March 2018 - IEEE NSW Section Upcoming Events & News
If you read only one IEEE email a month - please make sure it is this one!
Contents
1. Message from the Chair
2. Latest Circuit
3. Upcoming NSW Conferences
4. Upcoming NSW Events
5. Other Upcoming IEEE Events
6. Did You Know?
7. Next Section Meeting
1. Message from the Chair
Dear IEEE Member
Thank you once again for renewing your IEEE membership. On the 24th of February memberships were deactivated for non-renewals. I hope that over the coming months you see greater membership value coming out of the NSW Section and you help encourage those that did not renew to join once again. Free student memberships are now available with specific terms and conditions. If you know of any students (3rd year and above) that would benefit from being introduced to the IEEE please point them to the latest Circuit Newsletter. We also need to bring back to life student branches at Western Sydney University, University of Sydney, Charles Sturt University and Newcastle University. If you could help us with this process please reach out to me.
Recently, some IEEE members have won awards including Stefan Mozar winning the Engineers Australia’s Information, Telecommunications, and Electronics Engineering (ITEE) College’s 2017 David Robinson Award. If you know an IEEE member that has won an award please reach out and let our Circuit editor bill.sloman@ieee.org know.
The NSW Section is the major sponsor for TENSYMP2018 being held in Sydney in July. Please look at the information below and in Circuit and consider submitting a paper.
We have lots of events coming up over the next month. Most are being held in the northern parts of Sydney. I hope that in the coming months we will be able to start advertising more events across more locations across NSW. I also hope to see more events targeted at our Young Professional and Industry members. Please reach out to me with ideas and suggestions.
Due to the large workload in start of year administrative matters, progress with the Strategic Plan has been slow. However, we hope to pick this up over the coming months.
I recently attended the R10 meeting. Key areas of focus in our region include improving conference quality, student retention and improving industry engagement. In May, the IEEE will completely overhaul member information to comply with GDPR. Also, of interest the IEEE is looking at restructuring the regions.
Don’t forget the section now has both a Facebook and LinkedIn page so if you use either medium please join.
Please feel free to reach out to me with any suggestions or comments. Have a great March!
Sasha Nikolic - Chair, IEEE NSW Section
2. Latest Circuit
The March Edition of Circuit, the NSW Section newsletter is now available. Please find it here: http://sites.ieee.org/nsw/newsletters/
Please note that all members can contribute an article. The deadline for the next newsletter is the 13th of June and articles can be sent to our editor bill.sloman@ieee.org
3. Upcoming NSW Conferences
1. IEEE TENSYMP2018
TENSYMP2018 will be held in Sydney, 4-6 July. A diverse range of tracks are covered including Power Engineering, Electronics, Software, Healthcare, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Microwaves, Antennas and Propagation, Industry, Women in Engineering and Young Professionals. More information is available in CIRCUIT Article above and at the TENSYMP 2018 Webpage http://sites.ieee.org/tensymp2018/
2. IEEE TALE 2018
The Call for Contributions for IEEE TALE2018, the R10 engineering and computing education conference has now been released. We are calling for academic research presentations on learning and innovative practice as well as non-research presentations from VET and Industry that can help improve training and better integrate the learning experience. The conference will be held in Wollongong, 4-7 December 2018. More information: https://www.tale2018.org
3. IEEE ISMICT 2018
The International Symposium on Medical Information and Communication Technology will be held 26-28 of March 2018 in Sydney. More information: http://www.ismict2018.org/
4. IEEE NSS/MIC 2018
The 2018 Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) will be held at the International Convention Centre Sydney, in Sydney, Australia, from the 10th to 17th of November. This conference is the premier gathering of experts in radiation detection instrumentation with its applications in nuclear science, medical imaging, and space. More information: http://www.nssmic.org/2018/
4. Upcoming NSW Events
1. Collaborative Robotics: Communication and Social Acceptance
Speaker: Professor Natsuki Oka who teaches in the Faculty of Information and Human Sciences, Kyoto Institute of Technology in Japan.
Date: 15 March 2018
Time: 1 – 2PM
Location: Macquarie Park
More Information: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/161455
2. Smart Grid and Beyond: Modelling, Control and Optimisation
Speaker: Professor Xinghuo Yu is the Associate Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research Capability) and a Distinguished Professor of RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), Melbourne, Australia, He is also President of IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.
