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Events from Fall 2003 - Spring 2004
17 SEPTEMBER 2003 (WEDNESDAY), 6PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: " 'Beam Me Up Scotty', Fact or Fiction?"
Speaker: Prem Kumar, IEEE Fellow and Professor at Northwestern University
Abstract:
The world of the quantum offers amazing possibilities, which have fascinated authors
of science fiction for almost a century now.
Many of us grew up watching such fantasies
come to life on our TV screens, thanks to the bold
imagination of Gene Roddenberry.
I am sure anyone watching an episode of Star Trek wonders at one time or another,
whether the Transporter is for real or not.
Advances in quantum communication,
cryptography, and computing are clearing up some of the fog that surrounds fact from
fiction.
In this talk, we will boldly go where no one has gone before, culminating with
a discussion of some of the contributions that the Northwestern team is making to this field.
About the Speaker:
Prem Kumar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Professor of Physics
and Astronomy, and Director of the Center for Photonic Communication and Computing
at Northwestern University.
He joined Northwestern in 1986 after spending five years at
MIT as a research scientist.
He received a Ph.D. in Physics from SUNY/Buffalo in 1980.
He is the author or co-author of over 150 refereed journal publications.
His research
focuses on the development of novel fiber-optic devices for ultrahigh-speed optical and
quantum communication networks.
His current research is funded by the National Science
Foundation (NSF), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Army
Research Office (ARO), and the Office of Naval Research (ONR).
He is a Fellow of the
Optical Society of America (OSA), a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), a
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and a Fellow of the
Institute of Physics (IoP).
On the academic side, his professional services have included:
Panel Reviewer, National Science Foundation; Topical Editor, Optics Letters; Member,
OSA Publications Council; Editorial Board Member, Journal of the European Optical
Society B - Quantum and Semiclassical Optics; Principal Organizer, 4th International
Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement, and Computing, Northwestern
University, 1998; Chair and Member of several program committees for national and
international conferences sponsored by the OSA, APS, and the IEEE; Vice Chairman,
LEOS/IEEE Chicago Chapter, 1990/91.
On the business side, he is an Advisory Board
Member for Baird Venture Partners in Chicago, IL and serves as a Scientific Advisor to
Santel Networks, a startup in Newark, CA.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time; soda, coffee, and cookies
7 PM: technical presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
18 SEPTEMBER 2003 (THURSDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "High Speed Mobile Data Services and Technology"
Speaker: Jack Kozik, Lucent Technologies
PowerPoint slides (10Mbyte!) supplied post-meeting:
KozikIEEE.ppt
Photo and PDF (3Mbyte) version of slides:
www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/recent.html
Abstract:
Across the world, mobile telephone service providers have been upgrading
their radio and switching infrastructure to support high speed mobile
data services. As consumers we see this marketed to us with service names
like "Sprint Vision" or "Verizon Wireless Express" or "AT&T Wireless mLife."
This talk gives an overview of the technology,
discusses interoperability with WiFi and HotSpots,
and offers a survey of the applications, focusing on the technical, economic and market challenges that engineers face.
About the Speaker:
Jack Kozik is Director of the Network Services Architecture Department
in the Mobility Solutions Group of Lucent Technologies in Naperville,
Illinois, USA.
His organization is responsible for planning the evolution of
Lucent's Mobile Network Services products.
Recent areas of focus include interoperating network services with
IP services and the evolution of prepaid services.
He holds three patents in the areas of mobile network security
and Internet telephony.
Jack received his BS degree in Computer Science ('79) and an MS ('81)
in Electrical Engineering, both from Purdue University in West Lafayette,
Indiana, USA.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30pm: Social (Free snacks and beverages)
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE Communication Society Chicago Chapter,
IEEE Computer Society Chicago Chapter and
IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
However, registering your intent to attend at
ieeechi@yahoo.com is very appreciated.
15 OCTOBER 2003 (WEDNESDAY), 6PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Fermilab Accelerators: Past, Present and Future"
Speaker: Dr. G. William Foster, Fermilab
Abstract:
Thirty-five years ago Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory began its
transition from a marshy patch of farmland to the highest energy Particle
Physics laboratory in the world.
Under the brilliant direction of Dr.
Robert R. Wilson, a group of hardy pioneers designed and constructed the
world's most powerful subatomic particle accelerator and the international
laboratory to conduct experiments on its particle beams.
