IEEE Metropolitan Los Angeles Section – Communications Society Chapter

Dr. John Hudiburg, NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCAN) Mission Integration and Commitment Manager will provide a description of NASA’s Artemis Program with a focus on the radio & optical space communications aspects of the missions. Co-sponsored by: IEEE-USA MOVE Program Speaker(s): Dr. John Hudiburg Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/364932

This is the 2nd weekly session of the CIT Summer Series, with Dan Wolfson presenting on Using Open Source to Accelerate Sustainability Initiatives : Addressing climate change and sustainability is one of the most urgent concerns we face. A key step in addressing these concerns is for organizations to measure, analyze and document their carbon emissions and climate risks. Sustainability and climate reporting is effectively being mandated by both governments and industry. This reporting, however, often requires significant investments in time and resources to design, develop and implement. The right data must be found, prepared and organized to support for instance, calculation of the Greenhouse Gas emissions. This can be a significant challenge. Open source projects, such as Egeria, can play a significant role in accelerating these initiatives. In this talk you will learn about: - What are some of the key standards and programs for measuring and reporting on Sustainability - Acceleration through Open Source projects - An overview of Egeria and it can jumpstart sustainability projects - A deeper look at the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Carbon Accounting showing how Egeria can help organizations establish and deliver trusted sustainability reports Speaker(s): Dan Wolfson, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/363997

David Bondurant reviews 50 years of Semiconductor and Computer Technology History, using his personal life story to provide background to highlight the driving forces behind the $52B CHIPS Act, passed in 2022. Following the invention of the transistor in 1947, the US semiconductor industry led the world in innovation in semiconductors from 1950 through 1980, as Moore’s Law shrunk transistors and increased the complexity of chips. In 1975, Japan's government began investing in semiconductor technology with their largest firms. Their focused DRAM program rapidly captured 50% of the semiconductor market and drove most US DRAM companies from the market. The US responded with the Very High Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program in 1980. By the end of the 1980s, the Berlin Wall fell and the US maintained its leadership in supercomputers. In 1983, Korea joined the world competition, beginning development of DRAM products. By 1993, they had overtaken the Japanese and have become the leading supplier of DRAM. In the 1990s, they developed non-volatile NAND Flash products and became the leading supplier of all commodity memory products by the 2000s. During the same time period, Taiwan entered the semiconductor foundry market focused on highly integrated logic chips, investing in increasing costly factories. By the 2000s, they became the leader in silicon foundries and the US went increasingly fabless, with companies such as Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and Nvidia depending upon offshore foundries. In 2014, China launched its $150B Big Fund to become competitive in the world market. By 2022, a focused Chinese effort in 5G wireless communication has made them a world leader in this technology and they are gaining ground in memory and logic. The most semiconductors are no longer being manufactured in the US. Taiwan and Korea have gained technical leadership. As Moore’s Law hits the wall, new Beyond Moore technologies in semiconductor process and packaging require us to maintain our semiconductor leadership so that we keep computer leadership and security. Matt Francis reviews the details of the $52B CHIPS Act. The Act subsidizes and expands existing facilities to increase onshore supply, returns leading edge manufacturing to the US, reinforces our traditional strengths in chip design and equipment, and grows the US Workforce to support the expanded manufacturing. New technology centers strengthen R&D throughout all regions of the US. Speaker(s): David Bondurant, A. Matt Francis Agenda: IEEE-USA's free webinars/events are designed to help you find your next job, maintain your career, negotiate an appropriate salary, understand ethical considerations in the workplace and learn about other career-building strategies and public policy developments that affect your profession. For information regarding upcoming webinars or to visit our vast webinar archive, please visit: https://ieeeusa.org/careers/webinars/ This program is offered exclusively to active IEEE members. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/362120

2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference team presents THE RED DWARF STAR VIRTUAL SERIES SLS Ambassador Program: We Are Going! Sonya L. Dillard Red Dwarf stars are the smallest and emerging in the universe. The Red Dwarf events represent the formation and growth of our IEEE Rising Stars Conference. The 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference team will be hosting a series of monthly events to show you a glimpse of what we are preparing for the conference. We'll be sharing some professional development and technical content throughout this series, as well as some of the networking experience. Join us on a series of informative and engaging events as we prepare for our large stage at the 2024 IEEE Rising Stars Conference, January 5-7, in Las Vegas at the Tropicana Hotel. Visit our website at: https://ieee-risingstars.org/ Sonya L. Dillard, SMA Safety Assessment Team Lead at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Description: After over 50 years, we are finally going back to the moon like never before. This time we are going to stay! Join us for this virtual webinar as NASA Engineer, Sonya Dillard takes you on a journey back to the moon aboard the Space Launch System (SLS), NASA’s largest rocket in history. Speaker(s): Sonya L. Dillard, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/363060

The 2023 Atlantic Tropical Outlook was recent updated by experts prompting much curiosity regarding what to expect for this year's hurricane season. Questions that you might have asked yourself may include: o How do expert forecasts differ for the number of tropical systems? o What can historical data and past hurricane seasons teach us for preparing for 2023 activity? o How does El Nino factor into how active hurricanes might be within the Atlantic Ocean? o When should forecasts be updated to include new information like record Sea Surface Temperatures? This month's presentation will review the tropical weather that has occurred to date within the Atlantic Basin, will describe the phenomenon of El Nino in relation to hurricane activity, and discuss what past observations of storms can/cannot teach us about what to expect as we approach the busiest part of the hurricane season. Co-sponsored by: IEEE-USA MOVE Program Speaker(s): Jason Luze Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/366746