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First of all, I am pleased to be appointed to continue for another
term as one of the IEICE Singapore Representatives. At the same time, I would
extend my personal warm welcome to a few new Overseas Area Representatives respectively
from Korea and Hong Kong. As one of the representatives, I would strongly support
the decision by the IEICE to name the IEICE Section Offices in the Asian areas.
In the activity year 2004-2005, the Singapore Section Office
has organized two major seminar series, one is (1) Optical and Photonic Technology
on December 22, 2004 and (2) Micro- and Nano-Technology on March 8, 2005. The
two seminar series are organized to focus on the new technology developments.
Both the first series and the second series represent partially some popular interests
in the science and technology.
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Figure 1:
Opening and Closing Addresses by Prof. Le-Wei Li. (a) Opening Address to welcome
Prof. K. Yasumoto and (b) Closing Appreciation to Prof. T. Itoh and Prof. N. Engheta.
For the first seminar series on "Optical and Photonic Technology", two
distinguished lecture speakers were invited. The first talk by Professor Kiyotoshi
Yasumoto (from Dept of Computer Science and Communication Engineering, Kyushu
University, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan) is entitled as "Scattering and Guidance
by Photonic Crystals Consisting of Periodic Arrays of Circular Cylinders".
The second talk by Professor Le Binh (Dept of Electrical and Computer Systems
Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia 3168) is entitled
as "Advanced Modulation Formats For 40 Gb/s Optical Communications Systems".
A good attendance of this seminar series by IEICE members in Singapore is received.
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Figure 2: Lectures
by Prof. K. Yasumoto from Kyushu University in Japan and Prof. L. Binh from Monash
University in Australia. (a) Prof. K. Yasumoto and (b) Prof. L. Binh.
For the second seminar series on "Micro- and Nano-Technology", two prominent
distinguished scientists were invited. The first one is Professor Tatsuo Itoh
(Dept of Electrical Engineering, iniversity of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
CA 90095-1594, USA) and his talk is entitled as "Active Integrated Antennas".
The second speaker is Professor Nader Engheta (University of Pennsylvania, Department
of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA)
and his talk is entitled as "Metamaterials, Nano-circuit Elements, and Near-field
Devices and Systems". These two topics have attracted many audiences, and
a good attendance to this seminar series by IEICE members in Singapore is also
received.
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by Prof. T. Itoh from University of California at Los Angeles in USA and Prof.
N. Engheta from University of Pennsylvania in USA. (a) Prof. T. Itoh and (b) Prof.
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As the founding Officer of the IEICE Singapore Section, I hereby
announce that the IEICE Singapore Section Office will provide more services within
the IEICE allocated budgets, namely,
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Members can access to IEICE Transactions in both
Japanese and English in the form of either hard copy or CD-ROM. Members can approach
me for the materials, provided that the IEICE copyright policy stands; |
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We will also have two meetings per year subject
to the necessity of both technical and social activities requirement; |
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In addition, we plan to have some more technical
talks. We will invite a couple of prominent professionals in frontier research
& development from Japan or other countries (namely, "IEICE Distinguished
Lecturers") to deliver seminar series on hot topics to our Singapore local
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I anticipate to your active participation and intensive involvement
in our Section activities and look forward to meeting you soon.
In the coming two years, the IEICE Singapore Office is looking
forward to more new members to join the IEICE in one way or the other. Also, the
IEICE Singapore Section will be providing better services than ever to benefit
our old and newly joined members. In both cases, the Singapore Section Office
is looking forward to the active participation and involvement of our members.
If there is any query on services and other issues, please directly contact me
at the following address:
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Professor Le-Wei (Joshua) Li
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University
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Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
Tel:
(+65) 6874 6658; Fax: (+65) 6779 1103;
Email:LWLi@nus.edu.sg
Web:
http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/lwli
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