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--- INDEX TO CALENDAR ---
--- CALENDAR OF EVENTS ---
Washington Section Adcom and NCAC Meeting
| Date:
| Tuesday, September 4, 2001
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
6:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| All interested members are welcome to attend.
|
| Contact:
| Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Current State of MAGLEV Development
| Date:
| Tuesday, September 11, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee
|
| Speaker:
| Mr. John Hardin, FRA Program Manager
|
| Place:
| TGI Friday, across from GWU
|
| Time:
| 11:30 AM - Fellowship
12:00 Noon - Lunch (optional)
12:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| Mr. Hardin will speak on the current state of MAGLEV development in the United States.
|
| Directions:
| Via Metro: Take the Blue or Orange Line to Foggy Bottom. Walk two blocks East on I Street to TGI Friday. GWU off-street parking facility is at 22nd and I Streets NW.
|
| Cost:
| Cost for lunch is $15.
|
| Contact:
| For reservations call the Friday before the meeting: Brad Luse 202-416-1059 or Lang Nguyen, 202-493-6349
|
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NoVa Section Adcom Meeting
| Date:
| Wednesday, September 12, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Northern Virginia Section
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grille, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
7:00 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| The Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee meets regularly. All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
|
| Contact:
| Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Design and Optimization of Advanced Wireless Systems
| Date:
| Thursday, September 13, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| IEEE Antenna Propagation Society (APS) Washington, DC / Northern VA Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Mr. Leonhard Korowajczuk, CEO and CTO of CelPlan Technologies, Inc.
|
| Place:
| e-tenna Corporation, 6100-C Frost Place, Laurel, MD 20707
|
| Time:
| 6:30-7:00 PM - Refreshments and Social
7:00-8:00 PM - Lecture
|
| Directions:
| From Baltimore take I-95 South, take the MD-198 WEST exit, exit 33B, toward Burtonsville, merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 West. Proceed to the building's far left door - Suite C.
From Virginia take I-395 North, take I-295 South exit on the left, merge onto I-295 South, take Pennsylvania Ave. exit on the left, merge onto Southeast Freeway, take Pennsylvania Ave. exit, merge onto Pennsylvania Ave. SE, turn left onto Fairlawn Ave. SE, turn slightly left to take the DC-295 North ramp, Merge onto DC-295 North, take I-95 North/I-495 North exit toward Baltimore-College Park, merge onto Capital Beltway/I-495 North/I-95 North, take I-95 North toward Baltimore, take MD-198 West exit 33B toward Burtonsville, merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 West. Proceed to the building's far left door - Suite C.
From Washington, take DC-295 North; take I-95 North/I-495 North exit toward Baltimore-College Park, merge onto Capital Beltway/I-495 North//I-95 North, take I-95 North toward Baltimore, take MD-198 West exit 33B toward Burtonsville, merge onto Sandy Spring Rd/MD-198 West. From 198 West, turn left onto Sweitzer Lane, go straight to a four-way stop sign, proceed through stop sign and turn right onto Frost Pl. Proceed to the building's far left door - Suite C.
|
| Contact:
| RSVP to Doreen Phillips dophillips@titan.comor 240-456-4140
|
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Overview of Vacuum Electronics
| Date:
| Thursday, September 13, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Electron Devices Society (EDS) Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. Robert Parker, Naval Research Laboratory
|
| Place:
| George Mason University, Science and Technology Building II, Room 320
|
| Time:
| 6:30 PM
|
| Information:
| For an abstract of the talk and details of the meeting announcement, please refer to the EDS Chapter web site at https://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/edsor contact Murty Polavarapu
|
| Contact:
| Murty Polavarapu at mpolavar@dominionsc.comor at 703-396-1346
|
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Consultants' Network Meeting
| Date:
| Tuesday, September 18, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| NCAC Consultants' Network (DC/MD)
|
| Place:
| Dinner: Seven Seas Restaurant, 8503 Baltimore Blvd. (Route 1), College Park, MD.
Meeting: University of Maryland, College Park Campus, A.V. Williams Engineering Building, Room 2460.
