Conference Prizes for LAPC 2011

Best Paper - Open Category

Winner:

Dr Ivor Morrow and Mr Nathan Clow, "“Improvement in Efficiency Bandwidth Product of UHF Antenna on Truncated Groundplane”

IET Best Student Papers

Winner:

Søren Helstrup Kvist, Jesper Thaysen and Kaj Bjarne Jakobsen, "Polarization of Unbalanced Antennas for Ear-to-Ear On-Body Communications at 2.45 GHz"

1st runner up:

Zhen Hua Sampson Hu, Peter S Hall, Peter Gardner and Yuriy I. Nechayev, "Wide Tunable Balanced Antenna for Mobile Terminals and its Potential for MIMO Applications"

2nd runner up:

Max Munoz, Robert N Foster and Yang Hao, “RF Positioning using Body-Centric Wireless Systems"

The James Roderick James Lifetime Achievement Award

Awarded to Professor Raj Mittra

Congratulations to all those above and, indeed, to everyone who contributed to making LAPC 2011 such a success!

Conference Sessions 2011

For reference, below is a copy of the Conference Sessions for 2011.

All Papers from LAPC 2011 will be available on IEEE Xplore

Invited talks from the second day of the conference will be available online courtesy of the IET:

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Day 1	Banquet	Day 2

The floor plan for LAPC 2011 can be found here. The conference programme is available here.

Registration and Coffee		8:00am - 9:00am
Conference Opening		9:00am - 9:15am
Invited Session 1: MODELLING AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES		9:15 – 11:15am

9:15 – 9:45am		Invited Talk: Professor Raj Mittra, Pennsylvania State University, USA "A Look at Nano‐antennas, Nano‐sensors and Nano‐radios ‐ Promises and Potentials"
9:45 – 10:15am		Invited Talk: Dr. Stephane Lanteri, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France "Some recent developments of the DGTD method with practical applications"
10:15– 10:45am		Invited Talk: Professor Mats Gustafsson, Lund University, Sweden "Physical bounds on antennas of arbitrary shape"
10:45 – 11:15am		Invited Talk: Dr. Geoff Hilton, University of Bristol, UK "Evaluating the effect of antenna tilt and rotation on antenna performance in an indoor environment"

Refreshments and Poster Session 1 Exhibition Areas A, B, C & D		11:15am - 12:45pm
Lunch Day 1 (Restaurant)		12:45pm - 2:00pm

Invited Session 2: ADVANCED ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY

2:00 – 4:00pm

2:00 – 2:30pm		Invited Talk: Dr. George Shaker, University of Waterloo, Canada "Printed Electronics for Next Generation Wireless Devices"
2:30 – 3:00pm		Invited Talk: Dr. Romain Pilard, ST-Microelectronics, France "System-in-Package integrated antennas in industrial and prospective packages for MMW applications"
3:00– 3:30pm		Invited Talk: Mr Steven Brebels, IMEC, Belgium "RF SiP technologies enabling wireless modules"
3:30 – 4:00pm		Invited Talk: Dr. Laurent Dussopt, CEA‐LETI, France "Integrated antennas and antenna arrays for millimeter‐wave high data‐rate communications"

Refreshments and Poster Session 2 Exhibition Areas A, B, C & D		4:00pm - 5:30pm
Drink Reception Drinks are sponsored by CST Microwave Studio®		7:00pm - 7:30pm
Conference Banquet and Prize Giving (Restaurant) Invited Banquet Talk: Prof. John Volakis "The Ohio State University ElectroScience Lab:How it all began, and walk-though the history of RF Engineering" Best Paper and three Best Student Papers Sponsored by the IET.		7:30pm - 10:00pm

Invited Session 3: PROPOGATION OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS

9:30 – 11:30am

9:00 – 9:30am		Invited Talk: Professor Claude Oestges, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium "Multi‐Link Propagation Modeling for Beyond Next Generation Wireless"
9:30 – 10:00am		Invited Talk: Dr. Katsuyuki Haneda, Aalto University, Finland "Development of Multi‐Link Geometry‐Based Stochastic Channel Models"
10:00 – 10:30am		Invited Talk: Professor Mark Beach, University of Bristol, UK "Channel Characterisation for Advanced Wireless Access"
10:30– 11:00am		Invited Talk: Professor John L. Volakis, Ohio State University, USA "Imaging in High Clutter Environments"

Refreshments and Poster Session 3 Exhibition Areas A, B, C & D		11:00am - 12:30pm
Lunch Day 2 (Restaurant)		12:30pm - 1:45pm
Invited Session 4: BODY-AREA AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS		1:45pm - 3:45pm

1:45– 2.15pm		Invited Talk: Dr. Benoît Derat, Field Imaging, France "Challenges in Modeling of Near Field Antenna-Body Interactions"
2:15 – 2:45pm		Invited Talk: Professor Anja Skrivervik, EPFL‐LEMA, Switzerland "Design strategies for implantable antennas"
2:45 – 3:15pm		Invited Talk: Dr. Andreas Fhager, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden "A microwave measurement system for stroke detection"
3:15 – 3:45pm		Invited Talk: Dr. Tommy Henriksson, University of Bristol, UK "Clinical trials of multistatic UWB radar for breast Imaging"

Refreshments and Poster Session 4 Exhibition Areas A, B, C & D		3:45pm - 5:15pm
Close of Conference		5:15pm - 5:25pm

9:00 - 5:00pm

Free EM software workshops by CST and IMST