PELS Meetings Committee

There are several categories of conferences and meetings:

Primary PELS-sponsored and co-sponsored conferences and joint conferences
Workshops
Other meetings with PELS involvement and cooperation
Sister-society meetings with substantial power electronics content
Other technical meetings likely to be of interest to members

How to Organise a Conference?

Dr. F. Dong Tan, PELS VP for Meetings, has prepared a set of guidelines to assist conference organisers in preparing and running a successful conference. Please download and read through them. Available in Microsoft Word format and Adobe pdf format.

Chair:

The current chair is listed as a member of the Administrative Committee

Primary Conferences

PELS is a sponsor of several major international power electronics conferences each year. The primary conferences for which PELS has major administrative responsibility include:

The International Telecommunications Energy Conference (INTELEC). INTELEC'04 will be held in Chicago, September 19 - 23, 2004.

The IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC). APEC'05 will be held at the Hilton Hotel in Austin Texas, March 6-10, 2005. IAS and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA) share sponsorship.

The IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference (PESC). PESC'05 will be held in Recife, Brazil, 12-18 June 2005. Major Joint Conferences

In addition, PELS has a lead sponsorship role in some other IEEE conferences:

The International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (SDEMPED). SDEMPED'03 was held August 24-26, 2003 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. PELS is the primary sponsor, and IAS is a technical co-sponsor.

The International Electric Machines and Drives Conference (IEMDC). IEMDC'05 will be held in San Antonio, Texas, USA 15-18 May 2005. PELS is a sponsor with three other IEEE societies: IAS, PES, IES.

The IEEE International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems (PEDS). PEDS2005 will be held November 28 - December 1, 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. PELS and IAS act as technical co-sponsors of this meeting.

Workshops

In cooperation with other IEEE societies, PELS sponsors workshops that focus in depth on specific technical areas:

15 - 18 August 2004, The 9th IEEE Workshop on Computers in Power Electronics (COMPEL), Urbana, Illinois.
The COMPEL'04 Call for Papers is linked here.
Web: http://energy.ece.uiuc.edu/COMPEL/
21 - 22 October 2004, The 8th IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics in Transportation (WPET), Detroit, Michigan
Web: http://www.engin.umd.umich.edu/ECE/~WPET/
The IEEE Workshop on Power Electronics Packaging.

Other PELS Conferences and Workshops

IEEE-PELS co-sponsors, or cooperates with a number of additional conferences and workshops.

2 - 4 September 2004, The 11th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference (EPE-PEMC 2004), Riga, LATVIA
Web: http://www.rtu.lv/epe-pemc2004
21-24 October 2004, IEEE International Power Electronics Congress - CIEP'04, Celaya, MEXICO
Web: http://www.itc.mx/ciep/ciep2004.htm
20-21 December 2004, India International Conference on Power Electronics - IICPE 2004, Mumbai, INDIA
Web: http://www.iicpe2004.net/

Sister Society Conferences

PELS has cooperation agreements with a number of other organizations. These include several other IEEE Societies (PES, IAS, IES), and the Brazilian Power Electronics organization, Sociedade Brasileira de Eletrônica de Potência (SOBRAEP). Major meetings of interest to PELS members include:

3-7 October 2004, IAS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. USA
Web: http://www.ieee.org/ias2004/
10-14 October 2004, IEEE Power Systems Conference and Exposition, New York City, New York
Web: http://www.pscexpo.com/
November 2004, The 30th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), Busan, South Korea
Web: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/ies/
12-16 June 2005, PES Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA
Web: Call for Papers
14-17 June 2005, Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, Recife, Brazil
Web: http://www.cobep2005.tmp.br/
10-13 October 2005, Transmission and Distribution Conference and Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana
Conferência de Aplicações Industriais (IEEE IAS - Sul Brasil)
CBA - Congresso Brasileiro de Automática - Soc. Brasileira de Automática

Additional meetings of possible interest

18-21 October 2004 IEEE International Integrated Reliability Workshop (IRW), S. Lake Tahoe, California.
Web site: http://www.irps.org/irw/