Commission B: Fields and Waves

Officers (2024 - 2026)

Reyhan Baktur

Chair

Associate Professor, Utah State University

reyhan.baktur@usu.edu
Karl Warnick

Vice-Chair

Professor, Brigham Young University

warnick@ee.byu.edu
Tutku Karacolak

Technical Activities Chair

Associate Professor, Washington State University - Vancouver

tutku.karacolak@wsu.edu
Satish Sharma

Secretary

Professor, San Diego State University

ssharma@sdsu.edu
Steven Weiss

Member Nominations Chair

The Army Research Lab

sweiss7@jh.edu
Minutes

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Notes:

  • No USNC-URSI Commission B Business Meeting was held at the 2021 AP-S/URSI Symposium in Singapore. COVID-19 delayed the symposium to December 4-10, placing it too close to the 2022 NRSM in Boulder.
  • No NRSM was held in Boulder in 1997, 2003, 2007, 2015, or 2020; a North American Radio Science Meeting was held in each of those years.
Newsletters

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Description

Commission B encompasses all aspects of electromagnetic theory and applications, including theory, analysis, computation, experiments, and validation. Areas of emphasis are:

  1. Time-domain and frequency-domain phenomena and methods;
  2. Scattering and diffraction;
  3. Propagation in materials and media of all kinds;
  4. Guided waves, microwave and RF structures, and components;
  5. Antennas and radiation;
  6. Inverse scattering and imaging.

The Commission fosters the creation, development, and refinement of analytical, numerical, and measurement techniques to understand phenomena and improve methodologies and designs in these areas. It encourages innovation and seeks to apply interdisciplinary concepts and methods.

Membership
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Past Chairs
  • Branislav Notaros (2021-2023)
  • Jamesina J. Simpson (2018-2020)
  • John Volakis (2015-2017)
  • Sembiam Rengarajan (2012-2014)
  • Nader Engheta (2009-2011)
  • David Jackson (2006-2008)
  • Ronald Pogorzelski (2003-2005)
  • Piergiorgio Uslenghi (2000-2002)
  • Don Wilton (1997-1999)
  • Donald G. Dudley (1994-1996)
  • Ralph E. Kleinman (1991-1993)
  • Robert S. Elliott (1988-1990)
  • Dr. Akira Ishimaru (1985-1987)
  • Chalmers M. Butler (1982-1984)
  • George A. Deschamps (1979-1981)
  • Thomas A. Senior (1976-1978)
  • Aharon A. Ksienski (1974-1975)

Note: During the 1974 and 1975 NRSM's, the commissions were numbered as I-VIII. Commission VI (Radio Waves and Transmission of Information) later became Commission B.