AP-S Topics

AP-S.1: Antennas

AP-S.1.1: Antenna theory
AP-S.1.2: Antenna feeds and matching circuits

AP-S.1.3: Mutual coupling in antenna arrays

AP-S.1.4: Dielectric resonator antennas
AP-S.1.5: Microstrip antennas, arrays, and circuits

AP-S.1.6: Guided and leaky wave antennas
AP-S.1.7: Phased-array antennas
AP-S.1.8: Reflector and reflectarray antennas

AP-S.1.9: Electrically small antennas
AP-S.1.10: Broadband / ultra-wideband antennas

AP-S.1.11: Multi-band antennas
AP-S.1.12: Adaptive, active, and smart antennas

AP-S.1.13: Reconfigurable antennas and arrays

AP-S.2: Electromagnetics and Materials

AP-S.2.14: Electromagnetic theory
AP-S.2.15: Electromagnetic material properties and measurements
AP-S.2.16: Frequency-selective surfaces
AP-S.2.17: Electromagnetic bandgap materials

AP-S.2.18: Metamaterials and metasurfaces
AP-S.2.19: Nano-electromagnetics
AP-S.2.20: Electromagnetic education

AP-S.3: Computational and Numerical Techniques

AP-S.3.21: Computational electromagnetics
AP-S.3.22: High frequency and asymptotic methods

AP-S.3.23: Integral equation methods
AP-S.3.24: FDTD methods

AP-S.3.25: FEM methods
AP-S.3.26: Hybrid methods
AP-S.3.27: Techniques for transient simulations

AP-S.3.28: Optimization methods in EM designs

AP-S.3.29: Parallel and special-processor based numerical methods

AP-S.4: Propagation and Scattering

AP-S.4.30: Indoor, urban, terrestrial, and ionospheric propagation
AP-S.4.31: Propagation and scattering in random or complex media
AP-S.4.32: Scattering, diffraction, and RCS
AP-S.4.33: Inverse scattering and imaging
AP-S.4.34: Remote sensing

AP-S.5: Antenna Applications and Emerging Technologies

AP-S.5.35: Biomedical applications
AP-S.5.36: MIMO implementations and applications AP-S.5.37: Mobile and PCS antennas
AP-S.5.38: RFID antennas and systems
AP-S.5.39: Ultra wideband systems
AP-S.5.40: Vehicular antennas and electromagnetics AP-S.5.41: Software-defined / cognitive radio
AP-S.5.42: On-chip antennas
AP-S.5.43: Wireless power transmission and 
harvesting
AP-S.5.44: 3D printed antennas and structures
AP-S.5.45: Millimeter-wave, sub-mm-wave, terahertz, optical antennas

URSI Topics

Commission A:  Electromagnetic Metrology

USNC Chair: Jeanne Quimby (Jeanne.Quibmy@nist.gov)

A.1: Microwave to sub-millimeter measurements/standards
A.2: Quantum metrology and fundamental concepts

A.3: Time and frequency
A.4: Time-domain metrology, EM-field metrology

A.5: EMC and EM metrology
A.6: Noise
A.7: Materials

A.8: Bioeffects and medical applications
A.9: Antennas
A.10: Impulse radar
A.11: Interconnect and packaging
A.12: Test facilities
A.13: THz metrology
A.14: High-Frequency and millimeter wireless metrology

Commission B: Fields and Waves

USNC Chair: Jamesina Simpson (Jamesina.simpson@utah.edu)

B.1: Antenna arrays

B.2: Antenna theory, design, and measurements
B. 2.1: Active 

B.2.2: Active and passive antenna matching

B.2.3: Antenna and propagation measurement techniques
B.2.4: Small antennas
B.2.5: Other antenna topics

B.3: Complex, novel, or specialized media
B.3.1: Electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures

B.3.2: Biological media

B.3.3: Geophysical media

B.3.4: Metamaterials

B.4: Educational methods and tools
B.5: Electromagnetic interaction and coupling
B.6: Frequency selective surfaces and filters
B.7: Guided waves and wave-guiding structures B.8: High-frequency techniques
B.9: Imaging, inverse scattering and remote sensing B.10: Microstrip antennas and printed devices
B.11: Millimeter wave and Terahertz antennas
B.12: MIMO antennas and systems
B.13: Nanoscale electromagnetics

B.14: Nonlinear electromagnetics

B.15: Numerical methods
B.15.1: Fast methods

B.15.2: Finite-difference methods B.15.3: Frequency-domain methods B.15.4: Hybrid methods
B.15.5: Integral-equation methods B.15.6: Time-domain methods

B.16: Optimization techniques
B.17: Propagation phenomena and effects B.18: Rough surfaces and random media B.19: RFID
B.20: Scattering and diffraction
B.21: Theoretical electro magnetics
B.22: Transient fields, effects, and systems B.23: Ultra-wideband electromagnetics
B.24: Wireless communications
B.25: Wireless sensors and sensing networks

B.26: Cognitive radio
B.26.1: Reconfigurable antennas

B.26.2: Simultaneous transmit and receive systems

B.26.3: Spectrum enhancement techniques

Commission C: Radiocommunication Systems and Signal Processing

USNC Chair: Eric L. Mokole (emokole@mitre.org)
C.1: Cognitive radio and software defined radio
C.2: Computational imaging and inverse methods

C.3: Information theory, coding, modulation and detection
C.4: MIMO and MISO systems
C.5: Radar systems, target detection, localization, and tracking

C.6: Radio communication systems
C.7: Sensor networks, and sensor-array processing and calibration
C.8: Signal and image processing
C.9: Spectrum and medium utilization
C.10: Synthetic aperture and space-time processing

C.11: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR)