Computer Society, GBC/ACM and EMBS co-sponsoring – 6:00PM, Thursday, 1 October Broad Institute Auditorium (corner of Vassar & Main Streets, Cambridge) From genomics to medicine: Uncovering and targeting the genetic circuits underlying GWAS and cancer Manolis Kellis – Professor, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Institute Member, Broad Institute …

Entrepreneurs’ Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 6 October Innovative Ways to Bootstrap Your Startup Company Meeting Location – Constant Contact, 1601 Trapelo Road, 1st Floor, InnoLoft, Waltham, MA . PRE-MEETING DINNER at 5:15 PM (sharp) at Bertucci’s, Waltham. Entrepreneurs often think that the only way to grow their business is to …

Photonics Society – 6:30PM, Thursday, 8 October UV Optoelectronic Devices based on AlGaN alloys Theodore D. Moustakas – Electrical and Computer Engineering – Photonics Center, Boston University The GaN-AlN material system is well suited for UV optoelectronic devices (LEDs, lasers, electroabsorption modulators etc.) because its energy gap can be tuned …

Women in Engineering – 6:00PM, Wednesday, 14 October Mr. Dennis M. Miller, SES, DAF – Associate Director of Engineering and Technical Management AFLCMC/EN-EZ 6pm-7pm no host social 7pm-8pm Talk by Mr. Miller: Cyber Resiliency Where: Minuteman Commons, Hanscom Air Force Base, MA Mr. Miller will talk about Cyber Resiliency. Critical …

Reliability Chapter – 6:00PM, Wednesday, 14 October Physics of Failure: Approach, Methodology, Tools and Implementation Dr. Craig Hillman, DfR Solutions The Physics of Failure is the leveraging the knowledge and understanding of processes and mechanisms that induce failure to predict reliability and improve product performance. PoF is a critical element …

Power & Energy Society – 6:00PM, Tuesday, 20 October Power System State Estimation – Ali Abur, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University Time: Refreshments start at 6:00PM, Talk Commences at 6:30PM Location: Valley A&B, National Grid, Reservoir Woods, Waltham, MA 02451 This talk will present an overview of …

Entrepreneurs’ Network – 6:30PM, Tuesday, 20 October Tech Sales Models: What Are Your Options? Early stage technology companies face a lot of decisions in a short amount of time not the least of which is how do they generate revenue. There are several sales models to consider including direct (web …

Life Members – 4:00PM, Wednesday, 21 October Planetary Life and Atmospheres Could there be life on the billions of exo-planets? Why is the oxygen content of our earth’s atmosphere greater that of Venus and Mars, which are mostly CO2 ? Venus had a runaway greenhouse effect. Might our earth undergo …

Microwave Theory and Techniques Society – 5:30PM, Thursday, 22 October Agenda: 5:30PM – Social Hour 6:00PM – Lecture 7:30PM – Dinner with Speaker Jeffrey Nanzer, IEEE MTT-16 Speakers Bureau – Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Coherent Distributed RF Systems The advancements in the area of information networking in the …

Consultants Network How to Achieve Peak Performance in Your Consulting Practice By Stan Sidman, Business Development Group We have all been to meetings of all kinds, gathered infinite amounts of information on running our professional practices and yet continue to seek more and more information. Why? Because our engineering training …

Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (co-sponsored with MIT IEEE/ACM student club) – 5:30PM, Thursday, 29 October Agenda: 5:30PM – Social Hour 6:00PM – Lecture 7:30PM – Dinner with Speaker Payam Heydari – Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Irvine The vastly under-utilized spectrum across millimeter-wave (mm-wave) and terahertz (THz) …