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
7:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| We will have an informal meeting with discussions on business development for consultants.
|
| Directions:
| From Capital Beltway/Interstate 495: Exit @ Route 1 South. Restaurant is 1.5 miles on left. Continue South on Route 1 and turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately right onto Paint Branch Drive, 1.5 blocks to A.V. Williams Bldg. on right after intersection with Stadium Drive. Park on left in Lot G. The restaurant is on Route 1 on the left between the Beltway and the campus entrance.
|
| Contact:
| Wally Lee 301-468-2418 or Bob Wallace 703-354-4836
|
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Reduced-Rank Adaptive Filtering with Application to Chip-Level Equalization for the 3G CDMA Forward Link
| Date:
| Wednesday, September 19, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Signal Processing Society, NoVa Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Speaker: Michael D. Zoltowski, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University
|
| Place:
| George Mason University
|
| Time:
| 6:00 - 7:00 PM
|
| Contact:
| Call or e-mail Mike Picciolo for exact location and more information: 301-384-9461 or picciolo@ieee.org.
|
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Teledetection from the 19th to the 21st Century
| Date:
| Wednesday, September 19, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| IEEE Life Member Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| H. Warren Cooper III
|
| Place:
| Harvest Moon Restaurant,
7260 Arlington Blvd. (Route 50), Falls Church, VA
|
| Time:
| 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
|
| Directions:
| Take I-495 South (outer loop) to Route 50 Exit East. Look for Loehman's Plaza Shopping Center on the right. The Harvest Moon Restaurant is across Route 50 on the left. Turn left at Graham Rd. and make an immediate left turn on the side road.
|
| Cost:
| Cost for the buffet lunch is $9.00 inclusive of tax and tip.
|
| Contact:
| Contact Dave Booth for reservations at dbooth@ieee.orgor 540-364-1350.
|
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Third Generation Wireless
| Date:
| Thursday, September 20, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Communications Society, Washington Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. Mark Epstein, Senior Vice President of Development at QUALCOMM Inc.,
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grille, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Social and Dinner
7:00 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| See Diamond Stories
|
| Contact:
| Bill Wu at www@atmco.orgor 301 984-9019 or Don Rickerson at d.rickerson@ieee.orgor 703-330-9028
|
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Internet Access via Mobile Satellite Systems
| Date:
| Tuesday, September 25, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Communications Society, NoVa Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. C. Ravishankar, Hughes Network Systems
|
| Place:
| TRW, 12011 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, Virginia
|
| Time:
| 6:00-8:00 PM
|
| Information:
| The first hour is a complimentary dinner and a time for meeting and greeting of members. The second hour is devoted to hearing a talk
|
| Cost:
| None
|
| Contact:
| Fred Seelig, Program Chair, fseelig@mitre.org
|
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AESS Meeting
| Date:
| Wednesday, September 26, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS)
|
| Speaker:
| To be determined
|
| Place:
| Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th St, SW, about four blocks South of the Mall and Independence Avenue.
|
| Time:
| 12:00 Noon
|
| Information:
| For information and reservations, contact Roger Oliva, 703-416-3180 or Ron Ticker, 301-286-1380.
|
| Directions:
| The Metro Smithsonian Station (Independence Ave. exit) is conveniently located nearby.
|
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Consultants' Network Meeting
| Date:
| Tuesday, October 2, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| NCAC Consultants' Network (NoVa)
|
| Place:
| Meeting and dinner location: Allie's American Grille at the Marriott Tysons Corner, 8205 Leesburg Pike at the corner of Crescent Towers Drive.
|
| Time:
| 5:30 PM - Dinner
7:00 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| We will have an informal meeting on networking and business development for consultants. We will also discuss future programs and what to look for in the coming year.
|
| Directions:
| From the East or from I-495 take Route 7 West. Turn right on Towers Crescent Dr., then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot (free parking).
From the West on Route 7, going eastbound on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott. Proceed in a circle to the left; you will go over a bridge over Route 7 and keep going until you almost complete a full circle. Just before Route 7 the entrance to the Marriott is on the left.
We dine and meet in Allie's American Grille in the separate dining room to the right.
|
| Cost:
| We will order from the menu.
|
| Contact:
| Wally Lee, 301-468-2418, or Bob Wallace, 703-354-4836
|
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Washington Section Adcom Meeting
| Date:
| Tuesday, October 2, 2001
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
6:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
|
| Contact:
| Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Research on Gain Scheduling: Quiet Past. Noisy Present! Symphonic Future?
| Date:
| Thursday, October 4, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Control System Society
|
| Speaker:
| Wilson J. Rugh, E.J. Schaefer Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grille,,Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| 6:00-6:45 PM - Social and Dinner
6:45-7:30 PM - Presentation
|
| Directions:
| From North - Take 270 South to 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave.
