The Electronic Newsletter of the IEEE Toronto Section - the latest news about upcoming events and the people that make them happen - Section and Chapter meetings, workshops, conferences, and other events of interest occuring in Toronto and surounding areas.   Posted every month.   Now formatted for portrait-orientation printing.
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Upcoming Chapter/Group Meetings Nov 5, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.  Amy Reibman of AT&T Labs, Florham Park, NY, will present an IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture, "Image and Video Quality Assessment: The Truth About PSNR," organized by our Signal Processing Chapter. details. Nov 6, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.   Dr. Igor Pioro, Associate Professor, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, presents, "Overview of Selected Generation III, III+ and IV Nuclear Reactors," organized by our Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Chapter. Click for details. Nov 11, 2009 at 6:00 p.m.   Dr. Matt Ratto, Assistant Professor of the University of Toronto, presents, "Soap Sculptures, Rapid Prototyping, and Critical Making: Reconstructing connections between social reflection and technical work ," organized by our Signal Processing Chapter and Engineering and Human Environment Chapter. . Click for details. Nov 19, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.  Dr. A. Enis Cetin of Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey and Visiting Professor, Ryerson University, presents, "Adaptive Wavelet Transform and Applications," organized by our Signal Processing Chapter. . Click for details. Nov 25, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.   - Online Webinar. April Khademi, Ph.D. candidate, of the University of Toronto, presents, "Automatic Contrast Enhancement Of White Matter Lesions In Flair MRI," organized by our Signals and Computational Intelligence Chapter. . Click for details. Registration required Upcoming Conferences All IEEE Conferences in Canada - please use this link. IEEE News IEEE Celebrates 2009 Nobel Prize Winners IEEE Launches New Biometrics Certification and Training Program For more these and other IEEE news from the IEEE Newsroom - Click here. And check out the IEEE Institute Magazine here. Membership Future Senior Members of the IEEE Toronto Section   Have you been in professional practice for at least ten years and have shown significant performance over a period of at least five of those years?   You should be an IEEE Senior Member.   Need help in obtaining your three references?   We will help you - just contact Dimitri , our membership chair.   Please click this link to find out the advantages, the requirements, and an explanation of the process including key links to apply online. Volunteers Volunteering a few hours a month is a very rewarding experience - we have a great group of about 45 volunteers who contribute to the smooth running of our Section - by distributing the workload over many Section members, the individual load is kept small. If you are interested, please contact our Section Chair Alex Bot at this Advertising For Advertisting in the annual printed edition of IEEE Toronto Section - The Annual Connection please contact the Editor. The IEEE Toronto Section accepts advertising for items deemed to be of interest to our members. If you would like to advertise in our newsletter, please contact the editor. Please send any news item submissions, comments, suggestions, concerns to the editor before the 28th at this email . Thank you for reading - Naresh Kurada,MSEE,P.Eng.,MBA (Editor). Subscribe or Unsubscribe IEEE Toronto E-News is sent monthly to all members of the IEEE Toronto Section and to a separate mailing list of non-members who have elected to subscribe (except those who have opted out) and any one else who has subscribed.   Since we are now using a new IEEE service, called e-Notice, our member mailing list is created each month using the on-line membership data base. IEEE Toronto Section Members   If you receive two copies, please cancel the non-member one by using the linked web page and completing the simple web form to "Unsubscribe".   If you do not wish to receive these newsletters, use this link to cancel your subscription. All Others (members of other sections and non-members)   If you wish to opt in or out, please use the linked web page and complete the simple web form. Home Page: http://toronto.ieee.ca by webmaster