Meetings Of Interest To PELS Members

APEC® '97, Applied Power Electronics Conference, is scheduled for February 23-27, 1997, at the Westin Peachtree Hotel, Atlanta, GA, USA. APEC '97 is sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics and Industry Applications Societies and the Power Sources Manufacturers Association. For additional details, see page 3 of this Newsletter.

TELESCON® '97, an international forum for the presentation of new developments in telecommunications energy systems, is scheduled for April 22-24 in Budapest, Hungary. For more information, see page 5 of this Newsletter.

ISPSD '97, 9th International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs, will be held May 26-29, 1997, at the Hilton Hotel, Weimar, Germany. Papers will be presented in the areas of materials and processes, CAD/simulation, devices, high voltage/power ICs, modules and packaging, and applications. For more information about the symposium and accommodations, contact the ISPSD '97 Office, c/o VDE, Stresemannalee 15, D-60596 Frankfurt/Main, Germany, TEL +49-69-63-08-202, FAX +49-69-96-31-5213, e-mail 100145.67 com puserve.com.

PEDS '97, Second International Conference on Power Electronics and Drive Systems, will be held May 26-29, 1997, in Singapore. The conference is organized by the Industry Applications and Industrial Electronics Chapters of the IEEE Singapore Section and in cooperation with the IEEE Power Electronics Society. It is sponsored by the National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University and Singapore Polytechnic. For additional details, contact Dr. Yung C. Liang, Organizing Chairman, Dept. of Elec. Engrg., National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, TEL +65-772-2175, FAX +65-779-1103

PESC® '97, Power Electronics Specialists Conference, will be held June 22-27, 1997, at the Regal Riverfront Hotel, St. Louis, MO, USA. PESC '97 is sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society. For additional details, see page 1 of this Newsletter.

PCC '97, Power Conversion Conference, will be held August 3-6, 1997, in Nagaoka, Japan. PCC '97 is sponsored by the IAS of the IEEE IAS and the IAS of the IEE of Japan, in cooperation with the IEEE Power Electronics Society. The deadline for receipt of summaries for proposed papers was December 31, 1996. For further information, contact Dr. Akira Nabae, Organizing Committee Chairperson, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics, 1583, Iiyama, Atsugi-city, Kanagawa, 243-02, Japan, TEL +81-462-42-9558, FAX +81-462-42-3000.

7th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications, EPE '97, is set for September 8-10, 1997, in Trondheim, Norway. For more information, contact EPE Association; Brigitte Sneyers; VIB-TW-ETEC; Pleinlaan, 2, B; 1050 Brussels, Belgium; FAX +32-2-629-36-20;e-mail EPE.97@elkraft. unit.no.

The 32nd Annual Meeting of the IEEE Industry Application Society is set for October 5-10, 1997, in New Orleans, Lousiana, USA. The conference will provide a major international forum to address lighting issues. The Production and Application of Light Committee is responsible for the presentation of papers in the areas that include, but are not limited to, Lighting electronics (Operation, analysis, simulation, and design of electromagnetic and electronic ballasts, ignitors, dimming controls, etc.) - Light sources (Discharge physics - lamp design issues, lamp modeling, etc.) - Lighting systems (Discharge lamp - circuit interactions, power quality issues, etc.) - Electronics packaging in lighting (Compact packaging techniques, component reliability issues, etc.) For further information, contact Dr. Laszlo Laskai, Program Chairman GE Corporate R&D 1 River Road Schenectady, NY 12301 TEL +1-518-387-6423, FAX 1+518-387-5714 e-mail - LASKAI@CRD. GE.COM

IPEMC '97, 2nd International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference, is scheduled for November 3-6, 1997, in Hangzhou, China. The conference is sponsored by the China Electrotechnical Society and the National Nature Science Foundation of China, in cooperation with the IEEE Power Electronics Society and the IEEE Beijing Section and PELS Beijing Chapter. For conference details, contact Professor Zhao-ming Qian, IPEMC '97 Chairman, Dept. of Elec. Engrg., Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China, TEL: +86-571-7951891, FAX: +86-571-7951358, e-mail:ee_qianzm@ zunet. ihep. ac.cn.

COBEP '97, 4th Brazilian Power Electronics Conference, organized by the Brazilian Power Electronics Society (SOBRAEP), is set for December 2-5, 1997, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Three copies of an abstract of nor more than 50 words plus four copies of a 4-5 page digest of planned presentations are due by March 14, 1997. For additional details, visit the COBEP '97 WWW home page at http://www.cpdee.ufmg.br/~gaeep/cobep97.html

or contact Dr. Pedro Donoso Garcia or Dr. Benjamin Rodrigues de Menezes, COMITE ORGANIZADOR COBEP '97, Av. Antonio Carlos, 6627 - Campus UFMG, Pampulha, 31.270-901, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil, TEL +55-31-499-5485, FAX +55-31-499-5480, e-mail cobep_97@novell.cpdee.ufmg.br.

PESC® '98, Power Electronics Specialists Conference, will be held May 17-22, 1998, at the Sea Hawk Hotel and Resort, Fukuoka, Japan. PESC '98 is sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics Society. For additional details, see page 11 of this Newsletter.

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