IEEE Boston Section

Antennas and Propagation Speaker: Alexander Morris, MIT Lincoln Lab Location: Zoom-only.  Zoom link will be emailed to registered attendees. Registration:  https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/383086 The Auroral Emissions Radio Observer (AERO) and Vector Interferometry Space Technology using AERO (VISTA) missions are nano-satellite programs funded by NASA Science Mission Directorate (SMD) for Heliophysics. These missions will use identical spacecraft to observe radio emissions in Earth’s ionosphere at low earth orbit. This talk will describe the design, modeling, and prototyping of a 0.1 MHz to 15 MHz vector sensor antenna. The antenna is comprised of 3 orthogonal dipoles and 3 orthogonal loop antennas and is capable of spatial and polarimetric resolution of radio sources. Speaker: Alexander Morris, MIT Lincoln Lab Alex Morris an associate staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the RF Technology Group, where he works on the development of phased array antennas and small HF receiver systems. He attended the University of Alaska Fairbanks where he received B.S. (2011) and M.S. (2014) degrees in Electrical Engineering. Registration:  https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/383086

Consultants Network

Registration:

Members only $15.00

Non member – $30.00

Please come and honor Larry Rachman’s service, over many years, to Boston CNET. We are hoping for all CNET members to attend.

Date: Rescheduled to December 5, 2023.

Onsite Only:  Residence Inn by Marriott, Framingham Ma, Hotel Suite

https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/bosfm-residence-inn-boston-framingham/overview/

Registrants will be emailed with the suite or meeting room number.

Cost:  $15 per CNET member, $15 per family member of CNET member, $30 friends and non-members.

Please note, the member ticket cost is less that the actual cost to run this event. CNET is absorbing most of the cost.  Your discount is a member benefit!

We want ALL our members to participate in this event.  We hope to welcome new members that are part of our membership summer drive.

50% off membership to any member joining from July to September, 2023.

Event Description:

• Larry Rachman (former CNET Board Member and Webmaster since 2005) Retirement Party. Please help us honor Larry’s service.  Larry’s wife will also be present.
• Get to know other CNET members
• Meet the CNET Board of Directors live in person
• Menu: (subject to change and request) BBQ Pulled Pork, BBQ chicken, sauce, buns, salad, dressing, sides, beverages, and desert. Complimentary beer and wine will be served (IEEE requires a signed waiver).
• Music

Entrepreneurs’ Network

Attendees will have the option to join us in-person at Lasell University, Newton, MA or online via Zoom.

This event will help navigate answering: Who do I need on the team? How do I manage the team to High Performance? What should a Founder’s Agreement include?

We will start with identifying the founding team roles, how to attract talent, and prioritizing the hiring based on the founder’s strengths. Then, we will move to processes and techniques to manage the founding to high performance. And we will end with creating a Founders Agreement.

For more information and registration click here:  

 

Photonics Society

Reconfiguring, modulating and processing light at visible wavelengths typically requires complex and bulky table-top optics. High resolution optical applications such as optogenetic neural studies, fluorescence microscopy, and quantum information systems have a growing need for compact and efficient platforms that can control and readout large numbers of optical channels. However, in the visible wavelength range, where key optical transitions lie, this is a significant challenge because the traditional silicon photonics chip-scale platforms cannot be leveraged due to fundamental material absorption limits. Silicon nitride has been demonstrated as a foundry-compatible, low-loss photonic platform operating down to 400 nm wavelength through optimized fabrication processes and mode engineering. This talk will highlight recent work in visible photonic integrated circuits based on silicon nitride including switching networks, optical phased arrays, chip-scale lasers, modulators and ongoing challenges for their practical application in neuroscience, imaging, and quantum systems. Finally, opportunities in mode-multiplexing and hybrid integration of active optical materials will be discussed for expanding the platform’s functional capabilities.

Speaker:  Professor Aseema Mohanty

Aseema Mohanty is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University. She received her B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ph.D. from Cornell University. During her postdoctoral work at Columbia University, she developed an implantable neural probe based on visible photonic integrated circuits for sub-millisecond and single-cell neural stimulation and readout. Her research focuses on using nanophotonics and engineered light-matter interactions to create miniaturized high performance optical circuits to control, shape, and sense light. Her interest in chip-scale optical devices broadly span the fields of neuroscience, implantable and wearable biomedical sensors, 3D optical beam shaping, quantum information and emerging computing and communication systems. Her work has been published in Nature Photonics, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Nature Communications and was named a Scialog fellow for Advancing BioImaging in 2021.

Agenda

6:00 PM – Networking starts.

6:15 PM – Light meals served.

7:00 PM – Seminar starts.

Registration:

Free Webinar.  Registration is required to attend.    Zoom information will be provided to registered attendees by January 16, 2023. 

Click here to register:

Summary overview

In high tech industries intellectual property may be a company’s most valuable asset.  Protection of a company’s IP – patents, trademarks, copyright, and trade secrets – can be a key strategy for obtaining and maintaining competitive advantage in the marketplace.  This webinar will focus primarily on patents, including what might makes a patent essential for a protecting innovation, the legal requirements necessary for obtaining a patent in the U.S., and the particulars of the application process in the U.S.

Target audience

This webinar is intended for corporate counsel or persons in other leadership positions in companies that are developing innovations that they would like to protect from being copied by competitors. The content would also be beneficial to inventors within such companies that are involved in developing the innovations.

Benefits of attending the course

To obtain a better understanding of intellectual property, in particular patent law, as well as an understanding of when a patent might be the best vehicle for protecting an innovation and when other forms of protection my be more appropriate as well as to gain a better understanding about what hurdles must be overcome to obtain a patent and the process involved in doing so.

Topics covered in course

• Forms of intellectual property and how they might be protected
• What rights/benefits a patent conveys to a patentee
• Legal Requirements for obtaining a patent
  • Anticipation
  • Obviousness
  • Written description/enablement
  • Patent Eligible Subject Matter
• Procedure for applying for a patent

Speakers: 

Greg Gerstenzang – Lando & Anastasi 

Greg works with clients of all sizes to leverage their intellectual property assets through strategic patent portfolio development and management. He prosecutes patent applications domestically and abroad in a wide range of technologies from water and wastewater treatment to solid state physics. Greg uses the insight gained from nearly a decade of technical experience in the semiconductor industry to maximize clients’ return on their intellectual property.

Greg spent several years working in semiconductor device fabrication for Intel Corporation in various positions, including process engineering and quality control. Specific projects included the transfer of new manufacturing technology from development to high volume production factories, various process optimization and cost reduction projects, and the development of systems for the monitoring of production and quality metrics.

John Spangenberger – Lando & Anastasi 

John brings deep technology expertise to his work with L&A’s Electronics, Computer Technology & Software, and Medical Devices groups. His work and academic experience have exposed him to a wide range of technologies, including sensors and electronic instrumentation, advanced electronics, integrated chip fabrication and design, and embedded systems. John has prosecuted and written applications in a variety of technical areas, including:

• Consumer Electronics
• Cybersecurity and Secure Transactions
• Data-Center Design and Management
• Power-Distribution and Power-Conversion Systems Design