Co-sponsored by: IEEE Photonics Society. Optica. Optonique. COPL. McGill Univeristy. Université Laval. Ansys. Montréal, Quebec, Canada

More info will come soo. This event will be held virtual from coast to coast. Speaker(s): Jason Gu, ANADER BENYAMIN-SEEYAR Montreal, Quebec, Canada

More info will come soo. This event will be held virtual from coast to coast. Speaker(s): Jason Gu, ANADER BENYAMIN-SEEYAR Montreal, Quebec, Canada

More info will come soo. This event will be held virtual from coast to coast. Speaker(s): Jason Gu, ANADER BENYAMIN-SEEYAR Montreal, Quebec, Canada

More info will come soo. This event will be held virtual from coast to coast. Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Although unique potentials of terahertz waves for chemical identification, material characterization, biological sensing, and medical imaging have been recognized for quite a while, the relatively poor performance, higher costs, and bulky nature of current terahertz systems continue to impede their deployment in field settings. In this talk, I will describe some of our recent results on developing fundamentally new terahertz electronic/optoelectronic components and imaging/spectrometry architectures to mitigate performance limitations of existing terahertz systems. In specific, I will introduce new designs of high-performance photoconductive terahertz sources that utilize plasmonic nanoantennas to offer terahertz radiation at record-high power levels of several milliwatts – demonstrating more than three orders of magnitude increase compared to the state of the art. I will describe that the unique capabilities of these plasmonic nanoantennas can be further extended to develop terahertz detectors and heterodyne spectrometers with quantum-level detection sensitivities over a broad terahertz bandwidth at room temperatures, which has not been possible through existing technologies. To achieve this significant performance improvement, plasmonic antennas and device architectures are optimized for operation at telecommunication wavelengths, where very high power, narrow linewidth, wavelength tunable, compact and cost-effective optical sources are commercially available. Therefore, our results pave the way to compact and low-cost terahertz sources, detectors, and spectrometers that could offer numerous opportunities for e.g., medical imaging and diagnostics, atmospheric sensing, pharmaceutical quality control, and security screening systems. And finally, I will briefly highlight our research activities on development of new types of high-performance terahertz passive components (e.g., modulators, tunable filters, and beam deflectors) based on novel reconfigurable meta-films. Co-sponsored by: STARaCOM (Montreal) Speaker(s): Mona Jarrahi, Gunes Karabulut Kurt Agenda: 03:45 PM - 04:00 PM: Connecting to Zoom and welcoming the participants 04:00 PM - 04:05 PM: Workshop and Speaker introduction by chair of Terahertz Days workshop Series, Dr. Gunes Karabulut Kurt 04:05 PM - 05:05 PM: Talk by Prof. Mona Jarrahi 05:05 PM - 05:30 PM: Q & A session Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Event to introduce the 3GPP standardization process and discuss the existing and future specifications for 5G New Radio. The fifth and latest generation of cellular mobile communication protocols (5G) is meant to address use cases well beyond the next decade. The first set of technical specifications for 5G, also referred to as “New Radio” or NR in 3GPP, were completed as part of 3GPP Release 15. The standardization work for 5G NR continues and new features are continuously added to address more advanced use cases and verticals. This presentation will provide an overview of the standardization process in 3GPP and an overview of the technical features for Release 16 and Release 17 of the specifications. The presentation will conclude with an outlook of future wireless evolution. Speaker(s): Benoît Pelletier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Event Description IEEE Montreal Section and IEEE Montreal Industry Relations Committee are very pleased to invite you to attend the 8th edition of IEEE Research Boost event that will be held ONLINE, on November 17th, 2021, 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM. The event aims to foster collaborative research projects and networking among the industry, government and academia. It is an evening event during which invited experts and leaders from the industry, government and academia will present some of the state-of-the-art innovations in their field of expertise. A 3-minute presentation competition is available to offer a great opportunity for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows to present the significance of their research work to the industry and a distinguished judging panel. Three prizes of values $300, $200 and $100 will be offered to the best three presentations in this competition. Event Subjects - 5G - Artificial Intelligence - Smart Cities - Cloud Computing - Signal Processing - Computer Vision - Biomedical Engineering - Circuits & Systems Registration Please note that registration is free. Please follow the instructions here: (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-eighth-ieee-research-boost-registration-195616663707) Abstract Submission - Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows who are interested to participate in the 3-minute presentation session should submit an abstract of length not more than 550 words for their research work. - The abstract should be self-contained and discuss critically the motivation, problem statement, as well as the proposed scheme and its applications. - The authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to submit their photos and short biographies, and they will be provided