資料6-B

Commission B, Fields and Waves
Activity Report
July 2016 – October 2016

1 Activity
1.1 4th Meeting of Commission B for the 23rd term of the Science Council of Japan
Date: September 23, 2016 10:20-10:50
Place: Hokkaido University, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Conference
room (11-17 room)
The minutes:1) Minutes of the previous meeting
Minutes of the previous meeting were accepted.
2) About EMTS, AP-RASC, etc.
Prof. Shirai explained the several URSI-related conferences.
- About EMTS2016. 261 papers were submitted and 247 papers were accepted. The school on
Electromagnetic Fields and Waves: Mathematical Models and Numerical Methods by Prof. Yury
Shestopalov and Dr. Eugen Smolkin was held with 35 participants.
- About AP-RASC2016. 728 papers were submitted including 161 papers from URSI-B. 687 papers
were accepted including 149 papers from URSI-B.
- About URSI GASS 2017 (Montreal, August 19-26, 2017). The deadline of submission is January
30. There will be an election for next vice chairperson of URSI-B. It is necessary to adjust who wewill vote for a candidate before the meeting. There will be a vote for a venue of EMTS2022.
- AT-RASC2018 (Gran Canaria, May 28-June 1, 2018)- AT-RASC2019 (New Delhi, March 2019)- EMTS2019 (San Diego, May 27-31, 2019)- URSI GASS 2020. There is a plan to hold in Japan.
- PIERS2018 (Toyama, August 1-4, 2018)3) About URSI-B lecture
The lecture this time was the introduction of each activity presented by Prof. Nishimoto and Prof.
Uno. The next lecture will be provided by Prof. Cho (chair of AP committee) and Prof. Sato (chair ofEMT committee).
4) Future URSI JRSM is under consideration, and will be discussed at the Japan National Committeeof URSI meeting in December.

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2 Associated meetings
2.1 Past meetings
1) 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation/USNC-URSI National Radio
Science meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Jun. 26-Jul. 2, 2016, http://www.2016apsursi.org/
2)

The

37th

PIERS

2016

inShanghai,

China,

August

8-11,

2016,

http://www.piers.org/piers2016Shanghai/3) 2016 URSI Commission B International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, Espoo, Finland,Aug. 14-18, 2016, http://emts2016.org/4) 2016 URSI Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 21-25, 2016,
http://aprasc2016.org/5) 2016 International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications, IEEE-APS Topical
Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Cairns, Australia, Sep. 19-23,
2016, http://www.iceaa-offshore.org/j3/6) 2016 International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 24-28, 2016,
http://www.isap2016.org/

2.2 Future meetings
1)

2016

Asia-PacificMicrowave

Conference,

New

Delhi,India,

Dec.

5-9,

2016,

http://www.apmc2016.org/2) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computational Electromagnetics, Kumamoto, Japan, Mar.
8-10, 2017, http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/fukuoka/aps/ICCEM2017/3) 2017 Asian Workshop on Antennas and Propagation, Sapporo, Japan, Jun. 29-30, 2017.
4) 2017 IEEE AP-S Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science
Meeting, San Diego, CA, USA, July 9-15, 2017, http://2017apsursi.org/