IEEE WA Section Events and Activities
2021
Thursday, 16 December 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia IES Webinar Series: Automated deep learning based design for solving time series forecasting problems: A case study for solar irradiance forecasting
Presenter: Dr.Seyed Mohammad Jafar Jalali , Deakin University, Australia
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm (AWST)
Venue: Online
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/automated-deep-learning-based-time-series-forecasting-tickets-222783811377
Organised by: IEEE IES, Western Australia Chapter
This webinar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Title: Sustainable Deep Learning for Self-Driving Cars
Presenter: Dr. Duc-Son (Sonny) Pham, Curtin University
Time: 5:30 pm to 7 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ieee-computer-society-wa-sustainable-deep-learning-for-self-driving-cars-tickets-209109531237
Organised by: Computer Society, Western Australia Section Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia IES Webinar Series: Virtual Reality
Presenter: Professor Zhihan Lv , Uppsala University, Sweden
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-virtual-reality-tickets-208968770217
Organised by: IEEE IES, Western Australia Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 18 November 2021
Title: Frequency Stability and Resilience Supports from Hydrogen Electrolysers
Presenter: Dr. Mehdi Ghazavi Dozein
Time: 17:00 to 18:00 Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Microsoft Teams
Organised by: WA Joint PES/PELS, Western Australia Chapter
This webinar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Title: 2021 IEEE WA Section Certificate and Training Programme
Presenter: Matthew Lee, Chartered Professional Engineer and Principal Power Systems Engineer at APD Engineering
Time: 15:00 to 21:00 Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: QT Hotel (133 Murray st, Perth)
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2021-ieee-western-australia-certificate-and-training-programme-tickets-191544553917
Organised by: WA Section
This workshop is open to IEEE members and the public subject to purchasing a ticket
Friday, 29 October 2021
Title: Autonomous marine robotics development technologies and future trend
Presenter: Dr Yuanchang Liu, University College London, UK
Time: 17:30 to 18:30 Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online, register for details
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/autonomous-marine-robotics-development-technologies-and-future-trend-tickets-190953265357
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This webinar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Title: Optimal Path Planning and Sensor Placement for Mobile Target Detection
Presenter: Emeritus Professor Brian D.O. Anderson, AC, Australian National University
Time: 16:00 to 17:00 Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online, register for details
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ieee-wa-css-virtual-seminar-tickets-188041837197
Organised by: WA CSS Chapter
This webinar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Title: IEEE Day networking event
Time: 5 pm to 7 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: The QT Hotel, 133 Murray St, Perth
Registration: EventBrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/2021-ieee-day-networking-event-tickets-169925460627)
Organised by: WA Section
All IEEE members and non-IEEE members are allowed to purchase a ticket and join the event.
Thursday, 30th September 2021
Title: Building Dynamic Composite Load and Distributed PV Models for the National Electricity Market
Presenter: Filip Brnadic (Senior Engineer, AEMO)
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/building-dynamic-composite-load-and-distributed-pv-models-tickets-170398765294)
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 16 September 2021
Title: Power systems analysis, open source and the current challenges, the example of GridCal
Presenter: Santiago Peñate-Vera, Senior Power System Engineer, Red Eléctrica de España (REE), Madrid, Spain
Time: 17:00 to 18:30 Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Microsoft Teams
Organised by: WA PES/PELS Chapter
This webinar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Title: Deep Learning for Image and Signal Processing using MATLAB – a Hands-on Workshop
Presenters: Dr. Emmanuel Blanchard, Dr. Shinsuke Matsubara
Time: 9:00 am to 12:30 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Room 102, Building 18, Joondalup Campus (closer to Car park 14), Edith Cowan University, 270 Joondalup Drive, Joondalup
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ieee-wa-section-educational-workshop-series-tickets-167282126343)
Organised by: WA Section
This seminar is open to the public (subject to registration limits) and admission is free to all IEEE members and costs $20 for non-members
Thursday, 26th August 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia IES Webinar Series: Intelligent robotics research: Opportunities and challenges
Presenter: Professor Dikai Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/intelligent-robotics-research-opportunities-and-challenges-tickets-166472627109)
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 26th August 2021
Title: How will the next-generation of sensor-based decision systems look in the context of intelligent agriculture?
Presenter: Dr Jonathan Richetti, CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellow Agriculture and Food
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: WebEx (https://meet16.webex.com/meet16/j.php?MTID=m9b20e8cb50ee5b87c830487f55346f06)
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/165647910359)
Organised by: WA Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Title: Communications Society seminar: What will 6G be?
Presenter: Dr. Muhammad Khandaker
Time: 15:00 to 16:00 (Perth Time UTC+8)
Venue: Building 210, Room 104, Curtin University Bentley Campus
Registration: Contact Douglas Chai and Yue Rong
Organised by: WA Communications Society Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Details Download: IEEE ComSoc 2021 Technical meeting 1: What will 6G be?
Tuesday, 3 August 2021
Title: IEEE WA Section 2021 Annual Technical Forum: Technology for Tomorrow
Presenters: Various
- Talk 1: "Advancing pathology with technology - two approaches, who will win?" by Jeremy Parry (Director of DLS Pathology Services and Consultant Pathologist at Western Diagnostic Pathology)
- Talk 2: "Role of Industrial Wireless in the context of Industry 4.0 and Digitization" by Benjamin Dias (Technical Solutions Consultant - Process Automation, Honeywell Ltd.)
- Talk 3: "Building a better future: How to convince non-technical people to help you" by Glenn Butcher (a technology company builder with 25 years’ experience in senior management at Amazon, Atlassian, and diverse technology start-ups; currently an active investor and on the board of several technology start-ups.)
- Talk 4: "Digital Human Processing" by Amar El-Sallam (Chief Science Officer & Co-Founder, Advanced Human Imaging)
Time: 14:00 to 17:00 Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: DoubleTree by Hilton Waterfront (1 Barrack Square, Perth)
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-wa-section-2021-annual-technical-forum-tickets-163755568313)
Organised by: WA Section
This seminar is open to the public and an admission fee applies to all except IEEE student and graduate student members
Friday, 30th July 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia IES Webinar Series: Trends in road traffic control
Presenter: Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia, Italy, IEEE Fellow
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/road-traffic-control-via-connected-and-autonomous-vehicles-tickets-161189138051)
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Tuesday, 6 July 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia mid-year Networking and Social Dinner, and Student Award Ceremony
Time: 6 pm to 9 pm Perth time (UTC+8)
Venue: Beiyrut Restaurant, 75 Wanneroo Rd, Tuart Hill, WA 6060
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ieee-wa-section-mid-year-networking-and-social-dinner-tickets-157731006687
Organised by: WA Section
This seminar is open to the public and requires registration and payment of a fee
Thursday, 24 June 2021
Title: Grid-Connected Large-Scale Solar PV Integration Challenges
Presenters: Dr. Oscar Alonso, Dr. Md Moktadir Rahman
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Perth (UTC+8) time
Venue: Online
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 27 May 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia IES Webinar Series: Low rotational Inertia Systems and Grid Friendly Power Electronic Converters
Presenter: Prof. Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt, University of South-Eastern Norway
Time: 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm (AWST)
Venue: online webinar
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Friday, 30 April 2021
Title: IEEE Western Australia IES Webinar Series: Adaptive tracking of an electronic throttle valve
Presenter: Dr. Hai Wang, Murdoch University, WA, Australia
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm (AWST)
Venue: online webinar
Organised by: WA IES Chapter
This seminar is open to the public and admission is free to all IEEE members and non-members
Thursday, 29 April 2021
Title: Patent, trademark, and IP law
Presenter: Mark Pullen and Leanne Oitmaa
Time: 12:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Venue: Liberty Flexible Workspaces; 197 Saint Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000 Australia
Registration: Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ieee-wa-section-tickets-148787014967)
Organised by: WA Section (Industry Liaison)
priority to IEEE members; non-IEEE members can also attend
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Title: Annual IEEE Western Australia IES Seminar, Networking Dinner, and Award Ceremony
Talk one: Major challenges and opportunities for WA in the rapidly evolving 3rd and 4th industrial revolutions
Presenter: Professor Peter Klinken AC, Chief Scientist of Western Australia
Talk two: Increasing the penetration of distributed energy resources in remote microgrids – Outcomes from a collaborative research project with Horizon Power
Presenters: Dr Martina Calais, and Dr Md Shoeb, Murdoch University
Time: 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Venue: Pan Pacific Perth, 207 Adelaide Terrace, Perth Western Australia 6000
Registration: Eventbrite
Tickets are based on the attendees membership of IEEE and IES. For those who are a member of the IEEE and IES, the tickets are $10 AUD (plus Eventbrite's processing charge). For those who are a member of the the IEEE, the tickets are $25 AUD (plus Eventbrite's processing charge). Alternatively, you can join the IES and then purchase a ticket at the the IES member rate. For those who are not a member of the IEEE, the tickets are $90 AUD (plus Eventbrite's processing charge). Alternatively, you can join the IEEE and IES and then purchase a ticket at the the IEEE and IES member rate.
For Non-IEEE members, you can easily join the IEEE for an annual fee of $13.50 USD or $79.00 USD (respectively for students and non-students). For more information, please visit: No longer valid: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.html?product=MEMIEEE500
**If you join the IEEE now, you are eligible to purchase an IES member ticket at significantly discounted price of $25 AUD.
**Joining the IES in addition to the IEEE, will cost an additional $2.50 USD and $4.50 USD (respectively for students and non-students). Please visit: No longer valid: https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage.html?product=MEMIE013
**If you join the IES now, you are eligible to purchase an IES member ticket at significantly discounted price of $10 AUD
Organised by: IES WA Chapter
This event is open to IES members, IEEE members, non-IEEE members
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