18 September Wednesday
Steering Committee meeting (TBD)
19 September Wednesday
08:30 – 08:55 Registration
08:55 – 09:00 Opening – Prof Y. Jay Guo
09:00 – 10:00 Distinguished Lecture – Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii: Mars Call Earth: A Novel Rover Array Antenna Design for a Direct Communication Link to Earth
10:00 – 11:00 Distinguished Lecture – Prof. Trevor Bird: Mutual Coupling In Arrays of Metahorns
11:00 – 11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 – 12:30 Distinguished Lecture – Prof. Raj Mittra: A New Look at Characterization, Design and Simulation of Metasurfaces for Antenna Applications
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 15:00 Poster
Shulin Chen (UTS); Jiang Wen (Xidian Uni.); Tao Hong (Xidian Uni.); Xing Wang (Xidian Uni.);
Han Zhou (Shanghai Jiaotong Uni.); Zhiya Zhang (Xidian Uni.); Xiaowei Shi (Xidian Uni); Ken Smart (CSIRO)
15:00 – 15:30 Invited Talk – Prof. Steven Gao: Wideband Circularly-Polarized Antennas and Arrays for Satellite Communications and Global Navigation Satellite Systems
15:30 -16:00 Afternoon Tea
16:00 – 16:30 Invited Talk – Prof. Ronghong Jin: Direction Finding Technology Based on Time Modulated Array
16:30 – 17:00 Invited Talk – Dr Andrew Austin: Indoor Millimetre-wave Channel Measurements at 60 GHz: Implications for 5G System Deployments
18:00 – 20:00 Dinner
20 September Thursday
09:00 – 10:00 Distinguished Lecture – Prof. Y. Jay Guo: Fixed Frequency Beam-Scanning Leaky-Wave Antennas
10:00 – 11:00 Distinguished Lecture – Prof. Rick Ziolkowski: Metamaterial-inspired Compact Directive Antenna Systems
11:00 – 11:30 Morning tea
11:30 – 12:30 Distinguished Lecture – Prof. Christophe Fumeaux: Low-Profile Substrate-Integrated Wideband Monopole Antennas
12:30 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:45 Poster Session
Tao Wan (Xi’an Research Institute of Navigation Technology); Yu Zhang (Xidian Uni.);
Shuxi Gong (Xidian Uni.); Gengming Wei (Xidian Uni.); Yuanming Cai (Xidian Uni.)
Guang Fu (Xidian Uni.); Lin Yang (Xidian Uni.); Feng Wei (Xidian Uni.);
14:45 – 15:00 Afternoon Tea
15:00 – 15:30 Invited Talk – Prof. Ying Liu: Design of Wideband Antenna with Characteristic Mode Analysis
15:30 – 16:00 Invited Talk – Prof. Steve Wong: Functional-Material based Reconfigurable Antennas
16:15 – 21:00 Networking Dinner on the sea, Picking up at Sheraton Hotel Lobby
21 September Friday
09:30 – 10:00 Invited Talk – Prof. Qi Wu: Characteristic Modes 2.0: From Metallic Structures to More Realistic Ones
10:00 – 10:30 Invited Talk – Dr Peiyuan Qin: Fabry-Perot Antenna and Its Reconfiguration
10:30 – 11:00 Invited Talk – Prof. Jiafeng Zhou: New Approach of Element Miniaturization for Frequency Selective Surfaces
11:00 – 11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 – 12:00 Invited Talk – Prof. Yuehe Ge: High-efficiency Broadband Ultrathin Transmission Metasurfaces with Simultaneous Control of Phase and Amplitude at Microwave and Millimetre-wave Bands: Study and Applications
12:00 – 12:30 Invited Talk – Dr Can Ding: A Deep Understanding of Dual-Polarized Base Station Antenna
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Invited Talk – Prof. Tao Zhou: THZ Antenna Based on Graphene
14:00 – 14:30 Invited Talk – Dr Stephanie Smith: Design of RF Feed Components for Advanced Manufacturing
14:30 – 15:30 Close and Refreshment