Series Finale: Grand Q&A Session

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/273233 Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/273233

IEEE YP Professional Development Series: Part 10 The Professional Development Series is a 10-part series of online seminars which aims at presenting and discussing career opportunities and pathways in the engineering profession, with presenters coming from a wide range of backgrounds across Canada and the world. In Part 10, to close the series, Joseph Botros... Read more

Quantification of Peak Demand Reduction Potential in Commercial Buildings

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280563

IEEE Power & Energy Society Vancouver Chapter is pleased to announce a technical webinar on "Quantification of Peak Demand Reduction Potential in Commercial Buildings" by Professor Dr. Saifur Rahman. Please note that this event has been set up by Canada East Representative for the Ottawa PES Chapter. The chapter kindly invites all PES members and... Read more

Vancouver Section Exec Meeting – September 2021

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280431

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/280431

Modern Antenna and Electromagnetic Measurements: Half-Day LIVE & IN-PERSON Workshop

Room: Skyline Room, 2nd Floor, The Museum of Flight Seattle , 9400 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98108 Room: Skyline Room, 2nd Floor, The Museum of Flight Seattle , 9400 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98108

Join us for a complimentary lunch sponsored by SteppIR and Advanced Test Equipment Corp (ATEC). Following lunch, attendees will hear FOUR experts present on modern antenna and electromagnetic measurements to boost your test efficiency, reliability, and repeatibility. In addition to the two presentations shown below, this half-day event also features speakers Zhong Chen with ETS-Lindgren... Read more

EMC Was There at the Beginning

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282680

The Chicago Chapter and co-sponsoring EMCS units welcomes everyone to this informative and entertaining presentation about the roots of our profession. The practice of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) is generally understood as beginning with the military in the 1950s. Work in the field was mostly limited to military applications until about 1980, when the FCC in... Read more

Vancouver IEEE Day: Security, Ethics, & Standards in the IEEE

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/282681

In celebration of IEEE Day, the Vancouver Section has organized a few short talks related to security, ethics, and standards affecting the IEEE. Privacy Issues Associated with Connected Vehicles - Prof. David Michelson Bio: Prof. David Michelson leads the AURORA Connected Vehicle Test Bed at the University of British Columbia where his research focuses on... Read more

NextG Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurements

Online

  Webinar: NextG Millimeter-Wave Channel Measurements Oct 26 This webinar will focus on the challenges that millimetre-wave channel measurements, models, and systems pose for Regulators and Standards Organizations, Equipment Vendors, and Research Labs, and the role that IEEE SA P2982 - Recommended Practices for Verification of Millimetre-Wave Channel Sounders - will play in addressing them.... Read more

Vancouver Section Life Members group: Reminiscing about Early Days

Online

Vancouver Talk: Reminiscing about Early Days Saturday Nov 13th, 11:00 - 12:00 Location: Online   The IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group Presents:   Talk sessions that invite Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. Registration is optional but recommended... we are still learning how to use events.   In this Talk Session,... Read more

Webinar: Control and Monitoring Methods for Resilient Distributed and Networked Systems

Online

Webinar: Control and Monitoring Methods for Resilient Distributed and Networked Systems Presented by: Joint Chapter, Control Systems / Robotics / Systems Man and Cybernetics Speaker: Prof. Ahmad W. Al-Dabbagh, UBC Okanagan, BC Date: November 18th, 2021 Time: 5:00pm-6:30pm Location: Online Abstract: Examples of distributed and networked systems are many in society, such as in manufacturing... Read more

WHAT IS MY MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT ACTUALLY DOING?

Online

WHAT IS MY MEASUREMENT EQUIPMENT ACTUALLY DOING? IMPLICATIONS FOR 5G/6G, MM-WAVE AND RELATED APPLICATIONS   Fri Nov. 19th, 2021 3:00 - 4:50 pm PT Location: ONLINE   Speaker:    Jon Martens, Anritsu IEEE MTT Distinguished Microwave Lecturer Abstract - Current microwave and high frequency instrumentation perform many tasks behind the scenes, even more so in the mm-wave... Read more

FREE-POSITION WIRELESS CHARGERS: FUNDAMENTALS AND CHALLENGES

Online

FREE-POSITION WIRELESS CHARGERS: FUNDAMENTALS AND CHALLENGES Speakers:        Dr. Ali Saket of AIRAPOWER        Mr. Eric Goodchild of AIRAPOWER Wednesday, December 1, 2021   4:30 pm Location: Online Presented by: PEL35 Power Electronics Society, Vancouver Chapter   For additional information and registration, please visit: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/288519   Join Dr. Ali Saket and Mr. Eric Goodchild to learn... Read more

SSC Society webinar: Enhanced Wireless Technologies Using Metasurfaces

Online

Enhanced Wireless Technologies Using Metasurfaces Prof. Andrea Alu Date: Fri. Dec 3rd 2021 Time: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Location: Online IEEE Solid-State Circuit Society Vancouver Chapter Presents: A Webinar by Prof. Andrea Alu, the Founding Director and Einstein Professor at the Photonics Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center and a Fellow of NAI, AAAS,... Read more

Vancouver Life Members Group Talk: About early days 2

Online

Reminiscing About Early Days - part 2 IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is the second talk session that invites Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. The first one in November ran long and we didn't get all the speakers, so they are listed again. Agenda Meeting Chair:            Carl Zanon IEEE... Read more

IEEE CEIDP Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena

Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena 2021 December 12-15, 2021 Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, Vancouver BC https://ceidp.org The 98th IEEE Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena (IEEE CEIDP 2021) which will be held in Vancouver, BC, Canada from December 12-15, 2021. IEEE CEIDP 2021 will be hosted at the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel located in the center of Vancouver. The IEEE CEIDP... Read more

IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (IEEE NMDC 2021)

1133 W Hastings St, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6E 3T3

IEEE NMDC 2021 sponsored by IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC) will be held in the Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel located in the center of Vancouver, BC, Canada from December 12th to 15th, 2021. The conference will be co-located with another conference – (https://ceidp.org/) (Conference on Electrical Insulation and Dielectric Phenomena) sponsored by the (https://ieeedeis.org/) (DEIS). IEEE NMDC... Read more

The need for a Corporate Endpoint Security System

Online

IEEE Okanagan Sub-Section Presents: The need for a Corporate Endpoint Security System   Date:   Dec. 23rd, 2021 Time:  17:00 - 18:00 PDT Location:   Online Speaker:    Mr. Dennis Estacion   Abstract:   Information security is to protect information from unauthorized use, disruption or destruction. There are three categories of control used to secure information: management, physical... Read more

Artificial Intelligence and Digital pathology: Dealing with the Annotation Bottleneck

Online

Artificial Intelligence and Digital pathology: Dealing with the Annotation Bottleneck Invited Lecture Speaker: Professor Anne Martel, Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto Date:       Jan 20, 2022 Time:      11:00 - 12:00 PST Location:  Online Abstract: The introduction of scanners that are capable of digitizing microscopic slides at high magnification has led to an explosion of interest in... Read more

Fundamentals of RF and MM-Wave Power Amplifier Designs

Online

FUNDAMENTALS OF RF AND MM-WAVE POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGNS Date:            Jan 26, 2022 Time:           12:00 - 13:30 Location:     ONLINE Presenter: Prof. Hua Wang,  ETH Zürich Abstract: This talk presents a focused overview of mm-wave power-amplifier (PA) designs in silicon, including design fundamentals, advanced PA architectures, and state-of-the-art design examples. The talk will start with an introduction... Read more

Life Members Talk 3: Keeping in Contact

Online

VANCOUVER TALK 3: KEEPING IN CONTACT Date:            Jan 29th, 2022 Time:           11:00 - 12:00 Location:      ONLINE Presented by:  IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is the third talk session that invites Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly. Registration is optional, but we ask you to do so. ... Read more

Probabilistic Movement Primitives Control via Control Barrier Functions

Online

Webinar: Probabilistic Movement Primitives Control via Control Barrier Functions Presenter:  Dr. Nicholas Gans, Division Head of Autonomy and Intelligent Systems, University of Texas at Arlington Research Institute. Date:          February 10th, 2022 Time:         5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Location:    ONLINE Abstract: In this seminar, Dr. Nicholas Gans will present a recent investigation into novel control... Read more

Webinar: RETROFIT PLUG-IN HYBRIDIZATION

Online

Webinar: THE WHY, THE WHAT, AND THE HOW OF RETROFIT PLUG-IN HYBRIDIZATION   Date:           Feb. 16, 2022 Time:          18:00 - 19:30 Location:      ONLINE Presenter:    Mr. Tom Gurski,  Blue Dot Motorworks Abstract:   Blue Dot Motorworks, a Seattle-based startup, is developing a family of bolt-on retrofit systems to convert existing vehicles in to plug-in hybrids. The motivation for... Read more

Life Members Talk 4:

