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Dear Students and Colleagues,

the IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt is opening the summer semester of 2015 with an exciting Game Night. Participants can play with modern game consoles such as Xbox Kinect, Playstation, and Wii, and a retro corner will also be set up with Commodore 64, Pentium I, and other historical devices. As usual, some beer and pizza will be provided. Furthermore, gamers can challenge their opponents in frame of a quiz and win some valuable prizes.

Date: 18:00 on 16th March, 2015
Location: Lakeside Labs (Lakeside Park B04b, 1st floor)

Please come and have fun with us!

For further information, please check our Facebook Event.

Liebe Studentinnen, Studenten, und Kollegen,

Der IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt veranstaltet einen Fotowettbewerb anlässlich des morgigen Pi Day!
Lade deine Fotos oder Zeichnungen in Bezug auf die mathematische Konstante Pi (π) als Kommentar zu unserer Facebook Veranstaltung hoch!

Schnell, die Einreichfrist ist schon morgen!

Frohen Pi Day!

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Dear Students and Colleagues,

The IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt is having a picture contest in order to celebrate Pi Day tomorrow!
Upload your Photos, Drawings or Paintings related to the mathematical constant Pi (π) as a post to our Facebook event!

Be quick, the submission already ends tomorrow!

Happy Pi Day!

Today we point out an activity which is not organized by the Students Branch. But we like it and we think it is a really good deal to participate event though it is not technical at all.

That Skiing Day is jointly organized by the USI and the FH-Kärnten Sport and involves all students and employees of Carinthian University and Universities of Applied Sciences in Carinthia. You can find english information here. Note that online registration needs to be done until tomorrow (8th of Jannuary) and the € 10.- participation fee includes a small meal with some drinks, the ride on a joint bus and the day ticket for ski lifts.

The skiing resort is not very big and offers slopes for all levels. Check their webpage and the overview.
In case you need equipment it is possible to contact the local skiing school. Their website is quite simple. You can find prices for rents (the full equipment with skis, boots, sticks and helmet costs around €40.- i.e. equal a usuall full day lift ticket).

We think it is a nice oppurtunity to have a nice day together.
Let us know if you sign in by a comment on the FB page.

#Adventcoder14

An Advent calendar is a special calendar used to count or celebrate the days in anticipation of Christmas. Advent calendars typically begin on December 1 and provide a window to open until December 24. Usually they have windows, which you can open each day containing some chocolate or other stuff. But what is better to kill some time until Christmas, Hanukkah, Yule, Kwanzaa, Diwali, Boxing Day, etc. than an Advent calendar giving you a programming problem every day?

The Advent Programming Contest, being organized by the IEEE Student Branch Klagenfurt will provide a new problem every day from December 1st to December 24th. You can submit solutions any day until the contest ends on December 26. You can choose to use C, C++, Java, Python or Perl as programming language. The programming tasks can be solved with short
programs (typically less than 100 lines of code). Until a solution is correct you can submit your program as often as you want (but please don’t spam our server). The number of tries will not be a criterion for determining your score. The idea is to do it just for fun, but we will try to announce a winner after the contest is closed. The event is open to everyone. There are separate categories for pupils, university students and others. If you want to participate, please register at http://mooshak.nes.aau.at/ (Registration will be still possible after 1st December).

Here you can find anything you need to participate at the IEEEXtreme Programming Competition.

The organizers run a Facebook page which you can find under
https://www.facebook.com/events/702837129796746/

This is the official website, where you also can find the registration link
http://www.ieee.org/xtreme

If you are registered please send us a mail so we can contact you about further organisational issues.
sb_klagenfurt@ieee.org

For any other questions and or required help contact us as well. That could be finding a team mate, a proctor or anything else.

We will hold an organizational meeting in the week between 6th and 9th of October. We further plan a preperational talk on the Wednesday before the competition.

This time we promote a talk that fits nicely into the scientific series even though it is not organized by us.
Not matter how interesting it is what you are talking about just by the way you present it you can easily ruin your success.

Create Inspiring Talks
by Martina Umlauft

Mittwoch, 24.Sept. 15:00

Lakeside Labs
Lakeside Park B04b/1.St

Do you hate the feeling that the audience seems bored when you give a talk – even though you followed all the “rules” out there on how to give a good talk and prepare good slides? Do you realize that, depending on the situation, some of those rules can actually do more harm than good if you blindly follow them?

This talk will give you advice on how to improve what you’re already doing. We will focus on talk preparation from an audience- and situation-based perspective and re-evaluate the most common rules for the setting of a conference talk.

You will:
-) learn about the cognitive and visual capabilities of your audience and the implications that follow for preparing your talk and slides,
-) get tips on how to improve your confidence and ease nervousness with body posture and breathing exercises
-) receive some general advice that is applicable to non-conference talks

This talk is for:
-) anybody who wants to improve their talks
-) young researchers who do not yet have a lot of speaking experience
-) advisors and designers of slide templates

From the 6th to the 10th of August three members of the IEEE student branch Klagenfurt participated at the IEEE Region 8 Student and Young Professional Congress. The congress was hosted by the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow which is the largest technical university in Poland educating more than 35 thousand students. This bi-annual event brings together not only representatives of student branches but also young IEEE members that have recently graduated. This year there where around 400 participants from all over region 8 which is the biggest region of IEEE including Europe, Middle East and Africa. Therefore there was a variety of cultures present at the congress offering a very international experience.

The main mission of the congress was to offer a platform for exchanging knowledge and experiences between the young IEEE members. Therefore this congress was especially useful to exchange expertise about the best practices in running an IEEE student branch. During the five days of the congress there where many plenary sessions as well as a variety of workshops. The plenary sessions offered a diverse mix of academic and industrial speeches. They concentrated on the trends in research and technology as well as on the future of IEEE region 8. The workshops covered technological issues, career related issues, as well as problems typically faced in IEEE student branches. Some workshops where held by representatives of Nokia and Motorola giving insights about the latest technological developments. They were complemented by excursions to the respective companies allowing to get a more hands-on experience on the communication technology. Other workshops discussed issues related to organizing student branches and activities. Many workshops focused on career building and thus dealt with topics like idea development, entrepreneurship, and soft skill development.

Finally, also the leisure time had its place. The evening events and likewise the coffee and lunch breaks offered a unique platform for networking with the other participants.

Finally the summer has come and the semester is almost over. To celebrate this accordingly, the student branch organizes a barbeque in cooperation with the ÖH.

It will take place on Friday, June 27 at 5 PM at the ÖH Wohnzimmer behind the Mensa building.

There will be a limited amount of free food and free drinks. To estimate the amount of food to order we would like you to sign up with our registration form: http://tinyurl.com/tewi-bbq-2014.

We hope to see many of you there before you leave for the summer vacation.

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