This original endeavor, as audacious in retrospect as it was at the time,
will be recalled
in photographs, anecdotes, and a whirlwind tour of how accelerators work.
Twenty years ago Fermilab reinvented itself as an antimatter-matter
collider.
Spurred by the mysterious physics accessible at only the highest
energies, Fermilab's accelerators were reborn using superconducting magnets
which doubled the available particle energy while reducing the electrical
power consumption.
As a result, today thousands of physicists from countries
all over the world visit Fermilab to perform experiments on the world's
highest energy beams.
The great discoveries that followed, such as the Top
Quark, will keep the name of Batavia, Illinois, USA in physics textbooks
forever.
Today Fermilab must once again reinvent itself.
Competitors from around the
world are copying Fermilab's technology to produce larger and more powerful
accelerators, and Fermilab is expected to lose its status as the world's
highest energy accelerator in the latter half of this decade.
Fortunately,
particle accelerator physicists are never short of new ideas for new
facilities and experiments.
Three leading contenders for Fermilab's next
project are described, as well as the ways that they might fit on (or off)
of the Fermilab site.
About the Speaker:
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Bill Foster and his younger brother founded
Electronic Theatre Controls in 1974, now the largest manufacturer of theater
lighting equipment worldwide.
In 1979 he returned to physics, getting
his Ph.D. from Harvard looking for Proton Decay.
Instead the experiment found
a burst of Neutrinos from Supernova 1987a, for which Foster was the
co-recipient of the 1989 Rossi Prize in cosmic ray physics.
At Fermilab he
built electronics for the CDF detectors, was a co-author on the CDF Top
Quark discovery paper, designed integrated circuits for the Supercollider,
designed and built over 500 accelerator magnets in use at Fermilab, and
developed experimental superconducting magnets.
In 1998 he was awarded the IEEE Prize for Accelerator Technology.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
29 OCTOBER 2003 (WEDNESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Can We Add New Features Without Changing Existing Code?"
Speaker: Dr. Francis Leung,
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department,
Illinois Institute of Technology
Abstract:
One of the most difficult tasks in software development is to add
new features to existing code.
With existing art, the programmer must manually trace line-by-line
the different execution flows of existing code to determine where
to make the changes.
This is a labor intensive and error prone process.
Further, the new code will intermingle with existing code,
making it difficult for reuse or customization.
This talk will introduce the Feature Language designed
to allow the programmer to write the new feature according to a
model of the application but independent of existing code or
code being developed by other programmers concurrently.
After code development, the programmer can select the set of features
to be included in an application, have them analyzed by a tool to
identify the conditions by which the features interact,
and write a separate condition to resolve the interactions.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Francis Leung is on the faculty of the ECE Department of
Illinois Institute of Technology.
He has more than 20 years' experience in the telecommunications
industry and large-scale software development.
He is an IEEE Fellow, cited for his contributions to operating systems,
protocols, and programming methods supporting the development of
distributed systems and multimedia communication applications.
Before joining IIT, he managed research and development organizations,
at Motorola and Bell Laboratories, on cellular infrastructure architecture,
interactive video server, electronic switching system software,
multimedia communication protocols, ATM technology and application-oriented
language.
He was granted 12 patents including the original patent
on Remote Procedure Call and 3 other patents that won the prestigious
AT&T patent awards.
He led the development of the switching software
for the first field trial of voice over frame relay and the first
multimedia conferencing system over ATM.
He received his Ph.D.
in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30pm: Social (Free snacks and beverages)
7:00pm: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE Communication Society Chicago Chapter,
IEEE Computer Society Chicago Chapter and
IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
However, registering your intent to attend at
ieeechi@yahoo.com is very appreciated.
For More Information:
Visit IEEE Chicago Section website at:
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/,
or contact:
Jack Sherman,
Yigang Cai,
Jerry Kattke, or
Joe Weesner.
12 JANUARY 2004 (MONDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Challenges in Wireless LAN"
Speaker: Dr. James Yu, DePaul University
Abstract:
Wireless LAN is one of the fastest growing areas in network technologies.
Its popularity increases its application domains, along with many challenging issues.
This talk covers three issues facing the WLAN industry:
security, quality of service, and IP mobility.
The talk starts with a brief introduction of 802.11
(at the MAC layer), and discusses the problems of security, QoS, and mobility in the current standard.