From South - Take 495 exit 34 (which is Wisconsin Ave.) and turn right onto Pooks Hill Rd.
|
| Contact:
| For more information and reservations, please call Dr. Haik Biglari by Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at his cell phone (240)-409-1707 or his office at 301-228-3538
|
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Silicon Technology Trends: Downsizing from Millimeter to Nanometer
| Date:
| Thursday, October 4, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Electron Devices Society (EDS) Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Professor Hiroshi Iwai of Tokyo Institute of Technology
|
| Place:
| Dominion Semiconductor in Manassas, VA
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Refreshments
6:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| For an abstract of the talk and details of the meeting announcement, please refer to the EDS Chapter web site at https://ewh.ieee.org/r2/no_virginia/edsor contact Murty Polavarapu
|
| Contact:
| Murty Polavarapu at mpolavar@dominionsc.comor at 703-396-1346
|
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TALGO Operations in the United States
| Date:
| Tuesday, October 9, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee
|
| Speaker:
| Mr. Jean-Pierre Ruiz, CEO of TALGO, Inc.
|
| Place:
| TGI Friday, across from GWU
|
| Time:
| 11:30 AM - Fellowship
12:00 Noon - Lunch (optional)
12:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| Mr. Ruiz will speak on TALGO operations in the United States.
|
| Directions:
| Via Metro: Take the Blue or Orange Line to Foggy Bottom. Walk two blocks East on I Street to TGI Friday. GWU off-street parking facility is at 22nd and I Streets NW.
|
| Cost:
| Cost for lunch is $15.
|
| Contact:
| For reservations call the Friday before the meeting: Brad Luse 202-416-1059 or Lang Nguyen, 202-493-6349.
|
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NoVa Section Adcom Meeting
| Date:
| Wednesday, October 10, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Northern Virginia Section
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grille, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
7:00 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| The Northern Virginia Section Executive Committee meets regularly. All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
|
| Contact:
| Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Microwave Communication System Design Tutorial
| Date:
| Thursday, October 11, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Washington/Northern Virginia Chapter of IEEE MTT-S
|
| Speaker:
| Roger Kaul, Co-Chair IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee on Microwave Systems
|
| Place:
| American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD
|
| Time:
| 5:30 PM - Social
6:00 PM - Dinner (optional)
7:00 PM - Lecture
|
| Information:
| This is the first lecture in this season's IEEE MTT-S series involving "Emerging Microwave Components for 21st Century Systems." Future lectures will be held on the second Thursday of each month through April 2002. (Note the change this season from Tuesday to Thursday evenings.) These lectures will describe the latest component developments, including: power and low-noise amplifiers, amplifier linearization techniques, active and passive filters, and quasi-optics, by lecturers involved with the development of these components. Many speakers are Distinguished Microwave Lecturers of IEEE MTT-S. Please see the www.ieee.org/mtt-wnvawebsite for the latest information.
|
| Directions:
| For directions please see www.acp.org/map.htmlor call Roger Kaul at 301-774-6848
|
| Cost:
| A registration fee will be charged for the course. Details can be found on the www.ieee.org/mtt-wnvawebsite. The social period is free; dinner cost is TBD.
|
| Contact:
| Reservations for the lecture only are recommended to assure sufficient handouts. Reservations for dinner are required by Tuesday, October 9, to Roger Kaul at 301-774-6848 or r.kaul@ieee.org.
|
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Consultants' Network Meeting
| Date:
| Tuesday, October 16, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| NCAC Consultants' Network (DC/MD)
|
| Place:
| Dinner: Seven Seas Restaurant, 8503 Baltimore Blvd. (Route 1), College Park, MD.
Meeting: University of Maryland, College Park Campus, A.V. Williams Engineering Building, Room 2460.
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
7:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| We will have an informal meeting with discussions on business development for consultants.
|
| Directions:
| From Capital Beltway/Interstate 495: Exit @ Route 1 South. Restaurant is 1.5 miles on left. Continue South on Route 1 and turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately right onto Paint Branch Drive, 1.5 blocks to A.V. Williams Bldg. on right after intersection with Stadium Drive. Park on left in Lot G. The restaurant is on Route 1 on the left between the Beltway and the campus entrance.
|
| Contact:
| Wally Lee 301-468-2418 or Bob Wallace 703-354-4836
|
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Seminar on Managing Retirement Savings
| Date:
| Tuesday, October 16, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| National Capital Area Council
|
| Speaker:
| Michael T. Collins, attorney and host of WMAL's Legally Speaking and Dean A Packard, a senior vice president at Salomon Smith Barney
|
| Place:
| Pooks Hill Marriott, Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| Please arrive by 6:45 PM. Seminar will begin promptly at 7:00.
|
| Directions:
| From North, take I-270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave.
