Upcoming Events
IEEE Consultants Network Meeting: Integrating Your Web Site with a Marketing Program (June 13)
IEEE Consultants Network group is hosting a presentation by Bud Browne, president of GrowthNet at 6:15pm on June 13 at the Holiday Inn Select located at 1655 North Central Expressway in Richardson. There is a $5 charge for IEEE members and a $15 charge for non-members which includes a buffet. For more information call 972-380-0200.
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BioDFW Breakfast Series: "ODC Therapy, Inc." (June 16)
The BioDFW Breakfast Series is having its June presentation at 7:30am on Thursday, June 16 at the UT Southwestern Medical Center A.W. Harris Faculty - Alumni Center, located at 5323 Harry Hines Blvd in Dallas. Thomas Turpen, president and CEO of ODC Therapy Inc. will be discussing the company. There is no cost to attend. RSVP at www.dallaschamber.org/calendar.html, info@biodfw.org or 214-712-1922.
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RFID Tribe: Surface Acoustic Wave Technology and RFID (June 17)
The RFID Tribe’s Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter is having a meeting at 11:30am on June 17 at Matrix Resources located at 4851 LBJ Freeway, Suite 700. Clinton Hartmann, the CEO of RFSAW Inc. will be discussion several topics regarding SAW Technology and RFID, including the best uses of SAW and market adoption. There is a $25 charge for members and a $30 for non-members. For more information, see http://www.rfidtribe.com/event.html
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Interference Characteristic of Various Ultrawideband (UWB) Modulations (June 21)
The MIT Enterprise Forum of Dallas-Fort Worth, Inc. and the IEEE-CVT will present Interference Characteristics of Various Ultrawideband (UWB) Modulations, June 21, 2005 at a luncheon meeting at the Holiday Inn Select, 1655 N. Central Expressway in Richardson, Texas. The luncheon starts at 11:00 a.m., the networking session at 11:30 a.m., and the main presentation will be from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. The luncheon costs $5 for IEEE members and MIT Forum invitees, $10 for non-members, and free to full- time students and life members of the IEEE. No reservations are necessary but seating is limited to the first 150 people who arrive. For information: 972- 377-4554, mitforum@juno.com, or go to www.mitforum.com or www.cvt-dallas.org.
The UWB program will be presented by John D. Terry, Ph.D., director of baseband systems engineering at WiQuest Communications, Inc. based in Allen, Texas. The networking program, Getting What You Want: Persuasive Communications for Highly Technical People, will be presented by Mary Swensen, APR, a public relations consultant and principal at Swensen Communications in Plano, Texas.
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Conference to Examine Consciousness, the Unconscious, and What Lies Between (June 24-27)
How do you recognize consciousness?
We all know about the complex, embittered Terri Schiavo court battle that was waged over right-to-die issues. Some believed that Schiavo was a severely brain-damaged woman with an irreversible condition--in a persistent vegetative state with no hope of recovery. Others maintained that Schiavo could benefit from rehabilitation. Since the Schiavo case, the question of exactly what consciousness is has become perhaps even more perplexing. This question, along with many other issues in neuroscience, will be discussed at the ninth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC). The conference will take place from June 24 to 27 at the California Institute of Technology. For ASSC membership information, contact Patrick Wilken at pwilken@gmail.com.
Some of the world's leading experts in consciousness from Caltech, the Salk Institute, the University of Sussex, Oxford University, Harvard Medical School, Insitut Pasteur, UC Davis, and UC Berkeley will deliver presentations on the most advanced research findings in the field.
The ASSC conference will promote interdisciplinary dialogue from the perspectives of neuroscience, psychology, philosophy and ethics, computer science, and cognitive ethology. Discussion topics include the following titles: "Emerging Ethical Issues in Consciousness Research," "Emotion, Feeling, and the Brain," "A Brain-Body Perspective on Pain," " Investigating Neuronal Correlates of Conscious Visual Perception," and "Color and Consciousness."
The public is invited to attend the conference. The cost is $300 for non-ASSC members. The cost for student ASSC members is $140. The media is welcome to attend at no cost.
For a complete conference schedule and registration information, go to http://assc.caltech.edu/assc9/.
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RFIS Technology and Sensors in Healthcare (June 29)
The MedTech Quarterly Breakfast Series continues on June 29 at 7am at the Embassy Suites Frisco Conference Center located at 7600 John Q. Hammons Drive in Frisco. The interactive discussion will include area leaders from Texas Instruments, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, Stryker, Caducys and GlobeRanger. This event will be the first in a quarterly series of breakfast meetings focused on the opportunities and challenges of growing medical technologies and the broader life sciences in North Texas.
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CE Mark/CC Seminar (July 20)
The US Department of Commerce, Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce, International Trade Center SBDC and Duquesne University-CITRA are presenting a CE Mark/CCC Seminar at 7:30am on July 20 at the InfoMart, located at 1950 Stemmons Freeway in Dallas. This seminar will provide hands-on-training on how to export medical devices to Europe or China and the CE and CCC regulatory requirements. There is a $60 charge to attend the entire day or $35 to attend half the day. For more information see www.dallaschamber.org.
