October 2020 Newsletter

Welcome to the IEEE Long Island Section October 2020 e-Newsletter.

We will be publishing this e-newsletter periodically to try to keep our membership informed.  If you have any comments and/or suggestions, please reply back to us.  Thanks. 

In these unusual times it would be nice if we could all indulge in some learning as we deal with reduced or missing work hours.  

Below are some links to free Webinars and Publications on a very wide range of highly interesting topics.  Enjoy!

UPCOMING & ONGOING EVENTS

• https://ieee.li/committees/employment-assistance-committee/ (Thanks to Charlie Pleckaitis)
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ9WX4qVxEo or search YouTube for “The 1918 Flu Pandemic” -Extra History - #1.  Extra History is a significant resource for young people (and even some of us older people) interested in history.
• A very interesting private website that uses the most recent data from many primary sources including : WHO, World Bank, UNESCO, CIA and individual country databases as well as CDC, NIH and individual state and county for global health and causes of death. https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-world
• Fascinating article from the IEEE Spectrum magazine Game developers teach Autonomous Vehicles to recognize gestures
• The LI Section of the IEEE continues to plan for 1010 day (October 10^th).   We want to involve local and NYC companies and schools to celebrate Long Island technology accomplishments with a day of (virtual) lectures by local technology leaders and IEEE distinguished lecturers.   Stay tuned!  Link: http://bit.ly/IEEE1010
• CEWIT 2020 Conference Thurs Nov 5, 2020,  Click here for MORE INFO
• Webinar Series: The Impact of the Mathematical Sciences:  
  • https://www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/illustrating-the-impact-of-the-mathematical-sciences
• Some of a very wide range of IEEE Webinars that may be of interest can be found at:  https://spectrum.ieee.org/webinars

• https://proceedingsoftheieee.ieee.org/connecting-the-past-and-future/webinar-series/
• https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/
• https://www.computer.org/publications/tech-news/events/free-webinars   
• Webinars from the IEEE Power Electronics Society https://www.ieee-pels.org/education/pels-webinars

• These free Webinars from the Cold Spring Harbor lab right here on the Island:   
  • https://dnalc.cshl.edu/resources/dnalc-live/
• And these are from Brookhaven labs, also here on the island: https://www.bnl.gov/science/
• An interesting article about a method for creating a low energy power graphene source for … https://phys.org/news/2020-10-physicists-circuit-limitless-power-graphene.html.  (Many thanks for this and some other items to Bill Wilkes and his group: long-island-engineers-club)

Contributors: Arnie Stillman, Lou D'Onofrio, Carl Meshenberg, Howard Edelman
Editor:   David C Pinkowitz ( davd.pinkowitz@ieee.org )