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SUMMARY:Getting Started with Python
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, August 17\, 2020 at 10:00 a.m.\, Sathish Ravichandran will be presenting “Getting Started with Python”. \nDay & Time: Monday\, August 17\, 2020\n10:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Sathish Ravichandran \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Magnetics Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Seyed M. Reza Dibaj\, Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: Python is an easy to learn programming language with a wide variety of well-paying jobs in many fields\, including data science\, web development\, network programming and so on. \nThis workshop is aimed at complete beginners who have never programmed before\, as well as existing programmers who want to increase their career options by learning Python\, especially if you are pursuing a career in data science\, AI\, web development\, big data\, web testing\, or programming for smart devices in Python. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/237001 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/getting-started-with-python/
LOCATION:Tornoto\, Ontario Canada
CATEGORIES:Magnetics,Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:IEEE SEGE2020 – The 8th International Conference on Smart Energy Grid Engineering
DESCRIPTION:The SEGE conference aims at providing an opportunity to discuss various engineering challenges of smart energy grid design and operation by focusing on advanced methods and practices for designing different components and their integration within the grid. It also provides a forum for researchers from academia and professionals from industry\, as well as government regulators to tackle these challenges\, and discuss and exchange knowledge and best practices about design and implementation of Smart Energy Grids. \nConference Dates: August 12-14\, 2020 \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto \nLocation: Virtual \nContact: Dr. Hossam Gabbar \nPapers related to the conference theme are solicited: http://ieee-sege.com
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/ieee-sege2020-the-8th-international-conference-on-smart-energy-grid-engineering/
LOCATION:Ontario Tech University\, Oshawa\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:2D Game Development in Unity with C# - Session 3
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, August 10\, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.\, IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter will be hosting “2D Game Development in Unity with C# – Session 3”. \nDay & Time: Monday\, August 10\, 2020\n6:30 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Steven Medeot \nOrganizers: IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter\, IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi \nAbstract: Our interactive workshop welcomes new and experienced programmers who are interested in 2D game development.  This event hosted by IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter is sponsored by IEEE WIE and will provide the building blocks and best practices in developing a 2D level game including\, creating a player\, creating enemies\, game loops\, animations\, and more!  All who attend all five sessions will get a certificate from IEEE WIE and can submit their 2D game into a friendly competition with small prizes at the end of the workshop series. \nSession 3 teaches the concept of game loops and scenes. \nRegister: https://forms.gle/VvZW3oeZ81UCtgnX7 \nBiography: Steven Medeot is a 3rd-year Computer Science Student at Ryerson University. He has a background in Game Development\, who completed the Game Programming curriculum at George Brown College with a few years of experience working in this industry and enjoys developing his own games on the side. He strongly believes that creating a game that people can find joy in is a wonderful experience and wants to share some of the basic knowledge he has learned throughout the years.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/2d-game-development-in-unity-with-c-session-3/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200803T183000
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SUMMARY:2D Game Development in Unity with C# - Session 2
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, August 3\, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.\, IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter will be hosting “2D Game Development in Unity with C# – Session 2”. \nDay & Time: Monday\, August 3\, 2020\n6:30 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Steven Medeot \nOrganizers: IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter\, IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi \nAbstract: Our interactive workshop welcomes new and experienced programmers who are interested in 2D game development.  This event hosted by IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter is sponsored by IEEE WIE and will provide the building blocks and best practices in developing a 2D level game including\, creating a player\, creating enemies\, game loops\, animations\, and more!  All who attend all five sessions will get a certificate from IEEE WIE and can submit their 2D game into a friendly competition with small prizes at the end of the workshop series. \nSession 2 of the 2D Game Development workshop series explores interfaces and interactability. \nRegister: https://forms.gle/VvZW3oeZ81UCtgnX7 \nBiography: Steven Medeot is a 3rd-year Computer Science Student at Ryerson University. He has a background in Game Development\, who completed the Game Programming curriculum at George Brown College with a few years of experience working in this industry and enjoys developing his own games on the side. He strongly believes that creating a game that people can find joy in is a wonderful experience and wants to share some of the basic knowledge he has learned throughout the years.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/2d-game-development-in-unity-with-c-session-2/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200730T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200730T193000
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SUMMARY:Measurement\, Control and Protection in Smart Grid Energy Management Systems for Smart Buildings in a Smart City
