A busy year begins for the Northern Canada Section

It looks like an exciting year ahead for the Northern Canada Section and its IAS/PES (Industrial Applications Society/Power Engineering Society) and CCSSC (Computer, Communications and Solid State Circuits) chapters.

Northern Canada Section (NCS)
The annual general meeting was held on 23 January 2003 and we were treated to an interesting and informative presentation by James Swanson. James enlightened us on our ‘Cyber Rights’ while using the internet for personal use, business use and commerce. The newly elected executive are:

• Michael Lawal as Chair
• Vincent Gaudet as Vice Chair
• Mrinal Mandal as Secretary
• Kimberly Hauer as Treasurer

After many years of service we were sad to see that Terra Garneau and Barry Biglow have decided not to continue on with the NCS executive. Terra has been involved with the IEEE NCS for many years and her active participation will be missed. Barry has served as chair of the NCS for the past two years and we will miss his guidance. We hope that they will continue to participate in section events and will remain available to offer us assistance as required.

The NCS has a very ambitious year planned. We intend to send out a member survey to help us gauge the opinion of our membership and allow us to serve them better. We also plan to increase our membership and recruit increased participation in events. Some tentative plans include starting up a student chapter at NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology), holding a meeting in the Fort McMurray area, planning a conference, and hosting speakers and tours. Another goal is to harmonize the activities of the NCS with those of the IAS/PES and CCSSC to prevent duplication.

IAS/PES
The IAS/PES annual general meeting was held on 21st November 2002. Bruce McClung, an IEEE distinguished lecturer, was brought in to talk about electrical safety. The meeting prompted a lot of discussion and will hopefully remind people of the importance of safety. New executive were also elected including:

• Angela Antoniu as Chair
• Samuel Ekpe as Vice Chair
• Mick Walton as Secretary
• Dr. Li as Treasurer

The IAS/PES has already held their first organizational meeting and they have many plans for the coming year.

CCSSC
The annual general meeting for the Computer, Communications and Solid State Circuits society is will be held on 10th February 2003 in Edmonton. Stewart Lomas will be speaking about hot new technology that can move big streams of data across a LAN at any speed. Contact Nelson at amaral@cs.ualberta.ca for details. The CCSSC is hoping to fill its executive slate and increase its membership and activities.

IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition

The first IEEE Ottawa Section Robotics Competition is under way. The competition is targeted to the middle school (grades 7-8) age group. We are seeking both financial and mentoring support.

Each school is to receive a Lego Mindstorms Robolab Kit that includes software and teaching guide. As a sponsor your name can be associated with a kit as well as a sponsor banner will be displayed at the competition.

For more information please visit http://ottawa.ieee.ca/RobotComp2003.html or contact Ramiro at rliscano@ieee.org

IEEE Toronto Centennial

The IEEE Toronto Section was formed on 30 September 1903 as a section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. It was the first such section formed outside the United States. Plans for celebrating this unique event are being developed by the current Section executive. Please, bookmark and regularly monitor the IEEE Toronto Centennial Page http://www.toronto.ieee.ca/centennial.htm, where they will post all information about their history and celebration events. If you require any information about the planned activities, do not hesitate to ask Bruno DiStefano at b.distefano@ieee.org

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Call for Papers - IP Mobility 2003 (IEEE VTC Symposium on IP Mobility)

Mobility support in IP network has been an area of active research and development. This symposium is aimed at providing researchers and practitioners a forum for presenting their research at all layers of Internet architecture and sharing experiences. The theme of this symposium is Support for Network Mobility. The papers must discuss issues and solutions related to support for wireless medium and mobility in IP network. The symposium solicits papers related to but not limited to the following areas:

• Routing for host (e.g. terminals) and network (e.g. trains, buses) mobility, protocols and performance
• New approaches to wide-area and local mobility
• Quality of Service models, resource management, and provisioning
• Traffic Engineering in mobile wireless IP access networks
• Transport protocol design for mobile wireless networks
• Security including security threat models, threat analysis and their impact on routing
• Application level protocol design and performance
• Mobile and wireless applications, their service requirements and performance
• Content delivery support in IP network for mobile users
• Multicasting for mobile wireless services
• Emerging network architectures (e.g. multi-hop ad-hoc network, sensor network)
• Internetworking of different network types (e.g. ad-hoc to cellular, wireless LAN to cellular)
• Inter-vehicular network architecture
• Mobile wireless IP access network deployment and management

Posters are also solicited on the projects related to the symposium theme.

Important Dates:

• Extended Abstract Due: 15 February 2003
• Acceptance Notification: 15 April 2003
• Camera Ready Copy of Full Paper Due: 15 July 2003
• Symposium Date: 4 October 2003

Submissions can be made using the links of call for technical papers at the conference web site http://www.vtc2003.org/.

Call for Papers - Canadian Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2003

New technologies for engineering design, manufacturing and tests are rapidly developing, changing and expanding. The need for cost-effective innovations and techniques to assure a high quality product that is reliable and maintainable has never before been so essential. The Canadian Reliability/Maintainability Symposium provides a forum to share the experience, and to network with leading R&M professionals, your colleagues, industry and government leaders and academia.

Share your success stories and new tools by submitting a paper for a 30 minute summary presentation (including a discussion period) at the symposium, with publication in the proceedings. We solicit your contributions in the following areas:

• R&M Standards and Requirements
• Reliability Centred Maintenance
• Modelling and Prediction
• Design RCM versus In-Service RCM
• Life Cycle Cost
• Testability and Fault Coverage
• System Components & Root Cause Analysis
• Verification Methodologies

Important Dates:

• Last Day for Submission of Abstract: 15 March 2003
• Notification of Acceptance of Abstract: 31 March 2003
• Last Date for Submission of Draft Manuscript: 16 May 2003
• Editorial Feedback on Manuscript: 15 June 2003
• Last Date for Submission of Final Manuscript: 16 August 2003

For more information please visit http://www.crms2003.ca/.

