• Forthcoming Events

  • International Symposium on Signals, Systems and Electronics (ISSSE) 2012

    This is held every three years, exceptionally in 2012 after two years, and is organized under the guidance and with sponsorship of the international steering committee of the URSI Commissions C (Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing) and D (Electronics and Photonics). Moreover each radio system depends on its antenna that couples the electromagnetic waves into the medium. Thus we include aspects of URSI Commission B (Fields and Waves) into the technical scope of the symposium.
    This year the ISSSE will be held in Potsdam, Germany October 03-05, 2012. Further details can be found at http://www.issse2012.org/

     

• Past UK URSI Events

  • Festival of Radio Science, 19 April 2012 at The University of Durham.

  • XXX URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 13 - 20 August 2011, Instanbul, Turkey: http://www.ursigass2011.org/. This is the most important event in the international Radio Science calendar.

  • EMC Europe 2011, 26-30 September 2011, York, UK: http://www.emceurope2011.york.ac.uk/. EMC Europe is the pre-eminent EMC Conference in Europe.
  • IUGG 2011 General Assembly, 28 June - 7 July 2011, Melbourne, Australia: http://www.iugg2011.com/. The IUGG GA brings the 8 member Associations, including IAGA, together every four years. Much of the IAGA program is relevant to URSI scientists. The IAGA program at IUGG consists of 16 IAGA Symposia, 5 Joint Symposia with other Associations led by IAGA, plus other Symposia co-sponsored by IAGA.
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  First UK URSI Festival of Radio Science, University of Birmingham, Tuesday, 15 December 2009 (co-sponsored by the IET www.theiet.org/)

   

   

   

FRS 2009 Programme

 * York EMC Services Ltd Best Paper Prize 

Second UK URSI Festival of Radio Science, University of Leicester, Wednesday, 12 January 2011 (co-sponsored by the IET www.theiet.org/)

FRS 2011 Programme

 

1st Author	Paper Title
J.L. Divine	HF Radio Coverage Within the Auroral Oval and Polar Cap
Konstantinos Bavalis	Modelling of TE Polarised Plane Wave Scattering from Dielectric Cylinders using a Scattered Field Finite Element Time Domain Formulation
M.J. Homam	Scintillations and TEC Variations at Alert, Canada from May 2008 to May 2010
Z.H. Hu *	Pattern Reconfigurable Wideband Conical Monopole Antenna with Frequency Notch-Band
K. Amjad	Impact of the Physical Layer and Mobility on the Performance of AODV and DSR in MANETS
Shahzad Bhatti	Modelling of Noise Environment of an Electricity Transmission Substation using Symmetric Alpha-Stable Distributions
R. Tiwari	Improvement of GNSS Performance using WBMOD Aided GPS Receiver During Strong Ionosphere Scintillation
Gaith Mansour	Circular Loop Antenna Loaded by Left Handed Ladder Network
Ran Xia	Building Electromagnetic Models for Small Structures on Aircraft
Faisal Darbari	A Solution for Broadband Access for Rural Communities using a Cost and Power Efficient Technology
N. Cinosi	Time-Domain BIE Analysis of Large 3-D Electromagnetic Scattering Problems with Impedance Boundary Condition
Gregory C. R. Melia	EMC and People on ‘Planes: Development of a Layered Broadband Model of Biological Materials for Aerospace Applications
Konstantinos Sasloglou	Antenna and Base-station Diversity in Wireless Sensor Networks
R. Xavier	Diversity Gain of Ultra-wideband Antenna Array in Reverberation Chamber and Indoor Environment
Z.P. Wang	UWB Feed for Compact Antenna Test Range
Florian Ohnimus	Integration of Compact Antennas for RFID and Wireless Sensor Node Applications
Agisilaos Papaogiannis	A Fixed Beamforming Approach Exploiting MIMO
F. Soulard	Fabricating Non-planar Antenna Structures by a Novel 3-D Holographic Photolithography Method
A. Tariq	Reconfigurable Monopole Antenna using Varactors
Z.A. Sattar	Experimental Analysis of Confocal Algorithm using Different Approximations for UWB Radar Based Breast Cancer Detection
F. Fioranelli	A Review on Through-the-wall Radar: Numerical Simulations and Imaging Algorithms
S. Feeney	Wireless Power for High Altitude Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles

  * York EMC Services Ltd Best Paper Prize - this year's winner Mr Sampson Hu from Birmingham University is on the left in the photos below, receiving his prize from Prof Andy Marvin, Technical Director of York EMC services.

FRS 2011 Programme

1st Author	Paper Title
O Yurduseven	A suspended solar patch array fed offset reflector antenna
E A Karadimou	Investigation on diffusers in order to redirect the radiation of an antenna
F Fioranelli	Through-The-Wall Radar Imaging using UWB Signals
I T E Elfergani	Tunable Small Antenna For Mobile Handset Applications
M A Enderwitz	Digital RF multiplexing for a TVWS transceiver implementation
Y A S Dama	Simulation of Different Channel Propagation Scenarios
M J Cryan	Microwave Characterisation of Optically Illuminated Silicon, C.D. Gamlath, D. Benton
C McGuire	A Hybrid Approach for Rural Broaband Access Networks
R Xavier	Performance Comparison of Frequency Domain and Matlab Time-Domain Channel Simulator with use of Measured Channel Data
C R Gregory	Measuring the Absorption Cross Section of the Human Body
C J Aguilar	Phased Array Antennas with RF-MEMS Phase Shifters on PCB Technology
A Adegoke	Measurement and estimation of propagation loss in vegetation
R A Elliot	Design considerations for a filter bank based TVWS receiver
J L Stokes*	Analysis of Sub-Wavelength Optical Antennas
A Ahmed	Effect of Geomagnetic Storm of March 2012 on GPS Receivers at European High latitude
S Feeney	MIMO channel sounder in the mm band for on-body networks
R Watson	Scalable optical analogue complex correlator concept for filled compact interferometers
G Tsao	Measurement of Practically Realizable MIMO-UWB Indoor Channel Capacities
S A Bhatti	The use of UHF transponders as a potential replacement for cattle passports
E A Karadimou	Investigation of wave diffusers to scatter the radiation of an antenna in a reverberation chamber
N Sinclair	A Neural Networking Approach for Indoor to Outdoor Handover (Poster)
E C T de Macedo	Comparison of Radiometric and Classical Partial Discharge Measurements (Poster)
J M R de Souza Neto	Partial Discharge Location using an Unsynchronized Radiometer Network for Condition Monitoring and Operational Optimization in the Future Smart Grid (Poster)

*2012 FRS prize for the best paper principally authored and presented by a student. The prize is sposored by the URSI UK Panel in association with York EMC Services Ltd.