Grants & Awards

AWARDED PAPERS

Award on MEASUREMENTS

Christian M. Schmid - Reinhard Feger - Clemens Pfeffer - Andreas Stelzer

Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

"Motion Compensation and Efficient Array Design for TDMA FMCW MIMO Radar Systems"

Award on PROPAGATION

Jonas Medbo - Henrik Asplund - Jan-Erik Berg - Niklas Jalden

Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden

"Directional Channel Characteristics in Elevation and Azimuth At an Urban Macrocell Base Station"

Award on ANTENNA THEORY

María García-Vigueras - Pablo DeLara-Guarch - Jose-Luis Gómez-Tornero - Raúl Guzmán-Quirós - George Goussetis

Technical University of Cartagena, Murcia, Spain.

Queens University, Belfast, UK

"Efficiently Illuminated Broadside-Directed 1D and 2D Tapered Fabry-Perot Leaky-Wave Antennas"

Award on ANTENNA DESIGN

Symon K. Podilchak - Mathieu Caillet - Yahia Antar - Lucia Chu

Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario, Canada,

COM DEV International Inc., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

"Compact Antenna for Microsatellite Using Folded Shorted Patches and an Integrated Feeding Network"

ESoA-EuCAP Student Paper Award

WINNER

Cecilia Occhiuzzi

University of Roma Tor Vergata, Italy

"Experimental Characterization of the RFID STENTag for Passive Vascular Monitoring"

2nd Place

Elena Pucci

Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden

"Contactless Non-Leaking Waveguide Flange Realized by Bed of Nails for Millimeter Wave Applications"

3rd Place

Eugen Safin

Christian-Albrecht-University of Kiel, Germany

"Modal Source Reconstruction Based on Radiated Far-Field for Antenna Design"

GRANTS

Organizers of EuCAP 2012 are very pleased to announce results of the applications for grants.

Grant holders for EuCAP 2012 are:

Dirk De Villiers
Georgios Bouzianas
Maria Garcia Vigueras
Olga Shapoval
Vladimir Ssorin
Yung-Hsiang Chuang
Hatem Rmili
Nadiia Stogni
Anna S. Zaitseva

An official electronic letter will follow soon. Please be aware that the grant is just a registration fee waiver (Student Fee or equal amount, given by a discount code on the registration website) and no other contributions will be given. All the remaining fees namely accommodation and travel will remain on you responsibility. The grant holders are kindly asked to send to the grant committee a commitment that they will indeed attend EuCAP or decline so we can attribute their grant to other candidates. Congratulations.

We are sorry that due to the huge number of applicants for grants (44) and limited budget, we were not able to satisfy more applicants than 9. We got a really though competition with strong candidates and good papers. In a two round system of evaluation the quality of the papers, abstracts, CVs and professional activities as well as economy situation of the country where applicant works, were taken in account. Nevertheless, we hope that those who did not received grants will be still able to attend EUCAP 2012.

Looking forward to see you all at the conference.

Prof. Milos Mazanek

Prof. Cyril Luxey

Prof. Juan Mosig

Grant Rules - PASSED

The rules for EuCAP 2012 Grants to high quality papers authors from developing countries, who are not able to pay the conference fee.

The grants mean free entrance at the EuCAP conference (other services must be paid)
The request for grant application has to arrive spontaneously by email till January 25th 2012 (prior to applicants registration but after the full paper submission).
The applicant has to send:
- electronic copy of the full paper
- CV including the list of publications
to: Cyril.luxey@unice.fr with the copy to juan.mosig@epfl.ch and mazanekm@fel.cvut.cz
By the end of January the applications will be ranked and the grant will be assigned by the Grants Jury (prof. Luxey, prof. Mosig, prof Mazanek)
The applicants will be informed by email to wait with registration to 7th of February, when the grants will be assigned
The registration team will send the discount codes to the winners in order to allow their free registration

Antenna Theory Award Jury

A jury of world leading experts has been convened to judge the EuCAP 2012 Best paper award in the "Antenna Theory" category. The panel of distinguished academics include:

Prof. Ala Sharaiha, IETR-University of Rennes 1, France
Prof. Hiroyuki Arai, Yokohama National University, Japan
Prof. Giuseppe Di Massa, University of Calabria, Italy
Prof. Alain Sibille, Telecom ParisTech, France
Prof. Christophe Craeye, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

The winner will be announced Friday, 30th March at the closing ceremony.