The new draft standards, 802.11i for security and 802.11e for QoS, are presented
to address these issues.
About the Speaker:
Dr. James T. Yu is an assistant professor at DePaul University where he is teaching and researching
in the areas of wireless LAN, Fault Tolerant LAN, and Voice over IP. He was the director of Network Technology
at ARBROS Communications, responsible for network architecture, design, and management. He had 15 years of
experience at Bell Labs working on switching development and information technology projects. He received the
MS and Ph.D degrees in Computer Sciences from Purdue University.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30 PM: Networking time (free snack, beverages)
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
IEEE Computer Society/Chicago Chapter
IEEE Communication Society/Chicago Chapter and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required, but registering your intent of attendance at
Attending is very much appreciated.
21 JANUARY 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "The Professional Engineer License"
Speaker: Irwin Smiley, PE, FNSPE, Consoer Townsend Envirodyne Engineers, Inc. (CTE)
Abstract:
This talk will discuss the importance and reasons for electrical engineers
to become registered.
It will cover the academic and job experience requirements
to sit for the PE examination, as well as the new PE renewal requirements.
About the Speaker:
Irwin Smiley has 38 years experience in electrical engineering, process and
instrumentation engineering, and energy studies.
He has supervised the design
of government, institutional, industrial and commercial buildings, water
treatment plants, standby power systems, wastewater treatment plants, moveable
bridges, airports, roadway lighting, electrified train facilities and power
generating stations.
He has his P.E. license in Illinois and 19 other states.
He was a past State President of the Illinois Society of Professional
Engineers (ISPE) and was past chairman of the IEEE Chicago Section.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
IEEE Communication Society and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
18 FEBRUARY 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "The IEEE Energy Policy Committee in Action"
Speaker: Fernando L. Alvarado, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin
Abstract:
Fernando will give an overview of the IEEE Energy Policy Committee in action.
He will focus on the mandate of the committee and on an overview of recent actions
and positions taken.
His perspective is one that effective engineering policy
positions and recommendations need to be supported by sound technical, economic
and political underpinnings, and he will discuss how the interplay between these
needs sheds an entirely new light on purely technical issues.
He will then
discuss in some detail the specifics of some of the actions the committee recently
took in connection with providing legislative support to the recent blackout as
an example of the kind of capabilities of the committee.
He will
then discuss furture directions that the committee is expected to undertake, and
invite participation by the audience with comments and suggestions for action.
About the Speaker:
Fernando L. Alvarado is a Professor Emeritus of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at the University of Wisconsin and a Senior Consultant at Christensen Associates.
He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of
Michigan in 1972, a Masters from Clarkson University in 1969 and a PE and BEE degree
from the National University of Engineering in Lima, Peru.
He is a fellow of IEEE and is the Vice-Chairman of the IEEE Energy Policy Committee.
He has served as a
member on a panel of experts for the study of a National Interest Transmission
Grid for the US, reporting results to the Secretary of Energy in December 2001.
He participated in a Presidential Task Force on Critical Infrastructures during
1997 and 1998.
He has hundreds of journal publications, articles, book chapters,
reports and conference presentations.
He is recognized for his work on the integration
of economics and electric power networks.
He has developed methods for efficient
trading in power networks, including a method for hedging against price uncertainty
(with R. Rajaraman).
He has done extensive work for CIGRE on the topic of ancillary
services.
He is a well-known software expert, with emphasis on large scale computation,
sparse matrices and least squares methods and co-author of several software packages.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
Chicago Chapter of the Power Engineering Society and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
25 FEBRUARY 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "The Birth of the Multi Billion Dollar Market for Standards Telecom Platforms"
Speaker: Charles Byers, Bell Labs Fellow
Abstract:
The design process for network equipment is changing.
Proprietary, single use systems - common in legacy equipment - are growing unacceptable.
Now, platform approaches based upon open industry standards are gaining momentum.
The standards based modular platform approach can have many development,
cost, schedule, and feature richness advantages compared to proprietary systems.
This talk will discuss the general value of moving from proprietary designs to open standards.
We will discuss the network architecture and cost implications standard modular platforms.
There will be a brief survey of the most applicable hardware and software standards.
It will then go into a detailed discussion of one of the most important industry
standards in the telecom / datacom / server space,
the Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (PICMG 3).
