Events for 2009
Monthly ABQ Section Board Meetings
Board meetings are (as of the August 2009 meeting) held on the last Thursday of the month,
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
at
Yanni's Mediterranean Bar & Grill
3109 Central Avenue NE
268-9250
(free parking in the back)
2009 meeting dates:
January 28
February 25
March 25
April 29
May - summer break; no meeting
June - no meeting
July - no meeting
August 27 (meetings now on Thursdays)
October 1
November 5
December 3
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IEEE Joint Chapter
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IEEE Albuquerque Computer Society
See also the GOLD page (Graduates of the Last Decade).
Albuquerque Joint Chapter (AP/,
EMC/,
MTT/ and
NPS Society)
Unless otherwise noted, these are dinner meetings at the Four Hills Country Club, 911 Four Hills Road SE in Albuquerque. Social begins at 5:45 p.m., dinner at 6:30, and presentation at 7:30. No charge and no reservation required to attend just the talk. $20 per person for dinner (full-time-student members of IEEE, $10), reservation required. Rsvp by e-mail to abq_joint_chapter@ieee.org or phone Harald Wagnon at (505) 298-7350. Reservations and cancellations are accepted until noon on the Friday preceding the meeting. The Joint Chapter does not have meetings in July and August.
2009 Dinner Lectures:
December 2, 2009: Dr. Joseph Costantine, post-doctoral Fellow with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at the University of New
Mexico, will talk about "Design, Optimization and Analysis of Switch-Reconfigured Antennas." An abstract of the talk and information about Dr. Costantine are here (MS Word document).
October 28, 2009: Brandon Witcher, who leads the Sandia National Labs initiative to develop rad-hard point-of-load power converters for space-qualified distributed power systems, will talk about "Radiation-Hardened Distributed Power Systems." An abstract of the talk and information about Mr. Witcher are here (MS Word document).
September 23, 2009: Dr. Lothar (Bud) Hoeft, consultant and certified EMC engineer, will talk about "Remembering Using Unconventional Materials for Electromagnetic Shielding." An abstract of the talk and information about Dr. Hoeft are here (MS Word document).
June 17: Dave Straub, retired Sandian and former member of the
Field Test Group at the Nevada Test Site, will talk about "Remembering Underground Testing Days at the Nevada Test Site–Traveling with the Thundering Herd." An abstract of the talk and information about Dave Straub are here (MS Word document).
February 18: Dr. Werner Wiesbeck, "UWB Antennas and Channel Characteristics." Here is a PDF with information about the presentation, and here is a PDF with Dr. Wiesbeck's bio.
January 21, 2009: Dr. Serhat Altunc, "Design, Fabrication and Testing of a Prolate-Spheroidal Impulse-Radiating Antenna for Electromagnetic Implosion." Here is a PDF with information about the presentation, and here is a PDF of Serhat's vita.
2008 Meetings:
December 31: Election of new officers and New Year's Eve party at Dr. Carl Baum's residence. The slate of officer candidates is:
Chair, Harald (Hal) J. Wagnon, hjwagnonATieee.org
Vice-Chair, Leland H. Bowen, leland.bowenATieee.org
Treasurer, Michael G. Harrison, harrisonmgabqATcomcast.net
Secretary, W. Scott Bigelow, Scott.BigelowATieee.org
December: Topic: RF Photonics.
October 23: Peter Napier, PhD Elec.Eng., University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 1972; National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Topic: "The Atacama Large Millimeter Array: A New Giant Telescope for
Millimeter Wavelengths." An abstract of the talk and information about Dr. Napier are here (MS Word document).
September 18: Keith Morris, an engineer in the Local Oscillator/Intermediate Frequency group on the VLA expansion project in Socorro, is also the IEEE Albuquerque Section's Outstanding Engineer for 2008. Topic: "Local Oscillator Phase Stability and the Very Large Array Expansion Project." By 2012 new electronics, fiber optics, and software will have completely transformed the VLA into a more capable research tool with more than ten times the VLA's current sensitivity. To compensate for the temperature-versus-phase performance of optical fiber in the radio telescope, phase delay in the fiber distributing the LO to each antenna is measured to sub-picosecond accuracy and used by the correlator to correct each baseline in the array. Keith will present local oscillator phase stabilization and phase measuring techniques.
July and August: The Joint Chapter does not have meetings in July and August.
June 19: Dr. Bernd H. Strassner, Sandia National Labs. Topic: "Wideband Planar Antennas used for Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging." Here is a PDF with information about the presentation.
May 29: Dr. John D. Cressler of Georgia Institute of Technology, will talk about "Radiation Effects in Silicon-Based Heterostructure Device Technologies." Here is a PDF with information about the presentation.
Reservations & cancellations accepted until noon Tuesday, May 27.
April 24: Jim Fish of Anasazi Fields Winery talked about "Unique Wines From a Unique Landscape" at a 5:45 p.m. social and technical event for members and guests at Four Hills Country Club. Here is a PDF with information about the presentation.
March 27: Antennas & Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer John L. Volakis, ECE professor at Ohio State University, talked about "Anisotropic Media and Printed Circuits for Narrowband and Ultra-Wideband Antennas."
February 21: Dr. William Radasky, president of Metatech, addressed the topic "What Is Intentional Electromagnetic Interference and Why Should We Worry?" Here is complete information.
January 24, 2008: Dr. Lee J Rickard, Executive Project Director for the Long Wavelength Array radio astronomy observatory, talked about "A New Window on the Universe." Here is information about his topic.
The 2009 officers of the Joint Chapter are listed here.
Albuquerque Section Events
VLA Tour June 7, 2008
The IEEE Albuquerque Section toured the Very Large Array (VLA) radio astronomy observatory on US 60 west of Socorro. Dedicated in 1980, the VLA is one of the world's premier astronomical observatories. Dr. Peter Napier, who has served as an engineer and manager for the VLA for more than 30 years, and Clint Janes (cjanes@ieee.org), who served as a division head for 12 years, will conduct the tour. Included in the tour: the ALMA Test Facility, a prototype two-element interferometer test bed for the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA). ALMA is a 50-antenna array operating at frequencies up to 900 GHz that is currently in construction at an altitude of 16,500 ft. in Northern Chile. The observatory has been used to make key observations of black holes and protoplanetary disks around young stars, discovered magnetic filaments and traced complex gas motions at the Milky Way's center, probed the Universe's cosmological parameters, and provided new knowledge about the physical mechanisms that produce radio emission. See www.aoc.nrao.edu/evla.
Jan. 25, 2008, Topic: Neurosystems Engineering
Neurosystems engineering was the topic of a lecture and lunch on January 25 co-hosted for students by UNM, MIND, and the IEEE Albuquerque chapter of the Engineers in Medicine and Biology Society. The presentation, by Sandia National Labs' Dr. Gerold Yonas, was held at the MIND Institute on the UNM campus. Click here for a PDF describing the event.
Albuquerque Section General Meeting, Dec. 2007
The Albuquerque Section held a general meeting on Dec. 12, 2007, at Four Hills Country Club. Dr. Simon Barriga and Dr. Gilberto Zamora discussed modeling and simulation of "wicked-hard" problems using UMBRA. Click here for a PDF of the event abstract.
IEEE Albuquerque Computer Society
July 24, 2007: The IEEE Albuquerque Computer Society held its first meeting on July 24 at Scalo's. The guest speaker was Mike Vahle, director of the System Mission Engineering Center at Sandia National Laboratories, who talked about high-performance computing, "A Partially Filled Promise." Society members also took nominations and voted on committee members.