BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230508T180727Z UID:FFFAAC77-846D-46D1-9DB9-7D1C3BE09C1D DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230508T130000 DESCRIPTION:TITLE: Reconfigurable Metasurfaces for 6G Wireless: Hardware Ar chitectures\, Modeling\, Optimization\, and Applications\, by Dr. George C . Alexandropoulos\n\nWHEN : 8 mai 2023 12:00 Montréal\nZOOM LINK : https: //uqtr.zoom.us/j/82778684403?pwd=TXBha3pvNUwvTWdvRlU2RzFGK2c4UT09\nMEETING ID : 827 7868 4403\nPASSWORD : 109859\n\nABSTRACT: The advent of the conn ected things paradigm within 5G wireless communications enabled various so phisticated applications\, whose evolution paves the way for the notion of the connected intelligence of everything in the future 6G networks. Recen t speculations for this upcoming new generation push the 5G performance in dicators to unprecedented levels\, envisioning THz frequency bands\, devic es with embedded sensing capabilities\, and native artificial intelligence . All these are expected to become a reality around 2030 and with a strong green footprint. In this talk\, we will elaborate around the emerging tec hnology of reconfigurable metasurfaces which is provisioned as the enabler of smart wireless environments\, offering a highly scalable\, low-cost\, hardware-efficient\, and almost energy-neutral solution for the dynamic co ntrol of the propagation of electromagnetic signals\, as well as\, very re cently\, their transmission and reception. We will discuss their evolution from programmable reflecting metamaterials to connected computational- an d power-autonomous hybrid metasurfaces as well as metasurface-based hologr aphic MIMO transceivers\, emphasizing on the state-of-the-art modeling app roaches and their imminent applications for communications\, localization\ , sensing\, and their integration.\n\nShort Biography: George C. Alexandro poulos received the Engineering Diploma (Integrated M.S.c)\, M.A.Sc.\, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of Engineering\, University of Patras\, Greece in 2003\, 2005\, and 2010\, re spectively. He has held research positions at various Greek universities a nd research institutes\, as well as at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sc iences Lab\, Paris Research Center\, Huawei Technologies France\, and he i s currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications\, School of Sciences\, National and Kapodistrian Univer sity of Athens (NKUA)\, Greece. He also serves as a Principal Researcher f or the Technology Innovation Institute\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates. His research interests span the general areas of algorithmic design and p erformance analysis for wireless networks with emphasis on multi-antenna t ransceiver hardware architectures\, active and passive Reconfigurable Inte lligent Surfaces (RISs)\, integrated communications and sensing\, millimet er wave and THz communications\, as well as distributed machine learning a lgorithms. He currently serves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Commu nications\, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, ELSEVIER Computer Netwo rks\, Frontiers in Communications and Networks\, and the ITU Journal on Fu ture and Evolving Technologies. In the past\, he has held various fixed-te rm and guest editorial positions for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communi cations and IEEE Communications Letters\, as well as for various special i ssues at IEEE journals. Prof. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IE EE Communications\, Signal Processing\, Vehicular Technology\, and Informa tion Theory Societies\, the vice-chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Commi ttee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking\, as well as a registered Professional Engineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He i s also a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or technically managed more than 15 European Union (EU)\ , international\, and Greek research\, innovation\, and development projec ts. He is currently NKUA's principal investigator for the EU H2020 RISE‑ 6G and the SNS JU TERRAMETA projects dealing with RIS-empowered smart wire less environments and THz RISs\, respectively. For the former project he a lso serves as the dissemination manager\, whereas for the latter\, he also serves as the project’s technical manager. Prof. Alexandropoulos has re ceived the best Ph.D. thesis award 2010\, the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Professional in Industry Award 2018\, the EURASIP Best Paper Aw ard of the Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2021\, the IE EE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications 2021\, and a Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021. More information is available at www.alexandropoulos.info.