IEEE Finland Section warmly welcomes all the members to the General Assembly meeting and elections for new section officers. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, December 11 at 17:15 at Aalto University in Otaniemi. Please see the invitation and the slate of candidates attached.

In addition to the meeting and election, we will have two very interesting invited talks given by IEEE Fellow Prof. Matti Pietikäinen and IEEE Life Senior Member Prof. Heikki Koivo!

For organisational purposes, we would appreciate your registration by email to Prof. Pasi Kallio (pasi.kallio@tut.fi) latest on December 5th 2013.

I N V I T A T I O N

IEEE Finland Section General Assembly Meeting

Place: Aalto University (Otaniemi), Otaniementie 17 (TUAS-building), seminar room 1021-1022 (ground floor)

Date: Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Time: 17:15-19:30

P R O G R A M

General Assembly

1. Opening of the meeting (Pasi Kallio)

2. Approval of the agenda (Pasi Kallio)

3. Minutes of the previous meeting (Pasi Kallio)

4. IEEE Finland Section activities overview 2012-2013 (Pasi Kallio) (10 min)

5. Treasurer’s report on financial situation (Ville Kyrki) (10 min)

6. Highlights of the GOLD activities (Janne Lauri) (5-10 min)

7.  Highlights of the Student activities (Francescantonio Della Rosa) (5-10 min)

8.  Election of new officers 2014-2015

  – Presentation of candidates for each post

      – Chair: Hannuksela, Sliz

      – Vice chair: Airoldi, Hannuksela, Thombre

      – Treasurer: Airoldi, Thombre

      – Secretary: Airoldi, Della Rosa, Lanz

      – GOLD Representative: Airoldi, Della Rosa, Lanz

      – Student Representative: Ding

  – Voting

9. Upcoming meetings (Pasi Kallio)

10. AOB

11. End of the meeting

Invited speakers

– IEEE Fellow, Prof. Matti Pietikäinen, University of Oulu, “Image and Video Analysis with Local Binary Patterns” (25 mins)

– IEEE Life Senior Member, Prof. Heikki Koivo, Aalto University, “Automation Research in Finland: Past, Present and Future” (25 mins)

– Closing (~ 19:30)

Slate of Candidates for new officers 2014-2015

IEEE Finland Section Nominating Committee nominates the following persons (in alphabetical order) for the offices of the Section to the next period 2014-2015:

Chair

– Jari Hannuksela, University of Oulu

– Rafal Sliz, University of Oulu

Vice Chair

– Roberto Airoldi, Tampere University of Technology

– Jari Hannuksela, University of Oulu

– Sarang Thombre, Tampere University of Technology

Treasurer

– Roberto Airoldi, Tampere University of Technology

– Sarang Thombre, Tampere University of Technology

Secretary

– Roberto Airoldi, Tampere University of Technology

– Francescantonio Della Rosa, Tampere University of Technology

– Brigitte Lanz, University of Oulu

GOLD Representative

– Roberto Airoldi, Tampere University of Technology

– Francescantonio Della Rosa, Tampere University of Technology

– Brigitte Lanz, University of Oulu

Student Representative

– Aaron Yi Ding, University of Helsinki