This new standard covers a shelf level system optimized for telecommunications,
data networking, and data server applications.
It will discuss the history of the standard, its technical details,
how it is applied to the design of network elements, and its market potential
(which one analyst puts at $3.7B by 2007).
Finally, case studies of platform-based designs from several industries will be explored.
About the Speaker:
CHARLES C. BYERS is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff and Bell Labs Fellow
in Lucent's Supply Chain Networks organization in Naperville, Illinois.
During his 18 year career with Bell Labs, he has been involved in electronic
design at the chip, circuit board, and system level, as well as network
architecture and marketing.
He is currently working on the architecture and implementation of advanced
broadband networks and platforms.
He is also a leader in the Advanced Telecom Compute Architecture (AdvancedTCA / PICMG3)
standards body.
Mr. Byers received his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He holds 20 US patents.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30 PM: Networking time (snacks, refreshments)
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
IEEE Computer Society/Chicago Chapter
IEEE Communication Society/Chicago Chapter and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
17 MARCH 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Wireless Streaming Media Technology"
Speaker: Daniel Esposito, Clarity Communication Systems, Inc.
Abstract:
As data communication extends into the wireless domain it is possible
to create and deploy mobility enabled end user applications.
Applications
can be characterized by their use of the communications channel which may
vary from light message traffic up to real-time streaming media such as
voice or video traffic.
This talk will focus on the technology required
to support real-time streaming media applications.
An application example,
Push-to-Talk over Cellular, will be used to illustrate the challenges.
Technological alternatives and solutions for these challenges will be
discussed.
About the Speaker:
Dan Esposito is a system engineer at Clarity Communication Systems, Inc.
in Aurora, IL, where he works on the product definition and evolution of
the inTouch(tm) Push-to-Connect over Cellular product.
He has 24 years of
experience in the telecommunications and wireless industries. Current areas
of interest include wireless data applications, VoIP, quality of service,
radio efficiency, and data traffic engineering.
Prior to joining Clarity,
Dan was employed at Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Innovations where
he was involved in the architecture and development of fault tolerant
processors, telephone switches, data switching equipment, and 3G wireless
packet data technology.
Dan has 3 patents and was an invited speaker
at the XVII World Telecommunications Congress.
He earned a B.S. degree in
Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a M.S.
degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology.
He has been a member of the I.E.E.E. for many
years, and is a past Vice Chairman of the Fox Valley Subsection.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
IEEE Communication Society and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
7 APRIL 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "From Grid to Pervasive Computing: Where is the breakthrough of next IT boom?"
Speaker: Professor Xian-He Sun, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
Abstract:
After the recent IT bubble, what is the trigger point of next IT boom?
In addition to making computing devices ever smaller and faster, what can the IT
industry offer to its users?
Technology advances tell us the so-called IT era is not yet over.
Scientists are cumulating knowledge and building the technical foundations
for the next IT boom.
New disciplines of computing are emerging.
In this talk, we introduce two new concepts of computing:
Grid Computing and Pervasive Computing.
Grid computing mimics the electrical power grid by bringing remote computing power
to the users.
Pervasive computing emphasizes anywhere, anytime services and `human-centered' view of computing.
It forms the `smart space' in which IT service is as naturally available as the air we breathe.
In additional to the general introductions, we also will discuss the current technical
issues and challenges of both grid and pervasive computing and their implication
in providing the next generation `must have' IT services.
About the Speaker:
Xian-He Sun is a professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT),
a guest faculty at the Argonne National Laboratory, and the director of the
Scalable Computing Software (SCS) laboratory at IIT.
Before joining IIT, he was a staff scientist at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center
and a professor at the Louisiana State University.
Dr. Sun has published over one hundred research articles in the field of computer science
and communication, has seven granted and pending US patents, and his research is well
supported by NSF and other US government agencies.
His research in mobility of legacy code is one of the first nine projects supported
by the National Science Foundation under the Middleware Initiative program.
His memory-bounded (the so-called Sun-Ni's law) and memory access delay performance model
are introduced in many modern textbooks as a must known in performance evaluation
of scalable computing systems.
Chicago Sun-Times called his recent work in cross-network service as turning
"POTS (plain Old Telephone service) into PANS (Pretty Amazing New Stuff),
moving (landline) phone into the internet loop".
Dr. Sun is a distinguished speaker of IEEE CS society.
He is an editor or guest editor of five international professional journals.
He has served and is serving as the chairman or a member of program committee for numerous
international conferences and workshops.
He received the ONR and ASEE Certificate of Recognition award in 1999,
the Best Paper Award at ICPP in 2001, and the Best Poster Award at the IEEE SC03 in 2003.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30 PM: Networking time (snacks, refreshments)
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE Computer Society/Chicago Chapter,
IEEE Communication Society/Chicago Chapter and
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
However, registering your intent to attend at
ieeechi@yahoo.com is very appreciated.
For More Information:
Visit IEEE Chicago Section website at:
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/,
or contact:
Yigang Cai,
Jack Sherman,
Jerry Kattke, or
Joe Weesner.
14 APRIL 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Internet Services for Wireline and Wireless Telephones"
Speaker: Vijay K. Gurbani, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs
Abstract:
By the year 2025 the entire world will be encased in a communications skin,
according to experts at Lucent Technologies' Bell Labs.
"We are already building the first layer of a mega network that will cover
the entire planet like a skin," declared Arun Netravali, then president
of Bell Labs in 1999.
"As communication continues to become faster, smaller, cheaper and smarter in
the next millennium, this skin, fed by a constant stream of information,
will grow larger and more useful."
The merging of the Internet and the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is
leading to a realization of that communication skin.
Here, we will focus on the communications aspect of computing, especially the
telecommunication facet.
The Internet has emerged as a new communication medium and it is increasingly
being applied to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
The services that are apparent when these two networks co-operate can result in
an immersive communication experience for the user.
This talk proposes and discusses the implementation of an architecture that leverages
both the PSTN (wireless and wireline) and the Internet to provide a pervasive
communication infrastructure.
Our approach as embodied in the architecture is to merge the best of the
Internet protocols (SIP, XML) and technologies (instant messaging, presence, location)
with the PSTN to provide a general framework for personalized pervasive communications.
About the Speaker:
Vijay K. Gurbani is a Distinguished Member of technical Staff in the Wireless Next
Generation Architecture and Evolution department of Lucent Technologies.
He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer science from Bradley University
in 1988 and 1990, respectively.
He is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at the Illinois Institute of Technology,
Chicago, Illinois.
He is currently involved in the specification, prototyping and implementation of services based on SIP.
His research interests are Internet telephony services, Internet telephony signaling protocols,
pervasive computing in the telecommunications domain, distributed systems programming
and programming languages.
He is a member of the ACM and IEEE Computer Society.
Vijay holds one patent and has four applications pending with the US Patent Office.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30 PM: Networking time (snacks, refreshments)
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE Computer Society/Chicago Chapter,
IEEE Communication Society/Chicago Chapter and
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection.
Reservations are not required, and there is no charge to attend.
However, registering your intent to attend at
ieeechi@yahoo.com is very appreciated.
For More Information:
Visit IEEE Chicago Section website at:
https://www.ewh.ieee.org/r4/chicago/,
or contact:
Yigang Cai,
Jack Sherman,
Jerry Kattke, or
Joe Weesner.
21 APRIL 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Dual/High Voltage Automotive Electrical Power Systems"
Speaker: Vahe Caliskan, Motorola
Abstract:
The demand for increased electrical power in future automobiles has resulted
in requirements that are beyond the capabilities of today's 14V electrical
system.
The increase in electrical power requirements are due to the
introduction of advanced engine and body controls and new electrically
controlled systems.
An electrical system with a higher distribution voltage
is required in order to support the enhanced functionality of future vehicles.
This talk will present an architecture for implementing a dual/high voltage
automotive electrical system consisting of a high-performance alternator with
switched-mode rectifier and a dc/dc converter.
The alternator employs a novel
control strategy that allows improved power output over a wide range of speeds.
The dc/dc converter allows high performance transient control and energy
management to be implemented.
About the Speaker:
Vahe Caliskan received the B.S. (with honors) and M.S. degrees from the University
of Illinois at Chicago and the Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
At the University of Illinois, he was a Research Assistant at the Power Electronics
Research Laboratory and a Teaching Assistant in the EECS Department where he received
the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he
was a Research Assistant in the Laboratory for Electromagnetic Electronic Systems where
he was involved in the development of dual-voltage automotive electrical power systems
under the sponsorship of the MIT/Industry 42V Consortium.
