report2008

Thanks to the good teamwork of all the chapter committee members, our EMC chapter has organized 14 Seminars, three conference/workshops, 3 committee meetings and 2 social events in 2008.

Type	S/N	Date	Title of talk	Speaker(s)	No. of Attendees
					Total
Seminars	1	17-01-08	Improving the Performance of Dielectric Resonator Antennas 　 Radial Point Interpolation Method: A Meshless Method for Time-Domain Electromagnetics	Dr Christophe Fumeaux, ETH Zurich Thomas Kaufmann, ETH Zurich	18
	2	18-03-08	Current Trends in Dielectric Materials for Microwave and Millimeter Wave Applications	Dr Taras Kolodiazhnyi, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan	24
	3	20-05-08	Advances in Research into Integrated Low Sidelobe Antennas, Multibeam Antennas and Multiple Frequency-bands Notched UWB Antennas	Prof. Wei Hong Southeast University, Nanjing, China	22
	4	23-05-08 (AM)	A Highly Efficient Domain Decomposition Method for the Finite Element Computation of EM fields	Prof. Jian Ming Jin UIUC, USA	29
	5	23-05-08 (PM)	Power Integrity Design for High Speed Circuit Packages (Distinguished Lecture--IEEE EMC Society)	Prof. Tzong Lin Wu National Taiwan University	35
	6	04-08-08	High performance RF circuit blocks for GHz Applications	Frank Henkel IMST DSI GmbH, Germany	34
	7	07-08-08	Active MMW/Terahertz Imaging for Security	Prof. Igor Minin, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia	20
	8	11-08-08	Field-Plate Technology for CMOS RFICs	Prof. Jeffrey S. Fu Chang Gung University, Taiwan	21
	9	12-08-08	Quasioptical MM-wave Concealed Weapon Detection Systems: review	Prof. Igor Minin, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia	21
	10	15-08-08	Three Types of Novel Diffractive Photonic Crystal Lens	Prof. Igor Minin, Novosibirsk State Technical University, Russia	14
	11	03-09-08	Assessing the Physical Limitations of Synthesized Metamaterials through Rigorous Numerical Modeling	Prof. Raj Mittra Pen State University, USA	41
	12	05-09-08	Charateristic basis Function Method - A Novel approach to Incorporating Concepts of Asymptotic Techniques into Rigorous full wave modeling	Prof. Raj Mittra Pen State University, USA	25
	13	17-10-08	Antennas & RF Sensors: Changing the Way We Live (from mobile communications to electronic textiles and RFIDs)	Prof. John L. Volakis Ohio State University, USA	22
	14	21-10-08	A Look at The Concept Of Channel Capacity From A Maxwellian Viewpoint	Professor Tapan K. Sarkar	24

Conference /Workshop	1	19-22 May 2008	2008 Asia-Pacific Symposium on EMC in conjunction with the 19^th International Zurich Symposium on EMC		370 approx.
Conference /Workshop	2	10 July 2008	International Workshop on METAMATERIALS 10 July 2008 (Thursday)		50 approx.
	3.	10-13 December 2008	The International Conference on Wireless Systems: Computation, Assembling, and Compatibility － CAC2008

Chapter Meeting	1	28-01-08			7 comm. members
	2	07-04-08			8 comm. members
	3	20-10-08			10

Social Gathering	1	21-05-08	Invited Singapore EMC Chapter members (free of charge) gathering at the Banquet Dinner of APEMC 2008		10
Social Gathering	2	21-11-08	The EMC chapter night @ Yunnan Garden @ one-north