Chapters Update

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Chapters Update

• Presented by
• J.Van der Spiegel
• 28 August 2006

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Overview

• SSCS Chapter News
• Chapters Status
• Chapter Subsidy Extra Subsidy Awards
• Emerging Economy Membership Subsidy Program

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SSCS Chapter News
Los Angeles Technical Seminar at UC Irvine

• A lecture on Friday, 26 May of Memorial Day
  Weekend by Charles J. Persico, the Senior Vice
  President of Engineering at Qualcom, Inc.
  attracted over 50.

Serbia-Montenegro DL Talk in Belgrade
DL Albert Wang spoke on A Circuit Model for
Class-A Power Amplifier Design, 16 May 2006.
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SSCS Chapter News
Benelux Chapter Revitalized
Jan Craninckx (IMEC, Belgium, at right) became
the Benelux Chapter Chair.
Anantha Chandrakasans talk on the Design of
Ultra-Low Power Systems, 24 March 2006, was the
chapters inaugural event.
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SSCS Uruguay Chapter Organizes 5th Ibero-American
Congress, 26-29 September in Montevideo, Uruguay

• Held biannually, IBERSENSOR is a forum of
  the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking scientific
  community, working in the fields of development
  of sensors of every kind and their applications.
• The event in 2006 is being organized by the SSCS
  Uruguay chapter chaired by Enrique D. Ferreira.
• The IBERSENSOR conference has been successfully
  held on four occasions in Havanna, Cuba in 1998,
  in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2000, in Lima, Peru
  in 2002, and in Puebla, Mexico in 2004.

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SSCS Chapter News
Far East Chapter Chair Luncheon
Wednesday, 15 November 2006 Hyatt Regency
Hotel, Hangzhou, China
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Current Status
57 Chapters
4 New Chapters in 2006

• Italy (Andrea Baschirotto)

• Phoenix (Xuezhen Wang, Bertan Bakkaloglu)

• Maine as of 8/4/06, joint with EDS

• Croatia as of 8/9/06

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Geographical Distribution
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Single vs. Joint Chapters
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Regions 1- 6 15 chapters
Maine
Green Mountain
Chicago
Boston
Santa Clara
Baltimore
Los Angeles
North Carolina
San Diego
Atlanta
Denver
Dallas
Tucson
Austin
Phoenix
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Region 7 7 chapters
Vancouver
Canada Atlantic (Nova Scotia)
Southern Alberta
Montreal
Ottawa
Waterloo
Toronto
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Region 8 24 chapters
Belarus BeneluxBulgaria (student) Bulgaria,
(Varna) Croatia Estonia (Finland Section) France
(Grenoble) Germany (Aachen) Greece UK and Rep of
Ireland(Cork) Israel Italy Russia, (Nizhny
Novgorod) Russia, Novosibirsk
Russia, Novosibirsk (student) UK and
Scotland Sweden Turkey, Middle East Technical
Univ Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
(Nis, Student Chapter) West
SwitzerlandCentral Ukraine (Kiev) West Ukraine
Zurich
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Region 9 FIRST chapter
Uruguay
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Region 10 10 chapters
Tokyo
Beijing
Kansai
Seoul
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Tapei
Bangalore
Singapore
Australia
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2 Chapters Newly Formed

• Maine Existing Joint EDS/Computer Society
  Chapter The Computer Society will join the
  Region 1 Communications Society. The Maine
  chapter of EDS has become joint with SSCS as of
  August 4, 2006, chaired by Stephen Leibiger.
• Croatia Joint SSCS/EDS Chapter as of August 9,
  2006, chaired by Petar Biljanovic.

Kitchener-Waterloo Update

• Existing joint SSCS/EDS chapter has become two
  separate single chapters, SSCS (chaired by Shahab
  Ardalan) and EDS (chaired by Dr. Siva
  Sivoththaman).

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Chapter Subsidy Program
Proposed Budget for 2007
Single Chapter/New Joint Chapter Maximum
2000 Joint Chapter Maximum 1000 Chapter
Subsidy Total 42.4K
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Extra Chapter SubsidyProgram

• 12K for extra chapters activities such as
• Educational workshop, short course, conference
  co-sponsoring, student registration support, etc.
• Chapter has to submit a short proposal to the
  committee for approval.

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Extra Chapter Subsidy Awards since Feb. 2006

• 2,500 Taipei Chapter
• Two Day Short Course Efficient High-speed
  Link Designs Challenges, Solutions and Future
  Directions, Hsinchu, 23 February Taipei, 24
  February by Gu-Yeon Wei, Harvard University
• 500 Central Texas Chapter
• Austin Conference on Integrated Systems
• and Circuits Inaugural Meeting, 17-19 May
• 2,400 Taipei Chapter
• Two Day Short Course Linear Regulators
  From
• the Ground Up, 22-23 June by Gabriel
  Rincon-Mora
• 2,680 Italy Chapter
• 2nd Prime Conference on Ph.D. Research in
• Microelectronics and Electronics, Otranto
  (Lecce), Italy 12 -15 June

Dr. Rincon-Mora and students at National Taiwan
University.
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Extra Chapter SubsidyAwards Reported February 06

• 1,220 Novosibirsk Joint Chapter
• Seminar - Nanotechnology from Theory to
• Practice, January 2006
• 2,500 Taipei Chapter
• Short Course Equalization, Clock and Data
• Recovery, and Low-Jitter Clock Generation
• for High Speed Links, 27-28 January 2006 by Gu-
• Yeon Wei. Title changed to Efficient High-speed
• Link Designs, presented in February.

2,700 West Ukraine Chapter 2nd International
Conference On Prospective Technologies and
Methods in MEMS Design (MEMSTECH-2006), 24-27 May
2006
MEMSTECH helps to establish strong links among
young scientists and different expertise area
representatives and participating Universities.
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Emerging EconomiesMembership Subsidy Program
Each year, SSCS supports up to twelve members in
single chapters, up to six in joint chapters, and
underwrites students at 100 for up to two
consecutive years. Total for 2006 membership year

• Uruguay (2)
• Nizhny Novgorod Joint Chapter (2)
• West Ukraine Joint Chapter (6)
• Novosibirsk Student Chapter (7)

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Thanks to

• Chapters Committee members
• Jonathan David
• Bruce Hecht
• David Johns
• Dr. Masakazu Yamashina
• C.K. Ken Yang
• Jan Van der Spiegel (Chair)
• Eric Vittoz
• SSCS Office
• Katherine Olstein
• Anne ONeill