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Past Events
AGM — 26 November 2009
| Presenters: |
Panel
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| Title: |
The Benefits of IEEE
conferences — A First Hand Perspective
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| Date: |
Thursday 26 November 2009
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| Time: |
5:30pm with bar drinks
and light snacks
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| Venue: |
Chancellor 2
Level 16
James Cook Hotel Grand Chancellor
147 The Terrace, Wellington
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The
Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the New Zealand Central Section is
scheduled to be held on Thursday 26 November, commencing at 5:30pm. The
location is yet to be determined, but will be in downtown Wellington.
All members are welcome to participate in the AGM and vote for the
incoming committee. The AGM will also include a forum of panel
speakers, who will provide a brief description of what they have
learned from IEEE conferences and meetings from around the world that
they have participated in during the year. This should be a great
opportunity for those of us who have not been fortunate to attend these
meetings to learn a little about the latest developments in technology.
Committee nominations & volunteers are still welcome.
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Biofuel for Aviation — 12
November 2009
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Seminar Organised by IET Wellington Network
| Presenter: |
Captain David Morgan,
General Manager, Air NZ Airline Operations and Chief Pilot
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| Title: |
Biofuel for Aviation –
Air New Zealand’s Pioneering Trial
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| Date: |
Thursday, 12 November 2009
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| Time: |
12 Midday
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| Venue: |
Gallery Room, Turnbull House, 11 Bowen
Street, Wellington |
David’s
talk will detail Air New Zealand’s search for sustainable alternative
fuel sources and their first flight of a commercial jet aircraft
powered by synthetic paraffinic kerosene sourced from bio derived
feedstock. It will describe the processes Air NZ, Boeing, Honeywell and
Rolls Royce followed to source, produce refine, deliver and test the
fuel and the data that was delivered to the ASTM committee that will
ultimately certify it as a suitable fuel for aviation use.
David
joined Air New Zealand in 1985 after a career in general aviation.
After flying various aircraft types, on both line and training
operations, he joined the Flight Operations management team in March
1996. He has held various senior operational management positions and
in March 2008, was appointed GM Airline Operations. In this role, David
is responsible for determining the policy, procedures and standards by
which Air New Zealand's aircraft are operated, is accountable for the
delivery of airline logistical support and for defining, implementing
and reporting on operational safety. He also has Group emergency
management and security responsibilities.
Proceedings will
commence with the light snacks and refreshments at 12:00, followed by
the presentation at 12:30. Non Members welcome.
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CAALYX
– The Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment —
9 November 2009
| Presenter: |
Dr.
Pepijn van de Ven
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| Title: |
CAALYX
– The Complete Ambient Assisted Living Experiment
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| Date: |
Monday
9th November, 2009
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| Time: |
4
– 5 pm
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| Venue: |
Room AH3.43A,
Ag-Hort Building, Massey Unversity, Palmerston North |
Synopsis
Throughout
the world, population characteristics are changing at an alarming rate.
World-wide the number of citizens 60 years or over was estimated to be
688 million in 2006. By 2050 their numbers will have increased to
almost two billion. This demographic trend is largely due to the vast
improvements in health care and ironically, it is exactly this
important aspect of our society that will suffer most. Recently the
European FP6 project CAALYX (Complete Ambient Assisted Living
Experiment) was successfully completed. In this project with partners
from 6 different European nations, a suite of sensors in a body area
network was used to gauge the medical condition of elderly users, thus
lessening the strain on traditional health services.
The CAALYX
system constitutes a range of biomedical sensors in a body-area
network, which communicates with a server to allow for remote
configuration of the sensors and feedback on user health status and
potential critical situations. Through its web interfaces, the CAALYX
system allows appropriate access to GPs, care taker centres and family
or other informal care givers. Through the use of several sensors a
comprehensive picture of the elder's medical status is obtained. In
addition to home based sensors for blood pressure and weight, sensors
for ECG, SpO2, temperature and physical activity were used and
integrated in one portable device, coined the Wearable Light Device
(WLD). The device was initially used in trials performed in Limerick
(Ireland) to evaluate the effectiveness of the equipment and approach.
Upon successful completion of the trials in Limerick, the CAALYX system
was deployed in Ancona (Italy) and used by both care-home based and
independently living elderly citizens. In these clinical trials, which
were performed over a 3 month period, 10 elderly volunteers, 4 nurses,
2 care givers and 1 general practitioner used the system. At the same
time the system was used remotely by geriatricians to monitor the trial
results and provide feedback to the elder or their general practitioner
if necessary.
