Upcoming Events
IEEE Consultants Network Presents Being An Expert Witness (Oct. 10)
The IEEE Consultants Network is hosting a presentation by Paul Nichols of the Silicon Valley Expert Group called “Being an Expert Witness” at 6:15pm on October 10 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 covers a buffet. For more information, contact Maura Schreier-Fleming at 972-380-0200.
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IEEE Dallas Consumer Electronics Society Presents Home Networking for IP Video (Oct. 11)
The IEEE Dallas Consumer Electronics Society is hosting a presentation by Richard Nesin, president of HomePNA and vice president of marketing at Coppergate Communications at 11:30am on October 11 at the Texins Activity Center located inside TI North Campus. Home networking technology has become an integral part of the Residential Gateway boxes supplied by Service Providers. As TelCos and Satellite Providers introduce new services such as standard and high definition broadcast IP TV, VoIP and networked PVRs, the demands placed on the home network change significantly. As a result, service providers are looking to new high speed technology that operates reliably over existing in-home wiring to distribute the services. The session will discuss the requirements, features and performance of HomePNA3, currently being field trialed by major service providers for TelCo TV deployments in 2005, and compare it to other home networking technologies.
There is no cost, nor membership requirement to attend this meeting. For additional information, contact Will Lumpkins at 214-567-3333 xillia@ieee.org or Sam Broyles at 214-480-3232 sam.broyles@ti.com .
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Magnetic Nanoparticles & Nanocomposite Magnets (Oct. 12)
The University of Texas at Dallas Physics Colloquium is presenting a talk by Professor Ping Liu of The University of Texas at Arlington on Wednesday, October 12 at 4pm in the Kusch Auditorium (FN 2.102) on the UTD campus. He will be discussing magnetic nanoparticles and nanocomposite magnets.
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Information session on Professional Certificate Programs in Supply Chain Management, Product Lifecycle Management, Lean Six Sigma and Sourcing Management (Oct. 13)
The Center for Intelligent Supply Networks in the School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas is hosting an information session on the Supply Chain Management Master of Science and Professional Certificate Program Opportunities at 12noon on October 13 in the School of Management Room 1.502 on the UTD campus. For more information, call 972-883-4843.
To register for the Professional Certificate in Supply Chain Management, see https://mgmt.utdallas.edu/reg_forms/c4isn/c4isn_cert_scm_reg.php. To register for the Professional Certificate in Product Lifecycle Management, see http://som.utdallas.edu/c4isn/c4isn_programs_plm_cert.htm To register for the Lean Six Sigma – Green Belt Training , see https://mgmt.utdallas.edu/reg_forms/c4isn/c4isn_cert_sgb_reg.php To register for the Online Professional Certificate in Sourcing Management, see https://mgmt.utdallas.edu/reg_forms/c4isn/c4isn_cert_src_reg.php
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North Texas: From National Distribution Center to International Inland Port (Oct. 18)
Dallas City Councilman Bill Blaydes will be a featured participant in “DFW: From National Distribution Center to International Inland Port,” a one-day conference Oct. 18 sponsored by The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) School of Management’s Foreign Trade Institute.
“The focus of the International Trade Conference is to bring attention to the unique strengths of the North Texas region’s infrastructure of rail, air and interstate highways that can support an international inland port,” said John Fowler, director of Professional Development Programs at the UTD School of Management
Dallas city officials, led by Blaydes, have begun talks with Port of Houston officials to help clear Houston’s crowded docks by creating an inland port in southern Dallas County.
The inland port plan involves shipping maritime container cargoes by express rail from docks in Houston to Dallas for inspection, sorting and distribution.
A newly opened Union Pacific intermodal terminal in Hutchins and Wilmer is designed to handle 365,000 containers a year. The 360-acre terminal allows containers to be transferred from trains to trucks quickly and cost efficiently.
Dallas officials expect the inland port concept to attract warehousing and related industries to the city’s southern districts. Councilman Blaydes and consultant David Dean have approached companies such as Target Corp. with the idea of opening distribution warehouses near the inland port. The Port of Houston already is home to a large Home Depot warehouse, and Wal-Mart is building a similar facility there.
