BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Canada/Eastern BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20170312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20171105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20170913T134129Z UID:7A09C18B-97D1-11E7-8752-0050568D2FB3 DTSTART;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20170926T150000 DTEND;TZID=Canada/Eastern:20170926T160000 DESCRIPTION:The IEEE Toronto Section and University of Toronto – ECE are inviting all interested IEEE members and other engineers\, technologists a nd students to our Distinguished Lecture:\n\nMolecular Communication in Mo bile Systems\n\nProf. Robert Schober\n\nInstitute for Digital Communicatio ns\n\n[Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg](https://scholar. google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=3435058929645828923)\, Ger many\n\nWeb: http://www.idc.lnt.de/en/mitarbeiter/lehrstuhlleitung/schober /\n\nDate: Tuesday Sep. 26th\, 2017.\n\nTime: 3:00-4:00pm.\n\nLocation: Un iversity of Toronto\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St Geor ge St\, Toronto\, ON M5S 2E4\n\nRoom: BA 2165\n\nContact: Arin Minasian ar in.minasian@ieee.org Event Link: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/45777\n\ nTalk Abstract:\n\nMolecular communication (MC) is an emerging research ar ea offering many interesting and challenging new research problems for com munication engineers\, biologists\, chemists\, and physicists. MC is widel y considered to be an attractive option for communication between nanodevi ces such as (possibly artificial) cells and nanosensors. Possible applicat ions of the resulting nanonetworks include targeted drug delivery\, health monitoring\, environmental monitoring\, and "bottom-up” manufacturing. In this talk\, we give first a brief introduction to MC and nanonetworking . The main focus of the talk is on stochastic channel modelling for mobile MC systems where the transmitter and/or receiver are not fixed but move s ubject to diffusion and flow. Metrics such as the mean\, autocorrelation f unction\, and\nprobability density function of the channel impulse respons e will be investigated and the notion of coherence time in MC is introduce d. Subsequently\, the implications of time-variant channels for MC\nsystem design are studied\, and corresponding channel estimation and non-coheren t detection schemes are developed. The talk concludes with a summary of po tential topics for future work.\n\nSpeaker Bio:\n\nRobert Schober (S'98\, M'01\, SM'08\, F'10) was born in Neuendettelsau\, Germany\, in 1971. He re ceived the Diplom (Univ.) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU)\, Germa ny\, in 1997 and 2000\, respectively. From May\n2001 to April 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto\, Canada\, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From 2002-2011\, he was a Pr ofessor at the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, Vancouver\, Canada. Since January 2012 he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professor and the Chair for Digital Communication at FAU. His research interests fall into the br oad areas of Communication Theory\, Wireless Communications\, and Statisti cal Signal Processing.\n\nDr. Schober received several awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Science Found ation (DFG)\, the 2004 Innovations Award of the Vodafone Foundation for Re search in Mobile Communications\, the 2006 UBC Killam Research Prize\, the 2007 Wilhelm\nFriedrich Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humbol dt Foundation\, the 2008 Charles McDowell Award for Excellence in Research from UBC\, a 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Professorship\, and a 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship. In addition\, he received several best paper aw ards. Dr.\nSchober is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada. From 2012-2015 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He is\ncurr ently the Chair of the Steering Committee of the new Communication Society (ComSoc) journal IEEE Transactions on Molecular\, Biological and Multisca le Communication and serves on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of t he IEEE. Furthermore\, he is a Member-at-Large of the Board of Governors a nd a Distinguished Lecturer of ComSoc.