ATTENDEES
Why Wamicon? Please read this interesting article summarizing the highlights of Wamicon 2011.
2011 IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)
The 12th annual IEEE WAMICON was held at beautiful Clearwater Beach, Florida on April 18-19, 2011.
A total of 197 people attended this event, coming from thirteen countries on six continents including Australia, Canada, China, Colombia,
Egypt, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, and U.S.A. The technical program for each day of this two-day conference
consisted of three parallel sessions: two technical sessions and one tutorial session.
A poster session was held during the reception on the first day in which both researchers and students presented their results.
The technical sessions addressed up-to-date multidisciplinary research needs and interdisciplinary aspects of wireless and RF technology.
The topics covered the areas of microwave and millimeter-wave circuits, passive components and antennas, power amplifiers, wireless sensors
and sensor networks, and wireless communications. There were also three special sessions focusing on biomedical applications, load pull applications,
and nonlinear measurements. The poster session consisting of 8 researcher and 15 student presentations provided students a good opportunity to mix
with experienced people in from academia, industry, and government. This session, in particular, has met with great reviews from both students and
experienced individuals alike since it provides for a unique opportunity for the two different generations to converse about research, work, and
microwaves in general. This session style will continue in future WAMICONs.
Exhibitions and poster session
Tutorials have been a highlight of WAMICON, since its inception, for their high qualities The organizers of WAMICON are grateful to the generous support from exhibitors and sponsors. 2011 WAMICON had 23 exhibitors and 10 sponsors. Four levels of sponsorships included Platinum (Mini-Circuits and RFMD), Gold (Agilent Technologies, AWR, Harris, and Trak), Corporate (Cree and Maury Microwave), and Media (High Frequency Electronics and Microwave Journal) and timely topics. 2011 WAMICON had five tutorials: Linear Power Amplifier Design for Mobile Communications (Dr. Bumman Kim); X-Parameters - New Paradigm for Interoperable Measurement, Modeling, and Simulation of Nonlinear Microwave and RF Components (Dr. David Root); Microwave Sensors for Industrial Applications (Dr. Reinhard Knoechel); Terahertz in Space and Applications on Earth (Dr. Peter Siegel); and Electromagnetic Metamaterials and their Microwave Applications (Dr. Christophe Caloz).
Three best conference papers and one best student research presentation were selected by a group of judges in the technical program committee. The Cree Corporation sponsored the prizes to the winners, which follow below.
First Place Award: Mustafa Özen, Chalmers University of Technology, "High Efficiency RF Pulse Width Modulation with Tunable Load Network Class-E PA."
Second Place Award: Jung-Chih Chiao, University of Texas at Arlington, "Wireless Implants
for in-vivo Diagnosis and Closed-Loop Treatment."
Third Place Award: Changzhi Li, Texas Tech. University, "Radar Motion Sensing for Accurate Tumor Tracking in Radiation Therapy."
Best Student Research Presentation: Justin Luther, University of Central Florida, "Electrically Steerable Parasitic Radiator (ESPAR) Antenna with Reactance-Tuned Coupling and Maintained Resonance."
Justin Luther presented his research (top) and received the best student research presentation award (bottom).
During the banquet on the evening of first day, the General Chair, James Culver announced the recipient of the Dr. Rudy Henning award.
Each year the WAMICON Awards Committee considers several nominations for individuals that
have demonstrated exemplary service by encouraging
students
and/or mentoring young engineers to advance careers in the areas of RF/microwave and/or wireless engineering.
This year the award went to Dr. Linda P. B. Katehi, University of California, Davis. The Awards Committee Chair, Richard Abrahams,
read the citation from one of Dr. Katehi’s colleagues, “Throughout the course of my professional career I cannot think of any other person
that better deserves, on a national or an international level, the Rudy Henning Award than Dr. Katehi. She exemplifies the absolute and perfect
model of the dedicated microwave and engineering educator and mentor, with an unparalleled degree of devotion towards her graduate and undergraduate
students and collaborators…... Over twenty of her former students are currently microwave engineering professors at top universities around the world
and the rest of them hold leading positions in companies and national laboratories or organizations.”
Dr. Linda Katehi (right) received the Rudy Henning
Award from the awards chair Richard Abrahams (left)
On the early morning of Day 2, there was a plenary session in which two keynote speakers, Dr. Sanjay Raman, DARPA MTO, and Dr. Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory, discussed the current projects and new directions of research in their each respective organization. A panel session was held right after the plenary session addressing government perspectives on wireless and microwave systems. Drs. Robert Trew (NSF), Felix Miranda (NASA), Sanjay Raman (DARPA), and Romeo Del Rosario (ARL) introduced their organizations and interacted with the attendees. Banquet was held at Hilton Hotel on the beach.
On the early morning of Day 2, there was a plenary session in which two keynote speakers, Dr. Sanjay Raman, DARPA
MTO, and
Dr. Bruce Carlsten, Los Alamos National Laboratory, discussed the current projects and new directions of research in their each respective organization.
A panel session was held right after the plenary session addressing government perspectives on wireless and microwave systems. Drs. Robert Trew (NSF),
Felix Miranda (NASA), Sanjay Raman (DARPA), and Romeo Del Rosario (ARL) introduced their organizations and interacted with the attendees.
The IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON) is an annual event and will be held at Cocoa Beach, Fl next year.
You are invited to join us in April 2012 for stimulating and original presentations in the area of Microwave and Wireless technology.
Please visit our webpage (www.wamicon.org) for information on submitting original papers.
Keynote speaker Dr. Bruce Carlsten in the
plenary session