Yearly Archives: 2017

Order of the Day – Sydney

 in 2017-August – Sydney

Thursday, 10 August 2017
8:00 0:05 100 Procedural Call to Order Margaretha Eriksson
8:05 0:15 101 Procedural Roll Call and Introduction of New Officers Jan Verveckken
8:20 0:05 102 Procedural Introductory Remarks Eriksson/Verveckken
8:25 0:05 103 Action Approval of the Agenda Eriksson
8:30 0:05 104 Action Approval of the Consent Agenda Eriksson
8:35 0:35 105 Discussion IEEE Region 8 Director’s Address Eriksson
9:10 0:40 106 Discussion IEEE Foundation Delimar/Galuchie
9:50 0:20 Procedural Coffee Break
10:10 0:40 107 Discussion Student Activities Report Efthymia Arvaniti
10:50 0:40 108 Discussion Technical Activities Report Chirstopher James
11:30 0:01 109 Procedural Recess Eriksson
11:31 0:29 Social Group photo
12:00 1:00 Social Lunch
13:00 0:05 200 Procedural Call to Order Eriksson
13:05 1:00 201 Discussion Member Activities Report Antonio Luque
14:05 0:20 202 Discussion Section Development and Vitality Szabo
14:25 0:20 203 Discussion Africa Area Report Chukwudebe
14:45 0:20 204 Discussion Action for Industry Antoniou
15:05 0:20 205 Discussion Young Professionals Barros
15:25 0:20 Procedural Coffee Break
15:45 0:30 206 Discussion EPPI Delimar
16:15 0:30 207 Discussion Vienna Office Neppel
16:45 0:05 208 Procedural Recess Eriksson
16:45 1:30 Separate meeting Preparation of MDW in Africa, special meeting for African Sections only. Luque
19:00 3:00 Social Dinner: Hilton Hotel. Dress Code: Formal

Friday, 11 August 2017
8:00 0:05 300 Procedural Call to Order and Roll Call Eriksson/Verveckken
8:05 0:05 301 Discussion Secretary’s Report Verveckken
8:10 0:25 302 Discussion Treasurer’s Report Kennel
8:35 0:10 303 Discussion Future Conferences (Energycon, Melecon, GCC) Christopher James
8:45 0:10 304 Discussion Awards & Recognitions Stasopoulos
8:55 0:05 305 Discussion Nominations and Appointments Report and Election Instructions Stasopoulos
9:00 0:15 306 Discussion Vice Chair Candidate Presentations and Discussion Stasopoulos
9:15 0:15 307 Discussion Executive Session Stasopoulos
9:30 0:10 308 Procedural Elections Stasopoulos
9:40 0:20 Procedural Coffee Break
10:00 0:05 309 Discussion Presentation of Election Results Stasopoulos
10:05 0:20 310 Discussion Presentation of Director Elect Candidates Stasopoulos/candidates
10:25 0:40 311 Discussion GDPR changes Eileen Lach
11:05 0:10 312 Info Sections Congress Recommendations Verveckken
11:15 0:05 313 Info Next Region 8 SYP Congress Arvaniti/Barros
11:20 0:10 314 Info Next Region 8 Committee Meeting Stasopoulos/Verveckken
11:30 0:15 315 Action Motions Eriksson
11:45 0:20 316 Info New Business All
12:05 0:05 317 Action Adjournment Eriksson
12:10 1:00 Social Lunch

Consent Agenda
401 Action Approval of the minutes of the 108th Region 8 Committee meeting
402 Report Reports

 

DSP 2017 – 50th Anniversary – 22nd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing – August 23-25, London, United Kingdom

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DSP 2017

50th Anniversary

22nd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing

August 23-25, London, United Kingdom

Call for Papers

The 22nd International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2017), the most longstanding conference in the area of DSP, technically-cosponsored by the IEEE, will be celebrated for its 50th anniversary in London, UK, where it started in 1968. DSP 2017 belongs to a series of events which had its genesis in London and continued to Florence, Nicosia, Lemessos, Santorini, Cardiff, Corfu, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Beijing. In 2017 delegates will be brought right up to date in heart of London, the biggest, most vibrant and cosmopolitan capital in Europe. The conference will contain a number of special sessions organised by internationally recognised experts. The programme will also include presentations of new results in lecture and poster sessions, together with plenary sessions delivered by eminent scientists. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Call for Papers (PDF Version)

Technical Scope

The focus will be on signal processing theory, algorithms, and applications. We invite the submission of original, unpublished technical papers on topics including but not limited to:

  • Audio and acoustic signal processing
  • Bioinspired Signal Processing
  • Communication signal processing
  • Compressive sensing, dictionary learning, and sparse reconstruction
  • Cooperative networking
  • Design and implementation of signal processing systems
  • Estimation theory and applications
  • Financial signal processing
  • Image and video processing
  • Information forensics and security
  • Language processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Medical signal and image processing
  • Multimedia signal processing
  • Multi-way signal processing
  • Nonlinear signal processing and adaptive filters
  • Quantum Signal processing
  • Radar and sonar signal processing
  • Signal processing for education
  • Sensor array and multichannel signal processing
  • Sensor networks
  • Signal processing applications
  • Signal processing theory and methods
  • Speech processing

Important Dates

  • Special session proposals: 20th February 2017 2nd March 2017
  • Special Sessions notification of acceptance: 10th March 2017
  • Full paper submissions: 03rd April 2017
  • Notification of acceptance: 28th June 2017
  • Camera-ready papers: 10th July 2017
  • Author/early bird registration: 10th July 2017

Benefit from R8 WIE Mentorship Program!