\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Robert Shober\ , \, Prof. Robert Shober\, \n\nRoom: BA 2165\, Bldg: Bahen Centre for Info rmation Technology\, University of Toronto\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, O ntario\, Canada\, M5S 2E4 LOCATION:Room: BA 2165\, Bldg: Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, Un iversity of Toronto\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, M5S 2 E4 ORGANIZER:arin.minasian@ieee.org SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:ComSoc Distinguished Lecture: Molecular Communication in Mobile Sys tems URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/47028 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The IEEE Toronto Section and University of Toronto &ndash\; ECE are inviting all interested IEEE members and other e ngineers\, technologists and students to our Distinguished Lecture:</p>\n< p><strong>Molecular Communication in Mobile Systems</strong></p>\n<p><stro ng>Prof. Robert Schober</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Institute for&nbsp\;Digit al Communications</strong></p>\n<p><strong><a href="https://scholar.google .com/citations?view_op=view_org&amp\;hl=en&amp\;org=3435058929645828923">F riedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg</a>\, Germany</strong></p >\n<p><strong>Web:&nbsp\; http://www.idc.lnt.de/en/mitarbeiter/lehrstuhlle itung/schober/</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>D ate: </strong>Tuesday Sep. 26<sup>th</sup>\, 2017.</p>\n<p><strong>Time:</ strong> 3:00-4:00pm.</p>\n<p><strong>Location:</strong> University of Toro nto\, Bahen Centre for Information Technology\, 40 St George St\, Toronto\ , ON M5S 2E4</p>\n<p><strong>Room:</strong> <strong>BA 2165</strong></p>\n <p><strong>Contact:</strong> Arin Minasian <a href="mailto:arin.minasian@i eee.org">arin.minasian@ieee.org</a> <strong>Event Link:</strong> https://e vents.vtools.ieee.org/m/45777</p>\n<p><strong>Talk Abstract:</strong></p>\ n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>Molecular communication (MC) is an em erging research area offering many interesting and challenging new researc h problems for communication engineers\, biologists\, chemists\, and physi cists. MC is widely considered to be an attractive option for communicatio n between nanodevices such as (possibly artificial) cells and nanosensors. Possible applications of the resulting nanonetworks include targeted drug delivery\, health monitoring\, environmental monitoring\, and "bottom-up& rdquo\; manufacturing. In this talk\, we give first a brief introduction t o MC and nanonetworking. The main focus of the talk is on stochastic chann el modelling for mobile MC systems where the transmitter and/or receiver a re not fixed but move subject to diffusion and flow. Metrics such as the m ean\, autocorrelation function\, and<br /> probability density function of the channel impulse response will be investigated and the notion of coher ence time in MC is introduced. Subsequently\, the implications of time-var iant channels for MC<br /> system design are studied\, and corresponding c hannel estimation and non-coherent detection schemes are developed. The ta lk concludes with a summary of potential topics for future work.&nbsp\;</p >\n<p><strong>Speaker Bio:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Robert Schober</strong > (S'98\, M'01\, SM'08\, F'10) was born in Neuendettelsau\, Germany\, in 1 971. He received the Diplom (Univ.) and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical en gineering from the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (FA U)\, Germany\, in 1997 and 2000\, respectively. From May<br /> 2001 to Apr il 2002 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto\, Canada \, sponsored by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). From 2002-201 1\, he was a Professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC)\, Vanco uver\, Canada. Since January 2012 he is an Alexander von Humboldt Professo r and the Chair for Digital Communication at FAU. His research interests f all into the broad areas of Communication Theory\, Wireless Communications \, and Statistical Signal Processing.<br /> <br /> Dr. Schober received se veral awards for his work including the 2002 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Award of the German Science Foundation (DFG)\, the 2004 Innovations Award of the V odafone Foundation for Research in Mobile Communications\, the 2006 UBC Ki llam Research Prize\, the 2007 Wilhelm<br /> Friedrich Bessel Research Awa rd of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation\, the 2008 Charles McDowell Aw ard for Excellence in Research from UBC\, a 2011 Alexander von Humboldt Pr ofessorship\, and a 2012 NSERC E.W.R. Stacie Fellowship. In addition\, he received several best paper awards. Dr.<br /> Schober is a Fellow of the C anadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute o f Canada. From 2012-2015 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transact ions on Communications. He is<br /> currently the Chair of the Steering Co mmittee of the new Communication Society (ComSoc) journal IEEE Transaction s on Molecular\, Biological and Multiscale Communication and serves on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE. Furthermore\, he is a Mem ber-at-Large of the Board of Governors and a Distinguished Lecturer of Com Soc.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR