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Calendar Archive, May 2006
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; meeting at 6:30 pm
Place: Allie's American Grill, Bethesda Marriott, 5151 Pooks Hill Rd., Bethesda, MD
Directions: From the north, take 270 South to Route 355 and exit at Wisconsin Ave. From the south, take 495 exit 34 (Wisconsin Ave.) to Pooks Hill Rd.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Virginia Procurement Technology Assistance Program
Sponsor: National Capital Area Consultants' Network
Speaker: Bill Hamilton, Consultant
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm; speaker at 7:00 pm
Place: Corner 7 Cafe, Tysons Corner Marriott, 8028 Leesburg Pike, Vienna, VA
Directions: From the east or I-495, take Route 7 West, turn right on Towers Crescent Drive, then immediately right into the Marriott parking lot. From the west on Route 7, turn right onto Old Gallows Road just opposite the Marriott, proceed around to the left until you have completed almost a full circle, and turn left into the Marriott parking lot. Free parking.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Cost: Attendees are responsible their individual orders.
Contact: Rick Cunningham at
rick@corridor-rd.com.
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Wickers Cafe, Tysons Corner Holiday Inn, 1960 Chain Bridge Road, McLean, VA
Directions: From I-495 or I-66, take Route 267 West. Exit at Route 123 West (Chain Bridge Road). Turn right on International Drive, then left on Greensboro Drive. Look for the Holiday Inn entrance on the left. Free parking.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or nca-admin@ieee.org. Please include the term IEEE in the subject line of your email.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Multichannel Biomedical Imaging for Cancer Detection
Sponsor: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Cosponsors: Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, Computer Society, Power Engineering Society, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Consultants' Network, Women in Engineering, George Washington University Student Branch
Speaker: Dr. (Joseph) Yue Wang, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute
Time: 6:00-8:00 pm
Place: Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute, 4300 Wilson Blvd., Suite 750, Arlington, VA
Directions: From Ballston Metro Station (Orange line), turn right at top of escalator then left on the street. Proceed two blocks toward Hecht’s, turn right and walk one block to Ballston Point at the intersection of Wilson Blvd. and Glebe Rd. ARI is on the 7th floor.
If driving, see
www.ari.vt.edu/ari_directions.htm.
More Info: Light refreshments will be provided. For more information, see Diamond story below.
Contact: Please RSVP by May 14 to Debi Siering at siering@ieee.org or 703-633-3155 ext. 9095.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Control Strategies for Matrix Converters in Power Electronics
Sponsor: Control Systems Society, Washington Chapter
Speaker: Dr. Dimos Katsis, Army Research Laboratory
Time: 6:00 pm
Place: Mykono's Restaurant, 121 Congressional Lane, Rockville, MD
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Contact: All Attendees must RSVP to Mike Gilliom at
mgilliom@fairchildcontrols.com.
Sponsor: Lasers and Electro-optics Society
Speaker: Philip Russell, Max-Planck Research Group, Institute for Optics, Information & Photonics, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Time: Light refreshments and socializing at 6:00 pm, lecture at 6:30 pm, optional dinner following lecture with the speaker at nearby restaurant
Place: University of Maryland, A. V. Williams Building, Room 2460, College Park, MD
Directions: From the north or I-495, take Route 1 South. Approx. 2 miles south of the Beltway, turn right onto Campus Drive, then immediately take Paint Branch Drive and the A.V. Williams Building will be on the right. From the south on Route 1, turn left onto Campus Drive, and follow above directions. Ample parking is available after 4:00 pm. See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap.
More Info: See Diamond story, below. This is a LEOS Distinguished Speaker Seminar.
Contact: Dominique Dagenais at 301-951-7095 or
dominique_dagenais@avanex.com,
or Lucy Zheng at 703-578-2721
or lzheng@ida.org.
Sponsor: Computer Society
Speaker: Chris Daly, IBM Federal Software Group
Time: Networking and food 6:15 pm; technical presentation 6:45 pm
Place: Lucent Technologies Bell Labs Network Reliability & Security Office, 1100 New York Ave., Suite 620W, Washington, DC
Directions: See
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/directions.html#bell for directions and parking.
