MTT-S E-Newsletter

IMS 2009 in Boston

On behalf of the IMS2009 Steering Committee, I invite you to participate in IMS2009. We plan to make IMS2009 and microwave week memorable, and we hope to include you. IMS2009 will be in Boston and promises to be exceptional. We have always set records in Boston, and we plan to do it again. But we aren't resting on our laurels. We also plan to continue Boston's tradition of innovation. We are working hard to make IMS2009 the best possible experience for all participants - authors, technical attendees, trade show attendees, exhibitors, guests and even people that aren't able to attend. You'll find information on some exciting innovations at ims2009.org, and we'll post updates frequently. Make sure you visit our website often to learn what is new!

Now is the time to start thinking about technical contributions. If you want to submit a paper, the deadline is 8 December. Make sure you review the Call for Papers, available at ims2009.org. If you have never submitted a paper before, I encourage you to try. The Call for Papers has critical information on what to submit and how to submit. You can also submit ideas for Workshops, Panel Sessions, Special Sessions and Short Courses. The deadline for proposals is 19 September. You'll find details at our website. When you visit ims2009.org, be sure to sign up for the IMS Insider, a monthly newsletter that will keep you up to day on the latest IMS2009 information.

See you in Boston next June!

Fred Schindler
General Chair of IMS2009

IMS2009 Upcoming Deadline for Proposals

Special technical forums provide an important component of the International Microwave Symposium. We've all sat through good events and bad events. Here is your chance to give us your ideas for a good event and make sure your interests are highlighted. Proposals are solicited for Workshops, Short Courses, Panel/Rump Sessions and Focus/Special Sessions and are due by 19 September 2008. Follow the links for each item or go to www.ims2009.org to learn more about these and other IMS2009 developments.

Fred Schindler
General Chair of IMS2009

IMS2016 in San Francisco, IMS2017 in Honolulu.

At the June meeting of the IEEE MTT-S Administrative Committee (AdCom), the selection for the host city of the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) is made. The selection process occurs over several months and culminates in a presentation by the prospective host cities and an AdCom vote. This year two cities (Honolulu, HI, and San Francisco, CA) were selected. San Francisco will host the IMS in 2016, the general chair being Amarpal (Paul) Khanna, followed by Honolulu hosting the IMS in 2017, the general chair being Kevin Miyashiro. On behalf of the general chairs, we look forward to you attending the conference.

Karl Varian
Chairman, IMS Site Inspection and Negotiating Committee

8th Workshop on Computational Electromagnetics in Time-Domain (CEM-TD 2009)

The University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C., Canada, will be hosting the 8th Workshop on Computational Electromagnetics in Time-Domain, CEM-TD 2009. The workshop is scheduled for June 16-18, the week following IMS 2009 in Boston. The main objectives of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from around the globe to exchange new ideas and experiences in time domain electromagnetic modeling; to stimulate the development of novel time domain algorithms and their applications to realistic and challenging problems, and to further the development of an open source computational electromagnetics system. The workshop will consist of invited special talks, contributed presentations and poster sessions. Paper Submission is January 31, 2009.

Website: http://www.cerl.ece.uvic.ca/cem-td_2009.htm
Contact: Secretary - Donna Shannon at email: dshannon@uvic.ca

Welcome to New Associate Editor of Microwave Magazine E-Newsletter

I would like to officially welcome Dr. Ryan Miyamoto as the Associate Editor of the Microwave Magazine e-Newsleter. Dr. Miyamoto has actually been performing this role for a few months now. You will notice a much more professional look to this September 2008 issue of the e-Newsletter and you might also notice changes that you suggested to us in our recent membership survey. These are the direct result of Ryan's efforts.

Dr. Miyamoto is a Senior RF Research Engineer responsible for the technical direction of Oceanit's Radar/ECM programs and managing multiple programs in RF system development and application sponsored by the DoD, including sensors and electronic warfare. He serves as a reviewer for various technical journals including the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques. He has been a member of the IMS Technical Program Committee since 2005, and has chaired the TPC Subcommittee on Smart Antennas and Phased Arrays (SC 29). He was a recipient of the ISAP Award presented at 2000 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP). Dr. Miyamoto received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002.

I hope you will join me welcoming Dr. Miyamoto to the position, and I hope you are as pleased with the results as I am.

