Date/Time: Tuesday, May 8, 2012 / 1:00pm – 3:00pm.

Location: Room CBY D207, Colonel By Hall, University of Ottawa.

Registration: Free, please send e-mail to qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca to ensure a seat.

Organizer: Dr. Kexing Liu and Dr. Qingsheng Zeng

Organized by: IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter, and IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT Joint Chapter

Url: http://ottawa.ieee.ca/leos

Abstract:

Polarization is a paradoxical parameter in optical fiber, as it provides flexibilities in various applications, such as advanced modulation formats in optical fiber communication systems, polarization-assisted fiber sensor applications, sensitivity-enhanced biomedical applications, etc. On the other hand, polarization is difficult to control and even associated with signal degradations due to random and dynamic polarization evolutions along the fiber. Currently polarization-related impairments are among major hurdles for high performance fiber systems.

Tremendous efforts to effectively and efficiently manipulate polarization have been spent within the research and industry community. Starting from basic introduction about polarization, the lecture reviews different perspectives of polarization in fiber optics, including the polarization division multiplexing, polarization-related degrading effects and their mitigations, polarization based fiber sensor and biomedical applications, as well as polarization in nonlinear signal processing schemes. Practical issues will be highlighted.

Biography:

Lianshan Yan (S’99–M’05–SM’06) received B.E. and Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, 1994) and the University of Southern California (USC, Los Angeles, 2005), respectively. He has worked on solid state laser in North China Research Institute of Optoelectronics from 1994 to 1999. He has been with General Photonics Corp. as the chief scientist and manager of Engineering (2005–2007). He is currently a full professor and the director of Center for Information Photonics & Communications (CIPC) at Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, Sichuan, China.

Prof. Yan is the author and coauthor of more than 200 papers published in prestigious journals and conference proceedings, including four invited journal papers and more than ten invited talks. He also co-authored two book chapters. He serves as a frequent referee for about twenty journals and holds ten issued U.S. patents.

Prof. Yan is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of the Optical Society of America. He is one of the recipients of LEOS Graduate Fellowship in 2002, and the co-chair or TPC member of more than ten international conferences. He is an associate editor of IEEE Photonics Journal.

Date/Time: Tues May 29th 2012 ; Registration, Refreshments and Networking: 06:30 p.m.; Talk: 07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m. Time for networking after the event.

Location: T335 in T-building, School of Advanced Technology Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8

Parking: No fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.

Registration: Free. Pre-Registration requested. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail by contacting: bjoshi@ieee.org ; Please use “IEEE AICN May29 Event” as Subject Line

Organizer: Bhagvat Joshi

Organized by: IEEE Ottawa AICN (Alliance of IEEE Consultants’ Networks), IEEE Ottawa EIT ( Engineers in Transition ) Committee

url: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/aicn/events/upcoming-events/leggat/

Abstract:

Dr. John Leggat is a consultant and Senior Advisor at CFN Consultants in Ottawa. Seven years ago he retired from the Public Service of Canada and joined CFN to help the partnership with the science and technology dimensions of the practice. His presentation will describe the challenges associated with a transition from the public to the private sector and the dimensions of providing consulting services to companies that are interested in winning government contracts. He will talk about what has and what has not contributed to success the key steps in making the transition to consulting and briefly discuss what the future might hold for defence contracting in future years

Date/Time: Wed May 2nd 2012 ; Registration, Refreshments and Networking: 06:30 p.m.; Talk: 07:00 p.m. – 08:00 p.m. Time for networking after the event.

Location: Room P215 P-Building, Algonquin College,
1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2G 1V8

Parking: No fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.

Registration: Free. Pre-Registration requested. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: bjoshi@ieee.org or h.reekie@ieee.org. Please use “IEEE AICN May2 event” as Subject Line

Organizer: Bhagvat Joshi, Hugh Reekie

Organized by: IEEE Ottawa Alliance of IEEE Consultants’ Networks (AICN) and IEEE Ottawa Vehicular Technology Society

Contact: Bhagvat Joshi – Chair AICN, Hugh Reekie – Chair VTS

url: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/aicn/events/upcoming-events/rayal/

Abstract

We all hear of the latest and greatest smartphones and networks – 2G/3G/4G/LTE and beyond, but are you curious to know how they evolved and what may be the next new interface? Frank Rayal of BLiNQ Networks/TSI will present the evolution story in this interactive presentation.

Frank brings over 18 years of experience in the wireless industry where he held leadership positions with vendors to pioneer radio access and backhaul solutions as well as to provide design services to network operators. In his current role as VP, Product Management at BLiNQ, Frank is responsible for defining scalable wireless backhaul solutions for small cell base stations. He’s also principal at TSI, a management consulting firm focused on broadband wireless networks and applications. Frank held product management positions at Redline, Metawave and Ericsson. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, and a MASc in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Toronto, Canada.

Date/Time: 13 April 2012 / 12:00 pm ? 2:00 pm. Seminar: 12:00 pm ? 1:00 pm; Discussion, Refreshments, Networking and Activity of AP/MTT Joint Chapter: 1:00 pm ? 2:00 pm.

Location: Carleton University, Department of Electronics (DoE), Mackenzie Engineering Building, Room ME 4124, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Admission: Free

Registration: Required

Refreshments: Served

Organizer: The IEEE Ottawa AP/MTT Joint Chapter, EMC Chapter, EDS/CAS/SSCS Joint Chapter, CPMT Chapter, Computer Society (CompSoc), ComSoc/BTS/CES Joint Chapter, EMBS Chapter, IEEE Ottawa Section (OS), and Department of Electronics at Carleton University (DoE Carleton).

Organizer e-mail:
Qingsheng Zeng (qingsheng.zeng@crc.gc.ca), or
Syed Bokhari (Syed.Bokhari@ieee.org), or
Ram Achar (achar@doe.carleton.ca), or
Qi-Jun Zhang qjz@doe.carleton.ca or
Rami Abielmona (rabielmo@ieee.org), or
Eric Karmouch (ekarmouch@ieee.org), or
Wahab Almuhtadi (almuhtadi@ieee.org), or
Sreeraman Rajan (sreeraman@ieee.org)

Abstract:
While transmitting and receiving properties of antennas are fully formulated and well understood, scattering issues remain more mysterious, even if they have been extensively exploited for a while in the antenna engineer practice for shaping radiation patterns, adjusting input impedances, or for characterization purposes. This presentation is more specifically focused on modulated scattering-based systems, which have been successfully developed during the last decades. Operating an antenna in a scattering mode allows avoiding any RF front-end, resulting in very simple and compact passive or battery-assisted transponders. These advantages are now widely exploited in low-cost RFID tags, as well as in low-invasive MST (Modulated Scatterer Technique) probes for EM-field.

This presentation consists of two major parts. The first one consists of a short tutorial review of the minimum engineering background required for a comprehensive approach to modulated scattering systems. Small antennas will be more particularly considered because low-invasiveness and high spatial resolution constitute significant advantages in many sensing applications. The power budget, a key issue for such systems, is derived from a very simple reciprocity-based formulation. The advantage of this analytical formulation is to apply, whatever the distance, for arbitrarily complex scenarios. In addition, the influence of various parameters can be clearly identified, paving the way for optimizing the antenna design in terms of global system performance. Examples of both active and passive scatterers illustrate the efficiency of this approach.

The second part is more speculative and aims to identify transfer opportunities between RFID?s and MST technologies for sensing applications. As compared to existing MST probes, passive RFID tags offer, at a glance, the indisputable advantage of being modulated from their own, without any wire or fiber. However, they may suffer autonomy/life time limitations and are constrained by standard regulations in terms of frequency range and power level. Furthermore, they exhibit specific technical difficulties, such as non-linearity of the IC chips loading the antenna. Various solutions to these drawbacks are addressed. Focusing on the case of systems involving arrays of modulated scatterers for its growing relevance in rapid imaging and wireless sensing (e.g. antenna measurement, industrial testing, medical diagnostic?), it is explained how the architecture of MST systems has conceptually changed during the last decades, primarily to face the critical sensitivity issue. Extrapolating such an evolution suggests promising solutions based on either RFID-derived or breakthrough technologies. To conclude, it is remembered that, while microwaves suffer no competition in the field of communications, they are loosing this comfortable privilege for Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) applications where they must compete with many other efficient and already well-established modalities. In this competition, new modulated scattering technologies are reasonably expected contributing to valorize the specific advantages already recognized to RF- and microwave-based sensing modalities.