From South, take I-495 exit 34 (Wisconsin Ave. and turn immediately right to Pooks Hill.
|
| Cost:
| None
|
| Contact:
| Reservations are required by Tuesday, October 9, to Jackie Hunter at 703-803-8701 or at j.hunter@ieee.orgby October 9, 2001
|
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Seminar on Managing Retirement Savings
| Date:
| Wednesday, October 17, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| National Capital Area Council
|
| Speaker:
| Michael T. Collins, attorney and host of WMAL's Legally Speaking and Dean A Packard, a senior vice president at Salomon Smith BarneyTime:
|
| Place:
| McLean Hilton, 7920 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, VA
|
| Time:
| Please arrive by 6:45 PM. Seminar will begin promptly at 7:00.
|
| Directions:
| From I-495, take exit 46A, Route 123 South. Turn right at first light onto Tysons Blvd., take the next right onto Galleria, and turn right again onto Jones Branch. The hotel will be on the right.
|
| Cost:
| None
|
| Contact:
| Reservations are required by Tuesday, October 9, to Jackie Hunter at 703-803-8701 or at j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Overview of Nonacoustics ASW Programs at ONR
| Date:
| October 18, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Oceanic Engineering Society
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. David Johnson ONR321S
|
| Place:
| Orincon, 4350 Fairfax Drive, Suite 470, Arlington, VA (703.351.4440)
|
| Time:
| 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
|
| Directions:
| The office is one block from the Ballston Metro stop; parking is available in the immediate area.
|
| Contact:
| Contact Jim Barbera, 310.460.4347 or j.barbera@ieee.org, to indicate attendance. The meeting will not include lunch, but there are numerous eating establishments in the area.
|
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Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? The Wacky World of Venture Capital
| Date:
| Thursday, October 18, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Communications Society, Washington Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. Tom Rowbotham, former head of R&D at Intelsat and a communication engineering specialist
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grille, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Social and Dinner.
7:00 PM - Meeting.
|
| Contact:
| Bill Wu at www@atmco.orgor 301 984-9019 or Don Rickerson at d.rickerson@ieee.orgor 703-330-9028
|
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NCAC Meeting
| Date:
| Wednesday, October 24, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| National Capital Area Council
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grille, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike
|
| Time:
| 6:00-7:30 PM
|
| Information:
| The Northern Virginia Section Executive Committee meets regularly.
All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
The first hour is a complimentary dinner and a time for meeting and greeting of members. The second hour is devoted to hearing a talk
|
| Cost:
| None
|
| Contact:
| Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Propagation Issues Impacting Broadband Satellite Communications
| Date:
| Tuesday, October 30, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Communications Society, NoVa Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. Louis J. Ippolito, VP and Chief Scientist at ITT Industries
|
| Place:
| TRW, 12011 Sunset Hills Road, Reston, Virginia
|
| Time:
| 6:00-8:00 PM
|
| Information:
| The first hour is a complimentary dinner and a time for meeting and greeting of members. The second hour is devoted to hearing a talk
|
| Cost:
| None
|
| Contact:
| Fred Seelig, Program Chair, fseelig@mitre.org
|
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NASA's Planetary Research Program
| Date:
| Wednesday, October 31, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Aerospace and Electronics Systems Society (AESS)
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. Carl Pilcher, NASA Director of Exploration of the Solar System will speak on NASA's planetary research program, future missions, and associated technology developments.
|
| Place:
| Federal Communications Commission, 445 12th St., SW, about four blocks South of the Mall and Independence Avenue
|
| Time:
| 12:00 Noon
|
| Information:
| Contact Ron Ticker 301-286-1380 or Roger Oliva 703-416-3180
|
| Directions:
| The Metro Smithsonian Station (Independence Ave. exit) is conveniently located nearby.
|
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MEMS program at DARPA: Current Thrust Areas and Future Vision
| Date:
| Date}Thursday, November 1, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| IEEE Antenna Propagation Society (APS) Washington, DC/Northern VA Chapter
|
| Speaker:
| Dr. William C. Tang is the program manager at the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA.
|
| Place:
| e-tenna Corporation, 6100-C Frost Place, Laurel, MD 20707
|
| Time:
| 6:30-7:00 PM - Refreshments and Social
7:00-8:00 PM - Lecture
|
| Directions:
| See listing for September meeting.
