APS/URSI 2010

Student Paper Competition

Student Paper Competition Finalists

Alphabetized by Presenting Author

Important note for finalists:

Students that are finalists or honorable mentions in 2010 AP-S Student Paper Competition must fax a SIGNED (signature required) W8 or W9 form to Dr. Mike Shields, or scan it in and send it to him by email as a pdf file (the preferred option) in order to receive their travel support.

W9 form (for US residents)
W8 form (for non-US residents)

Dr. Mike Shields
AP-S Secretary / Treasurer
FAX: (781) 981-4608
E-mail: shields@ll.mit.edu

The following student students are finalists in the AP-S 2010 Student Paper Contest.

An O(N) Method for the Rapid Analysis of Periodic Problems Using Accelerated Cartesian Expansions (ACE)
A. D. Baczewski, B. Shanker
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
High Resolution Radar Imaging Utilizing a Portable Opportunistic Sensing Platform
K. E. Browne, R. J. Burkholder, J. L. Volakis
ElectroScience Laboratory, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, United States
Unidirectional Low Profile Ultra-Wideband Antenna for Radar and Communication Applications
A. Elsherbini, K. Sarabandi
Radiation Laboratory, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Miniature Dual-band and Wideband Antennas Based on Printed Circuit Emulation of Anisotropy
S. Gupta, G. Mumcu
Center for Wireless and Microwave Information Systems, Electrical Engineering Dept., University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States
Low-Cost, Planar and Wideband Phased Array with Integrated Balun and Matching Network for Wide-Angle Scanning
J. A. Kasemodel, C-C. Chen, J. L. Volakis
Ohio State University, ElectroScience Lab, Columbus, OH, United States
A Technique for Designing Liquid-Tunable RF Lenses
M. Li, N. Behdad
ECE Department, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison,WI, United States
Analysis of Transient Scattering from PEC Objects Using the Generalized Method of Moments
N. V. Nair, A. J. Pray, B. Shanker
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States
Metamaterial Inspired Patch Antenna Miniaturization Technique
R. O. Ouedraogo, E. J. Rothwell
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State university, East Lansing, United States
Adaptive Pattern Nulling Method for Multi-Armed Spiral Antennas
M. J. Radway, D. S. Filipovic
Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
An Interweaved Spiral Array (ISPA) Providing a 10:1 Bandwidth over a Ground Plane
I. Tzanidis, K. Sertel, J. L. Volakis
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, ElectroScience Lab, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Three-Dimensional Through Wall Imaging Using an UWB SAR
Y. Wang, A. E. Fathy
EECS, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Beamforming Through a Pipe with Two Open Ends
N. J. Whitelonis, H. Ling
Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Superoscillatory Antenna Arrays for Sub-Diffraction Focusing at the Multi-Wavelength Range in a Waveguide Environment
A. M. H. Wong, G. V. Eleftheriades
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
A Simple Approach to Reducing Mutual Coupling in Two Closely-Spaced Electrically Small Antennas
J. Zhu, G. V. Eleftheriades
Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
A Theoretically Rigorous Solution for Fundamentally Eliminating the Low-Frequency Breakdown Problem in Finite-Element-Based Full-Wave Analysis
J. Zhu, D. Jiao
ECE, Purdue, West Lafayette, IN, United States

Student Paper Contest Honorable Mentions

Alphabetized by Presenting Author

The following students are given honorable mention for the AP-S 2010 Student Paper Contest.

Ferhat Celepcikay,  University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Ramazan Cetin, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Wenwen Chai, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Jiefu Chen, Duke University, Durham, NC, United States
Sangjo Choi, University of Michigan, MI, United States
Pai Yen Chen, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Mark Eberspaecher, Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany
Jaegeun Ha, Hanyang, University, Seoul, South Korea
Steven Holland, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States
Garret McKerricher, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Ilkyu Kim, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Woo-jin Kim, National Defense Academy, Yokosuka, Japan 
Shaojing Li, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
Huikan Liu, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States
Xing-Xiang Liu, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States
Yohei Miura, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan 
Ellen O'Connor, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States 
Jose Maria Tamayo Palau, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain 
Harish Rajagopalan, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
Young Jun Song, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States 
Nathan Smith, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
Youssef Tawk, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Ozgur Tuncer, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States 
Derek Van Orden, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States 
Jonathan Woodley, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Ang Yu, University of Mississippi, University, MS, United States
Abdulkadir Yucel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Hongyu Zhou, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Cheng Zhu, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

Schedule of Events Listings

Schedule of Events: Monday July 12 2010

Time Meeting - Chair or Contact Location
2:00 - 5:00 PM Student Paper Contest Interactive Forum Coordinators: A. Grbic and M. Okoniewski area in front of Sheraton Hall

Schedule of Events: Tuesday July 13 2010

Time Meeting - Chair or Contact Location
7:00 - 8:30 AM Student Paper Contest Judges Breakfast Coordinators: A. Grbic and M. Okoniewski Kenora

AP-S Student Paper Competition

Coordinators:

Anthony Grbic
University of Michigan
agrbic@umich.edu
Michal Okoniewski
University of Calgary
okoniews@ucalgary.ca

Double Blind Review Process:

Jennifer Bernhard
University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
jbernhar@illinois.edu