2020 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and North American Radio Science Meeting
5-10 July 2020 • Montréal, Québec, Canada
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URSI-A Electromagnetic Metrology | |||
| A.1*: | Microwave to sub-millimeter measurements/standards | ||
| A.2*: | Quantum metrology and fundamental concepts | ||
| A.3*: | Time and frequency | ||
| A.4*: | Time-domain metrology, EM-field metrology | ||
| A.5*: | EMC and EM metrology | ||
| A.6*: | Noise | ||
| A.7*: | Materials | ||
| A.8*: | Bioeffects and medical applications | ||
| A.9*: | Antennas | ||
| A.10*: | Impulse radar | ||
| A.11*: | Interconnect and packaging | ||
| A.12*: | Test facilities | ||
| A.13*: | THz metrology | ||
| A.14*: | High-Frequency and millimeter wireless metrology | ||
URSI-B Fields and Waves | |||
| B.1*: | Antenna arrays | ||
| B.2: | Antenna theory, design, and measurements | ||
| B.2.1*: | Active antennas | ||
| B.2.2*: | Active and passive antenna matching | ||
| B.2.3*: | Antenna and propagation measurement techniques | ||
| B.2.4*: | Small antennas | ||
| B.2.5*: | Other antenna topics | ||
| B.3: | Complex, novel, or specialized media | ||
| B.3.1*: | Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures | ||
| B.3.2*: | Biological media | ||
| B.3.3*: | Geophysical media | ||
| B.3.4*: | Metamaterials | ||
| B.4*: | Educational methods and tools | ||
| B.5*: | Electromagnetic interaction and coupling | ||
| B.6*: | Frequency selective surfaces and filters | ||
| B.7*: | Guided waves and wave-guiding structures | ||
| B.8*: | High-frequency techniques | ||
| B.9*: | Imaging, inverse scattering and remote sensing | ||
| B.10*: | Microstrip antennas and printed devices | ||
| B.11*: | Millimeter wave and Terahertz antennas | ||
| B.12*: | MIMO antennas and systems | ||
| B.13*: | Nanoscale electromagnetics | ||
| B.14*: | Nonlinear electromagnetics | ||
| B.15: | Numerical methods | ||
| B.15.1*: | Fast methods | ||
| B.15.2*: | Finite-difference methods | ||
| B.15.3*: | Frequency-domain methods | ||
| B.15.4*: | Hybrid methods | ||
| B.15.5*: | Integral-equation methods | ||
| B.15.6*: | Time-domain methods | ||
| B.16*: | Optimization techniques | ||
| B.17*: | Propagation phenomena and effects | ||
| B.18*: | Rough surfaces and random media | ||
| B.19*: | RFID | ||
| B.20*: | Scattering and diffraction | ||
| B.21*: | Theoretical electro magnetics | ||
| B.22*: | Transient fields, effects, and systems | ||
| B.23*: | Ultra-wideband electromagnetics | ||
| B.24*: | Wireless communications | ||
| B.25*: | Wireless sensors and sensing networks | ||
| B.26: | Cognitive radio | ||
| B.26.1*: | Reconfigurable antennas | ||
| B.26.2*: | Simultaneous transmit and receive systems | ||
| B.26.3*: | Spectrum enhancement techniques | ||
URSI-C Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing | |||
| C.1*: | Cognitive radio and software defined radio | ||
| C.2*: | Computational imaging and inverse methods | ||
| C.3*: | Information theory, coding, modulation and detection | ||
| C.4*: | MIMO and MISO systems | ||
| C.5*: | Radar systems, target detection, localization, and tracking | ||
| C.6: | Radio communication systems | ||
| C.6.1*: | Internet of Things | ||
| C.6.2*: | 5G | ||
| C.6.3*: | Electromagnetic spectral harmony | ||
| C.7*: | Sensor networks, and sensor-array processing and calibration | ||
| C.8*: | Signal and image processing | ||
| C.9: | Spectrum and medium utilization | ||
| C.9.1*: | Electromagnetic modeling of systems and environments | ||
| C.10*: | Synthetic aperture and space-time processing | ||
| C.11*: | Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) | ||
| C.12*: | Distributed, multi-modality, electromagnetic, autonomous systems | ||
| C.13*: | Applications of machine learning to communications and signal processing | ||
URSI-D Electronics and Photonics | |||
| D.1: | Microwave, millimeter wave and; THz antennas | ||
| D.1.1*: | Hybrid and lens antennas | ||
| D.1.2*: | Waveguide antennas | ||
| D.1.3*: | Planar antennas | ||
| D.1.4*: | Calibration targets | ||
| D.2: | Microwave, millimeter wave and THz devices, circuits | ||
| D.2.1*: | Passive component | ||
| D.2.2*: | Baluns, transformers, and filters | ||
| D.2.3*: | Transitions and field probes | ||
| D.2.4*: | Broadband and multi-band component | ||
| D.2.5*: | Metamaterials, FSSs and EM bandgap structures | ||
| D.2.6*: | Solid-state circuits and devices | ||
| D.2.7*: | Active circuits and devices | ||
| D.2.8*: | Millimeter-Wave Transmission Lines, Passive Devices, and Measurement Techniques | ||
| D.2.9*: | Novel concepts for Millimeter-Wave Components and Antennas | ||
| D.2.10*: | 5G and Terahertz Devices | ||
| D.3: | Microwave, millimeter wave and THz system and applications | ||
| D.3.1*: | Wireless Communications (5G and Beyond) | ||
| D.3.2*: | Sensors | ||
| D.3.3*: | Antenna-coupled detectors, RFID, and; backscatter | ||
| D.3.4*: | Wireless Power Transfer and Energy Harvesting | ||
| D.3.5*: | Biomedical RF and Microwave applications | ||
| D.3.6*: | RF and Microwave instrumentation and Measurements | ||
| D.3.7*: | Antennas for space/flight applications | ||
| D.3.8*: | Tunable & reconfigurable antennas, circuits, and systems | ||
| D.4*: | Theoretical modeling, and numerical simulation in EM | ||
| D.5*: | Nanotechnologies and nanoelectronics | ||
| D.6: | Photonics and Optical Devices | ||
| D.6.1*: | Fiber and integrated waveguide; nonlinear (NL) WG of conventional and novel materials | ||
| D.6.2*: | Integrated planar waveguide circuits for fiber optics, signal processing, microwave photonics, optical interconnects, datacom and telecom applications | ||
| D.6.3*: | Biomedical optical imaging, biophotonics and waveguide sensors | ||
| D.6.4*: | Fiber-optics telecommunication systems | ||
| D.6.5*: | Measurement and characterization of ultrafast optical signals and photonic devices | ||
| D.6.6*: | Optoelectronic systems, plasmonics, and electro-optics | ||
| D.6.7*: | Combined and hybrid photonic and electronic systems | ||
URSI-E Electromagnetic Environment and Interference | |||
| E.1: | Electromagnetic environment | ||
| E.1.1*: | Electromagnetic noise of natural origin | ||
| E.1.2*: | Man-made noise | ||
| E.2*: | Electromagnetic compatibility measurement technologies | ||
| E.3*: | Electromagnetic compatibility standards | ||
| E.4*: | Legal aspects of electromagnetic compatibility | ||
| E.5*: | Electromagnetic radiation hazards | ||
| E.6*: | Electromagnetic compatibility education | ||
| E.7: | Computational electromagnetics in electromagnetic compatibility | ||
| E.7.1*: | Computer Modeling | ||
| E.7.2*: | Model Validation | ||
| E.7.3*: | Statistical Analysis | ||
| E.8: | Effects of natural and intentional emissions on system performance | ||
| E.8.1*: | Crosstalk | ||
| E.8.2*: | Effects of transients | ||
| E.8.3*: | System analysis | ||
| E.8.4*: | Signal integrity | ||
| E.8.5*: | Electromagnetic compatibility in communication systems | ||
| E.8.6*: | Statistical analysis | ||
| E.9: | High-power electromagnetics | ||
| E.9.1*: | Electrostatic discharge | ||
| E.9.2*: | Electromagnetic pulse and lightning | ||
| E.9.3*: | Transients | ||
| E.9.4*: | Power transmission | ||
| E.10*: | Spectrum management | ||
URSI-F Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing | |||
| F.1: | Wave Propagation | ||
| F.1.1*: | Channel sounders, measurements and field studies | ||
| F.1.2*: | Propagation and channel models | ||
| F.1.3*: | Narrowband, wideband and spatial channels | ||
| F.1.4*: | Propagation in femto, pico, micro, macro and megacells | ||
| F.1.5*: | Propagation in extreme environments | ||
| F.1.6*: | Channel characterization for IoT applications | ||
| F.1.7*: | Short-range millimeter-wave channel modeling for 5G | ||
| F.1.8*: | Scattering, diffraction, dispersion and delay | ||
| F.1.9*: | Indoor/outdoor, mobile/fixed and horizontal/slant paths | ||
| F.1.10*: | Land or water paths and surface/atmosphere interactions | ||
| F.1.11*: | Numerical weather prediction | ||
| F.1.12*: | Natural/manmade structures | ||
| F.2: | Remote Sensing | ||
| F.2.1*: | Atmospheric sensing | ||
| F.2.2*: | Ocean and ice | ||
| F.2.3*: | Foliage and vegetation | ||
| F.2.4*: | Urban environments | ||
| F.2.5*: | Soil moisture, terrain and subsurface sensing | ||
| F.2.6*: | Field campaigns | ||
| F.2.7*: | Interferometry and SAR | ||
| F.2.8*: | Scattering and diffraction | ||
| F.2.9*: | Radiation and emission | ||
| F.2.10*: | Propagation effects | ||
| F.2.11*: | Machine learning methods for inverse problems in remote sensing | ||
| F.2.12*: | Compressive sensing techniques | ||
| F.3*: | Propagation and remote sensing in complex and random media | ||
URSI-G Ionospheric Radio and Propagation | |||
| G.1*: | Ionospheric imaging | ||
| G.2*: | Ionospheric morphology | ||
| G.3*: | Ionospheric modeling and data assimilation | ||
| G.4*: | Meteoroids and orbital debris | ||
| G.5*: | Radar and radio techniques for ionospheric diagnostics | ||
| G.6*: | Space weather – radio effects | ||
| G.7*: | Transionospheric radio propagation and systems effects | ||
URSI-H Waves in Plasma | |||
| H.1*: | Chaos and turbulence in plasmas | ||
| H.2*: | Plasma instabilities | ||
| H.3*: | Spacecraft‐plasma interactions | ||
| H.4*: | Solar/planetary-plasma interactions | ||
| H.5*: | Space as a research laboratory | ||
| H.6*: | Wave-wave and wave-particle interactions | ||
| H.7*: | Waves in space and laboratory plasmas | ||
URSI-J Radio Astronomy | |||
| J.1*: | Cosmology and Astrophysics at Low Frequencies | ||
| J.2*: | Next Generation Very Large Array Design and Development | ||
| J.3*: | New Telescopes, Techniques and Technology | ||
| J.4*: | Observatory Reports | ||
| J.5*: | Radio Frequency Interference - Monitoring, Characterization, Mitigation | ||
| J.6*: | Millimeter-Wave VLBI | ||
| J.7*: | Telescopes & Technologies for Radio Transient Detection | ||
| J.8*: | Phased Array Feeds for Radio Astronomy | ||
| J.9*: | New Technologies for Low Noise Amplifiers and Array Receivers | ||
URSI-K Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine | |||
| K.1*: | Body-area networks | ||
| K.2*: | Dosimetry and exposure assessment | ||
| K.3*: | Electromagnetic and mixed-mode imaging and diagnostics | ||
| K.4*: | Therapeutic and rehabilitative applications | ||
| K.5*: | Implantable and ingestible devices | ||
| K.6*: | Human-body interactions with antennas and other electromagnetic devices | ||
Special Sessions (URSI) | |||
| S-U.2*: | Quantum Technologies Related to Electromagnetics | ||
| S-U.3*: | Emerging Technologies for Biomedical Applications | ||
| S-U.4*: | Reconfigurable Antennas for Compact Devices | ||
| S-U.8*: | Technical Development Towards a Next Generation Very Large Array | ||
| S-U.9*: | Waves in Random Media – A Tribute to V.I. Tatarskii | ||
| S-U.10*: | Emerging Active and Passive Metasurfaces for 5G, Beyond 5G, and 6G | ||
| S-U.13*: | Mathematical Methods for Array Processing and its Applications | ||
| S-U.14*: | Artificial Intelligence Applications in Electromagnetics | ||
| S-U.15*: | Low Frequency Antennas for Tactical Communications and Networking | ||
| S-U.16*: | Cybersecurity and Broadband-Multiband Electromagnetic Systems — for Privacy-Protection and High-Performance in Wireless 5G and Others | ||
| S-U.17*: | GNSS antennas and antenna systems for RF challenged environment | ||
| S-U.18*: | Unifying Electromagnetics and Communication Theory for Future Wireless Networks: MIMO Antenna Design and Channel Modelling | ||
| S-U.19*: | Foldable and Physically Reconfigurable Origami Antennas | ||