Presently, Vahe is a Senior Staff Engineer with Motorola's Automotive Communications
and Electronic Systems Group where his research interests include power electronics,
automotive electrical/electronic systems, analog circuit design and computer-aided
modeling/simulation.
Vahe is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours.
11 MAY 2004 (TUESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Student Seminar: "Voice over IP Lab at IIT Rice Campus"
Students at IIT's Rice campus have built a Voice over IP Lab.
The lab can be used to view SIP and other VoIP messages that enable telephone calls to be made over IP networks.
Currently the lab includes two separate Test Beds.
The first provides a SIP signaling interface to the PSTN enabled by Vonage.
The second is a VoIP LAN based on Cisco Voice over IP products.
The lab will be used to test conformance to specifications, interoperability,
quality of Service and Security issues and feature delivery.
The meeting will begin with a short overview of Voice over IP technologies.
Following this, the students will explain the architecture of each test bed
and describe the functions and features that they provide.
The students will demonstrate telephone calls and features on each network,
and will simultaneously show the audience the protocol trace of the call as it proceeds.
The meeting will conclude with examples of the type of conformance and
interoperability testing that can be performed with the lab in its current
state and a preview of the new capabilities that future VoIP classes will build into the lab.
Following the students' demonstration there will be time for questions
and discussion. Vendors, service providers and other businesses and
organizations are encouraged to propose projects and questions that IIT
students can help them resolve through the use of this lab.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6:30 PM: Social (Free coffee, tea and snacks)
7 PM: Presentation and Demonstration
Sponsorship
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IIT's Center for Professional Development,
IEEE Communications Society and
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection.
- Reservations are not required.
For Further Information, contact:
Carol Davids, IIT Rice Campus,
Yigang Cai, IEEE Communications Society, or
Joe Weesner, IEEE Fox Valley Subsection.
19 MAY 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:00PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Hybrid Propulsion System Technology of Current Production and Upcoming Vehicles"
Speaker: Theodore Bohn, Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract:
The quest for higher fuel economy and better emissions has led to vehicles
that combine internal combustion engines and electric drives.
The 2004 Toyota Prius was named Motor Trend Magazine's Car of the Year
indicating that hybrid vehicles are no longer coming soon, they have arrived.
Most people are familiar with currently available hybrids;
Toyota Prius, Honda Insight and Civic.
This presentation will review the technology and benefits of these powertrain topologies.
The next wave of hybrid vehicles will capitalize on lessons learned from previous
generations as well as meet the needs of today's American car buyer.
The two passenger Honda Insight EPA rated at 68mpg will be overshadowed by several
full size cars and SUV's in the 40mpg range.
The 235hp Honda Accord and 270hp Lexus RX400h (0-60mph in 8 seconds)
reminds us that 'horsepower sells'- giving V8 performance with 4 cylinder
fuel economy and emissions.
This talk will focus on the propulsion technology and review the hybrid
offerings of American and Japanese car makers.
About the Speaker:
Mr. Bohn is a power electronics engineer at Argonne National Lab,
in the Advanced Powertrain Research Facility, where he works on hybrid vehicle controller experiments.
Mr. Bohn divides his time between Argonne Lab and WEMEC lab at UW-Madison
where he teaches part time in addition to conducting research on soft magnetic
composite segmented stator electric machines.
He has 22 years of experience in electric machine and vehicle research.
His current areas of interest include student design competitions,
fuel cell power conditioning, solar cars racing, and renewable energy projects in general.
Before joining Argonne National Lab Mr. Bohn had worked for General Motors ATC,
PowerDesigners Inc, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Wisconsin, Madison and has been a member of the IEEE. for many years.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours.
23 JUNE 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6:30PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "Do Mobile Phone Handsets and Base Stations Cause Cancer?"
Speaker: John E. Moulder, Ph.D., Professor of Radiation Oncology, Radiology and Pharmacology/Toxicology,
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
Abstract:
There have been allegations in the media and in the courts that mobile phones are a
cause of cancer; and there have been numerous public objections to the siting of mobile
phone base antennas because of a fear of cancer.
This talk with critically examine the
issue of whether the radio-frequency (RF) radiation used for wireless communication
could cause cancer.
Biophysical considerations indicate that there is little prospect
of RF radiation having significant biological effects at the power levels used by mobile
phones and their base antennas.
