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1903 IEEE Toronto Section 2006
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10 chapter/group meetings in October, 5 more in November . . .
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Oct 3, 2006 at 3:30 p.m.   Dr.Hassan Kojori, Senior Principal Engineer, Honeywell Aerospace presents a webinar entitled "Advanced Power Conversion Methods for More Electric Aircraft", organized by our Industry Applications Chapter.   Click for details.   Must register ASAP.

Oct 5, 2006 at 3:30 p.m.   Wolfgang J.R. Hoefer, Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Multi-Level Modeling for Complex Microwave/High-Speed Design", organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter.   Click for details.   Must register ASAP.

Oct 6, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.   Mr. Thomas Halford of the Communications Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California presents a seminar entitled "Reducing the Complexity of Graphical Models via Cycles", organized by our Communications Chapter.   Click for details.

Oct 12, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.   Dr. Wen-Liang Hwang of the Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, in Taipei, Taiwan presents a seminar entitled "Multi-resolution Images Mosaicing", organized by our Communications Chapter.   Click for details.

Oct 19, 2006 at 12:15 p.m.   A "Tour of Pearson Airport Engineering" with speakers; Don Alarie, Director of Engineering, GTAA Pearson & John Souther, CoGen Plant Manager - organized by our Life Members Affinity Group.   Click for details.

Oct 19, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Neil Fraser, President of Medtronic of Canada, presents a seminar entitled "Medical Technologies", organized by our Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter.   Click for details.

Oct 19, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.   Professor Bin Wu of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University presents a seminar entitled "High-Power Converters and Applications in Drive/Wind/Utility Industries", jointly organized by our Power Engineering and Industrial Applications Chapters.   Click for details.

Oct 19, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   Valeriy Tatarnykov, P. Eng., Group Leader, Alcatel Transport Automation Solutions Canada presents a seminar entitled "Measure of Passenger Service Dependability in Communication-Based Transit System: A Statistical Approach", organized by our Engineering & Human Environment (Reliability) Chapter.   Click for details.

Oct 26, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Roch Archambault, Senior Technical Staff Member, Compiler Optimization Technology and Compiler Focal Point for HPC, IBM Canada presents a seminar entitled "Using advanced compiler technology to exploit the performance of the Cell Broadband Engine architecture" organized by our Computer Chapter.   Click for details.

Oct 26, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter presents a seminar on "Hybrid Cars" co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Women in Engineering Affinity Group   Click for details.

Oct 28, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   IEEE Toronto Annual General Meeting and Awards Dinner   Click for details.

Nov 2, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter presents a seminar on "Aviation Accident Investigations" co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Engineering & Human Environment Chapter   Click for details.

Nov 2 , 2006 at 4:00 p.m.  Dr. Peter de Maagt of the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Electromagnetic Bandgap Materials", organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter.   Click for details.

Nov 2, 2006 at 2:00 p.m.   Professor Raj Rangayyan of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, presents a seminar entitled "Segmentation and Quantitative Analysis of the Tissue Content of the Tumor Mass in Neuroblastoma", organized by our Signal Processing Chapter.   Click for details.

Nov 3 , 2006 at 3:00 p.m. Weng Cho Chew, Professor at the University of Illinois, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Overview of Nonlinear Inverse Scattering", organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter.   Click for details.

Nov 6 , 2006 at 11:30 a.m.   Prof. Reza Iravani, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Energy Systems Group, University of Toronto, presents a webinar entitled "Matrix Converters for Direct AC-AC Power Conversion", organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter (AESS). Must register by 4:00 p.m., Nov 3.  Click for details.  

Nov 15, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.   Ben Chelf, Chief Technology Officer at Coverity, Inc in San Francisco, California presents a seminar entitled "Source Code Analysis in the 21st Century" organized by our Computer Chapter.   Click for details.

Nov 15, 2006 at 6:30 p.m.  Tom Burgmann, Chief Technology Officer of MedX Health Corp. presents a seminar on "Medical Device Startups – Leap of Faith or Folly" organized by our Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter   Click for details.

Nov 22, 2006 at 7:00 p.m.   PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter presents a seminar on "Latest Developments in Hip and Knee Replacement" co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Engineering in Medicine and Biology Chapter   Click for details.

Nov 29, 2006 at 6:00 p.m.  Prof. Konstantinos N. (Kostas) Plataniotis, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, presents a seminar on "Solution for Security & Authentication?" organized by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter   Click for details.

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   2006 dates:    Oct 9 Thanksgiving Day (Canada)    Oct 28 section AGM    Oct 28 turn back your clocks before retiring to bed

Local IEEE Educational Programs

photo image Oct 28 & 29   IEEE Toronto Section - Project Management - Meeting those Pesky Requirements - details   Registration Deadline: Oct 20, 2006, 12:00 noon.   The Course Instructor is Celia Desmond, President of World Class Telecommunications and currently IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities and a former President of the IEEE Communications Society. She taught telecommunications at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto for over 5 years. She teaches Project Management over the web for Stevens Institute of Technology, and in Toronto with Procept Associates Ltd.

Nov 9 & 10   The IEEE Ottawa 6th Annual Electrical Power Symposium - "From Tesla's AC Power System to Distributed Generation and Smart Grids".   Symposium on Friday, Nov. 10, 2006.   Tutorials, Tours and Exhibits on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 - click for details.


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Jun 25...   The 27th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS 2007 will be held June 25-29, 2007 in Toronto at the Westin Harbor Castle hotel.   No further information at present.


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photo image IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker   The IEEE Toronto Life Members affinity group has successfully nominated the "Hopps First External Pacemaker" as an IEEE Milestone.

Pat Finnigan (LM Chair) is leading this initiative and he needs some help in working with researchers and IEEE members in the life sciences/medical area to gather some more information about Dr. Hopps and his pioneering work in the late 1940's. Click this link to see Dr. Hopps interviewed on a 1950's CBC archive clip from Front Page Challenge.

If you have any relevent information or expertise or are just interested to help out, please contact Pat using his .

Contact us - to contact any member of our executive please use the mailtos on our executive page.

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

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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.
Toronto Section Centennial - 2003
Dr. Alagan Anpalagan
IEEE Toronto Section Chair

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