Joint Princeton/Central Jersey and New Jersey Coast Awards Banquet and IEEE Milestone DIANA Celebration

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The 2019 Joint IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey and New Jersey Coast Section Awards Banquet will be held at the Grand Ballroom, Colts Neck Inn, Colts Neck, NJ, on Friday, May 17, 2019. The event will start at 6 pm. The IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section and the IEEE New Jersey Coast Section organize this joint event to pay tribute to the new IEEE Fellows in the Sections, the IEEE Region 1 and Section Award recipients, and to celebrate the IEEE Milestone for the DIANA project - Detection of Radar Signals Reflected from the Moon. The significance of this milestone is summarized by the citation: On 10 January 1946, a team of military and civilian personnel at Camp Evans, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, USA, reflected the first radar signals off the Moon using a specially modified SCR-270/1 radar. The signals took 2.5 seconds to travel to the Moon and back to the Earth. This achievement, Project Diana, marked the beginning of radar astronomy and space communications.

Please join us in recognizing the achievements of our members and their contributions to the engineering profession, our community, and the IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey and New Jersey Coast Section activities. The Banquet provides a unique opportunity for companies and organizations to meet and congratulate the awardees and showcase their local presence.

Banquet Notes

• Limited capacity - register early! Send e-mail to avw@ieee.org if you are unable to attend.
• Notes on food allergy, etc. will be passed on to Colts Neck Inn. It is the attendee's responsibility to check with the service staff.
• Separate registration is required for an accompanying guest. Dinner seating is pre-assigned, so include a note in the comment field, in particular if the last name of your guest is different.
• During dinner, wine, beer, and soda will be self service - an accompanying adult must supervise underage guest.

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• 191 County Rd 537
• Colts Neck, New Jersey
• United States 07722
• Building: Colts Neck Inn

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• Contact information:
  Fran O'Connell, Chair, IEEE Princeton/Central Jersey Section
  Irfan Lateef, Chair, IEEE New Jersey Coast Section
  Ajit Reddy, Vice-Chair, IEEE New Jersey Coast Section
  Kit August, IEEE New Jersey Coast History Committee Chair
  Adriaan van Wijngaarden, IEEE METSAC Chair (avw@ieee.org)

• Starts 23 March 2019 12:06 AM UTC
• Ends 18 May 2019 01:00 AM UTC
• Admission fee ?
• Menu: Steak - sirloin steak, bearnaise sauce, Broiled Grouper - finished in a champaigne lobster sauce, Chicken Marsala - finished with a mushroom Marsala wine sauce, Eggplant Parmagian - served over pasta, Pasta Primavera - mixed vegetables in a tomato basil sauce, No Preference

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Shortly after the end of the Second World War, radio engineers from
Fort Monmouth succeeded in bouncing radar signals off of the moon.
In the next twenty years, radar signals would also be reflected off
the planets Mars and Venus.  Why would anyone want to do this and
what was learned?

The answer to this question is a fascinating tale of the early space
age and Cold War superpower rivalry.

Gregory Wright is a Member of Technical Staff at Nokia Bell Labs, where he works on
antenna arrays and their implementation in low cost integrated circuits.  Most
relevant to the topic at hand, he was the last radio astronomer hired by Bell Labs.
He was a co-investigator on the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote
Observatory, the first permanent radio telescope located at the South Pole.
Before joining Bell Labs, he was co-founder of two start up companies.

Greg received a Ph.D. in physics from Princeton University, a master's degree in mathematics
from Cambridge University and his bachelor's degree in physics from Harvard University.

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