Speakers Bio:
Jean-Charles Bolomey graduated from the Ecole Supérieure d?Electricité (Supelec), France, in 1963, and received the Ph.D. degree on a hybrid numerical-experimental approach to scattering in resonance domain from Paris-Sud University, France, in 1971.

He is currently an Emeritus Professor at Paris-Sud University. Since 1981, his research, conducted in the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, has been devoted to Near-Field techniques in a broad sense, including antenna measurement, EMC testing, as well as Industrial-Scientific-Medical (ISM) applications. His contributions have mostly concerned measurement techniques. He has more particularly promoted the modulated probe array technology and has coauthored with Prof. F. Gardiol a reference book on principles and applications of the Modulated Scattering Technique (MST). He is holder of several patents covering various MST probe array arrangements for microwave sensing and imaging systems. In 1986, he founded the company SATIMO. He has been also involved in industrial applications of microwave heating, as a Chairman of the Microwave Group of Electricité de France (EDF), and was appointed as a Consultant by the Délégation Générale de l?Armement (DGA) in the field of High Power Microwave (HPM) metrology. He has actively contributed to several cooperative European programs ranging from medical hyperthermia to industrial process tomography and has contributed to various prototype transfer and evaluation procedures in these areas. He has obtained the 2006 H.A. Wheeler Best Application Prize Paper Award of the IEEE AP-Society for his coauthored paper on ?Spherical Near-Field Facility for Characterizing Random Emissions. Recently, his research was related to RF dosimetry and rapid SAR measurements for wireless communication devices. He is now continuing his research on load-modulated scattering antennas, and, more particularly, novel sensing applications of RFID-based technology. He is also contributing as a member of several Scientific Advisory Boards of European Institutions and startup companies. He has been appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (2011?2013).

Prof. Bolomey is Fellow of the IEEE (2008). He has received several awards, including the Blondel Medal of the Société des Electriciens et des Electroniciens (1976), the Général Ferrié Award of the French Academy of Sciences (1984), the Schlumberger Stitching Fund Award for his contribution to inverse scattering techniques in microwave imagery (1994), the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Antenna Measurement Technique Association (AMTA) for his pioneering activity in the field of modulated probe arrays (1991), the Medal of the French URSI Chapter (2004) and has been elected as Edmond S. Gillespie Fellow for AMTA (2007).

Date/Time: April 13, 2012/2:00 pm – 03:00 pm

Location: 4359 ME (Mackenzie Engineering Building), Carleton University,
1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, Canada K1S 5B6

Registration: Free. Registration is preferred by E-mail

Organizer: Yifeng Zhou; Jun Li; Rami Abielmona; Sreeraman Rajan; David Coll

Organizer e-mail: Yifeng Zhou (yifeng.zhou@crc.gc.ca), or Rami Abielmona
(rabielmo@ieee.org), or Sreeraman Rajan (sreeraman@ieee.org), or David Coll
(dccoll@ieee.org), or Jun Li (jun-li@ieee.org)

Organized by: The IEEE Ottawa SP/OC/GRS Joint Chapter; the IEEE Ottawa
Computer Society Chapter; the IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter; the IEEE Ottawa Life
Members Affinity

Url: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/grsoesp/chen_april132012.htm

Abstract: Advances in wireless communication technologies, such as wearable and
implantable biosensors, along with recent developments in the embedded computing area are enabling
the design, development, and implementation of body area networks (BANs). This class of networks is
paving the way for the deployment of innovative healthcare monitoring applications with lower cost
and higher quality healthcare services, and more safety for patients. These benefits and
impacts on the facilities of human society have fuelled increasing public interests and have attracted
large support and investment from government, industrial and academic researchers. This talk is to
introduce some recent advances as well as technical challenges in the research of BANs deployed with
wireless communications technologies for interactive and intelligent healthcare monitoring
applications.

Abstract:

Dr. John Leggat is a consultant and Senior Advisor at CFN Consultants in Ottawa. Seven years ago he retired from the Public Service of Canada and joined CFN to help the partnership with the science and technology dimensions of the practice.

