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Terahertz Days: The role of Directional Terahertz Communications in the 6G era: Usage scenarios, system concepts, promises and challenges

Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285255

The exploitation of the THz band is expected to catalyze 6G applications, as a solution to both wireless backhaul and fronthaul, and integrated backhaul/fronthaul applications. However, the utilization of THz wireless technologies comes with several challenges, mainly associated with the very high propagation losses in the THz regime, which require the utilization of high-gain directional antennas with strict beam alignment requirements, and with challenging blockage scenarios, which call for intelligent beam steering and blockage avoidance based medium access and resource allocation. In this talk, we first discuss critical usage scenarios and significant technology pillars defining the THz Wireless system concept. Then, a quantitative assessment of intelligent pencil beamforming wireless access technologies is presented, along with the impact of beam misalignment and blockage. Finally, the benefits of reconfigurable intelligent surfaces are reported and their expected role in future THz wireless systems is discussed. Speaker(s): Angeliki Alexiou, Gunes Karabulut Kurt Agenda: 11:55 AM - 12:00: Workshop opening by Mansour Naslcheraghi, Chair of YP Montreal 12:00 AM - 12:05: Terahertz Days workshop series introduction and speaker introduction by chair of Terahertz Days, Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt 12:05 AM - 12:50: Talk by Prof. Angeliki Alexiou 12:50 AM - 01:00 or more (depending on speaker's availability): Q & A session Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/285255

IEEE CIC x Ryerson GMU Indie Game Jam: The Basics & Tile System

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/287738

This series of 5 beginner friendly workshops will teach students how to create their own indie game in Unity. We will teach the building blocks and best practices to create a shooter including creating the player, creating enemies, collectibles, effects, and more! All who attend all five sessions will get a certificate from IEEE WIE and can submit their 2D game into a showcase with small prizes at the end of the workshop series. Week One: (2 Hours) - The Basics & Tile System - Introduction to Game Development & Unity (30 Minutes) ● Review of programming (30 minutes) ○ Variables ○ If statements ○ Loops ○ Classes and methods ○ Unity’s approach to programming - Break (10 minutes) - Quick demo of final game project (10 minutes) ● Download & import assets (10 minutes) - Introduction to the tile palette system (10 minutes) ● Draw game background using tile palette system (20 minutes) Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/287738

Intro to the Mathematics in Machine Learning

Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/287252

Prerequisites: If you know zero math and zero machine learning, then this talk is for you. Jeff will do his best to explain fairly hard mathematics to you. If you know a bunch of math and/or a bunch machine learning, then these talks are for you. Jeff tries to spin the ideas in new ways. Abstract: Computers can now drive cars and find cancer in x-rays. For better or worse, this will change the world (and the job market). Strangely designing these algorithms is not done by telling the computer what to do or even by understanding what the computer does. The computers learn themselves from lots and lots of data and lots of trial and error. This learning process is more analogous to how brains evolved over billions of years of learning. The machine itself is a neural network which models both the brain and silicon and-or-not circuits, both of which are great for computing. The only difference with neural networks is that what they compute is determined by weights and small changes in these weights give you small changes in the result of the computation. The process for finding an optimal setting of these weights is analogous to finding the bottom of a valley. "Gradient Decent" achieves this by using the local slope of the hill (derivatives) to direct the travel down the hill, i.e. small changes to the weights. Speaker(s): Prof. Jeff Edmonds, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/287252