Summary of Scheduled Meetings - Current Month and Beyond
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Jan 16, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. Dr. Sander Stepanov, Design Engineer from Broadcom, presents a seminar "Statistical Signal Processing for MIMO Communication Channels" organized by our Signal Processing Chapter   Click for details.

Jan 25, 2007 at 6:30 p.m. Ayla Tezcan, P.Eng., Quotation Specialist, Schneider Electric Canada, presents a seminar "Personal Colours" organized by our Women in Engineering Affinity Group   Click for details.

Jan 29, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.  Puica Nitu, Senior Advisor in Energy Markets of Ontario Power Generation Inc., and Daniel Fischer, Senior Engineer Transmission and Distribution Technologies of Kinectrics, present a seminar on "Reliability of Distribution Systems" organized by our Women in Engineering Affinity Group   Click for details.

Feb 1, 2007 at 3:00 p.m. George Eleftheriades, Professor at the University of Toronto, presents a distinguished lecture entitled "Negative-Refractive-Index Transmission-Line Metamaterials and their Applications", organized by our Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter.   Click for details.

Feb 8, 2007 at 6:45 p.m.  Ronald Herman, CEO, and William Tapscott, Managing Director, of IntelliOne Technologies Corporation present a seminar on "Monitoring Cell Phone Movement to Interpolate Traffic Speed" co-sponsored by PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter and our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter   Click for details. Registration required.

Feb 10, 2007 at 1:00 p.m.  Our Women in Engineering Affinity Group presents an outing to the "28^th Annual Orchid Show"   Click for details. Registration required.

Feb 16, 2007 at 3:00 p.m.  Antonio Liscidini of the University of Pavia presents a seminar on "The Use of Feedback in Common Gate LNAs for Multistandard Terminals / Single-Stage Low Power Quadrature RF Receiver Front-End: The LMV Cell," sponsored by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter   Click for details.

Feb 28, 2007 at 6:00 p.m.  Soosan Beheshti of Ryerson University presents a seminar on "Minimum Noiseless Description Length (MNDL)," sponsored by our Signals & Computational Intelligence Joint Chapter   Click for details.

Apr 12, 2007 at 6:45 p.m.  Mark Salerno of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, and Michael Dunbar of Zerofootprint Energy present a seminar on "Net Zero Energy Healthy Housing" co-sponsored by PEO Toronto Dufferin Chapter and our Women in Engineering Affinity Group   Click for details. Registration required.

Other Local IEEE Section Events

IEEE Ottawa Section – Noninvasive Blood Pressure Measurements & Standardization Workshop 2007, "One Hundred Years Later: Are We Really Measuring Blood Pressure?" organized by the IEEE IMS Ottawa Chapter in conjunction with EPMG of INMS/NRC. Click for details. (registration)

Summary of Local IEEE Conferences

Jun 25...   The 27th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems - ICDCS 2007 will be held June 25-29, 2007 in Toronto at the Westin Harbor Castle hotel.   No further information at present.

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New IEEE Fellow - William A. Chisholm has been elected by the IEEE Board of Directors at their recent meeting, effective January 1, 2007.  See the entire class of 2007 IEEE Fellows.

Bill Chisholm, P.Eng (Ont) is a Principal Engineer at Kinectrics, the former Ontario Hydro Research Division, now owned by Vision Capital Limited of London.  He received his BASc. in Engineering Science in 1977, an M.Eng in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering by the University of Waterloo in 1983.  He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Quebec at Chicoutimi. Bill has carried out and delivered research to understand how adverse weather affects EHV transmission system reliability. His citation from IEEE is “for contributions to extra high voltage transmission line performance assessment”.

Bill chaired the IEEE Lightning and Insulator Subcommittee from 1997 to 2005 and also chaired the Transmission Lightning Performance Working Group that was awarded the “Best Standard, 1999” for IEEE 1243-1997, “Guide for Improving the Lightning Performance of Transmission Lines”.  He has served on many paper and panel sessions at IEEE PES conferences and also gave invited guest lectures in Japan, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil.  He contributed to the EPRI Transmission Line Reference Book, 200 kV and Above (third edition).  Outside of work, he is a member of the North Toronto Masters Swim Club and has held ten Ontario records in butterfly and distance freestyle.

IEEE Milestone - First External Pacemaker   The IEEE Toronto Life Members affinity group has successfully nominated the "Hopps First External Pacemaker" as an IEEE Milestone.