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SUMMARY:Efficient 3D Molecular Structure Estimation with Electron Cryomicroscopy
DESCRIPTION:November 12\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Marcus Brubaker\, Ph.D.\, will be presenting “Efficient 3D Molecular Structure Estimation with Electron Cryomicroscopy”. \nSpeaker: Marcus Brubaker\, Ph.D.\nPostdoctoral at University of Toronto \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 12\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG106\, Ryerson University\n350 Victoria Street\, Toronto\, Ontario M5B 2K3\nClick here to see the Map – Look for ENG \nOrganizer: Instrumentation & Measurement and Magnetics Chapters at IEEE Toronto \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour: maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Discovering the 3D structure of molecules such as proteins and viruses is a fundamental research problem in biology and medicine. Electron Cryomicroscopy (Cryo-EM) is a promising vision-based technique for structure estimation which attempts to reconstruct 3D structures from 2D images. This talk reviews the computational problems in Cryo-EM which are closely related to classical vision problems such as object detection\, multiview reconstruction and computed tomography. Finally\, a framework is introduced for reconstruction of 3D molecular structure which exploits modern methods for stochastic optimization and importance sampling. The result is a method which is efficient\, robust to initialization and flexible. \nBiography: Marcus Brubaker received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2011. After that he worked with Raquel Urtasun as a postdoctoral researcher at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago and is currently a postdoc at University of Toronto\, Scarborough. He also consults with Cadre Research Labs on machine learning and computer vision related projects and teaches at the University of Toronto. He was won a number of fellowships and awards\, including OGS and NSERC graduate fellowships as well as an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship. \nHis most recent work on autonomous vehicle localization (“Lost! Leveraging the Crowd for Probabilistic Visual Self-Localization\,” CVPR 2013) and the estimation of the 3D structure of proteins and viruses (“Building Proteins in a Day\,” CVPR 2015) have won awards and attention in the lay press. His interests span computer vision\, machine learning and statistics and he works on a range of problems including video-based human motion estimation\, physical models of human motion\, Bayesian inference\, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods\, ballistic forensics\, electron cryo-microscopy and autonomous vehicle localization.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/efficient-3d-molecular-structure-estimation-with-electron-cryomicroscopy/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151114T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151114T183000
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SUMMARY:IEEE 5G Toronto Summit
DESCRIPTION:Recently\, IEEE Communication Society has developed a strategic framework based on the principles that embrace Industry’s interests and priorities while integrating IEEE and ComSoc’s objectives. In order to engage industry members with high value and innovative technologies\, IEEE Communication Society plans to hold a series of high impact one day Summits in emerging technology areas (e.g.\, SDN/NFV\, 5G\, IoT\, Big Data\, and Cybersecurity). The first summit was held at Princeton Univertity in May 2015 (see photos\, slides\, and videos).The upcoming IEEE Toronto 5G Summit is the second one in the series\, and will be held at University of Toronto on Saturday\, November 14\, 2015. This one day summit will provide a platform for the industry leaders\, innovators\, and researchers from the industry and academic community to collaborate and exchange ideas in this emerging technology that may help in driving the standards and rapid deployment. \nThe Summit is sponsored by IEEE Communications Society and co-sponsored by the IEEE Toronto Chapter. \nKeynote Speakers: \nDr. Ivo Maljevic\nTelus \nJavan Erfanian\nBell Canada \nDr. Xavier Costa\nNEC Lab Europe \nDr. Peiying Zhu\nHuawei \nDay & Time: Saturday\, November 14\, 2015\n8:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. \nLocation: Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BCIT)\, Auditorium BA1160 (1st floor) \n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 Building \nhttp://map.utoronto.ca/marker/bahen-centre \nOfficial Website & Registration: http://www.5gsummit.org/toronto/
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-5g-toronto-summit/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151116T193000
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SUMMARY:Terrestrial Broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and Cooperation
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 16\, 2015 at 5:30 p.m. Marco Breiling\, IEEE BTS distinguished lecturer\, will be presenting “Terrestrial Broadcast vs. LTE-eMBMS: Competition and Cooperation”. \nSpeaker: Marco Breiling\nIEEE BTS Distinguished Lecturer\nChief Scientist of the Broadband & Broadcast (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS)\, Germany Erlangen) \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 16\, 2015\n5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA7180\nBahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad\, Email:eman.hammad.ca@ieee.org \nAbstract: While the broadcast world is reinforcing its armoury by introducing new and highly advanced standards like DVB-T2/-NGH and ATSC 3.0\, the pressure by the mobile communications business is ever increasing. As users consume more unicast content or switch over to satellite TV or IPTV\, the user base for terrestrial TV is shrinking\, whereas the data rates requested by the users in mobile communications networks explode. \nMoreover\, the mobile communications armoury now includes LTE-eMBMS as a broadcast mode\, which can handle cases\, where many users want to consume the same content. Consequently\, the mobile network operators ask for a reallocation of the UHF broadcast bands to standards such as LTE (digital dividend II and more). If we assume that there is a future for broadcast over terrestrial transmission\, this talk will shed some light about the question what technical (not commercial!) advantages conventional terrestrial broadcast standards like DVB have over eMBMS and vice versa. This leads to the question\, whether the best aspects of both can be combined by having both networks cooperate. A final aspect discussed is the idea of distributing eMBMS content by satellite using\, e.g.\, DVB-S2. \nBiography: After conducting studies at the Universität Karlsruhe/Germany (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT)\, the Norges Tekniske Høgskole (NTH) in Trondheim/Norway\, the Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique (ESIEE) in Paris and the University of Southampton/England\, Marco Breiling graduated with a Dipl.-Ing. degree from KIT in 1997. He earned his PhD degree (with highest honor) for a thesis about turbo codes from Universität Erlangen/Germany in 2002. \nSince 2001\, he has been working at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) in Erlangen in the field of satellite and terrestrial communications. He currently holds the position of the broadband & broadcast department’s chief scientist.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/terrestrial-broadcast-vs-lte-embms-competition-and-cooperation/
LOCATION:Room BA7180\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Communications
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SUMMARY:Novel Single-Source Integral Equation for Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering Problems on Penetrable Objects
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday November 17\, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Vladimir Okhmatovski\, Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba\, will be presenting “Novel Single-Source Integral Equation for Solution of Electromagnetic Scattering Problems on Penetrable Objects”. \nSpeaker: Vladimir Okhmatovski\nAssociate Professor\nDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Manitoba \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, November 17\, 2015\n4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA1210\nBahen Center for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\nM5S2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter \nContact: Costas D. Sarris\, Email:costas.sarris@utoronto.ca \nAbstract: A new Surface–Volume–Surface Electric Field Integral Equation (SVS-EFIE) is discussed. The SVS-EFIE is derived from the volume integral equation by representing the electric field inside the scatterer as a superposition of the waves emanating from its cross section’s boundary. The SVS-EFIE has several advantages. While being rigorous in nature\, it features half of the degrees of freedom compared to the traditional surface integral equation formulations such as PMCHWT and it requires only electric-field-type of Green’s function instead ofboth electric and magnetic field types. The latter property brings significant simplifications to solution of the scattering problems on the objects situated in multilayered media. \nBoth scalar and vector formulations of the SVS-EFIE equation has been developed for solution of 2D scattering problems on penetrable cylinders under TM and TE polarizations. The SVS-EFIE has been also been applied to the solution of the quasi-magneetostatic problems of current flow in complex interconnects in both homogeneous and multilayered media. Detailed description of the method of moment discretization and resultant matrices is discussed. Due to the presence of a product of surface-to-volume and volume-to-surface integral operators\, the discretization of the novel SVS-EFIE requires both surface and volume meshes. In order to validate the presented technique\, the numericalresults are compared with the reference solutions. \nBiography: Vladimir Okhmatovski received Ph.D. degree in antennas and microwave circuits from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute\, Moscow\, Russia in 1997. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with the National Technical University of Athens from 1998 to 1999 and with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 to 2004\, he was with the Department of Custom Integrated Circuits at Cadence Design Systems in Tempe\, Arizona. In 2004\, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Manitoba\, where is currently an Associate Professor. His research interests are the fast algorithms of electromagnetics\, high-performance computing\, modeling of interconnects\, and inverse problems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/novel-single-source-integral-equation-for-solution-of-electromagnetic-scattering-problems-on-penetrable-objects/
LOCATION:Room BA1210\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151119T140000
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SUMMARY:Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search
DESCRIPTION:Thursday November 19\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Mohammad Norouzi\, PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Compact Discrete Representations for Scalable Similarity Search”. \nSpeaker: Mohammad Norouzi\nPhD Candidate \nDay & Time: Thursday\, November 19\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 106\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\n245 Church Street\nToronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Computer\, Magnetics and Instrument-Measurement Chapters \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour\, Email:maryam.davoudpour@ieee.org \nAbstract: Scalable similarity search on images\, documents\, and user activities benefits generic search\, data visualization\, and recommendation systems. This talk concerns the design of algorithms and machine learning tools for faster and more accurate similarity search. The proposed techniques advocate the use of discrete codes for representing the similarity structure of data in a compact way. In particular\, I will discuss how one can learn to map high-dimensional data onto binary codes with a metric learning approach. Then\, I will describe a simple algorithm for fast exact nearest neighbour search in Hamming distance\, which exhibits sub-linear query time performance. Going beyond binary codes\, I will highlight a compositional generalization of k-means clustering which maps data points onto integer codes with storage and search costs that grow sub-linearly in the number of cluster centers. This representation improves upon binary codes\, and provides an even more precise approximation of Euclidean distance. Experimental results are reported on multiple datasets including a dataset of SIFT descriptors with 1B entries. \nBiography: Mohammad Norouzi is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Toronto. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and computer vision. He is a recipient of a Google US/Canada PhD fellowship in machine learning. He is going to join Google as a research scientist in January 2016.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/compact-discrete-representations-for-scalable-similarity-search/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151123T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151123T150000
