FEATURED CONFERENCE

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference

Washington, D.C., 26–30 November

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this year’s GlobeCom covers sensor networking, communication theory, the Internet Protocol, multimedia communications, optical networks and systems, performance modeling, reliability, signal processing, and wireless communications.

To commemorate the conference’s Golden Jubilee, a video will highlight well-known presenters and leaders of the field from past conferences, detailing their achievements. There will also be live music and a color guard, and the political satire group The Capitol Steps will perform.

Sponsor: IEEE Communications Society

Visit: http://www.ieee-globecom.org

International Summit for Engineers and Educators

Munich 9–11 November

The conference will address the growing demand during the next decade for qualified engineers and their educators. The goal is to enable the educational system at both pre-university and university levels to meet the anticipated needs. Representatives from industry, government, and academia, and decision and policy makers are among those who will be participating.

Sponsors: IEEE Educational Activities, European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, European Commission, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Siemens Inc., Verband der Elektrotechnik

Visit: http://www.ieee.org/web/education/preuniversity/globalsummit

International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference

Fukuoka City, Japan 3–7 December

The conference aims to encourage the introduction and commercialization of PV science to the rest of the world. Topics include crystalline silicon solar cells and their technologies, novel materials and devices, terrestrial systems, industries, and markets.

Sponsors: European Commission, IEEE Electron Devices Society, IEEE Japan Section, Japan Society of Applied Physics, and Nagoya Industrial Science Research Institute

Visit: http://www.pvsec17.jp

Asia–Pacific Microwave Conference

Bangkok 11–14 December

This year’s theme is “Technology Convergence: Microwaves for Life Science.” The conference is devoted to the research, development, and application of RF and microwave theory and techniques. The IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation journal plans to publish a special issue featuring extended versions of the papers presented.

Sponsors: Institution of Engineering and Technology, IEEE Thailand Section, and the Thailand chapters of six IEEE societies: Antennas and Propagation, Circuits and Systems, Communications, Electron Devices, Lasers & Electro-Optics, and Microwave Theory and Techniques

Visit: http://www.apmc2007.org

International Conference on Consumer Electronics

Las Vegas 11–13 January

ICCE is where new technologies, products, services, and architectures for consumer electronics and information delivery are first presented.

Topics include advanced applications of objective video quality metrics and methods; audio processing; encoding techniques and algorithms; gaming; health-care technology; human-computer interaction; image and video signal processing; image, video, and audio standards; noise and artifact reduction; and quality and sharpness enhancements.

Several awards will be presented during the conference, including the IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award.

Sponsor: IEEE Consumer Electronics Society

Visit: http://www.icce.org

International Conference on Health Informatics

Funchal, Madeira, Portugal 28–31 January

Part of the International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, this conference covers databases, graphic interfaces, intelligent decision support systems, networking, and special programming languages. Issues of mobility and ubiquity in health-care systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, and privacy also will be addressed.

The health informatics confer­ence is being held in conjunction with the International Conference on Biomedical Elec­tronics and Devices and the International Conference on Bio-­inspired Systems and Signal Processing.

Sponsors: IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and the Workflow Management Coalition

Visit: http://www.healthinf.org