2014

Radisson Montevideo Victoria Plaza Hotel & Conference Center

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Please make your reservation by April 12.  After that date, rooms will only be subject to availability.

The Radisson Victoria Plaza offers guests first-class amenities, including an on-site casino and spa, a Business Center, an indoor pool and FREE wireless Internet access in the lobby and open areas of the conference floors of the hotel. Guests benefit from being just minutes from the historic Iglesia Matriz, Museo del Gaucho y de la Moneda and the shops of Ciudad Vieja. Arcadia restaurant is located on the 25th floor with the best panoramic view from the Bay to Montevideo's Hill. It is the perfect combination of elegance, beautiful sights of the sea, the city, and the best international cuisine.

The Radisson Victoria Plaza is situated in Plaza Independencia, the main city square in Montevideo.

TRAVEL    

Pasquale Arpaia
University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)

"Beyond the Higgs boson hunting: high-­performance instrumentation and measurement technologies for testing and tuning particle accelerators at CERN"

Pasquale Arpaia received MD and PhD in Electrical Engineering at University of Napoli Federico II (Italy). He is professor of Instrumentation and Measurements at University of Sannio and also Team Leader at European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). He was also scientific associate at Engine Institute and Biomedical Engineering Institute of Italian Council of National Research.

He is Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal Computer Standards & Interfaces, and in the past also of IEEE Transactions on Electronics Packaging and Manufacturing. He acted as scientific evaluator in several international research call panels. He has served as organizing and scientific committee member in IEEE and IMEKO Conferences. He was invited and keynote speaker to several international conferences. In the last years, he was scientific responsible of more than 30 awarded research projects in cooperation with industry and CERN, with related patents and licences, and funded 4 academic spin-­‐off companies.

His main research interests include high-­‐precision digital instrumentation and transducers for measurements in particle accelerators, evolutionary diagnostics, distributed measurement systems, ADC modelling and testing. In these fields, he published 2 books, several book chapters, and more than 180 scientific papers in journals and national and international conference proceedings. His PhD students were awarded in 2006 and 2010 at IEEE I2MTC, and in 2012 at IMEKO World Conferences.

David R. Leibrandt
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
Time and Frequency Division

"Optical atomic clocks - measurement at the 17th decimal place"

David R. Leibrandt received a B.S.E. in Engineering Physics from the University of Michigan in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009.  Since 2009, he has been with the Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder, Colorado.

David's research interests focus on the development and applications of optical atomic clocks.  He has contributed to the development of optical atomic clocks based on quantum-logic spectroscopy of single, trapped aluminum ions as well as laser frequency stabilization based on robust, portable optical cavities and spectral-hole burning.  David has over 20 technical publications and received a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the National Research Council.

Thomas Linnenbrink - 2014 Keithley Award Winner
Teqovations, LLC, USA

"Realizing the Inherent Performance of Modern ADCs in Real Systems"

Thomas E. Linnenbrink received a BSEE in 1967 from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a MS in Engineering Science with emphasis in automatic Control from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1971.

He co-founded Q-DOT, Inc., in 1977 to develop signal generation, data acquisition, and signal processing equipment based on unique, custom integrated circuits, initially in high-speed charge-coupled device (CCD) technology, then in advanced SiGe BiCMOS.  Mr. Linnenbrink and Q-DOT continually advanced the state-of-the-art in data conversion with CCD and SiGe BiCMOS technology.  Q-DOT became a wholly owned subsidiary of Simtek Corp. in 2001.  Mr. Linnenbrink was CEO, President, and Technical Director of Q-DOT from 1977 until 2005 when it was sold to Hittite Microwave Corp. He served as Consulting Engineer and Business Development Manager with Hittite from 2005 until he retired in January 2013. In 2013, he founded Teqnovations, LLC to develop innovative electronics for data acquisition and signal generation. 

He has been active in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society’s Waveform Generation, Measurement, and Analysis Committee (TC-10) since its inception in 1977, serving as its chairman from 1997 through October 2013. With his leadership, TC-10 revised the standard for digitizing waveform recorders and developed standards for ADCs, DACs, high-frequency instrumentation probes, and pulse terminology, and plans to develop a standard on jitter.

Mr. Linnenbrink received the IEEE IMS Technical Award in 2008 for his leadership of TC-10.  He became a Fellow of the IEEE in 2012. He holds twelve patents (including one pioneer patent) and has one pending.

Here is a list of local attractions that you can do on your own:

International Beach and Casinos at Punta del Este

Port of Punta del Este:

Click here for more information on the City Tour Punta del Este

The Fingers of Punta del Este at International Beach:

Casino Nogaro, Punta del Este:

Conrad Resort & Casino Punta del Este:

Mantra Resort SPA & Casino, Punta del Este:

Colonia del Sacramento

Colonia del Sacramento is in the Rio de la Plata region of Uruguay. It is filled with old colonial buildings and cobbled streets, and is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Lighthouse at Colonia del Sacramento:

City Gate of Colonia del Sacramento:

Map of the City of Colonia:

Click here for more information on the City Tours in Montevideo

Click here for more information on the City Tour in Colonia

Click here for information on the Uruguayan wine route

"R del Sur" or "Maldonado" Wind Farm (morning) + “Punta del Este” (afternoon)

 On Friday after the Conference, a Technical Tour visiting "R del Sur" (25 x 2 MW Gamesa brand turbines), one of the first Wind Farms to start service in 2014, is arranged for registered I2MTC attendees who follow the directions below.

Afternoon: time for free lunch and "Punta del Este" tour, prime beach resort in Southamerica.

Technical Tour Schedule:

08:30 Meet at Radisson Hotel Hall

09:00 Departure: Radisson Hotel, Plaza Independencia

11:00 Arrival: "Parque eólico R del Sur" Wind Farm

11:30 Tour: on the VAN and stop to watch the towers

13:00 Departure: for Punta del Este

14:00 Arrival: "Punta del Este" beach

14:15 On your own for lunch / Free time at Gorlero Street

15:00 Join the Group to visit the sailing harbor

15:30 Get off and walk for 30 minutes

16:30 Tour to the seaside (on the VAN)

17:00 Departure: to Montevideo

19:00 Arrival: to Radisson Hotel, Plaza Independencia

Destination Address: Parque Eólico Maldonado

Wind Farm website: www.rdelsur.com.uy

Tour Date: May 16, Friday, 2014

Tour Ticket price: $50 USD/person cash (May 13-14, or early credit card payment)

Registration/payment: Mandatory 

Registration Window: May 13 to 14, payment at Welcome Desk (No later registration will be fullfilled)

Includes: transportation to and from the destination, does NOT includes lunch expenses

Minimum number of passegengers needed to fulfill the tour: 10 people (if there are fewer than 10 attendees, the tour will be cancelled)

Companion/Guide: One Guide from the Bus Phone (+598) 22005176, One companion form IEEE Uruguay

Transportation: ABA Transportes Servicios Internacional, www.abatransportes.com.uy

Early registration + Credit Card Payment: E-mail: reservas@abatransportes.com.uy until May 14, Phone: +598 99900880

**Mention "IEEE I2MTC Technical Tour" Radisson Conference**

Please note that an author of an accepted paper MUST register  for and attend the conference AND present the paper for it to be published in the proceedings. Papers that do not meet these requirements will not be published. No exceptions.

Final Instructions

The Conference Proceedings will be included in the IEEE Interactive Electronic Library (IEL) as part of IEEE Xplore. All authors who have been accepted must register for the conference and attend the conference to present their paper. Authors who do not attend the conference to present their papers, or arrange for a co-author or knowledgeable colleague to present their paper in the absence of the primary author, will not have their paper published in the IEEE IEL and IEEE Xplore, per latest IEEE policy.  No refunds will be granted after April 22 at Midnight EDT.

1. Prepare the final version of the manuscript using the paper templates linked below.

Paper Templates


REMEMBER: the final version of a paper in the format given above CANNOT EXCEED 6 PAGES. NO EXCEPTION IS ALLOWED.

2. Register online.

Online Registration is open. You MUST register before uploading your final paper. Papers will be included in the proceedings only if at least one author has registered and paid the FULL IEEE Member or Non-Member registration fee by March 15. Student fees do not ensure publication of a paper - no exceptions. One full registration covers only one (1) paper. To guarantee inclusion in the proceedings of more than one (1) paper, the author must pay a USD $50 surcharge for each paper in excess. If you need to register by bank transfer, please contact Judy Scharmann, I2MTC 2014 Administrator.

NO PAPER WILL BE PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S COMPLETED REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT.

NO REFUNDS WILL BE GRANTED AFTER APRIL 25 AT MIDNIGHT EDT.

3. An electronic version of the final manuscript must be generated for the conference proceedings.

From the final manuscript formatted as instructed above, authors must generate the electronic version in PDF format. Regardless of its initial format, the file containing the final version of the paper must be transformed in the PDF format using the IEEE PDF express web tool. PDF files generated by means of other tools are not acceptable.

To generate the IEEE Xplore compatible PDF file of your paper, follow these steps:

Create your IEEE PDF eXpress account by going to: http://www.pdf-express.org and using Conference ID:31699X

The first time you access the system, please follow the link to New user. Please note that, in order to access the service, you need to allow the use of cookies from the PDF eXpress web site. Once you have registered as a new user:

   1. Upload the source file (containing your paper) for conversion
   2. Receive by e-mail the IEEE Xplore-compatible PDF of your paper. Once you’ve received your PDF file, upload it to EDAS

4. Send the electronic version of the final manuscript, complete the presenter's biography form, and submit the copyright form through EDAS by March 15, 2014.

   1. Once you receive your Xplore compatible PDF, log in at http://edas.info

   2. Fill in and sign the IEEE Copyright Transfer form.
The IEEE is enforcing strict copyright rules. For your convenience, the copyright form is made available electronically through EDAS. To access the copyright form, click on the 'My Papers' tab and then click on the copyright icon under the copyright column (second column from the right). Authors who are not authorized to sign a copyright transfer form, should download the paper version of a copyright transfer form, fill it in, and ask an authorized person to sign it.Then, send the completed form to the I2MTC 2014 Administrator by fax: +1 (352) 872 5545.
NO PAPER WILL BE PUBLISHED WITHOUT THE SUBMITTED COPYRIGHT FORM.

   3. Upload you paper.
Click the My Papers tab. Click the upload icon (third column from the right) and a dialog box will open that will enable you to select and upload your paper via the web or via FTP.

   4. Prepare the presenter's biography form.
Please declare who will be presenting the paper at the conference on EDAS. To do this, click the 'My Papers' tab, click on your paper title, and then click the Change/Add icon in the Presenter row. Indicate who will present the paper and click Choose presenter. Presenters must fill out a short bio (50 word max) on EDAS by going to the ‘My Profile’ tab and filling in the information in the ‘Brief bio’ field. Information in this form will be used by the session chairperson to introduce the presenter.

IMPORTANT COPYRIGHT NOTICE FOR WEB AND INTERNET POSTING

If authors like to post their papers electronically on any web site, any ftp site, or any other electronic dissemination technique, they must include the IEEE Copyright notice on the initial screen displaying the IEEE-copyrighted material.

Each author will have 25 minutes for oral presentations.  (twenty minutes presentation/5 minutes questions)  You can use this powerpoint template for your slide presentation.  (Optional)

Questions?

Contact the I2MTC 2014 Administrator:
Judy Scharmann
Conference Catalysts, LLC

APPLICATION SUBMISSION FOR STUDENT TRAVEL AWARDS IS CLOSED.

A limited number of student travel awards are available for students (graduate and undergraduate) who will be attending and presenting their papers (oral or poster) at the 2014 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2014).  The award may be applied towards the student’s registration fee and allowable travel expenses.  Interested students should submit an Application Form to the I2MTC 2014 Administrator, Judy Scharmann at j.scharmann@conferencecatalysts.com:

1.    Statement of interest and need, not to exceed 750 words. Longer submissions will not be considered. 
2.    An itemized list of travel cost estimates, including the conference registration fee.

Applications will be accepted ONLY through December 15, 2013.  Successful awardees will be informed of the decision of the selection committee by January 31, 2014, at which time the necessary forms will be provided.

Subsequent to providing the requested information, please do not send further inquiries regarding the status of your travel award application. The selection committee may contact an applicant if further clarifications are necessary.  

Without an exception, awardees MUST present their paper/poster at the conference in order to receive the award.

Students interested in entering their paper in the Student Best Poster Awards should indicate their intent by answering affirmative to this question during the extended abstract submission using the EDAS abstract submission system.  There will be two categories:  1) Graduate student, and 2) Undergraduate student.  There will be a 1st place award of $500 and a 2nd place award of $400 given in each category.

Using this pool of extended abstracts, a selection committee will carefully consider the technical quality of the submitted extended abstracts and will select up to ten papers for the final competition. The selected candidates will be informed soon thereafter.

There is no distinction between papers that are presented in a poster or oral session. Therefore, for this purpose these papers will be grouped and presented in the Best Student Poster Competition Session. 