|
| Contact:
| RSVP to Doreen Phillips at dophillips@titan.comor 240-456-4140
|
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Tour of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant
| Date:
| Thursday, November 1, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Chapter, Washington, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia Sections of IEEE
|
| Place:
| Education Center, Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant, 1650 Calvert Cliffs Parkway, Lusby, MD 410-595-6789
|
| Time:
| 1:15 to 4:30 PM
|
| Contact:
| Harry Sauberman at hrs@cdrh.fda.govor 301-443-8879 for reservations.
|
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Washington Section Adcom and NCAC Meeting
| Date:
| Tuesday, November 6, 2001
|
| Place:
| Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Road, Bethesda, MD
|
| Time:
| 6:00 PM - Dinner
6:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| This is the annual election meeting for both the Washington Section and the NCAC. All interested members are welcome to attend.
|
| Contact:
| Jackie Hunter 703-803-8701 or j.hunter@ieee.org
|
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Communication-based Train Control Systems in the United States
| Date:
| Tuesday, November 13, 2001
|
| Sponsor:
| Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee
|
| Speaker:
| Mr. L.E. (Larry) Light, Senior Director of New Technologies and Standards at AMTRAK
|
| Place:
| TGI Friday, across from GWU
|
| Time:
| 11:30 AM - Fellowship
12:00 Noon - Lunch (optional)
12:30 PM - Meeting
|
| Information:
| Mr. Light will discuss the differences between the communication-based train control systems being developed, installed, and tested by the railroads in the United States.
|
| Directions:
| See listing for September meeting.
|
| Cost:
| Cost for lunch is $15
|
| Contact:
| For reservations call the Friday before the meeting: Brad Luse at 202-416-1059 or Lang Nguyen at 202-493-6349.
|
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--- DIAMOND STORIES ---
[This Department of the SCANNER provides short abstracts and biosketches to accompany those calendar items that show a diamond() before the name of the subject or event]
Design and Optimization of Advanced Wireless Systems (AP-03)
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, September 13, 2001)
Mobile wireless systems already play a significant part in our lives today, and this participation is expected to substantially increase with the roll-out of fully integrated voice and data services (2.5G and 3G). These next generation systems promise to simultaneously provide voice, data, and images to mobile, nomadic, and fixed users. To achieve this functionality, wireless networks and equipment must be designed to optimize spectrum usage, coverage, capacity, and quality of service. The challenges associated with planning these systems are considerable! A whole new set of techniques and algorithms are required to analyze the demand and to predict the performance the new systems. The main characteristics, challenges, and techniques necessary to plan, design, implement and deploy 3G wireless systems will be presented and discussed.
Leonhard Korowajczuk received the BSEE from UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1969. He is currently CEO and CTO of CelPlan Technologies, Inc., and Chairman of the Board of CelTec Tecnologia de Telecomunicações S/A. CelPlan is a leading system designer and developer of RF infrastructure (MSC, BSS, BTS) for the wireless industry, with services that include system planning, deployment and optimization of wireless systems. Mr. Korowajczuk began his career with ITT developing telecommunication equipment at Standard Electrica. He is founder of the CPqD (Brazilian Telecom Research center). Mr. Korowajczuk also established the Switching Division at Elebra (Eletronica Brazileira S/A), established and directed Alcatel's Wireless Division in Brazil, and was CTO of COMSAT Plexsys in the US. Mr. Korowajczuk holds several patents in the fields of electrical design, mechanical packaging, switching, and wireless equipment.
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Reduced-Rank Adaptive Filtering with Application to Chip-Level Equalization for the 3G CDMA Forward Link (SP-01)
(See Calendar of Events, Wednesday, September 19, 2001)
This presentation deals with synchronous Direct-Sequence CDMA transmission using orthogonal channel codes in frequency selective multipath, motivated by the forward link in 3G CDMA systems. The chip-level MMSE estimate of the (multi-user) synchronous sum signal transmitted by the base, followed by a correlate and sum, has been shown to perform very well in saturated systems compared to a RAKE receiver. In this paper, reduced-rank, chip-level MMSE estimation based on the multi-stage nested Wiener filter (MSNWF) is presented. We demonstrate that the performance of structured low-rank equalizers is much superior to unstructured equalizers in terms of convergence speed and error rates. Michael D. Zoltowski received both the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Drexel University in 1983 and the Ph.D. degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. In fall of 1986, he joined the faculty of Purdue University, where he currently holds the position of Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Zoltowski is an IEEE fellow and has received numerous honors and awards for his work.
