A Look at the IMS2009 Workshops

 

There are only a few more weeks until the symposium, and it is time to make your final plans for attending. We have made a number of refinements to the technical program presentation and the Microwave Week schedule that will make the symposium more productive and enjoyable. See the March IMS Insiders for a review. In this month’s Insider, we will discuss the workshops and short courses in more detail – and hopefully convince you to come a day early or stay an extra day to take advantage of these opportunities to learn about a new topic or get an update on a field you haven’t tracked closely in the past couple of years. Follow the link the get the “Inside” story.

 

 

IMS Insiders know that the short courses and workshops are a real opportunity (at a bargain price) to get introduced to a new field or catch up in an area they haven’t followed closely for several years. The workshops are proposed and coordinated by experts in the particular field, and the selection process includes a peer review component to insure the highest quality presentations. The format of the short courses and workshops is interactive, so the attendees can ask questions to clarify information and to extend the discussion beyond the prepared material.

 

Greg Lyons and the rest of the workshop team have done an excellent job putting together the workshop and short course line up. The workshops come in full and half day formats and include breakfast, lunch and snacks during the breaks (1/2 day afternoon workshops do not include breakfast). Short course and workshop attendees receive a printed and electronic copy of the notes for the particular workshop. It is also possible to purchase a DVD with electronic copies of all the workshop notes. There are three options for purchasing the “all workshop” DVD. The first is to bundle the DVD with attendance to 1 full day or 2 half day workshops. This is the best value since there is a discount for the bundled purchase. The second is to purchase the DVD without attendance to any workshops. And finally, it is possible to purchase an RFIC-only all workshop DVD.

 

The short courses and workshops will be held on Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The Sunday workshops are sponsored by the RFIC symposium. The Monday, Wednesday and Friday workshops are predominately sponsored by the IMS with a few workshops jointly sponsored by RFIC or ARFTG. It is never too late to add a short course or workshop to your registration. You can even sign up for these on site.

 

A hyper-linked summary of the short courses and workshops is given below, and you can get more information on the IMS2009 web site (http://www.ims2009.org/workshop_sched.htm#workshops).  Full workshop descriptions including speaker abstracts are now available online as a downloadable PDF.

 

We look forward to seeing you at the International Microwave Symposium!

 

Mark Gouker and Larry Kushner

TPC Co-Chairs

 

 

Sunday Short Courses

SC-1 Advances in the Design of Electrically Small Antennas Sunday 08:00-12:00 SC-2 RFID Transponders and Systems Design Sunday 13:00-17:00 SC-3 Comparative Study of the State of the Art Short-Range Wireless Networking Standards Sunday 13:00-17:00 Sunday Workshops WSA Advances in CMOS RF Power Amplifiers for Cellular and IEEE 802 Connectivity Radios  Sunday 08:00 – 17:00 WSB Current and Future Trends in Frequency Generation Circuits Sunday 08:00 – 17:00 WSC Advances in PA and Tx architectures Sunday 08:00 – 17:00 WSD Self-Interference and Co-Habitation Considerations in Complex SoC and SiP Integrated Solutions Sunday 08:00 – 17:00 WSE Advanced BAW-Enabled Wireless Transceivers: from Devices to System Architectures Sunday 08:00 – 17:00  WSF Devices and Design Techniques for Advanced Handset/Mobile PAs Sunday 08:00 – 17:00 WSG Challenges for Future RF Integration Sunday 08:00 – 17:00 WSH System-Level Design and Implementation of Gb/s 60GHz Radios  Sunday 08:00 – 12:00 WSI Technology and Power Combining Techniques for Millimeter Wave Applications Sunday 13:00 – 17:00 WSJ Active Radio Circuits for Bio & Medical Applications Sunday 08:00 – 12:00 WSK Digitally Assisted Analog and RF Circuits  Sunday 13:00 – 17:00 WSL State-of-the-Art of Low-Noise III-V Narrow-Bandgap and Silicon FET Technologies for Low-Power Applications  Sunday 13:00 – 17:00 Monday Short Courses SC-4 Doherty RF Power Amplifiers, Theory and Practice Monday 08:00-17:00 SC-5 Low Phase Noise Oscillators: Theory, Design, and Laboratory Monday 08:00-17:00 SC-5A Low Phase Noise Oscillators: Theory and Design Only Monday 08:00-12:00

 

Monday Workshops

WMA Tunable RF-Components and Modules for Wireless Communication Systems  Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMB Parameter Extraction Strategies for Compact Transistor Models  Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMC Power Amplifier Linearization: From Advanced Analog and Digital Techniques to Practical Real-Time Implementations  Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMD Digital Receiver Systems for Defense and Related Commercial Applications  Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WME Subharmonically Pumped Mixers (SHP mixers): Design Theory and Systems Applications  Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMF Is GaN Ready for System Insertion? Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMG New Component Technologies for Vehicular and Industrial Radar Applications  Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMH Radio-Frequency Applications of Nanotechnology: Towards a New Generation of Extremely Integrated Devices and Systems Monday 08:00 – 17:00
WMI Gigabit Packaging of Wireless 60GHz Links  Monday 13:00 – 17:00

Wednesday Workshops

WWA Integration Trends towards 4G Wednesday 08:00 – 17:00
WWB RF Design Components of Magnetic Resonance Scanners Wednesday 08:00 – 12:00
WWC Advanced Measurement Techniques, Adapted for Different Memory Effects Wednesday 13:00 – 17:00

WWD RF MEMS Testing, Reliability, and Power HandlingWednesday 13:00 – 17:00

 

Friday Workshops

WFA EM-Based Microwave Optimization Technology: State of the Art and Applications Friday 08:00 – 17:00
WFB Modern RFID: Inkjet Printing of "Green" RFID and RFID-enabled Sensors on Flexible Substrates Friday 08:00 – 17:00
WFC Recent Advances in Microwave Power Applications and Techniques (RAMPAnT) Friday 08:00 – 17:00

WFD Emerging Applications of RF-MEMS Friday 08:00 – 17:00
WFE Stability of Nonlinear Microwave Circuits and Systems: Concepts, Analysis, and Design Friday 08:00 – 12:00

 

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