IEEE NoVA Heartbeat – March 2020 | IEEE Northern VA Section

IEEE Northern Virginia (NoVA) Section Newsletter

Cherry blossom is only weeks away and as the city is getting ready to celebrate nature’s beauty, the dark shadow of coronavirus still marching around the globe despite travel restrictions aimed at curtailing its spread raises concerns and keeps us alert. We urge our members to take any precautions necessary to avoid getting sick. We are fortunate here in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia to be safe since we have no confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

In the meantime, our IEEE NoVA Chapter Chairs are working diligently to plan technical meetings catered to your professional interests. Starting this year, the IEEE NoVA Section Directors are also focusing on engaging more with our members on social media and use several channels to enhance the communication and open a bilateral dialog. Kudos to our Public Relations Director, Dr. Vivek Menon, to our Young Volunteers Coordinator Director, Dr. Ahmed Kausar and more than anything, to our Students Activities Chair and Young Professional Affinity Group Chair, Dr. Richard Metzger that continue to dedicate so many hours of their time to make this effort a success.

This month, please join us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2705446/. We are looking forward to hearing your voice, and to share with us your IEEE activities.

Title	Date	Section	Chapter	Location	Virtual
An IoT Platform for Building Energy Efficiency Applications	03 Mar 6:30 PM	NoVA /WASHINGTON	CS	McLean, VA	No
VTS: Maryland DOT Autonomous Automobile Demonstration Project at MARC Train Dorsey Station	10 Mar 11:30 AM	WASHINGTON/ NoVA	VTS	Washington DC	No
IEEE NoVA AdCom Meeting	10 Mar 6:30 PM	NoVA		Vienna, VA	Yes
Microwaving a Biological Cell Alive – Broadband Label-free Noninvasive Electrical Characterization of a Live Cell	24 Mar 6:30 PM	WASHINGTON/ NoVA	MTT	College Park, MD	No
The Modern Technology Tsunami: How to Think About It. How to Benefit From It. How to Survive It.	25 Mar 1:00 PM	NoVA /CENTRAL VIRGINIA /HAMPTON ROADS /RICHMOND	EDSOC	Middletown, VA	Yes

As more technical meetings will be planned, they will be announced through email and posted on our web site at https://r2.ieee.org/nova/. You can also search for events in and outside our section on the IEEE vTools Events site https://events.vtools.ieee.org/. Meanwhile, there are numerous IEEE Conferences planned in and around the DC Metro area this year; a partial list is below, and links are posted on our web site.

Volunteering

We have many opportunities for volunteers to help plan and run technical and social events, and our existing and past volunteers are here to answer questions and help. In particular, we plan to give awards at five regional science fairs to students with the best projects related to any IEEE society; if you would like to serve as a judge contact Martin Schulman at schulman@ieee.org.

Additionally, we are in need of volunteers to represent IEEE NoVA for Congressional Visits Day scheduled March 24-25, 2020. March 6 is the deadline to register https://ieeeusa.org/events/cvd-2020/.

Conferences and Events

Here is a partial list of IEEE-organized and sponsored events in our area this year.

Conference/Event	Date(s)	Location
IEEE Congressional Visits Day	24-25 Mar	Washington, DC
Region 2 Student Activities Conference	3-5 April	Baltimore, MD
2020 IEEE Systems Security Symposium	6-9 Apr	Crystal City, VA
2020 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance Conference (ICNS)	21-23 Apr	Herndon, VA
Wireless Telecommunications Conference	22-24 Apr	Washington, DC
2020 IEEE International RADAR Conference	27 Apr – 1 May	Washington, DC
2020 Spring Simulation Conference	19-21 May	Fairfax, VA
The 29^th Software Technology Conference	1-4 Jun	Gaithersburg, MD
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance	22-25 Sep	Washington, DC
Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition	13-15 Oct	Washington, DC