THE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL KHARKOV SYMPOSIUM ON PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING OF MICROWAVES, MILLIMETER AND SUBMILLIMETER WAVES (MSMW'2013)

WORKSHOP ON TERAHERTZ TECHNOLOGIES AND RADIOSPECTROSCOPY OF COMPLEX MEDIA (TERATECH'2013)

WORKSHOP ON COMPLEX CONDUCTIVITY AND WAVE SYMMETRY OF FE-BASED SUPERCONDUCTORS (CCWS’13)

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Important Dates
  Kharkov, Ukraine, June 23-28, 2013  
 
MSMW HISTORY
 
 
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The MSMW Symposium has grown from a series of conferences on millimeter (mm)and sub-millimeter (sub-mm) waves, which were aperiodically held in the USSR since 1974. These conferences played an important role for R&D in these wavelength ranges. At that time it was the only wide forum that was attended by the leading scientists and engineers of the involved organizations from all over the USSR. It must be admitted that then mm-wave R&D were considered as a sensitive defense-related area and were usually supervised by defense or double-purpose ministries of the USSR. A number of mm-wave radar, propagation and communication projects were performed for the military. Sub-mm R&D were in fact concentrated around development of multichannel interferometers-polarimeters for hot plasma diagnostics in Tokamak nuclear fusion machines. Therefore no surprise that early Symposia had, besides of open sessions, also a special classified part attended only by selected participants. Besides, along with exchange of new ideas, methods, designs and advanced technologies that is traditional for such events, the early Symposia served for cooperation with sub-contractor teams, for interaction with the industry, and even for determining the levels of funding of various organizations. Here important role was played by the USSR military-industrial complex, whose representatives regularly attended the conferences.In the 70-80's, the Symposia were organized jointly by the Scientific Councils of the Academy of Sciences (AS) of the USSR "Wave Propagation" and "Physical Electronics", and the Scientific Council of the AS of USSR "Physics and Engineering of MM and Sub-mm Waves". Three major R&D establishments behind the Symposia were the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics (Moscow, Russia), the Institute of Applied Physics (Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), both of AS of USSR, and the Institute for Radio Physics and Electronics (Kharkov, Ukraine) of AS of USSR.The following symposia were held within 1974-1984: - The USSR Symposium on Propagation of Mm and Sub-mm Waves in the Atmosphere of the Earth and Planets, Moscow-Gorky, Russia, January 28-30, 1974.- The USSR Symposium on Devices, Engineering and Atmospheric Propagation of Mm and Sub-mm Waves, Moscow, Russia, October 25-26, 1976.
  • The second USSR Symposium on Mm and Sub-mm Waves, Kharkov, Ukraine, 13-15 September, 1978.
  • The third USSR Symposium on Mm and Sub-mm Waves, Gorky, Russia, 22-24 September, 1980.
  • The fourth USSR Symposium on Mm and Sub-mm Waves, Kharkov, Ukraine, 27-29 November, 1984.
In 1991, just two months before the dissolution of the USSR, the first Ukrainian Symposium on "Physics and Engineering of Mm and Sub-mm Waves" was held on 15-17 October, 1991. It was organized jointly by the Scientific Council of AS of Ukraine "Physics and Engineering of Mm and Sub-mm Waves" and the Institute for Radio Physics and Electronics of AS of Ukraine. The scope of this Symposium was similar to the previous conferences. New feature, owing to the started conversion of defense industry, was greater openness especially around new technologies and devices, and information about available mm-wave components and elements. Taking into account the growing interest to the Symposium (it was attended by about 300 participants from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Armenia, and Georgia) and tendency to a wider integration in R&D, the participants decided to award the symposium the status of a regular international event while retaining the major topics and the style and form of the organization. Appreciating the contribution of the Kharkov radio-physical school into this area of science and technology, it was proposed to entitle this event the International Kharkov Symposium "Physics and Engineering of Mm and Sub-mm Waves" (MSMW). The following two Symposia, the 2-nd, the 3-rd and 4-nd International Kharkov Symposium "MSMW", were held on June 7-10, 1994 , September 15-17, 1998 and June 4-9, respectively.The latest MSMW'98 was organized by the Institute for Radio Physics and Electronics and the Institute of Radio Astronomy of NAS of Ukraine and the Kharkov National University.For the first time in the history of symposia, MSMW'98 had English as working language. Besides of traditional participants from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, a number of scientists and engineers from Brazil, China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Turkey, and UK took part in the symposium. Their papers were published in the two-volume Proceedings (about 800 pages).Several Symposium awards were given to young scientists in recognition of remarkable paper presentation. More detailed information on MSMW'98 can be found in the following publications:
  • The Radio Science Bulletin (URSI), No. 288, March 1999.
  • IEEE Microwave Theory & Techniques Society Newsletter, No. 151, Spring 1999.
  • IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 2, April 1999.
The next MSMW'2004 Symposium will be held on June 21-26, 2004. It will be supervised by the Scientific Council of NAS of Ukraine "Radio Physics and Microwave Electronics" and organized by IRE, IRA, both of NAS of Ukraine, and KNU.