The Section's newsletters are here.
VLA Tour June 7: The IEEE Albuquerque Section announces a June 7 tour of the Very Large Array (VLA) radio astronomy observatory, located on US 60 west of Socorro. Go to the events page for details.
The Section board of directors will not meet in May. Next meeting is scheduled for June 25.
Instead of its regular meeting in May, the IEEE GOLD Albuqerque Section toured UNM's Center for High Performance Computing on May 27 at 6 p.m. For information, go to the GOLD page on this site. And check out the GOLD events page for information about its June wave-rafting trip.
The Joint Chapter meets on May 29 at Four Hills Country Club, and a meeting is set for June 19. Go to the events page for information. After that, no meetings for the summer; we'll be back in September. The Joint Chapters (AP,
EMC,
MTT and
NPS) include mostly RF and pulsed-power engineers who meet monthly except in summer.
Winners will be announced soon for the Albuquerque Section's Outstanding Engineer awards in all three categories, Technical, Service and Entrepreneurial Excellence, as well as winners of the Outstanding Grad Student, Undergrad, and Professor awards. For reference, the nomination guidelines are here.
The IEEE Image Analysis Symposium was held in Santa Fe March 24-26, 2008. Topics included stereo image/video analysis, biomedical image analysis, color image analysis, remote sensing, segmentation, content based image retrieval, features and invariants, automated inspection, boundary detection, real-time image analysis, multiscale analysis applications, multidimensional analysis, multispectral analysis,compressed domain processing, video analysis. For information, go to http://www.ssiai.org/.
The Albuquerque Section board met on January 30. Here is the schedule of 2008 meetings.
Neurosystems engineering was the topic of a January 25 lecture luncheon 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. Here is a PDF describing the event.
The IEEE Albuquerque Section held its general meeting on December 12, 2007, at Four Hills Country Club. Dr. Simon Barriga and Dr. Gilberto Zamora presented a talk about modeling and simulation of "wicked-hard" problems using UMBRA. For details, go to the events page.
Many members of the IEEE Albuquerque Section volunteered as judges for the weeklong 2007 Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in May, hosted this year in Albuquerque. The experience, rewarding in its own right, was recognized by this letter from IEEE's president.
IEEE GOLD (Graduates of the Last Decade) meets monthly at the Flying Star's Grande Hospitality Room, at Silver and 7th in downtown Albuquerque, from 7pm to 8:30pm. Click here for information about GOLD.
Sigma Xi maintains a UNM chapter website
here, holds regular meetings on the UNM campus, and hosts a joint awards meeting and banquet with IEEE.
The Albuquerque Section of IEEE collaborates with the Albuquerque Software Process Improvement Network
(ABQ SPIN). The goals of ABQ SPIN are to strengthen members' skills, promoteawareness of quality methods and best practices, and support technology transition with networking and education.
The IEEE Albuquerque Computer Society's held its first meeting on July 24, 2007, at Scalo's. The speaker was Mike Vahle, director of the System Mission Engineering Center at Sandia National Laboratories, talking about high-performance computing, "A Partially Filled Promise.
LEOS (IEEE Laser & Electro-Optics Society) meets regularly at UNM's Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM). Some basic information about the local LEOS chapter is here.
IEEE Albuquerque Section board meetings are held on the last Wednesday of the month. See the events page for the schedule.
For a list of IEEE societies and local chapters, click
here.
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