• IEEE Canadian Atlantic Section AGM

5 February 2003
This event also includes dinner and a presentation by Dr. Myron Kayton on Navigation: Land, Sea, Air and Space
For more information please contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• Network Security

5 February 2003
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://www.ee.bcit.ca/ieee/computer/
An IEEE Vancouver Computer Chapter event

• Advanced ESD protection design for Integrated Circuits

7 February 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030207_2.txt
An IEEE Montréal Solid State Circuits Chapter event

• 2003 UNB Robotics Competition

7-9 February 2003
Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information please visit http://www.unb.ca/robotics/

• Perceptual Interfaces

7 February 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030207.txt
Please RSVP at (514) 840-1235 x8000 or robert@crim.ca
An IEEE Montréal Computer Society & CRIM presentation

• IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2003)

9-13 February 2003
San Francisco, CA
For more information please visit http://www.isscc.org/isscc/

• Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy for Industrial and Scientific Applications

12 February 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030312.txt
An IEEE Montréal Laser and Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• Canada's First Microsatellite - Microvariability and Oscillation of Stars Satellite (MOST)

12 February 2003
Richmond, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://ewh.ieee.org/reg/7/vancouver/grs/Pages/home.htm
An IEEE Vancouver Aerospace, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Chapter event

• International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2003)

23 February - 1 March 2003
Papeete, Tahiti
For more information please visit http://iutsun1.uha.fr/ICT2003.html

• International Symposium on Advanced Radio Technology (ISART 2003)

4-7 March 2003
Boulder, CO
For more information please visit http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/meetings/art/index.html

• International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE 2003)

5-8 March 2003
Bangalore, India
For more information please visit http://www.aztecsoft.com/icde2003/

• Advanced Optical Sensing using Laser Modulation Spectroscopy

10 March 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://tor.ieee.ca/events/advanced.htm
An IEEE Toronto Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2003)

16-20 March 2003
New Orleans, Louisiana
For more information please visit http://www.wcnc.org

• Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exposition (OFC)

23-28 March 2003
Atlanta, Georgia
For more information please visit http://www.ofcconference.org/home.cfm

• International Conference on Transmission and Distribution Construction, Operation and Live-Line Maintenance (ESMO 2003)

7-9 April 2003
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://esmoconference.com/home/index.htm

• Quantum Cascade Lasers

9 April 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://tor.ieee.ca/events/quantumcascade.htm
An IEEE Toronto Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• Quantum Cascade Lasers

10 April 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/newsletter/Ev030410.txt
Please RSVP to Peter Noutsios at noutsios@nortelnetworks.com
An IEEE Montréal Laser & Electro-Optics Society Distinguished Lecture

• Real World Linux Canada Conference and Expo

28-30 April 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://tor.ieee.ca/events/conferencetradeshow.htm

• IEEE/EAB, Pre-Colleg Education Workshop and Training Session for Engineers

Presented by Douglas Gorham, Ed.D., Manager, Pre-College Education, IEEE Educational Activities Board
2 May 2003 - Delta Centre-Ville Hotel, Montréal , Quebec
3 May 2003 - Montréal , Quebec
5 May 2003 - Halifax, Nova Scotia
6 May 2003 - Fredericton, New Brunswick
For more information please contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• CCECE 2003: Canadian Conference in Electrical and Computer Engineering

4-7 May 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/ccece03/

• Off-shore Technology Conference

5-8 May 2003
Houston, Texas
For more information please visit http://www.otcnet.org

• Large Engineering Systems Conference On Power Engineering (LESCOPE 2003)

7-9 May 2003
Delta Centreville Hotel
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://is.dal.ca/~lescope/ or contact Ferial El-Hawary at F.El-hawary@ieee.org

• International Symposium on Asynchronous Systems & Circuits

12-16 May 2003
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information please visit http://research.sun.com/async2003/

• International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2003)

18-21 May 2003
Delta Centreville Hotel
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/index.htm
Workshops at the conference can be found at http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccsa/events.htm

• International Conference on Control and Automation (ICCA'03)

10-12 June 2003
Montréal, Quebec
For more information please visit http://vlab.ee.nus.edu.sg/~icca03/

• IEEE Bandwidth management workshop

23-26 June 2003
Niagara-on-the-lake, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieeebmwx.org

• International Workshop on System-on-Chip for Real-time Applications

30 June -2 July 2003
Calgary, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.socrt.org/

• IEEE Power Engineering Society's International General Meeting & Technical Conference

13-17 July 2003
Toronto, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.org/pesgmtoronto2003

• IEEE VTC Symposium on IP Mobility

4-9 October 2003
Orlando, Florida
For more information please visit http://www.vtc2003.org

• Canadian Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2003

16-17 October 2003
Lord Elgin Hotel,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.CRMS2003.ca
This event is brought to you by the American Society for Quality (ASQ Reliability Division, Region 4), the Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE-Ottawa), IEEE Reliability Society (International, and the Ottawa Chapter)

• Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2003)

19-22 October 2003
Banff, Alberta
For more information please visit http://www.ee.ualberta.ca/drcn2003/

IEEE Montreal maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r7/montreal/evenements_e.html.

IEEE Toronto maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.tor.ieee.ca/events.htm.

IEEE Vancouver maintains a page of upcoming events at http://www.ieee.org/vancouver.

For more IEEE conferences, visit IEEE Conference Search at http://www.ieee.org/conferencesearch/.

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Abhi Gupta at a.k.gupta@ieee.org

Please ensure you send in your submission by the 20^th of the month