APEMC 2012 - 2012 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (APEMC)

ASIA-PACIFIC EMC WEEK
2012 Asia-Pacific Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility &
Technical Exhibition on EMC RF/Microwave Measurement & Instrumentation
May 21 - 24, 2012 Singapore

Call For Papers

Paper Submission Portal
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Call for Proposals: Special, Invited Organized Sessions and Workshops
Call for Papers: A Tribute Session for Prof. Ruediger Vahldieck
Submission Deadlines
Symposium Topics
Paper Submission
Student Paper Prize

Call for Proposals: Special, Invited Organized Sessions and Workshops

Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials
You are invited to submit proposals for Workshops and Tutorials that will be held at the 2012 Asia-Pacific EMC Week. Workshops and tutorials may cover any EMC related topic in the scope of this symposium. The duration of the workshops/tutorials should be half-day to full-day. In general, the workshops should have multiple speakers to focus on some specific topics and discussion with active interaction during the presentations. Tutorials could like a short course type of presentations.

Prospective organizers of the workshops/tutorials should send your proposals via email to:

Dr Eng Kee CHUA
email: chuaek-AT-ieee.org

The proposal should cover the followings:
- Topic
- Summary of the Topic
- Organizers' names, affiliations, and contact information
- Proposed speakers (name, affiliation, topics if any)
- Duration of the workshop
- Targeted audience

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Proposals for Special/Invited Sessions and Topical Meetings
You are invited to submit proposals for Special and Invited Sessions that will be held at the 2012 Asia-Pacific EMC Week. Potential topics may be from all EMC related areas and may or may not be covered by the symposium topic that are listed below (e.g. History of EMC, EMC in Asia, etc).

Mini-Symposium is an autonomous Topical Symposium which specially focused on a specific area (e.g. IC EMC, Biomedical EMC, etc) with more than 2 sessions, the mini-symposium organizing chair has the full autonomous to select the papers.

When submitting your proposal, please provide:
- Topic
- Abstract
- Organizers' names, affiliations, and contact information
- Proposed speakers (name, affiliation, topics if any)
- Suggested presentation formation and duration

Please submit proposals via email to:

Dr Eng Kee CHUA
email: chuaek-AT-ieee.org

Download Proposal Template

Proposals for Industrial Forum
You are invited to submit proposals for the Industrial Forum that will be held at the 2012 Asia-Pacific EMC Week. The forum shall be especially tailored to share experience and showcase practical EMC design.

When submitting your proposal, please provide:
- Topic
- Abstract
- Organizers' names, affiliations, and contact information
- Proposed speakers (name, affiliation, topics if any)
- Suggested presentation formation and duration

Please submit proposals via email to:

Dr Eng Kee CHUA
email: chuaek-AT-ieee.org

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Call for Papers: A Tribute Session for Prof. Ruediger Vahldieck

A special session to memorise Prof. Ruediger Vahldieck for his devotions and contributions.

Prof. Rueiger Vahldieck of Zurich, Switzerland, passed wasy on 21 March 2011 at age 59 after a long and valiant fight with brain cancer. He leaves behind his wife Zorka and his daughter Masha, who were at his bedside. Rudiger was born in Heiligenhafen, Germany, on 8 July 1951. He received the Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Bremen, Germany, in 1980 and 1983 respectively. He accepted the position of Professor of Field Theory at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), first as Leader of the Field Theory Group and subsequently, in 2003, as Head of the Department of Field Theory and Microwave Electronics (IFH). In 2005, he became President of the Research Foundation for Mobile Communications and was elected Head of the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (D-ITET) of ETH Zurich.

Prof. Vahldieck has been the President and General Chairman of the International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC Zurich) from 2003 to 2009, and was General Chair of the 2006 and 2008 APEMC/EMC Zurich in Singapore and 2007 EMC Zurich in Munich. He tirelessly served the IEEE in key leadership roles, notably as a reviewer of several IEEE journals, Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters (2004-2006), Member of the MTT-15 Technical Committee on Field Theory, Chair of IMS TPSC Committee 3, and Chair of the Swiss Joint IEEE MTT, AP, and EMC Societies Chapter. He has been a member of IEEE since 1985, became a Fellow in 1999, and received several outstanding publication awards.

Rudiger was a passionate sailor and spent whatever time he could find, on his sailboat with his family and friends. He now has departed on his final voyage, leaving behind his lvoed ones, friends, students, research associates and colleagues to remember him fondly.
You are invited to submit a paper for this Tribute Session that will be held at the 2012 Asia-Pacific EMC Week. The paper must be in English, not exceeding four pages including title, authors affiliation, abstract, figures, tables and references.

