Newsletter

• The IEEE Ottawa Chapter of TMC and Ottawa Chapter of PEO joint announcement, October 03, 2008
• ROSE 2008 International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments, October 17 - 18, 2008
• IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2008), October 18 - 19, 2008
• New Applications and Developments of Infrared Imaging, October 23, 2008
• LEOS/NRC/OPRA/OPC Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics, October 24, 2008
• Technical Presentation on Sectionalizers and Reclosers, October 24, 2008 (tentative)
  
• The Evolution of Aircraft Avionics and Radio Waves Across the North, October 30, 2008
• 2008 AGM (Annual General Meeting), November 11, 2008

The IEEE Ottawa Chapter of TMC and Ottawa Chapter of PEO joint announcement

Speaker: Ms. Lisa MacLeod MPP, Dr. Linda Manning, Ms. D. Lynne Watt, Mr. Gilles Bérubé, and Mr. Norm Sterling MPP
Date & Time: Friday, October 3, 2008, 07:30 - 10:30
Location: Air Force Officers' Mess, 158 Gloucester St, Ottawa
Admission: $15 (Free to PEO and IEEE members)
Registration: Required as Space is limited for this event; so please confirm your attendance before September 23, 2008
Contacts: Wenqin_shao@yahoo.ca or 613 954-6125
Details: Attachment
Abstract: The Ottawa Chapter of Professional Engineers Ontario jointly with the IEEE Ottawa Section Technology Management Council cordially invites you to attend a special information session. The event will provide our audience with a unique learning opportunities in HOW TO maintain your company?s competitiveness and HOW TO leverage the skills of Canadian engineering workers who may be challenged when seeking employment: older, younger, immigrants and under employed engineers.

ROSE 2008 - IEEE International Workshop on Robotic and Sensors Environments

Organized by: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
Technical Sponsor: IEEE Ottawa Section
Speakers: On the website ROSE
Date & Time: October 17 - 18, 2008, details on the website ROSE
Location: SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Parking: On the website ROSE
Admission: On the website ROSE
Registration: On the website ROSE
Details: ROSE
Contacts: Pierre Payeur or Chris Dyer

IEEE International Workshop on Haptic Audio Visual Environments and Games (HAVE 2008)

Organized by: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society & University of Ottawa
Date: October 18-19, 2008
Location: 800 King Edward Avenue, University of Ottawa, 2nd floor
Parking: No free parking
Admission: registration required, see website
Registration: HAVE 2008
Contacts: Prof. Shervin Shirmohammadi
Abstract: This is the 7th in a workshop series devoted to advances in haptic & visual sensors and displays, multimodal perception and psychophysics, object modeling, multi-sensor data fusion, soft computing techniques, human-computer interaction, augmented and virtualized reality, APIs, RTIs, collaborative distributed virtual environments, and applications.

New Applications and Developments of Infrared Imaging

Organized by: IEEE EMBs Ottawa chapter
Speaker: Prof. Monique Frize, Department of Systems and Computer Eng, Carleton University and School of Information Technology and Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada
Date & Time: Wednesday, October 23, 2008, 17:30 - 19:00
Location: ME-4332, Carleton University, Ottawa
Parking: Parking is not free
Registration: All are welcome, registraion is not required. Refreshments will be served.
Contacts: Sreeraman Rajan, EMBs chair
Details: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/embs/

LEOS Symposium on Recent Advancements in Photonics

Organized by: IEEE LEOS Ottawa Chapter
Speaker 1: LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, Prof. Silvano Donati, Dip. Elettronica, Universita Pavia, Italy
Subject 1: Coupling Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers and Applications to Self-Mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
Speaker 2: John C. Cartledge, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Queen's University, Canada
Subject 2: Optical and Electronic Signal Processing for Fiber-Optic Communications
Date & Time: Friday October 24, 2008, 8:30 - 12:00
Location: M-50 Auditorium, NRC Campus, Montreal Road, Ottawa
Parking: Free
Admission: Free
Registration: Must Register in advance
Contacts: LEOS Ottawa Chapter Chair Dr. Kexing Liu
Abstract: For a list of the talk abstracts, please visit LEOS Ottawa Chapter web site for details

Technical Presentation on Sectionalizers and Reclosers

Speaker: Dr. Christian Sasse, Managing Director, IEEE SM, Tavrida Electric North America Inc.
Date: Friday, October 24, 2008 (tentative)
Details: More detail to follow - visit back by mid-October.

