ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

This open scientific meeting is sponsored by the U.S. National Committee for the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). It is being held in cooperation with the following IEEE organizations: Antennas and Propagation Society and its Wave Propagation Standards Committee, Circuits and Systems Society, Communications Society, Electromagnetic Compatibility Society, Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, Information Theory Group, Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Microwave Theory and Techniques Society, and the Nuclear Science Society.

Papers on any topic in the interest area of a commission are welcome. In particular, papers on the special topics listed below are solicited. Contact the commission chairperson for further information.

• Quantum metrology and fundamental concepts
• Time and frequency
• Time domain metrology
• EMC and EM pollution
• Noise
• Materials
• Bioeffects and medical applications
• Antennas and EM-field metrology
• Impulse radar
• Planar structures and microstrip circuits
• Interconnect and packaging

• Advanced materials for EM applications
• Antennas
• Arrays
• Complex media effects
• Education
• Guided waves
• High frequency techniques
• Interaction and coupling
• Inverse scattering
• Microstrip devices and antennas
• Numerical methods (differential equations)
• Numerical methods (integral equations)
• Numerical techniques (other)
• Rough surfaces and random media
• Scattering
• Theoretical electromagnetics
• Transient fields, effects, and systems
• Ultra-wideband electromagnetics
• Wireless communications

• Beam forming and matched field processing
• Spectrum estimation
• Tomographic and inverse-theory methods
• Environmental problems in cellular communications systems
• Low total energy communications and signal processing methods
• System identification
• Wavelets
• Applications

• High Power Electromagnetics
• Effects of transients on electronic systems
• Spectrum Management and Utilization
• Natural Noise Sources

• Point-to-point propagation effects
• Measurements
• Modeling
• Mitigation
• Over land or water paths
• Indoors/outdoors
• Mobile/fixed
• Horizontal/slant paths
• Interaction with the atmosphere
• Atmospheric constituents
• Natural/man-made structures
• Remote sensing of the Earth by radio waves
• Theory
• Field campaigns
• Interior
• Surface
• Atmosphere
• Atmospheric constituents
• Natural features or inhabitants

• Ionospheric morphology
• Ionospheric modeling and data assimilation
• Transionospheric radio propagation/system effects
• Radar and radio techniques for ionospheric diagnostics
• Space Weather - radio effects

• Plasma instabilities
• Generation and propagation of waves in plasmas
• Interaction between these waves, and wave-particle interactions
• Plasma turbulence processes and chaos
• Spacecraft-plasma interactions
• Application of the results, particularly in the areas of solar/planetary plasma interactions, and the increased exploitation of space as a research laboratory.

• Radio emissions from celestial objects
• Radar reflections from planetary objects
• Radio wave propagation
• Antennas and antenna arrays
• Radio astronomy instrumentation
• Singal analysis including image processing
• Spectrum protection and interference mitigation
• Millimeter wavelength array design
• Design of arrays with large numbers of elements
• VLBI instrumentation, techniques and science

• Biological effects
• Biomedical applications
• Dosimetry
• Exposure assessment
• Applications of RF to medicine

The organizers of this meeting require the use of electronic submission.  This web site will be available by June 11, 2001.  If you have any questions, please direct them to ursi@cires.colorado.edu.

Abstracts must be a minimum of 250 words. The website will contain complete submission instructions. You will not be able to submit an abstract that does not meet the minimum length requirements. All abstract submission information must also be entered on-line.

Questions may be directed to:
Dr. Scott Palo (303-492-4289) or
Dr. Rod Frehlich (303-492-6776).
FAX : (303) 492-1149, E-MAIL: ursi@cires.colorado.edu