- Means of converting AC to DC - Brief history of switch-mode power - Basic switch-mode power circuit - SCR vs. SMR - Advantages to using SMR technology for battery charging - - Size and Weight - Modularity - Redundancy - Efficiency - Hot-swappable components Speaker(s): Mark Agenda: The seminar fee includes lunch, refreshments and handouts. Non-members joining IEEE within 30 days of the seminar will be rebated 50% of the IEEE registration charge. Four hours of instruction will be provided. If desired, IEEE Continuing Education Units (0.4 CEUs) will be offered for this course - a small fee of $55 will be required for processing. Please pay attention to the “Registration Fee” and choose the appropriate choice either with or without CEUs. CEU Evaluation Form can be found at: (https://innovationatwork.ieee.org/ieee-pes-northjersey-certificates/) At this time, our attendance is being limited to fifty (50). Please only register if you know you are going to attend, and you must be registered to participate. Room: Greenbrook Conference Room, Bldg: PSE&G - Cragwood Road Facility, 40 Cragwood Road, South Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, 07080

Recent advances in AI have convinced a growing number of experts that these technologies will have a profound impact on the nature of work. But questions of the depth and breadth of this impact remain unanswered: Will AI support or replace workers? Which sectors will be most affected? Are there policies that can improve outcomes for workers in the age of AI? On Thursday, April 25, the Brookings (https://www.brookings.edu/centers/center-on-regulation-and-markets/) will host an event on the transformative impact of AI on labor markets. Panelists Daron Acemoglu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Daniel Susskind (Oxford University and King’s College London), and Russell Wald (Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence) will begin with a conversation moderated by Anton Korinek (University of Virginia) on the most recent advances in AI and their potential implications for the workforce. We will then explore strategies for steering the labor market effects of AI in a desirable direction in the near term, focusing on policies and practices that can help workers adapt to changing job requirements and ensure that the benefits of AI are distributed broadly. Finally, we will analyze the medium- to long-term threat of AI reaching human-level capabilities, and we will examine how to maintain shared prosperity in a world in which labor markets may experience more fundamental disruption. This event is a part of the Center on Regulation and Markets Series “(https://www.brookings.edu/tags/the-economics-and-regulation-of-artificial-intelligence-and-emerging-technologies/).” Viewers can join the conversation and ask questions of the speakers by emailing [email protected] or on X/Twitter using the hashtag #AIandLabor. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/418079

[]Srinivasa Ramanujan FRS 22 December 1887 – 26 April 1920) was an Indian mathematician. Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems then considered unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation: according to Hans Eysenck: "He tried to interest the leading professional mathematicians in his work, but failed for the most part. What he had to show them was too novel, too unfamiliar, and additionally presented in unusual ways; they could not be bothered". Seeking mathematicians who could better understand his work, in 1913 he began a postal correspondence with the English mathematician G. H. Hardy at the University of Cambridge, England. Recognising Ramanujan's work as extraordinary, Hardy arranged for him to travel to Cambridge. In his notes, Hardy commented that Ramanujan had produced groundbreaking new theorems, including some that "defeated me completely; I had never seen anything in the least like them before", and some recently proven. During his short life, Ramanujan independently compiled nearly 3,900 results (mostly identities and equations). Many were completely novel; his original and highly unconventional results, such as the Ramanujan prime, the Ramanujan theta function, partition formulae and mock theta functions, have opened entire new areas of work and inspired a vast amount of further research. Of his thousands of results, all but a dozen or two have now been proven correct. The Ramanujan Journal, a scientific journal, was established to publish work in all areas of mathematics influenced by Ramanujan, and his notebooks—containing summaries of his published and unpublished results—have been analysed and studied for decades since his death as a source of new mathematical ideas. As late as 2012, researchers continued to discover that mere comments in his writings about "simple properties" and "similar outputs" for certain findings were themselves profound and subtle number theory results that remained unsuspected until nearly a century after his death. He became one of the youngest Fellows of the Royal Society and only the second Indian member, and the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Of his original letters, Hardy stated that a single look was enough to show they could have been written only by a mathematician of the highest calibre, comparing Ramanujan to mathematical geniuses such as Euler and Jacobi. In 1919, ill health compelled Ramanujan's return to India, where he died in 1920 at the age of 32. His last letters to Hardy, written in January 1920, show that he was still continuing to produce new mathematical ideas and theorems. His "lost notebook", containing discoveries from the last year of his life, caused great excitement among mathematicians when it was rediscovered in 1976. A deeply religious Hindu,Ramanujan credited his substantial mathematical capacities to divinity, and said his family goddess, Namagiri Thayar, revealed his mathematical knowledge to him. He once said, "An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God." Speaker(s): , Discussion Moderator: Sharan Kalwani Agenda: 6:00 PM - Welcome and Introductions, Chapter business update; break 6:05 PM - Movie Start/Presentation 7:20 PM - Q & A; group Discussion 7:30 PM - Wrap Up Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416631

The research area of metamaterials has captured the imagination of scientists and engineers over the past two decades by allowing unprecedented control of electromagnetic fields. The extreme manipulation of fields has been made possible by the fine spatial control and wide range of material properties that can be attained through subwavelength structuring. Research in this area has resulted in devices which overcome the diffraction limit, render objects invisible, and even break time reversal symmetry. It has also led to flattened and conformal optical systems and ultra-thin antennas. This lecture will identify recent advances in the growing area of metamaterials, with a focus on metasurfaces: two dimensional metamaterials. It will explain what they are, the promise they hold, and how these field-transforming surfaces are forcing the rethinking of electromagnetic/optical design. Electromagnetic metasurfaces are finely patterned surfaces whose intricate patterns/textures dictate their electromagnetic properties. Conventional field-shaping devices, such as lenses in prescription eye glasses or a magnifying glass, require thickness (propagation length) to manipulate electromagnetic waves through interference. In contrast, metasurfaces manipulate electromagnetic waves across negligible thicknesses through surface interactions, by impressing abrupt phase and amplitude discontinuities onto a wavefront. It will be shown how metasurfaces allow the complete transformation of fields across a boundary, and how this unique property is driving a new generation of low-profile electromagnetic and optical devices with unparalleled field control. Please join us at 5:30PM for networking and light refreshments! Co-sponsored by: Syracuse University EECS Department Speaker(s): IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer and IEEE Fellow Prof. Anthony Grbic Agenda: 5:30pm: Networking and light refreshments; 6:00pm: Presentation; 7:00pm: Q&A and discussion; Room: CST 4-201, Bldg: FREE PARKING is available! Information to be forwarded to registered attendees on the evening prior to the event., Center for Science and Technology at Syracuse University, 111 College Pl, Syracuse, New York, United States, 13210

4/25 ExCom Bldg: CCSU Applied Innovation Hub, 1615 Stanley St, New Britain, Connecticut, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/417789