“In addition, the region has the legal, financial, education and distribution support infrastructure to assist companies in taking advantage of the international inland port,” Fowler said.
“Hosting this conference is a way of launching our Foreign Trade Institute and will help in gaining sponsors and visibility for this type of enterprise among the businesses that can benefit most from such a port,” said Dr. David Springate, associate dean for Executive Education at the UTD School of Management.
The cost of attending the seminar is $225. For more information, please contact John Fowler at 972-883-4697 or jfowler@utdallas.edu
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Society of Women Engineers October Meeting (Oct. 18)
The Girl Scout Ambassadors from the Tejas Council will be the guest speakers at the October Meeting of the Society of Women Engineers to be held at 6:15pm on Tuesday, October 18 at Nesley’s Restaurant at 1801 North Plano Road. .” For more information contact Jennifer Ray at jray@ppoinc.net or 214-226-6967.
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Nano Impact Summit (Oct. 19)
The Nano Science and Technology Institute, in alignment with the US government initiatives in Nanotechnology, is presenting an exclusive one-day showcase of the top commercial and technology successes impacting business and society stemming from nanotechnology. The Summit will be held on October 19 at the Hilton Alexandria Old Town Hotel in Washington, D.C.
This ascendant snapshot of nanotechnology successes will decisively illustrate program benefits to participants in the emerging IP and venture communities, the National Nanotech Initiative, the numerous participating funding agencies, academia, Congress, and the Administration in general. Attendance and participation will include leaders from funding agencies, public and private corporate executives, venture capital, licensing executives and leading technology providers and users. For more information or to register, see http://www.nsti.org/NanoImpact2005/
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U. T. Dallas to Host Conference On ‘New Era’ of Commercialization (Oct. 19-20)
Commercialization, that sometimes bewildering but nevertheless vital process of moving promising ideas from the laboratory to the marketplace, will be scrutinized at a conference next month at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) that will feature speakers from the nation’s top universities, as well as venture capitalists and industry research leaders.
The conference, titled “University-Sourced Commercialization – What Works?,” will be held Oct. 19-20 on the UTD campus in Richardson. The event will be co-sponsored by The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
The purpose of the conference is to “bring together leaders from the corporate and university communities for the purpose of discussing important issues related to university-sourced commercialization, with a strong emphasis on technology-transfer successes,” said Dr. Don Hicks, conference chair and a professor in UTD’s School of Social Sciences, one of three of the university’s schools involved in staging the event. The others are the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science and the School of Management.
“This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Bayh-Dole Act, which the U.S. Congress passed to enable and encourage research universities to commercialize discoveries made in their laboratories,” Hicks said. “Now, after a quarter century, it is time to identify and evaluate the successes created by this legislation and look ahead to a new era of commercialization.”
The Bayh-Dole legislation, named after the United States senators who sponsored it, created the modern legal structure for university commercialization, licensing and patenting, according to Hicks.
The two-day event will be organized around a series of four panels. Participants on the panels will include officials from leading universities – including Stanford University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Southern California and The University of Texas System – as well as other key figures in the technology-transfer field from businesses, venture capital firms and government.
Opening remarks will be made by W. Clark McFadden, partner, Dewey-Ballantine, and member of the steering committee for Government -Industry Partnership for the Development of New Technologies of the National Academy of Sciences. Two keynote addresses are scheduled – one will be delivered by Dr. “Desh” Deshpande, chairman and co-founder of Sycamore Networks and founder of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT, the other by Dr. Stan Williams, Senior Hewlett Packard Fellow and director of quantum science research at HP Labs.
The conference is open to members of the public. The cost to attend is $100 per person for those who register before Sept. 30 and $150 after that date. For additional information, visit the conference web site at http://www.ecs.utdallas.edu/usc/, or contact UTD’s Theresa Dolan at 972-883-4315 or theresa.dolan@utdallas.edu. Conference attendance will be limited to 250 people.