Speaker
Biography
Dr.
Pepijn van de Ven was born in the Netherlands where he obtained a MSc.
in electronic and electrical engineering from the Eindhoven University
of Technology in 2000. Upon completing his studies, Pepijn worked at
Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven as a research scientist. He
was a member of the Integrated Transceivers group, involved in the
development of RF oscillators and RF front ends for third generation
telecommunication hand sets. In 2002 Pepijn moved to the University of
Limerick in Ireland to pursue a PhD in the field of autonomous control
of underwater vehicles using neural networks and was awarded the PhD in
2005. After his PhD, Pepijn moved back to the area of wireless
communication and has since been involved in the Wireless Access
Research Centre at the University of Limerick as a senior research
fellow in the area of wireless fall and mobility monitoring. His
research interests include low power wireless communication, fall and
mobility monitoring algorithms and hardware platforms for sensors used
in assisted living applications.
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Biomagnetics and Bioimaging for Brain
Research — 29 October 2009
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Seminar Supported by
| Presenter: |
Professor Shoogo Ueno
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| Title: |
Recent Advances in
Biomagnetics and Bioimaging for Brain Research and Sensing Technologies |
| Date: |
29 October 2009
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| Time: |
3 pm
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| Venue: |
ICLT Veterinary Science / Theatre, Massey University,
Palmerston North campus
***
Please note that this is a different venue from the one first
advertised ***
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Abstract:
Biomagnetics is an interdisciplinary field where magnetics, biology and
medicine overlap. Biomagnetics has a long history since 1600 when
William Gilbert published his book "De Magnete". Recent advances in
biomagnetics have enabled us not only to detect extremely weak magnetic
fields from the human brain but also to control cell orientation and
cell growth by using extremely high magnetic fields. Pulsed magnetic
fields are used for transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) of the
human brain, and both high frequency magnetic fields and magnetic
nano-particles have promising therapeutic applications for the
treatments of cancers and brain diseases such as Alzheimer's and
Parkinson's. On the imaging front, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is
now a powerful tool for basic and clinical medicine. New methods of MRI
based on the imaging of impedance of the human body, called impedance
MRI, and the imaging of neuronal current activities in the human brain,
called current MRI, are also being developed.
This lecture will focus on the recent advances in biomagnetics and
bioimaging based on achievements obtained mostly in our laboratory in
recent years. The lecture includes (1) a method of localized magnetic
stimulation of the human brain by TMS with a figure-eight coil, (2)
magnetoencephalography (MEG) by superconducting quantum interference
devices (SQUIDs), (3) impedance MRI and current MRI, (4) cancer therapy
and control of iron-ion release/uptake from/into ferritin, iron storage
protein, by using both high frequency magnetic fields/pulsed magnetic
fields, (5) measurements of iron content and amyloid aggregation via
radiative decay modifications, and (6) magnetic control of cell
orientation and cell growth by static high magnetic fields. These new
biomagnetic approaches will open new horizons in brain research, brain
treatments and regenerative medicine.
About
the speaker:
Professor Shoogo Ueno is an Emeritus Professor Tokyo
University, and currently a Professor at the Graduate School of
Engineering, Kyushu University, Japan. He has wProfessor Shoogo
Uenoorked for more that 40 years in bioelectromagnetism and
bioimaging. Amongst other, his credentials include:
— Fellow of the IEEE and member of the Administrative
Committee of the IEEE Magnetics Society
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Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Linköping in Sweden
— Past
president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society
— Past
Chairman of Commission K on Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine,
International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
— Fellow
of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)
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IEEE Sensors conference 2009 — 25–28 October
2009
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The NZ Central Section is
pleased to support of this event. For more information see the
conference
website.
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Optical Fibre Sensing for
Biomedical Applications
— 20 October 2009
| Presenter: |
Dr.
Sinéad O'Keeffe
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| Title: |
Advances
in Optical Fibre Sensing Technology for Biomedical Applications |
| Date: |
20
October 2009
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| Time: |
12
pm
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| Venue: |
Laby
408, Level 4, Laby Building, Gate 7 Kelburn Pde, Kelburn Campus, Victoria
University of Wellington
See coordinate 11h on the Kelburn Campus Map.
