The IMS2016 team is developing a world-class technical program that will bring RF/microwave researchers and practitioners from around the world to San Francisco, CA in May 2016. IMS2016 will continue to offer technical sessions, interactive forums, plenary and panel sessions, workshops, short courses, application seminars, STEM activities, RF Boot Camp and a wide variety of other technical and social activities.

Technical Program Overview:

  • The traditional IMS Plenary session will be held Monday evening of Microwave Week, in conjunction with the IMS Welcome Reception.
  • Technical Sessions are comprised of podium presented papers, both full-length (20 min.) and short (10 min.).
  • Interactive Forum papers are evaluated through the same process as the regular session papers, and provide an opportunity for authors to present their work in a poster format and conduct detailed discussions in an informal manner with interested colleagues.
  • Presented papers, both regular and IF, are archival and will be included in the symposium digest, and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Digital Xplore
  • Student-authored papers which primarily represent the student’s own work may be eligible for participation in the popular IMS Student Paper Competition. 
  • Authors may also consider submitting expanded versions of their papers to the IMS Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques.
  • Focus Sessions highlight emerging new technical topics that are gaining importance and may be of significant interest to the microwave community. Focus Sessions may involve a specific emerging technology or may cover several technologies that are relevant to a common application. Focus Session papers are ORIGINAL works and are evaluated according to the same standards as regular paper submissions.
  • Special Sessions are designed to recognize events of historical significance to the microwave community, as well as highlight the technical achievements in a specific technical area, application space or geographical region of the world. Special Sessions may also recognize the life work of an MTT member by honoring their technical and/or service contributions to the microwave community.
  • Panel Sessions are one hour and twenty minutes long, typically held during lunchtime, and showcase technical leaders from industry, academia and government debating hot, and typically controversial, topics of the day in the RF/microwave community. Audience interaction is highly encouraged.
  • Through participation in the Student Design Competitions, IMS registered student teams from around the world will have the opportunity to demonstrate the application of strong RF/microwave engineering design principles in the development of the most elegant/efficient hardware solutions to predetermined design requirements. Student Design Competitions are proposed and organized by specific Technical Committees of the MTT-S.
  • Workshops provide an in depth and vibrant forum for academic researchers and industry experts to share in detail their recent research and development experiences/results on specific challenging and emerging RF/microwave engineering topics.
  • Short Courses offer opportunities for attendees to acquire a fundamental level of knowledge on proposed specific topics. Focused courses of broad interest from excellent instructors are encouraged. Short courses are solicited from all technical areas within MTT-S, including new microwave subject areas, as well as from related fields that directly impact the microwave community.
  • Microwave Application (MicroApps) seminars serve as a forum for exhibitors at the IMS to present the technology behind, and unique capabilities of, their commercial products. The MicroApps seminars are conducted in conjunction with the IMS Exhibition.
  • IMS has a long tradition of educating attendees through workshops, short courses, technical sessions, and other formats.  The majority of the technical programs at IMS are aimed at engineers already working in the microwave industry, with many sessions focused on specific topics.  IMS2016 will continue RF Boot Camp to provide an introduction to RF basics, targeting newcomers to the microwave world, such as new engineers fresh out of school, engineers changing their career path, and college students looking to gain practical experience.

Steven Rosenau & Anh-Vu Pham
IMS2016 TPC Co-Chairs

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General Chair   Amarpal "Paul" Khanna This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
       
TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE
TPC Chair   Steven Rosenau  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
TPC Co-Chair   Anh-Vu Pham  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Focus and Special Session Chair   Morgan Chen  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Focus and Special Sessions Co-Chair   Wayne Kennan  
Interactive Forum Chair   Edmar Camargo  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Interactive Forum Co-Chair   Bert Henderson  
MicroApps Chair   Sherry Hess  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
MicroApps Co-Chair   Alexander Chenakin  
MicroApps   Dustin Hoekstra  
Panel and Rump Sessions Chair   Alfy Riddle  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Panel and Rump Sessions Co-Chair   Jon Martens  
Plenary Chair   Jin Bains  
Short Courses Chair   Arvind Keerti

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Short Courses   Abdi Karbassi  
Student Design Comp. Co-Chair   Ken Wong  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Student Design Comp. Co-Chair   Qing "Ryan" He  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Student Design Competitions   Ron Barnett  
Student Design Competitions   Tony Wade  
Student Paper Competition Chair   Rick Branner

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Student Paper Competition Co-Chair   Jane Gu  
TPRC Liaison   Sushil Kumar  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Workshops Chair   Jim Sowers  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Workshops   Brad Nelson  
Workshops   Kirk Laursen  
Workshops   Norm Chiang  
RFIC Liaison   Sayed Tabatabaei  
ARFTG Liaison   Mohammad Sayed  
TPC Web Liaison   Cheng Chen  
       
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS & OPERATIONS COMMITTEE
Local Arrangements Chair Darin Phelps
Local Arrangements Co-Chair Jessi Johnson
Event Management Elsie Vega This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Event Management Dillian Waldron
Guest Lounge Rahat Khanna
Guest Lounge Karleen Mays
Amateur Radio Co-Chair David Witkowski
Amateur Radio Co-Chair Suresh Ojha
Amateur Radio Co-Chair Beric Dunn
Student Volunteer Coordinator Xiaoguang Li (Leo)
Student Volunteer Coordinator Srinath Balachandran
Student Volunteer Coordinator Utkarsh Unnikrishna
Visa Letters Zaher Bardai This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Women in Microwaves Camille Lesko
Women in Microwaves Rashaunda Henderson
Women in Microwaves Sherry Hess
Young Professionals Irfan Ashiq
Young Professionals Utkarsh Unnikrishna
Registration Chair Balvinder Bisla
Registration Manager Nannette Jordan
Protocol/Gifts John Barr
Signs & Boards Steve Brozowich
FINANCE
Finance Chair Jay Banwait
Finance Robert Alongi
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
STEM Chair Kelvin Yuk
Project Connect Chair Gurpeet Sasan
Project Connect Co-Chair Abhay Samant
PUBLICITY & PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE
Publicity & Publications Chair Joy Laskar
Publicity & Publications Co-Chair Jay Kruse
Mircowave Magazine Special Issue Alfy Riddle
Mircowave Magazine Special Issue Gayle Collins
Marketing, Publicity and Publications Amanda Scacchitti This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Social Media Team Ryan Baker
Social Media Team Sherry Hess
Social Media Team Carmina Stremlau
Social Media Team Judy Warner This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Social Media Team John Wood
Overall Website Coordination Amanda Scacchitti
Web Local Chair Heather Brown
Webpage Consultant Tim Lee
Webpage Consultant Ryan Miyamoto
EXHIBIT MANAGEMENT
Exhibit Management Susie Horn This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Exhibit Management Lee Wood This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Exhibit Management Candi Wooldridge This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
CONFERENCE ADVISORS
Advisor Scott Wetenkamp
Advisor John Barr
Advisor Steve Brozowich
Advisor Jerry Fiedziusko
Advisor Ramesh Gupta
Advisor Fred Schindler
Region 10 Ambassador Ke Wu
Region 8 Ambassador Josef Modelski