The world is nonlinear and linked. Small-gain theory is one of the most important tools to tackle fundamentally challenging control problems for interconnected linear and nonlinear systems. In this talk, I will first review early developments in nonlinear small-gain theorems and associated nonlinear control design and show how it served as a basic tool to unify numerous results in constructive nonlinear control. Then, I will present recent developments in network/cyclic small-gain theorems for complex large-scale nonlinear systems, with a special focus on event-triggered control and feedback optimization. Finally, I will discuss briefly how machine learning techniques can be invoked to relax the conservativeness of small-gain designs, that falls into the emerging area of learning-based control, a new direction in control <a href="http://theory.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="theory.Speaker(s):">theory.Speaker(s): Zhong-Ping Jiang, Room: SF B560, Bldg: SF B560,172 St. George St.,, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5R 0A3

Creating a safe space after midterms for students to destress and prioritize mental and physical <a href="http://health.Join" target="_blank" title="health.Join">health.Join us in Roosters cafe to unwind and <a href="http://relax.Activities" target="_blank" title="relax.Activities">relax.Activities include:PaintingBoardgamesMusicChattingFace MasksSnacksOttawa, Ontario, Canada

Get ready to rev your engines! Introducing Formula WIEEE 🏎️🏁⚙️ A robotics + engineering competition like no other – and it’s open to everyone !🧑‍💻 Form a team of 3–4 members🫂 Beginner-friendly (perfect for first years, no experience needed)!🛠️ Workshops, tutorials & kits included📅 Kickoff on October 11th → start brainstorming with your team 🧠⚡️🏆 Competition Day: November 8th @ MB9🤝 Networking event at the end!🎟️ Tickets are $15🔗 The registration link can be found in our bioBring your friends, or join other participants to form a team on the spot!Tickets are limited, so don’t miss out! 🚦Room: MB-9, Bldg: MB Building Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

2 hands-on workshops focusing on microcontrollers and development boards such as the STM32F446RE and Teensy 4.1 USB Microcontroller. This event also includes practical demonstrations and collaborative problem-solving <a href="http://activities.169" target="_blank" title="activities.169">activities.169 Lees Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Abstract: Metamaterials (MTMs) are synthetic electromagnetic materials possessing unique properties not found in natural materials. Their introduction has spurred the creation of innovative circuits with enhanced components. One notable metamaterial-based design is the composite right/left-handed transmission line (CRLH-TL) leaky-wave antennas (LWAs). These antennas offer continuous frequency-dependent beam scanning from backfire to endfire with a true broadside beam. They also ensure excellent impedance matching throughout their operational range, using a straightforward feeding mechanism. The CRLH LWAs’ ability to map frequency to space means unknown target locations can simply be pinpointed by analyzing the spectral components of the returning wave. This paves the way for real-time detection, with data acquisition speeds mainly determined by the signal source’s frequency sweep rate. The sensor’s field-of-view is also expanded thanks to the wide scanning angle of CRLH LWAs. Such features enable applications like swift 2-D beamforming, expansive real-time remote sensing, vital sign monitoring, motion detection, and microwave imaging. Additionally, applying spatiotemporal modulation to CRLH LWAs can generate harmonic waves and enhance physical layer security, promoting safer wireless <a href="http://communication.Speaker" target="_blank" title="communication.Speaker">communication.Speaker Bio:Dr. Chung-Tse Michael Wu’s research interests span applied electromagnetics, antennas, passive and active microwave and millimeter-wave components, MMIC, RF systems, and metamaterials. He earned his B.S. degree from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2006, followed by his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2009 and 2014, respectively. From 2014 to 2017, he was an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at Wayne State University (WSU) in Detroit, Michigan. In 2017, he joined Rutgers University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to tenured Associate Professor in 2022. Since 2024, he has been an Associate Professor with <a href="http://NTU.Dr" target="_blank" title="NTU.Dr">NTU.Dr. Wu is a member of the Technical Committee for IEEE MTT-28 and MTT-4. He has received several prestigious awards, including the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, the WSU College of Engineering Faculty Research Excellence Award in 2016, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) in 2019, and the DARPA Director’s Fellowship Award in 2021. In 2022, he was also honored with the Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence at Rutgers University. He is the Vice Chair for the joint AP/ED/MTT chapter of the IEEE Princeton Central Jersey Section. Currently, he serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology, and IEEE <a href="http://Access.Virtual:" target="_blank" title="Access.Virtual:">Access.Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/512705

Future of communication and sensing network is being transformed with the advancement in next generations of wireless with Beyond-5G, beyond-WiFi-8, ICAS, NTN, VR/XR/Metaverse, Digital-Twin and other emerging applications. Higher quality of experiences for connected future with ubiquitous lowest latency and superhigh data rate connectivity services will require innovative wireless technologies and communication hardware combined with AI/ML. Mobile platform integrated RF systems with antenna front ends are common factor for most of the wireless applications. Emerging usage scenarios will need intelligent mobile platforms with ultra-small form-factor, requiring co-design and heterogeneous integration of dis-similar semiconductor device, circuit and antenna technologies, in order to satisfy the desired application-specific performance criteria for the evolving use <a href="http://cases.This" target="_blank" title="cases.This">cases.This presentation will present the emerging technology trends and will focus on the antenna-integrated RF to mm-wave/THz array integrated frontend opportunities and challenges demanding new technology, design, development and integration. Example architectures to enablemultifunction microsystem platform will be <a href="http://discussed.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="discussed.Speaker(s):">discussed.Speaker(s): Dr. Debabani Choudhury, ***CANCELED***Agenda: - 6:30 - 7:00 PM Networking- 7:00 - 8:00 PM Technical TalkBldg: Cal Lutheran Center for Entrepreneurship (Hub101), 31416 Agoura Rd, Westlake Village, California, United States, 91361, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/494694

A casual, fun-filled trivia night that mixes technical engineering questions with general themes. It fosters community, friendly competition, and engagement across students of all backgrounds in a relaxed <a href="http://setting.800" target="_blank" title="setting.800">setting.800 Kind Edward Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

FROM PROPAGATION MODELS TO PHYSICS-BASED DIGITAL TWINSOF EMERGING WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMSBy Dr. COSTAS SARRISWHEN: November 12th at 10H30 AM ESTVIA ZOOM: <a href="https://uqtr.zoom.us/j/81521084215?pwd=bchQDndZg7DTlpVuaeag6bhGwaOvn9.1Meeting" target="_blank" title="https://uqtr.zoom.us/j/81521084215?pwd=bchQDndZg7DTlpVuaeag6bhGwaOvn9.1Meeting">https://uqtr.zoom.us/j/81521084215?pwd=bchQDndZg7DTlpVuaeag6bhGwaOvn9.1Meeting ID : 815 2108 4215Password : 018477The continuous proliferation of wireless technologies, from 5G communications to the Internet of Things, creates a compelling need to intelligently plan the deployment of such systems in indoor and outdoor environments. This planning is required to meet the desired Quality of Service objectives (e.g. high bit-rates for Wi-Fi networks) along with safety standards for exposure of users to radiated emissions, and to ensure compatibility with existing systems. Wireless propagation modeling, which is the prediction of the electromagnetic field levels generated by a wireless communication system, is an essential element of such an intelligent planning process. These models can be deduced by numerical algorithms based on the physics of electromagnetic wave propagation, or by <a href="http://measurements.Software-based" target="_blank" title="measurements.Software-based">measurements.Software-based planning is a reality in several areas, including the design of environmentally friendly buildings, where simulation tools are used to optimize heat and air flow. The question is how to enable a similar approach for wireless infrastructure that is becoming as indispensable as any other infrastructure <a href="http://element.This" target="_blank" title="element.This">element.This presentation is aimed at demonstrating that machine learning enabled propagation models can address this question, overcoming the dichotomy between accuracy and efficiency that has dominated this area for decades. We give an overview of the most recent advances in the field, including neural networks that can accurately predict, in real-time, signal strength levels of indoor and outdoor wireless networks by processing the geometry and the position of one or more transmitters. We discuss the use of such models for the rapid placement of massive numbers of access points of wireless networks, such as those providing wireless connectivity to spectators in large sports venues. Finally, we show that this research leads to reliable “digital twins” of wireless communication systems. These are robust computational models that allow for the full evaluation of the performance of wireless networks, under changes in the environment and the conditions of operation over <a href="http://time.BIOGRAPHYDr" target="_blank" title="time.BIOGRAPHYDr">time.BIOGRAPHYDr. Costas Sarris is a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto. His research area is computational electromagnetics, with an emphasis on time-domain modeling. He also works on physics-based wireless propagation models (with full-wave, asymptotic, and hybrid techniques), uncertainty quantification, and scientific machine <a href="http://learning.Dr" target="_blank" title="learning.Dr">learning.Dr. Sarris is an IEEE Fellow and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society for 2024-2026. He was a recipient of the 2021 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Microwaves, Antennas & Propagation, and the IEEE MTT-S Outstanding Young Engineer Award in 2013. He was the TPC Chair of the 2015 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and the CNC/USNC Joint Meeting, the 2019 and 2023 MTT-S Numerical Electromagnetics, Multiphysics and Optimization (NEMO) Conference, the TPC Vice-Chair of the 2012 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium, and the Chair of the MTT-S Technical Committee on Field Theory and Numerical Electromagnetics (2018–2020). In 2019-2024, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE JOURNAL ON MULTISCALE AND MULTIPHYSICS COMPUTATIONAL <a href="http://TECHNIQUES.Speaker(s):" target="_blank" title="TECHNIQUES.Speaker(s):">TECHNIQUES.Speaker(s): Dr. Sarris, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/509617

