Seasons Greetings   Santa Kostas Plataniotis, with all his little elves - Dennis, Al, Pelle, Bruno, Alex, Bob, Bob, Wai Tung, Aleksandra, Patrich, Visda, Emanuel, Alagan, Robert, Jody, George, Ed, Vince, Florin, Ron, Sridar, Raymond, Wallas, and Naresh - wish you happy holidays and a prosperous new year!   IEEE Toronto has arranged for all our members' families - especially the young potential IEEE members - to keep track of Santa's activities over the holiday season using this high tech NORAD Santa web site, they can also send a letter to Santa. Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received December 9, 2005 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. John Volakis, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Metamaterials for Miniaturization of NarrowBand and Ultra-Wideband Antennas" organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation chapter.   Click for details. December 9, 2005 at 5:10 p.m.   Dr. Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang of the Jack Haskin School of Engineering at the University of California in Santa Cruz presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Challenges and Innovations for Development of SOCs" organized by our Solid-State Circuits chapter.   Click for details. December 15, 2005 at 6:00 p.m.   CANCELLED & To be rescheduled   Dr.Bin Wu of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Ryerson University in Toronto presents a seminar entitled "Medium Voltage Drives with Multilevel Voltage Source Inverter Technology" organized by our Industry Applications chapter.   Click for details.

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2005 dates:    Dec 25-Jan 2 Chanukah    Dec 25 Christmas    Dec 31 New Year's Eve Toronto , New York

Summary of Conferences

The 19th Annual IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering will be held May 7-10, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Please visit their web site for the early announcement.

The Engineering Institute of Canada Conference on Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century will be held May 9-12, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario.   Please visit their web site for full details.

The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo will be held July 9-12, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Hilton hotel.   Please visit their web site for full details.

The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel.   Please visit their web site for full details.

The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.   Please visit their website

e-management, e-business, e-fficient - Enable e-management strategies to build your business. The University of Toronto Certificate in Electronic Communications provides up-to-date background in all aspects of electronic communications, including the current business environment, planning processes for communications networks, network and access technologies and services, along with a number of management processes and career-planning materials.   It provides what you need to know to be current and competitive.   Click here for details or visit the U of T PDC site to register.

New IEEE Fellows - Professors Frank Kschischang and George Eleftheriades, both of the Deptartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto, have been elected by the IEEE Board of Directors at their recent meeting, effective January 1, 2006.  To see the entire class of 2006 IEEE Fellows, including all citations, please use this link.

Awards presented at recent AGM   Former IEEE President and IEEE Canada Director Emeritus Wallace Stanley Read was on hand (from his home in St. John's, Newfoundland) to present the "W.S. Read Outstanding Service Award" to Miro Forest. Ed Lovrek received the "IEEE Toronto Section Chapter Chair of the Year".   Bill Kennedy presented the "Sustaining Friend of IEEE Regional Activities Award" to the University of Toronto, and Professor Emeritus Gordon Slemon accepted on behalf of the university.   Alagan Anpalagan, Alex Bot, and Pelle Westlind have been elected as IEEE Toronto Section Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary-Treasurer, respectively for 2006 and 2007.   Dr. Richard Marceau, UOIT Provost, spoke about the rapid development of this two-year old university in Whitby, Ontario. Click here to read more and view all the photos.

The Independent Electricity System Operator (formerly the operations centre of Ontario Hydro) forcasts electricity needs in Ontario, and balances the supply of and demand for electricity in Ontario and then directs its flow across the province's transmission lines. For more on this subject, including fluctuations in hourly electricity prices, please click here or click on the image.

IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering is recognized by the IEEE WIE Committee (world-wide) as the the runner-up for the 2004 Women in Engineering Affinity Group of the Year award - see image at left (click to enlarge). Congratulations to WIE Toronto Chair, Visda Vokhshoori, for her leadership in developing a strong and interesting WIE program that includes many innovative activity formats - Visda has also been recognized in her former IEEE Section (Mid Hudson) for notable services and contributions - please see the Women In Engineering home page for more details.

IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society honours its Toronto chapter as its Outstanding Chapter for 2004. The joint Toronto chapter which included AAES has recently been re-organized - please see the Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter home page for more details. Congratulations to Signal Processing (formerly Signals and Applications) Chapter Chair, Sri Krishnan, for his leadership in developing a strong series of chapter activities in 2004.

Ryerson University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering publicly recognized the IEEE Toronto Section at its 2005 Awards ceremony on Nov 23 for its continued support of student activities through its program of awards. Over the last decade, the Section has provide more that $50,000 in Scholarships to local universities and colleges. Dr. Wallas Khella, 1978-89 Section Chair and currently a member-at-large of the Section executive committee, was at the ceremony to present a couple of this year's Section awards and to receive the plaque from ECE department chair Dr. Sridhar Krishnan.

The Dance of Molecules: How Nanotechnology Is Changing Our Lives!     ... makes a great Christmas Gift! Author Ted Sargent (SM IEEE and a past chair of this Section) has been named by Scientific American magazine as a Research Leader for his contributions to solar technology within the 2005 Scientific American 50 -- the magazine's prestigious annual list recognizing outstanding acts of leadership in science and technology from the past year. Just announced, the list appears in the December issue, which hits newsstands on November 22nd. Ted Sargent is a professor at the University of Toronto and a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His scientific research has been widely published, and he is a frequent lecturer at major international conferences in North America, Europe, and Japan. Ted is one of the world's leading researchers in the world of nanotechnology and was named "one of the world's top young innovators" by MIT's Technology Review Magazine and the Sierra Club has labelled him as one six "Earth's Innovators" for his groundbreaking work on solar technology. In his new book The Dance of Molecules, Ted Sargent has set out to demystify the complex world of nanotechnology -- the science and engineering of building new materials and devices from the molecule up -- and offers a fascinating vision of what this innovative science may accomplish in the twenty-first century. And the best part is, you don't have to have a physics degree to understand it. Ted Sargent will be available for media interviews in Toronto on November 18 and December 2. To set up an interview or request a review copy of his new book, "The Dance of Molecules: how nanotechnology is changing our lives", please contact Colleen Clarke at 419.928.2420 or colleen.clarke@ca.penguingroup.com.

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I welcome you to our website, which is designed to be our members' focal point to keep in touch and up to date, and to introduce visitors to our Section and the activities of its members.   Our interests are primarily technical, in the diverse fields of things electrical such as electrical power generation and distribution, wired and wireless tele-communications, digital networks and data processing, and the ubiquitous computer. There are many other interests as can be seen by exploring the IEEE Toronto links on the left. Thank you for visiting, enjoy, Dr. Kostas Plataniotis IEEE Toronto Section Chair