Analog Wideband Communications based on Nonlinear Dynamics Awards & Honors 2008 Dr. Robert Elliott was appointed Adjunct Professor in Electrical Engineering at McMaster University. Dr. Robert Elliott was on the NSERC Doctoral Prize committee in January 2006 and the Chair of the committee in 2008. Dr. Robert Elliott was Chair of the NSERC site visit to the University of Toronto in January 2008 for the proposed National Institute on Complex Data Structures. Dr. Michael Mackey became the elected President of the Society for Mathematical Biology, April 2008. Dr. Jianhong Wu received the 2008 New Pioneer Science & Technology Award. Dr. Jianhong Wu was awarded the Cheung Kong Visiting Professorship from Ministry of Education, P. R. China. Dr. Guanrong  Chen was awarded the honorary professor at the Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Dr. Leung was the track chair for the IEEE Asia Pacific conference on circuit and systems 2008. Dr. Leung’s PhD student Mr. Xiaoxiang Liu was awarded 2008 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence Student Travel Grant due to his high quality paper in this conference. 2007 Dr. Guanrong Chen was entitled as Honorary Professorship, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina, awarded on October 22, 2007   Dr. Michael Mackey became the elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2007. Dr. Wu’s PhD student Mr. J. Ma was awarded MITACS student award in 2007. 2006 Dr. Michael C. Mackey received CAIMS & SCMAI Research Prize in 2006 provided by Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, Canada. Dr. Michael C. Mackey was honored as Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2006, the American Physical Society, USA. Dr. John Milton received NSF funding to support his 5-year research project “Research Experiences at the Biology-Mathematics Interface” in October 2006. Dr. John Milton received NSF funding to support his 3-year research project “Noise, Delays and Development of Expertise” in September 2006. Dr. John G. Milton presented at the 27th Ostrom Lecture, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University: “Legends of the fall: From the fingertip to the foot’s sole.” Dr. John G. Milton became Fellow, American Physical Society, and Division of Biological Physics in 2006. Dr. Robert Elliot was appointed as NSERC Doctoral Prize Committee Member in January 2006. Dr. Robert Elliot gave Annual Osmon Lecture in March 2006 at Washington State University, USA Dr. Guanrong Chen was honored as Cheung Kong Chair Professor of Peking University, China in 2006. Dr. Guanrong Chen was entitled as Honorary Professor of Shanghai Normal University, China in 2006. Dr. Siyue Chen received Alberta Ingenuity Industrial Associateship in February 2006 provided by Alberta Ingenuity Fund, Alberta, Canada. 2005 Dr. Guanrong Chen received 2005 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best Transaction Annual Paper Award in May 2006 provided by IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, USA Dr. Siyue Chen received Science to Society Workshop Scholarship in October 2005 provided by Informatics Circle of Research Excellence (ICORE), Alberta, Canada. Ms. Deyasini Majumdar received Best Presentation Award at the 2nd Annual Faculty of Engineering Graduate Student Research Conference, May 2005, University of Calgary, Canada. Spin-off Companies Our spin-off company, Complex System Inc., was founded in January 2005 as 100% Canada owned company. As a new start up company, Complex System Inc. has already procured several contracts with Department of National Defense, PROCOM Ltd., AirGate (USA) and InterDigital Communications. Corp. (USA). Although the initial partnerships can act as an exit strategy, another long term idea is to use the revenue generated by the spin-off, CSI, to sustain maintenance and further development of our research. CSI as a spin-off will commercialize IP and be a significant driver in enhancing the innovation in Canada. CSI will be a particularly effective means of technology transfer out of the university, leading to job creation and also wealth creation. CSI is an Alberta regional enterprise and therefore using it to commercialize our research will ensure that the product will remain a provincial proprietary along with IP aspects such as patents, copyrights, institutional designs and the value of future products and services that this software will generate. Currently, Complex System Inc. is devoted to commercializing chaos-based software radio and analog spread spectrum walkie-talkie. Events Summer school on information processing in dynamic systems: Fall 2010 We will partner with Dr. Hao Jiang of Wuhan University to organize the 1st International Conference on Cognitive Sensor Network in October, 2010 in Wuhan, China. Dr. Wei Yuan from Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology, China, visited our team as a visiting scholar in September, 2009 MITACS seminar series at the University of Calgary hosted three lectures in 2009 Dr. Subbas Mukhopadhyay, Massey University, New Zealand, "Wireless sensors based smart home to care elderly" Dr. Ram M. Narayanan, Pennsylvania State University, USA, "Sensing and communications using ultrawideband random noise waveforms" Dr. Masatoshi Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan, "High speed vision makes high speed robots based on dynamic matching" MITACS Workshop on Decision Support, Information Fusion and Sensor Networks was organized at the University of Calgary, June 18-19, 2009 Dr. Yousheng Xia from Fu Zhou University visited our team as MITACS exchange scholars in November, 2008. Dr. Yuhao Wang,  Dr. Shutian Liu and Dr. Hao Jiang worked with Dr. Leung as  MITACS exchange scholars in 2008. MITACS seminar series on analog wideband communication at the University of Calgary had many invited lectures by pioneers in this field. Invited lecture, "Application of complex networks in traffic analysis of communication networks", given by Professor Michael Tse from Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, August 10, 2007 Meeting with the industry partner, Neocific Inc. (USA), and give a presentation "Chaos-based Communications", August 6, 2007. Special session on "Through-the-Wall Imaging and Urban Sensing" at the IEEE Workshop on Signal Processing Applications for Public Security and Forensics (SAFE07), Washington D.C. from April 11-13, 2007. Special session on Chaotic Signal Processing at the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS06), Singapore from Dec 4-7, 2006. Project investigator’s meeting, August 10th 2006, University of Calgary.