The AMPERE Newsletter

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 36 Issue 36, published in March 2003, contains the following articles and reports. Editor's Comment. First National Conference MISA 2002. Collaboration on Microwave Processing of Minerals at the Universities of Nottingham and Stellenbosch. Case Study no.3: Microwave clothes drying - on the verge of commercial reality. News and Events.

.Editor's Comments

This is the first issue of the Newsletter which reaches the members after AMPERE has become a non-profit company. Our status is now recognized throughout the world, and we have a set of rules, the Articles and Memorandum which should govern our activities. Apart from that nothing changes and a letter is attached with this issue informing members of AMPERE that they will be AUTOMATICALLY transferred to the New Company unless they specifically write back to state that they do not wish to join. The next time members will meet is during the Ordinary General Assembly which will take place during the 9th AMPERE Conference at Loughborough University in September.

In recent years Italy has had a very active RF and microwave community and I am delighted to welcome Professor Cristina Leonelli who describes their first National Conference, MISA, 2002. Many congratulations to Cristina for also being able to persuade a number of her colleagues to join AMPERE.

I am extremely pleased to have solicited an article from Professor Steven Bradshaw at University Stellenbosh who describes lucidly their cooperative work on microwave processing of minerals with Nottingham University in the UK. Let us wish both groups our best for such an interesting and worthwhile venture and look forward to reading their results in subsequent issues.

Arrangements for the 9th AMPERE Conference are well under way, so please register early to save some of the costs. Looking forward to seeing as many of you at Loughborough for what promises to be a great meeting. Log on to http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/iptme/Ampere9/Index.html for all the details.

Ricky Metaxas
St John's College
University of Cambridge

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 35, December 2002 , Issue 34, October 2002 , Issue 33, June 2002 , 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.