Double technical presentations by the Ottawa Chapter of AESS on the topics of The Evolution of Aircraft Avionics and Radio Waves Across the North

Organized by: AESS Ottawa Chapter
Title 1: The Evolution of Aircraft Avionics - A Distinguished Lecture Presentation
Speaker 1: Myron Kayton - Consultant - AESS California
Title 2: Radio Waves Across the North
Speaker 2: Ernest Brown - Ottawa
Date & Time: Thursday, October 30, 2008, 19.00 - 21.30
Location: The Crowsnest, Naval Office's Mess - 78 Lisgar St., Ottawa
Parking: Adjacent on-street parking
Admission: Free to everyone
Registration: Preferred by not absolutely necessary - see web page
Details: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.AESS.html
Contacts: Hugh Reekie
Abstract 1: Aircraft Avionics: * Avionic Subsystems * State of the Art in 1955 * Antenna farm and avionics * Avionics Hardware * Testing * Air Traffic Control * Military-Unique Avionics
Abstract 2: A compilation of stories of those radio operators on stations of the Northwest Staging Route during WWII. Including Seat-of-your-pants Air Navigation in the Yukon

2008 Annual General Meeting

Organized by: IEEE Ottawa Section
Keynote Speaker: Mr. Rod Bryden, President & CEO of Plasco Energy Group Inc.
Date & Time: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Location: Hampton Inn, 100 Coventry Road, Ottawa
Details: The event will follow a similar dinner format as in 2007 and will be held late October, early November. Request to audition (or recommend for audition) for MC may be placed with Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section Chair.

To save the section money, if you wish to be notified by e-mail only, send your request to Alfredo Herrera, IEEE Ottawa Section Secretary.

If you wish to volunteer, contact Wahab Almuhtadi, IEEE Ottawa Section Chair.

Any further suggestions, comments, questions, or concerns may be addressed by Raed Abdullah, IEEE Ottawa Section Vice-Chair.

More details will be forthcoming on the website http://ottawa.ieee.ca/.

New IEEE Senior Members in the Ottawa Section

The Following members were upgraded to Senior Member status in August 2008.

* Mahmood, Khalid -- Member of Control Systems, Communications and Computer Society, and editor of the newsletter
* Tong, Wen

* Yu, Richard -- Member of Communications Society

Congratulations for elevation to IEEE Senior member grade!

IEEE Senior Member Program Page: http://www.ieee.org/web/membership/senior-members/index.html
IEEE Ottawa Section Senior Membership Committee: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/sm

IEEE International Communications Conference (2012)

Details: The IEEE Ottawa Section and Communications Society Ottawa Chapter are preparing a bid for hosting the prestigous ICC event in 2012. This event is held annually somewhere in the world and attracts over 1000 registrants. Winning this event will undoubtedly help our engineers, the industry, and Ottawa as a whole. Your contribution will be appreciated - contact RaedAbdullah@ieee.org

Collaborations with other chapters

Details: The IEEE Ottawa Section has twinned with the IEEE Minneapolis MN Section.In the hope of building stronger organizations, the executive of the two sections agreed to communicate and share experiences, plus collaborate and cooperate in future events. The agreement took place at the 2008 IEEE Sections Congress held in Quebec City last month, where in informal discussions, we found we were working on similar goals and activities such as in engineering in medicine and biology, reliability, plus industry and student outreach. The romance begins.

Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPC 2008) "Energy Innovation"

Organized by: IEEE Canada, Vancouver Section and BC Hydro
Technical Sponsor: IEEE Ottawa Section
Speaker: On the website EPC
Date & Time: October 6 - 7, 2008, details on the website EPC
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Parking: On the website EPC
Admission: On the website EPC
Registration: On the website EPC
Details: EPC
Contacts: Ebrahim Vaahedi and Moe Kia

2008 IEEE International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST)

Organized by: IEEE Czechoslovakia Section & IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Technical Sponsor: IEEE Ottawa Section
Date & Time: October 13 - 16, 2008
Location: Diplomat Hotel Prague, Czech Republic
Details: ICCST
Contacts: Miloš Klíma and Gordon Thomas

2nd Climate Change Technology Conference 2009

Organized by: Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) in association with nine of its member societies
Speaker: On the web site CCTC
Date & Time: May 12 - 15, 2009
Location: McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Parking: On the web site CCTC
Admission: On the web site CCTC
Registration: On the web site CCTC
Details: IEEE Canada and CCTC
Contacts: On the web site CCTC then click on Contact
Abstract: The 2nd Climate Change Technology Conference (CCTC 2009) is a Canadian/ international forum for engineers, scientists, policy advisors, industry and other stakeholders to share and exchange new information and ideas for dealing with climate change and global warming. It also provides an opportunity for participants to keep abreast of emerging techniques and technologies for the mitigation of, and adaptation to, the impacts of climate change.

The conference theme: Climate Change ....... Deal with It! emphasizes the needs to develop practical engineering and administrative responses to address issues associated with the impacts of climate change and global warming. For more details, visit the "Call for Papers" page.

Powerpoint presentations from the March 4 , 2008 Ottawa IEEE VTS Talk

Title: Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration: The Vehicle of the Future
Organized by: IEEE-VTS Ottawa Chapter & IET-UK Ottawa Network - joint
Speaker: Steve Shladover & Jim Misener, PATH, U Cal, Berkeley, CA & Barry Pekilis, Transport Canada
Date & Time: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 18:15 - 21:15
Location: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr., Ottawa; Courtside B room
Parking: Free parking in east lot
Admission: Free admission; no charge refreshments if registered by 01 March 2008
Registration: Hugh Reekie, 613-728-5343
Details: http://members.allstream.net/~max-com/ottawa.vts.html
Contacts: Hugh Reekie, 613-728-5343
Abstract: A 3-presentation Workshop to review recent progress & projects in the Vehicle-Infrastructure Integration field. In particular, developments in the USA and Canada will be discussed.

Spanning the Spectrum - Addressing a VII for Now and the Future by Jim Misener, California, PATH, Transportation Safety Research Program Lead

Vehicle-Infrastructure Cooperation and the Vehicle of the Future by Steven E. Shladover, Sc.D., University of California, PATH Program

NATO Advanced Study Institute 2008 announcement

NATO Advanced Study Institute 2008 workshop in Laser Control & Monitoring in New Materials, Biomedicine, Environment, Security & Defense, will be held November 25th to December 5th, 2008 in Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ottawa, Canada.

The ASI is organized by the Center of Research in Photonics (University of Ottawa). An international faculty of world renowned researchers will teach various aspects of both fundamental and applied research in recently emerged directions of laser physics, fusion, combustion, photobiology and biomedicine, nanotechnology and material processing to advanced PhD students and postdoctoral fellows from industry, university and government laboratories. Advanced Study Institute Co-Directors: Professor Dr. Trevor J Hall, University of Ottawa, and Dr. Sergey V. Gaponenko, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Scientific Program. Co-Chairs: Dr. Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa/National Research Council of Canada, and Dr. Albert Stolow, National Research Council of Canada.

Website: http://www.photonics.uottawa.ca/nato-asi-2008/
Application deadline: September 1, 2008 (ICIP/CIPI will be providing partial registration fees, value of $1000, for students). You can download this grant application forms from www.cipi.ulaval.ca.
Details: Attachment