More Info: Also at this meeting, members of the Oakton High School (Vienna, VA) Robotics Team will talk about their "Ohmwrecker" robot, which they built for this year's FIRST Robotics Competition. The IEEE Northern Virginia Section is a sponsor of the team. For more information about Mr. Daly's talk, see Diamond story below. Pizza and soft drinks will be served.
Cost: Free for IEEE members, $4 for all others.
Contact: Please register at least 48 hours in advance at
http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/computer/archives/may06.htm.
For more information, contact the chapter program chair, Prabhat at
prabhat@ieee.org, or the chapter co-chairs T.K. Ramesh at tkramesh@ieee.org
and Shahid Shah at
shahid.shah@netspective.com.
Thursday, May 18, 2006
Optimal Industrial Safety Using Infrared Thermography
Sponsors: Power Engineering Society, Industry Applications Society
Speaker: Erica Wolfkill, FLIR Systems
Update: This speaker and topic were originally scheduled for the June 15 meeting. (The two speakers have traded places.)
Time: Refreshments at 6:00 pm, speaker at 6:30 pm
Place: KEMA Consulting, 4400 Fair Lakes Court, Fairfax, VA
Directions: From I-66, take the Fairfax County Parkway North exit. Turn right onto Fair Lakes Parkway at the first light, then left onto Fair Lakes Court at the first light. KEMA is in the first building on the left (AFCEA).
More Info: See Diamond Story below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members; $10 for guests.
Contact: RSVP to Monica Mallini at 703-387-6021 or m.a.mallini@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Communications Society (Northern Virginia Chapter); Communications Society (Washington Chapter); Computer Society; Information Theory Society
Speaker: Neal Ziring, National Security Agency
Time: Dinner at 6:00 pm, speaker at 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Building 2, Conference Room 1N100A/B, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions:
See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre2_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contract: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at fred.seelig@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Virginia Procurement Technology Assistance Program
The Virginia Procurement Technical Assistance Program (PTAP) is a not-for-profit organization funded by the Defense Logistics Agency and George Mason University, intended to increase contracting activity between small businesses, prime government contractors and the government.
PTAP's mission is:
* to generate employment and improve the general economy of a locality by assisting business firms in obtaining and performing under DoD, other federal agencies, and state and local government contracts;
* to expand the industrial base of the DoD and other federal agencies;
* to provide a link between the federal government, major prime contractors, and small businesses;
* to provide technical assistance to small businesses interested in federal, state and local government contracting; and
* to apply George Mason University resources to improve the business climate and economic development in local communities.
From its office in Fairfax, PTAP offers marketing, technical consulting and educational services to businesses in the Northern Virginia and Washington metropolitan area. (The PTAP center at the University of Maryland offers similar services.)
Bill Hamilton will discuss the program and review services available at the center. He will also provide a mini-primer on doing business with the federal government, identify ways in which it differs from the commercial world, and answer questions.
Hamilton is a management consultant concentrating in business strategy including start-up development and turn around management. He has over $100 million in career bookings in companies ranging in size from large multi-million dollar integrators to very small entrepreneurial start-ups. His experience includes broad coverage of agencies in the federal government including the Department of Defense, and in the commercial information technology market. Technology areas he has addressed include system design and integration, process management, data mining and analysis, language analysis, sensor management, aerospace engineering and communications, telecommunication network design including call centers, forensic science and behavioral sciences.
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Wednesday, May 16, 2006
Multichannel Biomedical Imaging for Cancer Detection
Multichannel biomedical imaging promises powerful tools for the visualization and elucidation of important disease-causing biological processes. Recent research aims to simultaneously assess the spatial-temporal/spectral distributions of multiple biomarkers, where the signals often represent a composite of more than one distinct source. A novel development is the blind source separation algorithm for quantitative dissection of mixed yet correlated biomarker distributions. Dr. Wang will demonstrate this approach on mixtures of real biomedical images acquired by multispectral microscope, dual-energy x-ray, and dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Applications of this technique include detection of cancer and other diseases.