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Teledetection from the 19th to the 21st Century (-LM)
(See Calendar of Events, Wednesday, September 19, 2001)
From the time of Hertz' experiments in 1888, electromagnetic waves for teledetection (principally radar), telecommunications, navigation, and related applications have been key to the defense of the United States (and other countries). The development of radar in the 1930s played a key part in the Battle of Britain and the defense of London and Antwerp against the German V-1 "buzz-bomb."
Westinghouse R&D Center (now Science and Technology Center) made contributions in the teledetection field, demonstrating a 9-cm wavelength magnetron in a rudimentary radar at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago in 1933 and 1934. Later, the WL-530 (VT122) power triode electron tube was the foundation upon which the U.S. Army Signal Corps built the SCR270/271 radar that made notable contributions in World War II and in the Korean War.
The Radiation Laboratory at MIT during WWII was the source of much electromagnetic design and technology applied to radar and navigation. MIT Rad Lab alumni say "the atomic bomb ended the war, but radar won the war." This electromagnetic design and technology, recorded in the Radiation Laboratory series of technical books published by McGraw Hill, was used to educate two generations of post WWII engineers and scientists. The evolution of electromagnetic developments in generating large amounts of peak power at microwavelengths, in creating low noise devices to receive this energy after it has propagated long distances, and providing extremely stable frequency sources and clocks, has resulted in radar, communications, and navigation systems that impact all aspects of our life today.
Mr. H. Warren Cooper will identify and discuss the key developments, incidents, and people that have led to the benefits in the civilization of the 21st century.
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Third Generation Wireless (COM-10)
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, September 20, 2001)
Wireless technology is advancing rapidly. This is evident from the increasingly high data capabilities to be offered as the technology moves from second- to third-generation products over the next several years. Addressed in the presentation are the various technical evolution strategies being taken by worldwide carriers; the capabilities to be offered; the time frame for commercial deployments; and the services that are believed to be key to the acceptance of these products in the marketplace.
Dr. Mark Epstein, Senior Vice President of Development at QUALCOMM Inc., has played a leading role during the past 14 years in building QUALCOMM from a company of 20 people to its current 9,000 people with $4 billion in sales. Before joining QALCOMM, Dr. Epstein was Deputy for C3I in the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Army, where he guided the Army's electronic R&D programs. Before that he held senior positions with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Computer Science Corp., and Northrop Corp. Dr. Epstein has 21 publications and one patent.
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Internet Access via Mobile Satellite Systems (COM-10)
(See Calendar of Events, Tuesday, September 25, 2001)
This talk will reflect some of the ongoing work at Hughes Network Systems regarding providing high speed Internet access to users via mobile satellite systems. Typical user terminal scenarios for mobile satellite systems include mobile and portable terminals. Typical user terminal sizes for mobile applications are equivalent to the size of cellular handhelds or Personal Digital Assistants and for portable applications it is typically a notebook size terminal. The talk will center around a system design that is primarily based on GSM General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Enhanced Data for GSM Evolution (EDGE) and the emerging UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems) specifications, all standardized at ETSI. The talk will highlight some of the challenges faced in mobile satellite systems and the adaptations that we had to make to these ETSI specifications in order to provide acceptable end-to-end Quality of Service and at the same time allow user mobility. The talk will conclude with an evolutionary path from GPRS and EDGE to third generation systems (3G) via mobile satellite systems based on UMTS principles.
Dr. Channasandra Ravishankar is a Technical Director in Mobile Satellite department at Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland. He received his Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he was with Comsat Laboratories, Clarksburg, Maryland conducting research in the areas of low bit rate speech coding and facsimile transmission applicable for mobile satellite systems. Since 1995 he has been with Hughes Network Systems where he is currently responsible for end-to-end system design of high speed packet data service for MEO and GEO mobile satellite systems. He currently leads the design of upper layers, including Media Access Control (MAC), Mobility Management and Quality of Service aspects of the system design. In his previous assignment at Hughes Network Systems, he led the end-to-end system design of voice, fax and data services for the THURAYA system (a geostationery mobile satellite system) that is currently undergoing successful field tests in the Middle East and Europe. He has been an active participant in ITU-T Study Group 15, ITU-T Study Group 8, ANSI T1A1 and has authored several Geo-Mobile Radio (GMR) specifications being standardized at ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute). Dr. Ravishankar actively participates in IEEE activities and was a member of the organizing committee of 1995 IEEE Speech Coding Workshop held at Annapolis. Since October 1996 he has been serving as Editor for Speech Processing for IEEE Transactions on Communications.
