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IEEE Ottawa News
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72nd Annual IEEE Ottawa Section AGM 2016
The 2016 IEEE Ottawa Section executives and officers cordially invites you to your IEEE Ottawa Section Annual General Meeting and Banquet to engage in your Section’s business, with a brilliant speaker, and other members and guests over a sit-down dinner.
Our theme this year is "The Outlook for Research and Innovation in Canada" with an excellent keynote speaker Dr. Roseann Runte, President and Vice-Chancellor, Carleton University.
Business covered at the meeting will include the executive report, election of new officers, and awards presentation. Our AGM Gala and Banquet dinner will follow and will include aerial entertainment.
A three course dinner will be served.
Date & Time: 5:30PM on Friday, October 14, 2016 (5:30PM Reception & Networking, 6:00 AGM, 6:30PM Banquet)
Location: Shaw Centre, Trillium Ballroom (formerly Ottawa Convention Centre)
Address: 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON (Webpage: http://www.shaw-centre.com/)
Parking: Vouchers will be provided at registration desk (http://www.shaw-centre.com/attendee/location/)
Dress: Business Casual
Registration:
Click here to register.
Organizer:
Anissa Shaddy
For more information, please visit: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/2016/08/72nd-annual-ieee-ottawa-section-agm-2016/
Sincerely,
Janet Davis
Chair, IEEE Ottawa Section
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IEEE Ottawa Section Annual General Meeting (AGM)
Call for Slate Nominations
Dear IEEE Ottawa Section Member,
This is an official announcement that the IEEE Ottawa Section AGM will be held on Friday, October 14, 2016, in Ottawa, and that the call for nominations is open to the IEEE Ottawa Section membership.
The IEEE Ottawa Section Nominations and Appointments Committee proposes the following nominees, whom have agreed to serve if elected, as the 2017 IEEE Ottawa Section Executive Slate:
Ms. Anissa Shaddy, Chair
Mr. Alfredo Herrera, Vice-Chair
Mr. Abdulhak Nagy, Secretary
Vacant, Treasurer
The AGM's program and location details will follow under separate cover. That information will also be posted on the section website at: www.ieeeottawa.ca.
Sincerely,
Rami Abielmona, Ph.D., P.Eng., SMIEEE (rabielmo@ieee.org)
Chair, IEEE Ottawa Section Nominations and Appointments
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Kanata Tech Hub IEEE Lunch and Learn
Starting this fall, in partnership with March Networks, the IEEE Ottawa Section is launching a Lunch and Learn initiative bringing technical talks directly to the Kanata Tech Hub.
This initiative has come out of an effort to better cater to Ottawa’s Tech Sector, making technical talks more accessible to its private sector members.
Speakers shall originate from academia, government, industry, and even include distinguished lecturers.
In addition IEEE representatives shall be on site to answer any questions existing members may have and to sign up new members on the spot!
Stay tuned for more details and we look forward to seeing you in Kanata!
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Recent Advances in SDN, Virtualization, and Caching for 5G and Beyond
The IEEE Ottawa Joint Chapter of Signal Processing, Oceanic Engineering, and Geoscience and Remote Sensing (SP/OE/GRS) and IEEE Ottawa Section (OS) are cordially inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers, technologists, and students to the
Title: Recent Advances in SDN, Virtualization, and Caching for 5G and Beyond
Chengchao Liang, Ph. D Student, Carleton University
DATE: Friday, October 7, 2016
TIME: 11:30AM–1:30PM
PLACE: Room 5084, SITE Building/University of Ottawa, 800 King Edward Avenue, Ottawa, K1N 6N5
Admission: Free registration by E-mail contacting:
Dr. Richard Yu (richard.yu@carleton.ca)
Dr. Yifeng Zhou (yifeng.zhou@canada.ca)
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2016 Ottawa Photonics Student Paper Awards
The IEEE Photonics Society Ottawa Chapter, a proud technical sponsor of Photonics North conference (Quebec City, May 24 - 16, 2016), is pleased to support the Ottawa region photonics student research programs and the Photonics North 2016 Conference by offering its 2016 student paper awards in conjunction with Photonics North 2016.
