Antennas and Propagation Society

Refreshments 5:30 PM, Talk 6:00 PM, Thursday, 1 May

Lincoln Laboratory Compact Range

Mike Shields, MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Solid State Circuits Society

Refreshments 6:30 PM, Talk 7:00 PM, Friday, 2 May

Millimeter-Wave Wireless: Applications, Standards and Technologies

Dr. Mehmet Soyuer, Department Group Manager, Communication Technologies, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA, SSCS Distinguished Lecturer

Entrepreneurs’ Network

7:00 PM, Tuesday, 6 May

Investor Guidance on Business Plans & Presentations

Special Meeting at the Emerging Enterprise Center at Foley Hoag, 1000 Winter Street, Suite 4000 Waltham

Communications

7:00 PM, Thursday, 8 May

Zigbee, an Increasingly Pervasive Connectivity Infrastructure for Critical Application Solutions 

Robert Heile, Chairman of the ZigBee Alliance

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society

NOTICE: Click link above to see new start time.

6:30 PM, Thursday, 8 May

Applications of Slow and Stopped Light

Prof. John C. Howell, University of Rochester

Microwave Theory and Techniques and Aerospace and Electronic Systems Societies

6:00 PM, 8 May

Power Amplifier Challenges for Next Generation Handsets

Douglas A. Teeter, Ph.D., Principal Engineer/Engineering Group Leader, RF Micro Devices

Engineering in Medicine & Biology

7:00 PM, Wednesday, 14 May

Co-sponsored by the MIT BMES Student Chapter

Disposable microfluidic chip for HIV CD4 monitoring at resource-limited settings

Prof. Utkan Demirci, Harvard Medical School

Reliability

6:00 PM, Wednesday, 14 May

Developing & Deploying Army Life Cycle Cultural Changes in Reliability Engineering

Robert J. Kuper, Dean, Reliability Engineering Competency, US Army Armament RDE Center

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Antennas and Propagation and Signal Processing Societies

Rescheduled to June 10.

5:30 PM Refreshments; 6:00 PM Talk; Thursday, 15 May

Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Heterogeneous Radar Clutter Scenarios

Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate

Providence Section of the IEEE

Registration & Cocktails (cash bar): 5:30 PM; Dinner 6:30 PM (Dinner followed by Guest Speakers and Installation of Officers); Thursday, 15 May

RI ASCE IEEE WTS PES MEETING

What the Future Holds for Rhode Island Renewable Energy

Mr. Andrew Dzykewicz, Commissioner, Rhode Island Energy Commission

Robotics and Automation and Computer Societies and GBC/ACM

Door Open: 6:30 PM, Presentation: 7:00 PM, Thursday, 15 May

GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Ray Kurzweil, Author, Inventor, Futurist, Founder, Kurzweil Technologies

Providence Section

Presentation: 7:00PM (tentative); Monday, 19 May

Underwater Ears and POTential Impacts:  how to see what whales hear

Darlene R. Ketten, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Biology Department, Woods Hole

Society on Social Implications of Technology

5:30 PM, Monday, 19 May

Trends in Clean Energy for Massachusetts

Dr. Warren Leon, Director of the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust

Electromagnetic Compatibility Society

6:00 PM Refreshments, 6:30 PM Presentations, Wednesday, 21 May

Unintended Antenna Behavior of Devices and Systems

Colin Brench, Southwest Research Institute

Life Members

4:00 pm Wednesday, 21 May

The Technology Horizon: Toys, Tools, and Terrors

Charlie Brenner, Senior Vice President, Strategic Technology of Fidelity Investments

Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society and North Shore Subsection

6:30 PM, Thursday, 22 May

Controlled Nuclear Fusion: Where are we at?  What problems remain?

Dr. Robert S. Granetz, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Consultants Network

6:30 PM, Wednesday, 28 May

Using “Style” to Successfully Program Embedded Microcontrollers in ‘C’

Craig E Goldman, CoAutomation Inc.

NH Communications and Signal Processing & The Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapters

6:00 PM, Thursday, 29 May

The Why, Where and How of 100Gbps Networking

Francesco Caggioni, AMCC, Andover, MA, 01810

Entrepreneurs’ Network

7:00 PM, Tuesday, 3 June

Exit Strategies – Cashing In

Panel: 
Deal Structure: Andrew Updegrove, Gesmer & Updegrove

Merger & Acquisition: Nick MacShane, Senior Managing Director, Progress Partners

Moderator: Lawrence C. Grumer, Managing Director, Technology Associates & Alliances

Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Antennas and Propagation and Signal Processing Societies

Rescheduled from May 15.

5:30 PM Refreshments; 6:00 PM Talk; Thursday, 15 May

Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Heterogeneous Radar Clutter Scenarios

Dr. Muralidhar Rangaswamy, Air Force Research Laboratory Sensors Directorate

Reliability Society

5:30 PM, Wednesday, 11 June

Technology Development Workshop

Sypris Site Visit

Communications Society

7:00 PM, Thursday, 12 June

Deploying Municipal, Town and Regional Wireless Internet Services and Networks

Robert A. Zakarian, President and CEO of Community WISP, Inc., StreamLine Networks, Inc.

Instrumentation & Measurement Society

6:30 PM, Thursday, 12 June

Annual Planning Meeting

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society

6:30PM, Thursday, 12 June

Quantum Imaging

Prof. Yanhua Shih, Physics Department, University of Maryland

Computer Society and GBC/ACM

7:00 PM, Thursday, 19 June

The Semantic Web: It's not just for searching anymore!

Kenneth Baclawski, Northeastern University

Microwave Theory and Techniques, Aerospace and Electronic Systems and Antennas & Propagation Societies

6:00 PM, Monday, 23 June

Three-Dimensional Micromachining for Integrated Microwave and Millimeter Wave Systems

J. Robert Reid, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Air Force Research Laboratory, 80 Scott Dr., Hanscom AFB, MA

Consultants Network

6:30 PM, Wednesday, 25 June

Increase revenues: Develop a strategy for systematically cultivating referrals

Barbara Bix, BB Marketingplus

NH Communications and Signal Processing & the Microwave Theory and Techniques Chapters

6:00 PM, Thursday, 26 June

Designing for Yield in Advanced RFICs - Tools for Success

Jian Yang, Agilent Technologies