BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:PDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20211107T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210430T025624Z UID:025A729E-4663-4037-9467-C01F943AAE0A DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210427T070000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20210427T090000 DESCRIPTION:The 5G mmWave Channel Model Alliance\, in collaboration with th e IEEE VT-S Propagation Committee\, IEEE SA P2982\, and the IEEE Vancouver Joint Aerospace and Electromagnetics Chapter is organizing a Workshop on Terahertz Channels and Systems to be held in conjunction with the IEEE VTC 2021-Spring conference.\n\nThis workshop will take place at 10:00 – 12: 00 ET / 7:00 – 9:00 PT on Tuesday\, 27 April 2021. It will focus on Tera hertz Channels and Systems and feature presentations on the following topi cs:\n\n- Standardization activities to streamline channel sounding\n- Tech niques for channel modeling and parameter estimation\, highlighting the ne w issues that would arise in extending the work to THz channels\n- Channel sounder design and measurement results up to 320 GHz\n- Compound channel model for THz channels covering four physical effects (absorption\, attenu ation\, shadowing\, and fading) and accurate noise modeling\n\nThe meeting will be organized into four 15-minute presentations\, each followed by a 10-15-minute question and answer period. The speakers who will be presenti ng during this workshop are:\n\n- David Michelson (University of British C olumbia\, Canada): Verification of Millimeter-Wave Channel Sounders: IEEE P2982 Working Group Activities\n- Akbar Sayeed (University of Wisconsin– Madison\, USA): From mmW to THz Channel Modeling\, Measurements\, and Para meter Estimation: What is Similar and What is Different?\n- Wilhelm Keusge n (Fraunhofer HHI\, Germany): A High Performance Channel Sounder at 300 GH z: Design\, Verification and Measurements\n- Mohamed-Slim Alouini (KAUST\, Saudi Arabia): On the Channel and Noise Modeling in the THz Band\n\nFor m ore information\, contact:\n\nProf. Dave Michelson\, davem@ece.ubc.ca\,\n\ nJeanne Quimby\, jeanne.quimby@nist.gov\,\n\nSven Wittig\, sven.wittig@hhi .fraunhofer.de\,\n\nAniruddha Chandra\, aniruddha_chandra@yahoo.co.in.\n\n David G. Michelson leads the Radio Science Lab at the University of Britis h Columbia\, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering where his resear ch focuses on short-range/low-power wireless networks for smart transporta tion\, smart utility\, and maritime applications\, millimetre-wave channel s and systems\, and satellite networks for communications and remote sensi ng. Prof. Michelson serves as President of the Canadian National Committee of the International Union of Radio Science\, Canadian representative to URSI Commission F - Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing\, member of the Bo ard of Governors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society\, member of the Steering Committee of the NIST-sponsored 5G mm-Wave Channel Model Alliance \, and as co-director of the AURORA Connected Vehicle Technology Testbed a nd principal investigator of the Campus as a Wireless Living Lab project a t UBC.\n\nAkbar Sayeed (Fellow IEEE) is a Professor of Electrical and Comp uter Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where he leads t he Wireless Communications and Sensing Laboratory. His research interests include wireless communications\, channel modeling\, signal processing\, c ommunication and information theory\, time-frequency analysis\, machine le arning\, and applications. A current focus is the development of basic the ory\, system architectures\, and testbeds for emerging wireless technologi es\, including mmW\, THz\, and high-dimensional MIMO systems. He is a Fell ow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and led the creation of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Coordinati on Network on mmW Wireless (2016-2020). Dr. Sayeed served as a Program Dir ector at the NSF (2017-2019)\, where his portfolio covered the basic scien ce and engineering of sensing\, processing\, and communication of informat ion in all modalities\, including the integrated design of hardware and al gorithms for information processing systems and networks.