Date: 15 March 2018
Time: 5:30 – 7:30 PM
Location: Macquarie University
More Information: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/169329
3. Joint Institution Lecture Series: Engines Under the Cloud
Speaker: Prakash Subramaniam has over four decades of experience with Consumer and Business Electronics. He is a Chartered IT Professional, has a masters in E-commerce Management and MBA from Macquarie University and is a Member of the IET and the British Computer Society.
Date: 22 March 2018
Time: 6:00 to 7:30pm
Location: Chatswood
More Information: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/portal/event/joint-institutions-lecture-series-engines-under-cloud-hardware-perspective-and-fuel-thought
4. CMOS Transceiver Circuits for Short-Reach Optical Communication
Speaker: Tony Chan Carusone has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto since 2001. He has co-authored a total of 6 best paper award winners at the Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, Compound Semiconductor I.C. Symposium, and European Solid-State Circuits Conference.
Date: 28 March 2018
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 PM
Location: Macquarie University
More Information: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/169484
5. Publishing a good scientific paper
Speaker: Prof. Subhas Mukhopadhyay, Macquarie University who has published over 400 papers in different international journals and conference proceedings, written six books and forty book chapters and edited fifteen conference proceedings. He has also edited thirty books with Springer-Verlag and eighteen journal special issues. He has organized over 20 international conferences as either General Chairs/co-chairs or Technical Programme Chair.
Date: 5 April 2018
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 PM
Location: Macquarie University
More Information: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/169561
6. Communications Over the Radar Pulse- Coexistence Through a Unified System Approach
Speaker: Dr. Moeness Amin is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Fellow of the International Society of Optical Engineering; Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology; and a Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing
Date: 9April 2018
Time: To Be Confirmed
Location: University of New South Wales
More Information: Available in the next e-notice
7. Air-underwater magnetic communication link
Speaker: Dr. Boris Ginzburg is a research physicist with the SOREQ Nuclear Research Center. He earned his M.Sc. in radio-physics & electronics from the Technical University of St.-Petersburg (Russia). He obtained his Ph.D. in physics & mathematics from Phys.-Techn. Ioffe Institute, St.-Petersburg (Russia).
Date: 11 April 2018
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am
Location: Macquarie University
More Information: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/169705
Please note that our events are advertised across numerous sites:
- IEEE vTools https://events.vtools.ieee.org
- Our Section Website http://sites.ieee.org/nsw/
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/IEEE-NSW-Section-146048629397751/
- LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13578458
5. Other Upcoming IEEE Events
1. RADAR 2018 - 27-30 August, Brisbane
The International Conference on Radar 2018 (Radar 2018) Organising Committee invites the submission of papers for original work for consideration as an oral or poster presentation in the Radar 2018 Program. The papers should pertain to original research or reports and oral or poster presentations are welcome. More information: http://radar2018.org/paper-submission/
2. EMC Society of Australia Annual Workshop - May 2018
The EMC Society of Australia is calling for papers from EMC experts to present at the 2018 Workshop in Adelaide. More information: http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/s_australia/documents/EMCSA_Workshop_2018.pdf
3. WIE International Leadership Summit – 26-27 November 2018, Brisbane
More details will be available soon
4. IEEE TENCON 2018 - 28-31 October, Korea
IEEE TENCON is a premier international technical conference of IEEE Region 10, which comprises 58 Sections, 6 councils, 29 subsections, 663 chapters, and 1,431 student branches in the Asia Pacific region. The theme for TENCON 2018 is intelligence outbreak. More information: http://tencon2018.org/
5. IEEE R10 SYWL Congress 2018 – 30 Aug – 2 Sep, Bali
A conference for Students, Young Professionals, Women in Engineering and Life Members. More details will be available soon
6. IEEE R10 Humanitarian Technology Conference 2018 – 6 – 8 Dec, Colombo
The theme of the conference is ‘Sustainable Technology for Humanity’. More information: http://r10htc2018.com/
7. ICSP2018 – 12 -16 August 2018, Beijing
The 14th IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing will be held in Beijing. More information: http://www.ieee-icsp.org
6. Did you know?
The Humanitarian Activities Committee supports IEEE volunteers involved in sustainable development and humanitarian technology related activities around the world, through funding for projects and events, supporting SIGHT activities, building strategic partnerships and facilitating necessary education and training. To find out more about funding opportunities: www.ieee.org/doing-good
7. Next Section Meeting
Time: 7 - 9pm
Date: Monday the 9th of April
Location: Seminar Room 1 at the Library, Building Q, Northern Institute of TAFE St Leonards Campus, Gore Hill