Prospective authors can send your papers via email to:

Dr Eng Kee CHUA
email: chuaek-AT-ieee.org

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Submission Deadlines for Symposium

Proposals for Workshops and Tutorials - October 25, 2011
Proposals for Special/Focused Sessions - October 25, 2011
Preliminary paper submissions
(4 pages in PDF format only) - December 9, 2011
Notification of acceptance - February 05, 2012
Final paper submission - March 15, 2012
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Symposium Topics

TC-1 EMC Management and Standards
Subject areas include:
- EMC Specifications & Standards
- EMC Control and Management
- Laboratory Accreditation
- EMC Personnel Certification
- National and Regional EMC Legislation
- Mutual Recognition Agreements
- EMC education

TC-2 EMC Measurement and Environment
Subject areas include:
- Test Instrumentation
- Time-Domain Measurements
- Test Procedures
- Emission and Immunity Testing
- Test Facilities (Reverberation chamber, anechoic, etc)
- Confidence and Reproducibility
- EM Environment

TC-3 Lightning
Subject areas include:
- Lightning Parameters and Models
- Pulse Models
- Coupling of Lightning EMF to Lines
- Effects in the Atmosphere
- Protection and Standards
- Intentional EM Interference (IEMI)
- EM Environment

TC-4 High Power Electromagnetics
Subject areas include:
- NEMP, HPM, EMP
- High Power Protection
- Intentional EM Interference (IEMI)
- High Voltage Power Grid EMC

TC-5 Renewable Energy and Smart Power Grid EMC
Subject areas include:
- Solar Cell System EMC
- Wind Energy System EMC
- Wireless Power Transmission
- Power Delivery EMC
- Power Electronics EMI

TC-6 System-Level EMC and Protection
Subject areas include:
- Electrically Large and Complex Systems including Transmission Lines
- Shielding, Coupling and Grounding
- EMC Product Design
- EMC Topologies
- System Installation Aspects
- EMC Quality Assurance
- EMC Cost Factors
- Neural Networks and EMC
- Visualization for EMC
- Virtual EMC-Environment
- PCB EMC

TC-7 Automotive, Railway and Ship EMC
Subject areas include:
- Automotive component, Car controller
- Radar Detection System EMC
- Automotive System EMC
- High Speed Rail EMC
- High Speed Rail Communication EMC
- Metropolitan Transit System EMC

TC-8 EMC in Space
Subject areas include:
- Space Electromagnetic Environment
- Space Vehicles (Satelites, space crafts, space sensors, launch vehicles etc) EMC Issues
- Avionics EMI

TC-9 IC and Semiconductor EMC
Subject areas include:
- ESD for Chips
- Measurement of IC EMC
- Modeling of IC EMC
- EMC in System-on-Chip
- EDA tools for IC EMC
- RFIC EMC
- RFID EMC
- Smart Power IC EMC
- Harsh EM Environment Effects on ICs

TC-10 Signal Integrity and Power Integrity
Subject areas include:
- Simulation Techniques
- Measurement Techniques
- Interconnects
- Package Integration
- PCB
- System-in-Package
- Chip-package and PCB Co-design and Simulation

TC-11 Wireless Communication EMC
Subject areas include:
- Cellular Devices & Systems
- Internet System
- Sub-station EMC
- UWB, Wireless LAN EMC, Wireless Regulations

TC-12 Computational Electromagnetics
Subject areas include:
- Numerical Techniques in EMC Problems
- Fast Methods for Large/Complex Systems
- Hybrid Methods
- Validation and Benchmarking
- Model Order Reduction Techniques
- Advances in EM-based Electronic Design Automation Tools
- Statistical Analysis

TC-13 Biomedical EMC
Subject areas include:
- EM Interaction with Biological Systems at any Frequency
- Exposure Studies
- Medical Applications in Diagnosis and Therapy
- Cellular Phone Dosimetry

TC-14 EMC Nanotechnology
Subject areas include:
- Nanotube Interconnects
- Nanomaterial for EMC
- Metamaterial
- PBG/EBG for EMI
- Nanoelectronic EMC

TC-15 (Special Topic) TSV for 3D-IC and 3D System Integration
Subject areas include:
- TSV Induced Crosstalk, Coupling
- TSV Inducted EMI
- Multi-physics Modeling
- TSV Interaction with Active Semiconductor Devices
- Inter-layer and Inter-block RF Interference
- Heterogeneous Integration EMC Issues

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Paper Submission

Authors are requested to submit:

a preliminary paper in English, not exceeding four pages including title, authors affiliation, abstract, figures, tables and references.

When you submit your paper at the paper submission web, please provide author's affiliation, name of the correspondence author, his/her address, phone/fax numbers and e-mail address. You should also clearly summarize the novelty of your contribution and indicate the desired technical areas (maximum of two). Incomplete submissions will not be considered for review. Submissions can only be accepted electronically via the ASIA PACIFIC EMC 2012 Submission Portal in Portable Document Format (PDF). Font embedding must be IEEE Xplore compatible. For typesetting, LaTeX and Word templates are available. Hardcopies or any format other than PDF will not be accepted.

Accepted Papers

Notifications of paper acceptance and the necessary information to electronically submit the final version of the paper will be sent to the authors.

Final papers must not exceed four pages including figures, table and references. The templates provided for typesetting the preliminary paper also apply for the final paper.

Accepted Papers will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library and is EI-indexed.

Review

Submissions will be reviewed by the technical committees based on selection criteria which include the following factors:

Originality and Novelty:
How is the contribution unique, significant, and state-of the art?
Quality:
Clarity of the writing and figures. What is the context of the contribution with respect to previous work, including proper references?
Technical Sophistication and Depth:
Does the contribution extend the current knowledge?
Importance of Topic:
Does it has direct significance to the EMC community?

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Student Paper Prize

Papers considered for the Student Paper Prize are expected to be predominantly the work of the student. Papers co-authored by a student and his advisor are eligible, provided the student is the principal author and also the presenter. Please indicate in your electronic submission if you want to be considered for the Student Paper Prize.