IEEE Washington Section

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Traumatic events alter the body and the brain. Severe intrusive memories are a perpetuating clinical symptom in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In this talk, Dr Nil Gurel of Meta Reality Labs, will discuss a novel, electroceutical intervention that stimulates the vagus nerve non-invasively, with no side effects. Her research has combined noninvasive sensors and signal... Read more →

Autonomous multi-agent UAV and UGV systems are promising for critical applications such as disaster response, logistics and transportation, supplementing cellular networks, agricultural sensing, environmental monitoring, and security and military operations. Achieving the desired multi-agent collaborative behaviors requires joint perception and information sharing over wireless links. In this talk we look at recent progress on graph... Read more →

The IEEE Washington DC/Northern VA and Baltimore Technical Chapters of the Engineering Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) extends an invitation for you to attend Dr. Paul Otto’s virtual three-part lecture series presentations on the application of Bluetooth in the hospital and other medical environments. The first lecture is on the Application of Bluetooth in Medical... Read more →

We are excited to announce an upcoming NIST MSED/NCNR Seminar being presented by Ms. Miela J. Gross (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). This Seminar talk is taking place in person at the NIST Center for Neutron Research and will be additionally broadcast over ZoomGov - details follow below. Co-sponsored by: NIST Center for Neutron Research, NIST... Read more →

Northern Virginia Section ExCom Meeting. All members are welcome. Bldg: Martha Washington Library, 6614 Fort Hunt Rd, Alexandria, Virginia, United States, 22307, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/381757

This webinar will delve into various aspects of distributed loads, including different load modifiers considering both temporal and spatial aspects. We will look at their fundamental principles and operations to their real-world applications. It will feature presentations and insights from experts in the field, offering participants a comprehensive understanding of the following key areas: -... Read more →

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... Read more →

Our society is having difficulties engineering heterogeneous systems of people and technology. For instance, our systems for dealing with pandemics, climate change, and financial stress have been less than completely successful, in significant part because of unanticipated human behaviors. This talk will cover new approaches to engineering ecosystems that better integrate human behavior and discuss... Read more →