Conference: Special Sessions to Encourage Collaboration & Interaction Across Disciplinary Boundaries at the IEEE Internat'l Symp. to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah 7/16-21/20

0002139 Jensen随着电磁学领域的成熟，很明显，在这一领域做出重大贡献的机会集中在多学科和合作努力中。 这方面的例子包括无线通信、射频微机械加工和MEMS技术、低成本天线阵列和可重新配置的孔径以及低功率和高频电子器件方面的最新进展。 如果科学家们能够接触到他们自己的工作可能适用的不同学科的相关工作，那么这些领域和类似领域的未来进步似乎会得到推动。 根据这一建议所收到的资金将有助于在2000年IEEE国际无线电广播和传播专题讨论会和USNC/URSI国家无线电科学会议上组织特别会议，以促进这种互动。 通过与精心挑选的这些特别会议的组织者合作，技术计划委员会将确定学术界，政府和工业界的主要研究人员作为潜在的主题演讲者，并使用资金来支付与将他们带到会议相关的费用。 通过提供这种互动的机会，研究人员和从业人员将能够更好地了解他们的工作可能采取的新方向，以解决跨学科研究中的许多重要技术挑战。

0002139JensenAs the field of electromagnetics has matured, it has become evident that the opportunity for significant contributions in this field is concentrated in multidisciplinary and collaborative efforts. Examples of this include recent advances in wireless communications, radio-frequency micro-machining and MEMS technology, low-cost antenna arrays and re-configurable apertures and low-power and high-frequency electronics. It seems likely that future advances in these and similar fields will be fueled if scientists are exposed to relevant work in different disciplines where their own work may be applicable. The funding received in response to this proposal will facilitate organization of special sessions at the 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting that foster this interaction. By working with carefully selected organizers for these special sessions, the Technical Program Committee will identify leading researchers in academia, government, and industry as potential keynote speakers and use the funds to cover expenses associated with bringing them to the conference. By providing this opportunity for interaction, researchers and practitioners will be able to better understand new directions that their work may take in order to solve many of the important technological challenges that lie in interdisciplinary research.***