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Photonics at extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray wavelengths on a table-top |
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Prof. Carmen Menoni of Colorado State University
Carmen S. Menoni is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and the School of Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State University. Prof. Menoni’s research bridges from optics to material science. She is engaged in the growth and characterization of metal-oxides for the engineering of interference coatings for high power lasers. She is also actively involved in using bright soft x-ray laser beams with wavelengths between 10-50 nm for applications such as nanoscale morphological and compositional imaging. Her work has been published in over 200 refereed journal and proceeding papers. Prof. Menoni and her team received in 2008 a “R&D 100 Award” for the invention of a table-top 46.9 nm wavelength microscope that captures flash images with wavelength spatial resolution. Prof. Menoni is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). Prof. Menoni is founding editor of IEEE Photonics Journal. |
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With wavelengths of a few to tens of nanometers extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray (SXR) light is being exploited in a rapidly increasing number of scientific and technological applications, from imaging to spectroscopy, to the lithography of semiconductor chips with 13.5 nm wavelength light. Recent advances in the generation of bright EUV/SXR laser beams on a table top are opening unique opportunities to advance photonics in this challenging and relatively unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This presentation will review results of efforts at Colorado State University on the generation and utilization of EUV/SXR lasers for nanoscale imaging, nano-spectrometry imaging and nanopatterning. These photonic applications are making possible the imaging of nanostructures and their dynamics, the three dimensional nanoscale mapping of the chemical composition of organic and inorganic materials, and the printing of periodic arrays of nanoscale features error-free, providing new opportunities to access and probe the nanoworld. |
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Joint meeting with CEDA and Photonics Society |
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 | Cornerstone: Mindfulness for Life |
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| Speaker | Ms. Jenn Fairbank and Ms. Erika Marcoux Jenn Fairbank is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Cornerstone: Mindfulness for Life. She is a nationally trained mindfulness expert with a masters degree in social work and shares the ancient and scientific practice of mindfulness in her trainings and private practice in Austin, Texas. She studied in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Bristol, Vermont. She is the co-author of Companion for Life. Erika Marcoux is the co-CEO and co-Founder of Cornerstone: Mindfulness for Life. She is a nationally trained mindfulness expert with a masters degree in psychology and shares the ancient and scientific practice of mindfulness in her trainings and private practice in Austin, Texas. She studied in the San Francisco Bay Area in California and Washington, D.C. She is the co-author of Companion for Life. |
| Abstract | High stress, project deadlines, and never-ending demands are a way of life in our industry. Come learn how to practice mindfulness to increase productivity, reach success, and build relationships from two of Austin’s nationally trained mindfulness experts! Meditation creates neuroplasticity, which is your brain’s ability to change both structurally and functionally. Your brain can literally grow and improve cognition. The neural pathways and synapses increase and improve body awareness, emotional intelligence, behavioral awareness, and your mental capacity. |
| Date/Time | June 17, 2015 from 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM |
| Location | The Advisory Board Company, 12357-C Riata Trace Parkway, Bldg 7, Suite 100, Austin, Texas |
| Cost | Free |
| Registration | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_registration/register/34842 |
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| Topic/Title | Cybersecurity programs at TAMU-SA |
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| Speaker | Dr. Carolyn Green |
| Abstract | Texas A&M-San Antonio offers a BBA in Computer Information Systems, a BS in Computer Science and a BAAS (Bachelor of Applied Arts & Science) with an emphasis in Information Technology. Students pursuing these degrees have the option of choosing a concentration in Information Assurance and Security, Project Management or Enterprise Resource Planning Systems. The degree that we have referred to as the Affordable Degree is the BAAS-IT. |
| Date/Time | July 21 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm |
| Location | Conference Room B Bldg: University Center St. Mary’s University 1 Camino Santa Maria San Antonio, Texas |
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| Topic/Title | The Washington D. C. Experience -- Notes from One Year as an IEEE Congressional Fellow |
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| Speaker | Len Hause of MashBrain LLC |
| Speaker Bio | Len Hause is an IEEE Engineering and Diplomacy Fellow for the U.S. Department of State in the Office of the Coordinator for Cyber Issues. He is also president of MashBrain LLC where he consults on transformational strategies that leverage Internet technology and marketing. He was a Fellow of the Technical Staff, Associate of the Science Advisory Board, Internetologist, and Senior Marketing Director at Motorola where he spent more than 30 years in global management roles and as an individual contributor. He has been recognized as a pioneer in the adoption of Internet protocols and culture within the Enterprise for innovation, collaboration and organizational learning. He is a member of the IEEE, Association for Computing Machinery, The Recording Academy and has served on many industry, educational, corporate, and government advisory boards and consortiums. Len holds U.S. Patents in telecom and a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Lehigh University. |
| Abstract | (Each year, the IEEE-USA Government Fellows Committee selects eligible IEEE members from a pool of applicants to serve a one-year fellowship on Capitol Hill. The fellow works on the personal staff of a U.S. Senator or Congressman, or the professional staff of a Congressional Committee. Len Hause will speak about his experiences as an IEEE Congressional Fellow in 2014.) |
| Date/Time | 24-June-2015 06:00PM to 08:30PM |
| Location | PoK-e-Jo's Smokehouse 2121 West Parmer Lane at Lamplight Village Ave. Austin, Texas |
| Cost | $5.00 minimum cost for the restaurant. Supper is
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required. All interested parties are invited to
attend. |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/34786 |
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Do a friend a favor. Bring your colleagues to grow the Consultants Network.
