Events

Co-sponsored by: IEEE Maine Section Since the discovery that electrical currents were important for cardiac function there has been intense interest in the development of cardiac electrical therapies. The most common cardiac electrical therapies today are pacing and defibrillation, which act to restore mechanical function and blood flow by correcting pathological electrical dysrhythmias. Each year over 100,000 implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) are implanted in the US alone, and despite significant research, both ICDs and noninvasive pacing therapies are limited by the common issue of pain. The pain of electrical therapies is a well-studied yet poorly-understood limitation that has created underserved clinical populations. My work to reduce pain uses biophysically detailed computational models, isolated muscle and heart preparations, and large animal in vivo experiments. A novel method to quantify pain in animals was developed based on extensive evidence suggesting that aberrant skeletal muscle contraction underlies shock-induced pain. This measurement, the rate of force development (RoFD), was then used to develop a novel waveform to reduce pain caused by defibrillation. I will discuss this prior work, other studies to reduce the pain of external cardiac pacing, and ongoing work to translate our findings to human clinical application. Speaker(s): Dr. David Hunter, Location: Bldg: ESRB/Barrows Hall Arthur St. John Hill Auditorium University of Maine Orono, Maine 04469

Co-sponsored by: IEEE NH EMBS Internet of Things (IoT) biosensors + Big Data. The talk outline follows.     Review IoT & bio sensors Review of Big Data Define Big Data Why do we care about it? Review technology domains such as NoSQL and NewSQL Discuss Fast Data as a subset of Big Data Fog Computing Azure Speaker(s): Stephen Dillion, Location: Room: 333 Bldg: Robert Frost Hall SNHU Campus Manchester , New Hampshire 03106

Co-sponsored by: IEEE NH EMBS Internet of Things (IoT) biosensors + Big Data. The talk outline follows.     Review IoT & bio sensors Review of Big Data Define Big Data Why do we care about it? Review technology domains such as NoSQL and NewSQL Discuss Fast Data as a subset of Big Data Fog Computing Azure Speaker(s): Stephen Dillion, Location: Room: 333 Bldg: Robert Frost Hall SNHU Campus Manchester , New Hampshire 03106

Co-sponsored by: Ed Nelson Executive Committee Meeting. Open to all IEEE members. Come out to learn about what's going on in the section. Agenda: Dinner at 6:00PM Call to Order at 6:30PM (Chair) Introductions Approve minutes from past meeting (Secretary) Agenda items requiring a vote - to be determined Old Business New Business Open Forum Discussion Location: Bldg: Great Buffet Restaurant 1525 South Willow Street Manchester, New Hampshire 03103

Co-sponsored by: Ed Nelson Executive Committee Meeting. Open to all IEEE members. Come out to learn about what's going on in the section. Agenda: Dinner at 6:00PM Call to Order at 6:30PM (Chair) Introductions Approve minutes from past meeting (Secretary) Agenda items requiring a vote - to be determined Old Business New Business Open Forum Discussion Location: Bldg: Great Buffet Restaurant 1525 South Willow Street Manchester, New Hampshire 03103

Luis Figarella, PE has over 20 years of experience as a practicing engineer and Patent Agent and is an author of books, articles, and courses, as well as an inventor with 14 issued US patents as a named inventor, and over 35 issued/allowed US Patents for his clients.  He will lead our discussion of Provisional Patents. Topics to be covered are: How an engineering notebook can be a liability to a client, How a provisional is NOT a disclosure, How a provisional supports a “Patent Applied For” Claim, How little a provisional can cost, etc. Location: Room: Conference Room Nashua Public Library 2 Court Street Nashua, New Hampshire 03060

Luis Figarella, PE has over 20 years of experience as a practicing engineer and Patent Agent and is an author of books, articles, and courses, as well as an inventor with 14 issued US patents as a named inventor, and over 35 issued/allowed US Patents for his clients.  He will lead our discussion of Provisional Patents. Topics to be covered are: How an engineering notebook can be a liability to a client, How a provisional is NOT a disclosure, How a provisional supports a “Patent Applied For” Claim, How little a provisional can cost, etc. Location: Room: Conference Room Nashua Public Library 2 Court Street Nashua, New Hampshire 03060

WIE / YP members and friends will hike Rattlesnake Mountain in Holderness New Hampshire.    Meet at the Rt 13 parking lot at noon.  Pack your own lunch.      This is about 1 mile hike to ledges overlooking Squam Lake.  Fall views are spectacular. Agenda: Meet at noon Saturday Oct 21 in the parking lot Hike 1 mile up the ledges Have lunch at the top of the mountain Location: Old Bridal Path Parking Lot Rt 113 Holderness, New Hampshire

Co-sponsored by: EMBS (New Hampshire/Green Mountain/Maine Jt Chap,EMB18) LIDAR systems use single-photon detectors to enable long-range reflectivity and depth imaging. By exploiting an inhomoheneous Poisson process observation model and the typical structure of natural scenes, first-photon imaging demonstrates the possibility of accurate LIDAR with only 1 detected photon per pixel, where half of the detections are due to (uninformative) ambient light. The speaker will explain the simple ideas behind first-photon imaging. Then he will touch upon related subsequent works that mitigate the limitations of detector arrays, withstand 25-times more ambient light, allow for unknown ambient light levels, and capture multiple depths per pixel. Related paper DOIs:10.1126/science.124677510.1109/TSP.2015.245309310.1109/LSP.2015.247527410.1364/OE.24.00187310.1038/ncomms1204610.1109/TSP.2017.2706028 Speaker(s): Dr. Vivek Goyal, Agenda: Presentation: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Questions: 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Optional dinner Location: Room: Large Meeting Room Bldg: Nashua Library 2 Court Street Nashua, New Hampshire 03060

Co-sponsored by: EMBS (New Hampshire/Green Mountain/Maine Jt Chap,EMB18) LIDAR systems use single-photon detectors to enable long-range reflectivity and depth imaging. By exploiting an inhomoheneous Poisson process observation model and the typical structure of natural scenes, first-photon imaging demonstrates the possibility of accurate LIDAR with only 1 detected photon per pixel, where half of the detections are due to (uninformative) ambient light. The speaker will explain the simple ideas behind first-photon imaging. Then he will touch upon related subsequent works that mitigate the limitations of detector arrays, withstand 25-times more ambient light, allow for unknown ambient light levels, and capture multiple depths per pixel. Related paper DOIs:10.1126/science.124677510.1109/TSP.2015.245309310.1109/LSP.2015.247527410.1364/OE.24.00187310.1038/ncomms1204610.1109/TSP.2017.2706028 Speaker(s): Dr. Vivek Goyal, Agenda: Presentation: 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Questions: 7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Optional dinner Location: Room: Large Meeting Room Bldg: Nashua Library 2 Court Street Nashua, New Hampshire 03060