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Join the IEEE Power & Energy Society Seattle Chapter for an exclusive tour of the Miller Community Center Microgrid in Seattle! Date: Thursday, December 4, 2025 Time: 3:30 PM Location: Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112 Discover how this innovative community microgrid integrates solar energy, battery storage, and advanced control systems to enhance local resilience and sustainability. The tour will include: - A walkthrough of the battery storage system - Insights into microgrid design, controls, and operation - Discussion of community resilience applications and lessons learned Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of Seattle’s most forward-thinking energy projects up close and connect with local professionals in power and energy. Event registration is required - Space is limited. Additional information: - PPE is required for this tour. Seattle City Light will provide hard hats and safety glasses. - No open toed shoes - Meeting Point: Front entrance of Miller Community Center. - Carpooling is recommended due to limited parking spots at Miller Community Center. - We are looking for a few volunteers to show up at 3:00pm to help set up. If you're interested, please indicate that during registration. Bldg: Miller Community Center, 330 19th Ave E, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98112

The Seattle Chapter of the IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S) aims to provide UFFC-S members with opportunities for professional and personal growth as well as network with the local, vibrant UFFC community. Dr. Jack Stevenson, PhD will be our guest speaker. Jack specialises in novel piezoelectric material characterisation techniques for high-power applications as well development of miniaturised devices and additive manufacturing. He is a Product Designer at Nami Surgical (Glasgow, Scotland) where he applies his expertise to the electrical and mechanical design of miniaturised ultrasonic surgical devices. Prior to joining Nami Surgical, Jack completed his PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Glasgow which involved the design and development of focused ultrasound devices for robotic delivery. Dr. Stevenson will present on "A 3D printed HIFU transducer for robotic surgery." This meeting will be virtual only. Speaker(s): Dr. Jack Stevenson, PhD, Agenda: 9:00 AM: Welcome and Introductions 9:10 AM: Tech Talk 9:50 AM: Q&A 10:00 AM: Adjourn Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/517588

EXCOM Meeting for IEEE PES Seattle Officers Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/492310

[] Inferencing has become ubiquitous across cloud, regional, edge, and device environments, powering a wide spectrum of AI use cases spanning vision, language, and traditional machine learning applications. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs), initially developed for natural language tasks, have expanded to multimodal applications including vision speech, reasoning and planning each demanding distinct service-level objectives (SLOs). Achieving high-performance inferencing for such diverse workloads requires both model-level and system-level optimizations. This talk focuses on system-level optimization techniques that maximize token throughput , achieve user experience metrics and inference service-provider efficiency. We review several recent innovations including KV caching, Paged/Flash/Radix Attention, Speculative Decoding, P/D Disaggregation, KV Routing and Parallelism, and explain how these mechanisms enhance performance by reducing latency, memory footprint, and compute overhead. These techniques are implemented in leading open-source inference frameworks such as vLLM, SGLang, Hugging Face TGI, and NVIDIA’s TensorRT-llm, which form the backbone of large-scale public and private LLM serving platforms. Attendees will gain a practical understanding of the challenges in delivering scalable, low-latency LLM inference, and of the architectural and algorithmic innovations driving next-generation high-performance inference systems. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/516797

An important part of clinical triage methods continues to be mostly bound to hospital and momentary data acquisition settings. Still, a paradigm shift is emerging, in which everyday technology is increasingly capable of measuring relevant biomedical signals in a more pervasive manner. This is paving the way for systems that can better analyze and adapt to perceived changes in the health status or behavior of the user. In this lecture we will characterize the current landscape of data acquisition and signal processing methods, describe state-of-the-art work developed towards what has been coined as the ”invisibles” approach, and provide a discussion of the main challenges posed by these new methodologies. Experimental results show that data acquired using such an approach is highly correlated with data obtained through conventional methods. This lecture will show real-world examples of devices integrated into everyday use objects with which users regularly interact with. Co-sponsored by: Instituto de Telecomunicações Speaker(s): Hugo Silva, Agenda: 11:00am Hugo Silva, IT/IST, Invisibles: A New Frontier in Biomedical Signal Acquisition and Processing Room: Meetiin Room -Dep. Electromechanical Eng., Bldg: 8, Fac. de Engenharia, Instituto Telec -DEM, Universidade da Beira Interior, Covilhã, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Centro, Portugal, 6201-001, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/519741

Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 🕕 Time: 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Location: the Beautiful Sinegal Building, Room 100 (next to the Gate House) Family member (+1 Adult only) are welcome. Exchange holiday gift. (bring gifts exchange for ruffle tickets) Cost : None , (please register family member in addtion ( +1Ault only) and chose diatetary preference Agenda: 6:00 - 6:20 pm, reception, networking 6: 20- 6: 40 pm ( exchange gifts) 6:40- 7: 00 Pm Awards for invaluable volunteers 7:10- 7:20 pm Planning for January 2026 Joint Celebration Event - Event: IEEE New Era AI + Seattle Section Celebration & Awards - Date & Venue: January 2026 at the Boeing Future of Flight Aviation Center on a Saturday 4pm -8pm option to stay longer. - Featuring: - Guided tours of the Aviation Center - Awards dinner with inspiring speakers - Family-friendly activities to welcome IEEE members, families, children, and friends - Purpose: To honor our volunteers, speakers and strengthen members' family ties, and inspire young children to envision futures as engineers and scientists. 7:20pm - 7:40pm Chapter officer canddates, 7:40 to 8pm EXCOM approval of the Rising Star Confrence attendance proposals. Parking Link : https://www.offstreet.io/events/0YC586LL Agenda: December 16 , 2025 6-8 pm Room: 100, Bldg: Siengal Building , Seattle University 901 12th Ave, , seattle , Washington, United States, 98122, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/521652

To meet the communications demands of connected vehicles, the wireless devices deployed in vehicles and on roadside infrastructure may need access to more spectrum than is available today. This presentation describes a novel approach that allows connected vehicle devices using V2X technology (e.g., C-V2X or NR-V2X) to share spectrum with Wi-Fi and other unlicensed devices, thereby gaining access to more spectrum. Each vehicle dynamically and independently adjusts to its environment in a manner that gives connected V2X devices access to enough of the shared spectrum to meet their quality-of-service requirements, while leaving as much spectrum as possible for Wi-Fi. As a result, this approach uses spectrum more efficiently than the current approach of establishing one spectrum band exclusively for connected vehicles and another spectrum band exclusively for Wi-Fi and other unlicensed devices. The proposed approach uses a backward-compatible form of implicit beaconing that requires no change to Wi-Fi technology, so there is no need to replace Wi-Fi devices that have been deployed, and the approach requires only modest modifications to V2X which reduces cost and complexity. The approach also does not require involvement from a cellular operator or other centralized controller. Simulation results show that it is possible to protect quality of service for both V2X and Wi-Fi communications in a shared band, while achieving high spectrum efficiency. One spectrum band where this approach could be especially beneficial is adjacent to the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) band, where this approach could help meet the needs of both connected vehicles and Wi-Fi 6. Speaker(s): Jon Peha, Room: 353, Bldg: Bannan, 901 12th Ave, Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/519580