Mike Golio
Editor-in-chief, IEEE Microwave Magazine

September 2008

Adcom Meeting in Atlanta

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Calls for Papers for Upcoming Conferences

(September, October and November deadlines)

2009 IEEE International Systems Conference will be held March 23-26, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. The abstract submission deadline is September 1, 2008. Additional information is available at
http://sysconf09.ieeesystemscouncil.org/docs/sysconf09_cfp.pdf
72nd ARFTG Conference In conjunction with the NIST/ARFTG Measurement Short Course, ARFTG will hold its 72nd Microwave Measurement Conference at the Red Lion Jantzen Beach in Portland, OR, Dec 9th - 12th, 2008. Technical papers describing original work in the areas of RF/microwave and high-speed time domain and frequency domain measurement are solicited. (The paper submission deadline is Sep 8, 2008)
http://www.arftg.org/conferences/72nd_conference.html
The 10th annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology (WAMI) Conference (WAMICON 2008) will be held on beautiful Sand Key beach in Clearwater, FL on April 20-21 2009. The conference will address up-to-date multidisciplinary research needs and interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology. The program includes oral presentations, poster presentations, workshops, and tutorials. (The abstract deadline is Sep 15, 2008)
http://wamicon.eng.usf.edu/
The 2009 International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2009) is the foremost forum for presentation of advances in solid-state circuits and systems-on-a-chip, which is held Feb 8-12, 2009. The Conference offers a unique opportunity for engineers working at the cutting edge of IC design and use to maintain technical currency, and to network with leading experts. (The submission deadline is Sep 22, 2008)
http://www.isscc.org
The 2009 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon09) returns to the USA in Pasadena, California, May 4-8, after the 2008 conference in Rome, Italy. (Summary papers are due Sep 26, 2008)
http://www.radarcon09.org
2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series (IMWS 2009) on Signal Integrity and High-Speed Interconnects will be held February 19-20, 2009, in Guadalajara, Mexico (Paper submission deadline: Oct 6, 2008)
http://www.imws2009-r9.org/
The IEEE Topical Symposium on Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications will be held during January 19-20, 2009 in San Diego, CA. (The abstract submission deadline is Oct 25, 2008)
http://www.mttwireless.org/rww2009/PAS2009CFP.pdf
The 25th International Review of Progress in Applied Computational Electromagnetics (ACES 2009) will be held during March 8-12, 2009 in Monterey, CA. (The abstract submission deadline is Nov 14, 2008)
http://aces.ee.olemiss.edu/conf/conferenceinfo.asp

Upcoming Conferences

(September, October and November)

2008 IEEE Radar Conference will be held Sep 2-5, 2008. This conference represents the second time Australia has hosted this five nation series of RADAR 20xx conferences for which the AESS Radar Systems panel acts as international guardian.
http://www.radar2008.com
The 2008 IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2008) will take place at the Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany, on September 10-12, 2008. This conference provides a forum for the latest UWB systems, technologies and applications in both microwave and millimeter wave bands.
http://www.icuwb2008.org/
The 2008 International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz) will be held Sep 15-19, 2008 in Pasadena, CA. , The conference, now in its 33rd year, is the oldest and largest continuous forum specifically devoted to the field of ultra high frequency electronics and applications.
http://www.irmmw-thz2008.org/home/index.html
8th International Seminar/Workshop on Direct and Inverse Problems of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Wave Theory (DIPED 2008) will be held September 22-25 in Tbilisi, Georgia. The workshop provides an opportunity to exchange scientific results and current research progress in the area of electromagnetics, electrodynamics, antennas and acoustics theory and applications.
http://ewh.ieee.org/r8/ukraine/georgian/DIPED/
2008 IEEE Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics jointly held with the 2008 Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics Conference (MWP2008+APMP2008) will be held September 30-October 3 in Gold Coast, Australia. This is the first jointly held conference incorporating both the IEEE International Microwave Photonics conference and the Asia-Pacific Microwave Photonics conference.
http://www.mwp2008.org/
2008 IEEE Compound Semiconductor IC Symposium will be held Oct 12-15, 2008 in Monterey, CA. , The CSIC Symposium is the preeminent international forum on developments in integrated circuits using compound semiconductors such as GaAs, InP, GaN, SiGe and other materials.
http://www.csics.org/
17th Conference on Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging will be held Oct 27-29, 2008. The goal of the meeting is to be the leading conference dealing with advanced and emerging issues in electrical design of interconnect structures and assurance of signal integrity.
http://www.epep.org
The European Microwave Week 2008 continues the series of successful microwave events, following Amsterdam (1998 and 2004), Munich (1999, 2003 and 2007), Paris (2000 and 2005), London (2001), Milan (2002), and Manchester (2006) with its 11th Conference and Exhibition Week. The event will be held Oct 27-31 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
http://www.eumweek.com/
The International Conference on Recent Advances in Microwave Theory and Applications (The Microwave –2008) will be held Nov 14-21 in Jaipur, India.
http://www.uniraj.ernet.in/~microwave/microwave-08psd.html
The workshop on Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimetre-wave Circuits (INMMiC) will be held at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería de Telecomunicación of Universidad de Málaga (Spain) on November 24th - 25th, 2008. After earlier successful workshops in 2004 in Rome and 2006 in Aveiro INMMiC offers again a forum for promoting, discussing and spreading ideas in the field of Nonlinear Microwave and Millimetre-wave circuits.
http://www.inmmic.org/