\n\nSpeaker(s): George C. Alexandropoulos\, \n\nU niversité de Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR)\, 3351 Boulevard des Forge s\,\, Trois Rivieres\, Quebec\, Canada\, G9A 5H7 LOCATION:Université de Québec à Trois Rivières (UQTR)\, 3351 Boulevard des Forges\,\, Trois Rivieres\, Quebec\, Canada\, G9A 5H7 ORGANIZER:messaoud.ahmed.ouameur@uqtr.ca SEQUENCE:15 SUMMARY:Reconfigurable Metasurfaces for 6G Wireless: Hardware Architectures \, Modeling\, Optimization\, and Applications URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/359530 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>TITLE:&nbsp\;</strong>Reconfigurab le Metasurfaces for 6G Wireless: Hardware Architectures\, Modeling\, Optim ization\, and Applications\, by Dr. George C. Alexandropoulos</p>\n<p>&nbs p\;</p>\n<p><strong>WHEN : </strong>8 mai 2023 12:00 Montr&eacute\;al<br / ><strong>ZOOM LINK :</strong> https://uqtr.zoom.us/j/82778684403?pwd=TXBha 3pvNUwvTWdvRlU2RzFGK2c4UT09<br /><strong>MEETING ID :</strong> 827 7868 44 03<br /><strong>PASSWORD :</strong> 109859</p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT:</stro ng> The advent of the connected things paradigm within 5G wireless communi cations enabled various sophisticated applications\, whose evolution paves the way for the notion of the connected intelligence of everything in the future 6G networks. Recent speculations for this upcoming new generation push the 5G performance indicators to unprecedented levels\, envisioning T Hz frequency bands\, devices with embedded sensing capabilities\, and nati ve artificial intelligence. All these are expected to become a reality aro und 2030 and with a strong green footprint. In this talk\, we will elabora te around the emerging technology of reconfigurable metasurfaces which is provisioned as the enabler of smart wireless environments\, offering a hig hly scalable\, low-cost\, hardware-efficient\, and almost energy-neutral s olution for the dynamic control of the propagation of electromagnetic sign als\, as well as\, very recently\, their transmission and reception. We wi ll discuss their evolution from programmable reflecting metamaterials to c onnected computational- and power-autonomous hybrid metasurfaces as well a s metasurface-based holographic MIMO transceivers\, emphasizing on the sta te-of-the-art modeling approaches and their imminent applications for comm unications\, localization\, sensing\, and their integration.</p>\n<p><stro ng>Short Biography:</strong> George C. Alexandropoulos received the Engine ering Diploma (Integrated M.S.c)\, M.A.Sc.\, and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the School of Engineering\, University o f Patras\, Greece in 2003\, 2005\, and 2010\, respectively. He has held re search positions at various Greek universities and research institutes\, a s well as at the Mathematical and Algorithmic Sciences Lab\, Paris Researc h Center\, Huawei Technologies France\, and he is currently an Assistant P rofessor with the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications\, Schoo l of Sciences\, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA)\, Gr eece. He also serves as a Principal Researcher for the Technology Innovati on Institute\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates. His research interests sp an the general areas of algorithmic design and performance analysis for wi reless networks with emphasis on multi-antenna transceiver hardware archit ectures\, active and passive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RISs)\, integrated communications and sensing\, millimeter wave and THz communicat ions\, as well as distributed machine learning algorithms. He currently se rves as an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications\, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters\, ELSEVIER Computer Networks\, Frontiers in Communi cations and Networks\, and the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technolo gies. In the past\, he has held various fixed-term and guest editorial pos itions for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications and IEEE Communica tions Letters\, as well as for various special issues at IEEE journals. Pr of. Alexandropoulos is a Senior Member of the IEEE Communications\, Signal Processing\, Vehicular Technology\, and Information Theory Societies\, th e vice-chair of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal Processing for Communications and Networking\, as well as a registered Professional E ngineer of the Technical Chamber of Greece. He is also a Distinguished Lec turer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has participated and/or techn ically managed more than 15 European Union (EU)\, international\, and Gree k research\, innovation\, and development projects. He is currently NKUA's principal investigator for the EU H2020 RISE‑6G and the SNS JU TERRAMET A projects dealing with RIS-empowered smart wireless environments and THz RISs\, respectively. For the former project he also serves as the dissemin ation manager\, whereas for the latter\, he also serves as the project&rsq uo\;s technical manager. Prof. Alexandropoulos has received the best Ph.D. thesis award 2010\, the IEEE Communications Society Best Young Profession al in Industry Award 2018\, the EURASIP Best Paper Award of the Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2021\, the IEEE Marconi Prize Pape r Award in Wireless Communications 2021\, and a Best Paper Award from the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021. More information is available at www.alexandropoulos.i nfo.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR