Dates: November 25-29, 2013
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Submission deadline: 30 June 2013
More information: http://www.icar2013.org

ICAR 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. The technical program of ICAR 2013 will consist of plenary talks, workshops, oral presentations and interactive sessions. Submitted papers should describe original work in the form of theoretical modeling, design, experimental validation, or case studies from all areas of robotics focusing in particular on new emerging paradigms and application areas including but not limited to:

• Robotics Vision
• Cognitive Robotics
• Robotics Architectures
• Mobile Robots
• Humanoid Robots
• Self-Localization and Navigation
• Spatial Cognition
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Multi-Robot Systems
• Search and Rescue Robots
• Learning and Adaptation
• Cooperation and Competition
• Adversarial Planning
• Robot Operating Systems
• Simulation and Visualization
• Robotic Swarms
• Biologically-Inspired Robots
• Embedded and Mobile Hardware
• Robotic Entertainment
• Robot Soccer
• Unmanned Aerial Robots
• Underwater Robotics Systems
• Educational Robotics
• Rehabilitation Robotics

CALL FOR PAPERS I2MTC 2014 IEEE

International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Instrumentation and Measurement for Sustainable Development

Important dates:

• October 15, 2013 Deadline for submission of extended abstracts.
• January 10, 2014 Notification of authors of papers acceptance.
• March 15, 2014 Deadline for camera ready papers.
• May 12 to 15, 2014

Radisson Montevideo – Victoria Plaza Hotel, Uruguay
http://imtc.ieee-ims.org

Instrumentation and Measurement for Sustainable Development

Topics

• Advances in Instrumentation and Measurement
• Developments and Techniques
• Biomedical Systems
• Data Acquisition
• Systems and Techniques
• Energy and Power Systems
• Industrial Process
• Control Measurement and Instrumentation for Industrial Applications
• Measurement Applications
• Measurement of Electric and Magnetic Quantities
• Measurement of Materials and Mechanical Quantities
• Measurement, instrumentation and Methodologies Related to Healthcare
• Systems
• Measurement Systems and Medical Instrumentation Theory
• Non-invasive Measurement Techniques and Instrumentation
• Real-Time Measurement
• Robotics and Controls
• Sensors and Sensor Fusion
• Signal & Image Processing Techniques
• Software Development for Measurement and Instrumentation
• Support Techniques related to Instrumentation Transducers
• Virtual Measurement Systems
• Wireless Sensors and Systems

Local Organization

• General Chair: Juan Carlos Miguez, IEEE Region 9
• Technical Chair: Daniel Slomovitz, UTE Laboratory
• Publication Chair: Pablo J. Thomasset, IEEE I&M PES Chapter
• Treasurer: Irene Pazos, IEEE Uruguay Section
• Institutional Relations Chair: Rubén Chaer, IEEE I&M PES Chapter
• Local Arrangements Chair: Marcel Keschner, IEEE Uruguay Section
• Conference Management: Conference Catalyst, LCC

Oportunidad para presentar tu curriculum a empresas del área TIC y ganarte una membresía estudiantil de IEEE!

• La motivación de Turing.
• La máquina de Turing.
• Ejemplos de máquinas de Turing.
• La máquina de Turing universal, el autómata universal y la computadora.
• Las limitaciones de los autómatas.
• Los números no computables.
• El test de Turing.

El Capítulo Uruguay de la IEEE Circuits & Systems Society invita a la conferencia: ”INVERSIÓN EN ALTA TECNOLOGÍA EN COSTA RICA: UN CASO EXITOSO DE TRANSFORMACIÓN DE UN PAÍS Y LOS RETOS AÚN PENDIENTES.”