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SUMMARY:Intelligent Medical Devices for Affordable Healthcare
DESCRIPTION:Monday November 23\, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Professor Dinesh Kumar\, RMIT University of Melbourne\, Australia will be presenting “Intelligent Medical Devices for Affordable Healthcare”. \nSpeaker: Professor Dinesh Kumar\nRMIT University\nMelbourne\, Australia \nDay & Time: Monday\, November 23\, 2015\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 106\nGeorge Vari Engineering and Computing Centre\nRyerson University\n245 Church Street\nToronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Signal Processing Chapter \nContact: Sri Kirshnan\, Email:krishnan@ryerson.ca \nAbstract: Technology is giving us longer and healthier lives. However\, this comes at the cost\, both\, in terms of the research\, infrastructure\, and the cost of running the devices. Often\, this makes many of these technologies only suitable for the wealthy societies.\nProf Kumar will share his vision for devices and technologies for affordable healthcare. He will count the real cost of the devices\, and suggest methods for making these more affordable without compromising the efficacy in improving the health outcomes. While automatic devices are often considered the demand of the wealthy\, Kumar will show that these intelligent devices are the necessity for remote communities. \nBiography: Dr. Dinesh Kumar is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at RMIT University in Melbourne\, Australia. Dr. Kumar did his B.E (Hons) and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)\, Chennai and Delhi and has been researching in the field of developing affordable medical devices for 20 years. Dr. Kumar has been working towards developing intelligent devices and techniques that facilitate the user for early detection of disease\, perform risk assessment of disease and provide assistive technologies for people who are frail or disabled. He has published over 350 refereed publications and his work has been cited over 5000 times.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/intelligent-medical-devices-for-affordable-healthcare/
LOCATION:Room ENG106\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Signal Processing
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20151125T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20151125T140000
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SUMMARY:Free Spectrum – Unlicensed Options
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday November 25\, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. Dr. Srikanth will be presenting “Free Spectrum – Unlicensed Options”. \nSpeaker: Dr. Srikanth\nCKO\, Nanocell Networks\nAU-KBC Research Centre\, MIT Campus\, Chennai\, India\nRyerson Communications Lab \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, November 25\, 2015\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 460\n245 Church St.\, Ryerson University\, Toronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Communications Society \nContact: Eman Hammad\, Email:eman.hammad.ca@ieee.org \nAbstract: The use of unlicensed bands by operators has been looming for quite some time with no clear approaches prevalent across the globe. Wi-Fi technologies have been thought of as the only way for operators to use unlicensed band due to its popularity in devices. Recently\, many companies have evinced interested in standardizing LTE-technologies in the unlicensed bands as this can solve the teething problems with respect to using Wi-Fi based technologies. The reaction from the Wi-Fi camp has been a challenge as it views LTE-unlicensed solutions as disruption to their business. The carrier community prefers LTE-unlicensed solutions as it gives them better control over operations in unlicensed band apart from better performance. In this course\, we shall introduce the various unlicensed options available to carriers and others. Topics to be covered: \n• Why unlicensed bands for service providers\n• Wi-Fi\, its evolution and its role including Wi-Fi calling\n• LTE in unlicensed bands – motivation\n• LTE-U; key points\n• 3GPP LAA; key approaches and status\n• 3GPP LWA; LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation\n• Qualcomm MuLTEfire \nBiography: Srikanth obtained his B.E.\, degree from College of Engineering\, Anna University\, Chennai\, and MASc and PhD degrees from University of Victoria\, British Columbia\, Canada. \nHe worked as a scientist at the KBC Research Foundation/AU-KBC Research Centre\, in Chennai\, India and most of his work is focused on OFDM based technologies. From 2004-2007 he was awarded a Young Scientist Fellowship by the Government of India to work on technologies related to upgrades on 802.11 and 802.16 standards. He has closely monitored the progress of the 802.11 and 802.16 standards and is familiar with the various proposals which were submitted for consideration for the 802.11n extension. He is currently the chief knowledge officer of nanocell networks and is also a consultant to Airtight Networks while being a visiting faculty at MIT\, Chennai. He is a co-investigator of a research project funded by Govt. of India with faculty from IIT\, Chennai and IIT\, Mumbai \nSrikanth began his career as a research associate at the University of Victoria\, British Columbia\, \nCanada working in the area of DSL and CDMA Systems. After this Ph. D.\, he joined Harris Corporation and worked on baseband algorithms for various wireless standards including IS-136 and 1S-95 systems. He has consulted on various areas of OFDM systems and has also been involved in the setting up of a test lab for 802.11. He has 3 US patents issued in the area of \nWLANs\, OFDM\, and OFDMA systems. Srikanth trains global teams of corporates on the latest WLAN\, cellular standards\, and IOT. He has also been involved in the IEEE WCET course book preparation.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/free-spectrum-unlicensed-options/
LOCATION:Room ENG 460\, Ryerson University
CATEGORIES:Communications
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