VOLUME 1, ISSUE 3, JUNE 2007
Upcoming Conferences
International Workshop on Power and Timing, Modeling, Optimization and Simulation 2007 (PATMOS)
PATMOS2007 will be held in Göteborg, Sweden, from September 3 to 5, 2007. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum to discuss and investigate the emerging problems in the design methodologies and CAD tools for the new generation of IC technologies. [Link to the workshop website]
International Professional Communication Conference 2007 (IPCC2007)
Organized by the IEEE Professional Communication Society, IPCC2007 will be held in Seattle from October 1 to 3, 2007. This year’s theme is “Engineering the Future of Human Communication”. [Link to the conference website]
IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS2007)
ICECS2007 will be held in Marrakech, Morocco, from December 11 to 14, 2007. For details of the conference, please go to http://icecs2007.googlepages.com/home.
 
Meetings Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems
The Technical Committee on Nonlinear Circuits and Systems invite your participation in the following conferences/workshops:
 
  1. •   International Symposium on Synchronization in Complex Networks (SynCoNet2007), July 2007, Leuven, Belgium
  2. •   International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks (IWCSN’07), July 2007, Guilin, China
  3. •   International Conference on Communications, Circuits and Systems, July 2007, Fukuoka, Japan
  4. •   International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES’07), July 2007, Tokushima, Japan
  5. •   International IEEE Scientific Conference on Physics and Control, September 2007, Potsdam, Germany
  6. •   International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA’07), September 2007, Vancouver, Canada
 
 
If you wish to alert CASS members about the meetings sponsored or organized by your Technical Committees, please send information to the Editor-in-Chief (cktse@ieee.org).
 
CONFERENCE NEWS & INVITATIONS A Hot & Spicy “Cajun” ISCAS in New Orleans The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) celebrated its 40th anniversary at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel in May 27-30, 2007. With over 1000 participants, this year’s ISCAS was a huge success, not only because of its very high-standard technical program but also stimulated by a hot and spicy “Cajun” mood that Magdy Bayoumi (the conference chair) and his team had created for their ISCAS participants. The conference began softly with a whole day of highly informative tutorials on Sunday, May 27. In the evening, attendees were welcomed by a Jazz Festival reception, where they were reminded about being in the capital of Jazz music. On Monday, May 28, the first plenary talk set the theme of the conference—Circuits and Systems for Ubiquitous Computing, Sensing and Perception. The speaker was Greg Papadopolous of SUN Microsystems. The conference theme was further addressed by the other two plenary speakers, Dennis Buss of TI and Rosalind Picard of MIT Media Lab, who gave their talks in the following two mornings. As usual, this year’s ISCAS has kept its technical program to a very high standard, thanks to the efforts of Nam Ling and Gianluca Setti (the technical program chairs) and their dedicated team of track chairs, review committee members and reviewers. With 992 papers organized in 124 lecture, 20 special and 57 poster sessions, the program covered 12 different tracks of technical interests. For the first time in the history of ISCAS, a student poster presentation contest and a live demo contest were organized. ISCAS 2007 will prove to be unforgettable for its over 1000 attendees who enjoyed themselves immensely in the colorful Mardi Gras Ball and the integrated hot Cajun and soulful Zydeco music in the closing party! (If you have taken any interesting photos in ISCAS and are willing to share them with other CAS members, please email them to me. I’ll try to set up a photo gallery in a future issue.) Michael Tse, EiC, IEEE CAS Society Newslettermailto:cktse@ieee.org?subject=IEEE%20ISCAS%20Photosshapeimage_5_link_0
ISCAS 2007 New Orleans