UWBUSIS-2014

The seventh International Conference on Ultrawideband and Ultrashort Impulse Signals (UWBUSIS-2014)

was held in Kharkiv, the largest industrial, academic and research center of Ukraine, from September 15 till 19, 2014. The venue of the conference was V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, the well-known academic center of Eastern Ukraine founded as early as in 1804. The reports about the previous meetings can be found in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, December 2002, pp. 92-94, February 2005, pp. 193-196, February 2007, pp. 134 – 138, October 2009, pp. 186 – 225, October 2011, pp. 192 – 195, April 2013, pp. 269 – 274.

Figure 1. Registration before the Opening Ceremony of the conference. (Tuesday, September 16).

The Conference provided wide international forum for discussing recent advances in the theory investigations, computer modeling, experiments, technology and applications of ultrawideband and ultrashort impulse signals. The conference first started as a workshop in 2002. It was organized due to joint efforts of Kharkov IEEE Chapter, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, and National Antenna Association of Ukraine. Co-organizers of the conference are Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics NASU (Kharkiv) and Radio Astronomy Institute NASU (Kharkiv).

The Conference was organized under the direction of Professor Nikolay Kolchigin from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University and Professor Yakov Shifrin from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics. They held the Opening Ceremony on September 16. IEEE Life Fellow Yakov Shifrin being active participant of WWII shared the touching memories of his youth in the welcome speech that impressed all conference participants in the light of current situation in Ukraine.

Figure 2. Welcome speech of UWBUSIS Honorary Chairman Prof. Yakov Shifrin (Opening Ceremony, Tuesday, September 16).

Figure 3. Discussion of Prof. Vladimir Knyaziev and Prof. Oleg Sukharevsky on the Plenary Session (Tuesday, September16).

In this year 40 scientific papers from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Germany, Turkey and Italy were presented on the conference. There were held 3 plenary sessions for invited paper, 6 section sessions with the interesting reports of famous specialists and young scientists in the area of ultrawideband signals and in adjacent problems, and Young Scientists School during three working conference days.

Firstly our conference had remote participants and some papers were presented online.

Figure 4. Online presentation of Dr. Olga Dement’eva, Moscow, Russia (Section of Theoretical investigation, numerical simulation. Propagation and scattering in natural and artificial media, Tuesday, September 16)

Figure 5. Online presentation of invited paper of Prof. Jurgen Sachs, Ilmenau, Germany (Plenary Session, Thursday, September 18)

Figure 6. Section of UWB Antennas, session chair Prof. Fedor Dubrovka, from National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine and young scientist Maksym Khruslov from A. Ya  Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine (Wednesday, September 17)

Figure 7. Section of Generation, radiation, receiving (Wednesday, September 17)

There were given two presentations in the frame of Young Scientists School «Wideband Noise Radar Tomography» K. Lukin, P. Vyplavin, P. Palamarchuck and S. Lukin, presented by Dr. Pavlo Vyplavin and «General Basics of IR Technology. Using IR Camera on Energy Management», presented by Dr. Konstantin Biloshenko.

Figure 8. Young scientists and students on Young Scientist School (Wednesday, September 17)

Figure 9. Lection on “General Basics of IR Technology. Using IR Camera on Energy Management” of Dr. Konstantin Biloshenko, Young Scientist School (Wednesday, September 17)

A special gratitude should be expressed to EuMA for yet another time sponsoring the young scientist contest that undoubtedly helped promoting UWB among new generation of scientists.The members of the award committee with the section chairs considered presentations of 16 young scientists submitted for the contest. The committee came to the following decision:
1st Awards is given to Pavlo Vyplavin from LNDES, A. Ya. Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Wideband Noise Radar Tomography» K. Lukin, P. Vyplavin, P. Palamarchuck, S. Lukin.Three 2nd Awards are given to Serge Yerin from Institute of Radio Astronomy NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Effective Area of Phased Antenna Array of GURT Radio Telescope», O. Konovalenko, P. Tokarsky, S. Yerin, Maxim Legenkiy from V. N.  Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Diffraction of a Pulse Electormagnetic TM Wave on Lossy Layer in a Waveguide», M. Legenkiy, A. Butrym, Valentyn Kozheshkurt from V. N.  Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Increasing of Antenna Gain in Lower End of Bandwidth», A. Karpov, V. Kozheshkurt, V. Katrich, N. Mustetsov. Seven 3rd Awards are given to Mstislav Kaliberda from V. N.  Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Wave Diffraction by Plane Semi-Infinite Grating», M. Kaliberda, S. Pogarsky, Oleksandr Kondratiuk from National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Scanning Performances of UWB Planar Long Slots Arrays Fed by Connected Dipoles», F. Dubrovka, O. Kondratiuk, Rolan Akhmedov from V. N.  Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Modal Basis Method for Propagation of Transient Electromagnetic Fields in Nonlinear Medium», O. Dumin, O. Tretyakov, R. Akhmedov, Yu.Stadnik, V. Katrich, O. Dumina, Maksym Khruslov from A. Ya. Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Millimeter Wave Spiral Antennas Connected With a Metal Waveguide», M. Khruslov, I. Ivanchenko, N. Popenko, Sergey Radionov from A. Ya. Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «X-Band Metamaterial Antennas», S. Radionov, M. Khruslov, Olena Ovsyannikova from V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «Influence of Radiating Aperture Form on Electric Field Distribution Near Antenna», N. Gorobets, O. Ovsyannikova, Konstantin Kuznetsov from V.  N.  Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, for presentation «The Influence of Ultrawideband Irradiation of Different Energy and Exposure Time on the State of Chromatin in Human Cells», K. Kuznetsov, I. Magda, O. Kazansky, N. Kolchigin, Yu.Shckorbatov.

Some young scientists with interesting papers and presentations was awarded by Kharkiv IEEE Chapter of Ukraine Section awards supported by APS, among them are Oleksiy Tolkachov from National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv, Ukraine, Oleksandr Strelnytskyi from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Sergey Kravchenko from Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Andrey Onishchenko from V. V. Dokuchaev Kharkiv National Agricultural University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, Andrey Selutin from V.  N.  Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine, and Vadim Ruban, from A.  Ya.  Usikov Institute of Radio Physics and Electronics NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Figure 10. Participants of UWBUSIS-2014