BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Montreal BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20241109T005747Z UID:8395246A-E835-429D-86A0-49C89F34F04E DTSTART;TZID=America/Montreal:20241021T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Montreal:20241025T235900 DESCRIPTION:The Montreal Chapter of Control Systems (CS) cordially invites you to attend the second CSS Day on October 21-25\, 2024. The theme for th is CSS Day is "Control Enabling a Carbon Neutral World”. CSS Day is a se ries of events celebrating CSS's impact on technology\, education\, and so ciety. It is dedicated to reaching out and engaging our community and is d esignated to expand CSS visibility and diversity. Through week-long activi ties\, our community will showcase CSS research themes\, membership activi ties\, and outreach and diversity progress\n------------------------------ ---------------------------------\n\nCSS Day Details\n\nVarious online and in-person events have been planned to bring the community together to con nect\, reflect\, and celebrate.\n\nCSS Day events\n\nPresidents' round tab le\n\nA round table chaired by CSS President Magnus Egerstedt\, with the p articipation of past CSS presidents sharing their perspectives on the past \, present\, and future of CSS\, will kick off the CSS Day on a high note. \nControl history forum: Led by Prof. Alberto Isidori\, the CSS History St anding Committee chair\, this forum will walk us through the history lane of our field.\n\nTechnical Sessions sponsored by IEEE CSS Technical Commit tees with many addressing the theme of the event\n\nOver the week\, select ed webinars featuring research groups around the world will showcase proje cts that are representative of CSS impact. Research groups from Asia\, Nor th America\, Europe\, and Australia will tell their stories.\n\nChapter/me mbership activities\n\nChapters will organize local outreach activities\, seminars or workshops\, industry visits or showcases\, competitions\, or s tudent events — with the opportunity to share them with the entire CSS c ommunity.\nAn industry session including industry panelists from around th e world. A student oriented session\n\nThe planning of the CSS Day is unde rway\n\nLed by a task force with the following members leading different a ctivities:\n\n- Ian Petersen (CSS VPTA\, chair)\n- Kristin Pettersen (CSS VPMA\, co-chair)\n- Afef Fekih (Women in Engineering\, WiC)\n- Jonathan Ho w (CSS VPFA)\n- Magnus Egerstedt (CSS President)\n- Fabio Pasqueletti (Web )\n- Rush Patel (Young Professionals\, Industry)\n- Jing Sun (Previous CSS VPTA)\n- Guoqiang Hu (Chapter Activities)\n\nAll events will be free for participants\, but will require registration. Please check the CSS Day web site for updates as the details unfold\, and contact Ian Petersen (i.r.pet ersen@gmail.com) or anyone on the Task Force with your ideas and questions .\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/439978 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/439978 ORGANIZER:aghdam@encs.concordia.ca SEQUENCE:13 SUMMARY:IEEE CSS Day 2024 - Control Enabling a Carbon Neutral World URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/439978 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p style="text-align: justify\;">The Montreal Chapter of Control Systems (CS) cordially invites you to attend the secon d CSS Day on October 21-25\, 2024. The theme for this CSS Day is "Control Enabling a Carbon Neutral World&rdquo\;. CSS Day is a series of events cel ebrating CSS's impact on technology\, education\, and society. It is dedic ated to reaching out and engaging our community and is designated to expan d CSS visibility and diversity. Through week-long activities\, our communi ty will showcase CSS research themes\, membership activities\, and outreac h and diversity progress</p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong>CSS Day Details</strong></ h2>\n<p class="font-medium">Various online and in-person events have been planned to bring the community together to connect\, reflect\, and celebra te.</p>\n<h3><strong>CSS Day events</strong></h3>\n<p><strong>Presidents' round table</strong></p>\n<p>A round table chaired by CSS President Magnus Egerstedt\, with the participation of past CSS presidents sharing their p erspectives on the past\, present\, and future of CSS\, will kick off the CSS Day on a high note.<br>Control history forum: Led by Prof. Alberto Isi dori\, the CSS History Standing Committee chair\, this forum will walk us through the history lane of our field.</p>\n<p><strong>Technical Sessions sponsored by IEEE CSS Technical Committees with many addressing the theme of the event</strong></p>\n<p>Over the week\, selected webinars featuring research groups around the world will showcase projects that are represent ative of CSS impact. Research groups from Asia\, North America\, Europe\, and Australia will tell their stories.</p>\n<p><strong>Chapter/membership activities</strong></p>\n<p>Chapters will organize local outreach activiti es\, seminars or workshops\, industry visits or showcases\, competitions\, or student events &mdash\; with the opportunity to share them with the en tire CSS community.<br>An industry session including industry panelists fr om around the world. A student oriented session</p>\n<h3>The planning of t he CSS Day is underway</h3>\n<p>Led by a task force with the following mem bers leading different activities:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ian Petersen (CSS VPTA\, chair)</li>\n<li>Kristin Pettersen (CSS VPMA\, co-chair)</li>\n<li>Afef F ekih (Women in Engineering\, WiC)</li>\n<li>Jonathan How (CSS VPFA)</li>\n <li>Magnus Egerstedt (CSS President)</li>\n<li>Fabio Pasqueletti (Web)</li >\n<li>Rush Patel (Young Professionals\, Industry)</li>\n<li>Jing Sun (Pre vious CSS VPTA)</li>\n<li>Guoqiang Hu (Chapter Activities)</li>\n</ul>\n<p ><br>All events will be free for participants\, but will require registrat ion. Please check the CSS Day website for updates as the details unfold\, and contact Ian Petersen (<a href="mailto:i.r.petersen@gmail.com">i.r.pete rsen@gmail.com</a>) or anyone on the Task Force with your ideas and questi ons.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR