LAPC Latest News

posted 20th July 2010:

The LAPC Organising Committee has been very busy over the last few weeks oganising reviews of all the papers submitted. Many thanks to our Technical Programme Committee who are currently carrying out these reviews in their specialised fields from all over the world.

posted 29th June 2010:

The deadline for paper submission is approaching! Please upload your papers early to avoid any problems. If your paper is slightly too long you will have a chance to shorten it at a later date. All papers must be on EDAS on the 1st July!

posted 15th June 2010:

Prof. Roland Gabriel, Chair of the German VDE ITG antenna section of the Base station Antenna manufacturer, Kathrein, has accepted our invitation to be a Guest Speaker in our session on
Advanced wireless communication antenna technology.

We are delighted that all our Keynote Speakers have accepted our invitations ensuring that the Conference content will be pertinent, informative and cutting edge!

posted 13th June 2010:

Dr. Elena Pancera from the KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, in Germany has accepted our invitation to be a Guest Speaker on Personal and body area Network Propagation.

posted 9th June 2010:

Dr. Andreas Christ from the IT'IS Foundation in Switzerland has accepted our invitation to be a Guest Speaker on New EM Modelling and measurement techniques. Our thanks go to him and all the Guest Speakers! LAPC prides itself on the calibre of its core content and the Guest Speakers are vital contributors to this.

posted 29thMay 2010:

THE DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO THE END OF JUNE. Final versions of all papers must now be uploaded before 1st JULY 2010.

Due to the presures of work at this time of year, we have had many requests for an extension to our Paper Deadline and we are pleased to be able to announce that we are able to extend it for a full month! Obviously there can be no further deadlines beyond this point and authors are advised to ensure that their paper is uploaded by THE END OF JUNE in order to avoid missing the deadline due to any last minute technical problems.

If you will require a visa to attend and need an early response, please email us as soon as your final version of the paper is uploaded and we will try to fast track your review process.

posted 28thMay 2010:

Professor Sana Salous from Durham University, UK has accepted our invitation to be an invited speaker in our Special Session on the built environment.

posted 21st May 2010:

We are pleased to announce that the IET will be sending their camera crew to LAPC 2010 and footage of the event will be available to view online after the conference.

posted 19th May 2010:

Full details of the CST Workshop have been finalised.

Attendance at this workshop is FREE TO ALL LAPC DELEGATES but you must register early as places are limited. The workshop will take place on Wednesday 10th November 2010 in the Loughborough Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. If you wish to attend you must register directly with CST on this link: CST Workshop Details.

Full details of the Empire Workshop will follow shortly.

posted 13th May 2010:

Many thanks to those of you who have already uploaded your Paper to Edas. Remember, you have until 1st June to make changes to you paper before it is allocated to a reviewer.

If you are still to upload your Paper please see Paper Submission for all the details on how to submit. This is a rare chance to present your work to some of the leading experts in the field during the Conference Poster Session as well to have the full paper published by IEEE.

Just 18 days remaining to upload your paper to Edas.

Will your Paper be awarded the Best Paper Prize at LAPC 2010?

posted 22nd April 2010:

Special Notice to Authors who require visas

In order to allow authors more time to obtain visas the LAPC TPC has agreed to offer an accelerated review process if required. Authors who are concerned about obtaining visas should upload their full paper to EDAS as soon as possible and then email lapc@lboro.ac.uk to let us know that your paper is ready for review. Reviewers can then be allocated BEFORE the 1st June and feedback given more quickly.

For any further information on Paper Submission please refer to the Paper Submission Details.

posted 9th April 2010:

The latest draft of the Conference Programme is now available. Additions are made on an on-ging basis and can be viewed on the Conference Sessions Page.

Seven weeks remaining until the Paper Submission Deadline.

posted 31st March 2010:

Congratulations to Professor Allan Williamson from Auckland University on his promotion. We are sorry that this will prevent him from travelling in November but are grateful to his colleague, Dr. Michael Neve, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering for stepping into the breach,

posted 29th March 2010:

Download a pdf of Crucial Information for LAPC 2010 here. This leaflet includes a detailed list of all the topics considered for inclusion.

Please support LAPC by displaying this leaflet on your departmental notice board.

If you would like a compressed version to forward to colleagues please email lapc@lboro.ac.uk and we will be happy to send you one.

posted 22nd March 2010:

Dr. Leo Kempel (Michigan State University USA) has confirmed his attendance as an Invited Speaker on EM Modeling.

posted 19th March 2010:

Paper Submission is Now Open! Final Deadline is 1st June so now is the time to start focusing on your submission.

Check Paper Submission for full details of what is involved in getting your paper accepted at the 6th LAPC International Conference,

LAPC 2010

Good luck to everyone!

posted 18th March 2010:

IEEE Region 8 will be our Section Technical Co-sponsors for LAPC 2010 together with IET and APS. Their co-operation assists us in ensuring that the rigorous accademic standards we all require are maintained.

posted 17th March 2010:

We are pleased to announce that the following Invited Speakers have already confirmed their attendance at LAPC 2010.

