The AMPERE Newsletter appears quarterly and covers short topical articles written by experts in the field. Typically it also includes a profile, conference reports, advertisements, a calendar of events and news items on various aspects of radio frequency and microwave energy usage in the ISM frequency band, covering topics broadly from 1 MHz to 30 GHz, although higher frequencies have also been covered. It also highlights on promising new research developments to emanate from academe and industry.

Issue 31 DECEMBER 2001

Issue 31, published in December 2001, contains the following articles and reports.

Editor's Comment
A Reflection on the 8th AMPERE International Conference at Bayreuth: Résumé and future Prospects
- The Conference and Exhibition
- AMPERE Committee
- Conclusions
- News and Event

Editor's Comments

This issue is devoted solely to our impressions of the 8th International AMPERE Conference on Microwave and High Frequency Heating held at Bayreuth under the auspices of Professor Monika Willert-Porada and her very able team.

Dr David Sánchez-Hernández traces the events as they occurred and focuses on important issues and fond recollections. One aspect which must not be overlooked is the necessity of a number of "volunteers" which one must employ to make a success of such a major event and to that effect let me thank all those concerned who helped Professor Willert-Porada not least Bettina Kuppinger, Thorsten Gerdes and Jens Grosse-Berg.

Some tentative moves were initially made with a view to stage the next conference in Dijon but this turned out to be extremely difficult as France is currently undergoing major changes in the electroheat and electricity Utilisation area, not helped by the pending privatisation issues regarding the French utility EdF. At the recent Committee meeting at St John’s College Cambridge, Professor, Jon Binner assumed the responsibility of organising the 9th in the series of AMPERE Conferences at Loughborough University and we, the Committee, wish him every success.

The AMPERE web-site is now well under way and I would like to thank Professors Elias de los Reyes and José Catalá-Civera and their team for their unfailing support in keeping the site up-to-date with all the new information that our members wish to introduce.

Please ensure that you visit the site at www.ampereeurope.org and use the forum to participate in active discussions about anything you wish to bring to the attention of AMPERE members and items you wish to see included.

Ricky Metaxas
EUG, Cambridge University

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 30, October 2001 , Issue 29, June 2001 , Issue 28, April 2001 , Issue 27, January 2001 , Issue 26, October 2000 , Issue 25, July 2000 , Issue 24, April 2000.

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