Vol 09 No 01 January 2009 Dear IEEE Delhi Section Members
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From the pages of history Message of Section Chair vol 09 no 01 January 2009 Dear IEEE Delhi Section Members, From the desk of ECC I am delighted to know that our Section Past-Chairman & Electronic Communications My dear esteemed Members, Coordinator, Dr. S.Mukhopadhyay has announced the launching of our Section E- We are on to the first issue of the ninth year newsletter “ieeedlhinews”, which will of our journey. I remember when we become an extremely useful supplement to brought out the very first issue on the day our hard-copy newsletter “BEACON”, of Basant Panchmi in 2001 (January 29 that brought out only twice an year. We from time), it started with the ‘Message of the Delhi Section Executive Committee are Section Chair’ and ended with ‘From the very grateful to him for this initiative. I am desk of ECC’. For Remembrance I am sure that with this newsletter we will be able appending them just after the current text to disseminate all information about our today, again when we are having Basant Section activities well in time so that a lot Panchmi. more of our members can participate in our In the mean time Section Nomination activities. This being my first message to Standing Committee, consisting of Mr the Section Members after I took over as Prakash V Ekande as Chair and Prof S C the chairman of the IEEE Delhi Section, I Dutta Roy and Mr Harbans L Bajaj as wish to express my sincere thanks to our Members, has recommended the slate for Section Nomination Committee and all of the IEEE Delhi Section Executive Committee you Section Members for having given us for the year 2009. The same is being this opportunity to serve you. I am sure we notified today in this issue of ieeedelhinews will be able to organize a lot of quality after it was reported to the 2008 Exec Com Technical and Professional activities with in the meeting held in the Committee Room your kind support, advice and suggestions. of EE Dept at IIT Delhi on January 30, 2009. We are trying to have the AGM of Section on Prof. R. Balasubramanian March 15, 2009 (Sunday). So please keep it Chairman earmarked in your calendar. IEEE Delhi Section As of today our membership strength has touched an all-time high of 2621, for which I From the desk of ECC request you to join hands to congratulate particularly Prof. Shiban K Koul and Ms. Dear esteemed colleagues, Prerna Gaur whose untiring endeavor could make it happen so. As promised in the last AGM, our dream comes true with the release of the very first Best regards. issue of our Section e-newsletter ieeedelhinews in January 2001. From the next month onwards, we will try to publish it by 10th. I seek your cooperation in making (Dr. Subrata Mukhopadhyay) the issues meaningful and right in the spirit IEEE Delhi Section of serving the need of our Section members January 31, 2009 (Saturday) at large. Besides the usual columns on E-mail: [email protected] reports of already held events, Web-site: www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi announcement of activities in near future, 1 our strength (and so weakness too), we will Sr. Position Name Organiz like to have other news which you No. ation may like to share with the fellow members. 1. Chairman Dr .V. R. Ex-NPL Please feel free to interact through this Singh circulation, as this may be the only medium 2. Ex. Vice Prof. Bhim IIT- in the years to go and as we see from Chairman Singh Delhi information available and practiced by IEEE 3. Vice Dr. Mrs. JMI Uni. that is going more and more for e- Chairman Mini S. publication in preference to hard copy Thomas circulation. 4. Secretary Mr. Daman Steria Dev Sood (India) With regards, Ltd. Sincerely yours 5. Jt. Secretary Prof. Mrs. NSIT Dr. S.Mukhopadhyay Prerana New Delhi Gaur January 29, 2001 6. Treasurer Mr. P. K. C-DOT (e-mail: [email protected] Gupta URL: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r10/delhi) 7. Past Dr. R. G. Min. of Chairman Gupta CIT Schedule of Lecture(s) 8. Member MR. V. K. Indian Dutt Railway (already held) 9 Member Dr R. G. S. Max On January 22, 2009 (Thursday) at 2-30 pm Asthana Softwar talk on “Cancer Nano-Technology" by Dr. e Tech. V.R.Singh, NPL, New Delhi at TIET- 10. Member Dr. Deepak Thaper Patiala.(organised by IEEE-IMS/EMBS Garg Universi chapter in collaboration with Thapar ty University) 11. Member Ms. IEC- Sharbani College On January 23, 2009 (Friday) at 9-00 am Bhattachary of talk on “Biomedical Sensor Networking" by a Engg. & Dr. V.R.Singh, NPL, New Delhi at TIET- Tech. Patiala.(organised by IEEE-IMS/EMBS 12. Member Prof. Mrs. DCE chapter in collaboration with Thapar Rachana University) Garg 13 Member Prof. A. Q. JMI Uni. On January 31, 2009 (Saturday) at 10-30 Ansari hours in the Committee Room of EE Dept, IIT Delhi (Block II-241, 1st Floor) - A 14. Member Prof. Asok DCE seminar by Prof. K. Gopakumar CEDT, Bhattachary Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, on “A a hybrid PWM using hexagonal and 12-sided 15. Member Dr. Director polygonal space vectors for an IM Drive” Aloknath -Mobil, (organized by PES-IAS and PELS-IES De MMC Chapters, in association with EE Dept, IIT 16. Member Mr. NDPL Delhi) Ravindra Joshi IEEE DELHI SECTION – NOMINATION Besides it is proposed that following COMMITTEE Members will be Invitee-Member as they RECOMMENDATION of SLATE FOR are in Region or Head Quarter Committees EXECOM –2009, IEEE DELHI SECTION 2 1. Dr. S. Mukhopadhyay Review For questions regarding officer reporting, Committee TAB and Region Rep. please contact MGA Staff via scs-officer- PES [email protected]. 2. Mr. R. K. Asthana IAA Region 10 Although Dr. K. Subramanian and Prof. C. S. 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