Taken from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine,
vol. 44, no. 6, December 2002, pp. 88-90. Copyright 2002 by the IEEE,
acting as agent and trustee for the Antennas and Propagation Society.
CHAPTER
INFORMATION
Message from
the IEEE about web conferencing
The message below is from April Nakamura, IEEE Chapter Coordinator.
There is a wonderful new tool for available for Societies to use in reducing conference costs while increasing contact with remote Chapters. PlaceWare, Inc. has been engaged by the IEEE to provide Internet Conferencing Services to all IEEE volunteers and entities (for conducting IEEE business). Essentially, the attendees of an Internet Conference see on their computer the content which is being discussed during a live teleconference. The result is an efficient, appealing and effective meeting at a minimal expense.
I believe that this tool will be especially valuable to Societies who wish to establish a closer connection with their international Chapters because it allows you to reach out to your Chapters anytime, anywhere. For a nominal fee and the cost of a phone call, you can host a session with a Chapter and provide live discussion, PowerPoint presentations, hold votes, poll the audience, tour websites and share applications. Anyone with a phone and a web browser can participate.
Each conference incurs a fee of $50 that includes use of the application for a scheduled conference, administration of invitations and other arrangements. The only other cost is the phone charge that can also be arranged by IEEE Internet Conferencing Organizers. For more information about internet conferencing, visit: http://www.ieee.org/web/webconf/. A training session will be scheduled for all Society Chapter Volunteers who are interested in learning more about Internet Conferencing.
This benefit will improve Chapter's access to technical information and expand the content they can offer to the Members while keeping meetings affordable! With tight budgets, schedules and safety concerns reducing everyone's ability to travel, Internet Conferencing can send a Distinguished Lecturer's message around the world and no one needs to leave home! I hope that you will support Internet conferencing with your Society's Chapters. Some great applications may include Virtual Distinguished Lecturer Tours, sharing of technical content during conferences and including remote Chapters in Society events.
Training sessions for Society Chapter Coordinators, Chapter Chairs and Distinguished Lecturers are available upon request. If you would like to learn more, please contact me at: a.nakamura@ieee.org
If you have any question or comments about this program, please contact IEEE's Internet Conferencing Organizer, Lenore Johnson at: l.e.johnson@ieee.org
RECENT CHAPTER
MEETINGS
Chicago
October 24, 2002, “Prospects for
Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Computational Electrodynamics,” Prof.
Allen Taflove, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern
University, Chicago, USA.
November 18, 2002, Novel Applications of the
Dielectric Resonator,” Prof. Thomas T. Y. Wong, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA.
East Ukraine
September 23, 2002, “Multiconductor Transmission Lines,” Dr. Carl Baum, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA. September 24, 2002, “Impulse Radiating Antennas” and “Buried Targets,” Dr. Carl Baum, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, USA. September 25, 2002, “Electromagnetic Sensors” and “Electromagnetic Topology,” Dr. Carl Baum, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, USAOctober 10, 2002, “Wave Diffraction by a Rectangular Dielectric Cylinder,” Dr. Ludmila N. Ilyashenko, Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, Kharkov, Ukraine. October 10, 2002, “The Origin of Radio Physics in the Kharkov,” Prof. Alexander I. Nosich, Institute of Radio Physics & Electronics, Kharkov, Ukraine. October 19, 2002, “Integral Equations of Solar Plasma Magneto Hydrodynamics,” Prof. A. A. Alexandrova, Kharkov Military University, Kharkov, Ukraine.
Hong Kong
October 4, 2002, “Development of Efficient CAD Tools for the Simulation
of RFIC and MMIC Packages,” Prof Raj Mittra, Electromagnetic Communication Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA, USA.
October 28, 2002, “Novel Applications of the Dielectric Resonator,
Prof. Thomas Wong, Dept. of
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago,
IL, USA.
October 29, 2002, “Scattering
from Randomly Rough Surfaces, Application to Remote Sensing,” Prof. Marc
Saillard, University of Provence, Marseille, and the Remote Sensing and
Microwave Applications team of the Fresnel Institute, France.
October 17, 2002, “For the useful utilization of spectrum in the IT Age,”
Mr. Fusaki Matsui, Director-General of the Hokuriku Regional Bureau of
Telecommunications, Kanazawa, Japan.
October 15, 2002, “Miniaturised and Multifunction Antennas for Future Communications Terminals,” Prof. Peter Hall, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
October 17, 2002, “Active Integrated Antennas,”
Prof. Peter Hall, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
October 18, 2002, “From Electromagnetics to
the Mobile Internet,” Prof. Peter Hall, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Presence,”
Dr. I. P. Kozlov, Moscow Aviation
University, Russia.
Nanjing
November 1, 2002, “Photonic Feeding of Coplanar
Antenna for Microwave & Millimeter-Wave Applications,” Dr. Keren Li, Communication Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan.
November 14,
2002, “Design of Planar Waveguide-Slot Array Antennas,”
Mr. Lin Jin, Senior Engineer, Nanjing Research Inst. of Electron. Tech.,
Nanjing, China.
November 14, 2002, “Design of Microstrip Coupler with High Directivity,” Ms. Lin Jin, Senior Engineer, Nanjing Research Inst. of Electron. Tech., Nanjing, China.
Orlando
October 8, 2002, “A
Hybrid FEM/MOM Model of Electromagnetic Coupling: Practical Considerations,”
Dr. Brian Lail, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA.