DESCRIPTION:Webinar by the IEEE Ottawa Section\, Instrumentation & Measurement Society Chapter (IMS)\, Power and Energy Society Ottawa Chapter (PES)\, Reliability Society and Power Electronics Society Joint Chapter (RS/PELS)\, Communications Society\, Consumer Electronics Society\, and Broadcast Technology Society Joint Chapter (ComSoc/ CESoc/BTS)\, and IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities (EA). \nDay & Time: Thursday\, July 30\, 2020\n6:30 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Prof. Saifur Rahman \nOrganizers: IEEE Ottawa Section\, Instrumentation & Measurement Society Chapter\, Power and Energy Society Chapter\, Reliability Society and Power Electronics Society\, Broadcast Technology Society Join Chapter\, IEEE Ottawa Educational Activities\, IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi \nAbstract: Smart grid is a modern electric system with its architecture\, communications\, sensors\, measurements\, automation\, computing hardware and software for improvement of the efficiency\, reliability\, flexibility and security. In particular\, the smart grid\, when fully deployed\, will facilitate the (i) increased use of digital information and measurement\, control & protection technologies\, (ii) deployment and grid-integration of distributed energy resources (DERs)\, (iii) operation of demand response and energy efficiency programs\, and (iv) integration of consumer-owned smart devices and technologies. Different non-linear controls\, such as back-stepping control\, feedback linearization\, model predictive control\, and sliding mode control are applied to control DERs\, and their grid integration. Another control technique gaining application in the smart grid space is based on multi-agent systems (MAS) which provide autonomy\, reactivity and proactivity. As speedy communication facilities\, such as fiber-optics\, microwave\, GSM/GPRS\, 4G/5G are becoming the integral parts of the functioning smart grid\, the integration of MAS in smart grid applications is becoming simple and feasible. This lecture focuses on the measurement & control issues of the smart grid and how MAS can provide an efficient tool to address such issues. In addition\, an overview of the related challenges and opportunities for energy efficient building operation and management with deployment experience in the US will be provided. \nRegister: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236481 \nBiography: Prof. Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute (www.ari.vt.edu) at Virginia Tech\, USA where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He also directs the Center for Energy and the Global Environment (www.ceage.vt.edu). He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and an IEEE Millennium Medal winner. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the IEEE Electrification Magazine and the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy. In 2006\, he served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the Vice President for Publications. He is a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) and has lectured on renewable energy\, energy efficiency\, smart grid\, electric power system operation and planning\, etc. in over 30 countries. He was IEEE Power and Energy Society President 2018-2019 and is now a candidate for IEEE President-Elect 2021. \nHe chaired the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for International Science and Engineering\, 2010-2013. He conducted several energy efficiency projects for Duke Energy\, Tokyo Electric Power Company\, US National Science Foundation\, US Department of Defense\, State of Virginia and US Department of Energy.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/measurement-control-and-protection-in-smart-grid-energy-management-systems-for-smart-buildings-in-a-smart-city/
LOCATION:Toronto\, Ontario Canada
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Power & Energy,Power Electronics,Women in Engineering
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SUMMARY:Introduction to NLP for Classification Task – Session 4
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, July 29\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, and IM/RA will be hosting “Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task – Session 4”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 29\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, IM/RA Society \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi\, Younes Sadat Nejad \nAbstract: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task is a series of workshops hosted by IEEE Toronto Section\, WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, Instrumentation Measurement/Robotics Automation Chapter and Ryerson Advanced AI lab. \nOur main goal is to get started on NLP classification tasks for competition and explore duplicate question detection and sentiment analysis tasks. \nIn this session\, we will be focusing on RNN and LSTM. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236479 or https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/236480 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/introduction-to-nlp-for-classification-task-session-4/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom Toronto\, Ontario Canada
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200727T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200727T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
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SUMMARY:2D Game Development in Unity with C# - Session 1
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, July 27\, 2020 at 6:30 p.m.\, IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter will be hosting “2D Game Development in Unity with C# – Session 1”. \nDay & Time: Monday\, July 27\, 2020\n6:30 p.m. ‐ 8:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Steven Medeot \nOrganizers: IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter\, IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi \nAbstract: Our interactive workshop welcomes new and experienced programmers who are interested in 2D game development. This event hosted by IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter is sponsored by IEEE WIE and will provide the building blocks and best practices in developing a 2D level game including\, creating a player\, creating enemies\, game loops\, animations\, and more! All who attend all five sessions will get a certificate from IEEE WIE and can submit their 2D game into a friendly competition with small prizes at the end of the workshop series. \nIn our first session\, we will review basic programming concepts\, object-oriented programming\, and introduce best practices working with C# in the Unity environment. \nRegister: https://forms.gle/VvZW3oeZ81UCtgnX7 \nBiography: Steven Medeot is a 3rd-year Computer Science Student at Ryerson University. He has a background in Game Development\, who completed the Game Programming curriculum at George Brown College with a few years of experience working in this industry and enjoys developing his own games on the side. He strongly believes that creating a game that people can find joy in is a wonderful experience and wants to share some of the basic knowledge he has learned throughout the years.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/2d-game-development-in-unity-with-c-session-1/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200723T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200723T153000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
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SUMMARY:Advanced Topics on Scalable Deployment of Machine Learning and Drone-Based Search and Rescue
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, July 23\, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.\, Dalia Hanna and Mujahid Sultan will be presenting “Advanced Topics on Scalable Deployment of Machine Learning and Drone-Based Search and Rescue”. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, July 23\, 2020\n1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. \nSpeakers: Dalia Hanna\, Mujahid Sultan \n\n\nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, IEEE IM/RA\, Ryerson CS Graduate Student Council\, IEEE Ryerson Computational Intelligence Chapter\, Ryerson CSCU \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi \nTitle: Factors affecting the Automation of the Search and Rescue Operations: An Algorithm on Finding Missing Lost Persons Living with Dementia \nAbstract: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are now used in many applications. The focus in this presentation is on their use in public safety\, specifically in search and rescue (SAR) operations involving lost persons living with dementia (LPLWD). When it comes to saving lives\, there are many human factors associated with UAV operations that impact the performance of expert human SAR teams that could be improved through forms of automation. These include familiarity with the search location\, tasks associated with piloting and search/flight management during SAR operations.  A LPLWD may not be interested in assisting in their own rescue as they may not know they are lost. As such\, it has been observed that they tend to keep walking until they are faced with an obstacle that bars their further progress. The approach presented in this research work focuses on developing a people finding algorithm to identify higher probability locations where an LPLWD might be found\, through informed\, behavior-based analysis of the search location; then\, developing an algorithm to fly a UAV to the vicinity of these higher probability locations.  The algorithm was tested and validated through field testing. The results from both the data collection process and the field tests indicated that there are efficiencies in using the drone\, which enhances the probability of finding the lost person alive.  An informed cleaning process involving both manual and ‘R’-automated approaches to scrub and augment the data–adding any missing values in the dataset\, helped in understanding the behaviour of the lost person and in determining what significant variables enhanced their survivability. Linear regression was utilized to acquire the correlation among the numeric values in the database. The analysis indicated that there was no significant correlation among the independent variables; however\, the data indicated that the wanderer tended to be found closer to where they left or were last seen. Logistic regression was used to investigate the survivability using three classification models. Finally\, a framework is presented considering all the factors form the field tests and data analysis. \n\nTitle: How to build and deploy machine learning models in the scalable cloud  \nAbstract: Machine learning model development is a skill taught at schools and is a good skill to have but where most of the student’s lake is how to serve these models to the clients. How to scale. Make sure that the server does not die if it gets a million hits in a second. How to build security around it. \nAgenda: Interested students who want to build along with me\, can bring their laptop with MobaXterm installed and we can do the following together. \n\nlogin to a cloud environment (I will provide the cloud login credentials during the presentation)\ncreate a virtual environment for development\nbuild a semantic search engineby pulling libraries from the net\npick a visualization and presentation method from D3JS\ndevelop an application using MVC pattern like the flask\nwrap the application in a docker container\ninstall scalable web engine like NGINX\nhost it to the cloud (azure)\nprovide secure access with a username and password to anyone on the internet\n\nThis presentation will expose the tools required to build scalable machine learning applications in the cloud. \n\nRegistration: Please visit https://forms.gle/7ZoimYgVjjpC9mag8 to register. \nBiographies: \nDalia Hanna\nTopic: Factors affecting the Automation of the Search and Rescue Operations: An Algorithm on Finding Missing Lost Persons Living with Dementia \nDalia Hanna is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Computer Science\, Ryerson University. She is a member of Ryerson’s Network-Centric Applied Research Lab\, a multidisciplinary Computational Public Safety-focused research lab. She has a B.Sc. in Electronics and Communication Engineering and M.Sc. in Instructional Design and Technology with a specialization in Online Learning. Dalia is also a certified project management professional (PMP ® ) and a certified facilitator. Her research interest in utilizing technology tools for public safety\, search and rescue\, and emergency management operations. . Dalia authored several research papers and presented in national and international conferences. \nMujahid Sultan\nTopic: Factors affecting the Automation of the Search and Rescue Operations: An Algorithm on Finding Missing Lost Persons Living with Dementia \nMujahid Sultan is a senior computer scientist and enterprise architect with vast experience in machine learning\, pattern recognition\, deep learning\, NLP\, text synthesis\, transcription\, time-series forecasting and cloud-native developments (Python\, microservices\, APIs\, Docker\, Kubernetes). His current research focus: a) working to develop a robust clustering method with mathematical proofs b) improving learning from imbalanced data on graph-based deep learning backends (TensorFlow\, Torch and CNTK)\, and c) building Machine Learning based dynamic SDN controllers. \nHe has authored in high impact journals in fields of Machine Learning\, Artificial Intelligence\, Data Visualization\, Genetics and Drug Discovery for Cancer\, Requirements Engineering and Enterprise Architecture. His publications can be found at https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6721-4044 \nAreas of Expertise include: Regression\, Clustering\, Classification\, Deep Learning\, Convolutional and Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTMs)\, Natural Language Processing (NLP)\, Self-Organizing Maps (SOM)\, Topic Modeling and Parallel Processing. Expert in info visualization using matlab\, matplotlib\, D3js and plotly. \nSkills: Full-stack development: (Angular+Flask+Docker); Python: (Scikit-Learn\, Keras\, TensorFlow\, NLTK\, Spacy\, NumPy\, Matplotlib\, SpaCy to name a few); MATLAB: (toolboxes: statistics\, microeconomics\, parallel processing\, bioinformatics to name a few). \nPlatform experience: Docker Containers and Kubernetes on AWS\, Azure/Azure Stack and Google Cloud Platform. PaaS/IaaS: (AWS: (Elastic Beanstalk\, Lambda\, Poly\, Sage-Maker)\, Azure ML\, and Heroku).
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/advanced-topics-on-scalable-deployment-of-machine-learning-and-drone-based-search-and-rescue/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom Toronto\, Ontario Canada
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200715T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200715T200000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to NLP for Classification Task - Session 2
DESCRIPTION:Recorded Material:\nVideo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBUK_NtU3kSNblsGaYouLHyfDHlxr1tt/view\nPowerPoint: 2.IntroductiontoNLP\,Kagle \nOn Wednesday\, July 15\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE and Computational Intelligence Society will be hosting “Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task – Session 2”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 15\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi\, Younes Sadat Nejad \nAbstract: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task is a series of workshops hosted by IEEE Toronto Section\, WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, Instrumentation Measurement/Robotics Automation Chapter and Ryerson Advanced AI lab. \nOur main goal is to get started on NLP classification tasks for competition and explore duplicate question detection and sentiment analysis tasks. \nIn the second session\, we will introduce the concept of deep learning\, and then specifically focus on Natural Language Process. We will also introduce Kaggle Account as an environment for python coding. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/235444 or https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/235447 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/introduction-to-nlp-for-classification-task-session-2/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200709T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200709T130000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
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SUMMARY:TORONTO COMSOC SUMMER TALKS: Integrated Access and Backhaul for 5G and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter is thrilled to continue its Summer Talks Series hosting Dr. Behrooz Makki\, a Senior Researcher in Ericsson Research\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. In his talk\, Dr. Makki will discuss integrated access and backhaul for 5G and beyond. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, July 9\, 2020\n12:00 p.m. ‐ 1:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Behrooz Makki \nOrganizers: IEEE Communications Society Toronto Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: IEEE ComSoc Toronto Chapter \nAbstract: The number of devices requesting for wireless communications is growing exponentially. Network densification via the deployment of many base stations (BSs) of different types is one of the mechanisms that can be employed to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for bandwidth/capacity in wireless networks. However\, deploying fiber to the small cells may be expensive and impractical when the number of small cells increases. For this reason\, as well as because of the traffic jams and infrastructure displacements caused by fiber optic installation\, millimeter wave (mmw)-based wireless backhaul is currently considered as an alternative\, providing (almost) the same rate as fiber optic with significantly less price and no digging. With this background\, integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks\, where the operator can utilize part of the radio resources for wireless backhauling\, has recently received considerable attention. The purpose of IAB is to replace existing backhaul systems with flexible wireless backhaul using the existing 3GPP bands providing not only backhaul but also existing cellular services in the same node. This creates more flexibility and reduces the implementation cost. For 5G NR\, IAB is currently considered as a work item in 3GPP\, and it is known as one of the main novelties of 5G. In this talk\, we review the main backhauling techniques\, and present the main motivations/standardization agreements on IAB. Moreover\, We present comparisons between the IAB networks and the cases where all or part of the small access points are fiber-connected. Finally\, we study the robustness of IAB networks to environmental effects and verify the effect of the blockage\, the tree foliage\, the rain as well as the antenna height/gain on the coverage rate of IAB setups\, as the key differences between the fiber-connected and IAB networks. As we show\, IAB is an attractive setup enabling 5G and beyond. \nBiography: Behrooz Makki received his PhD degree in Communication Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. In 2013-2017\, he was a Postdoc researcher at Chalmers University. Currently\, he works as a senior researcher in Ericsson Research\, Gothenburg\, Sweden. \n\nBehrooz is the recipient of the VR Research Link grant\, Sweden\, 2014\, the Ericsson’s Research grant\, Sweden\, 2013\, 2014 and 2015\, the ICT SEED grant\, Sweden\, 2017\, as well as the Wallenbergs research grant\, Sweden\, 2018. He is a Senior Member of IEEE since Aug. 2019. Also\, Behrooz is the recipient of the IEEE best reviewer award\, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications\, 2018. Currently\, he works as an Editor in IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, IEEE Communications Letters\, the journal of Communications and Information Networks as well as the associate editor of Frontiers in Communications and Networks. He was a member of European Commission projects “mm-Wave based Mobile Radio Access Network for 5G Integrated Communications” and “ARTIST4G” as well as various national and international research collaborations. His current research interests include integrated access and backhaul\, hybrid automatic repeat request\, Green communications\, millimeter wave communications\, and backhauling. He has co-authored 57 journal papers\, 45 conference papers and 40 patent applications. \n\nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233754 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/toronto-comsoc-summer-talks-integrated-access-and-backhaul-for-5g-and-beyond/
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200708T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200708T193000
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SUMMARY:Introduction to NLP for Classification Task – Session 1
DESCRIPTION:Recorded Material:\nVideo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gBUK_NtU3kSNblsGaYouLHyfDHlxr1tt/view?usp=sharing\nPowerPoint: 1-Intro to Python\, Data Science Libraries\, and Pytorch \nOn Wednesday\, July 8\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, IEEE Toronto WIE and Computational Intelligence Society will be hosting “Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task – Session 1”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, July 8\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 7:30 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi\, Younes Sadat Nejad \nAbstract: Introduction to Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Classification Task is a series of workshops hosted by IEEE Toronto Section\, WIE\, Computational Intelligence Society\, Instrumentation Measurement/Robotics Automation Chapter and Ryerson Advanced AI lab. \nOur main goal is to get started on NLP classification tasks for competition and explore duplicate question detection and sentiment analysis tasks. In session 1\, we will be covering the introduction to Python\, Data Science Libraries and Pytorch. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233944 or https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/233942 for more details and to register.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/introduction-to-nlp-for-classification-task-session-1/