\n\nWilhelm Keusg en received the Dipl.-Ing. (M.S.E.E.) and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.E.E.) degrees fro m the RWTH Aachen University\, Aachen\, Germany\, in 1999 and 2005\, respe ctively. From 1999 to 2004\, he was with the Institute of High Frequency T echnology\, RWTH Aachen University\, where he worked on the reciprocity of multiple antenna systems. From 2004 to 2021 he was heading a research gro up for millimeter-waves and advanced transceiver technologies at the Fraun hofer Institute for Telecommunications\, Heinrich Hertz Institute\, locate d in Berlin\, Germany. Since 2021 he is a full professor at Technical Univ ersity Berlin and heading the chair for Microwave Systems. His main resear ch areas are millimeter wave and THz communications for 5G and beyond. Wil helm Keusgen is author or co-author of more than 140 scientific papers.\n\ nMohamed-Slim Alouini (Fellow IEEE\, Fellow OSA) was born in Tunis\, Tunis ia. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Califoni a Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&M University at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technol ogy (KAUST)\, where he is now a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE as well as of the OSA\, a nd he is currently particularly interested in addressing the uneven global distribution\, access to\, and use of information and communication techn ologies in far-flung\, low-density populations\, low-income\, and/or hard- to-reach areas.\n\nCo-sponsored by: 5G Millimetre-Wave Channel Model Allia nce\; IEEE SA P2982\, Canadian National Committee of the International Uni on of Radio Science\n\nVancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada\, Virtual: ht tps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/268030 LOCATION:Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada\, Virtual: https://events.vt ools.ieee.org/m/268030 ORGANIZER:dmichelson@ieee.org SEQUENCE:4 SUMMARY:Workshop on Terahertz Channels and Systems URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/268030 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>The&nbsp\;<strong><u>5G mmWave Channel Mod el Alliance</u></strong>\,&nbsp\;in collaboration with&nbsp\;the&nbsp\;<st rong><u>IEEE VT-S Propagation Committee\,</u> <u>IEEE SA&nbsp\;</u><span s tyle="text-decoration: underline\;">P2982</span></strong>\, and the<span s tyle="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong> IEEE Vancouver Joint Aerospac e and Electromagnetics Chapter</strong></span> is organizing a <span style ="text-decoration: underline\;"><strong>Workshop on Terahertz Channels and Systems</strong></span> to be held in conjunction with the IEEE VTC 2021- Spring conference.</p>\n<p>This workshop will take place at <strong><u>10: 00 &ndash\; 12:00 ET / 7:00 &ndash\; 9:00 PT on Tuesday\, 27 April 2021</u ></strong>. It will focus on Terahertz Channels and Systems and feature pr esentations on the following topics:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standardization activi ties to streamline channel sounding</li>\n<li>Techniques for channel model ing and parameter estimation\, highlighting the new issues that would aris e in extending the work to THz channels</li>\n<li>Channel sounder design a nd measurement results up to 320 GHz</li>\n<li>Compound channel model for THz channels covering four physical effects (absorption\, attenuation\, sh adowing\, and fading) and accurate noise modeling</li>\n</ul>\n<p>The meet ing will be organized into four 15-minute presentations\, each followed by a 10-15-minute question and answer period. The speakers who will be prese nting during this workshop are:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Michelson (University of British Columbia\, Canada): Verification of Millimeter-Wave Channel So unders: IEEE P2982 Working Group Activities</li>\n<li>Akbar Sayeed (Univer sity of Wisconsin&ndash\;Madison\, USA): From mmW to THz Channel Modeling\ , Measurements\, and Parameter Estimation: What is Similar and What is Dif ferent?