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The Brain: An Owner's Guide – Insights into Senior Moments (Oct. 25)
Dr. John Hart, Jr. is giving the third in the The Brain: An Owner’s Guide series at 7:00pm on October 25 at the Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas’ Fogelson Auditorium located at 8200 Walnut Hill Lane, in Dallas. There is $25 charge to attend. Do you wonder why you forget the name of something at a critical time and hope that it will "pop" into your mind before embarrassment arises? These "senior moments" occur due to asynchrony in the brain cells that retrieve the stored information for objects such as features, categories, emotions and labels. When the brain synchronizes the stored information, you feel the name of what you were trying to remember "pop back in", hopefully just in the nick of time. For further information or to reserve a seat, contact Jennifer Zientz at 214-905-3007 or online at www.centerforbrainhealth.org. The presentation is sponsored by Center for BrainHealth at The University of Texas at Dallas & the Neuroscience Center at Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas.
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Building A Medical Product Development Services Company In North Texas (Nov. 9)
The Dallas Forum for BioMedical Technology is presenting a talk by Courtland Imel, the founder of Ceutical Laboratories, Inc on November 9. Ceutical Laboratories (CL) specializes in clinical good manufacturing practice (cGMP) compliance. CL is a full service company offering both regulatory and laboratory testing capabilities for its clients. The industries CL serves include Pharmaceuticals (including OTC), Medical Devices, Nutraceuticals, Pet Products, Recruiting, and Cosmetics. Their focus is quality--that's why CL launched the Ceutical Labs Certification Program for manufacturers and suppliers. Details to follow.
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IITNT Conference: The Rebounding Knowledge Economy - Global Trends and Opportunities (Nov. 12)
The Indian Institute of Technology Alumni Association of North Texas, (IITNT) based in the D/FW metroplex area, is organizing a one day conference on Nov. 12 th titled “The Rebounding Knowledge Economy - Global Trends and Opportunities” in the School of Engineering and Computer Science on The University of Texas at Dallas campus.
The goal of the conference is to bring technology, business, and policy leaders together to explore the opportunities and examine the challenges created by the rebounding regional and global knowledge-based economy, and discuss how it is being impacted by an increasingly globalized ( a.k.a. “flat”) world. The conference will provide a forum to discuss strategies for entrepreneurs and professionals in the D/FW community to deal with change and successfully thrive in this rebounding environment. Policy leaders will get a chance to feel the pulse of the rebounding tech industry; they can then use this information for formulating progressive policies that will cement gains made by this rebounding economy.
The tentative list of scheduled speakers and panelists for the conference include Dr. Krish Prabhu, former CEO of Alcatel USA, and former venture partner at Morgenthaler Ventures, as well as current CEO of Tellabs, Mr. Suresh Shenoy, EVP of IMC, Inc. and conference chair of IIT2005 held in May in Washington, D.C., Mr. Pawan Kumar, CEO of vMoksha Technologies, and former President of IBM Global Services’ India Operations. For more information, see www.iitnt.org.
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Seminar Series for Life-long Learners: Teachers – Inquiry in the Science Classroom (Nov. 14)
The Center for Science Education Research at The University of Texas at Dallas is hosting the next in its seminar series for life-long learners with a presentation by Barbara Curry at 6pm on Monday, November 14 at Conference Center Room 1.112 at The University of Texas at Dallas. The 1996 National Science Education Standards define scientific inquiry as a set of interrelated processes by which scientists and students pose questions about the natural world and investigate phenomena. Since publication of the standards, implementation of inquiry-based science instruction has been emphasized. Teacher has struggled, in part due to the difficulty of finding a good teaching model, but also as a result of test-driven curricula. This presentation will help hive teachers a better idea of what inquiry-based science instruction looks like and how it can work in their classroom. This event is free and open to all. For more information, call 972-883-2496.
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Society of Women Engineering Meeting: Combining Work and Family (Nov. 15)
Jolynn Perkins of Perkins and Associates is the guest speaker for the November 15 meeting of the Society of Women Engineers at 6:15pm on Tuesday, November 15 at Nesley’s Restaurant at 1801 North Plano Road. She will be discussing “Combining Work and Family.” For more information contact Jennifer Ray at jray@ppoinc.net or 214-226-6967.