CATEGORIES:Communications,Instrumentation & Measurement,Signals & Computational Intelligence,Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200618T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200618T190000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210430T023534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233729Z
UID:10000303-1592503200-1592506800@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Toronto ComSoc Summer Talks: A Career in Engineering\, Past & Future Reflections
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, June 18\, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.\, Dr. Thamir (Tom) Murad will be presenting  “Toronto ComSoc Summer Talks: A Career in Engineering\, Past & Future Reflections”. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, June 18\, 2020\n6:00 p.m. ‐ 7:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Thamir (Tom) Murad\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter \nAbstract: The IEEE Toronto ComSoc Chapter is thrilled to kick-off its Summer Talks Series hosting Dr. Tom Murad\, the Vice Chair\, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers “OSPE“ ‘s Board of Directors. Dr. Murad currently is the Country Lead for Engineering and Technology for Siemens Mobility. In this talk\, we look forward to Dr. Murad as he shares his reflections on his career in engineering with insights into the future on how to remain relvant and combine passion with leadership. \nRegister: Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/232207 for more details and to register. \nBiography: Dr. Thamir (Tom) Murad\, Ph.D.\, P.Eng.\nVice Chair\, Ontario Society of Professional Engineers “OSPE“ ‘s Board of Directors \nTom has been a licensed engineer since 1998 and has extensive years of experience in the profession. He currently is the Country Lead for Engineering and Technology for Siemens Mobility\, previously the founder and Head of Siemens Canada Engineering & Technology Academy (SCETA)\, as well as the Country Lead for Engineering\, Technology and Academics for Siemens. \nTom has been a great advocate for the Engineering profession by sharing his experience and expertise with many committees and organizations’ Boards. \nHe is a member of the Ontario Government’s Post Secondary Education Quality Assessment board “ PEAQB “\, the Ryerson University Faculty of Engineering Advisory Council\, Humber College Applied Technologies Dean’s Board\, PEO’s Experience Review Committee\, Past chair of the IEEE -Toronto Section’s Executive Committee\, and the Past Chair of Halton Champions of Innovation Round Table. \nDr. Murad also has been a member of the Board of Directors for IEEE Canada\, the German Canadian Centre for Innovation & Research\, the Green Centre Canada\, and Fielding Environmental. His contributions to the profession have been recognized by PEO\, which gave him the Order of Honour\, and he was also named a Fellow of Engineers Canada. \nMost Recently\, He has been awarded the IEEE Canada J.M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award in 2019\, OPEA (Joint PEO and OSPE) Best Engineering Achievement Award in 2017\, and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce Golden Award for Best Skill Enhancement Project in 2016 . \nTom has a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering\, as well as a Ph.D. of Engineering\, specializing in Power Electronics & Industrial Controls from Loughborough University of Technology in the U.K. \nTom’s Passion has been always in Engineering Skills development \, and he is Nationally recognised and awarded as a visionary and an Advocate for Innovative approach to work Integrated Learning and Education programs.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/toronto-comsoc-summer-talks-a-career-in-engineering-past-future-reflections/
CATEGORIES:Communications
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200612T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200612T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T013325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T013325Z
UID:10000275-1591981200-1591984800@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:WIE Electronics session
DESCRIPTION:The workshop was to learn how to use virtual instruments in multisim\, as a way of learning how to use lab equipment\, followed by a discussion of an oscillator circuit\, built and demonstrated in multisim. \n\nDay & Time: Friday\, June 12\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Brandeen McDonald \n\nProfessor\, School of Applied Technology at Humber College Institution of Technology and Advance LearningOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch  \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Ayda Naserialiabadi
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/wie-electronics-session/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T203000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T013235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T013235Z
UID:10000273-1589562000-1589574600@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Programming Session Online
DESCRIPTION:Programming Sessions start for the Summer of 2020 via ZOOM. \n\nDay & Time: Friday\, May 15\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Brandeen McDonald \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Virtual – Zoom \nContact: Maryam Davoudpour
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/programming-session-online/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200514T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200514T143000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210430T023534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233655Z
UID:10000302-1589461200-1589466600@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Webinar: Rotating Machine Stator Winding Insulation Failure Processes
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, May 14\, 2020 at 1:00 p.m.\, Dr. Greg Stone will be presenting  “Rotating Machine Stator Winding Insulation Failure Processes”. \nDay & Time: Thursday\, May 14\, 2020\n1:00 p.m. ‐ 2:30 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Greg Stone of Qualitrol \nOrganizers: IEEE DEI Ontario Chapter \nLocation: Virtual – Webinar \nContact: Ali Naderian\, DEIS Toronto Chapter \nAbstract: The electrical insulation used in motors and generators rated 3.3 kV and above is made from mica tapes bonded together with epoxy. The stator winding insulation is the one of the most common reasons for machine failure\, and the most common reason for motor and generator maintenance. The insulation normally fails due to gradual aging of the insulation by thermal\, mechanical\, and electrical stresses in combination with contamination. This lecture will discuss the main insulation aging and failure mechanism both of conventional 60 Hz machines\, as well as motors and wind turbine generators connected to voltage source PWM inverters. \nRegister: RSVP is required for this event. Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/229820 for more details and to register. \nBiography: Dr. Stone took his degrees from the University of Waterloo\, Canada in 1975 (BSEE) and in 1991 (PhD). He began his career as an engineer working at Ontario Hydro’s Research Division. In time\, he was responsible for the testing of the 1200 large motors and generators in Ontario Hydro’s system. Later Dr. Stone became one of the developers of on-line partial discharge test methods to evaluate the condition of the high voltage insulation in stator windings\, used on most large generators and many large motors in North America\, and now widely used around the world. Since 1990\, he has been employed at Iris Power LP in Toronto Canada\, a company he helped to form as a co-founder. \nDr. Stone has published over 150 technical papers and has been awarded three patents concerned with rotating machine maintenance and testing. He has published two books\, the latest\, Electrical Insulation for Rotating Machines – Design Evaluation\, Aging\, Testing and Repair. \nAn IEEE Fellow\, Dr. Stone has chaired several IEEE committees responsible for creating standards for evaluation and testing of rotating machines. He is past President of the IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society\, and continues to be active on many other IEEE committees. Other awards include the IEEE Forster Distinguished Service Award and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. Dr. Stone is also a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He is a registered professional engineer in Ontario.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/webinar-rotating-machine-stator-winding-insulation-failure-processes/