Prof.Alfonso Chacón – Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica

Miércoles 29 de Agosto – 17:30 hs.
Sala Bauzá de la Universidad Católica del Uruguay.
Av.8 de Octubre 2738 – Montevideo , Uruguay.
Asistencia libre, por consultas: capuruguaycas [at] gmail.com

Apoyan:

• IEEE Circuits & Systems Society
• DINAPYME – Ministerio de Industria, Energía y Minería – Uruguay
• Universidad Católica del Uruguay

Resumen
Se presenta el cambio de modelo producido en Costa Rica a partir de mediados de los años ochenta, que transformó una economía netamente agrícola y de maquila en una economía exportadora de servicios especializados y manufactura de alta tecnología, pasando de un producto interno bruto de US$4.831 millones en 1980 a US$36 217 millones en 2010 (en dólares de 2010). Se presentarán las distintas fases del proceso seguido para la atracción de inversión extranjera directa, la evolución del mercado de trabajo, el proceso de creación de la sinergia entre gobierno, empresa privada y el sector de educación superior para fortalecer la atracción de empresas de alta tecnología, y cómo se propició el establecimiento de empresas de sectores variados tales como la microelectrónica (Intel, Teradyne, HP), dispositivos médicos (Saint Jude, Hospira, Baxter), desarrollo y validación de software (RidgeRun), servicios aeronáuticos (Avionyx), biotecnología y farmacéutica (Abbot) y prestación de servicios técnicos especializados (IBM, National Instruments, Emerson). Además, se examinarán los retos pendientes para Costa Rica en la próxima etapa, enfocada en la atracción de inversión directamente relacionada con investigación y desarrollo.

Sobre Alfonso Chacón
Alfonso Chacón Rodríguez es ingeniero electrónico, graduado del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Tiene una Maestría en Literatura Inglesa por la Universidad de Costa Rica, y un Doctorado en Ingeniería por la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. En la actualidad, es Coordinador del Sistema de Estudios de Postgrado del Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, e investigador activo de esa institución con varias publicaciones científicas en revistas indexadas y congresos internacionales; es miembro de la Circuits and Systems Society de la IEEE.

MEETING THE SIGNAL INTEGRITY CHALLENGES OF HIGH-SPEED CIRCUIT AND SYSTEMS
Dr. Ram Achar – IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
http://web.doe.carleton.ca/~achar/

Viernes 4 de mayo de 2012 – 18:00hs.
Facultad de Ingeniería UdelaR , Julio Herrera y Reissig 565 Salón 002.

Participación libre.

Abstract:
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The intense drive for signal integrity has been at the forefront of
rapid and new development in CAD algorithms focused on high-speed
circuits and systems. With increasing demands for high signal speeds
coupled with decreasing feature sizes, interconnect effects such as
signal delay, distortion and crosstalk become the dominant factors
limiting the performance of high-speed systems. On the other hand,
interconnect structures can be diverse and present at any of the
hierarchical packaging levels including integrated circuits, printed
circuit boards, multi-chip modules and backplanes. If not considered
during the design stage, interconnect effects can cause failed
designs. Since extra iterations in the design cycle are costly,
accurate prediction of these effects is a necessity in high-speed
designs. Although conventional CAD tools such as SPICE are used
routinely by many engineers for simulation and general circuit
analysis, these tools do not handle adequately the new emerging
challenges of interconnect effects.

In this talk, high-frequency issues and signal integrity in high-speed
designs will be discussed. Advanced signal integrity
modeling/simulation strategies applicable to various levels of system
hierarchy will be described. Also the underlying concepts leading to
high-frequency effects, signal parameters and time-frequency relations
will be reviewed. Particular emphasis will be placed on distributed,
long and large coupled interconnects. Modeling approaches to handle
high-frequency current distribution related effects, such as skin,
proximity and edge effects will be considered. Particular emphasis
will be placed on preserving the macromodel properties, such
stability, causality and passivity. Various levels of interconnect
modeling will be considered and the applications cover wide spectrum
of on-chip, multichip, packages, printed circuit boards,
backplanes/connectors.

Brief bio of Prof. Achar:
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Prof. Achar is an active researcher contributing to the advancement of
computer-aided design tools and methodologies for analysis of
high-frequency circuits and systems. He has published over 170
peer-reviewed articles in international journals/conferences, six
multimedia books on signal integrity and five chapters in different
books.

