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Commission E (Electromagnetic Noise and Interference) Activity Report
December 2015 - May 2016
Commission E in Japan is holding technical meetings and sub-committee activities incollaboration with the Technical Committee on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMCJ) of theInstitute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE), the TechnicalCommittee on Electromagnetic Compatibility of the Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan(IEEJ-EMC), IEEE EMC Society Japan Joint Chapter and Sendai Chapter, and some related
technical groups.
Domestic academic activities of EMCJ and IEEJ-EMC:
1. Regular Meetings
The EMCJ of IEICE had five regular technical meetings and IEEJ-EMC had two
technical meetings in the period of December 2015 to May 2016. The December meeting washeld as a co-organized meeting of EMCJ and IEEJ-EMC. In the EMCJ meetings, 67 regular
reports and six special talks were presented, while 8 regular papers were presented as IEEJEMC. The total number of presentations is 80.
The featuring technical topic of the December and May meetings was “PowerElectronics EMC”, which has been attracting strong attention in accordance with recent
advances of power electronics devices, and its application to distributed power supply andelectric vehicles, etc. The featuring topics in January meeting was “Communication EMC,and Wireless Power Transmission”, co-organized by the Technical Committee on WirelessPower Transfer (WPT). The extending spectrum of power electronics noise and its control in
the context of extending high-speed wireless system, and techniques to support coexistenceof power systems and communication systems and sensor network systems is very important
topics in EMC recently. The meeting in May was also supported and technical co-sponsoredby IEEJ Technical Committee on Semiconductor Power Converter.
( http://www.ieice.org/ken/program/index.php?instsoc=IEICE-B&tgid=IEICE-EMCJ )These six special talks listed below were presented in the EMCJ meetings of this period.
[Special Talks](1) Masahiro Yamaguchi (Tohoku Univ.), "RF IC Chip Level Low Noise Technology for
Mobile Telecommunication System by Means of Magnetic Materials", Dec. 2015..
(2) Junzo Ooe (TOYOTA MOTOR CORP.), “Progress of the vehicle EMC, and the futureprospects”, Dec. 2015..
(3) Junji Miyakoshi (Kyoto University), "Safety of Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Fields International Assessment and Future -", Jan. 2016.
(4) Yoshio Kami (UEC), "EMC Engineering Course for Company Engineers - Approach atthe Gigabit Consortium of the Center for Industrial and Governmental Relations -",March 2016.
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資料9-E(5) Yoshiyuki Yoshimura, Hirokazu Sugiura, Yuji Yonezawa, Naotaka Kato (IRII), Satoshi
Yagitani (Kanazawa Univ.), “EMC and electromagnetic wave technologies in Ishikawa
Prefecture”, Apr. 2016.
(6) Keiji Wada (TMU), Hideki Ayano (Tokyo College), Satoshi Ogasawara (Hokkaido Univ.),
Toshihisa Shimizu (TMU), “Research Trends of EMC for Power Electronics”, May 2016.

2. Activity of sub-committees of IEEJ-EMC
In addition to the four sub-committees already active, (1) - (4), the committee on EMC
in IEEJ has been organizing the fifth dedicated research sub-committee on “EMC problemsof automotive (PHEV/EV)” to realize the effective activity, and the first meeting was held inMay 2016.
(1) Investigation committee on EMC problem of smart grit and city.
(2) Investigation committee on disturbance of transient electromagnetic fields to electronicequipment and wireless communications.
(3) Investigation committee on technical trends in evaluation of human exposure toelectromagnetic fields.
(4) Investigation committee on the health risk analysis of electromagnetic field.
(5) Investigation committee on EMC problem of automotive (PHEV / EV).
The purpose of this new sub-committee is to give a perspective of solutions on EMC
problems in automotive applications, particularly in the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles(PHEVs) and EVs, through the investigation into standardization trend related to automotivetechnology. It also is planning to create a new direction of EMC design in automotive
environment with accumulation and utilization of basic technical data,
IEEJ Technical Committee on EMC:
Chairperson:
Ken Kawamata (Tohoku Gakuin University)
Secretaries:
Tomoo Ushio (Osaka University), Hidenori Sekiguchi (NMRI)Assistant Secretaries: Yu-ichi Hayashi (Tohoku Gakuin University)
EMCJ Technical Committee:
Chairperson:
Hideaki Sone (Tohoku University)
Vice Chairperson: Osami Wada (Kyoto University)
Secretary:
Yoshitaka Toyota (Okayama Univ.), Hideki Osaka (Hitachi)
Assistant Secretaries:Atsuhiro Takahashi (Toyota Central R&D Labs.),
Yoshiki Kayano (Akita Univ.), Yusaku Katsube (Hitachi)

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資料9-EWorkshops and Symposiums on Natural Electromagnetic Noise:
Four international meetings and two domestic meetings were listed where ourcommittee members were organized/presented the scientific results. Some detailed
information on these meeting are provided below.

International:

1. AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting”, 14-18 Dec, 2015, San Francisco,USA.
(http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2015/)
This is the largest meeting in the field of Earth and space science in the world.
Nearly 24,000 people attended in this meeting. 16 papers were presented in the field ofatmospheric electricity, signal processing and seismo-electromagnetics by our members.
The related sessions are:
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Thunderstorm Effects in the Near-Earth Space Environment
The Meteorology and Climatology of Lightning and General Contributions
Enabling Access to Solar and Planetary Resources through the Virtual Observatory
Seismology without Seismometers: Ionospheric Monitoring of Natural Hazards ofEarth, Ocean, and Atmosphere(5) Advances in Ionospheric Measurements and Modeling(6) Interdisciplinary Study of Pre-earthquake Processes: Observation, Modeling, andForecasting(7) The Meteorology and Climatology of Lightning I

2. EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2016”, 17-22 April, 2016,Vienna, Austria. (http://www.egu2016.eu)
This is one of the largest meetings in the field of Geophysics. More than 13, 000
scientists from 109 countries were attended. Four papers were presented in the field of
lightning and seismo-eletcromagnetic by our members. The related sessions are:
(1) Atmospheric Electricity, Thunderstorms, Lightning and their effects Short-term
Earthquakes Forecast (StEF) and multi-parametric time-Dependent(2) Assessment of Seismic Hazard (t-DASH)
3. JpGU (Japan Geoscience Union) Meeting 2016”, May 22nd - 26th, Makuhari Messe,Chiba, Japan. (http://www.jpgu.org/meeting_2016/greeting.html)
This is the largest geophysics meeting in Japan. 24 were presented in the field ofatmospheric electricity and seismo-electromagnetics by our members. Related sessions
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資料9-E(1) Atmospheric Electricity(2) Electromagnetic phenomena associated with seismic and volcanic activities(3) Open Research Data and Interoperable Science Infrastructures for Earth &Planetary Sciences(4) Earth and Planetary satellite observation projects Part II: Satellite EarthEnvironment Observation(5) Monitoring and prediction of natural disasters using new methodologies(6) Physics and Chemistry in the Atmosphere and Ionosphere(7) High performance computing of next generation weather, climate, andenvironmental sciences using K(8) New frontiers in earthquake statistics, physics-based earthquake forecasting, andearthquake model testing(9) Geohazards in humid, tectonically active countries and their precursors(10) Interdisciplinary studies on pre-earthquake processes

4. IWEP3 (3rd International Workshop on Earthquake Preparation Process) 27-28 May,Chiba, Japan.
(http://www-es.s.chiba-u.ac.jp/geoph/ulf/iwep3/)
This is the third international meetings regarding seismo-electromagnetics held in
Chiba university organized by one of our members. Twenty-eight oral papers and 15
poster papers were presented in this conference.

Domestic:
1. 94th Annual Meeting of Society of Atmospheric Electricity of Japan, 8-9 Jan, Tokyo(http://www.saej.jp/)
This is the largest domestic annual meeting regarding the field of atmosphericelectricity in Japan Hundred seven people attended and totally 78 paper werepresented during two days. The meeting was held in the University of ElectroCommunications. Among them 45 papers were related to the natural electromagnetic
noise in the sessions such as lightning, electromagnetic waves and seismoelectromagnetics.

2. 2016 Spring meeting of Meteorological society of Japan, 18-21 May,Tokyo(http://www.metsoc.jp/)
Special session regarding understanding and application of lightning discharges
were held first time in this largest meeting in the field of meteorology in Japan. Morethan 100 people attended. Three papers were presented by our members regarding
phased array radar, lightning observations from international space station, and totallightning.
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International Workshop and Symposiums on EMC:
1. “7th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility & Signal
Integrity and Technical Exhibition (APEMC2016)”, May 18-21, 2016, Shenzhen, China;( http://www.apemc.org/ )APEMC 2016 was technically co-sponsored by IEEE EMC Society. About 400 papers
were presented in regular technical sessions, 14 special sessions, 8 workshops, 8 tutorials, and4 topical mini-symposiums, which include 19 invited papers, 4 plenary talks, 2 keynote
speeches, and one luncheon talk. Some of the papers were submitted as “one page abstractpapers” which will not be published in IEEE Xplore. Titles of the topical mini-symposiums
are “Integrated Circuit (IC) EMC”, “Wireless Power Transfer Technologies”, “Smart Grid &Power Electronics EMC”, and “Biomedical Electromagnetics”.
Next APEMC in 2017 will be held in Seoul, Korea, and APEMC 2018 is planned to beheld in Singapore as a Joint IEEE EMC & APEMC Symposium.
Future International Conferences and Meetings:
1. “EMC Joint Workshop 2016 Taipei (EMCJ WS 2016, Taipei)”, June 2-3, National Taiwan
University, Taipei, Taiwan. (http://www.ieice.org/cs/emcj/jpn/regular/emcj-ws.html )The second EMCJ WS will be held in Taipei. This series of EMCJ-WS was started lastyear as “once a year” regular EMCJ technical meeting outside Japan. The purpose is toencourage young engineers and researchers in Japan and East Asian area to present theirworks in English and to exchange information in international environment. Technical visit,
laboratory tour, is also prepared.
2. “2016 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC 2016)”, July
25-29, 2016, Ottawa, Canada; (http://www.emc2016.emcss.org/ )3. “International Symposium and Exhibition on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Europe2016)”, September 5-9, 2016, Wroclaw, Poland; ( www.emceurope.org/2016 ) Final paper
submission: May 16, 2016.
4. “AOGS (Asia Oceania Geosciences Society) 13th Annual Meeting”, 31 Jul to 5 Aug, 2016
Beijing, China (http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2016/public.asp?page=home.htm)
Abstract submission deadline: 19 Feb., 2016.
5. “41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly”, 30 July - 7 Aug. 2016, Istanbul, Turkey(https://www.cospar-assembly.org/) Abstract submission deadline: 12 Feb., 2016.
6. “2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference (URSI AP-RASC’16)”, August 21 to 25,2016 in Seoul, Korea. (http://aprasc2016.org/Welcome_Message.php)

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