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Abstract:
The inherent properties of optical fibres afford sensors, based on such
technology, a number of advantages over conventional sensing
techniques, such as semiconductor and electrochemical sensors. Recent
advancement in optical fibre sensing technology has led to the
development of a number of novel sensors with applications specific to
the biomedical industry. Optical fibres also allow for remote sensing,
whereby the sensor can be placed several hundred metres from the
control electronics. This means that they can be employed in harsh
environments, such as a radiation facility, and monitored online, in
real-time, from a control room. The ability to monitor ionising
radiation doses is of particular importance within the medical
industry, both for radiotherapy, in beam characterisation and patient
dose verification, and also for the sterilisation of medical products.
The small, lightweight properties of optical fibre sensors, together
with their remote monitoring capabilities, make them ideal for in-situ
monitoring, for example monitoring lung and bladder pressures, while
the penetrating properties of light also allow for non-invasive sensing
technology, such as those used for monitoring haemoglobin levels and
oxygen saturation. These optical fibre sensors have been shown to have
high sensitivity, large dynamic range along with high resolutions.
Biography:
Dr. Sinéad O'Keeffe was born in Ireland. She received a B Eng (Hons)
degree and PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of
Limerick. Her PhD work was on the development of polymer optical fibre
sensors for the sterilisation industry. Following this, she was a Marie
Curie Research Fellow in the General Engineering Research Institute at
Liverpool John Moores University, developing optical fibre sensors for
a microwave plasma UV lamp and ozone generation system. She returned to
the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre at the University of Limerick
in 2008 and was awarded a Returning Marie Curie Research Fellowship in
the area of optical fibre radiotherapy dosimetry. Her research
interests include optical fibre sensors for environmental monitoring
and biomedical applications; such as gas sensing, radiation dosimetry,
marine sensing, and water quality monitoring.
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Optical
Fibre Sensors for Environmental Monitoring
— 14 October 2009
| Presenter: |
Dr.
Sinéad O'Keeffe
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| Title: |
Optical
Fibre Sensors for Applications in Environmental Monitoring |
| Date: |
14
October 2009
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| Time: |
3 pm
***
Please note that this is a different time from the one first
advertised ***
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| Venue: |
Room:
AH3.43a, AG-HORT Building, Massey University, Palmerston North campus
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Abstract: The
inherent properties of optical fibres afford sensors, based on such
technology, a number of advantages over conventional sensing
techniques, such as semiconductor and electrochemical sensors. There is
an increasing need for the monitoring of certain parameters, e.g.
vehicle exhaust gas emissions, urban air pollution, marine pollutants
and algae blooms, as legislation governing the environment is becoming
ever more stringent, coupled with a fundamental need for understanding
the processes that govern our environment so that it can be better
understood and managed. Optical fibre sensors provide a means by which
rugged and versatile measurements can be achieved. They offer many
advantages over conventional methods for sensing technology,
particularly for environmental monitoring. Of particular importance is
their dependence on light energy at the point of measurement, thus
involving no electrical signal. This makes them particularly suitable
for marine applications, where they can monitor on the ocean surface,
mid-water or on the sea-bed, depending on the application. Optical
fibres are made of a dielectric material and as such are chemically
inert, making them suitable for sensing in chemically harsh
environments, e.g. vehicle exhausts, while also providing immunity from
electromagnetic interferences. The possibility of small, simple
interfaces along with lightweight fibre technology results in appealing
low cost sensor systems. Optical fibre sensors have also been shown to
have high sensitivity, large dynamic range along with high resolutions.
Biography:
Dr. Sinéad O'Keeffe was born in Ireland. She received a B Eng (Hons)
degree and PhD degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of
Limerick. Her PhD work was on the development of polymer optical fibre
sensors for the sterilisation industry. Following this, she was a Marie
Curie Research Fellow in the General Engineering Research Institute at
Liverpool John Moores University, developing optical fibre sensors for
a microwave plasma UV lamp and ozone generation system. She returned to
the Optical Fibre Sensors Research Centre at the University of Limerick
in 2008 and was awarded a Returning Marie Curie Research Fellowship in
the area of optical fibre radiotherapy dosimetry. Her research
interests include optical fibre sensors for environmental monitoring
and biomedical applications; such as gas sensing, radiation dosimetry,
marine sensing, and water quality monitoring.
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125th Anniversary Public Lecture — 1
October 2009
| Title: |
Sparking a Revolution- Marconi,
Shipwrecks and Murder |
| Presenter: |
Professor
Emeritus Bob Hodgson |
| Time: |
5:30
pm
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| Venue: |
Rutherford House Lecture Theatre,
Victoria University of Wellington
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Synopsis.
In the the last years of the 19th Century the world was in desperate
need of a system of communication that worked without wires and that
bridged both the continents and the oceans. By that time Maxwell had
produced the theory of the propagation of electromagnetic energy and
Hertz had demonstrated it in the laboratory. Marconi, then a teenager,
made the vital mental connection between the work of Maxwell and Hertz
and the communication at a distance problem. This talk, will tell the
sometimes sensational story of how a determined teenager of mixed
Italian and British blood solved the problems, made a fortune and
literally sparked the communications revolution that
continues. For the technical, the development of electric spark based
radio will be explained, for the not so technical the story of the
rescue of the survivors of the Titanic and the dramatic capture
of the murderous Dr Crippen will be related.
About
Professor Emeritus Bob Hodgson:
Bob Hodgson held the chair
in Information Engineering in the School of Engineering and Advanced
Technology at Massey University for 21 years and is recently retired.
On his retirement he was made Professor Emeritus. He has an
international reputation for his pioneering work on digital image
processing and has been very active in the profession.
He has been
a senior member of the IEEE for 27 years and is an IEEE Centennial
Medalist. He is also a licensed radio amateur with a passion for
history, including the history of electronic technology.
"Marconi's
story is inspirational: both Marconi and his technology played a part
in some of the most sensational events of his time." Professor Emeritus
Bob Hodgson will enjoy telling this tale.
This should be a topic of wide interest to both members and the public
at large and so will be advertised widely across the community as a
special public anniversary event. We hope you can all join us
on this very special occasion to
celebrate the 125th anniversary of your institution.
Refreshments will be served before and after the Lecture on the
mezzanine floor adjacent to the rear of the Lecture Theatre.
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Post-Graduate
Presentations — 4 September 2009
| Time: |
2:00 pm – 6:00pm
(approximately)
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| Venue: |
Government Building, LT1, Pipitea Campus,
Victoria University of Wellington
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The IEEE New Zealand Central Section will
be hosting an annual half-day event to showcase engineering
post-graduate research in the region. The event will provide an
opportunity for post-graduate students pursuing studies in the areas of
engineering and technology to present their work and to share their
knowledge with other fellow-students and peers. The event will allow
for networking between students and other IEEE members in attendance.
Each
presentation will be time-limited to 8 minutes with approximately 2
minutes allocated for discussion and questions. Prizes for best
presentations will be awarded and all presenters will receive a
participation certificate.
Food and refreshments will be available to all participants.
IEEE,
IPENZ and IET members and colleagues are welcome to attend the event.
Please drop in at any time that your schedule allows. You will be most
welcome.
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Governing Core Global Internet
Resources — Wednesday 29th July 2009
This Breakfast Seminar is being jointly hosted by IET, IEEE and IPENZ.
| Presenter: |
Peter
Dengate Thrush,
Chairman ICANN
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| Title: |
Governing
Core Global
Internet Resources |
| Date: |
Wednesday
29th July 2009
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| Time: |
7:30am
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| Venue: |
James
Cook Hotel -
Chancellor 6, The Terrace, Wellington
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| Presentation
Slides: |
Available
as PDF file (4.4 MB) |
Who governs the Internet's
crucial resources -
domain names and IP addresses?
Who makes the rules about adding new Top Level Domains to compete with
dot Com? Would
you like to use dotWine, dotFilm, dotSport or dotSex?
What are the rules about allocating IP addresses? Can they be allocated
by governments? Can
they be sold? Might they be taxed?
For the past 11 years, a bold global experiment has been successfully
conducted, in forming an
international, not for profit organisation to deal with these matters.
This organization is ICANN,
the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Based in California, ICANN is designed to be global, self-regulating,
industry-led, and largely
free from government interference. Today it is facing some challenging
issues which have
recently hit the international stage.
It may surprise you that this influential organization is chaired by a
Kiwi - Wellington barrister
Peter Dengate Thrush. Peter will be speaking to us about this unique
organization and the
challenges it faces.
This will be a fascinating presentation for anyone interested in the
future of the Internet. Come
along and hear from a New Zealander who is on centre stage of the
Governance of the global
Internet.
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| Please
promote this event by displaying this poster. |
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Idea Propagation in
Organizations — Thursday 11th June 2009
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Breakfast Seminar Sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
| Presenter: |
Dr Christopher A. White
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| Title: |
Idea Propagation in
Organizations |
| Date: |
Thursday 11th June 2009
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| Time: |
0730 – 0845
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| Venue: |
Duxton Hotel, Wellington
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| Cost: |
No charge to
pre-registered attendees.
Kindly covered by Alcatel-Lucent |
The healthy exchange of ideas within an
organization leads to faster problem solving, mitigates short and long
term risk, and opens the possibility for disruptive technological
change. We introduce a new tool for the simulation and optimization of
idea propagation within an organization. This tool builds upon a
foundation of hierarchical simulation techniques which have been
applied to the simulation of power transients in optically transparent
mesh networks.
The tool examines the organizational topology, internal processes, and
implements an individual knowledge model to examine idea propagation.
The topology represents both the formal and informal networks of idea
movement within an organization. The processes include all activities
resulting in the exchange or introduction of ideas to the organization.
The knowledge model concerns how individuals store and propagate ideas.
We apply this tool to several simple organizational topologies to
understand the propagation characteristics of ideas and the coupling of
ideas between entities in the structure.
Christopher White is a distinguished member of technical staff in the
Chief Scientist's Office of Alcatel-Lucent, Bell Laboratories in Murray
Hill, New Jersey. He joined Bell Labs in 1997 after graduating with a
Ph.D. in theoretical quantum chemistry from the University of
California in Berkeley, California. His research interests include the
development of computational models and methods for the simulation and
control of interesting physical systems. This has included work in
areas ranging from linear scaling quantum chemistry simulations, to
acoustic scattering in slurries, to the design of microstructured
optical devices and the global control of transparent optical mesh
networks. Currently, Dr. White’s work in the Chief Scientist's Office
focuses on understanding and implementing mechanisms for facilitating
idea propagation and collaborative brainstorming as well as supporting
the creation and growth of research partnerships between Bell Labs and
external academic institutions.
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2009 Prestige Lecture — 23
April
2009 & 20 May 2009
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This event is being run by the IET Wellington Network
| Presenter: |
Martin Sharrock,
Chief Technology Officer, Alcatel-Lucent NZ
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| Title: |
It’s a Mobile World:
The Facts, The Fun, The Future...
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Wellington |
Palmerston
North |
| Date: |
Thursday
23 April 2009
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Wednesday
20 May |
| Time: |
Light
Refreshments at 5.30 p.m.
Lecture at 6.00 p.m.
Conclusion by 7.00 p.m.
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Light
Refreshments at 12.00 noon
Lecture at 12.30 p.m.
Conclusion by 2:00 p.m. |
| Venue: |
Government
Buildings,
Law School,
Lecture Theatre GBLT1,
Stout St |
Massey University
AGHort Lecture Block
Lecture Theatre AH2 |
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Did you know there are
now 3.84 billion mobile phone users in the world and that there are
more mobile phones than people in NZ! We’ve come a long way since the
first mobile phone network was launched in Japan in 1979.
In
this informative yet entertaining presentation, the audience will have
the opportunity to expand their knowledge of mobile networking; how it
works, why it works, and what the future holds.
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| Martin
Sharrock, Chief Technology Officer and head of the Solutions and
Marketing team for Alcatel-Lucent in New Zealand, will take you on this
fascinating multimedia journey through the world of mobile
communications. |
| To help promote the event please display this promotional
poster. |
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Technical Talk — 13 February
2009
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This event was supported by
School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University
| Presenter: |
Tapan
K. Sarkar |
| Title: |
A Brief
Chronology of the Origin and Developments of Wireless Communication and
Electronics |
| Date: |
Friday,
13
February 2009
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| Time: |
1pm
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| Venue: |
Room:
5C12 (Block 5 Level C Room 12)
Entrance A, Wallace St
Wellington Campas
Massey University
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This talk presented a
brief chronology of the developments of wireless communication and
supporting electronics. The name wireless indicates
communication without the use of wires. Various
mechanisms
have been used for such purpose: electrostatic coupling, conduction,
magnetic induction and electromagnetic radiation.
The first
three, while indeed wireless were extremely limited in the distance
they were capable of covering. The breakthrough in wireless
communication was the successful use of the fourth one which allowed
long distance transmission. The term radio was
coined as a
short name for electromagnetic radiation. Hence it is possible to
speak of some wireless systems as not being radio systems. However,
because all the other types of wireless mechanisms were abandoned,
nowadays the word wireless is synonymous of radio. Also, because the
earliest radio communications used Morse’s code for transmitting
information, it should be distinguished between this early form of
radio communication and radio transmission of
information in a readily understandable audio (and/or visual) form.
Finally, it must be pointed out that when speaking about
the
history of wireless communication one can focus on three different
types of discoveries: those that made it possible, those that made it
realistic, and those that provided quality. Because of all these
issues, it is not easy to objectively state who the Father of
Radio was. Often, the invention of radio is delegated to one
or
two persons, the names of whom vary from country to country,
depending on the country of origin of the authors. The aim of this
presentation is to illustrate that simultaneous developments were
going on all over the world and that each invention provided a
solution to the portion of the puzzle.
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Tapan K. Sarkar
received the B.Tech.
degree from the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kharagpur, in 1969, the M.Sc.E. degree from the
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, in 1971, and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, in
1975.
From 1975 to 1976, he was
with the TACO Division of the General Instruments Corporation. He was
with the Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, from 1976
to 1985. He was a Research Fellow at the Gordon McKay Laboratory,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, from 1977 to 1978. He is now a
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Syracuse University. His current research interests deal with
numerical solutions of operator equations arising in electromagnetics
and signal processing with application to system design. He obtained
one of the “best solution” awards in May 1977 at the Rome Air
Development Center (RADC) Spectral Estimation Workshop. He received
the Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic
Compatibility in 1979 and in the 1997 National Radar Conference. He
has authored or coauthored more than 300 journal articles and
numerous conference papers and 32 chapters in books and fifteen
books, including his most recent ones, Iterative and Self
Adaptive
Finite-Elements in Electromagnetic Modeling (Boston, MA:
Artech
House, 1998), Wavelet Applications in Electromagnetics and
Signal
Processing (Boston, MA: Artech House, 2002), Smart
Antennas
(John Wiley &
Sons, 2003), History of Wireless (John
Wiley & Sons, 2005), and Physics of Multiantenna
Systems and
Broadband Adaptive Processing (John Wiley & Sons,
2008).
Dr. Sarkar is a
Registered Professional Engineer in the State of New York. He
received the College of Engineering Research Award in 1996 and the
Chancellor’s Citation for Excellence in Research in 1998 at
Syracuse University. He was an Associate Editor for feature articles
of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Newsletter (1986-1988),
Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic
Compatibility (1986-1989), Chairman of the Inter-commission Working
Group of International URSI on Time Domain Metrology (1990–1996),
distinguished lecturer for the Antennas and Propagation Society from
(2000-2003), Member of Antennas and Propagation Society ADCOM
(2004-2007) and on the board of directors of ACES (2000-2006), vice
president of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society
(ACES) and a member of the IEEE Electromagnetics Award board
(2004-2007). He is currently an associate editor for the IEEE
Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is on the editorial
board of Digital Signal Processing – A Review Journal, Journal of
Electromagnetic Waves and Applications and Microwave and Optical
Technology Letters. He is a member of Sigma Xi and International
Union of Radio Science Commissions A and B.
He received Docteur
Honoris Causa both from Universite Blaise Pascal, Clermont Ferrand,
France in 1998 and from Politechnic University of Madrid, Madrid,
Spain in 2004. He received the medal of the friend of the
city of
Clermont Ferrand, France, in 2000.
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Technical Talk — 13 February
2009
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This
event was supported by
School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University
| Presenter: |
Associate
Professor Rini Akmeliawati
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| Title: |
Automatic
Sign Language Translator, current state and way ahead
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| Date: |
Friday, 13
February 2009
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| Time: |
10:30am
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| Venue: |
Room AH3.43A
Turitea Campus
Massey University
Palmerston North
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| Synopsis |
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The
presentation discussed the state of automatic sign language
translator to date and the BRAP project that is conducted within three
institutions, Massey University, Monash University and International
Islamic
University Malaysia. The challenges in the project will be discussed
and the
up-to-date progress will be presented.
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Speaker
Biography:
Rini obtained her PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the
University of Melbourne, Australia in 2002, and Bachelor of Electrical
Engineering (Honor) from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
(RMIT)University, Melbourne in 1997. She is currently an Associate
Professor at the Dept. Mechatronics Engineering, the International
Islamic
University Malaysia (IIUM). Before joining IIUM, she was a lecturer at
Monash University - Malaysia campus (2004-2008) and at RMIT University,
Melbourne (2001-2004). Her research interests are modelling and control
of
engineering systems, nonlinear control theory and signal processing.
She has
been the chair of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society -
Malaysia
Chapter since 2007. |
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ICARA 2009 — 10-12 February 2009
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The
NZ Central Section was
pleased to support of this event. For more information see the
conference
website.
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