See invitation for full details. Register yourself AND your guest as instructed in your invitation (EVent took place on 27 October. Extending event for late payments) See invitation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

M.S. and Ph.D. students are encouraged to submit abstracts in the topics of Antennas, Microwaves, Circuits, and Electromagnetics. Selected abstracts will be invited for poster presentation during the event. Posters will be evaluated by experts, and awards will be presented to winners. Topics of interest include, but not limited to: antennas (analysis, design, development, measurement, testing); radiation, propagation, and interaction of electromagnetic waves with media; photonics & novel materials; circuits, sensors, devices and systems; and applications pertinent to the above topics. Poster Presentation: Each participant will have 10 minutes for each round of judging to present their poster and answer questions. Best posters will be identified based on their content, significance, originality, presentation, and overall recommendation. Up to four winners will be acknowledged with Best Poster Certificates and will receive monetary awards. Registration: The competition registration and abstract submission deadline has been extended through October 27, and can be done through the IEEE AP-S / MTT-S Columbus Chapter website. (Note that registration is not required for attendees who are not entering the competition.) https://u.osu.edu/apmttcolumbus/ Agenda: Agenda (times are approximate): 4:30 to 5:00 PM - Arrival, check-in, and set-up 5:00 to 6:40 PM - Poster judging (10 minutes for presentation and Q&A with each set of judges) 6:40 to 7:00 PM - Mingling and refreshments while scores are finalized 7:00 to 7:30 PM - Awards and wrap-up OSU Electroscience Laboratory, 1330 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, Ohio, United States, 43212

Overview of Career Growth Series 2023 This is the third of four monthly meetings starring pre-recorded webinars whose focus are technical career enhancement. These webinars were recorded in 2022 and are available at https://ieeeusa.org/calendar/career-webinars/. However these meetings provide an opportunity to discuss the webinar with other attendees (and enjoy a light refreshment during the meeting.) The discussion part will be available for remote attendance. Presentation Problem solving is at the core of what engineers do. We strive to make the world a better place. We do so by tackling tough challenges or opening up whole new possibilities from innovative ideas and inventions. No doubt you already have excellent problem-solving skills that you need to earn your engineering degree and to flourish in your job. In this webinar, we’ll engage with key approaches to problem solving such as rigorously defining the problem statement, root cause analysis, abstraction, analogy, brainstorming, trial and error, divide and conquer, and lateral thinking. Honing this skill will help you deliver much richer, better solutions to real-world challenges. Agenda: 5:30-5:45: Registration and Refreshments 5:45-6:45 – Replay of Webinar 6:45 - 7:15 discussion and selecting next webinar (hybrid) 6050 Oak Tree Boulevard, Checkpoint Surgical, Suite 360, Independence, Ohio, United States, 44131, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/371977

ONU College of Engineering is arranging the Second round of Capstone Project Presentations and Review (PRB2). The presentations are scheduled on Thursday, November 16, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm. If you are interested in joining the event to volunteer for the judging of presentations, please email me ([email protected]) or email to Dr. Khalid Al-Olimat ([email protected]), I will forward more information. There will also be light refreshments at 5:15 pm for networking. 525 S Main St Unit 1, ADA, Ohio, United States, 45810

You may use the following link to write a summary of any monthly updates from your committee, chapter or affinity group. Information received by 8 AM on WEDNESDAY the week of the event will be incorporated into the meeting agenda. https://docs.google.com/document/d/11SrRBi08SxRvGuC7yt6n7ZQY9cPlBCA-UnKGCfGgqZU/edit?usp=sharing IEEE members can access prior meeting minutes hosted on the Pittsburgh Section's (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_UTt5t_dxNP1M5dO87OOeR25t8P7qQHp?usp=sharing). Access to the shared drive is restricted to the (https://www.ieee.org/membership/products/google-apps.html). Location for this event is virtual. Meeting link and call-in information will be emailed one hour before the event. --------------------------------------------------------------- New to IEEE Pittsburgh? For those new to the Pittsburgh Section Executive and Administrative Meeting, we welcome all IEEE members in the area to attend! This is a standing meeting held on the 3rd Thursday of every month. We review our upcoming activities relevant to engineers in our section. Feel free to use the report link above to ask any questions you may have, join us on Slack, or read through our welcome guide for more information about how you can get involved with IEEE Pittsburgh. (https://ieeepittsburgh.slack.com/) (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lyWneXlANAQAiJN2p6Bi9kAatooxIQ-YzlGpWRmRGBw/edit?usp=sharing) (https://webinabox.vtools.ieee.org/wibp_calendar/index/R20037) Agenda: First 30 minutes of the event are reserved for socializing. The meeting portion starts at 7 pm (eastern time zone). The meeting agenda will be emailed on Monday the week of the event for early registrants. Room: First Floor Conference Room, 5877 Commerce Street, East Liberty, Pennsylvania, United States, 15206, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/381666

Executive Committee planning meeting for upcoming events. All ExCom's are Virtual. These are open to all members including students. At this time the meeting will be remote. Connection information will be sent out at 3:00pm on the day of the meeting to those who have registered. Please register for the meeting by noon of the day of, even if you are an Officer. We meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month We do not meet July, August, and December. With that in mind the 2023 dates are: Jan 19, Feb 16, Mar 16, Apr 20, May 89, Jun 15, Sep 21, Oct 19, Nov 16 Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/340072

This talk serves as an engineering-oriented introduction to important Web3 technologies such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), blockchains, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and virtual machines for Decentralized Finance (DeFi). The primary focus will be on public permissionless blockchains, crypto mechanics, and smart contracts enabled by blockchain-based virtual machines. Consensus algorithms, random number generators, public-key cryptology, and use of cryptographic hash functions will be presented. A Bitcoin v2 deep dive will be presented as well as a description of Ethereum's recent transition from a "proof-of-work" to a "proof-of-stake" blockchain. The goal of this talk is to provide coding professionals with a deeper understanding of these technologies than that provided by the media’s overly simplistic and often inaccurate blockchain/crypto and DeFi explanations. Speaker(s): Michael, Agenda: This talk serves as an engineering-oriented introduction to important Web3 technologies such as Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), blockchains, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts, and virtual machines for Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Regulation and governance challenges resulting from these advances will also be discussed. The dominant focus will be on public permissionless blockchains, crypto mechanics, and smart contracts enabled by blockchain-based virtual machines. Consensus algorithms, random number generators, public-key cryptology, and use of cryptographic hash functions will be presented - as well as a deeper analysis of the “proof-of-work” and “proof-of-stake” consensus techniques employed by most cryptocurrencies. Smart contracts – essential to DeFi – will be illustrated via code. The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) impact of mining/minting crypto will be addressed as well as the implications of crypto creation/destruction policies of dominant cryptocurrencies. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) are also discussed. The goal of this talk is to provide coding professionals with a deeper understanding of these technologies than that provided by the media’s overly simplistic and often inaccurate blockchain/crypto and DeFi explanations. Attendees of this talk will understand Bitcoin technology better than those media professionals! Room: L125, Bldg: Lind Hall (NEW LOCATION), University of Minnesota, 207 Church Street SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55455, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/380973

The recent emergence of agile software-controlled waveform generation provides an opportunity to dramatically improve radar system performance. This talk describes an integrated algorithm for estimating the state of a surveillance region and using this estimate to design future radar transmissions. Our fully adaptive radar (FAR) resource management (RM) approach emulates the perception-action cycle (PAC) of cognition. The FAR-RM PAC includes a perceptual processor that performs multiple radar system tasks and an executive processor that allocates system resources to the tasks and decides the next transmission of the radar on a dwell-by-dwell basis. The executive processor uses an information theoretic objective function to select the collection of waveforms that is expected to maximally improve the perception on the next cycle. We illustrate our approach in simulation using a model of an agile multi-mode radar whose mission is tracking and classifying multiple target aircraft. Speaker(s): Dr. Kristine Bell, Agenda: Friday, November 17, 2023 (All times listed below are in Eastern Time) 11:45 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. - Attendees join the Zoom call 12:00 P.M. - 12:45 P.M. - Dr. Kristine Bell presents "Information-Theoretic Approach to Fully Adaptive Radar Resource Management" 12:45 P.M. - 1:00 P.M. - Questions & Answers 1:00 P.M. - 1:30 P.M. - Additional time for Questions & Answers, if desired Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/378859

This work focuses on path planning for autonomous agents, leveraging multiple sensing domains to provide navigation solutions in contested environments. The emphasis is on mutli-objective optimization, finding optimal path costs that minimize uncertainty in the goal region.  The algorithm developed is based on the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) probabilistic planning algorithm, but extends into the belief space to plan over uncertainty. The Rapidly-exploring Random Belief Alt-Nav Graph (RRBANG) leverages the probabilistic guarantees of the RRT-based algorithms, ensuring the properties for probabilistic completeness and asymptotic optimality. The algorithm is designed to be agent and measurement model agnostic, but specifically how complementary navigation techniques obtain their measurements when developing plans within a complex environment. The algorithm provides an offline, initial plan for an agent given a priori world information. There are several, significant planned avenues for advancement, targeting the algorithm itself, extending to implement real-time dynamic re-planning, as well as benchmarking against other belief space planning (BSP) algorithms. Captain Machin will also discuss several ANT center research efforts focused on pushing Autonomy. Co-sponsored by: Wright-Patt Multi-Intelligence Development Consortium (WPMDC), The DOD & DOE Communities Speaker(s): Tim Agenda: This work focuses on path planning for autonomous agents, leveraging multiple sensing domains to provide navigation solutions in contested environments. The emphasis is on mutli-objective optimization, finding optimal path costs that minimize uncertainty in the goal region.  The algorithm developed is based on the Rapidly-exploring Random Tree (RRT) probabilistic planning algorithm, but extends into the belief space to plan over uncertainty. The Rapidly-exploring Random Belief Alt-Nav Graph (RRBANG) leverages the probabilistic guarantees of the RRT-based algorithms, ensuring the properties for probabilistic completeness and asymptotic optimality. The algorithm is designed to be agent and measurement model agnostic, but specifically how complementary navigation techniques obtain their measurements when developing plans within a complex environment. The algorithm provides an offline, initial plan for an agent given a priori world information. There are several, significant planned avenues for advancement, targeting the algorithm itself, extending to implement real-time dynamic re-planning, as well as benchmarking against other belief space planning (BSP) algorithms. Captain Machin will also discuss several ANT center research efforts focused on pushing Autonomy. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/384182