BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 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:20231227T231947Z UID:5E502BD6-3C74-4974-AA61-9EE2B1237F06 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231211T110000 DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the Poly-Grames Research Center\, IEEE St udent Branch of Polytechnique and INRS\, STARaCom\, and Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Canada\, the IEEE Montreal Section and MTT Montre al IEEE Chapter are organizing THz Science and Technology Seminar (TSTS) S eries\, which will be delivered exclusively online by distinguished THz re searchers\, engineers\, and leaders in the world to present state-of-the-a rt THz R&D progress\, education\, and applications. This TSTS series is ma de possible thanks to the sponsorship and conclusion of the NSERC-Huawei I ndustrial Research Chair Program.\n\nNear-field Terahertz Networking\n\nAb stract: The recent dramatic growth in interest in the use of high-frequenc y (millimeter-wave and terahertz) carrier waves for wireless communication s has spurred a great deal of research activity. In some cases\, such as f ixed point-to-point backhaul\, systems operating above 100 GHz are already in or nearing commercial deployment. On the other hand\, significant rese arch challenges remain for the deployment of local area networks\, which m ust manage factors such as user mobility and line-of-sight blockage of dir ectional beams. Interestingly\, such networks may often be able to operate in a regime in which most or all of the broadcast sector is located in th e near field of the transmitter. This possibility opens up a host of new i deas for wave front engineering\, in particular wave fronts that can only exist in the electromagnetic near field. Here\, we discuss a few examples\ , focusing on the class of wave fronts that can be engineered to curve aro und an intervening obstacle\, delivering data to a user located in the sha dow of the obstacle. This near-field effect presents an intriguing alterna tive to the popular notion of intelligent reflecting surfaces for blockage mitigation.\n\nCo-sponsored by: PolyGrames\, STARaCom\, Academy of Scie nce of the Royal Society of Canada \n\nSpeaker(s): \, Professor Daniel Mit tleman\n\nVirtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/386141 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/386141 ORGANIZER:tarek.djerafi@inrs.ca SEQUENCE:19 SUMMARY:THz Science and Technology Seminar (TSTS) Series: Near-field Terahe rtz Networking URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/386141 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong>In collaboration w ith the Poly-Grames Research Center\, IEEE Student Branch of Polytechnique and INRS\, STARaCom\, and Academy of Science of the Royal Society of Cana da\, the IEEE Montreal Section and MTT Montreal IEEE Chapter are organizin g THz Science and Technology Seminar (TSTS) Series\, which will be deliver ed exclusively online by distinguished THz researchers\, engineers\, and l eaders in the world to present state-of-the-art THz R&amp\;D progress\, ed ucation\, and applications. This TSTS series is made possible thanks to th e sponsorship and conclusion of the NSERC-Huawei Industrial Research Chair Program.</p>\n<p><strong>Near-field Terahertz Networking</strong></p>\n<p >Abstract: The recent dramatic growth in interest in the use of high-frequ ency (millimeter-wave and terahertz) carrier waves for wireless communicat ions has spurred a great deal of research activity. In some cases\, such a s fixed point-to-point backhaul\, systems operating above 100 GHz are alre ady in or nearing commercial deployment. On the other hand\, significant r esearch challenges remain for the deployment of local area networks\, whic h must manage factors such as user mobility and line-of-sight blockage of directional beams. Interestingly\, such networks may often be able to oper ate in a regime in which most or all of the broadcast sector is located in the near field of the transmitter. This possibility opens up a host of ne w ideas for wave front engineering\, in particular wave fronts that can on ly exist in the electromagnetic near field. Here\, we discuss a few exampl es\, focusing on the class of wave fronts that can be engineered to curve around an intervening obstacle\, delivering data to a user located in the shadow of the obstacle. This near-field effect presents an intriguing alte rnative to the popular notion of intelligent reflecting surfaces for block age mitigation.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR