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 33 JUNE 2002

Issue 33, published in June 2002, contains the following articles and reports.

Editor's Comment.
AMPERE moves towards a non-profit company status.
Electromagnetic Analysts meet in Toulouse.
Symposium on Microwave Effects and Appliations.
News and Events.

Editor's Comments

This issue puts forward the case for AMPERE attaining a formal legal status by becoming a non-profit company limited by guarantee. To that effect a short article as well as two draft documents are included, the Articles and Memorandum, which basically set forth the rules by which AMPERE will be governed assuming this goes through. Please browse through these two documents and e-mail me, or indeed any other Committee member, any comments you wish to make. Such feedback
will be taken into consideration by the Committee before it takes the final decision whether to proceed with this or not.

I am delighted that Yoshio Nikawa from the Kokushikan University in Japan accepted my invitation to write a brief resume on their meeting, "Symposium on Microwave Effects and applications", which was held last year in Tokyo. A parallel exhibition and poster session were also in place showing examples of recent work in the field of microwave and RF heating.

This issue also includes an article by Vadim Yacovlev from WPI in the USA on a meeting held earlier this year in Toulouse regarding some aspects of microwave simulations using numerical techniques.

Finally profuse thanks to Cristina Leonelli and José Catalá for their magnificent effort in submitting the Expression of Interest (EoI) application on time. This is part of the 6th Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities. As members are aware this is now placed on our web site for perusal.

Ricky Metaxas
St John's College
University of Cambridge

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 32, March 2002 , Issue 31, December 2001 , 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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