Make Sure Your Section's Voice is Heard: Register for Sections Congress

The goals of Sections Congress are three: leadership training; networking; and guiding the future of the Institute through the development and prioritization of recommendations for action.

Your Section's ideas cannot be brought forward if your leadership is not there! For example, in response to recommendations from Sections Congress 2002, IEEE has made measurable improvements in the quality of email addresses maintained as part of a members' primary record and has enabled Section volunteers to easily query, view and download member data through the web based SAMIEEE tool.

Register your Section's primary delegate by visiting www.ieee.org/sc2005 and then click on the links to register for Sections Congress, and to make hotel reservations. You can also find on the SC2005 web page links to visa and travel information, and a registration guide which provides details about the event. The deadline for Congress registration and hotel reservations is 12 September 2005.

If you have any questions, please contact sc-coordinator@ieee.org.

The following members were upgraded to Senior Member status at the June 2005 Admission and Advancement Panel meetings:

• Ehab F. El-Saadany - Kitchener-Waterloo
• Marc J. Bage - Montréal
• Mina Danesh - Montréal
• Eric W. Gill - Newfoundland-Labrador
• Darcy Braun - Northern Canada
• Micheal L. Moher - Ottawa
• Chunsheng Yang - Ottawa
• Quibo Ye - Ottawa
• Nedeltcho Kandev - Saint Maurice
• Anna Kandev - Toronto
• Jack Cardozo - Toronto
• Sunil Akre - Vancouver
• Ravil Chamgoulov - Vancouver
• Paul W. Schmor - Vancouver

For more information on the Nominate a Senior Member Initiative (NSI) Program, please visit http://www.ieee.org/ra/md/smprogram.html.

New Section to the Newsletter

After a request from a couple of Student Branches I have added a section for news from the different Student Branches within Region 7. If you have a special event that you would like to announce or a member that you would like to recognize send it to the editor, the information can be found at the bottom of this page.

Profile of Concordia University Student Branch

Concordia University in Montreal, Canada hosts a cosmopolitan student body and inspires students to seek practical applications for theories presented on a blackboard. Concordia's IEEE student branch reflects these qualities in a multitude of ways. In addition to the various ethnic backgrounds of its members, IEEE's electronics projects and social events have attracted student participation from Arts and Commerce faculties and just about anyone else with a natural curiosity for how things work. This year, the IEEE Concordia branch hosted 10 projects, a company tour, a conference on Image Processing given by Matrox Imaging, 2 lounge nights at the campus bar, and a formal dinner that brought together students, faculty members, and industry representatives. For these activities, the university has awarded the IEEE with a prize for "Most Improved Society during 2004-2005". With an even more active 2005-2006 year planned for the branch, the IEEE at Concordia and it's team of hard-working executives shows no signs of slowing down and will continue to provide an excellent service to students at the university.

Michael Gozzo
VP External
IEEE Concordia Student Branch
vpexternal@ieee.concordia.ca

Montreal

• Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications

22–24 August 2005
Delta Centre-ville Hotel,
Montréal, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.congresbcu.com/wimob2005/

• Photon-Based Nanoscience & Technology

19-29 September 2005
Auberge Estrimont,
Orford, Québec
For more information, please visit http://www.vitesse.ca/programs/asiphoton.asp

Ottawa

• Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference

16-19 August 2005
Fairmont Château Laurier Hotel,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.canadiansemiconductor.org

• Introduction to Antenna Concepts and Testing

12-15 September 2005
University of Ottawa,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~mcnamara/shortcourse.pdf

• Climate Change Technology: Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century

9-12 May 2006
Ottawa Congress Centre,
Ottawa, Ontario
For more information please visit http://www.ccc2006.ca/

Vancouver

• Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing (PACRIM'05)

24-26 August 2005
Victoria, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.PacRimConf.ca

• IEEE Bandwidth Management Workshop XI

3-6 October 2005
Fairmont Chateau
Whistler, British Columbia,
For more information, please visit http://www.ieeebmw.org

• International Symposium on Collaborative Research

7-9 October 2005
The University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia
For more information, please visit http://www.researchcentre.apsc.ubc.ca

• 2005 Electrical Safety, Technical and Mega Projects Edmonton Workshop

October 24 - 26, 2005
Shaw Conference Centre
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
For more information, please visit http://www.ieee.ca/safetyworkshop05/

Rest of Canada

• International Engineering Management Conference (IEMC)

11-13 September 2005
Fairmont Hotel,
St. John's, Newfoundland
For more information please visit http://www.iemc2005.org

• Raytheon's RADAR: Looking to the Future

September 15, 2005
Raytheon Canada Limited
400 Phillip Street, Waterloo, ON
For more information, please visit http://www.ece.uwaterloo.ca/~ieee_kw/activities.html

• International Conference on Knowledge Capture

2-5 October 2005,
The Banff Centre,
Banff, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.kcap05.org/

• 2005 Electrical Safety, Technical and Mega Projects Edmonton Workshop

24-26 October 2005
Edmonton, Canada
For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/safetyworkshop05/

International

• International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC'05)

27-29 August 2005
Changsha, China
For more information, please visit http://www.xtu.edu.cn/nc2005

• ISPRS Workshop on Dynamic and Multi-dimensional GIS

5-8 September 2005
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd (near Cardiff)
Wales, UK
For more information, please visit http://www.comp.glam.ac.uk/GIS/DMGIS05/

• International Workshop on Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization Design and Applications

8-10 September 2005
Wroclaw, Poland
For more information, please visit http://emoda05.softcomputing.net

• International Workshop on Fuzzy Logic and Applications

15-17 September 2005
Crema (Milan), Italy
For more information, please visit http://dsa.uniparthenope.it/wilf2005

• International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia (MoMM2005)

19-21 September 2005
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
For more information, please visit http://www.iiwas.org/conferences/momm2005/

• International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (CIT2005)

21-23 September 2005
Shanghai, China
For more information, please visit http://www.cit.fudan.edu.cn/cit2005/

• Conference on Multigrid, Multilevel and Multiscale Modeling

27-30 September 2005
The Hague, The Netherlands
For more information, please visit http://pcse.tudelft.nl/emg2005/index.php

• International Symposium on Voronoi Diagrams in Science and Engineering

10-13 October 2005
Seoul, Korea
For more information, please visit http://voronoi.hanyang.ac.kr/vd2005/

• International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks

16-19 October 2005
Island of Ischia, Italy
For more information, please visit http://drcn2005.telecomitalialab.com

• International Symposium on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Smart Worlds (UISW2005)

6-7 December 2005
Nagasaki, Japan
For more information, please visit http://www.ubiquitous-intelligence.org/conf/uisw2005

• International Conference on High performance scientific Computing Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes

6-10 March 2006
Hanoi, Vietnam
For more information, please visit http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/HPSCHanoi2006

Many IEEE Canada sections maintain their own listings of upcoming events:

Canadian Atlantic Kitchener-Waterloo Montreal Newfoundland and Labrador New Brunswick Northern Canada

Ottawa Southern Alberta Toronto Vancouver Winnipeg

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

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

The 2006 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering provides a forum for the presentation of electrical and computer engineering research and development from Canada and around the world. Papers are invited, in French or English. For more information please visit http://www.ieee.ca/ccece06/cfp.html

Call for Papers on Lighting Applications

The editors of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics journal have announced a call for papers on the topic of lighting applications. The paper submission deadline is 28 February 2006. For complete information, visit: http://www.pels.org/

You can send any submissions by email to the editor:
Jeffery MacKinnon at newsletter@ieee.ca

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