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USNC Commission-B Business Meeting

Monday, July 10, 20066:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Albuquerque Convention Center San Miguel Room

2006 AP/URSI/AMEREM Meeting, Albuquerque, NM

USNC Commission-B USNC Commission-B Business MeetingBusiness Meeting AGENDA

• Welcome to members and guests

• Approval of the minutes from Washington, D. C.

CHAIR REPORT

COMMITTEE REPORTS

• Membership Committee (Susan Hagness)*

• Technical Activities Report (John Volakis)

• Old business

• New business

• Adjourn

* Susan has to leave by 6:15, so we will move her to first on the agenda.

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Chair Report

USNC-B Officers 2006-2008

Chair: David Jackson

Vice-Chair: Nader Engheta

Secretary: Sembiam Rengarajan

Chair, TAC: John Volakis

Chair, Membership Committee: Susan Hagness

USNC-B Webmaster: Sharad Laxpati


Chair Report

USNC Officers 2006-2008

Chair: George Uslenghi

Past-Chair: Umran Inan

Secretary: Yahya Rahmat-Samii

Accounts Manager: Gary Brown


Chair Report

International URSI-B Officers 2005-2008

Chair: Lot Shafai (Canada)

Vice-Chair: Karl Langenberg (Germany)


Chair Report

International URSI Officers 2005-2008

President: François Lefeuvre (France)

Past-President: Prof. Kristian Schlegel (Germany)

Vice Presidents:Gert Brussaard (the Netherlands)Chalmers Butler (USA)Martti Hallikainen (Finland)Phil Wilkinson (Australia)

Secretary-General: Paul Lagasse (Belgium)

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Website Information

USNC-B: http://www.ece.uic.edu/~URSICommb/ Minutes from the Business Meetings (back to 1997) are there.

Other links:

USNC: http://www.usnc-ursi.org/InternationalURSI-B: http://www.ursi.org/Com%20B%20web/index.html International URSI: http://www.ursi.org/


URSI (NARSM) Ottawa, Canada, July 22-26 (Monday-Thursday), 2007. (Incorrectly listed as July 7-12 on AP website.)

URSI EM Theory Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 26-28 (Thursday-Saturday), 2007.

AP/URSI San Diego, CA, July 5-11, 2008.

URSI General Assembly, Chicago, IL, Aug. 9-16, 2008.

Upcoming URSI Meetings

Additional future meetings may be found on the AP-S and URSI websites. (http://www.ieeeaps.org/ and http://www.ursi.org/ )

No Boulder meeting in 2007.


◊ One possible date is the week of Jan 3, but CU does not like this too much.

◊ Another possible date is the following week, but Commission J does not like this too much.

Dates for Boulder 2008 Meeting


URSI EM Theory Symposium 2007

• Originally planned for Alexandria, Egypt, in May 2007.

• Serious concerns were raised recently about the viability of this venue.

Lack of preparation among Local Organizing Committee

Concerns about Safety

• International URSI consulted with its International Advisory Group (IAG) and the national commission-B chairs.

• It was agreed that the venue will be changed to Ottawa, Canada, at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier hotel, and held immediately following the 2007 URSI North America Radio Science Meeting (not joint with AP this year).


2007 URSI North American Radio Science Meeting

Participation in the 2007 North American Radio Science Meeting (Ottawa) is very important (we will not be meeting jointly with AP-S).

Special sessions for Commission B are being organized together with A. Petosa of the Canadian National Committee. John Volakis is confirming the session details with the organizers.

We need to make a good showing to establish our percentage of the revenue split.


Possible Special Sessions: 2007 URSI North American Radio Science Meeting• Special session in memory of Professor Leopold B. Felsen Organizer: George Uslenghi• Fundamental Limits to Antenna Performance. Organizer: Hans Schantz• Sensor Network Antennas. Organizer: Jeff Facemire• Wearable Antennas/Electronics. Organizers: Peter Hall and Yang Hao• Microscale and Nanoscale Electromagnetics. Organizers: Douglas Werner and Alkym Akyurtly• Emerging Techniques and Applications for Computational Modeling Technologies: Academic and Commercial

Aspects and Challenges. Organizer: Branislav Notaros • Special session on “Guided Wave Theory and Applications,” in honor of Dennis P. Nyquist (retiring). Session

organizers: George Hanson and Mike Havrilla• Square Kilometer Array (Joint with Commission J?). Organizer: Parbhu Patel• The use of Holographic Principles in Antenna Design. Organizers: Derek McNamara and Aldo Petosa• Software Defined Radio. Organizer: J. Seregelyi• Thru-Wall Imaging. Organizers: Aly Fathy and Ahmad Hoorfar• Special session in honor of Professor Wolfgang J. R. Hoefer (retiring). Session organizer: Manos Tentzeris)• Emerging Techniques and Applications for FDTD Computational Modeling of Planetary Electromagnetic Wave

Propagation in the ULF, ELF, and VLF Bands (Half session). Organizer: Jamesina J. Simpson • HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program): Mystery, Development and Applications.

Organizers: Rob Jacobsen and X. Yang.• Impulse Electromagnetics. Organizer: David Giri• Antennas in Reverberation Chambers. Organizer: Per-Simon Kildal


Notes on 2008 URSI General Assembly

◊ The deadline for submissions will be in Jan. 2008.

◊ There will be a $1,000 student support available for students from U. S. institutions.


AP-S AdCom has decided that AP-S members will get a reduced registration rate at the annual IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposia. Should URSI offer any similar discount?

Possible proposal: If a person belongs to any commission of USNC, they will get the same rate as an AP-S member.

Issue of Registration Rates


The URSI EMT Symposium is looking for organizers of special sessions. If you have an interest, please see Lot Shafai.

Note about URSI EMT Symposium


Is this something that we should be doing?

Purging of Membership List

Note: at the business meeting, Chalmers Butler indicated that rules for this were already in place in the bylaws.


Old Business? New Business? Adjourn

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