CATEGORIES:Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T142000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200310T152000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T013138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T013138Z
UID:10000271-1583850000-1583853600@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Women in Engineering Winter 2020 Session #6
DESCRIPTION:In this session we are going to learn how to derive Flora-wearable electronic platform which we are going to use in dress. \n\n\nDay & Time: Tuesday\, March 10\, 2020\n2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room F307 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-engineering-winter-2020-session-6/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200305T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210430T023533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233623Z
UID:10000301-1583424000-1583427600@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Automotive Radar – A Signal Processing Perspective on Current Technology and Future Systems
DESCRIPTION:Thursday March 5th\, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. Dr. Markus Gardill\, IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer\, will be presenting an IEEE Distinguished Lecture “Automotive Radar – A Signal Processing Perspective on Current Technology and Future Systems”. \nDay & Time: Thursday March 5th\, 2020\n4:00 p.m. ‐ 5:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Markus Gardill\nIEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter \nLocation: Bahen Centre\, Room BA 1180\nUniversity of Toronto – St. George Campus\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: George V. Eleftheriades\, FRSC\, FIEEE \nAbstract: Radar systems are a key technology of modern vehicle safety & comfort systems. Without doubt it will only be the symbiosis of Radar\, Lidar and camera-based sensor systems which can enable advanced autonomous driving functions soon. Several next generation car models are such announced to have up to 10 radar sensors per vehicle\, allowing for the generation of a radar-based 360° surround view necessary for advanced driver assistance as well as semi-autonomous operation. Hence the demand from the automotive industry for high-precision\, multi-functional radar systems is higher than ever before\, and the increased requirements on functionality and sensor capabilities lead to research and development activities in the field of automotive radar systems in both industry and academic worlds. \nCurrent automotive radar technology is almost exclusively based on the principle of frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) radar\, which has been well known for several decades. However\, together with an increase of hardware capabilities such as higher carrier frequencies\, modulation bandwidths and ramp slopes\, as well as a scaling up of simultaneously utilized transmit and receive channels with independent modulation features\, new degrees of freedom have been added to traditional FMCW radar system design and signal processing. The anticipated presentation will accordingly introduce the topic with a review on the fundamentals of radar and FMCW radar. After introducing the system architecture of traditional and modern automotive FMCW radar sensors\, with e.g. insights into the concepts of distributed or centralized processing and sensor data fusion\, the presentation will dive into the details of fast-chirp FMCW processing – the modulation mode which is used by the vast majority of current automotive FMCW radar systems. Starting with the fundamentals of target range and velocity estimation based on the radar data matrix\, the spatial dimension available using modern single-input multiple-output (SIMO) and multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar systems will be introduced and radar processing based on the radar data cube is discussed. Of interest is the topic of angular resolution – one of the key drawbacks which e.g. render Lidar systems superior to radar in some situations. Consequently\, traditional and modern methods for direction of arrival estimation in FMCW radar systems are presented\, starting from traditional monopulse-like algorithms to modern frameworks for superresolution DoA estimation. The presentation will then introduce the great challenge of FMCW radar system interference. While FMCW radar interference is a challenge which can be handled using adaptive signal processing in today’s systems\, it will become a severe problem with the increasing number of radar-sensors equipped vehicles in dense traffic situations in the near future and a solution to the expected increase in interference is still an open question. \nIt is this problem of interference\, together with some added functionality\, which motivated the proposal of alternative radar waveforms such as pseudo-random or orthogonal-frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) radar for automotive radar systems. Although not yet of great interest from an industrial perspective\, the fundamentals and capabilities of both technologies will be introduced in the remainder of the anticipated presentation. \nBiography:\nMarkus Gardill (S’11-M’15) was born in Bamberg\, Germany in 1985. \nHe received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degree in systems of information and multimedia technology/electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg\, Germany\, in 2010 and 2015\, respectively. \nIn 2010\, he joined the Institute for Electronics Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg as a research assistant and teaching fellow. \nFrom 2014 to 2015 he was head of the team Radio Communication Technology. \nIn late 2015 he joined the Robert Bosch GmbH as an R&D engineer for optical and imaging metrology systems and leading the cluster of non-destructive testing for the international production network.\nIn 2016 he joined the automotive radar business segment of InnoSenT GmbH\, where he is currently head of the group radar signal processing & tracking. \nHis main research interest include radar and communication systems\, antenna (array) design\, and signal processing algorithms. His particular interest is spatio-temporal processing such as e.g. beamforming and direction-of-arrival estimation with a focus on combining the worlds of signal processing and microwave/electromagnetics. \nDr. Gardill is an IEEE Young Professional. He is member of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (IEEE MTT-S) and currently serves as co-chair of the IEEE MTT-S Technical Committee Digital Signal Processing (MTT-9).\nHe regularly acts as reviewer and TPRC member for several journals and conferences\, will act as associate editor of the Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques beginning with 2020 and serves as Distinguished Microwave Lecturer (DML) for the DML term 2018-2020 with a presentation focussing automotive radar systems.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/automotive-radar-a-signal-processing-perspective-on-current-technology-and-future-systems-2/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre\, Room BA 1180 University of Toronto – St. George Campus 40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T142000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T152000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T013056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T013056Z