A team of up to five unidentified (to the students) judges having read the proceedings papers will visit the students during the poster session to observe their interactions with interested attendees, ask questions about their work, etc. Subsequently, based on several factors including, but not limited to, the technical quality, presentation in the proceedings, poster clarity and quality of presentation and ability of the student to engage in technical discussions will select the First and Second place papers.  The winners will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Wednesday of the conference week.

The following requirements MUST be satisfied for a paper to be considered for this award: 

1.    The paper must be primarily the work of the student candidate, although it may have multiple co-authors.  
2.    The poster must be presented by the student and may not be presented by another person or a co-author.
3.    Only one paper, authored by any given student, may be in the final pool.

**Please note:  If there are not at least 3 papers in a particular category, no award will be given.

Conference Best Paper Award will be selected based on the initial review process of the extended abstracts followed by reviewing the Proceedings Papers and visitation (by unidentified judges) during the presentation of candidate papers. The final assessment and selection criteria will be based on several key parameters including: technical quality of the paper, authors’ knowledge of the field, presentation effectiveness and clarity, engagement in substantive Q/A, etc.  

The paper MUST be presented by one of its authors.  

The winners of the First and Second place papers will be announced at the Awards Luncheon on Wednesday of the conference week.

Please note that an author of an accepted paper MUST register  for and attend the conference AND present the paper for it to be published in the proceedings. Papers that do not meet these requirements will not be published. No exceptions.

Abstract Preparation

Submit your abstract through EDAS

Prospective authors are invited to submit Extended Abstracts (3-4 pages) reporting on original research results of theoretical or applied nature and should explain the significance of the contribution to the research field. Manuscripts must be prepared according to guidelines provided on the I2MTC website. Extended Abstracts will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. All papers accepted and presented at the conference will be published in the Conference Proceedings and the IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

*To submit your paper to a Special Session, be sure to select the Special Session track through EDAS. Visit the Special Sessions page for more information.
Manuscripts will be reviewed by the Technical Program Committee. Authors of accepted extended abstracts, must submit the full paper version according to the deadline, register for the workshop, and attend to present their papers. The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages without exceptions.

For your convenience, the Style Manual and Conference Paper templates in various formats are available through the following links:
 
Style Manual

Paper Templates

*The maximum length for final papers is 6 pages without exceptions.

**Accepted Papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library and indexed by EI/Compendex.

DEADLINES

Paper Submission: October 15, 2013
Acceptance Notification: January 15, 2014
Final Manuscript Submission and Author Registration: March 15, 2014

Author Registration

Each lead author must visit the EDAS web site and establish an account with a username and password. *It is very important that your name and affiliation associated with your EDAS account are correct and match the name and affiliation listed on your paper. The lead author then logs in to the EDAS system to actually submit the abstract, and later, the paper via the following steps:

1.    Visit www.edas.info and click the New User button.
2.  Create your profile. Only the five fields with the red asterisk are required. These fields are first & last name, affiliation (company or organization), country, e-mail address, and status. When the fields are filled in, check the Privacy Policies box and click the Add Person button.    [note: if you select USA as the country, you will get a message asking for your state]
3.  You will receive an e-mail containing your password. Your email address and the given password must later be used to access the system during the following steps, so be careful to remember it.
4.  You can then return to the EDAS log-in page (http://www.edas.info) and change your assigned password to one that is easier to remember. To do this, click on the My Profile tab, and then click onchange your password. Be sure to record your user name, password and ID number for later reference.

Submission of Extended Abstract

Please login at http://edas.info/ and follow the following steps:
1.  Type in the title of the paper in the block and give a five line description of your paper. Then select the topic area(s) your paper falls under best.[note: This will help in choosing the reviewers. The abstract will be uploaded later]
2.  Click the Submit button.
3.   The next page you see will have a large green check mark and a statement that the paper was registered. The last row says Manuscript, and has an icon of a yellow folder next to it. Click on this icon, and then you can upload your manuscript on the next page. Manuscript is used to refer to the PDF form of your extended abstract. You can also upload the paper by clicking the My Papers tab at the top of the screen, and then select the upload icon on the same row as the name of your paper. The upload icon (third column from the right) will open a dialog box that will enable you to select and upload the abstract file via the web or via FTP.

Problems in preparing and submitting your paper? Further Information?
Contact the I2MTC 2014 Administrator:
Judy Scharmann
Conference Catalysts, LLC