Dr. Achar currently is a professor in the department of electronics
engineering at Carleton University. Prior to joining Carleton
university faculty (2000), he served in various capacities in leading
research labs, including T. J. Watson Research Center, IBM, New York
(1995), Larsen and Toubro Engineers Ltd., Mysore (1992), Central
Electronics Engineering Research Institute, Pilani, India (1992) and
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (1990). His research
interests include signal/power integrity analysis, circuit simulation,
parallel and numerical algorithms, EMC/EMI analysis, microwave/RF
algorithms, modeling/simulation methodologies for sustainable and
renewable energy, and mixed-domain analysis.

Dr. Achar received several prestigious awards, including Carleton
university research achievement awards (2010 & 2004), NSERC (Natural
Science and Engineering Research Council) doctoral medal (2000),
University Medal for the outstanding doctoral work (1998), Strategic
Microelectronics Corporation (SMC) Award (1997) and Canadian
Microelectronics Corporation (CMC) Award (1996). He was also a
co-recipient of the IEEE advanced packaging best transactions paper
award (2007). His students have won numerous best student paper awards
in international forums.

Dr. Achar currently is a Distinguished Lecturer (DLP) of the IEEE
Circuits and Systems Society (CASS). Previously, he served as the
general co-chair of IEEE international conference on Electrical
Performance of Electronic Packages & Systems (EPEPS-2010,2011) and as
International Guest Faculty on the invitation of the Dept. of
Information Technology of Govt. of India, under the SMDP-II program.
He also currently serves on the executive/steering/technical-program
committees of several leading IEEE international conferences, such as
EPEPS, EDAPS, ECTC, SPI, ASP-DAC etc. and in the technical committees,
EDMS (TC-12 of CPMT) and CAD (MTT-1). He is a founding faculty member
of the Canada-India Center of Excellence, a member of the Canadian
standards committee on nanotechnology, chair of the joint chapters of
CAS/EDS/SSC societies of the IEEE Ottawa Section, and is a consultant
for several leading industries focused on high-frequency circuits,
systems and tools. Dr. Achar is a practicing professional engineer of
Ontario.
He received the B. Eng. degree in electronics engineering from
Bangalore University, India in 1990, M. Eng. degree in
micro-electronics from Birla Institute of Technology and Science,
Pilani, India in 1992 and the Ph.D. degree from Carleton University in
1998.

For more details about Dr. Achar, his Research
Activities/Contributions and Publications, Please visit:
http://web.doe.carleton.ca/~achar/

Society’s memory was once stored on analog media, which survive benign neglect relatively
well. However, our culture’s heritage is now being generated and stored digitally, potentially presenting problems for long-term storage. Digital media require relatively constant maintenance to guard against threats ranging from device failure to format obsolescence to insufficient funding.
This talk will provide an overview of the problem of archival storage, relating current practices in the digital realm to long-established techniques from analog media. It will then discuss tradeoffs that must be made over the lifetime of the stored data, which far exceeds the service life of any single component in the system. We are using modeling and Monte Carlo simulation to gauge the impact of such trade-offs and less common events, such as the floods in Thailand that drove up disk prices, on the likelihood that data will survive for the desired lifetime given an initial funding level. We are also exploring the effects of long-term trends such as storage cost and density, power cost, and even changes in interest rates on data survivability. By doing so, our research will help system designers and users interested in long-term data survival pay up front for data preservation, rather than necessitating a constant stream of income from users who may no longer be able to provide it.

Lugar: Sala Bauzá, Universidad Católica del Uruguay
Avda. 8 de Octubre 2738

Fecha: 19 de Marzo 2012
Hora: 20:00

Inscripción gratuita!