UID:10000269-1581430800-1581434400@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Women in Engineering Winter 2020 Session #5
DESCRIPTION:Preparing the algorithm to write the code for the upper pattern of the dress. \n\n\nDay & Time: Tuesday\, February 11\, 2020\n2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room F307 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-engineering-winter-2020-session-5/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200207T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200207T160000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210430T023533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233556Z
UID:10000300-1581087600-1581091200@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Medical Applications of Microwaves
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, February 7\, 2020 Zoya Popovic\, Distinguished Professor and Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado\, will be presenting “Medical Applications of Microwaves”. \nDay & Time: Friday\, February 7\, 2020\n3:00 p.m. ‐ 4:00 p.m. \nSpeakers: Zoya Popovic\nDistinguished Professor\nLockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering\, University of Colorado \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics & Radiation Chapter \nLocation: Bahen Centre for Information Technology – Room 2135\n40 St George street\nToronto\, Ontario\nCanada M5S 2E4 \nRegister: https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/m/219067 \nContact: Prof. Costas Sarris \nAbstract: This talk will first present a brief overview of the activities in the microwave group at the University of Colorado\, Boulder\, following a discussion on two topics that use microwave techniques for medical applications: (1) design of exciters and bore for human-sized 10.5-T MRI machines; and (2) a study of near-field radiometry for internal temperature measurements of the human body. The focus of the first topic is design of cavity and probes for improving uniformity of the circularly-polarized B-field inside phantoms for high-field travelling-wave MRI imagers. \nThe phenomenology of high-field imaging and its resulting challenges will be highlighted\, followed by simulation and experimental data using a research Siemens instrument. Although MRI can be used for measuring internal body temperature\, it is expensive\, large and slow. Radiometry is shown to be a feasible method for implementing a portable or even wearable microwave thermometer. \nOne of the possible frequencies of operation is the 1.4 GHz quiet band\, which is appropriate for centimeter penetration into tissues with minimized radio-frequency interference (RFI). The total blackbody power from a tissue stack is received by a probe placed on the skin\, designed to receive a high percentage of the total power from a buried tissue layer. Temperature retrieval for sub-surface tissue layers is performed using near-field weighting functions\, obtained by full-wave simulations with known tissue complex electrical parameters. \nMeasurements are presented using a calibrated Dicke radiometer at 1.4GHz for various phantom tissues. It is shown that temperature can be tracked within a fraction of a degree for a phantom muscle tissue layer under phantom fat and skin layers. \nBiography: Zoya Popovic is a Distinguished Professor and the Lockheed Martin Endowed Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of Colorado. She obtained her Dipl.Ing. degree at the University of Belgrade\, Serbia\, and her Ph.D. at Caltech. In 2001/03 and 2014\, she was a Visiting Professor with the Technical University of Munich\, Germany and ISAE in Toulouse\, France\, respectively. She was a Chair of Excellence at Carlos III University in Madrid in 2018-19. She has graduated 60 PhDs and currently advises 14 doctoral students in various areas of microwave engineering. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of two IEEE MTT Microwave Prizes for best journal papers\, the White House NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow award\, the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal\, the ASEE/HP Terman Medal and the German Humboldt Research Award. She was named IEEE MTT Distinguished Educator in 2013 and the University of Colorado Distinguished Research Lecturer in 2015. She has a husband physicist and three daughters who can all solder.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/medical-applications-of-microwaves/
LOCATION:Bahen Centre for Information Technology – Room 2135\, 40 St George street Toronto\, Ontario Canada M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T142000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T152000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T013017Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T013017Z
UID:10000267-1580826000-1580829600@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Women in Engineering Winter 2020 Session #4
DESCRIPTION:The main goal of this session is to learn how to use a microcontroller to drive dotstars. \n\n\nDay & Time: Tuesday\, February 4\, 2020\n2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room F307 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-engineering-winter-2020-session-4/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200130T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200130T210000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210430T023532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233440Z
UID:10000299-1580409000-1580418000@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Advances in Open Liberty and Java Performance
DESCRIPTION:Thursday January 30th\, 2020 at 6:30 p.m. Vijay Sundaresan\, performance architect at IBM Toronto\, will be presenting “Advances in Open Liberty and Java Performance”. \nDay & Time: Thursday January 30th\, 2020\n6:30 p.m. ‐ 9:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Vijay Sundaresan\nPerformance Architect\nIBM Toronto \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto Systems Chapter \nLocation: Bahen Building\, Room BA 4287\nUniversity of Toronto – St. George Campus\n40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4 \nContact: Younas Abbas\, Vice Chair\, IEEE Computer Society (Toronto Chapter) \nAbstract: Are you a Java developer or Open Liberty user who is interested in improving your application’s performance for the cloud environment? \nIn this talk\, we will share insights about running Java EE\, MicroProfile\, and SpringBoot applications to quantify how well your application will perform with Open Liberty and OpenJ9 in different scenarios. \nWe will discuss the cutting-edge advancements in the Eclipse OpenJ9 Java Virtual Machine (JVM) which is a core component of OpenJDK with OpenJ9. We will also talk about features that are important for cross platform performance as well as platform specific exploitation of the latest hardware features on Intel and other platforms. \nRegister: RSVP is required for this event. Please visit https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/209751 for more details and to register. \nFees:\nIEEE Members: Free\nNon-Member (Professional): $10 + 13% HST \nBiography: Vijay Sundaresan is a Performance Architect at the IBM Toronto Lab responsible for WAS/Java runtime performance. Vijay’s technical background and expertise are in the areas of performance analysis\, compilation and virtual machine technology\, Java SE and Java EE specifications\, as well as hardware optimizations over the past two decades. Vijay was one of the original architects on both the Eclipse OpenJ9 JVM as well as on the Eclipse OMR open source projects. As a graduate student at McGill University Vijay also made contributions to the Soot bytecode analysis framework that is very popular for implementing tools and optimizations
