IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ELECTRICAL INSULATION
The Indiana Convention Center
Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
September 19-22, 2004

Preregistration ends on Thursday, September 16.

ISEI 2004 will focus on the practical aspects of electrical insulation, and expects to attract an audience of professionals who develop, design, apply, test, maintain or use electrical insulation. Many IEEE standards working groups will meet during the conference as well. The focus of the conference is practical papers on the development, application, testing and service experience of electrical insulation in electrical and electronic equipment.

ISEI oral sessions will be held at the Indiana Convention Center co-located with the Electrical Manufacturing Expo, 21-23 September 2004. (EME 04 is sponsored by the Electrical Manufacturing & Coil Winding Association.) ISEI poster sessions will be held at the Marriott Indianapolis Downtown Hotel immediately adjacent to the convention center. For further information visit: http://www.deis.nrc.ca/isei2004.htm

The IEEE Power Systems Conference and Exposition
Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York
October 10-13, 2004.

This event will bring together practicing power systems engineers, operators, planners, policy makers, economists, academics, and others from around the world to address topics under the event theme "New Solutions for New Challenges."

The conference will comprise an outstanding combination of technical sessions, panel sessions, and tutorials focusing on the following tracks:

Track 1: Planning and Operation
Track 2: Markets, Policies, and Economics
Track 3: Dynamic Performance of Power Systems
Track 4: Real-Time Applications
Educational Track: Understanding Power Systems

For more information visit the PSCE'04 web site through http://www.ieee.org/power.

Technology for Life: North Carolina Symposium on Biotechnology and Bioinformatics
Research Triangle Park, NC
October 12-15, 2004

The conference program showcases work being done in North Carolina's rapidly growing biotechnology/healthcare sector; it now includes tutorials on genomics/proteomics and FDA 21 CFR 11 regulations, as well as sessions on genomics/proteomics, healthcare standards and QA, tools and technologies, telemedicine, bioethics and public policy, and SBIR/STTR grants. Our keynote speakers include NC Secretary of State Elaine Marshall, and Dr. Ken Tindall, Senior Vice President, Science and Business Development, North Carolina Biotechnology Center.

For more information and preregistration visit the web site at: http://ewh.ieee.org/cmte/tech4life/

EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing
Call for Papers - Manuscript Due November 1, 2004
Special Issue on Radar Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP)

STAP is a technique originally developed for detecting slow-moving targets from airborne radars. Although the main principles of STAP have been known for many years, the field has experienced a regain of interest in the early 90's as a result of the significant increase in computational power.

Papers should emphasize advanced signal processing techniques, applications to real data, systems issues, and new concepts and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

o Operational environments: airborne, space-based, UAV
o Bistatic and multistatic STAP
o STAP and SAR
o Tracking with STAP radars
o STAP architectures (e.g., suboptimum processors)
o Novel concepts, systems, techniques, and algorithms
o Special hardware for real-time STAP
o Nonlinear and/or nonuniform antenna arrays
o Estimation of radar configuration parameters
o Range-dependence compensation
o Handling of nonstationary, heterogeneous environments, and knowledge-aided STAP
o Polarimetric STAP
o Simulation of realistic STAP data
o Test of STAP techniques on real-life data
o New application areas: sonar, communications (e.g., MIMO), navigation, seismics, and so forth.

Authors should follow the EURASIP JASP manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.info/asp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the EURASIP JASP's manuscript tracking system at journal's web site, according to the following timetable.

Please visit http://www.hindawi.info/asp/ for more information about the journal.

Lithium Mobile Power 2004
Advances in Lithium Battery Technologies for Mobile Applications Lithium Sulfur • Lithium Ion • Lithium Polymer
Miami Beach, FL
December 6 - 7, 2004

Unlike other conferences reviewing batteries through their application in certain devices, this meeting will focus on advanced battery technologies through device integration and their applications in the mobile power marketplace. For more information visit:

Webpage: http://www.knowledgepress.com/events/6301210.htm
Brochure: http://www.knowledgepress.com/events/6301210_p.pdf

MOTOR & DRIVE SYSTEMS 2005
Hyatt Regency Tampa, Tampa, FL
February 8-9, 2005

The conference will focus on the latest advancements and economics in electric motor and drive technology. Topics will include: new motors and drives, system design and integration for optimum performance, new components and materials, advancements in electronics and control, testing systems and techniques. Sessions will also cover market and financial aspects such as demand, supply and pricing outlook for motors, drives, materials and components as they relate to total system economics.

In response to attendee requests from last year's conference, this year's program will be expanded to include more sessions on technology developments and economics involved in industrial motor and drive applications.

IEEE SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE 2005 (SEC 2005)
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
April 8-10, 2005

SoutheastCon is the annual IEEE Region 3 Technical, Professional, and Student Conference. It brings together Computer Scientists, Electrical, and Computer Engineering professionals, faculty and students to share the latest information through technical sessions, tutorials, and exhibits. It is the most influential conference in Region 3 for promoting awareness of the technical contributions made by our profession to the advancement of engineering science and to the community. As usual, attendance and technical program participation from areas outside IEEE Region 3 are encouraged and welcomed.

More information will be available at http://sec05.nova.edu/.