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Monday Morning, 5 January 2004

Session B1, 08:35-Mon.
COMPLEX MEDIA

Chairpersons: Nader Engheta (engheta@ee.upenn.edu) and R. Ziolkowski (ziolkowski@ecea.rizona.edu)

08:35 - Introduction

08:40 (B1-1)
FAST AND EFFICIENT APPROACH FOR N-LAYERED MICROSTRIP POLES EXTRACTION
Ying Wang, Ban Leong Ooi, Mook Seng Leong

09:00 (B1-2)
METAMATERIAL REALIZATIONS OF ARTIFICIAL MAGNETIC CONDUCTORS
A. Erentok, Ziolkowski, R.W.

09:20 (B1-3)
IMAGE DE-BLURRING USING DOUBLE-NEGATIVE (DNG) OR SINGLE-NEGATIVE (SNG) METAMATERIAL LAYERS
A. Alu, Engheta, N.

09:40 (B1-4)
DYNAMICAL EVOLUTION OF THE BRILLOUIN PRECURSOR IN ROCARD-POWELES-DEBYE MODEL DIELECTRICS
K.E. Oughstun,

10:00 (B1-5)
ON THE EQUIVALENCE OF INHOMOGENEOUS INCLINED ANISOTROPIC AND BIANISOTROPIC MEDIA FOR TWO-DIMENSIONAL TM-TYPE PROPAGATION PROBLEMS
Glenn A. Wilson, Thiel, D.V.

10:20-10:40 - BREAK

10:40 (B1-6)
PROPAGATION MODES IN IRREGULAR STRATIFIED CHIRAL MEDIA
P. E. Crittenden, Bahar, E.

11:00 (B1-7)
OPTICAL DETECTION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF STRATIFIED CHIRAL STRUCTURES FOR ENGINEERING AND BIOSECURITY
E. Bahar, Crittenden, P.

11:20 (B1-8)
ULTRA WIDE BAND, MULTI-SCALE MULTI-PHENOMENA THEORY, MODELLING AND SIMULATION AT THE NANOSCALE
E. Bahar

11:40 (B1-9)
STOCHASTIC MODEL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPAGATION IN STRATIFIED ABSORBING MEDIA INCLUSIVE A SEMITRANSPARENT OBJECTS
V.G. Spitsyn, Fedotov, I.V., Tsoy, Y.R.

Session C1, 08:55-Mon.
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL MODELING AND PERFORMANCE

Chairpersons: Dev Palmer (dev.palmer@us.army.mil) and Brian Sadler (bsadler@emh3.arl.mil)

08:55 - Introduction

09:00 (C1-1)
VALIDATION OF ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION FOR REALISTIC SINGLE AND MULTI-CARRIER MOBILE RADIO CHANNELS
Tung-Sheng Yang, Duel-Hallen, A., Hallen, H.

09:20 (C1-2)
STATISTICAL CHANNEL MODELS FOR UWB COMMUNICATIONS
R. Michael Buehrer, Donlan, B., Bharadwaj, V.

09:40 (C1-3)
MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MOBILE-TO-MOBILE RADIO CHANNELS
C. S. Patel, Stuber, G.L., Pratt, T.G.

10:00 (C1-4)
LINKING ELECTROMAGNETIC DESIGN TO SYSTEM PERFORMANCE: MEASURING BIT ERROR RATE AS A FUNCTION OF ANTENNA PROPERTIES AND MORE
J.T. Bernhard

10:20-10:40 - BREAK

10:40 (C1-5)
LONG-DISTANCE WAVE PROPAGATION THROUGH FORESTED ENVIRONMENTS
F. Wang, Sarabandi, K.

11:00 (C1-6)
A DEMONSTRATION OF UTILIZING HIGH FIDELITY PROPAGATION MODELS FOR EMITTER LOCALIZATION IN URBAN ENVIRONMENTS
R.J. Luebbes, Smith, A., Fast, S.A., Schuster, J.W.

11:20 - Panel Discussion, Dev Palmer

Session F1, 08:55-Mon.
REMOTE SENSING OF THE ATMOSPHERE, I

Chairpersons: Al Gasiewski (Al.Gasiewski@noaa.gov) and Vallery Zavorotny (Valery.Zavorotny@noaa.gov)

08:55 - Introduction

09:00 (F1-1)
ESTIMATION OF COUPLING BETWEEN MOBILE VEHICULAR RADARS AND SATELLITE RADIOMETERS
A.J. Gasiewski, Zavorotny, V.U.

09:20 (F1-2)
RADIOMETRIC IMAGING OF HYDROLOGICAL PARAMETERS DURING THE 2003 AMSR-E CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION FIELD CAMPAIGNS
M. Klein, Gasiewski, A.J., Irisov, V., Leuski, V., Stankov, B.B., Weber, B.W., Wick, G.A.

09:40 (F1-3)
PRECIPITABLE WATER VAPOR AND CLOUD LIQUID WATER RETRIEVAL FROM SCANNING MICROWAVE RADIOMETER MEASUREMENTS DURING THE 2003 CLOUDINESS INTER-COMPARISON EXPERIMENT
Vinia Mattioli, Westwater, E.R.

10:00 (F1-4)
DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A MINIATURIZED WATER VAPOR PROFILING RADIOMETER
S.C. Reising, Iturbide-Sanchez, F., Padmanabhan, S., Jackson, R.W.

