REGION 8 CHAPTER ACTIVITY ROUND - UP
As is also reported in the region 10 chapter news, the Scandinavian chapter of CPMT jointly sponsored the First IEEE CPMT Regional Workshop on Microsystem Integration Technology at Shanghai University on October 27, 2003. It included 12 invited lectures and the topics covered system design, device fabrication, material characterization, advanced packaging technology and reliability. A number of short courses were also offered. About 250 participants from six countries attended the workshop. The inauguration of the Sino-Swedish Microsystem Integration Technology (SMIT) Center was held together with this workshop.
Attendees at the Microsystem
Integration Technology workshop
The CPMT Student Branch Chapter of the "Politechnica" University of Bucharest, participated, together with almost 100 Romanian companies, in the sixth National Electronic and Software Exhibition, BINARY'2003, which took place in Bucharest from the 24th to 26th of September at the ROMEXPO Conference Center. This exhibition is the most important annual event intended for the industry's professionals. The Student Branch Chapter members presented posters and electronic products realized by students in collaboration with the Center for Technological Electronics and Interconnection Techniques. The Student Branch Chapter was made an award at the exhibition by Concept Electronics, in recognition of its activities and achievements.
The joint MTT/ED/AP/CPMT Saratov-Penza Chapter in the
Russian Section recently held chapter officer elections and
Dr. Nikita M. Ryskin is the chapter chair and Professor Michael
Davidovich is the chapter vice-chair. The chapter currently has
29 members in the cities of Saratov and Penza. They have held
several technical and scientific meetings including conferences,
workshops, seminars and lectures during the last six months. These
have included:
1. "Nonlinear Days in Saratov for Young Scientists"
(NDSYS'2003), September 30 - October 4, 2003, Saratov Suburb "Volzhskie
Dali" which was chaired by Prof. Dmitry I. Trubetskov.
2. The 7-th International School on Chaotic Oscillation and Pattern
Formation (CHAOS 03), October 7-10, 2003, SSU, which was also
chaired by Prof. Dmitry I. Trubetskov and attracted more than
100 participants.
3. The Saratov Fall Meeting (SFM'03), October 7-10, 2003. This
meeting included 5 Workshops and had more then 120 participants
and was organized solely by the Chapter ( http://optics.sgu.ru/SFM/2003/)
4. The 8-th Chapter Workshop "CAD and Numerical Methods in
Applied Electrodynamics and Electronics", November 25, 2003,
SSU. This one day workshop was chaired by Prof. Michael V. Davidovich
and was participated in by 12 Chapter members.
During this period the chapter also organized several lectures and seminars on Microwave and Antennas topics, including "Microwave waveguide and coaxial probe structures", "Nonstationary Theory of Pulse excitation and Propagation in the Resonators and Waveguides" by Prof. MV. Davidovich, and "FDTD - Backed network Optimization of Microwave Systems" by Prof. V. Yakovlev, The Industrial Microwave modeling Group, Worchester Polytechnic Institute, USA.
The Chapter also plans the following activities in the coming
year:
1. The 9-th Chapter Workshop "CAD and Numerical Methods in
Applied Electrodynamics and Electronics", November, 2004,
SSU, to be chaired by Prof. Michael V. Davidovich.
2. The International Conference Actual Problems of Electron Devices
Engineering (APEDE'2004)" will be held in Saratov State Technical
University, Saratov in September, 2004. Chairman - Dr. Alexander
A. Zakharov.
3. Saratov Fall Meeting (SFM'04), including a Workshop on "Electrodynamics
of Microwaves, Submillimeter and Optic Waves", during the
first week of October, 2004 ( http://optics.sgu.ru/SFM/2003 ).
4. "Nonlinear Days in Saratov for Young Scientists"
(NDSYS'2004), October, 2004, Chairman - Prof. Dmitry I. Trubetskov.
Submitted by David Whalley