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http://www.ieee-smartgridworld.org/ 

The IEEE Smart Grid World Forum is a unique series of events that form a global platform for collaboration of stakeholders worldwide to support and promote the evolution of Smart Grid. IEEE Smart Grid World Forum provides the framework for the exchange of ideas and sharing of best practices within the context of multiple approaches to Smart Grid. The forum also provides an opportunity for a realistic and impartial assessment of the current state-of-the-art developments in Smart Grids around the world.

The first event will be held at Hotel Metropole in Brussels, Belgium on 2-3 December 2010. Entitled the‘Evolution of the Grid’, the focus of this event will be on the realization of Smart Grid. This unique two-day event will feature over 30 invited Smart Grid experts, with insightful presentations and discussions. It will provide an international perspective in a broad range of topics covering business and technical aspects, including standards. Organised in partnership with the European Smart Grid Technology Platform, this event will emphasize Smart Grid developments in Europe. The local organiser of the 2010 event in Brussels is K.U.Leuven.

The Brussels event will consist of eight sessions with 4-5 key speakers per session. The speakers will provide their expert viewpoints during a series of short presentations, followed by an interactive panel discussion. Each session will have a moderator to lead the discussion, allowing delegates to engage in the debate to inspire new innovative ideas. Registered participants will be able to submit questions for these discussions in advance via an online form. The event will also provide ample opportunity for networking at our dinner, and during lunches, coffee breaks and the closing reception.

Speakers include:

• Rolf Adam, Director Business Development Utilities & Smart Grid Europe, Cisco
• Ronnie Belmans, Chairman, European Smart Grid Technology Platform
• Ralf Christian, Chairman, T&D Europe
• Tahir Kapetanović, E-control Austria and ERGEG/CEER
• Manuel Sánchez Jiménez, EU Commission Energy
• John McDonald, IEEE Smart Grid
• Daniel Dobbeni, President ENTSO-E, CEO ELIA
• Bazmi Husain, Head of Smart Grid, ABB
• Bob Gilligan, Corporate VP, GE
• Tevfik Sezi, Principal Expert Smart Grid, Siemens
• Ralph Sporer, Chairman of EU Joint CEN/CENELEC ETSI Working group on Smart Grid Standardization
• Maher Chebbo, Vice President of Utilities & Services Industries for EMEA, SAP AG
• Jan Declercq, Chief Business Development Officer CG Holdings
• Laurent Schmitt, VP Strategy & Smart Grid, Alstom Grid
• Lennart Söder, Professor, KTH
• Gerrit Jan Schaeffer, Director Energy at VITO
• Martin Vesper, Executive Director, Yello Strom

For registration details and the latest updates, visit us at www.ieee-smartgridworld.org.

Please contact us if you have any questions or comments at [email protected].

We are looking forward to seeing you in Brussels.

Best regards,

Marko Delimar
IEEE Smart Grid World Forum Chair

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The 5_th PROJISTOR contest realized with the cooperation of DOGUS University (DU) IEEE Student Branch, CASS Chapter/Turkey and ECED took place on May 20, 2010 from 10am to 6pm at the exhibition center of DOGUS University. Becoming traditional and attracting more and more projects PROJISTOR offers a platform mainly but not limited to EE students to express and exhibit their innovative ideas along with a hard or soft realization. DU IEEE-SB members work hard, raise almost all of the funding in cooperation with IEEE Turkey Section.

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Among numerous proposals eleven finalists were selected and the prizes selected by a jury of three academicians and two executives from the industry went to the participants listed in Table 1. The attendance with more than four hundred people was encouraging and students were already discussing new prospects about PROJISTOR 2011.

Table 1. Winners of Project Competition PROJISTOR.

Prizes were respectively 1850 US$, 1500 US$ Tl and 1300 US$.

Submitted by: I. Cem Göknar Ezgi Bilgiç

IEEE Fellow DU IEEE-SB Chair
CASS-TR Chapter Chair

The Region 8 Awards and Recognition Sub-Committee takes the pleasure to announce that during the 2010 IEEE Honors Ceremony which was held at Montreal on june 26, 2010, one of the  IEEE Medals which are are the highest awards in the hierarchy of IEEE recognitions is attributed to our collegue Alfonso Farina (Italy) and two of the Technical Field awards are given to our collegues Herbert Reichl (Germany) and John W. Arthur (UK). You find below details about the three recognitions.

I IEEE Dennis J. Picard Medal For Radar Technologies And Applications

Sponsor: Raytheon Co.

Recipient : ALFONSO FARINA

SELEX Sistemi Integrati, Rome

“For continuous, innovative, theoretical, and practical contributions to radar systems and adaptive signal processing techniques.”

