Special Sessions

There are several special sessions being held throughout the week for delegates to take part in. Please refer to each session regarding registration and booking details where required.

Special Session EU-North America Experts Microwave Session-EuMC21

Wednesday 29th September at 08.30 – 10.10

Presentations by Microwave Lecturers of the Year on “Recent Advances on Active and Passive Microwave Components” EuMW introduces for the first time this year in Paris a special session on some of the latest developments in Active and Passive Microwave Components. It is to the great pleasure of the organisers to gather for this purpose a group of experts in this area that have been recently recognised as “Distinguished Microwave Lecturers” (sponsored by MTT-S) and “European Microwave Lecturers” (Jointly sponsored by MTT-S and EuMA). The areas to be addressed cover RF-MEMS, Green RFIDs, EM Invisible Objects, Device Power Handling and Liquid Crystals for Microwaves and Millimeterwaves. The session is planned from 08.30 to 10.10 on Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Session Contents:

EuMC21-1: Commercial Applications of RF MEMS (Stepan Lucyszyn)

EuMC21-2: Inkjet-Printed Paper/Polymer-Based ‘‘Green’’ RFID and Wireless Sensor Nodes: The Final Step to Bridge Cognitive Intelligence, Nanotechnology and RF (Manos Tentzeris)

EuMC21-3: Possibilities of Cloaking and Invisibility at Microwaves (Sergei Tretyakov)

EuMC21-4: Power Handling and Temperature Compensation Design for Passive Microwave Devices (Ming Yu)

EuMC21-5: Liquid Crystal Polymer for Microwave and Millimeter- Wave Multi-layer Packages and Modules (Anh-Vu Pham)

Session Coordinator: Dimitris Pavlidis

Special Session on Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference-EuMC33

Wednesday 29th September at 13.40

A speaker exchange has been set up for a number of years, between the European Microwave Conference (EuMC) and the Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). APMC2009 took place in Singapore and APMC2010 will take place in Yokohama, Japan, in December 2010.

A special session will be organised this year at EuMC in Paris in conjunction with the International Steering Committee of APMC2010, with speakers from Singapore, Japan and Australia. The following papers will be presented:

- Ultra Wideband Microwave Imaging System with Novel Image Reconstruction Strategies for Breast Cancer Detection, Prof. M. E. Bialkowski, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

- Advances in Millimeter-wave Technology for Wireless LAN/PAN Applications, Dr. K. Maruhashi, NEC Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan

- Integral-Equation Based Fast Solvers Developed for Microwave and RF Applications, Prof. J. Le-Wei Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer User's Forum

Wednesday September 29, 8:30-10:10, room Dupin 3

The NVNA user's forum management team is happy to announce the next event of the NVNA Users' Forum, which will take place in Paris during the European Microwave Week 2010 on Wednesday September 29, 8:30 to 10:10, room Dupin 3.

For those of you who are new or not informed about this forum: NVNA (Nonlinear Vector Network Analyzer) is an informal discussion group devoted to sharing information and issues related to instrumentation utilized in vector large-signal network analysis of microwave circuits and systems that contain nonlinear elements.

NVNA user's Forum topics include: Large-signal measurements utilizing nonlinear vector network analyzers (NVNAs), in addition with Microwave Transition Analyzers (MTAs) and Large-Signal Network Analyzers (LSNAs) or RF sampling oscilloscopes. In order to take into account the recent improvements in nonlinear measurement technologies, fast sampling oscilloscopes or VNAs with particular amplitude and phase calibrations are considered as NVNA systems. This forum is usually organized in two parts: research updates and questions from students and labs dealing with nonlinear measurements, and one or two open questions to the attendees. The goal is to generate informal discussions between the NVNA users. Feel free to attend this meeting, if you would like to bring a research update, suggest a discussion topic, or are a PhD student interested in discussing your research, please contact the organisers:

Special session on “Young and Engineering: Education, Industrial/Academic Opportunities, Careers” EuMC27

Wednesday, 29th September, 10:50 - 12:30

Education, industrial, academic aspects, opportunities offered to young engineers and scientists, as well as, career openings available to them are key questions to be addressed by this special session. Topics to be presented and discussed include:

- The balance between fundamental education versus training in undergraduate formation

- The impact of the Bologna process; many employers are unaware of this

- Expectations of employers from graduate engineers

- Strengths and weaknesses of the European system for producing high-frequency engineers

- The role of the PhD graduate - Career paths and opportunities

- Technical areas of future strategic needs

- Dual degrees and globalization

- Career and innovation

- Obtaining a PhD: pros and cons

- Career development or starting up a company by fresh PhD’s

The above topics will be addressed by speakers coming from industry, academia and organisations related to academic affairs. It will include speakers of diverse expertise career phase such as Professor Nick Alexopoulos, Vice President, Broadcom Co.; USA, Dr. Mariam Assefa, Executive Director and CEO of World Education Services (WES), USA and Dr. Xin Zhu, CEO Concentrating PV Systems, Yi Xing, Jiangsu Province, China, Prof. Thomas Zwick, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Institut für Hochfrequenztechnik und Elektronik (IHE), Germany and Prof. Paul L. Voss, Demetrius T. Paris Professor; Assistant Professor (Optics and Photonics), School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology/ Georgia Tech Lorraine, France. Session contents:

EuMC27-1: Academic and Industry Perspectives and Career Opportunities (N. Alexopoulos)

EuMC27-2: Dual Degrees and the Perception of the Bologna Process Outside Europe (M. Assefa)

EuMC27-3: Career Development: Employers and Graduate Engineers vs. Starting up a Company by Fresh PhD’s (X. Zhu)

EuMC27-4: Bologna in Germany– Experiences at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and High-Frequency Engineering Considerations (T. Zwick)

EuMC27-5: Fundamental Education and Training: Undergraduate and Graduate Opportunities in Europe and the US (P. Voss)