Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond please check this page regularly - updates posted as they are received May 01, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr(s) Dimitri Androutsos, Sri Krishnan and Xavier Fernando of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Ryerson University present a seminar entitled "Processing, Protecting and Providing Multimedia Information" organized jointly by our IEEE Communications and Signal Processing Chapters.   Click for details. May 02, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.   Dr. Jie Chen, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Alberta present a seminar entitled "Applying Nanotechnology in Nanoscale Computing and Biomedical Applications" organized by our Signal Processing Chapter.   Click for details. May 11, 2006 at 7:30 p.m.   Claude Sherwood, Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Aerospace Museum, presents a seminar entitled "Aviation Innovation - Little Known Canadian Contributions to the World of Flight", organized by PEO Toronto-Dufferin Chapter and co-sponsored by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.   Click for details. May 15, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Professor Philip Russell of the Max-Planck Research Group in the Institute for Optics, Information & Photonics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, presents a LEOS distinguished lecture entitled "New Age Fibre Crystals", organized by our Circuits & Devices Chapter.   Click for details. May 17, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Dr. Roya Rahbari presents a seminar entitled "Intelligent Decision Making in an Integrated Navigation System", organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter.   Click for details. May 31, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Dr. Lorna Strobel Stewart and Alaleh Azad B.Eng, present a seminar entitled "Computational Intelligence and Judgement-Based Decisions Fuzzy Logic and the Calculus of Katrina", organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter.   Click for details. Jun 1, 2006 at 4:00 p.m.   Professor Maria Stuchly, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria presents an IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Applications of Microwaves in Medicine", organized by our Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter.   Click for details.     Jun 1, 2006 at 6:20 p.m.   Dr. Karen Sarfayan, Vice President Engineering, Unique Broadband Systems Ltd., presents a seminar entitled "The Emergence of Mobile TV using DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting for Handheld)", organized by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.   Click for details. See what events we are planning - use this link to see who is planning what, when, and where - and provide feedback or ask a question. (updated Feb 19, 2006)

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Summary of Conferences

Jun 9...   Connections 2006 The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto is hosting a research symposium. The objectives of this event are to promote interaction between members of industry and graduate students and faculty, to learn about current research, and to identify future directions and collaboration opportunities.   Please visit their web site for full details. - An IEEE Toronto Section Sponsored Event

Jun 11...   The 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Electric Insulation will be held June 11-14, 2006 in Toronto, Ontario at the Delta Chelsea hotel.   Financial support for students deadline - March 15.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Jul 9...   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.

Sep 17...   The 9th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems will be held September 17-20, 2006 in Toronto at the Marrott Downtown hotel.   Submission deadline - March 1.   Please visit their web site for full details.

Sep 28...   The 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held September 28-9, 2006 in Toronto at the Renaissance Downtown hotel.   Please visit their website   All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link.

IEEE Educational Programs

May 26...   IEEE Toronto Section - Project Management - Meeting those Pesky Requirements - details   Registration Deadline: May 12, 2006, 12:00 noon

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) chapter   This will be a new chapter for IEEE Toronto - Benjamin Mak is seeking signatures from all EMBS members to complete his petition to form this chapter. Please contact him if you are willing to lend your signature or if you have any suggestions or questions using his .

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Your 2006 Section Officers (from left):   Marcelo Mota - Secretary   Alex Bot - Vice Chair   Alagan Anpalagan - Chair   Pele Westlind - Treasurer

Another Well Attended Seminar Dr. George Anders, Fellow IEEE at the Marriott Hotel on Bloor St.

With great pleasure, I welcome you to our website that has a wealth of information and useful links for you.   Our job is to serve the members of the Section as well as the society.   We serve our members by organizing technical meetings and social gatherings to advance the knowledge and network with other professionals. Many thanks to our active and dedicated volunteers who contribute to the success of our Section.   I welcome your suggestions that can help improve our services to our members.   There are many other interests as can be seen by exploring the IEEE Toronto links on the left.   Thank you very much for visiting our website. Dr. Alagan Anpalagan IEEE Toronto Section Chair