More details to follow

Abstract: Ian Glenn will provide an overview of Canada’s ScanEagle experience – where ING delivered 30,000 hours of UAV ISR support directly to Canadian troops on the ground – flying more during this deployment than all other UAV programs in Canada combined, as well as the company’s current deployment with the Royal Canadian Navy. Based on this success in combat operations ING’s team is now involved in delivering UAV services for various roles to the civil sector.

Semiconductor technologies exhibited explosive growth in complexity and speed over the last two decades. Since the early 1980s, the device sizes have scaled down from few micrometers to tens of Nano-meters and the operating frequencies have increased from a few megahertz to several gigahertz. Also, the spacing between devices and interconnect have dramatically decreased due to the continuous scaling down of the technology feature size. These trends have led to issues and challenges in the design and analysis of high performance integrated circuits that previous generations did not exhibit. Most of these issues are at the circuit and interconnect (physical) levels. Also, these issues are expected only to increase in importance in future generations of integrated circuits. This talk will overview the most important challenges for electronics design in the nano-scale.

On behalf of the IEEE, the IEEE R7 and the IEEE Ottawa Section, I wish
you all a Happy and prosperous New Year.

The past year has been extremely productive. The Section did very well by
meeting the goals set out for 2011. We met our goals for promoting senior
members and had the highest number of senior member elevations in R7. We
had 3 out of 9 Fellow elevations from the Section. We managed our
finances prudently and supported our student activities. Our student
branches and clubs did extremely well, got several commendable
recognition. Some of our chapters got recognition world wide and our
Section was recognized as the Best Large Section in IEEE. Our members
were recognized through awards and nominations to positions outside of
the Section and also the Region. We hope to have a repeat performance
this year.

This year, with your support, the Section has set the following vision:
Connect, Communicate and Collaborate. The Section plans to Connect with
every member to increase its VISIBILITY; Communicate through various
means including programs for public and IEEE members to bring IMPACT;
Collaborate with industries, academia, school and the city to bring
GROWTH in economy and membership.

This vision of the section is aligned with the vision of the incoming
director, Dr. Keith Brown: “Visibility + impact = Growth”

The Section plans to achieve the vision in the following manner through
its programs:

Connect with People: Advancing Technology for Humanity through
Humanitarian Activities; Connect with Schools, School board and
Universities through Teachers-in-Service Program, Ottawa Robotics
Competition (partnership with other related Robotics competitions). Use
STEP-UP initiative to educate school students to embrace technology
streams at Universities and Colleges

Connect with Industries: Developing a closer relationship with OCRI;
Working closely with Government Research Labs; Improving ties with PEO
and EIC; Engaging industries in Technical Conferences; Helping in
Recruitment Events. In order to achieve all this, the Section may develop
relationships through memoranda of understanding, if possible.

Connect with City: Continue to foster closer ties with OCC, Ottawa
Tourism and grow our relationship with Science and Tech Museum

Communicate Through Programs With public, using Humanitarian Initiatives
use technology to solve world problems, deliver implementable and
sustainable solutions through creation of Open source research/licensing .

Communicate Through Programs with educators: by making their lives easy
by providing useful web tools; aid in sustaining student-research-money
cycle through scholarships, student-exchange programs with sister
sections; help connecting with peers through technical activities

Communicate Through Programs with Industry by providing relevant
Technical conferences (such as ICC 2012) with forums, support Tech
Exhibitions/Expo; Help elevating accomplished members as seniors and
fellows; help employees to be relevant and current with the technology
through seminars.

Communicate Through Programs with Members by delivering quality programs
that are meaningful; providing networking opportunities; providing
Help/Benefits whenever and wherever needed

Communicate Through Programs with Students by exposing them to
advancements in science and technology; providing hands on experience,
One-One networking, Recruitment and placement

Communicate Through Programs with City by providing economic benefits
through conferences, symposia and workshops

Collaborate for success With Academia, Industry, Government Labs, and the
City: Section will connect with them and discuss their needs

To accomplish our vision, we need to:

  Increase Membership
  Increase Visibility
  Increase Engagement
  Increase Outreach

and last but not the least, we need more volunteers. Please consider
joining the existing team of volunteers and gaining leadership roles as
part of your professional development. I am looking forward to working
with you to have another successful year.

Sreeraman Rajan