Join us for an exciting afternoon of self-defense practice! All skill levels are welcome, and no experience is required. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1958279

Reconfigurable filters are key components in the development of agile multi-standard receivers. The advent of innovative switched capacitor arrays and switch technologies based on Silicon on Sapphire, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and Phase Change Material (PCM) technologies permits the development of a new generation of high linearity, low loss, and low power consumption tunable components. In this new generation of reconfigurable microwave front-ends, microwave reconfigurable filters are among the most critical and challenging components to perform adaptive frequency-band selection. This DML talk starts by addressing the needs for using multi-band and tunable filters in wireless communication systems and in flexible satellite payloads. It then addresses existing tuning technologies, providing a comparison between piezoelectric, Semiconductor, MEMS and PCM tuning elements in terms of linearity, insertion loss, suitability for use at millimeter-wave frequencies and ease of integration with high-Q filters. It outlines major design considerations for tunable filters presenting techniques to realize tunable filters with an absolute constant absolute bandwidth and a constant frequency spacing between transmission zeros, over a wide tuning range. The talk also illustrates examples of tunable filters and diplexers tuned only a by single tuning element, while exhibiting a constant absolute bandwidth. It then addresses approaches for realizing multi-band filters including dual-band and triple-band filters. Finally, it presents techniques for realizing multi-band filters where the various bands are tunable in both center frequency and bandwidth. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1958050

The USF Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is proud to host an art exhibit this semester, Quilting Our History: An Exhibit of Quilts by Lauren Austin, which will open on Monday, February 12. . . . . Lauren Austin is a Florida-based storytelling artist who has worked for over 30 years in the medium of quilts. Austin’s work merges her own life story with that of Black history and cultural memory. Her quilts are large-scale mixed media pieces, incorporating photographic processes, stone lithograph, beading, hand-stitching, and hand-dyed fabrics.. . . . There is an open house reception on 2/12 from 2:00-3:30pm in CMC 202. Additionally, there will be two free companion events – a fabric artbook workshop on February 21 and a public lecture on February 22. More information about the exhibit and events can be found at: https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/womens-gender-studies/news-and-events/austin.aspx.. . . . To schedule an appointment to see the exhibit, both for individuals and groups, email us at cas-wgs@usf.edu. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1954814

Hey Bulls! Interested in earning service hours while serving a great cause? We are improving literacy and improving lives at Joshua House, and YOU can help! Come out and read to underprivileged children, every Thursday from 2 to 4. Reading materials will be provided; just bring a smile and a positive attitude. THOSE THAT ARE NOT SIGNED UP FROM THE SIGN-UP GENIUS LINK BELOW WILL BE TURNED AWAY AND UNABLE TO VOLUNTEER. SIGNING UP ON BULLSCONNECT DOES NOT GUARANTEE A SPOT.. . . . IMPORTANT: Please sign up through the SignUpGenius link as well as the BullsConnect link so that Joshua House knows how many readers to expect! . . https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0845ABA82D6-reading#/ . . --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1948086

Come join us for our weekly social, we provide boards, clocks, and pieces. No experience needed! --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1945191

GBM - Students (both undergraduate and graduate) deliver a presentation on a topic related to philosophy. --- Event Details: https://bullsconnect.usf.edu/rsvp?id=1941221