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Research on Gain Scheduling: Quiet Past. Noisy Present! Symphonic Future?
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, October 4, 2001)
In the 1990s, after decades of silence on the subject, the academic research community took up the topic of gain scheduling for nonlinear control design with increasing interest. This has led to the formalization and clarification of some old ideas in gain scheduling, and to some new ideas that are making their way into practice. After a review of some early examples and comments on the salient features of gain-scheduled controllers, a number of current and future research directions will be discussed.
Wilson J. Rugh received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Penn State University in 1965 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northwestern University in 1967 and 1969, respectively. Since 1969 he has been on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University, currently as the Edward J. Schaefer Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is the author of numerous research articles and three books, most recently Linear System Theory, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall, 1996. Dr. Rugh has been an associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and recently an associate editor of Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems, and Systems & Control Letters. He is currently serving as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society.
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Silicon Technology Trends: Downsizing from Millimeter to Nanometer (ED-15)
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, October 4, 2001)
Information technology is expected to greatly improve the quality of our lives by making our society very efficient. It should be noted that the progress of IT entirely owes to that of semiconductor technology, especially to that of silicon. Silicon integrated circuits provide us high-speed, high-frequency operation of tremendously many functions with low cost, low power, small size, low weight, and high reliability. Progress of the silicon integrated circuit has been driven by the downsizing of its components such as MOSFETs. In this talk, downsizing in silicon device technology is explained from past to future. Downsizing into sub-100 nm is presented in detail. Finally, the further challenge of entering the sub-10 nm regime is mentioned.
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Microwave Communication System Design Tutorial (MTT-17)
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, October 11, 2001)
Designing communication systems requires consideration of many factors to provide the required signal-to-noise-plus interference and distortion [S/(N+I+D)] ratios for high-fidelity transfer of information. This tutorial lecture will present information about: basic communication modulation formats, the format's requirement for S/(N+I+D) at the demodulator, the impact and distribution of thermal and phase noise on system performance, techniques to quantify noise and avoid interference and/or spurious signals, and the specifications placed on components used in receivers and transmitters. Handouts, including calculations of system design parameters, will be provided to encourage taking notes during the presentation.
Roger Kaul received a Ph.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University in 1969. Since then he has worked with microwave components and systems at United Aircraft Research Laboratories, ORI, Inc., Litton Amecom, and the Army Research Laboratory. He retired this year from ARL but still teaches a course at The Johns Hopkins University on Microwave Systems and Components and a laboratory course on Wireless Communications Circuits. Kaul is Co-Chair of the Microwave Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society and is Publicity Chair for this Chapter of IEEE MTT-S.
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Overview of Nonacoustics ASW Programs at ONR (OE-22)
(See Calendar of Events, October 18, 2001)
The speaker will discuss the ongoing non-acoustics projects at ONR, describing the present efforts related to non-acoustic sensor development and utility for ASW, data fusion techniques among disparate sensors, signal processing concerns and system integration factors.
Dr. David Johnson is currently a team leader at ONR managing the Sensor Information Dominance team tasked with developing technology applied to Mine and Undersea Warfare. He worked previously at Sandia National Laboratory developing sounding rockets and arc jet diagnostic instruments. His doctoral thesis at Cornell developed a novel method of measuring the rate-of-strain tensor in a turbulent fluid. He developed the Bow Mounted Instrument System (BOMIS) to measure ocean temperature, conductivity., and velocity from the bow of a submarine and used BOMIS to make some of the first measurements of full-scale submarine-generated hydrodynamic effects.
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Who Wants To Be a Millionaire? The Wacky World of Venture Capital (COM-10)
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, October 18, 2001)
We live in troubled times, especially for those with bright ideas that they want to turn into commercial propositions. This talk gives some insight into the world of venture capital from the perspective of an engineer recently turned venture capitalist. The field of communications has led the way over the past few years and the talk illustrates what venture capitalists look for in a proposal from prospective founders, how they go about selecting winners, and how the winners find that after they have been granted their dearest wish-to get capital-this turns out to be only the start of their troubles!