Learn More...
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Call for Volunteers: the IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), happening October 12 to 14 at the Shaw Centre, needs enthusiastic, dedicated volunteers like you. Conference details here:
https://www.epec2016.ieee.ca
It's a small conference, about 150 delegates, with 5 session rooms + exhibits. There's an evening reception on the Wednesday and a gala dinner up in the Trillium on Thursday.
Use this link to sign up and enter your preferences: https://goo.gl/forms/qmeLsb2SCxiLNzbJ3
This time the roles are almost entirely registration and session monitoring.
If you have friends or family who might be interested, please direct them to the above link.
These IEEE conferences depend on the dedication of our volunteers to succeed.
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horizons@EPEC
Have you heard of SPAC? Have you heard of EPEC? *horizons@EPEC* is a special SPAC-like event that's being held *October 14* in conjunction with the IEEE Electrical Power and Energy Conference 2016 (https://www.epec2016.ieee.ca/) in Ottawa.
Everyone is invited to join us at the Shaw Centre (https://www.epec2016.ieee.ca/venue/) for an afternoon speaker series and networking event, with the theme of **Innovation, Diversity, Sustainability, and Career Preparation**.
We will be starting with some opening remarks, then a lively panel discussion followed by a wine and cheese networking event. For students and new grads, don't forget to bring your résumés because that might just help you land your next job!
Our speaker panel will include *Karen Bartleson*, IEEE President-Elect 2016 (a.k.a. IEEE President 2017), *Chris Janzen*, Dean of Faculty of Technology and Trades of Algonquin College, *Simon Herriotts*, Senior Technical Leader at Cisco, and a few more great speakers.
This event is organized by IEEE volunteers in Ottawa for members of the Student Branches, Young Professionals, Women in Engineering, Humanitarian Initiatives, and IEEE Ottawa Section as a whole. Although this is our target audience, *everyone is invited, so ask a friend to register with you!*
*We look forward to seeing you are our event.* If you have any questions, don't
hesitate to ask!
Our event can be found on Facebook here (this is where we're going to post announcements about the event):
https://www.facebook.com/events/1698458390476984/
Tickets are $15 and include a drink ticket. They can be purchased from here:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/horizonsepec-tickets-8065679665
If you don't have a credit card to make the payment, you should convince a friend that does to go with you, or you can email jeffrey.arcand@ieee.org and we will reserve a ticket for you and you can pay at the door.
P.S. If you're an employer that would like a booth at the event, please contact us for arrangements.
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IHTC workshop on Community Driven Rural Electrification, co-located event at EPEC2016
This half-day workshop seeks to:
- Showcase the rural electrification programs from IEEE’s Smart Village and Light-Up (The World) Costa Rica.
- Facilitate multifaceted interaction between participants and speakers representing rural and engineering communities
- Answer the following questions: What perspectives does the Solar Industry have on rural electrification in developing communities?
- How can tech-savvy volunteers be inspired, enabled and connected with development projects in Latin America?
- What are the social dynamics, governance models and global transformations in rural settings for technology-based development projects?
- Discuss avenues available to achieve sustainable development of rural electrification through interactive round table discussions (World Café format1)
More details at: www.epec2016.ieee.ca/ihtc/
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IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
The IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering will take place in Ottawa (Delta hotel) on Oct. 23-27. The symposium covers all areas of software reliability engineering with a blend of academic and industry presentations, 11 tutorials and 5 workshops, plus keynote speakers from JPL, Carnegie Mellon and ClearSy. Please visit http://www.issre.net for more information and registration details.
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Nonlinear Optics Lecture Series
Speaker:
Bob Boyd, the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer, M. Parker Givens Professor of Optics and Professor of Physics, the University of Rochester and Professor of
Physics and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Quantum Nonlinear Optics at the University of Ottawa.
