USNC Commission-B Business Meeting Monday, July 10, 2006 6:00

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USNC Commission-B Business MeetingMonday, July
10, 2006600 700 p.m. Albuquerque Convention
Center San Miguel Room
2006 AP/URSI/AMEREM Meeting, Albuquerque, NM
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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 615, 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
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USNC Officers 2006-2008
Chair George Uslenghi Past-Chair Umran
Inan Secretary Yahya Rahmat-Samii Accounts
Manager Gary Brown
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International URSI-B Officers 2005-2008
Chair Lot Shafai (Canada) Vice-Chair Karl
Langenberg (Germany)
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International URSI Officers 2005-2008
President François Lefeuvre (France) Past-Preside
nt 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/   Minut
es from the Business Meetings (back to 1997) are
there.   Other links USNC http//www.usnc-ursi
.org/ InternationalURSI-B http//www.ursi.org/Com
20B20web/index.html International URSI
http//www.ursi.org/
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Upcoming URSI Meetings
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.
No Boulder meeting in 2007.
Additional future meetings may be found on the
AP-S and URSI websites. (http//www.ieeeaps.org/
and http//www.ursi.org/ )
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Dates for Boulder 2008 Meeting

• 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.

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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).

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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).

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

• 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.

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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

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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.

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Issue of Registration Rates
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.
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Note about URSI EMT Symposium
The URSI EMT Symposium is looking for organizers
of special sessions. If you have an interest,
please see Lot Shafai.
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Purging of Membership List
Is this something that we should be doing?
Note at the business meeting, Chalmers Butler
indicated that rules for this were already in
place in the bylaws.
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• Old Business?
• New Business?
• Adjourn