1 Call to order

2 Election of a Meeting Chairperson

3 Election of a Meeting Secretary

4 Election of two Members to review the Minutes and perform counting of votes

5 Ratification of the Summons

6 Ratification of the Agenda

7 Presentation of the Annual Report

8 Presentation and Adoption of the Profit and Loss Account and the Balance-sheet

9 Presentation of the Auditor’s report

10 Discharge from Liability for the Section Board

11 Election of Board Officers
AGM elects the new board for 2010:

12 Election of an Auditor

13 Election of a Nominating Committee

14 Propositions from the Section Board

15 Motions from Chapters, Affinity Groups, Branches and Individual Members

16 Information regarding the Senior Membership Elevation Program

17 Any other business

18 Adjournment

In witness thereof

We are inviting three distinct groups as speakers and participants from the Nordics and EU:

Call for papers extended to June 1, 2010

Full Technical Papers: June 1, 2010
Industry Track Abstracts: June 1, 2010
Notification of Acceptance : August 15, 2010
Camera Ready Papers : October 1, 2010

HIGHLIGHTS

Ghaleb B. Al-Dandan,
General Conference Co-chair

Plenary Talks:

Special Sessions:

Tutorial Sessions:

Selected Contributed Sessions:

Du vet väl om att årets Systems Engineeringhändelse äger rum i Stockholm den 23-26 maj – EuSEC 2010!

Om du anmäler dig före den 31:a mars kan du delta på konferensen till ett reducerat pris.

INCOSE Sverige är den svenska delen av den ideella föreningen International Council on Systems Engineering. INCOSE Sverige har sedan starten 1999 framför allt visat sin styrka som ett nätverk för systemutvecklingsintresserade inom svensk industri, myndigheter och högskolor/universitet. De aktiviteter som föreningen genomfört på nationell nivå har genom åren varit välbesökta evenemang med bred representation från svensk industri, myndigheter och akademi.

Dear IEEE Sweden Section Member:

Dear IEEE Sweden Section Member, The 2010 Annual General Meeting (AGM) for the IEEE Sweden Section will take place
Thursday March 11 at 5:30 P.M. (17.30) at Electrum, room Ka-C21, trapphus C, in Kista, Isafjordsgatan 20-26 (även tillgängligt från Kistagången).
Please have a look at the URL Electrum, Kista

We will begin at 5:30 P-M (17.00) with gathering in connection with refreshments and sandwiches. The formal AGM will start at 6:00 P. M. (18.00) and is planned to last about 30 minutes. The 2009 Annual Report and the 2009 Annual Account/Balance Sheet will be available before the AGM at our website http://www.ieee.se/ .

Fiber Optics - Latest Developments in Sweden and the World

We hope indeed that you will use this opportunity to network with your fellow IEEE members and to influence future IEEE Sweden Section activities.

Please, note: that refreshments will be served! To help us in our planning, please let us know by Sunday, March 7 if you intend to attend, preferably by email to the MD Officer Rune Persson by email rune.persson@computer.org or by snail mail to his home address:
Rune Persson, Gränsvägen 10-IIItv, SE-137 41 Västerhaninge.

Please, indicate if you have any special preferences concerning food, like vegetarian, allergy matters!

Very welcome!

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IEEE Sweden Section Annual Meeting 2010 Summons

The Board of IEEE Sweden Section hereby invites all members to the 2010 Annual Meeting.

Agenda:

1.Call to order

2.Election of a Meeting Chairperson

3.Election of a Meeting Secretary

4.Election of two Members to review the Minutes and perform counting of votes

5.Ratification of the Summons

6.Ratification of the Agenda

7.Presentation of the Annual Report

8.Presentation and Adoption of the Profit and Loss Account and the Balance-sheet

9.Presentation of the Auditor’s report

10.Discharge from Liability for the Section Board

11.Election of Board Officers

12.Election of an Auditor

13.Election of a Nominating Committee

14.Propositions from the Section Board

15.Motions from Chapters, Affinity Groups, Branches and Individual Members

16.Information regarding the Senior Membership Elevation Program

17.Any other Business

18.Adjournment

Refreshments are offered.

If you intend to attend, please send us an e-mail to rune.persson@computer.org so we know how many we need to cater for! On behalf of the Board I hope that as many as possible of you will take this opportunity to make your voice heard, influence future activities of the IEEE Sweden Section as well as networking with other IEEE members.

Stockholm, February 16, 2010

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CV of invited speaker at the AGM, Prof. Dr Walter Margulis

Walter Margulis received his BSc in Physics 1974, Electrical Engineer 1977, MPhil, Atomic Physics 1977 all at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, and PhD in Laser Optics, Imperial College, London 1981. After his PhD, he was an Academic Visitor at the Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale at Orsay for one year, at the Laser Group, Imperial College in London for a total of 4 years, at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm for 3 years, and at the Dept Semic. Phys, Lithuanian Acad. Sciences for a month. On Dec 1987 he joined the Physics Department of PUC-Rio, where he was Associate Professor until 2001. He is a senior scientist at Acreo since 1998, and visiting professor at KTH since 2004. He is presently also the Scientific Coordinator of Acreo’s Fiber Optic Center. In 2009/2010 he was appointed Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

Walter Margulis has supervised or co-supervised 9 M.Phil thesis in Brazil, 14 Masters theses in Sweden and 9 PhD theses completed. His present lines of research are: Fabrication, characterization and applications of fiber components and in particular electrically controlled fiber devices, design and fabrication of special fibers for active functions, photosensitivity studies in optical fibers, optical amplifiers, passive microwave components and Bragg grating. He coordinated (2001/05) a European Project with 8 partners on Poling of glass fibers and waveguides. He co-authored ~210 papers/conference contributions, approximately 15 patent applications, one book and thee book chapters.

A successful, 3 day Regional Chapter Leadership Workshop and Technical seminar on Wind Power Technologies was organised in Stockholm, from 13th to 15th September, 2009. The conference was supported by IEEE IAS, IEEE R8, the Sweden and Norway Sections, as well as the industrial sponsorship from the Power Technologies Department, ABB Corporate Research in Västerås.

The event was hosted by the local IAS chapters in the Hilton Stockholm Slussen Hotel.

The Chapters belonging to the ”Power Group” Societies in R8 (IAS, IES, PES and PELS) were invited and the chairs or representatives of 19 chapters participated, accounting for 30% of the total R8 ”Power Group” chapters (65). With 8-10 participated chapters are the joined chapters from all “power” societies, and exemplary reflection as a true inter-society conference. The chapters represented 15 sections, which account for 43% of the total Sections involved in Power Group Societies, within IEEE Region 8.

On the first day, the conference started with a plenary presentation entitled “An online position error compensation method for sensorless IPM motor drives using high frequency injection”, by IEEE IAS President Dr Thomas Nandahl. The Chapter Leadership workshop was followed by some IEEE organizational overviews and inputs from Eng. Costas Stasopoulos, IEEE R8 Secretary, Dr Peter Magyar, IEEE R8 CCSC Chair, and Dr Tamas Ruszanyi, IEEE “Power Group” Coordinator. The workshop activities in the morning were drawn into a conclusion with an interactive “Q&A” discussion forum between IEEE representatives and the chapter representatives. All chapter chairs further presented their respective activities during the afternoon sessions, with further open and direct dialogue between all participants and representatives.

On the second day, a technical seminar on Wind Power Technologies was organized, which covers 13 interesting presentations by academic researchers and industrial experts from 9 countries, including Claus Madsen, head of ABB’s wind initiatives and country manager of Denmark. Topics ranging from system integration, grid access, energy storage, cable and the latest development in wind power generator are all covered.

On a lighter note, the traditional Swedish “Smörgåsbord” was served in the social dinner, with a sound feedback from all the international participants!

The conference was concluded on the final day with an excursion to the European Offshore Wind Conference and Exhibition. The visit certainly provided all delegates an extra dimension and exposure to the latest development in the ever-growing wind power industry.

Dr Robert Chin

Hereby you are invited to participate in the SWIFT 2009 (Skövde Workshop in Information Fusion Topics) October 12-13. SWIFT 2009 is part of the SASW 2009 (4th IEEE Systems and Software Week) October 12-15 held at University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden (http://www.his.se/infofusion/sasw2009).

SWIFT 2009 offers an opportunity for practitioners from research and industry in the area of information fusion to gather and get a snapshot of the rapidly developing research field of information fusion. SWIFT 2009 provides an arena for discussion and reflection on new innovative ideas to contribute to the further development of information fusion. We are especially interested in creating an environment for discussing high-level fusion (i.e., for estimating situations and impacts) and similarities and differences between traditional and novel application areas. All articles are peer-reviewed and published in a proceeding.

Highlights of this workshop include:

Please turn to the PE/PEL section page to read more about this lecture to be delivered on September 3 by Professor Chen-Chin Liu, and moderated by Professor Lina Bertling.

We will begin at 18:00 with the formal part of the meeting, which is planned to last for about 30 minutes. Next, two recent IEEE Fellows (Per Stenström and Spartak Gevorgian) will give popular introductions to their work. The meeting will conclude with a guided tour of the department, which includes one of the most advanced University cleanrooms in the world.

We hope that you will use this opportunity to network with your fellow IEEE members and to influence future IEEE activities. Please note: a light meal and refreshments will be served. To help us in our planning, please let us know before March 27 if you intend to attend, preferably by email to registration@ieee.se .

Moe Win is an Associate Professor at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems (LIDS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining LIDS, he spent 5 years at AT&T Research Laboratories and 7 years at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served as the chair (2004-2006) and secretary (2002-2004) for the Radio Communications Committee of the IEEE Communications Society. He received several awards including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers from the United States White House and 2006 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award “for pioneering contributions to ultra-wide band communications science and technology.” Professor Win is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer and elected Fellow of the IEEE, cited “for contributions to wideband wireless transmission.”