Israel MTT/AP Chapter Symposium■ Shmuel Auster

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The largest Israeli MTT/APChapter symposium ever orga-nized was held on 8 May 2006,

with more than 400 technical attendeesin five sessions with 45 topics andspeakers, including five speakers fromthe United States (Dr. James Rautio,Sonnet President and Rafi Hershtig,K&L Vice President), Germany (Prof. F.Arndt, Bremen Univ.), Italy (Dr. E.Leroux, CST), and Romania (OvidiuLeulescu, Alvarion Romania). In addi-tion, seven posters were presented. Thetitle of the symposium was “Develop-ments and Challenges in Microwaves,Antennas, and RF Photonics.” The sym-posium included a technical exhibitionthat was organized alongside the sym-posium halls with 40 booths. Com-panies and agencies presented CADtools; test equipment; radio frequency(RF), microwave (MW), and millimeter-wave (MMW) components; and mod-ules for electronic systems applications.The symposium was sponsored byAgilent, Eyal MW, Orbit/FR, andMafat/MOD and was held in Hertzliya.

The keynote speaker was Dr. JamesRautio, Sonnet president and IEEEDistinguished Lecturer, who spoke on

Shmuel Auster is with Elta Systems Ltd,Ashdod, Israel.

Dr. Rautio lectures on James Maxwell’s life and legacy. More than 400 delegatesattended the MTT Chapter Symposium.

Arie Raziel from MOD closed the MW session with a presentation on “Acoustics,Electromagnetics and Signal Processing Physics and Technology for Art’s Sake—As Demonstrated on an Electric Guitar.”

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the topic of the life of James C.Maxwell and his legacy. This lecturewas part of the IEEE MTT-S Dis-tinguished Microwave Lecture Series,for the 175th Anniversary of the Birthof James Clerk Maxwell.

Some of the topics that were pre-sented at the symposium were: MWand MMW Filters, MMICs (up-con-verter, amplifiers, transmit/receiveswitches, packages, mixers), poweramplifiers linearization, antennas, andRF photonics.

During the opening session, wegave a certificate of appreciation to Dr.David Rosenfeld, “For his visionary

scientific leadership of the microwavetechnology community in Israel, andhis significant contribution to thedevelopment of RF technology.”

Other Local ChapterTechnical MeetingsOn 13 July, the MTT/AP chapter orga-nized a half-day technical meeting in TelAviv with 50 attendees on the topic of“RF System Architecture Design andSimulation,” presented by Dr. HaimSpiegel from Agilent/Eagleware.

On 26 July, Dr. Eli Levin presented“RFID—Technology and Applications”in a three and one-half-hour evening

MTT technical meeting in Tel Aviv with20 attendees.

The Chapter has organized a micro-waves, antennas, and electromagneticsession to be held at the 24th IEEEIsrael Section Convention of ElectronicEngineers, 15–17 November 2006, Eilat.

The next IEEE MTT/AP and AESchapters symposium will be held on 15May 2007 in Tel-Aviv. A new RadarSession will be added to the symposiumprogram, organized and chaired by Prof.Nadav Levanon from Tel Aviv University.We expect continuation of the growth ofattendance and exhibition area and willmove to a larger venue site.

Prof. F. Arndt fromBremen Univ. in theAntennas Session.

Dr. Lea Singer (MOD), RFPhotonics session chair.

Symposium presidency desk.

From left: Prof. S. Singer, IEEE Israel section chair and Dr.David Rosenfeld receiving a Certificate of Appreciation fromShmuel Auster, chapter and symposium chair.

Exhibition hall.