Propagation Award Jury

A jury of world leading experts has been convened to judge the EuCAP 2012 Best paper award in the "Propagation" category. The panel of distinguished academics include:

Prof. Danielle Vanhoenacker-Janvier, ICTEAM Electrical Engineering, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Prof. Fernando Perez-Fontan, University of Vigo, Spain
Dr. Vaclav Kvicera, Senior Researcher, Czech Metrology Institute, Czech Republic
Dr. Mike Willis, Head of Radio Research, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Prof. Vittorio Degli Esposti, Università di Bologna, Italy

The winner will be announced Friday, 30th March at the closing ceremony.

ANTENNA DESIGN AWARD JURY

A jury of world leading experts has been convened to judge the EuCAP 2012 Best paper award in the "Antenna Design" category. The panel of distinguished academics include:

Prof. Ozlem Aydin Civi, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
Prof. Andrzej Kucharski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Dr .John C Batchelor, Reader in Antenna Technology, The University of Kent, UK
Prof. Custódio Peixeiro, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Zhi Ning Chen, Principle Scientist, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

The winner will be announced Friday, 30th March at the closing ceremony.

MEASUREMENTS AWARD JURY

A jury of world leading experts has been convened to judge the EuCAP 2012 Best paper award in the "Measurements" category. The panel of distinguished academics include:

Prof. Manuel Sierra Castañer, Technical University of Madrid, Spain
Prof. Dirk Heberling, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Maurice Paquay, Antenna Measurement Engineer, ESA-ESTEC, Netherland
Lars Jacob Foged, Director, Satimo Italy, Pomezia, Italy
Prof. Fernando Las-Heras, University of Oviedo, Spain

The winner will be announced Friday, 30th March at the closing ceremony.

Awards

There will be five award competitions at EUCAP 2012.

ESoA-EUCAP Student award
Antenna design paper award
Antenna theory paper award
Propagation paper award
Measurement paper award

The organizing committee will select the finalists by the beginning of January in each category based on two criteria:

the recommendations of the reviewers or the conveners (convened session)
the quality of the full-length paper

The winner of the ESoA-EuCAP student award will be selected by a panel of world leading experts, based on the presentation of the students at the conference in a dedicated session composed of 10 presentations.

The winner of the other four prizes will be judged by a panel of world leading experts before the conference based on the quality of the work and the quality of the full-length paper.

So please, try submitting a tidy full length paper for being a finalist.

All the awards will be given at the closing ceremony.

The Finalist of the EsoA-EUCAP student competition are known

- Eugen Safin - University of Kiel - Germany (Main supervisor Dirk Manteuffel)

- Pablo Sanchez-Olivares - Universidad Autonoma de Madrid - Spain (Main supervisor Jose Luis Masa-Campos)

- Billy Wu - University of Calgary - Canada (Main supervisor Michal Okoniewski)

- Yizhen Tong - University of Sheffield - United Kingdom (Main Supervisor Alan Tennant)

- Nima Jamaly - Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden (Main Supervisor Yahya Rahmat-Samii - University of California Los Angeles - USA)

- Cecilia Occhiuzzi - University of Rome "Tor Vergata" - Italy (Main Supervisor - Gaetano Marrocco)

- Elena Pucci - Chalmers University of Technology - Sweden (Main Supervisor - Per-Simon Kildal)

- Colan Ryan - University of Toronto - Canada (Main Supervisor George V. Eleftheriades)