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/advances-in-open-liberty-and-java-performance/
LOCATION:Bahen Building\, Room BA 4287 University of Toronto – St. George Campus 40 St George St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4
CATEGORIES:Computer
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200129T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200129T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210430T023532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210430T233412Z
UID:10000298-1580315400-1580319000@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Setting in with Programming – Python: The beginner crash course
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday January 29th\, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. Enas AlTarawneh will be hosting “Setting in with Programming – Python: The beginner crash course”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday January 29th\, 2020\n4:30 p.m. ‐ 8:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Bergeron Center\, BRG 213\nYork University\nToronto \nContact: Hina Tabassum\, PhD\, P.Eng\, SMIEEE \nAbstract: Beginner lesson (assumes no knowledge in programming). This workshop will cover (1) input/output\, (2) variables (3) numbers (4) string (5) lists /arrays (6) if-else (7) loops (8) functions (9) use and application of existing packages (10) file manipulation (11) GUI input/output \nNote: Bring your own laptop with a python installation (2.7\, 3.3-3.7) \nRegister: http://bit.ly/2sWzOPw
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/setting-in-with-programming-python-the-beginner-crash-course/
LOCATION:Bergeron Center\, BRG 213 York University Toronto
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T142000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200128T152000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T012742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T012742Z
UID:10000265-1580221200-1580224800@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Women in Engineering Winter 2020 Session #3
DESCRIPTION:Continuing the work on the LED dress. Soldering dotstars and testing them. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, January 28\, 2020\n2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room F307 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-engineering-winter-2020-session-3/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200127T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T012650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T012650Z
UID:10000263-1580144400-1580148000@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Omni Directional Robotic Project Winter 2020 Session #3
DESCRIPTION:Our Omni Directional Robot project: Robotics. \nDay & Time: Monday\, January 27\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room L212 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/omni-directional-robotic-project-winter-2020-session-3/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T012548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T012548Z
UID:10000261-1579885200-1579896000@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:Programming Session Winter 2020 #2
DESCRIPTION:These Sessions are to evolve our members’ programming and critical thinking ability. \nDay & Time: Friday\, January 24\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Andrew Rudder \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room F306 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/programming-session-winter-2020-2/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
CREATED:20210501T012501Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210501T012501Z
UID:10000409-1579879800-1579885200@www.ieeetoronto.ca
SUMMARY:National Engineering Month 2020 Meeting Winter 2020 #2
DESCRIPTION:The WIE Toronto Team will continue to prepare for the National Engineering Month competition. \nDay & Time: Friday\, January 24\, 2020\n3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room F233 \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/national-engineering-month-2020-meeting-winter-2020-2/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20200122T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20200122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
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SUMMARY:Round table: A successful teaching practicum
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday January 22nd\, 2020 at 4:30 p.m. Enas AlTarawneh will be hosting a round table: “A successful teaching practicum”. \nDay & Time: Wednesday January 22nd\, 2020\n4:30 p.m. ‐ 5:30 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE \nLocation: Lassonde Building (LAS) – Room 3033\nYork University\nToronto\, ON M3J \nContact: Hina Tabassum\, PhD\, P.Eng\, SMIEEE \nAbstract: Are you planning on doing a teaching practicum and would like to ask questions on how to successfully plan for it from those who have done it before? Have you done a teaching practicum before and would like to provide your feedback and experience? Then join this round table. This workshop will provide participants with the basics of a successful teaching practicum. This workshop will also bring on discussions on the following topics 1) Student centered approach\, 2) Structured lectures\, 3) Guided learning\, 4) Use of technology as a learning tool\, 5) Evaluations\, 6) Pacing\, 7) Key performance indicator. \nRegister: http://bit.ly/2QMYgfk
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/round-table-a-successful-teaching-practicum/
LOCATION:Lassonde Building (LAS) – Room 3033 York University Toronto\, ON M3J
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200121T152000
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SUMMARY:Women in Engineering Winter 2020 Session #2
DESCRIPTION:Continuing the work on the LED dress. \nDay & Time: Tuesday\, January 21\, 2020\n2:20 p.m. – 3:20 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room J233A \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/women-in-engineering-winter-2020-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200120T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200120T180000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
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SUMMARY:Omni Directional Robotic Project Winter 2020 Session #2
DESCRIPTION:Our Omni Directional Robot project: Basics of Robotics. \nDay & Time: Monday\, January 20\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room J233A \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/omni-directional-robotic-project-winter-2020-session-2/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200117T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260428T115903
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SUMMARY:Programming Session Winter 2020 #1
DESCRIPTION:These Sessions are to evolve our members’ programming and critical thinking ability. \nDay & Time: Friday\, January 17\, 2020\n5:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. \nSpeaker: Dr. Andrew Rudder \nOrganizers: IEEE Toronto WIE\, Humber Student Branch \nLocation: Humber College North Campus\, Room J233A \nContact: IEEE Humber
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/programming-session-winter-2020-1/
CATEGORIES:Women in Engineering
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