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K-AI is a research focused company in Villach with around 40 employees. The Student Branch is visiting it:

When: Tuesday the 17th of June from 15h to prox. 17h. Meeting time will be decided after registraion between 13:30 and 14:00

Who: The participants are limited to 12 persons in total. Registered Student Branch Members are privileged.

How: We try to go with shared cars. In case there are not enough we go by train.

Find the registration form here.

During the past years KAI has developed a solid basis of knowledge and research methodologies within the area of semiconductor technology and applications, focusing on the reliability of power semiconductors and electronic systems. It is today a well established research center with a broad national and also international network of industrial and academic partners.

Find more at https://www.k-ai.at/cms/

 

The FIFA world cup is approaching and to make the championship more exciting the student branch organizes a tipping community. This is a prediction game for the outcome of the games at the world cup 2014 in Brazil.

The tipping game can be found here: www.kicktipp.de/ieee-sb-klu

Please feel free to sign up and join the community. Don’t forget to take a look at the rules if you are not familiar with them. And also don’t forget to answer the bonus questions as they can boost your score at the end!

When: May 26, 2014 @ 9:00 AM

Where: Infineon Technologies Austria AG, Siemensstraße 2, 9500 Villach

On May 26, our second Go Professional event will take place. This time we will visit one of the biggest employers of Carinthia, the Infineon Development Center Villach. We will have a guided tour of the semiconductor production plant. This will give a look and feel of company’s working environment, its skill and proficiency, as well as the career insights.

The research at Infineon-Villach is two-fold:

1. Power electronics and sensor technology for automotive and industrial applications
2. Mixed analog and digital integrated circuits for telecommunications and computers

For more information, please visit the company’s website.

The schedule is as follows:

• 09:00 – 09:45     Company presentation
• 09:45 – 10:00     Movie about chip-development
• 10:00 – 10:10     Break & Snack
• 10:10 – 10:40     Talk by Pairitsch Herbert
• 10:40 – 11:30     Guided tour of the area

Since the number of attendees is limited to approx. 20 we would like you to sign up with this form.

Information on how to get there will be posted on our website a couple days in advance.

Versioning Control Systems can ease your life a lot. But what exactly can you gain from it, what choice do you have and which one to choose for your special case? These are the type of question which will be answered in this talk. The speaker, Benjamin Steinwender, is not only PhD student at NES. He is also researcher and system administrator at K-AI. The company we visit with the excursion on the 17th of June.
The topic is of course of interest for professionals working with documents or software in different versions.

Here a brief summary of what to expect at the talk next Wednesday.
Indroduction into Version Control Systems: Why you should not only use Backups, but more sphisticated tools. Explaining the basic technical terms and the general workflow of VCS. Showing some tools you might not know yet to improve your daily work. The talk also includes a “Choosing Guide”.

We thank the Lakeside Labs for hosting this edition of our Scientific Series and hope to see you on Wednesday the 14th at 6 pm.

On saturday, May 10th we will organize a hiking tour to the summit Kosiak of the Karawanken mountains. The summit is located near Klagenfurter Hütte in the Bärental valley. With an altitude of 2024 m above sea level it provides a nice view of the Rosental valley, Klagenfurt and beyond.

The trip has an easy to intermediate diffuculty. For those who don’t want to hike all the way up, the possibility exists to stay at the Klagenfurter Hütte where refreshments and food are served. On the way back we pass by the Klagenfurter Hütte again.

More details about the trip can be found at Bergfex.

We will meet on Saturday at 9:00 AM at the USI parking place at the university. Since we are going there by car we would like you to fill out the following form so that we can plan the carpooling.

Please register for the event via the google form: Link to Registration

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You will need to bring:

• Hiking shoes (or any other shoes that you are comfortable to walk in for some hours in rough terrain, waterproof shoes would be good)
• Water and some snacks (though it will be possible to get this on our way at Klagenfurter Hütte)
• Warm clothes (fleece, jacket against rain and wind)
• Your car, in case you have one

The weather looks alright but there are some rain showers forecast, so bring your rainjacket:
http://www.bergfex.com/sommer/feistritz-im-rosental/wetter/prognose/#1

“Go Professional” is the new label for all the Student Branch activities in cooperation with companies. This means the nearby ones, in the Lakeside Park as well as those we meet in the upcoming excursions.

Our first partner under this label is the Lakeside Park based company Bitmovin. Bitmovin is specialised on video streaming and has international reputation in that field. They have experience with big commercial players, as Facebook or Microsoft, and contributed to popular open software projects, e.g. Firefox Browser and VLC Player.

In preparation of this event I met one of the founders who is a recent graduate of the local university. I can promise you there are several reasons why you should not miss his presentation which will be on May the 7th.
He will share his experience and knowledge on how to found and run a company in a competitive field. That includes usefull skills and how he got them, what matters when he hires new staff members or what to think about when starting your own business. 
You get in contact with your future employer or the company partner for your master-, or PhD-thesis.
And you have the possibility to chat in a relaxed atmosphere with some drinks and snacks about serious and interesting issues.

So join on the 7th of May at 6 pm at the seminar room L04.1.1 in Lakeside Park building B04.