Khanh Luu

The IEEE VTS & AESS Joint Greece Chapter has organized a Final/Diploma Thesis Competition (Academic Years 2009 – 2011) in the scientific field of “Advanced Wireless Communication Systems” with great success. There were 19 submissions from institutes all over Greece. The submissions were performed to a server host provided and supported by the International Hellenic University (IHU). Each Thesis was evaluated by 3 independent reviewers, and they all admitted the level of the participations was high. The 8 submissions with the highest score, coming from 5 different universities, were qualified to the second-final round. The final round reviewing process was performed by the Scientific Committee of the Competition.

The final round presentations and the awards ceremony took place on February 17^th 2012, with about 60-65 alternating participants, students and academics, at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), which provided the room. Two of the final round participants were not able to attend, so they provided a video-presentation and connected through skype for the questions section.

The winner of the Competition, Kampianakis Eleftherios, coming from the Technical University of Crete, was awarded with an iPhone 4 offered by the sponsor of the event Cosmote Mobile Telecommunications S.A. Also, gifts and certificates of participation were distributed to the participants of the Competition.

The final round presentations and the awards ceremony was live broadcasted and is available in the website of the Chapter (http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/events/eventsen67.html). The symposium was very successful receiving congratulations and enthusiasm from all the participants of the event, the students-candidates and their Thesis supervisors.

The great success of the event has motivated the Chapter Committee to organize the Final/Diploma Thesis Competition every year. Stay tuned with our events at http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/.

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(1)  R8 OpCom Members

The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) SubCommittee is soliciting nominations for the following leadership positions:

• R8 2013-2014 Secretary  (two years commitment)
• R8 2013-2014 Treasurer  (two years commitment)
• R8 2013 Vice Chair, Member Activities  (one year commitment)
• R8 2013 Vice Chair, Student Activities  (one year commitment)
• R8 2013 Vice Chair, Technical Activities  (one year commitment)

A description of the positions and expectations is available in:

• IEEE REGION 8 OPERATIONS MANUAL – pp. R8-4.4, R8-4.5, R8-4.6
• IEEE REGION 8 BYLAWS – pp. R8-3.1.5, R8-3.1.6,  R8-3.1.7

(2)  R8 N&A SubCommittee Members

The IEEE Region 8 Nominations and Appointments (N&A) SubCommittee is soliciting nominations for:

Three new members (term 2013-2014)
of the R8 Nominations and Appointments SubCommittee (two years commitment)

Candidates must fulfill one of the following criteria at the time of their election:

• be a Section Chair in office
• have been a Section Chair within the past 3 years
• have been a Section Chair and currently holding an elected or appointed position of the R8 Committee.

Please submit your proposals with short biography of candidate (please use the R8 template – available IEEE R8 Biography Blank )  to Jozef Modelski, Chair of the N&A SubCommittee at [email protected]

The deadline to submit nominations – 15 July 2012