Events

Speaker: Dr.Christophe Caloz, Head of the Electromagnetics Research Group,École Polytechnique de Montréal

Date/Time: Thursday, February 26th 2015, 7.30pm

Location: Ottawa Conference and Event Centre 200 Coventry Road, Ottawa

Organizer: IET Ottawa

Abstract:

Today’s exploding demand for faster, more reliable and ubiquitous wireless connectivity poses unprecedented challenges in radio technology. To date, the predominant approach has been to put increasing emphasis on digital signal processing (DSP). However, while offering device compactness and processing flexibility, DSP suffers of fundamental limitations, such as poor performance above the K band, high-cost A/D conversion, low processing speed and high power consumption.

Recently, Radio Analog Signal Processing (R-ASP) has emerged as a novel paradigm to potentially overcome these issues, and hence address the aforementioned challenges. R-ASP processes radio signals in their pristine analog form and in real time, using “phasers”. A phaser is a temporally – and sometimes also spatially – dispersive electromagnetic structure whose group delay is designed so as to exhibit the required (quasi-arbitrary) frequency function to perform a desired operation, such as for instance real-time Fourier transformation. Phasers can be implemented in Bragg-grating, chirped-waveguide, magnetostatic-wave and acoustic-wave technologies. However, much more efficient phasers, based on 2D/3D metamaterial structures and cross-coupled resonator chains, were recently introduced, along with powerful synthesis techniques. These phasers can manipulate the group delay of electromagnetic waves with unprecedented flexibility and precision, and thereby enable a myriad of applications in communication, radar, instrumentation and imaging, with superior performance or/and functionality. This talk presents an overview of R-ASP technology, including dispersion-based processing principles, historical milestones, phasing fundamentals, phaser synthesis, and many applications.

Biography:

Christophe Caloz received the Diplôme d’Ingénieur en Électricité and the Ph.D. degree from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Microwave Electronics Laboratory, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). In June 2004, Dr. Caloz joined École Polytechnique of Montréal, where he is now a Full Professor, the holder of a Canada Research Chair (CRC) and the head of the Electromagnetics Research Group. He has authored and co-authored over 550technicalconference, letter and journal papers, 12 books and book chapters, and he holds several patents. His works have generated about 13,000 citations, and he is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. Dr. Caloz is a Member of the Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Technical Committees MTT-15 (Microwave Field Theory) and MTT-25 (RF Nanotechnology), a Speaker of the MTT-15 Speaker Bureau, the Chair of the Commission D (Electronics and Photonics) of the Canadian Union de Radio Science Internationale (URSI) and an MTT-S representative at the IEEE Nanotechnology Council (NTC). In 2009, he co-founded the company ScisWave, which develops CRLH smart antenna solutions for WiFi. Dr. Caloz received several awards, including the UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Post-doctoral Research in 2004, the MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2007, the E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship in 2013, the Prix Urgel-Archambault in 2013, and many best paper awards with his students at international conferences. He has been an IEEE Fellow since 2010 and an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for the Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) since 2014. In 2014, he was elected as a member of the Administrative Committee of AP-S. He is currently also a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia. His research interests include all fields of theoretical, computational and technological electromagnetics, with a strong emphasis on emergent and multidisciplinary topics, including particularly metamaterials, nano electromagnetics, exotic antenna systems and real-time radio.

Speaker: Dr. Faruk Hadziomerovic, Independent Consultant, Ottawa
Date: Thursday, Apr. 16, 2015
Time: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 6:00 p.m.; Seminar: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Place: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., T-Building, Room T129.
Parking: No fee after 5:00 p.m. at the Visitors’ Parking Lots 8 (green) & 9 (red). Please respect restricted areas.
Admission: Free.
Rregistration: Pre-registration required. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail contacting: branislav@ieee.org.
Oorganized by: IEEE Ottawa Section ComSoc, EMBS, CIS-SMCS, RS-PELS, and PES Chapters, Educational Activities and Algonquin College IEEE Student Branch.
URL: http://www.ieeeottawa.ca/ea/
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Speaker: Dr. Guy Kouamou Ntonfo, Research Fellow, University of Modena and Reggio Emila, Italy
Date/Time: April 22, 2015 / 12:00 – 13:00
Location: Mackenzie Room 4359, Carleton University
Parking: Paid parking is available (P2 recommended)
Registration: Not required.
Organizer: James Green
Organizedby: EMBS-Ottawa

Abstract:
Necrotizing enterocolitis and neonatal seizures are two pathologies which diagnosis medical personnel have to daily face in Neonatal Intensive Care Units. These pathologies have to be promptly and accurately recognized in order to establish timely treatments. Necrotizing enterocolitis is a serious neonatal gastrointestinal complication that mainlyoccursto underweighted preterm newborns. It presents with a wide range of symptoms which are not specific to the disease and there can be a rapid deterioration that can lead to septic shock and death. Abdominal radiographic imaging and ultrasonography are the most common diagnostic modalities currently used but these tools do not reliably detect Necrotizing enterocolitis in its early stages. Most of the neonates affected by perinatal diseases are at risk of neonatal seizures, which are the most common sign of acute neurological dysfunctions. They are age-dependent phenomena with onset within the 28th day of life in newborns at term and within the 44th week of conceptional age in preterm infants. Currently, the traditional method of diagnosis is based on EEG monitoring. The EEG analysis is a time-consuming technique which requires particularly skilled medical personnel, not always available in a neonatal care unit. In this talk, examples of low complexity image processing-based approaches to the detection of neonatal seizures and necrotizing enterocolitis will be presented.

You are invited to participate in this IEEE Canada Industry Forum to be held on Monday May 4th, 2015, 14:00hr – 17:00hr, Halifax World Trade and Convention Centre

About the forum
The IEEE Canada Industry Relations Committee jointly with theCCECE 2015 Conference presents a forum on innovation and regional development.  The forum is a platform for leaders from industry, government granting agencies and academia to share their views and practices on a wide range of topics related to the development of the Atlantic Canadian industry such as innovation, technology commercialization, technology start-ups, venture capital investment, growing a business, and global market penetration, etc.
We expect this forum to create more awareness of the various resources supporting innovation; generate more interests in technology commercialization; motivate the private sector R&D; as well as stimulate continued debate on developing the future of the Atlantic Canadian industry through innovation and advanced technologies.
Invited speakers and panelists are from the following pool of experts:

• Tech start-up entrepreneurs
• Industry leaders
• Government regional development and granting agency representatives
• Technology transfer and commercialization leaders
• Venture capitalists
• International marketers

This 3-hour event will be divided into 3 one-hour segments:
Hour 1 – Individual presentations
Hour 2 – Panel discussions
Hour 3 – Networking

For further information, contact:
Kexing Liu, Ph.D., SMIEEE
IEEE Canada Industry Relations Committee Chair