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

VANCOUVER TALK 4: KEEPING IN CONTACT Date: Feb 19th, 2022 Time: 11:00 - 12:00 Location: ONLINE Presented by: IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is the fourth talk session that invites Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly. Registration is optional, but we ask you to do so.... Read more

IEEE YP: Digital Skills & Readiness 101: The Skills YOU Need NOW

Online

IEEE Vancouver Young Professionals Affinity Group presents: Digital Skills & Readiness 101: The Skills YOU Need NOW to Prepare for the Future of Work Presenter:  Dr. Melissa Sassi, IBM   Agenda Topics: Intro & Welcome: 6 minutes Digital Skills & Readiness 101: The Skills YOU Need NOW to Prepare for the Future of Work: 20... Read more

Tools for research from CNDN (Canada’s National Design Network)

Room: 10908 (SFU's Big Data Hub), Bldg: Applied Science Building (ASB)

  Tools for research from CNDN (Canada's National Design Network) Presented by: IEEE Vancouver Electron Devices Society Chapter (IEEE EDS) March 15, 2022 2:00 pm Location:  (hybrid) online and SFU Speaker:   Mr. Gord Harling,   CMC Microsystems Abstract: CMC Microsystems is a not-for-profit created in 1984 to support research in advanced technologies including microelectronics, photonics, MEMS,... Read more

Life Members TALK #5: Keeping in Contact

Online

IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group Date: March 19th Time: 11:00 AM Location: Virtual This is another of the talk sessions that invite Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly on the third Saturday. All IEEE members are welcome, especially those Life Members that don't have a local Affinity... Read more

Towards a Trusted Database System for Supporting Verifiability and Digital Trust

Online

Towards a Trusted Database System for Supporting Verifiability and Digital Trust Date: 30 Mar 2022 Time: 04:00 PM to 05:30 PM Location: online (registration required) Presenter:  Dr. Beng Chin Abstract: The advancement of technologies has caused many organizations to re-strategize and adopt digital transformation. Along with it, transactions and interactions between organizations have been digitized.... Read more

Vancouver Section AGM 2022

Online

Annual General Meeting - 2022 The 2022 Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the IEEE Vancouver Section will be held online on the evening of Wednesday March 30, beginning at 7:00 PM. The meeting will cover several business items such as the auditor's report, and the announcement of section scholarship award recipients.   All Vancouver Section... Read more

Side Channel Analysis: A New Perspective for Vehicle Intrusion Detection System

Online

Side Channel Analysis: A New Perspective for Vehicle Intrusion Detection System This is an online IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecturer seminar. Date: 12 Apr 2022 Time: 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM Presenter: Dr. Jiajia Liu Abstract: Intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) have become the mainstream in the development of automobile industry. Many emerging technologies have been proposed to provide users... Read more

N-path Passive Mixers: Simple Circuits, Surprising Capabilities

Online

  N-path Passive Mixers: Simple Circuits, Surprising Capabilities IEEE Solid State Circuits Society Distinguished Lecture Date:         April 22, 2022 Time:        12:00 - 13:00 Location:   Online Speaker:   Dr. Alyosha Molnar Abstract: In this presentation I will discuss N-phase passive mixers (and their close relative the “N-path filter”) as applied to interference tolerant radio receivers. Although known... Read more

Synthetic Aperture Radar for Oil Spill Observation

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  Synthetic Aperture Radar for Oil Spill Observation   Date:          April 23, 2022 Time:             To be confirmed (see link below) Location:        To be confirmed (see link below) Presenter:   Dr. Maurizio Migliaccio   Marine oil pollution monitoring is a topic of great applicative and scientific relevance. Use of remotely sensed measurements is of special interest... Read more

Shared Spectrum in 5G and WiFi

Online

  Shared Spectrum in 5G and WiFi Date:          April 27, 2022 Time:         18:00 - 19:30 Location:    Online Presenter:  Dr. Rohan Grover, Federated wireless Abstract: Given the scarcity of spectrum in the U.S and the world, a new model of spectrum usage is being pioneered by the FCC for use in 5G and WiFi. Spectrum... Read more

ISPSD 2022 – Int’l Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs

Pinnacle Harbourfront Hotel, Vancouver Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

ISPSD 2022 - May 23-25th, 2022 The International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs (ISPSD) is the premier forum for technical discussions in all areas of power semiconductor devices and power integrated circuits. Topics include, but not limited to, device physics, modeling, design, fabrication, materials, packaging and integration, device reliability, and device/circuit interactions. The... Read more

