2008
Asia-Pacific Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
in conjunction with the
19th International Zurich Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility
Report on APEMC 2008, IEEE EMC Society Newsletter, Issue 218, Summer 2008
The 2008
Asia-Pacific EMC Symposium (APEMC) was held in conjunction with the 19th
International Zurich Symposium and Technical Exhibition on Electromagnetic
Compatibility (EMC-in-Singapore 2008), under the theme “The Gateway to Emerging
Technology,” from May 19 to 22, 2008 at the Singapore SUNTEC International
Convention and
The
Symposium attendance was over 370 delegates from 31 countries making this a
truly global conference, with an increase in the number of delegates from the
Asia-Pacific region as compared to EMC-in-Singapore 2006. A technical
exhibition was held concurrently with the Symposium, with 34 exhibitors within
1000 square meters of floor space.
The
opening ceremony took place in the morning of May 20, attended by over 400
delegates and invited guests. In his opening speech, the President of the
Symposium, Dr. Li Erping welcomed all delegates and expressed his appreciation
to the organising committee, technical committee, paper authors, and sponsors
for their great effort and contribution in making the Symposium a success. The
General Co-Chair, Professor Ruediger Vahldieck took the stage next, giving his
opening address for the Symposium, complimenting the organising committee for a
job well done and announcing the 20th International EMC Zurich
Symposium January 12–16, 2009 at ETH
The
Symposium was officially declared open by the Guest-of-Honor, Professor Tan Chorn
Chuan, Senior Deputy President of National University of Singapore and the
Deputy Chairman of A-STAR. Two keynote speeches were then presented, first by
Dr. Raj Thampuran, Director of A-STAR on the topic of “R&D Holds the Key
for Singapore’s 21st Century Economic Development,” followed by Dr.
Albert Ruehli of IBM T. J. Waston Research Centre, USA, on “Electromagnetic EMC
Modelling Techniques: Past, Present and Future.”
The
general organization of the Symposium had a focus on high quality technical papers
by speakers from all over the world. A total of 320 papers were received and
194 papers were selected for oral presentations. Spanning over three days (May
20-22), the Symposium offered a total of 39 well attended oral technical
sessions (inclusive three Topical Meetings on Integrated Circuit EMC), using
four parallel tracks and three Open Forum poster sessions. On top of these high
quality technical sessions, there were two plenary talks by renowned experts in
the morning of May 21. The first by Professor Dr.-Ing Thomas Weiland of
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany who spoke on “EMC Simulations in
Time and Frequency Domain,” followed by Professor Raj. Mittra from
In the
evening following the first technical session on May 20, the Symposium held its
welcome reception is the exhibition area. The Symposium banquet took place on
May 21 at Rasa Sentosa Resort on the
The Best
Symposium Paper Award was given to Jian Wang, Qifeng Liu, Wen-Yan Yin, and
Junfa Mao from
Three
Best Student Papers were selected from the 59 student papers submitted. Besides
their oral presentations, the students were required to present their papers in
the poster session. The first prize was a difficult choice for the judges and
in the end, they decided to award two First prizes to Nico Godel from
Helmut-Schmidt-University, Germany, for his paper “Time Domain Discontinuous
Galerkin Method with Efficient Modelling of Boundary Conditions for Simulations
of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation” and to Anne Roc’h from the University of
Twente, Netherlands for her paper “Performance Optimization Aspects of Common
Mode Chokes.” The third prize went to Zhangqing Yu of
A total
of 7 workshops and tutorials sessions were conducted one day prior to the
Symposium. These workshops and tutorials were hosted by 26 international
specialists whom introduced participants to the latest developments in the
fields of EMC and Signal Integrity, Circuit Board EMC Design, Reverberation
Chambers, EMC and Modern Power Electronic Systems, RF Biological Effects, as
well as System Level EMC Design and Control. These workshops and tutorials
alone were well attended with 228 participants and provided some groundwork for
the three days of regular EMC technical sessions that were to follow.
The IEEE
EMC Society together with the other cooperating societies provided technical
co-sponsorship. The Symposium also received sponsorship from TESEQ, EM TEST and
Computer Simulation Technology (CST). The IEEE EMC Society had eight board
members in attendance, Elya Joffe, Todd Hubing, John Norgard, Francesca
Maradei, Kimball Williams, Takeo Yoshino, Don Heirman and Mark Montrose. The
IEEE EMCS booth in the exhibit hall received 10 new members, all from
The
Symposium closed with an IEC ACEC EMC Workshop organized by the IEC
Asia-Pacific Regional Centre (IEC-APRC) the evening of May 22, 2008.
Speakers include Dr. William Radasky, Donald Heirman, and Professor Michel
Ianoz.
The next
Asia-Pacific EMC Symposium will take place in 2010 in
For further information about the APEMC2008 Symposium, please contact the Symposium President, Dr. Li Erping at erpingli@ieee.org.
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