Date: Wednesday, October 12th
Structured Materials and Structured Light for Quantum Photonics
Date: Wednesday, November 9th
Fundamentals and Applications of the Orbital Angular Momentum of Light
Time: 3:30pm - 4:00 pm Registration, Networking and Refreshment;
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Seminar
Location: University of Ottawa, Building / Room TBD
Registration: hugo.begin@uottawa.ca
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Call for Papers: IJCNN 2017
The 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017) will be held in Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 14–19, 2017.
The conference is organized jointly by the International Neural Network Society and the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, and is the premiere international meeting for researchers and other professionals in neural networks and related areas. It will feature invited plenary talks by world-renowned speakers in the areas of neural network theory and applications, computational neuroscience, robotics, and distributed intelligence.
In addition to regular technical sessions with oral and poster presentations, the conference program will include special sessions, competitions, tutorials and workshops on topics of current interest.
Important Dates
Special session proposals: September 15, 2016
Competition proposals: September 15, 2016
Panel proposals: September 15, 2016
Workshop & tutorial proposals: October 15, 2016
Paper submission: November 15, 2016
Decision notification: January 20, 2017
Camera ready paper due: February 20, 2017
For more information please visit http://www.ijcnn.org/
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Next Generation Photovoltaics
Dr. Karin Hinzer,
Professor, Canada Research Chair Canada, SUNLAB, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa
DATE: Tuesday September 20, 2016
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:00 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., School of Advanced Technology, T-Building,
Ciena-Optophotonics Lab (Room T129)
PARKING: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting:
Raed Abdullah RaedAbdullah@ieee.org or
Wahab Almuhtadi almuhtadi@ieee.org.
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IEEE Research Boost 2016: "Give your research an industrial edge"
Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 5:30 PM – 9:00 PM
1455 Boul. de Maisonneuve O., H.767- Hall Building, Concordia University, Montreal
https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/40164
Call for Abstract
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Call for Nominations for the IEEE Ottawa Section Annual Awards 2016
IEEE Ottawa Section presents every year at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) the Year IEEE Ottawa Section Awards as recognition for its members, volunteers, chapters, affinity groups and student branches as well as recognition and appreciation for the industry and organizations. Please take this opportunity to accomplish something good and of great value to our profession and engineering community by submitting your nominations to a colleague, group, company or organization for recognition by an award from our section. The deadline for submitting nominations for the following Awards is October September 25th, 2016:
- Recognition Industry and Organizations:
- Outstanding Technology Company Recognition Award
- Appreciation Award
- Recognition Individuals:
- Outstanding Engineer Award
- Outstanding Service Award
- Outstanding Educator Award
- Outstanding Volunteer Award
The nomination forms can be submitted to: Dr. Wahab Almuhtadi, P.Eng., SMIEEE, Chair, Awards and Recognitions Committee almuhtadi@ieee.org.
For more information about IEEE Ottawa Section Awards, please visit: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/about/awards-2/.
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The 2016 IEEE Electrical Power & Energy Conference (EPEC)
Theme: “Smart Grid and Beyond: Future of the Integrated Power System”
Location: Shaw Centre, Ottawa, Canada
Date: October 12th to 14th, 2016.
For more details: http://www.epec2016.ieee.ca/
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2016 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications
December 6-9, Athens, Greece
Website: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ci/cisda2016/
Organized under Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2016)
http://ssci2016.cs.surrey.ac.uk/
Paper submission deadline: July 18, 2016
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Learn more about printable, flexible electronics through CPEIA white papers
As part of our valued partnership with the IEEE, the CPEIA is sharing these five white papers with IEEE members to raise awareness of printable and flexible electronics a variety of market verticals.
Community outreach and education is a core component of the CPEIA mandate, and an area with great potential for collaboration between the CPEIA and IEEE.
The papers are:
- Printable Electronics – Canada’s Opportunity
- Printable and Flexible Electronics Enabled Intelligent Buildings: New Functions, Improved Performance and Optimized Control
- Printable and Flexible Electronics Applications in the Connected Home
- Driving New Levels of Consumer Engagement through Intelligent Packaging
- The Future is Smart: The Internet of Things
To learn more and see how you can get access, Read Here...
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IEEE Senior Member Program Page:
http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/senior/index.html
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