CAS Society News Santa Clara Valley Chapter he IEEE Circuits and Systems society Santa Clara Valley Chapter held its first lecture event of 2019 on January 31st with Dr. Ratnesh Kumar who is currently a Deep Learning Architect at nVidia Inc. USA. The lecture titled "Vehicle Re-identification for Smart Cities: A New Baseline Using Triplet Embedding" gave the audience an insight into a very complex visual computing scenario involving surveillance cameras that are being proliferated in major cities in order to make them smart and safe. The total attendance was 15. On February 21st, CASS co-sponsored a lecture event with IEEE Solid State Circuits Society local chapter on the topic of "Cryogenic CMOS Interfaces for Large-Scale Quantum Computers" presented by Dr. Fabio Sebastiano who is the currently a T Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCAS.2019.2909601 Date of publication: 20 May 2019 researcher at the Quantum Computing lab QuTech at TU Delft. The lecture described unique challenges in building robust circuits and their interfaces operating at Cryogenic temperatures. The total attendance was 20. On February 22nd, CASS organized two PLL lectures held at the Main Auditorium of Texas Instruments Inc. site in Santa Clara. The first lecture titled "Sub-Sampling Techniques For Mm-Wave And Digital Phase-Locked Loops" was given by Prof. Teerachot Siriburanon who is an Associate Professor at University College Dublin in Ireland. Prof. Siriburanon gave an overview of low-power and low-phase-noise phase-locked loops (PLLs) utilizing sub-sampling techniques. The second lecture was given by Prof. Michael Peter Kennedy (FIEEE) who is a Professor of Microelectronic Engineering at University College Dublin and the President of the Royal Irish Academy (RIA). Prof. Kennedy started the discussion with new insights into underlying mechanisms for excess noise and Ieee circuits and systems society Lecture event with Prof. Teerachot siriburanon and Prof. michael Peter Kennedy (FIeee). From left to right mojtaba sharifzadeh (chair sscs), Jonathan david (cAss Advisor), Prof. Teerachot siriburanon (Ucd), Imran Bashir (cAss chair), Prof. michael Peter Kennedy (Ucd), Amit Jha (cAss Vice chair), Robert s. ogg (cAss Advisor), george chen (cAss secretary). second QUARTeR 2019 Ieee cIRcUITs And sysTems mAgAzIne 3