Join us for a virtual event organized by the IEEE Computer Society Chapter!Title: MetaSwarmX: Decentralized Swarms of Swarms of Heterogeneous AgentsSummary: As robotics technology continues to innovate large collections of robotic agents have become more sophisticated and accessible leading to their use in both civilian and military applications. Many of these applications treat the collection as a multi-robot system that is controlled in a centralized fashion, which can be useful and have many applications but this isn't swarm robotics. The MetaSwarmX project aims to develop algorithms that can be used for swarms of swarms (a MetaSwarm) of heterogeneous robots solving problems without human intervention in a decentralized and scalable fashion. These algorithms will be built with civilian applications in mind as a means to develop novel applications with this emergent technology. The subject of swarm intelligence, the emergent technology, the potential of the robots, and the goals and status of the MetaSwarmX project will be <a href="http://discussed.---------------------------------------------------------------Bibliography:" target="_blank" title="discussed.---------------------------------------------------------------Bibliography:">discussed.---------------------------------------------------------------Bibliography: Dr. Michael Dubé studied novel representations for evolutionary algorithms with applications to epidemic modelling and biological sequence discovery completing his PhD in Bioinformatics and MSc in Computer Science in Canada. Now, he studies decentralized swarm intelligence with swarms of robots while completing his post-doc at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He aims to be a teaching-focused professor in Computer Science, where he will bring the energy and passion to everything he does; which may mean starting class with a cheer about being excited to learn!Speaker(s): Michael DubéVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/517697

IEEE IAS/PES Committee MeetingBldg: 140, 1500 Quebec Ave, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, S7K 1V7, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/487748

Cette année, la section IEEE de Québec invite ses membres à son souper de Noël annuel, normalement réservé à son comité exé<a href="http://cutif.Les" target="_blank" title="cutif.Les">cutif.Les membres principaux ainsi que des représentants des chapitres et groupes d'affinités seront présents. N'hésitez pas à venir discuter avec nous!Sont spécialement invités les membres de la société (https://ieeephotonics.org/), dont un chapitre vient de naître dans notre section!Le souper sera organisé au District Gourmet (QG Ste-Foy): (<a href="https://ledistrictgourmet.ca/restaurants)Assurez-vous" target="_blank" title="https://ledistrictgourmet.ca/restaurants)Assurez-vous">https://ledistrictgourmet.ca/restaurants)Assurez-vous de vous inscrire afin de réserver votre place. Les repas et boissons sont à la charge des <a href="http://participants." target="_blank" title="participants.">participants. Le QG Sainte-Foy,990, route de l’Église, Québec, Quebec, Canada, G1V 3V5