1. Croatia Chapter IEEE ComSoc Croatia Chapter Maja Matijašević, Chair University of Zagreb, FER, Telecom Dept., Croatia ICC 2006 / RCCC June 12, 2006 Istanbul, Turkey

2. Croatia Chapter Outline ExCom and Membership Activities in 2005 Activities in 2006

3. Croatia Chapter ExCom and Membership ExCom (elected in March 2005) –Chair: Maja Matijašević, University of Zagreb, FER, Croatia –Vice-Chair: Krunoslav Tržec, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, R&D Center, Zagreb –Secretary/Treasurer: Mario Kušek, University of Zagreb, FER, Croatia Members (as of 6/2006): Student (S)32 Member (M)79 Senior Member (SM) 4 Fellow (F)1 Associate (A)3 Affiliate (AF)1 Total:120

4. Croatia Chapter Activities in 2005 Conferences –International Conference on Telecommunications – ConTEL, June 15-17, 2005, Zagreb, Croatia (biannual) http://www.contel.hr organized by FER University of Zagreb, IEEE Croatia Section, IEEE Communications Society Croatia Chapter technical co-sponsorship IEEE Region 8 and IEEE Communications Society (TC on Communications Software, TC on Multimedia Communications). around 240 participants; 30 countries –International Conference on Software in Telecommunications and Computer Networks – SoftCOM, September 15-17, 2005, Split, Croatia (annual) http://www.fesb.hr/softcom organized by FESB University of Split, IEEE Croatia Section, IEEE Communications Society Croatia Chapter, Communications and Information Society, Croatia technical co-sponsorship IEEE Communications Society (TC on Communications Software, TC on Communication Switching and Routing)

5. Croatia Chapter Activities in 2005 (cont’d) Technical Meetings & Talks –DLT: Nim K. Cheung, (then) President Elect, IEEE Communications Society “Towards the Era of Ubiquitous Networks” IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture Tour (DLT) Slovenia – Croatia – Macedonia, October 2005

6. Croatia Chapter Activities in 2005 (cont’d) Technical Meetings & Talks (cont’d) –Dalibor Turina, Ericsson AB, Stockholm, Sweden “3G Long Term Evolution” Invited/keynote talks at ConTEL 2005 and at SoftCom 2005: –Klaus-D. Kohrt, UMTS Forum and Siemens Communication Mobile Networks –Dr. Kimon Valavanis, University of South Florida, USA –Dr. Magdy A. Bayoumi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA –Gordana Kovacevic, Ericsson Nikola Tesla, Croatia –Algirdas Pakštas, London Metropolitan University, UK –Antun Carić, KATE-KOM, Croatia Mailing list established

7. Croatia Chapter Activities in 2006 Conferences –SoftCOM 2006, Split, Croatia http://www.fesb.hr/softcom Technical meetings & talks –Krešimir Matković, VRVis Research Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization, Ltd., Vienna, Austria “3D Visualization and its Applications” –Nicolas Puech, ENST, Paris, France “Taking physical impairments into account for RWA in hybrid optical networks” –DLT: Abbas Jamalipour, University of Sydney, Australia (next week!) “Future Mobile Communications toward Broadband Wireless IP” IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecture Tour (DLT)

8. Croatia Chapter Activities in 2006 (cont’d) Sister Society relations: Communications and Information Society (CCIS), Croatia –agreed to exchange e-mail announcements for events of common interest to our members Web site of IEEE Croatia Section http://www.ieee.hr/ Web site of ComSoc Croatia Chapter –in progress Preparing for coming ExCom elections next year Preparing for ConTEL 2007 in June next year