with important guidelines for the presentation. - All abstracts should be submitted through the URL of Research Boost 2021 at Microsoft conference management toolkit (CMT) website: (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IEEEResearchBoost2021). - Steps: (1) Create New Account. (2) Logout. (3) Login by using the URL of (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/IEEEResearchBoost2021/Submission/Index). (4) Select a track, and then create a new submission. Important Dates - Abstract submission deadline: Nov. 12th, 2021 (EDT) - Registration closes: Nov. 15th, 2021 Organization Committee - Dr. Hamidreza Sadreazami, Section Chair, IEEE Montreal - Dr. Marzieh Amini, Chair of IEEE Montreal Industry Relations Committee - Mr. Raphael Tana, Vice-Chair of IEEE Montreal Industry Relations Committee - Dr. Omid Saatlou, Co-Chair of Event Coordinator Team, IEEE Montreal IRC - Ms. Razieh Hassanshahi, Co-Chair of Event Coordinator Team, IEEE Montreal IRC - Dr. Hamed Abdzadeh, Co-Chair of Publicity Team, IEEE Montreal IRC - Dr. Ali Mohebbi, Co-Chair of Publicity Team, IEEE Montreal IRC Co-sponsored by: IEEE Montreal Section, IEEE Montreal Industry Relations Committee and the Montreal Chapters of IEEE ComSoc, CAS, and TEMS Agenda: Agenda 18:00 Session 1: Welcome Speech from the IEEE Montreal IRC 18:05 Session 2: Invited Keynote Speakers 19:15 Session 3: 3-minute Presentation Competition 20:15 Session 4: Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks Speakers: Dr. Isar Nejadgholi, Research Officer at (https://nrc.canada.ca/en) Talk Title: Confronting Online Abuse with Natural Language Processing Bio: Dr. Isar Nejadgholi is a Research Scientist at the National Research Council Canada and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa. She has 20 years of experience designing and deploying machine learning systems in various applications, including biomedical signal, image, speech and text processing, in academic and industrial environments. Her current research focuses on applying deep learning models to Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks, mainly medical and social media text analysis. Dr. Nejadgholi is specifically interested in improving the trustworthiness of NLP systems through mitigation of algorithmic biases, preserving the privacy of the data owners and providing explanations to the end-users. Dr. Jiho Cho, Co-Founder & VP Advanced Research at (https://www.airy3d.com/) Joint Talk Title: Transmissive diffraction masks: A passive RGBD machine vision solution Bio: Dr. Jiho Cho is a computer vision and machine learning scientist with more than 10 years of experience on designing and implementing software algorithm with a focus on depth sensing and processing. He is a Co-Founder & VP Advanced Research at Airy3D Inc. in Montreal, Canada. Airy 3D Inc. is building a depth camera that is underpinned by a transmissive diffraction mask (TDM) made with standard semiconductor technology. At Airy3D, he founded computer vision and machine learning (CVML) group and has been leading the group to develop novel algorithms to estimate depth information. He holds a PhD in Information and Mechatronics (GIST, Korea), with stints at ETHZ Zurich, the University of Tokyo and Vienna University of Technology. He published more than 20 high-impact scientific papers and 3 international and national patents. Pier-Luc Tardif, Director of Business Development at (https://www.airy3d.com/) Joint Talk Title: Transmissive diffraction masks: A passive RGBD machine vision solution Bio: Pier-Luc has been a part of AIRY3D’s team for almost 3 years, initially as an imaging scientist. He is now director of business development and leads the effort of generating interest for the company in the automotive, industrial, and mobile sectors. He graduated from École Polytechnique de Montréal with a master’s degree in biomedical engineering, focused on Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and other bio-photonics techniques, such as Raman spectroscopy and fluorescence confocal microscopy. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Université de Montréal. Dr. Yasaman Soudagar, CEO & Co-founder at (https://www.neurescence.com/new/) Talk Title: Simultaneous multi-region imaging of the brain of rodents during their naturalistic behavior and with neuronal resolution Bio: Soudagar holds a PhD in the field of experimental quantum optics, with focus on quantum computing. Her rigorous training enabled her to invent the optical technology of Neurescence that helps bridging this knowledge gap. Since 2015, Soudagar has raised investment from experts in both neuroscience/neurosurgery and optical fields and attracted a passionate team of individuals with deep business and technical expertise in the field. Under her leadership and in just 3 years, Neurescence has launched Quartet® – a complete hardware/software product – and will soon launch a second product, called the ChromatoneTM, which enables unprecedented insight in contribution of various types of neurons to local and long range neuronal circuitries, in relation to behavior or disease. Soudagar’s mission is to optimize therapies for the brain and the spinal cord diseases and she aims to achieve this though Neurescence makes cutting edge technologies available to scientists to push the boundaries of scientific understanding of the central nervous system. Montreal, Quebec, Canada

In this session, we are going to cover the theoretical background of INN, how it works, and a hands-on session with Python and Google Colab. Agenda: ▸Introduction ▸Neural Networks: A Motivation (5 Min) ▸Theoretical Background (5 Min) ▸Invertible Neural Networks (INN) (10 Min) ▸Applications of INN (5 Min) ▸Break (5 Min) ▸Hands-on Session With Python (60 Min) Montreal, Quebec, Canada