November 1 at 11 a.m.   Dr. Hikmet Sari, Professor and Chair of the Telecommunications Department at the Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité (Supélec), near Paris, France will present an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Broadband Wireless Access at Frequencies Below 11 GHz ", organized by our Communications Chapter.   Click for details.
November 2 at 5 p.m.   Dr. Vijay Bhargava, Professor and Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. will present an IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "From Marconi to Wireless Internet: A Tutorial".   The presentation will be suitable, not only for information theory researchers, but also for a general audience.   Click for details.
November 4 at 4 p.m.   Professor Sir John Pendry of Imperial College, London in the U.K. will present a seminar on "The Perfect Lens: Resolution Beyond the Limits of Wavelength ", organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter.   Click for details.
November 10 at 7:00 p.m.   Dr. Lukasz Brzozowski, Research Associate in the Department of Medical Biophysics at the Sunnybrook and Women's Research Institute in Toronto will present a seminar on "Nanotechnology in Optical Switching and in Multimodal Medical Imaging", organized by our Computer Chapter.   Click for details.
November 12 at 7 p.m.   Professor Lionel E. Davis of the Deptartment of Electrical Engineering & Electronics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in the U.K. will present an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Lecture on "Modern Circulators and Isolators for Wireless and Automotive Applications", organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter.   Click for details.
November 16 at 1 p.m.   Dr. M. Meyyappan, Director of the Center for Nanotechnology at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field in California will present an IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture entitled "Recent Developments in Nanotechnology: An Overview" organized by our Circuits and Devices Chapter.   Click for details.
November 16 at 3 p.m.   Dr. Reza Dizaji of Raytheon Canada Limited in Waterloo, Ontario will present a seminar on "HFSWR, A Radar Technology to See Beyond HorizonSignal Processing Challenges", organized by our Signals and Applications Chapter.   Click for details.
November 22 at 6:30 p.m.   Dr. Luc Girard, Senior Technical Services Advisor with Petro Canada Lubricants will present a seminar on "A Slippery Topic: New Insulating Oil Technology for Transformers and Switchgear", organized by our Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Chapter - which is a joint chapter of members in Toronto, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, and Peterborough Sections.   Click for details.
November 23 at 3:00 p.m.   Dr. Norman Morrison of the University of Cape Town, South Africa will present a seminar on "Predictive Filters", organized by our Signals and Applications Chapter and the University of Toronto Communications Group.     Click for details.
November 23 at 6:30 p.m.   Ajit Bapat, Vice President Technology at IPC Resistors Inc. will present a seminar on "Arcing Ground Faults and Arc Flash Hazards", organized by our Industry Applications Chapter.   Click for details.
November 26 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.   An "IEEE Intellectual Property Webinar" (Web-casted Seminar) live in Ottawa - local web-cast CANCELLED at Seneca College - hosted by our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.     Click for details.
November 26 5:10 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.   Dr. Hirotaka Tamura, Senior Research Fellow at Fujitsu Laboratories in Kanagawa, Japan will present a seminar on "CMOS High Speed I/Os - Background, Circuits, and Future Trends", organized by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter.     Click for details. January 12 2005 at 6:30 p.m.   Our Women in Engineering Affinity Group will hold a "Wen-do - a Women's Self Defense Workshop".   Click for details.

Associate Members of the IEEE Toronto Section - this is for you!   Section Chair Kostas Plataniotis is extending a personal invitation to each and everyone of you to consider upgrading to Member or Senior Member grade, and he is offering to help you. Please click this link for full details.

Our Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner was held at the traditional location - the magnificant Old Mill Inn.   The photo shows IEEE SSIT president Brian O'Connell, Award recipient Walter Zessner, and Section Chair Kostas Plataniotis.   Walter received the SSIT lifetime achievement award and a plaque from the Toronto Section to recognize his contributions as founding chair of our Engineering & Human Environment Chapter.   Our Communications Chapter was the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Communications Society Chapter Achievement Award.   Two Section Achievement awards were announced for Emanuel Istrate and George Eleftheriades.   Please read our november newsletter for more details and photos about this event and several chapter and affinity group meetings.

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