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Calendar Archive, July 2008
Sponsors: Northern Virginia Section, Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD), Women in Engineering
Place: Lake Fairfax Park, Reston, VA
Time: 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm
Directions: From the Beltway, take exit 47A (Route 7, Leesburg Pike) to Baron Cameron Avenue. Turn left on Baron Cameron Avenue and take the second left onto Lake Fairfax Drive. Follow the signs to the picnic. See
www.co.fairfax.va.us/parks/maps/lakefairfaxmap.htm or
www.restonpaths.com/LakeFairfaxPark.
More Info: All IEEE members and their guests (including children) are invited. There is no charge. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and vegetarian burgers will be grilled, and cold sodas will be provided. Optionally, a food item, such as a dessert or side dish, would be appreciated. And feel free to bring along an outdoor game. Please no alcohol.
Cost: Free for IEEE members and guests.
Contact: In order that we may plan appropriately, please RSVP to
Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org no later than Friday, July 11. Let us know how many will be attending, and whether you will be bringing a dessert or side dish to supplement.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
How to Avoid Software Inspection Failure and Achieve Ongoing Benefits
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society; American Society for Quality (ASQ) Section 509 Software SIG; and the Society for Software Quality (SSQ)
Time: 6:30 pm
Speakers: Lew Priven and Roger Stewart, Priven-Stewart Group
Place: Video teleconference with sites in McLean and Silver Spring. Addresses are provided at the registration link below.
More Info: All interested IEEE members and guests are invited to attend. Pizza and soda will be served.
Cost: Free
Contact: Advance registration is required to enter the facilities. Please register online at
www.asq509.org/ht/d/sp/i/2499/pid/2499.
If your plans change, please email ankums@mitre.org to cancel your reservation.
Sponsors: Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society, Engineering Management Society
Speaker: Dr. Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI)
Time: 5:00-6:30 pm
Place: Library Center Auditorium (Building 41), University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Directions: Take the Metro to the Van Ness-UDC station (Red Line). Note that the location is not the main campus auditorium.
See a campus map and driving directions at
www.udc.edu/campus_map.htm.
More Info: Dinner at a local restaurant will follow the lecture. See http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/wash_nova/aess for more information about the speaker and topic.
Cost: Free (except optional dinner)
Contact: Please register by Wednesday, July 16 by contacting Roger Oliva at roger.oliva@ieee.org or 703 573-6887. Late registrations will be accepted as long as space permits.
Sponsor: Magnetics Society
Speaker: Bruce D. Terris, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Lecture Room A, Building 101, Gaithersburg, MD
Directions: See www.nist.gov/public_affairs/maps/nistmaps.html.
More Info: This is an IEEE Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecture. See Diamond story below.
Contact: Robert McMichael at 301-975-5121 or
robert.mcmichael@nist.gov.
Advance registration and photo ID are required for anyone without a NIST badge. We must register you with the security system; otherwise you will not be able to get into NIST.
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Computer Society Executive Committee Meeting
Time: 7:00 pm
Place: Virtual meeting
More Info: The Northern Virginia and Washington Chapter of the Computer Society wants to expand its executive committee to support more events and activities. This meeting is open to any Computer Society or IEEE member who wants to get involved and share the excitement of the industry.
Contact: To attend this virtual meeting, please RSVP to Tom Starai at starai@ieee.org 48 hours before the meeting. You will receive instructions for the website and a teleconference number by email for the meeting. Virtual capacity is limited to 20.
Diamond Story
As conventional magnetic recording technology extends to ever higher areal density, it is possible the often predicted, and constantly increasing, density limit will be reached. This limit will likely be in the range of 750 to 1000 Gb/in2. The use of nanofabrication to create patterned magnetic elements, or patterned media, is one of the proposed approaches with the promise of delaying the onset of superparamagnetism and thus enabling higher areal density. This lecture will cover many of the challenges that must be overcome for patterned media to be successful, including fundamental physics and material science issues, new fabrication technologies, nm-scale manufacturing tolerances, and low cost budgets.
One of these challenges is to controllably reverse one magnetic element, or bit, without affecting the neighboring elements. A narrow anisotropy distribution will be required, yet data suggest that as the element size shrinks, the distribution widens. This distribution arises from a number of sources, including shape and size distributions, edge effects, variations in the full film anisotropy and magnetostatic fields from neighboring elements. As will be discussed, understanding and controlling the switching properties of magnetic nanostructures is critical not only for patterned media, but for device applications such as MRAM cells and spintronic devices and, for current induced as well as field induced reversal.
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