Ethan Miller es profesor en el departamento de Ciencia de la Computación en la Universidad de California en Santa Cruz. Es director del centro para la investigación en almacenamiento inteligente (Center for Research in Intelligent Storage – CRIS) y director asociado del Centro para la Investigación de Sistemas de Almacenamiento (Storage Systems Research Center – SSRC) en dicha universidad. Su trabajo está en sistemas de archivos y almacenamiento, y más en general, en sistemas distribuidos y operativos. Sus proyectos actuales incluyen sistemas de almacenamiento archivales, índices para sistemas de archivos escalables, sistemas de archivos utilizando la próxima generación de tecnologías de almacenamiento, seguridad de sistemas de archivos, y sistemas de archivo a escala de peta-bytes. Ethan Miller es editor asociado de las IEEE Transactions on Computers desde 2009.

Miércoles 7-Marzo 2012 de 10:30 a 12:00
Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica – FING-UDELAR

Modelo CEGH de procesos estocásticos naturales multi-variables con fines de simulación energética

Expone: Ruben Chaer

Descripción: Fundamentos teóricos detrás de los modelos CEGH y sobre la
forma implementada para Introducción de Pronósticos.

Cupos limitados, confirmar asistencia y reserva de lugar:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHhuS2lqR2hZYXJXeGh5SHR1NzZPMVE6MQ

Miércoles 14-Marzo 2012 de 10:30 a 12:00
Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica – FING-UDELAR

Modelo de central de Ciclo Combinado

Exponen: Enzo Coppes y Carlos Tutté.

Descripción: Se presenta el nuevo modelo de central de ciclo combinado
para SimSEE

Cupos limitados, confirmar asistencia y reserva de lugar:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEVHY1BpUlhSX0FSQTRPSnhMaGNFQ2c6MQ

Miércoles 21-Marzo 2012 de 10:30 a 12:00
Instituto de Ingeniería Eléctrica – FING-UDELAR

ODDFACE, Optimizador Distribuido De Funciones de Alto Costo de Evaluación.

Exponen: Marcelo Forets y Martín Vallarino

Descripción: Se presentará el módulo implementado para resolución
mediante algoritmos genéticos guiados y distribuidos de problemas cuya
función de costo corresponde a una variable aleatoria de alto costo de
evaluación (tiempo de cálculo).

Cupos limitados, confirmar asistencia y reserva de lugar:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE9PQ2V4djZtRlpobDA5LVBEX19WWWc6MQ

Adelanto: conferencia de Transmisión y Distribución

IEEE-T&D LA 2012 – September 3-5, Montevideo, Uruguay
http://ieee-tdla.org

Presenta un panorama local e internacional sobre el relacionamiento entre la academia y las empresas en la generación y transferencia de conocimientos e innovación.

Fecha: 12 de diciembre, 2011

Luegar: Sala Bauza, Universidad Católica, Avda. 8 de Octubre 2738.

Programa

17:00 Experiencia de NEXO, Universidad Católica del Uruguay. Dra. Catherine Krauss, PDE, UCU.
17:30: Visión de la Interfase Universidad-empresa desde la óptica gubernamental. Cra. Laura Di Giovanni, Ejecutivo ANII, Uruguay.
18:00: Coffee Break
18:15 WEARTECH, ropa inteligente, prendas y tejidos producidos con fibras que responden de un modo “inteligente” a influencias externas. Investigación, desarrollo e innovación en las TIC. Sergio Guillen, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, España.
19:15 La cultura de la innovación TIC basadas en la tecnología que fomenta la integración, el espíritu empresarial y el pensamiento creativo. Luis Kun, USA
20:15 Panel de discusión: Futuro de la investigación y desarrollo en Uruguay.

Entrada libre

Más információn: www.otoneurolab.com

Organiza: Programa de Ingeniería Biomédica, Hospital Británico – Ucudal.

Auspician: IEEE Uruguay, Capitulo IEEE EMBS, Grupo GOLD IEEE, Nexo, ANII.

El objeto del concurso consiste en desarrollar ideas que puedan ser implementadas localmente por un equipo que integre fundamentalmente a estudiantes de varios niveles, generando un prototipo que pueda construirse con fondos provistos por el concurso, y cuyo mantenimiento operativo pueda quedar razonablemente a cargo de la escuela donde se implemente.