Once again LAPC really will be able to host the global experts in their fields.

We would like to thank all the Speakers in advance and we are looking forward with anticipation to all their presentations!

Remember, LAPC does not run concurrent sessions so ALL delegates will be able to attend ALL Presentations.

Confirmed Invited Speakers for LAPC 2010:

Dr. Kevin Boyle (NXP)

Prof. Tony Brown (Manchester University, UK)

Prof. Brian Collins (Antenova)

Prof. Peter Hall (Birmingham University, UK)

Prof. Koichi Ito (Chiba University, Japan)

Dr. Jürgen Kunisch (IMST, Germany)

Dr. Marta Martinez-Vazquez (IMST, Germany)

Prof. Raj Mittra (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Dr. Michael Neve (Auckland University, New Zealand)

Prof. Clive Parini (Queen Mary University, London, UK)

Prof. William Scanlon (Queen's University Belfast, UK)

posted 26th February 2010:

Presentations from the first day of LAPC 2009 are now available courtesy of IET at the link below:

http://tv.theiet.org/search.cfm?syear=&schan=&stext=LAPC&page=1

posted 12th February 2010:

As ever LAPC 2010 will cover the key developments in our field.

Invited Speaker Sessions for 2010 are:

Antennas and propagation in the built environment
Personal and Body Area Network propagation
Advanced wireless communication antenna technology
New EM modelling and measurement techniques

Papers for Poster Presentation will also be considered from any other topics within the broader Antennas and Propagation field allowing exensive opportunities for discussion and intellectual exchange.

LAPC 2010 looks set to be another two days of exciting ideas presented by the well-informed!

posted 26th January 2010:

All Papers from LAPC 2009 are now available on IEEE Xplore

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=5352359&isYear=2000

The call for papers for 2010 will go out shortly.

posted 8th January 2010:

Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference 2010

We are pleased to announce that LAPC 2010 has again been confirmed to take place at Burleigh Court in Loughborough.

This will be the sixth annual convention of LAPC and we are looking forward to another suceessful conference, where, no doubt the quality of paper submissions will be higher than ever!

Please note the dates: 8th and 9th November 2010 in your diary now and we look forward to welcoming you to Loughborough then.

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November 2009:

The James Roderick James Lifetime
Achievement Award

has been presented to Prof. Peter S. Hall

In recognition of his outstanding contribution over a signigficant period of time in the fields of Antennas and Propagation. Professor Peter Hall has made outstanding technical achievements and contributed significantly to our knowledge and understanding of microstrip antennas and arrays, active antennas, MIMO and body-worn communication systems.

Professor Peter Hall is the first person to be presented with this award which has been inaugurated by the out-going conference chairs in memory of its namesake whose example of longterm outstanding contribution was so exemplary.

Professor Peter Hall was presented with a certificate and commemorative cut glass bowl at the conference and the Committee would like to add their further congratulations here.

A massive thank you to all who attended and contributed to the success of the conference. Attendance was higher than ever before and yet the academic standards and the friendly atmosphere remained the same as ever.

We are currently finalising the details for LAPC 2010 which will again take place in November. Please watch this space for regular updates.

On behalf of everyone we would also like to thank our two outgoing Conference Chairs:

Dr. Ivor Morrow, Cranfield University, UK

Prof. William Scanlon, Queen's University Belfast, UK

They have worked tirelessly through-out the year to ensure that the paper reviews were rigorous and considered, and they achieved this task depsite the record number of paper submissions (up over 100% on 2008)! Authors from 55 countries benefitted from the paper review feeback of the Technical Programme Committee as part of LAPC 2009 and full recognition should be given to the Chairs for coping so efficiently and concientiously with the scale of this task.

As a final part of this extended process four Best Paper Prizes were selected. Congratulations to all the authors involved:

Open Category

Doren W. Hess; Scott McBride, authors of

“Aperture back projection technique and measurements made on a flat array with spherical near field arch”

In recognition of advanced aspects in the measurement accuracy of the back projection technique.

and

James S. McLean; Heinrich Foltz; Robert Sutton, authors of   

“Directional Dependence of the minimum phase property of antenna transfer function”

In recognition of original technical insight into antenna radiation that may have significant impact on signal error correction.

Student Category

Bin Abdullah Al-Hadi Azremi; Mikko Kyrö; Janne Ilvonen; Jari Holopainen; Sylvain Ranvier; Clemens Icheln; Pertti Vainikainen, authors of

 “Five element inverted F antenna array for MIMO communication and radio direction on a mobile terminal”

In recognition of a thorough comparison of simulation and measurement in the study of small terminal antennas.

and

Nicolas Gagnon; Aldo Petosa; Derek McNamara, authors of

“Comparison between conventional lenses and an electrically thin lense made using a phase shifting surface (PSS) at Ka Band”

In recognition of an original application of HIS to novel phase shifting surfaces