BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250309T030000 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:20250131T222120Z UID:1E68C446-3D49-49A8-9E99-71ADAB79A825 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T174500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250128T210000 DESCRIPTION:Join us TUESDAY JANUARY 28\, at 6:00 PM at SCHULZ BRAU BREWING COMPANY 126 Bernard Ave\, Knoxville\, TN 37917 for an IEEE East Tennessee Section meeting.\n\nThomas "Tom" Karnowski\, the current East Tennessee Se ction Chair\, will introduce the agenda. We will have a brief introduction for each of our election nominees\; Tristen Mullin\, Ph.D.\, will brief o n our new Young Professionals Affinity Group\; Abhilasha Saroj\, Ph.D.\, w ill discuss our new Transportation Electrification Council East Tennessee Chapter\; and finally\, our technical speaker will be Maria Mahbub\, Ph.D. \, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory whose talk will be “Beyond the Black Box: Harnessing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Smarter AI”.\n\nRegi stration is open to all section members including students\, but is limite d to 34 people due the meeting space size. We will be meeting in the mezza nine area\, which we have reserved. Dinner will be provided from Schulz Br au (an assortment of pizzas) and drinks will be available for your purchas e from SCHULZ BRAU. Please sign up soon and indicate any dietary considera tions.\n\nFree parking is available across the street\, on Bernard Ave\, a nd in the Knox County Health Dept. parking lot (intersection of Cleveland Place and Bernard Ave) which adjoins SCHULZ BRAU's across-the-street parki ng.\n\nWe look forward to meeting you all and working together to revitali ze our section!\n\nRegards\,\nAustin Albright\, IEEE East TN Section Treas urer\n\nAgenda: \n- Introductions by Section Chair Tom Karnowski.\n- We wi ll have a brief introduction for/from each of our nominees for the up comi ng section officers.\n- Tristen Mullins will brief on our new Young Profes sionals Affinity Group.\n- Abhilasha Saroj will discuss our new Transporta tion Electrification Council East Tennessee Chapter.\n- Finally\, our tech nical speaker will be Maria Mahbub\, Ph.D.\, of Oak Ridge National Laborat ory with a talk tilted “Beyond the Black Box: Harnessing Retrieval-Augme nted Generation for Smarter AI”.\n\nSCHULZ BRAU BREWING COMPANY \, 126 B ernard Ave\, Knoxville\, Tennessee\, United States\, 37917 LOCATION:SCHULZ BRAU BREWING COMPANY \, 126 Bernard Ave\, Knoxville\, Tenne ssee\, United States\, 37917 ORGANIZER:karnowskitp@ieee.org SEQUENCE:14 SUMMARY:East TN IEEE Section Meeting and Technical Talk - January 28\, 2025 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/460890 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p class="MsoNormal">Join us TUESDAY JANUARY 28\, at 6:00 PM at SCHULZ BRAU BREWING COMPANY 126 Bernard Ave\, Knoxville \, TN 37917 for an IEEE East Tennessee Section meeting.</p>\n<p class="Mso Normal">Thomas "Tom" Karnowski\, the current East Tennessee Section Chair\ , will introduce the agenda.&nbsp\; We will have a brief introduction for each of our election nominees\; Tristen Mullin\, Ph.D.\, will brief on our new Young Professionals Affinity Group\; Abhilasha Saroj\, Ph.D.\,&nbsp\; will discuss our new Transportation Electrification Council East Tennesse e Chapter\; &nbsp\;and finally\, our technical speaker will be Maria Mahbu b\, Ph.D.\, of Oak Ridge National Laboratory whose talk will be &ldquo\;Be yond the Black Box: Harnessing Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Smarter AI&rdquo\;.</p>\n<p class="MsoNormal">Registration is open to all section members including students\, but is limited to 34 people due the meeting s pace size.&nbsp\; We will be meeting in the mezzanine area\, which we have reserved.&nbsp\; Dinner will be provided from Schulz Brau (an assortment of pizzas) and drinks will be available for your purchase from SCHULZ BRAU . Please sign up soon and indicate any dietary considerations.</p>\n<p cla ss="MsoNormal">Free parking is available across the street\, on Bernard Av e\, and in the Knox County Health Dept. parking lot (intersection of Cleve land Place and Bernard Ave) which adjoins SCHULZ BRAU's across-the-street parking.</p>\n<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to meeting you all and working together to revitalize our section!<br><br>Regards\,<br>Austin Alb right\, IEEE East TN Section Treasurer</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><ul>\n <li>Introductions by Section Chair Tom Karnowski.</li>\n<li>We will have a brief introduction for/from each of our nominees for the up coming sectio n officers.</li>\n<li>Tristen Mullins will brief on our new Young Professi onals Affinity Group.</li>\n<li>Abhilasha Saroj will discuss our new Trans portation Electrification Council East Tennessee Chapter.</li>\n<li>Finall y\, our technical speaker will be Maria Mahbub\, Ph.D.\, of Oak Ridge Nati onal Laboratory with a talk tilted &ldquo\;Beyond the Black Box: Harnessin g Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Smarter AI&rdquo\;.</li>\n</ul> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR