ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2008
IEEE-LAHORE SECTION
Dear All,
IEEE-Lahore Section cordially inviting you to attend the AGM-2008 as follows:
The IEEE Annual General Meeting AGM 2008 has been scheduled on Wednesday
December 24, 2008, 6:30 p.m. at Chemical Engineering Department's Seminar Hall,
UET, G.T. Road, Lahore
AGENDA OF AGM-2008
1. Confirmation of MOM of previous AGM (2007).
2. Business arising out of the previous MOM.
3. Endorsement of appointment of auditors for 2009.
4. Approval of the audited accounts report.
5. Approval of the annual budget for 2009.
6. Chapter's (PES/IAS, ComSoc, CompSoc) Reports by the respective Chairs.
7. Student Branches Reports by the respective Chairs.
8. IEEE Lahore Section Annual Report by the Chairman.
9. Any other point(s) with the permission of the Chair.
10. Keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Asad Abidi, IEEE-Fellow & Winner of the 2008
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits
11. Awards & souvenirs.
12. Dinner
Profile: Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Asad Abidi has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE,
and was named one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is the recipient
of the 2008 IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. Dr. Abidi is
a member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Asad Abidi currently: Dean and Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ph.D.,
University of California, Berkeley, M.S., University of California, Berkeley,
B.Sc., Imperial College, London. Asad A. Abidi received the B.Sc.(Hon.) degree
from Imperial College, London in 1976 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1978 and
1981. He was at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ from 1981 to 1984 as a Member
of Technical Staff in the Advanced LSI Development Laboratory. Since 1985, he
has been at the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of
California, Los Angeles where he is Professor. He was a Visiting Faculty
Researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories during 1989.
His research interests are in the design of CMOS RF integrated circuits,
high-speed analog circuits, and data converters. Dr. Abidi served as the Program
Secretary for the International Solid-State Circuits Conference from 1984 to
1990 and as General Chairman of the Symposium on VLSI Circuits in 1992. He was
Secretary of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1990 to 1991, and from
1992 to 1995 he was Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He has
received the 1988 TRW Award for Innovative Teaching and the 1997 IEEE Donald G.
Fink Award, and is co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 1995 European
Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Jack Kilby Best Student Paper Award at the
1996 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), the Jack Raper Award
for Outstanding Technology Directions Paper at the 1997 ISSCC, and the Design
Contest Award at the 1998 Design Automation Conference, and the 2001 ISLPED Low
Power Design Contest Award. In 2007, the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied
Science recognized him with the Lockheed-Martin Award for Excellence in
Teaching.
He has received an IEEE Millennium Medal, is a Fellow of the IEEE, and was named
one of the top ten contributors to the ISSCC. He is the recipient of the 2008
IEEE Donald O. Pederson Award in Solid-State Circuits. Dr. Abidi is a member of
the US National Academy of Engineering.
Regards
Ishtiaq A Bhatti
Office Manager
IEEE-Lahore Section
C/o CS Dept., LUMS
DHA, Lahore Cantt.
Pakistan
Ph: +92 42 572 7616
http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/lahore