</li>\n<li>Wilhelm Keusgen (Fraunhofer HHI\, Germany): A High Perfo rmance Channel Sounder at 300 GHz: Design\, Verification and Measurements< /li>\n<li>Mohamed-Slim Alouini (KAUST\, Saudi Arabia): On the Channel and Noise Modeling in the THz Band</li>\n</ul>\n<p>For more information\, cont act:</p>\n<p>Prof. Dave Michelson\, <a href="mailto:davem@ece.ubc.ca">dave m@ece.ubc.ca</a>\,</p>\n<p>Jeanne Quimby\, <a href="mailto:jeanne.quimby@n ist.gov">jeanne.quimby@nist.gov</a>\,</p>\n<p>Sven Wittig\, <a href="mailt o:sven.wittig@hhi.fraunhofer.de">sven.wittig@hhi.fraunhofer.de</a>\,</p>\n <p>Aniruddha Chandra\,&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:aniruddha_chandra@yahoo.co.in ">aniruddha_chandra@yahoo.co.in</a>.</p>\n<p><strong>David G. Michelson </ strong>leads the Radio Science Lab at the University of British Columbia\, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering where his research focuses o n short-range/low-power wireless networks for smart transportation\, smart utility\, and maritime applications\, millimetre-wave channels and system s\, and satellite networks for communications and remote sensing. Prof. Mi chelson serves as President of the Canadian National Committee of the Inte rnational Union of Radio Science\, Canadian representative to URSI Commiss ion F - Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing\, member of the Board of Gover nors of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society\, member of the Steering Com mittee of the NIST-sponsored 5G mm-Wave Channel Model Alliance\, and as co -director of the AURORA Connected Vehicle Technology Testbed and principal investigator of the Campus as a Wireless Living Lab project at UBC.&nbsp\ ;</p>\n<p><strong>Akbar Sayeed</strong>&nbsp\;(Fellow IEEE) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Mad ison\, where he leads the Wireless Communications and Sensing Laboratory. His research interests include wireless communications\, channel modeling\ , signal processing\, communication and information theory\, time-frequenc y analysis\, machine learning\, and applications. A current focus is the d evelopment of basic theory\, system architectures\, and testbeds for emerg ing wireless technologies\, including mmW\, THz\, and high-dimensional MIM O systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics E ngineers (IEEE) and led the creation of the National Science Foundation (N SF) Research Coordination Network on mmW Wireless (2016-2020).&nbsp\; Dr. Sayeed served as a Program Director at the NSF (2017-2019)\, where his por tfolio covered the basic science and engineering of sensing\, processing\, and communication of information in all modalities\, including the integr ated design of hardware and algorithms for information processing systems and networks.</p>\n<p><strong>Wilhelm Keusgen </strong>received the Dipl.- Ing. (M.S.E.E.) and Dr.-Ing. (Ph.D.E.E.) degrees from the RWTH Aachen Univ ersity\, Aachen\, Germany\, in 1999 and 2005\, respectively. From 1999 to 2004\, he was with the Institute of High Frequency Technology\, RWTH Aache n University\, where he worked on the reciprocity of multiple antenna syst ems. From 2004 to 2021 he was heading a research group for millimeter-wave s and advanced transceiver technologies at the Fraunhofer Institute for Te lecommunications\, Heinrich Hertz Institute\, located in Berlin\, Germany. Since 2021 he is a full professor at Technical University Berlin and head ing the chair for Microwave Systems. His main research areas are millimete r wave and THz communications for 5G and beyond. Wilhelm Keusgen is author or co-author of more than 140 scientific papers.</p>\n<p><strong>Mohamed- Slim Alouini&nbsp\;</strong>(Fellow IEEE\, Fellow OSA) was born in Tunis\, Tunisia. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Ca lifonia Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1998. He served as a faculty member at the University of Minnesota then in the Texas A&amp\;M Universit y at Qatar before joining in 2009 the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)\, where he is now a Distinguished Professor of Elec trical and Computer Engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE as well as of the OSA\, and he is currently particularly interested in addressing the un even global distribution\, access to\, and use of information and communic ation technologies in far-flung\, low-density populations\, low-income\, a nd/or hard-to-reach areas.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR