Chapters Update

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Chapters Update

• Presented by
• J.Van der Spiegel
• 5 February 2006

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Overview

• SSCS Chapters in the News
• Chapters Status
• Chapter Subsidy Extra Subsidy Awards
• Emerging Economy Membership Subsidy Program

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SSCS Chapters in the News
Denver Wins Best Chapter Award

• 2001 Seoul, Korea Chapter
• (Prof. M.K. Lee)
• 2002 Tapei, Taiwan chapter
• (Prof. J.T. Wu)
• 2003 Bangalore, India chapter (Dr. Navakanta
  Bhat)
• 2004 Santa Clara Valley, California, USA (Dan
  Oprica)
• 2005 Denver, Fort Collins, USA
• (Dr. A. Loke)

L to R Don McGrath (Vice Chair 2005), Tin Tin
Wee (Secretary/Webmaster 2006), Alvin Loke
(Chair), Bob Barnes (Vice Chair/Treasurer 2006)
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SSCS Chapters in the News
Taipei 05
Behad Razavi Talks at National Chiao Tung
University, November 2005

• 545 Teams Compete in IC Student
• Design Contest July 2005

Jan Rabaey Speaks at Nanoelectronic
Integrated-Circuit Workshop, November 2005
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SSCS Chapters in the News

• 17 Technical Meetings
• 3 Educational Courses
• 4 International Conferences

West Ukraine 05
Best Student Paper Awards OksanaTrishchuk
presenting her paper, Axial Symmetric
Electromagnetic Excitation of a finite conical
screen by the ring sources
DIPED-2005 Seminar/Workshop Participants
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Current Status

• 54 chapters
• 2 New Chapters in 2005
• Green Mountain, VT (Pascal Nsame)
• Uruguay, Montevideo (Enrique D. Ferreira)
• 1 New Chapter in 2006
• Phoenix (Xuezhen Wang, Bertan Bakkaloglu)

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Geographical Distribution
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Single vs. Joint Chapters
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Regions 1- 6 14 chapters
Green Mountain
Chicago
Boston
Santa Clara
Baltimore
Los Angeles
North Carolina
San Diego
Atlanta
Denver
Dallas
Tucson
Austin
Phoenix
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Region 7 7 chapters
Vancouver
Canada Atlantic (Nova Scotia)
Southern Alberta
Montreal
Ottawa
Waterloo
Toronto
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Region 8 22 chapters
Belarus BeneluxBulgaria (student) Bulgaria,
(Varna) Estonia (Finland Section) France
(Grenoble) Germany (Aachen) Greece UK and Rep of
Ireland(Cork) Israel Russia, (Nizhny
Novgorod) Russia, Novosibirsk
Russia, Novosibirsk (student) UK and
Scotland Sweden Turkey, Middle East Technical
Univ Serbia and Montenegro Serbia and Montenegro
(Nis, Student Chapter) West
SwitzerlandCentral Ukraine (Kiev) West Ukraine
Zurich
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Region 9 FIRST chapter
Uruguay
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Region 10 10 chapters
Tokyo
Beijing
Kansai
Seoul
Shanghai
Hong Kong
Tapei
Bangalore
Singapore
Australia
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Chapter Subsidy Awards
All 22 Applicants Receive Grants
Including support for local conferences. (L to R
Multi Project Chip Workshop (Germany), MIEL
(Serbia/Montenegro), Crimean Microwave Conference
(Central Ukraine)
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Extra Chapter Subsidy Program

• 12K for extra chapters activities such as
• Educational workshop, short course, conference
  co-sponsoring, student registration support, etc.
• Chapter has to submit a short proposal to the
  committee for approval.

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Extra Chapter Subsidy Awards

• 1,220 Novosibirsk Joint Chapter
• Seminar - Nanotechnology from Theory to
• Practice, January 2006
• 2,500 Taipei Chapter
• Short Course Equalization, Clock and Data
• Recovery, and Low-Jitter Clock Generation for
  High
• Speed Links, 27-28 January 2006

2,700 West Ukraine Chapter 2nd International
Conference On Prospective Technologies and
Methods in MEMS Design (MEMSTECH-2006), 24-27 May
2006
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Emerging EconomiesMembership Subsidy Program
Each year, SSCS supports up to twelve members in
single chapters, up to six in joint chapters, and
underwrites students at 100 for up to two
consecutive years.

• Uruguay (1)
• Nizhny Novgorod Joint Chapter (2)
• West Ukraine Joint Chapter (6)
• Novosibirsk Student Chapter (7)

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Thanks to

• Chapters Committee members
• Jonathan David
• Bruce Hecht
• David Johns
• Dr. Masakazu Yamashina
• C.K. Ken Yang
• Jan Van der Spiegel (Chair)
• Eric Vittoz
• SSCS Office
• Katherine Olstein
• Anne ONeill