representation of sensory and motor information, electrical
stimulation of the neuromuscular system, analysis and visualization of
complex neural systems from the single-cell to the system levels,
as well as development of novel electronic and photonic devices and
techniques for experimental probing, neural simulation studies,
development of human-machine interfaces, and artificial vision sensors
and neural prosthesis. Neuroscience has become a more quantitative and information-driven science since emerging implantable and wearable sensors from macro to nano and computational tools facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of neural data. Complexity analysis of neural systems provides physiological knowledge for organization, management and mining of neural data with advanced computational tools. Investigations of complex neural systems and processes require an extensive collaboration between biologists, mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists and engineering to improve our understanding of complex neurological process from system to gene. |
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Friday, 1 November, 6:00 – 8:00 PM |
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This is a joint meeting with the Engineering in Medicine and Biology chapter. |
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For further
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| Topic/Title | Engineering your Career |
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| Speaker | Leslie Martinich |
| Date/Time | Wednesday, November 7, Noon - 1:00 PM *** LUNCH
MEETING *** |
| Location | Dell Round Rock Campus 1 Dell Way Round Rock |
| Cost | |
| Registration | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/21243 |
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Contact Leslie Martinich (lmartinich@ieee.org) for more information about the Austin TMC.
IEEE Conference Search can be found at https://www.ieee.org/web/conferences/search/index.html
See also https://www.wikicfp.com - A place to organize and share Calls for Papers.
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