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| Topic/Title | Intelligent Asset Monitoring for Power Generation |
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| Speaker | Preston Johnson, Principal Sales Engineer for
Condition Monitoring Systems, National Instruments Preston Johnson is the Principal Sales Engineer for Condition Monitoring Systems at National Instruments (NI) in Austin, Texas. He has worked for National Instruments for over 27 years in roles of Field Sales, Sales Management, Automation Business Development, Sound and Vibration Segment Manager, Platform Manager for Condition Monitoring Systems and Global Program Manager for Asset Monitoring Systems. In his current role as Principal Sales Engineer, Preston works with NI OEM and End User customers to deploy fleetwide asset monitoring systems that lower operation costs, improve machinery reliability, and ultimately increase revenue. His interests lie in embedded signal processing, data acquisition systems and architectures, and prognostics. He earned his BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University in 1985 and his MBA in Information Systems from the University of Texas in 1987. Preston is experienced in project management and holds a Category III vibration analyst certificate. |
| Abstract | More than ever, asset operators and OEMs are investing in fleetwide monitoring systems. With the roll out of these monitoring systems, huge amounts of sensory data are generated. In a single Gigawatt power plant, asset monitoring systems sort through terabytes of sensory data per week. To contend with the volume and velocity of sensory data, analytics and data management techniques are employed along the life of sensory data from digitization at the asset, to storage in the information technology infrastructure. This paper presents techniques, both promising and fielded, for analytics to manage the volume, velocity, veracity, variety, and value of fleetwide asset monitoring data yielding opportunities for advanced visibility of actionable information. |
| Date/Time | June 15, 2015, 6:00-7:30pm |
| Location | National Instruments, Building C 1S13, 11500 N Mopac Expwy, Austin, TX |
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| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/34737 |
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Joint meeting with I&M Society and Austin PE/PEL/IA/IE Society |
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| Topic/Title | Photonics at extreme ultraviolet and soft x-ray wavelengths on a table-top |
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| Speaker | Prof. Carmen Menoni of Colorado State University
Carmen S. Menoni is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Chemistry, and the School of Biomedical Engineering at Colorado State University. Prof. Menoni’s research bridges from optics to material science. She is engaged in the growth and characterization of metal-oxides for the engineering of interference coatings for high power lasers. She is also actively involved in using bright soft x-ray laser beams with wavelengths between 10-50 nm for applications such as nanoscale morphological and compositional imaging. Her work has been published in over 200 refereed journal and proceeding papers. Prof. Menoni and her team received in 2008 a “R&D 100 Award” for the invention of a table-top 46.9 nm wavelength microscope that captures flash images with wavelength spatial resolution. Prof. Menoni is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). Prof. Menoni is founding editor of IEEE Photonics Journal. |
| Abstract | With wavelengths of a few to tens of nanometers extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft x-ray (SXR) light is being exploited in a rapidly increasing number of scientific and technological applications, from imaging to spectroscopy, to the lithography of semiconductor chips with 13.5 nm wavelength light. Recent advances in the generation of bright EUV/SXR laser beams on a table top are opening unique opportunities to advance photonics in this challenging and relatively unexplored region of the electromagnetic spectrum. This presentation will review results of efforts at Colorado State University on the generation and utilization of EUV/SXR lasers for nanoscale imaging, nano-spectrometry imaging and nanopatterning. These photonic applications are making possible the imaging of nanostructures and their dynamics, the three dimensional nanoscale mapping of the chemical composition of organic and inorganic materials, and the printing of periodic arrays of nanoscale features error-free, providing new opportunities to access and probe the nanoworld. |
| Date/Time | June 5th from 3:00PM to 5:00PM |
| Location | Microelectronics Research Center (UT Austin
Pickle Research Campus Bldg. 160) Room #2.114 10100 Burnet Road Austin, Texas |
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| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/34787 |
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Joint meeting with CEDA and Photonics Society |
For more information, contact Mikhail Belkin
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| Topic/Title | NASA’s SOFIA Project |
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| Abstract | The Presentation will cover NASA’s Stratospheric
Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA
Project. It is a joint program with the
German Space Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum
fur Lufe-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Bonn,
Germany. The Project utilizes a
specially modified Boeing 747SP that has a 17-ton
100 Inch infrared telescope mounted in the
tail. Flight observations occur up to 3
times a week from the Neil Armstrong NASA Flight
Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA. Scott
Atkinson will explain his special interest in this
project and also show a video of operations. The following is a link to the SOFIA website https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/index.html |
| Date/Time | June 23, 2015 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
| Location | Lion and Rose Pub 842 NW Loop 410 San Antonio, Texas |
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Joint meeting with San Antonio Life Members and San Antonio Com/SP |
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| Topic/Title | Intelligent Asset Monitoring for Power Generation |
