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Calendar Archive, February 2008
Monday, February 4, 2008
Coupling Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers & Applications to Self-mixing Interferometry and Chaotic Cryptography
Sponsor: Lasers and Electro-Optics Society
Speaker: Prof. Silvano Donati, University of Pavia, Italy
Time: Light refreshments 6:00 pm, lecture 6:30 pm, optional dinner following lecture with the speaker at a local 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. See
www.parking.umd.edu/themap. Recommended parking lots are XX1, XX2 or I*, which are free after 4:00 pm. Check the signs carefully!
More Info: LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Silvano Donati is the author of two books and about 250 papers in journal and conference proceedings. His seminal papers on self-mixing interferometry and optical chaotic cryptography have totaled 430 citations. He is a Fellow of IEEE and the Optical Society of America, and he founded the Italian LEOS chapter. See http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/leos for more information about his presentation.
Contact: Dominique Dagenais at 301-951-7095 or
dominique_dagenais@avanex.com.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Washington Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:45 pm
Place: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the 12th Street entrance. The AAAS building is one block from the Metro Center station (Red, Orange and Blue lines) and approx. six blocks from the Gallery Place Metro station (Red, Yellow and Green lines).
Street parking is free after 6:30 pm (no parking 4:00-6:30 pm). There is a pay parking lot at the intersection of 9th St. and New York Ave., and an underground parking garage at 14th St. and New York Ave.
See map at www.aaas.org/dcwest.pdf.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are welcome.
Contact: Please RSVP to Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or
nca-admin@ieee.org.
Sponsors: Vehicular Technology Society, Land Transportation Committee; American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Speaker: Ross Capon
Time: 11:30 am
Place: American Public Transportation Association, Conference Room, 11th Floor,
1666 K Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to Farragut North station (Red Line, use K Street exit) or Farragut West station (Orange & Blue lines, use 17th Street exit).
More Info: All interested persons are invited.
Cost: $15 cash at the door for lunch.
Contact: Please make reservations by 4:00 pm on Friday, Feb. 8 by contacting Ken Briers at ken.briers@parsons.com or 202-775-3397, or Karl Berger at karl.berger@dcm-va.com or 703-803-7917.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee Meeting
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Olive Garden Restaurant, 8133 Leesburg Pike (Tysons Corner), Vienna, VA
Directions: From I-395 (Beltway), take I-66 West to Rte. 267 (Dulles Toll Rd.). Take the Toll Rd. to Exit 16 (Rte. 7, Leesburg Pike). Turn left to proceed East on Rte. 7. Turn right onto Gallows Rd. at the restaurant.
More Info: All interested IEEE members are invited to attend.
Contact: Please RSVP to Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or
nca-admin@ieee.org.
Sponsor: IEEE-USA
Time: 10:00 am to 4:30 pm
Place: National Building Museum, 401 F Street NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Use the Judiciary Square Metro station (Red line).
More Info: This one-day festival features dozens of hands-on activities provided by local engineering chapters and national organizations. See www.eweekdcfamilyday.org for more details.
Cost: Free
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Spectrum Policy for the Wireless Engineer:
Avoiding Regulatory Pitfalls in Getting New Wireless Technology to Market
Sponsor: Communications Society, Washington Chapter
Speakers: Anne Linton, Esq., Patton Boggs LLP, Dr. Michael Marcus, FCC, Retired
Time: Light dinner and networking at 6:30 pm; speaker at 7:00 pm
Place: Mantaro Networks, Inc., 20410 Century Blvd., Suite 120, Germantown, MD
Directions: See Mantaro Networks - go to the "contact" link.
More Info: See Diamond story below.
Contact: RSVP to Debra Meale at 703-492-0047 or
nca-admin@ieee.org (please include "COMSOC Feb. 19" in the Subject line).
Sponsor: District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies
Speaker: Jay M. Cohen, Under Secretary for Science & Technology, Department of Homeland Security
Time: 11:30 am
Place: Pier 7 Restaurant, 650 Water Street SW, Washington, DC
Directions: Complimentary 3 hours of parking, or walk from the Waterfront Metro Station (Green line).
Cost: $25 per person. Tables for 10 are $250.
Contact: Reservations required by Feb. 15. See
www.dcceas.org (Engineers Week link) for more information.
Sponsor: Microwave Theory and Techniques Society
Cosponsor: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society
Speaker: Chris DeBoy, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD
Time: Social period 5:30 pm, dinner 6:00 pm, lecture 7:00 pm
Place: American Center for Physics, One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.acp.org/map.html. Ten-minute walk from College Park Metro station (Green line).
More Info: See Diamond story below or www.ieee.org/mtt-wnva. This is the second lecture in the MTT-S series for 2007-08. All are welcome to attend. Attendees are invited to join the speaker and MTTS members for an optional catered buffet dinner at the lecture site.
Cost: Lecture free; $15 for dinner (reservation required).
Contact: Please RSVP for dinner only by COB Tuesday, Feb. 19 to Roger Kaul at
r.kaul@ieee.org or 301-394-4775.
Sponsor: Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications, University of Maryland Department of Mathematics
Cosponsor: IEEE Baltimore Section
Keynote Speaker: Peter Carr, head of Quantitative Financial Research at Bloomberg and of the Masters in Mathematical Finance program at NYU's Courant Institute
Time: Thursday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm followed by student poster sessions, open house, keynote speaker and light dinner; Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
Place: University of Maryland Department of Mathematics, Colloquium Room 3206, Mathematics Building, College Park, MD
Directions: See www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT/FFT08/dir_accom.html.
More Info: See www.norbertwiener.umd.edu/FFT/FFT08/index.html.
Cost: $25; free for students.
Contact: Chris Shaw at schris@math.umd.edu.
Sponsor: District of Columbia Council of Engineering and Architectural Societies
Speaker: Dr. Robert Marlay, P.E., Deputy Director, U.S. Climate Change Technology Program, Department of Energy
Time: 6:30 pm
Place: Crowne Plaza Hotel, 8777 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
Directions: 4 Blocks from Silver Spring Metro Station (Red line). Free parking behind the hotel.
More Info: The program includes DCCEAS awards for the Engineer, Young Engineer and Architect of the Year. The region's winning team in the National Engineers Week Future City Competition will also be recognized at the banquet.
Cost: $45 per person. Tables for 10 are $450.
Contact: Reservations required by Feb. 15. See www.dcceas.org (Engineers Week link) for reservation information, including choice of entrees.
Diamond Stories
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Spectrum Policy for the Wireless Engineer:
Avoiding Regulatory Pitfalls in Getting New Wireless Technology to Market
Two former FCC staffers, an engineer and a lawyer, will discuss the process of getting a new wireless product or service out of the lab and into the civil marketplace. The spectrum policy maze could easily ensnare new technologies. Indeed, for such technologies regulatory issues are just as real as Maxwell's Equations. But unlike the famous four equations, policies can change if the change is realistic and you have allowed enough lead time.
Anne Linton, Esq. is associated with Patton Boggs LLC and advises high-tech companies and health care organizations on strategic management of regulatory issues and the coordination of government relations strategies with clients' business planning to help these companies and organizations achieve their bottom-line goals. She has represented clients before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the Departments of State, Health and Human Services (HHS), Transportation (DOT), Defense, and Education, as well as before elected members of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, foreign telecommunications regulatory bodies, and other governmental organizations.
Dr. Michael Marcus retired from FCC after working there almost 25 years in a variety of spectrum policy leadership positions. He proposed and directed the FCC's 1981 spread spectrum initiative that resulted in the rules now used for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and most cordless phones in the U.S. He later proposed and directed the policy changes that opened spectrum above 60 GHz to commercial use. Not as significant, but a lot more fun, was directing the technical investigation into the 1987 Captain Midnight satellite jamming case and the 1989 jamming of Playboy's satellite channel and assisting in the successful prosecution of both perpetrators. He has also been involved in more mundane high tech enforcement cases dealing with false marine distress signals and false air traffic control signals.
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Current and planned deep-space missions depend on advanced techniques in microwave/RF design to accomplish demanding science and telecommunications requirements. This talk will report on advances in microwave systems and technologies in recently launched missions, including the New Horizons Mission to Pluto and the MESSENGER mission to Mercury, on planned improvements to NASA's Deep Space Network, and on the technologies that future missions to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond are depending on to achieve their goals.
Chris DeBoy is a Principal Staff Engineer and Assistant Group Supervisor of the RF Engineering Group at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, where since 1990 he has worked on spacecraft communications system. He has focused principally on developing low-power, advanced transceivers for satellites, both for near-Earth and deep-space missions. He designed the flight command receivers for the TIMED and CONTOUR missions, and is the engineer for the telecommunications system on the New Horizons Mission to Pluto. He holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Virginia Tech and an M.S.E.E. degree from Johns Hopkins University. He teaches the Satellite Communications Course in the JHU Whiting School of Engineering.
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