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How?

The Mentorship Program starts by sharing your successful events with R8 WIE by sending us an email on [email protected] or write us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.

 

With this program, you can:

  • Participate as a mentor: suggest a successful event you held in your Section and would like to help replicate in another Section 
  • Participate as a mentee: suggest an event you would like to host in your Section, and we will find a mentor who has previously organized a similar one to help you! 

What?

The proposed list of events includes but is not limited to:

Section and SB AGs can participate in various events organized within their Section. Examples: 

  • Be present in Section events under the name of IEEE WIE as much as possible 
  • Volunteer to help your Section organize its activities such as conferences, workshops, etc.
  • Have a short plenary session during IEEE Day and other events to introduce WIE
  • Remember, the Section is always there to support you with organizing your own events too! 

Networking activities: 

  • WIE Leadership Summits
  • Panel where 2 to 5 successful women in STEM are invited to present short talks and interact with attendees during a Q&A session
  • Coffee talks 
  • Seminar related to women in STEM (status, achivements, challenges faced, etc.) 
  • Participate in / organize a celebration for the International Women’s day (March 8)
  • Contact companies in various fields of technology and offer to introduce IEEE and WIE to their employees during a short session

Professional development events. Examples:

  • Leadership workshop
  • Body language workshop
  • Interview training sessions
  • Engineering ethics discussions

Social responsibility activities: 

  • Give computer or Internet introductory sessions in remote underprivileged areas 
  • Participate in / organize a breast cancer awareness campaign in October
  • Visit orphanages, hospitals, refugee camps to spend some time with the less fortunate 
  • Collaborate with a charity or NGO and offer to help (maybe they need an engineer to help them fix something, or just someone to help out with their activities…) 
  • Collaborate with other NGOs targeting women and participate in their activities whenever possible
  • Find an engineering solution to a community problem. You can even participate in EPICS in IEEE! 

Technical events: 

Although the aspect of WIE (as well as all IEEE Affinity Groups) is non-technical, Section and Student Branch AGs are encouraged to participate in the technical conferences / workshops organized within their Section: 

  • Volunteer with the organizing team 
  • Help with advertisement and news spreading 
  • Distribute flyers introducing WIE 
  • Give a small appreciation gift for female researchers who presented their papers and / or for female speakers 
  • Have a booth and distribute introductory flyers and promotional material to the participants (link)
  • Organize competitions, which may not necessarily be technical. Be creative! 

In-Section collaboration among AGs: 

  • Section AGs are encouraged to keep constant connection with SB AGs within their Section 
  • Section AGs are encouraged to identify SBs within their Section where new WIE SB AGs could be formed, and support these SB AGs during their formation stage 
  • Section AGs are encouraged to supervise and mentor newly created SB AGs within their Section
  • SB AGs are encouraged to keep constant connection with their Section’s AG
  • SB AGs are encouraged to closely cooperate with their SB, and mutually help each other in all activities within the Student Branch 
  • Remember: collaboration is key to success!

Don’t forget to have fun! Organize the following activities for your AG members, and possibly for all the Section’s AG and SB AG members: 

  • Casual Outing 
  • Movie screening or going to the cinema 
  • Pizza night 
  • Camping, ski trips, etc. 
  • Group games, such as “escape the room” and others
  • Sports tournament
  • Rally paper

Important: send us your news and pictures taken during each event: please send us an email on [email protected] or write us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn. Also, contact us if you want to be a mentor or mentee, and if you have any questions or suggestions for more events as well! 

IEEE MGA WIE Awards for Outstanding WIE Members and Affinity Groups

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Outstanding Affinity Groups and WIE members across all IEEE Regions are recognized through the Awards:

 

 

Deadline to nominate a candidate is March 31st, 2024! To know more, please send us an email on [email protected] or write us on Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.

Share your story; inspire others!

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For more information, please email [email protected] 🙂

Region 8 Women in Engineering Section Affinity Group of the Year Award

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The Section Affinity Group of the Year recognizes activities and achievements for a WIE Section Affinity group from Region 8 within 2024. Activities will be evaluated in terms of content, collaborative activities to improve on professional growth and quality of the report submitted.

 

Eligibility Criteria

 

Applications will be reviewed by the WIE R8 Sub-Committee, who will select a winning Section AG. The winning Section AG will then be, as a second step, validated by the R8 Awards and Recognition SubCommittee. The following criteria will be considered for the review of applications:

1)     Approved Section WIE Affinity Group (AG) within IEEE Region 8 that has conducted activities and events within 2024.

2)     A report clearly and concisely documenting activities i.e. dates, content, number of attendees, academic or industry partners and impact of the events. The submitted report should be no more than 1000 words, please include pictures, a report in the form of powerpoint slides is also accepted.

3)     All members of the AG must be listed on the application.

4)     Both applications and nominations are accepted and any member of the AG can apply for the award, and any member of the Section can nominate the Section’s WIE AG.

 

The winning Section Affinity Group will receive 450 USD.

 

Nominations are accepted until June 15th 2024 through IEEE Region 8 Awards Portal.

Be inspired by the R8 WIE Awards Recipients!

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To find out more about R8 WIE awards recipients, please visit

Please note that, currently, only the Clementina Saduwa Award is established in IEEE Region 8; 2018 is the first year where all the other awards are introduced.

Apply or nominate before February 15 and be the first recipient of a new award!