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| Speaker | Preston Johnson, Principal Sales Engineer for
Condition Monitoring Systems, National Instruments Preston Johnson is the Principal Sales Engineer for Condition Monitoring Systems at National Instruments (NI) in Austin, Texas. He has worked for National Instruments for over 27 years in roles of Field Sales, Sales Management, Automation Business Development, Sound and Vibration Segment Manager, Platform Manager for Condition Monitoring Systems and Global Program Manager for Asset Monitoring Systems. In his current role as Principal Sales Engineer, Preston works with NI OEM and End User customers to deploy fleetwide asset monitoring systems that lower operation costs, improve machinery reliability, and ultimately increase revenue. His interests lie in embedded signal processing, data acquisition systems and architectures, and prognostics. He earned his BSEE in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Vanderbilt University in 1985 and his MBA in Information Systems from the University of Texas in 1987. Preston is experienced in project management and holds a Category III vibration analyst certificate. |
| Abstract | More than ever, asset operators and OEMs are investing in fleetwide monitoring systems. With the roll out of these monitoring systems, huge amounts of sensory data are generated. In a single Gigawatt power plant, asset monitoring systems sort through terabytes of sensory data per week. To contend with the volume and velocity of sensory data, analytics and data management techniques are employed along the life of sensory data from digitization at the asset, to storage in the information technology infrastructure. This paper presents techniques, both promising and fielded, for analytics to manage the volume, velocity, veracity, variety, and value of fleetwide asset monitoring data yielding opportunities for advanced visibility of actionable information. |
| Date/Time | June 15, 2015, 6:00-7:30pm |
| Location | National Instruments, Building C 1S13, 11500 N Mopac Expwy, Austin, TX |
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| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/34737 |
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Joint meeting with I&M Society and Austin PE/PEL/IA/IE Society |
| Topic/Title | Use of Drones in the Power Industry |
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| Speaker | Karen Ulferts |
| Abstract | Karen will provide an overview of the Association Of Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and its supporting role in the general support of Drones in the public, private, and Government sectors. Her presentation will include materials from the AUVSI, IEEE, and relevant media sources as applicable to the Power Industry audience. She will then present the ethical challenges Drones present that the Power Industry must weigh as they identify the Dirty, Dull, and Dangerous (DDD) tasks to take from human performance to that of unmanned. In closing, Karen will lead the group through her “Behaving Like An Engineer” curriculum based upon the widely adopted “Thinking Like An Engineer” teaching materials. |
| Date/Time | Jun 23 Social 6:30 to 7:00 PM Dinner 7:00 to 7:30 PM Business Meeting 7:30 to 8:30 PM Program 9:00 PM room closes for the benefit of long distance drivers and early risers |
| Location | El Gallo Mexican Restaurant, 512-444-2205 2910 S
Congress, Austin, Texas |
| Cost | • IEEE Members and accompanying spouses: $11 to
$17 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) • Visitors (non-IEEE members): $14 to $20 for dinners ($5 non-meal participants) • IEEE Student Members: $3 for dinner (no charge for non-meal participants) • Student Visitors (non-IEEE members): $6 to $10 for dinners ($2 non-meal participants) • All: $2 for non-alcoholic beverages • A bar is available for those who care to purchase a beer or other alcoholic beverage |
| Reservations | If you plan on attending, please RSVP by
sending an e-mail to ieee.pi2.austin@zxtech.net. |
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| Topic/Title | Applying Engineering Methods to Cancer Radiation Therapy |
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| Speaker | Dr. Sani Nassif Sani Nassif spent 10 years at Bell Laboratories and 18 years at IBM Research working on various aspects of integrated circuit design and manufacturing. He retired in 2014 to form Radyalis, a company focused on advancing particle therapy software. Sani is currently the president of the IEEE Council on EDA, an IEEE Fellow, and has many papers and patents to his name. |
| Abstract | Radiation therapy is a method by which energetic particles are used to destroy Cancerous cells. This is a well established field currently staffed by Oncologists and Medical Physicists. This talk is about the path the author took after many years of engineering into the area of radiation therapy. |
| Date/Time | June 11, 2015 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm |
| Location | AT&T Labs, Room Number: #220, 9505 Arboretum, Austin, Texas |
| Cost | Free |
| Reservations | https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/34780 |
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| Abstract | The Presentation will cover NASA’s Stratospheric
Observatory For Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA
Project. It is a joint program with the
German Space Aerospace Center Deutsches Zentrum
fur Lufe-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Bonn,
Germany. The Project utilizes a
specially modified Boeing 747SP that has a 17-ton
100 Inch infrared telescope mounted in the
tail. Flight observations occur up to 3
times a week from the Neil Armstrong NASA Flight
Operations Facility in Palmdale, CA. Scott
Atkinson will explain his special interest in this
project and also show a video of operations. The following is a link to the SOFIA website https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/index.html |
| Date/Time | June 23, 2015 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm |
| Location | Lion and Rose Pub 842 NW Loop 410 San Antonio, Texas |
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Joint meeting with San Antonio Life Members and San Antonio Com/SP |
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