2012 National Radio Science Meeting, January 4-7, 2012
Program information can be found at http://www.nrsmboulder.org/. The USNC-URSI Committee met on Tuesday, January 3, from 7:00–11:00PM at the Millennium Hotel. The USNC-URSI Executive Council met on Saturday, January 7, from 8:30–10:00AM at the Millennium Hotel.
USNC-URSI Supports Students at 2012 National Radio Science Meeting
USNC-URSI maintains an active student travel and support program. The committee provided travel support for 104 students to the annual National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, Colorado in early January 2012. Each of these students presented at least one paper at the conference as first author.
Another important part of the student program is the Ernest K. Smith USNC-URSI Student Prize Prize competition held at the Boulder meeting each January. Three student papers were selected as finalists in the competition and received awards of $1,000, $750, and $500 for first, second, and third places respectively.
From left to right: Steve Reising, Susan Hagness, Matthew Burfeindt, Pai-Yen Chen, Timothy Brockett, Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Danilo Erricolo
The 2012 winners are:
First place:
Matthew Burfeindt, University of Wisconsin-Madison - "SNR-enhanced Inverse Scattering for Microwave Breast Imaging" (advisors: Susan Hagness and Barry Van Veen)
Second place:
Timothy Brockett, UCLA - "A New Paradigm in Solar Energy Harvesting: Characterization of High Absorption Nanopillar Array Photovoltaics" (co-author: Harish Rajagopalan and advisor: Yahya Rahmat-Samii)
Third place:
Pai-Yen Chen, University of TX at Austin - "Ultra-Broadband Mantle Cloak Using Non-Foster Negative-Impedance Metasurfaces" (advisor: Andrea Alù)
2012 IEEE AP-S and USNC-URSI Meeting
The 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and the USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting will be held on July 8-14, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. The joint meeting is intended to provide an international forum for the exchange of information on state-of-the-art research in the areas of antennas, propagation, electromagnetic engineering, and radio science. The deadline for abstract submission is Tuesday, January 17, 2012. Please view the flyer for more information.
30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium
The 30th URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium was held on August 13-20, 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey. For more information on the scientific program, please visit the XXX URSI General Assembly website.
Photo copied from http://www.ursigass2011.org/.