10:20-10:40 - BREAK

10:40 (F1-5)
THE NORTH SLOPE OF ALASKA ARCTIC WINTER RADIOMETRIC EXPERIMENT
Ed R. Westwater, Gasiewski, A., Klein, M., Leuski, V.

11:00 (F1-6)
DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE-SENSING MICROWAVE RADIOMETER CALIBRATION METHODS AND TOOLS AT NIST
D.K. Walker, Randa, J., Billinger, R.L., Cox, A.E.

Session H1, 08:35-Mon.
DUSTY PLASMA

Chairperson: Marlene Rosenberg (mrosenberg@sandiego.edu)

08:35 - Introduction

08:40 (H1-1)
AEROSOL CHARGING IN THE MESOSPHERE
M. Horanyi, Robertson, S., Sternovsky, Z., Smiley, B.

09:00 (H1-2)
ROCKET-BORNE PROBES FOR CHARGED IONOSPHERIC AEROSOL PARTICLES
S. Robertson, Horanyi, M., Smiley, B., Sternovsky, Z.

09:20 (H1-3)
TRANSPORT IN IONOSPHERIC DUSTY PLASMAS
L.J. Gelinas, Lynch, K.A., Collins, R., Kelley, M.C.

09:40 (H1-4)
NONLINEAR DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-FREQUENCY HALL CURRENT INSTABILITY IN A DUSTY PLASMA
W. Scales, Chen, C., Wang, J.

10:00 (H1-5)
COMPLEX (DUSTY) PLASMAS UNDER MICROGRAVITY CONDITIONS ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION
H.M. Thomas, Morfill, G.E., Nefedov, A.P., Fortov, V.E., Annaratone, B.M., Ivlev, A., Klumov, B., Konopka, U., Kretschmer, M., Rothermel, H., Yaroshenko, V., Molotkov, V.I., Petrov, O.F., Lipaev, A.I., Ivanov, A., Rubin-Zuzic, M.

10:20-10:40 - BREAK

10:40 (H1-6)
ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGING OF DUST IN LOW-PRESSURE ATMOSPHERES
C.E. Krauss, Horanyi, M., Robertson, S.

11:00 (H1-7)
FIRST REPORT ON MEASUREMENTS OF MICROPARTICLE TRANSPORT USING STEREOSCOPIC PARTICLE IMAGE VELOCIMETRY
Edward Thomas, Jr., Williams, J., Silver, J.

11:20 (H1-8)
ROTATION WAVES AND STRONG TURBULENCE IN A MULTI-COMPONENT PLASMA*
G. Ganguli, Rudakov, L.

11:40 (H1-9)
OBSERVATION OF MICROPARTICLE GYROMOTION IN A MAGNETIZED DC GLOW DISCHARGE DUSTY PLASMA
W. E. Amatucci, Walker, D.N., Gatling, G., Scime, E.E.

12:00 (H1-10)
DRIFT INSTABILITIES IN COLLISIONAL DUSTY PLASMAS: APPLICATIONS TO SPACE AND THE LABORATORY
M. Rosenberg

Session G1, 08:35-Mon.
Equatorial Bubbles and Plasma Dynamics

Chairperson: Erhan Kudeki (erhan@uiuc.edu)

08:35 - Introduction

08:40 (G1-1)
IGY OBSERVATIONS OF F-REGION SCATTER IN THE FAR EAST
Ernest K. Smith

09:00 (G1-2)
TWO RADAR INVESTIGATIONS OF EQUATORIAL SPREAD F IN THE PACIFIC SECTOR
R.T. Tsunoda

09:20 (G1-3)
STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GPS L1 SCINTILLATIONS AND THE 777.4-NM RADIATIVE RECOMBINATION EMISSION
J.J. Makela, Ledvina, B.M., Kintner, P.M., Kelley, M.C.

09:40 (G1-4)
IONOSPHERIC CONDITIONS DURING THE ONSET AND EVOLUTION OF TEC DEPLETIONS AS SEEN WITH A CHAIN OF GPS RECEIVERS AND A DIGISONDE
Cesar E. Valladares, Sheehan, R.

10:00 (G1-5)
EQUATORIAL, DAYTIME EXB DRIFT VELOCITIES INFERRED FROM GUVI 1356 A RADIANCE OBSERVATIONS
D. Anderson, Anghel, A.

10:20-10:40 - BREAK

10:40 (G1-6)
GRAVITY AND PRESSURE TERMS IN THE ELECTRODYNAMICS OF THE LOW-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE
J. Vincent Eccles

11:00 (G1-7)
EQUATORIAL SPREAD F: MACROPHYSICS, MICROPHYSICS, AND WHERE WE STAND ON THE FORECAST PROBLEM
D. L. Hysell

11:20 (G1-8) PRESENTATION CANCELLED
SEASONAL AND DISTURBANCE VARIABILITIES OF THE EAST-WEST EEJ BACK-SCATTER POWER ASYMMETRY IN BRAZIL NEAR SOLAR MAXIMUM
C.M. Denardini, Abdu, M.A., Sobral, J.H.A.

11:40 (G1-9)
POST-SUNSET F-REGION DYNAMICS AT THE EQUATOR ABOVE JICAMARCA
Erhan Kudeki, Chau, J.