Singapore
August 29, 2002, “A New Dimension for RF System Integration & Miniaturization,” Prof. Ke-Li Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. August 30, 2002, “An Explicit Knowledge-Embedded Space Mapping Scheme for Optimization Design of LTCC RF Passive Circuits,” Prof. Ke-Li Wu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR. September 27, 2002, “Signaling in the Rain,” Prof. Yeo Tat Soon, National University of Singapore, Singapore. September 27, 2002, “Electromagnetic Compatibility and You,” Prof. Yeo Tat Soon, National University of Singapore, Singapore. September 27, 2002, “Precision Radar Target Location,” Prof. Yeo Tat Soon, National University of Singapore, Singapore. September 27, 2002, “Antennas for Mobile Communications,” Prof. Kazuhiro Hirasawa, University of Tsukuba, Japan. West Ukraine
September 11, 2002, “Eigenwaves in the Layered
Medium of Biperiodic Strip Arrays,” Sergey Prosvirnin and Dmitriy Tyrnov,
Institute of Radio Astronomy, NASU, Kharkov Ukraine.
September 18, 2002, “Electromagnetic Characteristics of Double-Periodic
Magnetodielectric Layer Bounded by Two Uniform Media,” Nikolai Sidorchuk,
Victor Yachin, and Sergey Prosvirnin, Institute of Radio Astronomy, NASU,
Kharkov Ukraine.
October 9, 2002, “Electromagnetic Wave Diffraction by a Double-Layer Periodic
Grating of Curvilinear Metal Strips,” Pavel Mladyonov, Institute of Radio
Astronomy, NASU, Kharkov Ukraine.
October 29, 2002, “Obstacle Shape Reconstruction by Measured Far-Field
Patterns of Scattered Field,” Oleg Kysyi, Pidstryhach Institute of Applied
Problems of Mechanics and Mathematics, NASU, Lviv, Ukraine.
The East Ukraine Chapter organized the International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetic Theory, held during September 10-13, 2002. The conference had a total of 176 papers (including 28 invited papers and 148 contributed), and was attended by 200+ participants (including 48 from the West), with 51 participants being IEEE members. The venue was the Kyivska Politekhnika in Kiev, Ukraine. The Chair of the conference was Prof. Eldar I. Veliev.
The Kharkov chapter co-organized the workshop UWBUSIS 2002 (Ultra Wide
Band and Ultra Short Impulse Signals, held Oct. 1, 2002 at the Kharkov National
University in Kharkov, Ukraine. The international workshop attracted 47
participants from the USA, Turkey, Russia, and the Ukraine. Technical sessions
were held on antennas, radars, communications, propagation, and mathematical
models. Six plenary session papers were presented, which will be published in a
special issue of the Journal of Radio Physics and Radio Astronomy. Please see
the Chapter Spotlight below for some photos from UWBUSIS 2002.
The All-Russian XX-th Scientific Conference on Radio Wave Propagation, with a participation of foreign scientists and experts, took place on 2-4 July, 2002 in the City of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia). These conferences on radio wave propagation are traditionally held in Russia once every three years. The conference organizers were the Radio Physics Research Institute (RRI) as the head organization, Nizhny Novgorod State University, and the Institute of Applied Physics (Nizhny Novgorod). It was co-sponsored and supported also by the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, the RAS Scientific Council on “Radio Wave Propagation”, and the MTT/ED/AP/CPMT/SSC-SS Nizhny Novgorod Chapter. An aim of the conference was to promote scientific advances and to get information on the latest results from investigations into fundamental and applied science problems of radio wave propagation.
The conference had plenary and special sessions on the following topics:
- Radio wave propagation and remote sensing of the upper atmosphere and near-earth space
- Propagation of UHF and SHF waves in the troposphere
- Propagation of kilometric and longer radio waves
- Radio wave propagation and non-linear effects in the ionosphere
- Remote sensing of the atmosphere and earth surface
- Mathematical simulation of radio waves propagation processes.
West Ukraine
The West Ukraine Chapter organized, together with the MTT/ED Republic of
Georgia Chapter, the VIIth International Seminar/Workshop on Direct and Inverse
Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Theory (DIPED-2002). It was held
on October 10-13, 2002, at Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia. A total
of 33 papers from authors in Georgia, Germany, Poland, Russia, Taiwan, USA, and
the Ukraine were presented at the Seminar in six oral sections. For more
information, please contact Dr. Mykhaylo I. Andriychuk (e-mail
andr@iapmm.lviv.ua), and Dr. David D. Karkashadze (e-mail lae@access.sanet.ge),
or visit the West Ukraine Chapter Web Site http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/cpmt/ukraine.
Figures 1-4 were taken at the UWBUSIS 2002 workshop that was co-organized by the Kharkov Chapter. Figure 1 shows the workshop Chair Prof. N. Kolchigin, opening the workshop. From left to right are Prof. L. Astanin, Prof. Ya. Shifrin, Prof. N. Kolchigin (standing), and Prof. O. Tyrnov. Figure 2 shows Dr. Carl Baum presenting CDs of material from the Air Force Research laboratory (Interaction Notes and Sensor and Simulation Notes). Figure 3 shows a group photo of the workshop participants, taken in the University hall. Figure 4 is a photo taken during the workshop banquet (Prof. Shifrin is standing).