2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION AND USNC-URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING

WE CORDIALLY INVITE YOU TO ATTEND THE

2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ANTENNAS AND PROPAGATION

AND

 USNC-URSI NATIONAL RADIO SCIENCE MEETING

Dear Colleagues and Friends,

On behalf of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and USNC-URSI, the Steering Committee invites you to attend the joint 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, USA.  The Steering Committee has been working hard to plan an innovative and rewarding technical meeting with numerous opportunities to interact and collaborate with other participants.  We also welcome you to bring your families to Chicago, a very family-friendly city, served by two major airports, O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport.

We represent the premier international venue in the field of antennas and propagation. Our robust technical program is corroborated by many workshops and short-courses. In 2012, a Plenary Session, featuring excellent speakers highlighting the state of the art and emerging areas of research, will inaugurate the technical sessions.  All technical papers must be submitted no later than January 17, 2012 and should comply with the requirements outlined in the Technical Program section of the website.  The IEEE AP-S is sponsoring a student paper contest and a student design contest.

The meeting will be formally inaugurated on July 8, 2012, with a reception at the Art Institute of Chicago, the United States’ second largest art museum. The reception will be in the stunning and recently opened Modern Wing, designed by Pulitzer-Prize winning architect Renzo Piano. The Modern Wing houses the museum’s modern European paintings and sculptures, contemporary art, architecture and design, and photography.  If there is sufficient registration in advance, the Art Institute will put on an educational program for children of participants during the opening reception. 

The Steering Committee also is working on a social program that celebrates the vibrance and diversity of Chicago, the third largest city in the United States.  The Social Program is intended to appeal to participants and their family members of all ages. Chicago’s great magic lies in its mix: sophisticated yet friendly, bustling city streets adjacent to long stretches of green parks and sparkling blue Lake Michigan, and a stunning year-round array of things to see and do unique in all the world. For those who also like to explore on their own or for participants who would like to stay a few extra days to see the city, Chicago is more walkable than most global cities, and visitors of all ages enjoy the proximity of such attractions as Navy Pier, Millennium Park, Art Institute of Chicago and other treasures. The city’s performance art scene delivers theatre, music and dance in historic venues. And, of course, an endless assortment of restaurants, shopping and nightlife are all at your fingertips, ready to match every taste, budget and mood.  Highlights of Chicago and sample two-day and six- day itineraries of activities, in eight different languages, can be found on the Chicago Information pages of this website.

The Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, the conference venue, is the premier convention and business hotel in the Midwest. With over 15 years of award-winning service, it offers 1,209 guest rooms and state-of-the-art meeting space. The hotel, overlooking the Chicago River, is ideally located in the heart of downtown Chicago and is within walking distance of Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, Millennium Park, the Loop business district, the Art Institute, and much more. 

We would like to make this event as technically rewarding and enjoyable as possible, so please do not hesitate to contact the appropriate member of the Steering Committee with any suggestions and ideas.  We welcome your input. 

Adapting a line from Frank Sinatra’s famous song, we want to make Chicago your kind of town.  We look forward to seeing you in Chicago in July 2012.

Best regards,

Danilo Erricolo

General Chair of the 2012 Steering Committee

http://www.ieeeaps.org/pdfs/IEEE_2012call_for_papers.pdf

http://www.ece.uic.edu/2012aps-ursi/

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Topology Optimization of Metamaterials and Applications to Ultra-Compact Antennas and Reconfigurable Filters

Reminder for everyone:

On Monday December 5^th, Raoul Ouedraogo will present his work on topology optimization of metamaterial inclusions and applications to antenna miniaturization, tunable filters, and sensors.

For more information please check out:

http://www.ieeeboston.org/org/subgroups/antennas_propagation.html

Date: Dec 5^th 2011

Time: 6pm

Venue: MIT Lincoln Laboratory A-Café

Lincoln Laboratory will be providing cookies and coffee.

I hope to see you all there.

Best

Raoul Ouedraogo

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Multifunction Phased Array Radar for Air Traffic and Weather Surveillance

Aerospace & Electronic Systems; Antenna & Propagation; and Microwave Theory & Techniques Societies

6:00 PM, Tuesday, 8 November

Multifunction Phased Array Radar for Air Traffic and Weather Surveillance

Jeffrey S. Herd, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA

A multifunction phased array radar (MPAR) system has been proposed as the next-generation solution to provide both weather and primary aircraft surveillance—a functionality that no current radar can satisfy. Instead of using a rotating antenna, as current civilian radar systems do, an MPAR has no moving parts and electronically shapes and steers its radar beam. This unique beam agility permits increased vertical resolution and faster full-volume scan rates, thus enabling one radar unit to perform multiple weather and atmospheric surveillance tasks. One clear advantage of the MPAR system is a potential reduction in the total number of ground-based radars. In addition, MPAR surveillance capabilities will exceed those of current operational radars, for example, by providing more frequent weather volume scans and by providing vertical resolution and height estimates for primary aircraft targets.
Under FAA sponsorship, MIT Lincoln Laboratory and M/A-COM Technology Solutions have developed an active electronically scanning phased array antenna panel, which demonstrates the fundamental building block of an MPAR system. The phased array panels function together coherently to radiate and receive pulses of radar energy that can be used to detect, locate, and track both aircraft and weather targets. A preliminary assessment indicated that full system implementation could result in the deployment of approximately 350 radars. To effectively compete with current mechanically scanned solutions, the MPAR system must achieve an aggressive cost goal, while equaling or bettering current performance metrics. The MPAR panel helps achieve the ambitious cost targets by using highly integrated microwave components and commercial manufacturing practices. Furthermore, the electronically scanning MPAR array panels can accomplish diverse surveillance tasks much more quickly, and with more flexibility than can the mission-specific rotating antenna systems in use today.
The MIT Lincoln Laboratory program is addressing key technology challenges including low cost dual polarized active phased array panels, overlapped digital subarray architecture, and accurate performance and cost models for the radars. This presentation will describe the current status of these efforts, and describe future enhancements.
Jeffrey S. Herd received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1982, 1983 and 1989, respectively. From 1983–1999, he was with the Antenna Technology Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB, MA. From 1992-1994, he was a visiting scientist with the Antenna Group of the Institute for High Frequency Techniques, German Aerospace Research Establishment (DLR), Munich, Germany. In 1999, he joined MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA, where he is currently an Assistant Group Leader in the Advanced RF Sensing and Exploitation Group. MIT Lincoln Laboratory conducts research and development aimed at solutions to problems critical to national security. The Advanced RF Sensing and Exploitation Group is developing advanced RF technologies and adaptive signal processing techniques for next generation RF surveillance systems. Dr. Herd’s research interests include ultra-wideband arrays, RF pre-conditioning networks, multifunction T/R modules, digital sub-array architectures, and wideband digital receivers.
*This work was sponsored by the FAA under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
Meeting will be held at MIT Lincoln Laboratory A-Café, 244 Wood Street, Lexington, MA. For directions please see: http://www.ll.mit.edu/about/map.html
For more information, contact Aerospace & Electronic Systems chair, Eli Brookner eli_brookner@raytheon.com or Antennas & Propagation chair, Gregory Charvat at Gregory.charvat@ll.mit.edu