Commission E

1996 - 1998 triennium report

 

During the last triennium, most of the Commission E activities have been devoted to the organization of meetings and conferences and to the preparation of scientific sessions for the Toronto General Assembly.

 

· Most of the Commission E activities have been conducted by the following Commission E working groups:

E1 Spectrum Management/Utilisation and Wireless Telecommunication

E2 Non-Gaussian Noise in Communication.

E3 High Power Electromagnetics

E4 Terrestrial and Planetary Lightning Including Generation of Electromagnetic Noise

E5 Interaction with, and Protection of, Complex Electrical System

E6 Effect of Transients on Equipment

E7 Extra-Terrestrial and Terrestrial Meteorologic-Electric Environment with Noise and Chaos

E8 Terrestrial Electric and Magnetic Fields, Propagation, Global Circuit and Geomagnetically Induced Currents

E9 Interference and Noise at Frequencies above 30MHz

Each working has tried to organise the sessions in different international EMC conferences and workshops.

 

· Newsletter of Commission E has been established during this triennium, and two issues (No. 1, March 1997 and No. 2, May, 1997) have been distributed to national representatives. Especially, the people in developing countries have shown a lot of interest in these newsletters.

 

· Commission E has sponsored the following meetings:

in Mode B (with financing),

  1. EMC ’96 Roma, Rome Italy, 17-20 September 1996.

  2. EMC ’97 Zurich, Zurich Switzerland, 18-20 February 1997.

  3. Wroclaw EMC Conference, Wroclaw Poland, 23-26 June 1998.

  4. EMC ’98 Roma, Rome Italy, 14-18 September 1998.

  5. EMC ’99 Zurich, Zurich Switzerland, 16-18 February 1999.

  6. Workshop on Radio Methods for Studying Turbulence, Urbana, Ill. USA, 9-12 August 1999.

and in Mode A (without financing),

  1. 8ème Coll. Int’l. sur Compatibilité Electromagn., Lille France, 3-5 September 1996.

  2. ICPL, Firenze Italy, 23-27 September 1996/

  3. Commsphere ’97, Lausanne Switzerland, 11-14 February 1997.

  4. Int’l Symp. on EMC, Beijing China, 21-23 May 1997.

  5. 7th Int’l Conf. on HF Radio Systems and Techniques, Nottingham UK, 7-9 July 1997.

  6. Telecom ’97, Fès Morocco, 15-17 October 1997.

  7. Commsphere ’99, Toulouse France, 25-28 January 1999.

 

Prof. M. Hayakawa, Chair