Dr. Tom Rowbotham, as a microwave engineer, helped plan the Goonhilly Downs, UK, earth station; developed microwave integrated circuits for circular waveguide; managed Intelsat R&D, and founded Kimberley Communications Consultants (now Flomerics plc) based on the TLM method of 3-D EM analysis. As an R&D manager he ran the BT Labs around the world, some 3,000 people in California, Virginia, the United Kingdom, and Australia. He worked for the Deputy CEO of BT. He is a founder of Concert, then a MCI/BT joint venture, based in Reston, Va. He is now with St. Paul Venture Capital, a recent $1.3 billion fund, and is based in its Andover, Mass., office. He is on five company boards and advises five other companies. Dr. Rowbotham is a Director of IEEE, Inc, and of the IEEE Foundation Inc.
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Propagation Issues Impacting Broadband Satellite Communications (COM-10)
(See Calendar of Events, Tuesday, October 30, 2001)
The upcoming introduction of broadband satellite systems designed to provide high data rate Internet access and improved data networks is eagerly anticipated and monitored. Systems such as Spaceway, Astrolink, and Teledesic promise to open a new era in satellite communications applications. These systems, and several others, realize increased bandwidth and data rates by operating at higher carrier frequencies, in the Ka band (30 GHz uplink, 20 GHz downlink) and eventually, Q/V band (50 GHz uplink, 40 GHz downlink). These bands suffer from increased sensitivity to propagation degradation from rain, clouds, and other atmospheric conditions. This talk highlights the major weather effects in the bands above 10 GHz, and points out how next generation systems are being designed to overcome propagation impairments. The speaker will summarize recent measurements from the NASA ACTS satellite and their impact on system performance and design.
Dr. Louis J. Ippolito is Vice President and Chief Scientist for ITT Industries, Advanced Engineering and Sciences, Ashburn, VA, where he is involved in telecommunications systems development and analysis for a broad range of government and commercial programs. He has an extensive background in wireless communications systems, propagation effects on radio communications, frequency allocation and spectrum management involving telecommunications systems, direct broadcast satellites, mobile communications, and supporting technologies. Dr. Ippolito is the author of over sixty publications, including the books Radiowave Propagation in Satellite Communications Systems and the NASA Propagation Effects Handbook for Satellite Systems Design. Dr. Ippolito is a contributing author for The Communications Handbook, J.D. Gibson, Editor. Dr. Ippolito is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is Adjunct Professor in Telecommunications Management at the University of Maryland University College, where he was recently awarded the Stanley J. Drazek Teaching Excellence Award. He also teaches graduate electrical engineering courses for The George Washington University.
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MEMS program at DARPA: Current Thrust Areas and Future Vision (AP-03)
(See Calendar of Events, Date}Thursday, November 1, 2001)
The technology of microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS) is one of the three core enabling technologies within the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Together with photonics and electronics, MEMS forms the foundation for a broad variety of advanced research projects sponsored by MTO as well as the other offices within DARPA. Research projects are underway to apply MEMS in specific military platforms in all four domains of engagement: air, land, sea, and space. These current thrust areas are showing strong potential to transition into further development and small-scale production for military uses. The future vision of the MEMS program is to demonstrate all crucial technologies to collocate on a chip scale all vital functions including sense, compute, actuate, communicate, and power. Strategic new programs will be established to advance the state of the art to fulfill this vision.
Dr. William C. Tang is the program manager at the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA. Currently, he manages the MEMS, Micro Power Generation, Nano Mechanical Array Signal Processors, and Chip-Scale Atomic Clock programs. He received the Ph.D. degree in EECS from UC Berkeley in 1990. Since then, he has worked at the Ford Research Laboratory, Ford Microelectronics Inc., and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, before joining DARPA. Including the patent on the electrostatic comb-drive actuator, Dr. Tang was awarded four U.S. patents on MEMS technologies. He currently serves on the editorial boards for the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering and the Journal of Micromechatronics. He is a Fellow and chartered physicist of the Institute of Physics
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Tour of Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (NPS-05)
(See Calendar of Events, Thursday, November 1, 2001)
This has been a very popular tour in past years and is the focal event of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Chapter, Washington, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia Sections. Saturday tours of the plant are no longer available so Thursday was selected instead.
The tour is limited to 30 participants, so be sure to contact Harry Sauberman by Monday, October 28 to reserve your spot.
There are some attendance requirements for this tour.
1. You must present positive ID, such as a driver's license or passport.
2. You will have to pass through explosives and metal detectors.
3. You may bring a small still camera, which much be declared, but not a video camera.
4. You must stay with the authorized escort while in the plant.
5. You may not participate in the tour if you have consumed any alcohol.
Wear flat leather shoes and slacks, not shorts or sandals. You must leave your cellular phone in your car.
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