Events

Dec
7
Thu
Seminar: Solar Energy and the Northern Weather Cycle @ Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129, T-Building, School of Advanced Technology, Algonquin College
Dec 7 @ 18:30 – 20:00

Speaker: Doug Houseman, Project Manager, Burns & McDonnell, USA

Agenda:

  • Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 6:30 p.m.
  • Seminar: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Place:
Ciena Optophotonics Lab, Room T129, T-Building, School of Advanced
Technology, Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa, ON Canada 
K2G 1V8.

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

Admission: Free. Registration required.
Please register by e-mail contacting: branislav@ieee.org and/or raedabdullah@ieee.org

Jan
25
Thu
Seminar: The Transformative power of Blockchain @ RA Centre, Courtside A
Jan 25 @ 18:00 – 21:30

This is a joint event with the IET Ottawa and open to all at no charge.

Frank Rayal will introduce you to the context and the tools to assess the opportunity and threat of blockchains to your business and career. As a platform for decentralized economy, the transformative power of blockchains impacts every industry sector. Despite the hype surrounding blockchains which created a perception of extremes, blockchains is here to stay.

The lecture will cover the following topics around blockchains:
• The market: Overview of the industry and the Top 10 blockchain market trends to watch
• The technology: Under the cover look at what enables the technology
• Case studies: Implementation and results from blockchain projects

Speaker: Frank Rayal – Founder Partner , Xona Partners

Program

18:00 – 19:15 Networking and dinner in the Fieldhouse Restaurant
19:15 – 19:30 Move to Courtyard Room for lecture
19:30 – 20:30 Lecture 20:30 – 21:00 Q&A

Please register using the link below
https://localevents.theiet.org/ce52f7

or email Bhagvat Joshi, SMIEEE, MIET Chair AICN at bjoshi@ieee.org

About the Speaker

Frank Rayal is founding partner at Xona Partners, a boutique management and technology advisory firm. His focus is on enabling companies leverage new technologies and market trends to develop new revenues. For over two decades, Frank worked to bridge the divide between technologies and markets by leading new product introductions through the entire life-cycle from concept to roll-out. Frank co-founded wireless pioneer BLiNQ Networks. He held senior product management, marketing and business development positions at Ericsson, Redline, and Metawave. He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and an MASc in electrical engineering and an MBA from the University of Toronto, Canada. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of Professional Engineers Ontario.

Feb
9
Fri
Lecture: Integrated Quantum Frequency Combs @ University of Ottawa, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), ARC538, Advanced Research Complex
Feb 9 @ 14:00 – 17:00

The IEEE Ottawa Photonics Society (PS) Chapterand Antennas and Propagation Society and Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (AP/MTT) Joint Chapter, IEEE Ottawa Section (OS), and School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at University of Ottawa are inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers, technologists, and students to the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecture.

Hospitality: Refreshments will be served.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required. To ensure a seat, please contact Dr. Jianping Yao (jpyao@uottawa.ca) or Dr. Qingsheng Zeng (qzeng@eecs.uottawa.ca)

IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecture

By Dr. Roberto Morandotti
Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Centre
Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications (INRS-EMT)
Université du Quebec

Abstracts

The generation of optical quantum states on an integrated platform will enable low-cost and accessible advances for quantum technologies such as secure communications and quantum computation. We demonstrate that integrated quantum frequency combs (based on high-Q microring resonators made from a CMOS-compatible, high refractive-index glass platform) can enable, among others, the generation of pure heralded single photons, cross-polarized photon pairs, as well as bi- and multi-photon entangled qubit and quDit states over a broad frequency comb covering the S, C, L telecommunications band, constituting an important cornerstone for future practical implementations of photonic  quantum information processing.

Biography

Roberto Morandotti received a M.Sc. in Physics from the University of Genova (Italy) in 1993, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow (Scotland) in 1999. From 1999 to 2001, he was with the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, and from 2002 to 2003, he was with the University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, where he worked on the characterization of novel optical structures. In June 2003, he joined the Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique-Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications (INRS-EMT), Université du Quebec, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he has been a Full Professor since 2008.

He is the author and coauthor of more than 750 papers in international scientific journals (>200, including over 50 contributions to Physical Review Letters, Nature, Science, Nature Photonics, Science Advances, Nature Communication and Physics Report) and conferences. His research interests deal with the linear and nonlinear properties of various structures for integrated optics, nonlinear and quantum optics as well as with nonlinear optics at unusual wavelengths (e.g., THz). Dr. Morandotti is currently serving and/or has served as a Technical Committee Member and a Chair for several Optical Society of America (OSA), Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, IEEE and SPIE meetings. He is an E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellow (the most prestigious award for young scientists in Canada), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Fellow of the OSA, APS, SPIE among others.

Feb
14
Wed
Seminar: Optoelectronic Components for Near and Mid Infrared, Based on Ge-Rich SiGe Alloys @ 4124 Mackenzie Building, Carleton Univeristy
Feb 14 @ 14:30 – 16:00

A WIE/Photonics Seminar

Presented by Dr. Vladyslav Vakarin
Postdoctoral Researcher

Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2017
Time: 2:30 to 4:00
Location: 4124 Mackenzie Building

All departments welcome

In collaboration with:

Feb
15
Thu
Seminar: Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Smart Green Communities; A Game Theory Approach in Transactional Demand @ Algonquin College, T-Building, Room T129
Feb 15 @ 17:35 – 18:35

AGENDA:

  • Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 18:00
  • Seminar: 18:30 – 20:00.

PLACE: Algonquin College, T-Building, Room T129, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Ottawa.
PARKING: No fee after 5 p.m. at the Parking Lots 8 & 9. Please respect restricted areas

By Dr. Javad Fattahi, University of Ottawa SAGE Lab

Abstract

The immediate consequence of shift from uniform to as-bid pricing would be a radical change in bidding behaviour that would introduce new inefficiencies, weaken competition in new generation, and impede expansion in capacity. Furthermore, using DER and purchasing its power to sew up supplies at favourable rates is not a zero-sum game, and may not obtain those favourable rates that are excepted to be typically obtained at the expense of smaller buyers. To tackle the above mentioned challenges, a self-fulfilling prophecy approach may be used which defines a impartial credit mechanism to deal with the strategic behaviour of big and small players in a shortterm auction game. It can be shown for a N-player dynamic game the Nash Equilibrium (NE) under pay-as-bid pricing will yield a larger and flatten demand being served when demand is elastic. Moreover, this multi-strategy approach can potentially fulfil the other smart-grid needs such as demand response, green house gas reduction and so on. This method is fully aligned with the scalability and interoperability requirements of smart grid standards in the presence of elastic demand.

Speakers Bio

Javad Fattahi received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology in 2003. He received his M.Sc. in 2011 and Ph.D. in 2015 in Mechatronics Engineering (Control and Robotics) from Sharif University of Technology and the University of Ottawa, respectively. Since then, he has been active in the field in distributed control, power electronics, IoT sensors, and embedded computing as a research associate in the Smart Autonomous Grid Edge laboratory (SAGE-Lab) at uOttawa. His research interests are in the areas related to systems control, including embedded computer control, linear/nonlinear systems, and control systems for advanced motion and power electronics applications.

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