(Joseph) Yue Wang received his B.S. in computer science and M.S. in electrical engineering from Shanghai Jiaotong University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering (with a minor in computer science) from the University of Maryland in 1995. After a year of postdoctoral training at Georgetown University School of Medicine, he joined the department of electrical engineering and computer science of The Catholic University of America in 1996, where he served as the founding director of the Computational Bioinformatics and Bioimaging Laboratory (CBIL).
Dr. Wang was also affiliated with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as an adjunct associate professor of radiology. He has extensive experience in image processing, image segmentation, and change detection. Dr. Wang has served on multidisciplinary cancer research teams since 1995, first in prostate cancer detection, then breast cancer detection and therapy. He recently led a multidisciplinary team in a $5.5 million project to develop bioinformatics tools to improve cancer treatment outcomes. In 2004, Dr. Wang was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering for
his contributions to biomedical informatics.
Currently an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute in Arlington, Virginia, Dr. Wang continues to direct the CBIL. His research interests include intelligent computing, machine learning, pattern recognition, statistical visualization, and advanced imaging and image analysis, with applications in computational bioinformatics and bioimaging.
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Wednesday, May 17, 2006
Control Strategies for Matrix Converters in Power Electronics
The US Army has selected the matrix converter as one of its methods for making the portable generators used in battlefield power applications smaller and lighter. The matrix converter is a type of AC-AC converter which does a direct transformation from one voltage and frequency to another. This presentation will cover the basics of matrix converter control, modulation development, and switch commutation. The discussion will feature an implementation of a basic Venturini type matrix converter for three-phase power delivery. Some aspects of the control design will also be presented for its application as a possible battlefield voltage source.
Dimosthenis (Dimos) Katsis received his B.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995. His interest in solar and electric vehicles during his academic career at Virginia Tech led to graduate studies in power electronics and electric vehicle drives at the Virginia Power Electronics Center (VPEC). Katsis received his master’s degree from Virginia Tech in 1997. He then joined General Electric (GE) in Salem, Virginia, and was enrolled in the Edison Engineering program, where he contributed to the development of a new generation of high power AC drives for steel making. In the fall of 1999, Katsis returned to Virginia Tech to pursue a doctorate in power electronics at the newly formed Center for Power Electronic Systems. He used his background in six-sigma reliability work gained at GE to study reliability of power semiconductor modules. There he carried on work in reliability studies in power electronics and materials research with Dr. Daan van Wyk.
Dr. Katsis is employed at the Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland, where he is a team leader for the development of applications in power electronics and devices for future Army applications. These projects include improved efficiency inverters for large hybrid electric vehicles, and characterization of high temperature silicon carbide MOSFETS, BJTs, and JFETS. Katsis has been an IEEE member for 15 years.
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Photonic crystal fibres (PCFs) have been the focus of increasing scientific and technological interest since the first working example was reported in 1996 (for a review see Science 299 (358-362) 2003). Although superficially similar to a conventional hair-thin glass optical fibre, PCF has a unique microstructure, consisting of an array of microscopic hollow channels running along its entire length. These channels act as optical barriers or scatterers, and suitably arranged can "corral" light within a central core (either hollow or made of solid glass). PCF can trap light in two different ways: by a modified form of total internal reflection, when the core must have a higher average refractive index than the photonic crystal cladding; and by a two-dimensional photonic bandgap, when the index of the core is uncritical--it can be hollow or filled with material.
Light can be controlled and transformed in these fibres with unprecedented freedom, allowing for example precision guidance of light in a narrow hollow core (Science 285 (1537-1539) 1999), the creation of highly nonlinear PCFs with accurately controlled dispersion profiles (Nature 424 (511-515) 2003), the design of fibres that guide only one mode at all wavelengths (Optics Letters 22 (961-963) 1997), and the observation of stimulated Raman scattering in hydrogen at threshold powers six orders of magnitude lower than ever seen before in single-pass geometries (Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 (123903) 2004; Nature 434 (488-491) 2005). These are just a few examples of how the PCF concept has ushered in a new and more versatile era of fibre optics, with a multitude of different applications spanning many areas of science.