The epidemiology provides little support for a causal
association between cancer and RF radiation.
Extensive laboratory studies provide no
consistent evidence that exposure to RF radiation at non-thermal intensities causes or
promotes cancer.
A weight-of-evidence evaluation shows that the evidence for a causal
association between cancer and exposure to RF radiation from mobile telecommunications is
weak to non-existent.
I conclude that there is little scientific basis for claims of a
causal connection between cancer and RF radiation emissions from mobile phones or their
base stations.
About the Speaker:
John Moulder received his undergraduate degree from Carleton College in 1967 with a dual
major in Chemistry and Biology, and his Ph.D. in Biology from Yale University in 1972.
His primary research interest is the biological basis for carcinogenesis and cancer therapy.
He has published extensively in this area (including articles in Spanish, French, Italian,
Chinese and Japanese); and his research has been supported by the National Institutes of
Health and the American Cancer Society.
He has lectured on ionizing and nonionizing radiation biology and human health to biologists,
physicists, physicians, policy makers and industry groups around the world.
He has also
served as a consultant and expert witness in several cases involving the alleged health
effects of exposure to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation; and he maintains the Electromagnetic
Fields and Human Health site on the Internet
<www.mcw.edu/gcrc/cop.html>
Dr. Moulder is a member of the National Council on Radiation Protection, the Radiation Research Society,
the Environmental Mutagen Society, the Bioelectromagnetics Society, and the IEEE.
He is Senior
Editor of Radiation Research and an Associate Editor of Experimental Biology and Medicine.
He has also served on a number of state and local advisory groups concerned with environmental health,
pesticides, and non-ionizing electromagnetic fields.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
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IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection,
IEEE Communication Society/Chicago Chapter and
Chicago Chapter of Engineering in Medicine and Biology.
- Reservations are not required.
Professional Engineers: this meeting qualifies for Professional Development Hours.
27 OCTOBER 2004 (WEDNESDAY), 6PM - 9PM at IIT Rice Campus
Title: "From Sandbox to Playground: Virtual Environments and Quality of Service in the Grids"
Speaker: Dr. Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract:
Grid computing, defined as flexible, secure, coordinated resource
sharing within virtual organizations (VOs), is becoming increasingly more
widespread.
This mode of computing seeks to create a model in which VOs
authorize the sharing of software and hardware resources in well-defined
ways (for example by determining the quality of service (QoS) with which
a service will be delivered) and according to potentially dynamic
policies.
To fulfill its promise such a model requires abstractions and
protocols expressing the negotiation for the QoS associated with a
service as well as support for the creation and management of
environments satisfying the clients as well as the providers protection
and enforcement needs.
In this talk, I will first describe an agreement-based model of resource
management in the Grid as outlined by the WS-Agreement specification of
the Global Grid Forum.
I will then describe how it can be applied to the
creation and management of dynamic virtual environments in the Grid, and
finally how such environments can be combined to form virtual
playgrounds.
I will discuss the issues and challenges related to
implementing those abstractions in the Globus Toolkit 3 and show a
quantitative and qualitative comparison across different currently
existing technologies that can be used to implement such abstractions:
Unix accounts, sandboxes and virtual machines.
The talk will conclude
with a discussion of how the use of these new protocols and technologies
can influence the development of computational Grids.
About the Speaker:
Kate Keahey is an Assistant Computer Scientist in the Distributed Systems Laboratory
in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory.
She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University where she was
working on extensions to the CORBA system, adapting this infrastructure to work
with parallel applications.
After graduating, Dr Keahey worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory on
component architectures for high-performance applications.
At that time, she became a founding member of the Common Component
Architecture (CCA) Forum seeking to define a standard for high-performance
component frameworks.
After moving to Argonne National Laboratory in 2001, her work focused on issues
related to Grid computing, in particular enforcement, resource management,
and quality of service in the Grids.
She is an active member of the Global Grid Forum, chairing the Grid Economic
Services Architecture working group, and actively participating in the work
of other working groups, primarily in the area of resource management.
Time: (see top of this page for directions to IIT Rice Campus)
6 PM: Networking time
7 PM: Presentation
Sponsorship
-----------
IEEE's Fox Valley Subsection and
Illinois Institute of Technology's Center
for Professional Development (Rice Campus).
- Reservations are not required.
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