Come to publish the special issue of the Comptes rendus Physique de l'Académie des Sciences composed of articles selected by the Scientific Committee of the 2017 workshop:

Radio science for Humanity / Radiosciences au service de l’humanité

Tome 19, fascicule 1-2, pages 1-72 (January, February 2018)
Coordinators : Tullio Joseph Tanzi, Madhu Chandra

• Agenda at a glance
• Full Agenda
• Programme with abstracts
• Participants

• Opening Session
• Special session dedicated to François Lefeuvre
• Gala Dinner and CNFRS Award Ceremony
• URSI-France General Assembly
• URSI PhD Prize and Closing Session

Social Events

• Visit of old Village of Biot
• Visit of Master Glassmaker studio

Scientific Sessions

• Wednesday, February 1st
• Thursday, February 2nd
• Friday, February 3rd
• Poster Session
• Exhibition

he URSI-France 2017 Workshop, under the sponsorship of the French Academy of Sciences, was dedicated to “Radio Science for Humanity”. The workshop was held at Campus SophiaTech located in Sophia Antipolis, South of France, on February 1-3, 2017. JS'17 was co-organised by Institute Mines Telecom - Telecom ParisTech and Université Nice Sophia Antipolis. On Thursday, February 2, at 5 pm, the General Assembly of URSI-France held their annual meeting.

Electromagnetism, telecommunications, electronics and photonics are an essential backbone of our modern society. The development of these activities benefits humanity in a wide range of issues, from extreme situations to simple comfort in our everyday lives. In this rapidly evolving field, we focused in the workshop on both fundamental and conceptual aspects as well as technological developments and resulting applications.

A wide spectrum of areas was covered, including waves and electromagnetic fields, both from the point of view of metrology and theory, spread, modelling, etc., and communications systems together with their applications. We was also addressed environmental electromagnetic propagation, both global (surface and subsurface), ionospheric or through matter in particular plasma and radio astronomy. Electromagnetism in biology and medicine was also included.

The workshop will be organized around oral and poster sessions. Most sessions were introduced by invited lecturers presenting the state of the art and/or recent developments, followed by regular communications, selected by the Scientific Committee. The program was organised around the following (not limited) list of topics. The working languages were French and English.

Topics:  

• Radio science and risk, disaster management, space weather
• Earth observation by remote sensing and essential climate variables monitoring
• Advanced radars for societal needs
• Computational sciences, exact methods, complexity management
• Design and modelling of antennas, systems of detection and imaging, antenna systems
• Communication systems: 5G, software defined radio, Internet of Things
• Metrologies and electromagnetism
• Electromagnetism in biology and medicine

Keynotes

• Emilio CALVANESE-STRINATI (CEA LETI, France) “Computation Caching: a new frontier for Mobile Edge Cloud” "
• Madhu CHANDRA (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany), "Advanced Radars for societal needs"
• Raffaele D’ERRICO (CEA LETI, France)," Channel modeling and emulation for unconventional scenarios and 5G and IoT deployment"
• Guy DUCHOSSOIS (Former ESA Earth observation Mission Manager), "Copernicus, a major European cooperation programme: from the early concept to operational services"
• Farzad KAMALABADI (UIUC USA), "Ionospheric storms and communication effects, ICON and GOLD missions"
• Gilles PRIVAT (Orange, Grenoble, France), "The Web of Things, beyond networked devices"
• Claude TETELIN, (Centre National RFID, France), "Avancées et applications récentes de la RFID, au-delà de l’identification"
• Dimiter VELEV (UNWE, Sofia, Bulgaria), "Societal focus on the contribution of radio science"
• Mehrez ZRIBI (CNRS/CESBIO, France), "Analyse du potentiel des mesures GNSS pour le suivi des états des surfaces continentales"

 
Organization

The texts of Keynotes, Communications and, for most, the Presentations are classified in Proceedings by authors, titles or chronology, see: 2017 Proceedings

After selection by the Scientific Committee, some authors will be invited to publish a paper either in a special issue of the “Comptes rendus Physique” of the Academie des sciences or in the “Revue de l’électricité et de l’électronique” (REE).