Knowledge Graphs 2022: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities

Online

Knowledge Graphs 2022: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities Date:        May 25, 2022 Time:        09:00 - 10:30 Location:   Online Presented by the IEEE Computer Society Vancouver Chapter Presenter:  Gerhard Weikum Abstract: Machines with comprehensive knowledge of the world's entities and their relationships has been a long-standing vision and challenge of AI. Over the last two... Read more

ELECTRON DEVICES – World of Nanoelectronics: 75th Year of Transistor

Room: ASB 10900, Bldg: Applied Sciences Building

"ELECTRON DEVICES - World of Nanoelectronics: 75th Year of Transistor" An IEEE Electron Devices Society Distinguished Lecture Date:           01 Jun 2022 Time:          11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Presenter:   Prof. Durga Misra, New Jersey Institute of Technology Abstract: Electron devices and materials has reached a crossroad with Moore’s law. While scaling (More Moore) will continue nanoelectronics... Read more

UBC/SFU ALEASAT EVENT

13800 Commerce Pkwy, Richmond BC 13800 Commerce Pkwy, Richmond, BC

UBC and SFU students: Join MDA and the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society for an exciting event in partnership with the SFU SAT and UBC Orbit Satellite Design Teams to celebrate our collaboration on the ALEASAT CubeSat Project and to learn how new students at UBC and SFU can become involved. Date:         June 2,... Read more

Interconnect Meets Architecture: On-Chip Communication

Room: 2020, Bldg: Kaiser Building

Interconnect Meets Architecture: On-Chip Communication in the Age of Heterogeneity   Date:          June 6, 2022 Time:         16:00 - 17:30 Location:    UBC and online (hybrid)   Presented by: IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, Vancouver Chapter Abstract: Neural Networks, graph analytics, and other big-data applications have become vastly important for many domains. This has led to a... Read more

Interconnect Meets Architecture: On-Chip Communication in the Age of Heterogeneity

Room: KAIS 2020, Bldg: Fred Kaiser Building , University of British Columbia, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/313190

Neural Networks, graph analytics, and other big-data applications have become vastly important for many domains. This has led to a search for proper computing systems that can efficiently utilize the tremendous amount of data parallelism that is associated with these applications. Generally, we depend on data centers and high-performance computing (HPC) clusters to run various... Read more

Vancouver TALK 8: Celebrating the Trans Canada Microwave System

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/314545

IEEE Vancouver Life Members Affinity Group This is another of the talk sessions that invite Members to express/describe their experiences to their fellow engineers. It will continue monthly on the third Saturday, with a hiatus during July and August. 9:00 AM P.D.T. You can log in at 8:45 AM. All IEEE members are welcome, especially... Read more

Student Tour to TRIUMF (Canada’s particle accelerator centre)

Bldg: TRIUMF, 4004 Wesbrook Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 2A3

IEEE SFU Student Branch has organized a Tour to TRIUMF, where you can meet professionals in their work setting. You will have a chance to interact and learn from experts in the industry, improve your job prospects and explore the other end of the horizon (beyond lecture sessions). The IEEE SFU Student Branch Team would... Read more

Vancouver Section Exec Meeting – July 2022

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318022

Monthly meeting of Vancouver Section officers, chapter chairs, affinity group chairs, and student branches officers. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/318022

3D and Nonorthogonal Spectrum Access Technologies for the Converged 5G and Broadcast Systems

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/317462

The expeditious evolution of wireless technologies and their convergence with diverse applications signify the coming next wave of our increasingly connected society. With the dramatically growing data traffic, massive connected devices and diverse services to be supported, the future success of our society relies heavily on our technical capabilities in the provisioning of massive capacity/connectivity... Read more

AdCONIP 2022 – Intl Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes

UBC Student Nest 6133 University Boulevard, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

AdCONIP 2022 International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes Date:          Aug 7-9th, 2022 Location:  UBC (in-person and hybrid online) Overview: The 7th International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial Processes (AdCONIP 2022) will be held at The Nest, UBC Vancouver, BC, Canada on August 7-9, 2022 The International Symposium on Advanced Control of Industrial... Read more

Cloud Security – Find out if you are being attacked before its too late.

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320773

Topics that will be covered are: AWS Security Hub GuardDuty Inspector Config CloudTrail IoT Devise Defender Speaker(s): Farshad Abasi, Agenda: - Introduction to the speaker - Today's Security Challenges of the Cloud. - How to find out if you are being attacked - Q&A Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/320773