Free Registration (with a Zoom account; you can get one for free if you don't already have it. This requirement is to avoid Zoom bombing. Please sign in using the email address tied to your Zoom account — not necessarily the one you used to register for the <a href="http://event.):https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/qGy644m7StmKMra3Xs_x2gSynopsis:Please" target="_blank" title="event.):https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/qGy644m7StmKMra3Xs_x2gSynopsis:Please">event.):https://sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/register/qGy644m7StmKMra3Xs_x2gSynopsis:Please feel free to check out the work and thoughts of Prof. Alice Smith, Ph.D., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_E._Smith, https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~aesmith/ on Google Scholar at https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=3WhioLIAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22alice+smith%22+auburn and generally on the <a href="http://Internet.Then" target="_blank" title="Internet.Then">Internet.Then, please feel free to submit your questions- via Twitter by using the hashtag, #ProfSmithAMA and tagging @vishnupendyala- emailing vspendyala(at)hotmail(dot)com with #ProfSmithAMA in the subject- during your registration on ZoomSelected questions will be answered by Prof. Smith during the session. Audience may be able to ask follow-up questions during the session, using the Chat <a href="http://feature.---------------------------------------------------------------By" target="_blank" title="feature.---------------------------------------------------------------By">feature.---------------------------------------------------------------By registering for this event, you agree that IEEE and the organizers are not liable to you for any loss, damage, injury, or any incidental, indirect, special, consequential, or economic loss or damage (including loss of opportunity, exemplary or punitive damages). The event will be recorded and will be made available for public <a href="http://viewing.Co-sponsored" target="_blank" title="viewing.Co-sponsored">viewing.Co-sponsored by: Vishnu S. Pendyala, SJSUSpeaker(s): Dr. Vishnu S. Pendyala, Prof. Alice SmithVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/498694

Monthly ExCom meeting - <a href="http://Hybrid.Agenda:" target="_blank" title="Hybrid.Agenda:">Hybrid.Agenda: 6:00 PM - ExCom MeetingRoom: 3188, Bldg: SW01, White Ave, Burnaby, BC , BCIT, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5G 3H2, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/508526

We are delighted to invite you to the IEEE Winnipeg Section Annual General Meeting (AGM) on November 12, 2025 at 6:45 PM (Doors open 6:30 pm). The meeting will be held at Holiday Inn Winnipeg South, located at 1330 Pembina Highway. This event marks an important occasion for all our valued members, as it provides an opportunity to come together, reflect on our achievements, and discuss future <a href="http://plans.Agenda:-" target="_blank" title="plans.Agenda:-">plans.Agenda:- Opening remarks form IEEE Winnipeg Section Chair- Presentation by IEEE Canada President /Representative (TBC)- Section's activity report- Section's financial report- Introducing Section's Executives for 2026- Dinner- Closing remarksWe highly encourage you to attend the event as your presence and active participation play an integral role in shaping the future of our section. Your commitment and support have been instrumental in our section's success, and we look forward to your continued <a href="http://involvement.Dinner" target="_blank" title="involvement.Dinner">involvement.Dinner Buffet will start around 8 pm. Please register by November 6, 2025 to confirm your attendance. If you are unable to attend, kindly notify us in advance so that we can make necessary <a href="http://arrangements.We" target="_blank" title="arrangements.We">arrangements.We look forward to your presence at the Annual General Meeting!Bldg: Holiday Inn - Winnipeg South, 1330 Pembina Highway, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3T 2B4

Join us for a complimentary Lean Six Sigma White Belt Training designed exclusively for IEEE engineers and members of the Toronto Chapter. This free introductory session will provide practical tools and insights into process improvement, quality management, and problem-solving—skills that are highly valuable in today’s competitive engineering and technology <a href="http://landscape.Co-sponsored" target="_blank" title="landscape.Co-sponsored">landscape.Co-sponsored by: Dr. Muthanna Al-KhishaliSpeaker(s): Omar MalikVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/506217