Philip Russell is director of the Max-Planck Research Group for Optics, Information & Photonics at the University of Erlangen, Germany. From 1996 to 2005 he founded and led the Photonics & Photonic Materials Group at the University of Bath. He specializes in periodic structures, nonlinear optics, waveguides and their applications. A Fellow of the Optical Society of America, in 2000 he won its Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize for the invention of photonic crystal fibre. In 2005 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and received the Thomas Young Prize of the UK Institute of Physics and the Körber Prize for European Science.
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The global distribution of work is pushing organizations to de-perimeterize their security boundaries so that information flow, the glue which holds this distribution of work together, can be facilitated among these collaborating entities and work domains. At the same time, there are many opposing pressures to unfettered information flow, such as concerns over privacy and identity theft; protection of intellectual property; protection of trade or government secrets; and protection from denial or misuse of information resources. In the past and in most present instances, these concerns over privacy and sensitivity of information have led to several inefficiencies due to the deployment of stovepiped infrastructures in these operational environments. Customers are forced to maintain separate infrastructures in order to isolate the information that may be classified or customer-sensitive.
The purpose of this session is to provide insight into cross-domain information-sharing patterns that can be applied to facilitate secure and efficient information exchanges across security boundaries. The session will illustrate a number of current and emerging operational patterns for information sharing including multilevel security, trusted virtual domains, and federation.
Chris Daly is currently the technical competency leader for security in the IBM Federal Software Group. He has more than 27 years of experience as an analyst, consultant, architect, principal, and business development executive. He is currently responsible for security strategies and secure software solutions, and vendor ecosystem development for federal engagements.
Since joining IBM, Daly has served as technical representative to several government advisory panels and internal IBM strategy teams focused on new security technologies and emerging security issues, including integrity-based computing, multi-level security, homeland security, Department of State Overseas Presence Advisory Panel, Infrastructure Protection Task Force, IEEE Standard 1700 for Security Management, common criteria product evaluation strategy, Linux security strategy, electronic authentication partnership, open GIS forum for net-centric computing, and the software protection initiative and anti-tamper program.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Optimal Industrial Safety Using Infrared Thermography
Thermography is the use of infrared cameras to not only "see" heat emissions, but also to measure heat output, thus enabling the detection of equipment operating outside normal temperature parameters, requiring maintenance, and with the potential (and hazard) of imminent failure. Infrared cameras are thus an important tool for preventive and predictive maintenance applications.
A recently developed infrared camera is capable of detecting volatile organic compound (VOC) gas leaks, a boon for leak detection and repair programs in the petrochemical and refinery industries. This device enables real-time scanning of refinery facilities and transfer stations, and even miles of pipeline and transportation vehicles, while in motion.
This presentation will focus on real-world infrared technique and application examples--from capturing images on the job, to detecting and averting potential trouble spots--showing the benefits of thermography to enhanced preventive maintenance and leak detection programs.
Erica Wolfkill has been with FLIR Systems for two years. She holds Level 1 Thermography Certification as well as Building Science Thermography Certification. She covers the mid-Atlantic region for FLIR, and interacts directly with all end-users of the FLIR cameras. She is responsible for all commercial and government FLIR thermography camera sales in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Northern Virginia.
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This presentation will introduce Internet Protocol Standard TCP/IP Version 6 (IPv6), with emphasis on fundamental properties and basic operations of the protocol. A few advanced areas will also be mentioned, including mobile IPv6, commercial availability of IPv6, and IPv6 transition mechanisms.
Neal Ziring is the technical director of the Information Assurance Evaluations Group at the National Security Agency (NSA). He has served in a variety of technical position within the Evaluations Group, analyzing standards, writing security guidance and testing security products. Before joining NSA in 1989, he worked at AT&T Bell Labs. He holds a B.S. and an M.S. in computer science from Washington University.
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