II IEEE Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Award

Sponsor: IEEE Components Packaging, and Manufacturing Technology Society

Recipient : HERBERT REICHL

Technische Universitat Berlin , Germany

“For contributions to the integration of reliability in electronic systems, and leadership in research and education in electronic packaging.”

III IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Paper Award

Sponsor: IEEE Life Members Committee

Recipient : JOHN W. ARTHUR

University of Edinburgh

For his paper, “The Fundamentals of Electromagnetic Theory Revisited,” IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Volume 50, No. 1, Feb. 2008, pp. 19–65

Victor Fouad Hanna, Chair of the ARC-8

IEEE publishes the number one journal in electrical and electronic engineering, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, according to the 2009 Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Report, released June 2010.  IEEE journals across several technology areas also earned high-ranking in this Impact Factor report.

IEEE placed 16 of the top 20 journals in electrical and electronic engineering — leading the category for another year. IEEE also publishes the number one journal in automation and control systems, computer science-software engineering, and robotics.

According to the 2009 Journal Citation Report, IEEE publishes:

•   16 of the top 20 journals in electrical and electronic engineering

•    9 of the top 10 journals in telecommunications

•    6 of the top 10 journals in computer science, Hardware and architecture

•    3 of the top 5 journals in automation and control systems

•    3 of the top 5 journals in computer science, software engineering

•    2 of the top 5 journals in computer science, artificial intelligence

•    2 of the top 5 journals in robotics

 Journal Citation Reports offer a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate the world’s leading journals. By compiling articles’ cited references, the Journal Citation Reports help to measure research influence and impact, and shows the relationship between citing and cited journals.

Customized sub-site templates are now available to volunteers tasked with producing Web content for an IEEE society, conference or program sub-site.  Designed by the Corporate Web Team, with help from a number of IEEE stakeholders and an outside vendor, the templates provide site maps (starter information architecture documents) and a collection of HTML pages and files for each of the three common types of sites.

This resource is intended to enable IEEE groups to more easily develop cost-effective Web sites that leverage the IEEE brand, adhere to IEEE guidelines and styles, and drive user engagement.

Volunteers can request access to these templates by filling out the contact form.

Learn more about IEEE Web sub-site templates at www.ieee.org/go/subsites.

The 2011 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients were approved by the IEEE Board of Directors during the June Meeting Series.  These awards are presented for contributions or leadership in the IEEE fields of interest and are presented throughout the year at various IEEE conferences and events.

Review the full list. (PDF, 30.8 KB)

Learn more about the IEEE awards program.

[singlepic id=1328 w=250 h=166 float=left]Team e.quinox from Imperial College London wins 10000 US dollars and a title “IEEE Student Humanitarian Supreme” for their humanitarian efforts in rural electrification. The award was presented at the 2010 IEEE Honors Ceremony in Montreal, Canada. The full length video of the Awards Ceremony is available here:http://www.ieee.org/portal/ieeetv/viewer.html?progId=124362. The IEEE President’s Change the World Awards were the first awards presented in the ceremony. Additional information about the finalists can be found here http://www.ieeechangetheworld.org/submission/finalists.html.

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Congratulations e.quinox!

Taking the opportunity of the submission deadline approaching (June 15, 2010), we would like to reveal you the last exciting news and updates of
ISABEL 2010 (the 3rd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies), Rome, November 7-10, 2010 (please have a look at the text below).

KEYNOTES
Our list of keynote speakers has been enriched by the presence of other three prominent experts in the field of biomedical engineering and wireless communications/information theory: Dr. Paolo Bonato, Dept. of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, USA; Prof. Satoru Miyazaki, Laboratory of Information Biology, Dept. of Medical and Life Science, Japan; and Prof. Ezio Biglieri, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA. Read more at: http://www.isabelconference.com/index.php?page=keynotes.

PANELS
A third panel discussion, dedicated to “ICT for Development and Disaster Recovery”, has been included in the programme, so as to discuss upon the role of ICT to improve the living and societal conditions in developing countries, and its beneficial support when disasters of different nature occur.

TUTORIALS
Two new tutorial proposals have been brought forward. The first tutorial by Prof. Constantinos Papadias, Athens Information Technology (AIT), Greece, will verge upon compact antenna systems, including transmission, reception and sensing techniques, and their applications, also within the biomedical field. The second tutorial by Prof. Ayman Elezabi, EENG Dept., American University in Cairo, Egypt, will be devoted to cognitive radios in the TV band and related issues (i.e., regulatory, technical and market issues).

ONE-DAY WORKSHOPS
Two one-day workshops have been envisioned. The first workshop by Prof. Peter Jung, Lehrstuhl für KommunikationsTechnik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany, is based on the outcome of the EU’s 7th Framework Programme project EUWB (www.euwb.eu) and will provide an overview of key industry application areas of UWB technology. The second workshop by Prof. Giovanni Pioggia, Interdepartmental Research Center “E. Piaggio”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy, is dedicated to pervasive healthcare and, besides the technical sessions, will also include one specific demo/prototype session.

PROTOTYPES AND DEMOS
A new demo by Dr. Pierre Jallon, CEA-LETI, France, will be shown at the prototype/demo sessions of ISABEL 2010. This demo, named SDR4ALL (Software Defined Radio for All), is based on the concept of software defined radio, which consists of introducing numerical and reconfigurable treatments as close as possible to the radio antenna. Read more at: http://www.isabelconference.com/index.php?page=prototypes.

SPECIAL SESSIONS
ISABEL 2010 has a current portfolio of 28 special sessions with clear multidisciplinary topics, involving people from the fields of sciences, medicine and communications engineering. New special sessions are continuously being featured; the very last ones relate to telemedicine for space, neuroengineering, quantum communications, wearable computing and communication for e-health. Read more at: http://www.isabelconference.com/index.php?page=special_sessions.

COGART 2010
CogART 2010 (the 3rd International Workshop on Cognitive Radios and Advanced Spectrum Management), which this year will be held in conjunction  with ISABEL 2010, features the following three special sessions: Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Networks, Localization for Cognitive Radios, and Spectrum Measurements and Sensing.

MATCH MAKING
Networking during conferences is certainly productive, but there is a way to make it more effective! Do you want to find partners for your projects; authors or editors for your publications; clients or business partners for your products or services? ISABEL has devised and will launch a Match Making event in conjunction with this year’s conference. As a registrant to the Match Making, you will have the possibility to indicate in your registration form the persons/companies that you would like to have a closed-doors meeting with and the scope of such a meeting. The staff of ISABEL 2010 will then carry out the match making process and inform you about your meeting schedules, if any. Note that for registrants of ISABEL 2010 and CogART 2010 this service is free of charge for up to two confirmed meetings. Please find our current list of potential Match Makers at: http://www.isabelconference.com/pdf/potential_match_makers_2010.pdf.

REGISTRATION FEES
Take advantage of our competitive registration fees and register soonest at ISABEL 2010, CogART 2010 or the Match Making. Read more at: http://www.isabelconference.com/index.php?page=registration.

All news and updates can be found on our website at www.isabelconference.com.

[singlepic id=1327 float=left]The 94th IEEE Region 8 Committee Meeting will be held in Riga Latvia on the 7th to the 9th of May 2010. The meeting will be attended the whole Region 8 committee with some quests from IEEE Headquarters. Among others, IEEE President and IEEE President Elect, Pedro Ray and Moshe Kam respectively will attend and address the meeting.

One of the most important elements of the Riga meeting will be the Workshops to be held on Saturday afternoon, during which 6 groups will be discussing, best practices and most important problems of our R8 Sections as well as some IEEE challenges in the area of technical activities and others. Here is the list of the workshops to be held:

• Legal status in country
• Section activities that are successful
• vTool usage
• New, cross-disciplinary technologies
• Publications
• Use of social media

IEEE Joint VTS & AESS Greece Chapter is currently putting a considerable effort in creating a network of collaborating groups at every educational institution in Northern Greece. In this context a workshop on “Modern Information Systems and Wireless Telecommunication Issues” was organised on 23 March 2010, at the International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece. The workshop was very successful, with an audience of about 350 persons, students and stuff of the International Hellenic University (http://www.ihu.edu.gr/), of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (http://www.auth.gr/home/index_en.html), of the University of Macedonia (http://www.uom.gr/index.php?newlang=eng), of the University of Western Macedonia (http://www.uowm.gr/english/index.htm), of the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki (http://www.teithe.gr/index_en.html), of the Technological Educational Institute of Serres (http://www.teiser.gr/index_en.php?mid=0&sid=0), and of the Centre for Research and Technology of Hellas (http://www.certh.gr/root.en.aspx). There were also attendees from the Greek Government.

The Chair offered a speech to the audience (among which there were about 30 members of the IEEE) on the Chapter activities and more generally on IEEE activities. She received a lot of questions especially on the benefits of joining IEEE community.

Besides, this workshop was a motivation for the students and the academic stuff of the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Kozani, Greece, to discuss the establishment of an IEEE Student Branch.

More events, in various capital cities of Northern Greece, are foreseen and detailed by the dissemination committee of the Chapter. More information is found on the Chapter site: http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/greece/avtc/.