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The monthly Rochester IEEE Executive Committee meeting brings together all of the leaders of the Section, Chapters, and Groups. ExCom members: Please report past using vTools. Share plans for upcoming events in our Open Discussion. We review plans for upcoming Rochester meetings within our Section, Chapters, and groups at this meeting. If you are looking to become more engaged in IEEE in the Rochester Section, please plan on attending our Executive Committee meeting! Agenda: Agenda •Introduction of new Leaders & new Members & Guests •Section Officer Reports •Region Updates/Reports •ExCom Committee Reports •Upcoming Events •Old Business •New Business •Open Discussion •Adjournment Room: Meeting room adjacent to Pub, Bldg: Club House, Mendon Golf Club, 226 Mendon Ionia Rd, Honeoye Falls, New York, United States, 14472, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/560477

In an era defined by constant disruption—driven by rapid technological evolution, shifting customer expectations, regulatory pressures, and geopolitical uncertainty—enterprises must move beyond episodic transformation toward continuous reinvention. This webinar, presented by Abdelkrim Doufene and Thierry de Bernouis from Dassault Systèmes, introduces the concept of the Virtual Twin of Organization (VTO) as a foundational capability for next-generation enterprises. Building on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, VTO enables organizations to model, simulate, and optimize their operating models in a virtual environment. By integrating people, processes, systems, and agentic AI, enterprises can explore a vast space of strategic possibilities, anticipate disruptions, and continuously adapt with agility. This approach supports a “left shift” in decision-making—allowing organizations to assess impacts before execution and accelerate value realization. Through cross-industry use cases in manufacturing and services, the session will illustrate how Virtual Twins of Organizations enhance operational efficiency, reduce costs, improve performance, and enable smarter, data-driven decisions. Attendees will gain insights into how generative AI and virtual environments converge to create a decision-centric enterprise—capable of faster, more resilient, and sustainable transformation. Co-sponsored by: Cherif Chibane Speaker(s): Abdelkrim, Thierry Agenda: Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/558380

2026 Electrostatics Tutorial Program Agenda Our tutorial program is part of the (https://electrostatics.org/annual-meeting/) (https://electrostatics.org/annual-meeting/) NASA, Cocoa Beach, FL June 14-17, 2026 The IEEE Power and Energy Society / Industry Applications Society Rochester Joint Chapter is pleased to present Chemistry of Electrostatics: From Surface Reactions to Charge Generation and Dissipation by Prof. Bilge Baytekin, Chemical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara,Turkey To attend this event, please register at: (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416694) 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or 0.15 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for this tutorial. Co-sponsored by: Electrostatics Society of America Speaker(s): Prof. Baytekin Agenda: Chemistry of Electrostatics: From Surface Reactions to Charge Generation and Dissipation (9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT, UT-04:00) Prof. Prof. Bilge Baytekin, Chemical Engineering, Bilkent University, Ankara,Turkey IEEE Power and Energy Society / Industry Applications Society 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or 0.15 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for this tutorial. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562464

2026 Electrostatics Tutorial Program Agenda Our tutorial program is part of the (https://electrostatics.org/annual-meeting/) (https://electrostatics.org/annual-meeting/) NASA, Cocoa Beach, FL June 14-17, 2026 Online Registration Fee: $55.00 for 6 PDHs. To register, please: - Click on the External Registration link below. - After entering your Name and Email address, select the Conference Registration option. - Select Tutorial On-line Registration ($55). - Scroll down to the bottom and click Submit. Co-sponsored by: Electrostatics Society of America Agenda: [] Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562469

2026 Electrostatics Tutorial Program Agenda Our tutorial program is part of the (https://electrostatics.org/annual-meeting/) (https://electrostatics.org/annual-meeting/) NASA, Cocoa Beach, FL June 14-17, 2026 The IEEE Power and Energy Society / Industry Applications Society Rochester Joint Chapter is pleased to present Enhancement of Heat Transfer and Mass Transport with Electrohydrodynamic – Fundamentals and Applications by Prof. Jamal Yagoobi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA To attend this event, please register at: (https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/416694) 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or 0.15 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for this tutorial. Co-sponsored by: Electrostatics Society of America Speaker(s): Prof. Yagoobi Agenda: Enhancement of Heat Transfer and Mass Transport with Electrohydrodynamic – Fundamentals and Applications (11:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT, UT-04:00) by Prof. Jamal Yagoobi, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Worcester, MA IEEE Power and Energy Society / Industry Applications Society 1.5 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) or 0.15 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available for this tutorial. Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/562618

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) workloads is driving the need for highly scalable, low-latency, low-complexity, resilient and sustainable data center networks (DCNs). AI training and inference environments is placing significant pressure on IP-based routing architectures designed for technologies and communications of decades ago. While substantial efforts focus on expanding AI adoption across domains, parallel initiatives aimed at mitigating the AI-driven data center energy crisis largely emphasize improved cooling technologies and increased power generation capacity. The proposed research project targets the root cause of these challenges—the continued reliance on retrofitted, heavyweight legacy protocols, which introduce inefficiencies that degrade DCN performance and contribute significantly to their escalating power consumption. The project Multi-Root Meshed Tree Protocol (MR-MTP) offers a simple IP agnostic solution by adopting a novel technique to establish multiple trees rooted at leaf nodes in a folded-Clos topology DCN that virtually mesh at the spines to provide multiple loop-free forwarding paths between server racks. MR-MTP replaces seven protocols in the traditional IP-based DCN router protocol stack, resulting in heavy reduction in router hardware and software, leading to highly reduced operational complexity and a proportional reduction in energy consumption and equipment cost. MR-MTP’s auto-configuration reduces human errors and simplifies network maintenance, management, and troubleshooting and the IP agnostic approach mitigates vulnerabilities associated with IP-layer attacks. AI workloads dictate bypassing traditional IP/TCP stack, minimizing software overhead, designing deterministic fabrics and collapsing multiple protocols among others. Infiniband and RoCE(Ethernet +Remote Direct Memory Access) are two technologies targeting novel approaches. While InfiniBand demonstrates the benefits of a non-IP, simplified, high-performance fabric, and RoCE retrofit Ethernet to meet AI demands, both approaches do not address the root cause—protocol complexity. MR-MTP collapses multiple protocols to a single, topology-aware mechanism, enabling simpler, faster, and more secure data center networks. Hyperscale system challenges directly expose the limitations MR-MTP is trying to eliminate. MR-MTP is the next step beyond RDMA fabrics and IP-based DCNs—where the network is no longer configured through protocols but emerges directly from topology. C-coded MR-MTP was tested using FABRIC large-scale experimental testbed to emulate near–real-world deployment scenarios and its performance compared with the popular protocol suite Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Equal Cost Multipath Protocol (ECMP) and Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) in folded-Clos DCN topologies. Results demonstrate the significant performance improvements and stability of MR-MTP. (Code and FABRIC test scripts available on GitHub). MR-MTP supports interoperability with DCNs operating on conventional protocols- allowing incremental deployment. With a Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of 6 and recognition by DARPA’s Expedited Research Implementation Series (ERIS) as a Breakthrough Technological Advancement, MR-MTP is positioned for real-world deployment. Speaker(s): Nirmala , Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/563124