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MESSAGE FRoM THE IMS TECHnICAl PRoGRAM CHAIR
On behalf of the Technical Program Committee, I extend my welcome to the 2008 International Microwave
Symposium, held in Atlanta for the first time in the 21st century. The Technical Program Committee,
consisting of 241 reviewers in 31 subcommittees, worked very hard to provide you with the best possible
technical program. Out of 762 submitted papers, 279 were selected for oral presentation, and 132 for
the Interactive Forum (IF). This year we closely coordinated with the RFIC Conference and we have rearranged the
regular sessions in five to six parallel sessions so that the IMS attendees have more flexibility to attend them. There
is one Focused Session organized by Gerald DeJean and his team, focusing on the history of MICs and MMICs. Panel
sessions organized by Chang-Ho Lee and his team occur during lunchtime (as usual) and focus on automotive radar,
multi-gigabit wireless, wireless medical, system/service engineering and cognitive radio. We have clarified the rules
for the Student Paper Competition and expect it to run smoothly thanks to Luca Rosseli’s efforts.
Our Workshop Chair, Edward Gebara, and his committee organized 38 workshops of which four are jointly organized
by IMS/RFIC and one is jointly organized by IMS/ARFTG. They are distributed on Sunday, Monday and Friday.
I would like to thank many individuals for making this event possible. First are the three TPC Vice-Chairs, Kuytae Lim,
John Papapolymerou and Stephane Pinel. Thanks to Jeff Pond, Jonathan Hacker, John Cressler and Roger Pollard for
Electronic Paper Management. A tremendous amount of guidance was provided by Roger Pollard, Tatsuo Itoh and
Joy Laskar. I am indebted to the dedicated effort of a number of volunteers from Georgia Tech, GEDC and GTRI.
Finally, I should note that this symposium would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of the authors
of the technical papers submitted for the symposium and workshops. It is my hope that you will enjoy the technical
depth and breadth of the program during Microwave Week in Atlanta.
Manos Tentzeris
Chair, IMS 2008 Technical Program Committee