The Monthly Connection
The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section
ISSUE #20100201, February 2010
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This Month: meetings, courses, conferences, section news, ieee news, membership, volunteers

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The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest occuring in Toronto and surounding areas.   Posted every month.   Now formatted for portrait-orientation printing.

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Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings


Feb 15, 2010 at 6:30 a.m.  Dr. Kostas Plataniotis, Professor at the Univeristy of Toronto presents, "Biometrics: Solutions for Security and Authentication", hosted by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Chapter. Click for details.

Feb 16, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.   at 4:10 p.m. Dr. Antonio Liscidini, Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Pavia presents, "RF-Building Blocks for an All-Digital PLL", hosted by our Solid-State Circuits Chapter. . Click for details.

Feb 18, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.   "Green Energy Discussion Panel," presentation and networking event, featuring speakers: Mike Crawley, President and CEO, International Power Canada Inc., Mojtaba Jalambadani, Senior Project Manager, HydroOne Networks, Alourdes Sully, Team Lead of Project Engineering, Hydro One, Alan S. Fung, Ph.D., P.Eng., Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ryerson University, Milfred Hammerbacher, President, Canadian Solar Solutions, and Donald Wallace, Executive Director, Ontario Centre for Engineering and Public Policy, and more to follow. . Click for details.Registration required

Jun 25 and 26, 2010  Our Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, in conjunction with UOIT will be holding an International Workshop on Real-Time Measurement, Instrumentation and Control (RTMIC). . Click for details. Paid registration required. Please see the link for more details.


Upcoming Conferences




Jul 11 to 17, 2010  The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and CNC/USNC/URSI Radio Science Meeting will be hosted here in Toronto. . Click for details. Paid registration required. Please see the link for more details.

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IEEE News




IEEE Establishes Haiti Fund


Protect Yourself: IEEE Security Experts from Around the Globe Arm Citizens Against Botnets and Malware

EEE Spectrum Takes Aim at 2010's Technology Winners and Losers


For more these and other IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here. And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine here.


Membership



Future Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section   Have you been in professional practice for at least ten years and have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years?   You should be an IEEE Senior Member.   Need help in obtaining your three references?   We will help you - just contact Dimitri , our membership chair.   Please click this link to find out the advantages, the requirements, and an explanation of the process including key links to apply online.


Volunteers



Volunteering a few hours a month is a very rewarding experience - we have a great group of about 45 volunteers who contribute to the smooth running of our Section - by distributing the workload over many Section members, the individual load is kept small. If you are interested, please contact our Section Chair Alex Bot at this


Advertising



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Please send any news item submissions, comments, suggestions, concerns to the editor before the 28th at this email .

Thank you for reading - Naresh Kurada,MSEE,P.Eng.,MBA (Editor).

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