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UNION RADIO-SCIENTIFIQUE INTERNATIONALE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RADIO SCIENCE Rapports des Assemblées Générales de lURSI Records of URSI General Assemblies VOLUME XXVII XXVIIIe Assemblée Générale XXVIIIth General Assembly New Delhi, 23.X - 29.X 2005 ISSN 0074-9516 Publié avec lappui financier de lICSU Secrétariat général de lURSI Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41 B-9000 Gent, Belgium XXVIIIth General Assembly, New Delhi, India, 23 - 29 October 2005 1 2 XXVIIIth General Assembly, New Delhi, India, 23 - 29 October 2005 CONTENTS - TABLE DES MATIÈRES Introduction ....................................................................................................................5 Acknowledgement...............................................................................................5 Outline of the Assembly ......................................................................................5 List of URSI Officers and Officers of Member Committees ..............................7 Honorary Presidents ............................................................................................7 Board of Officers .................................................................................................7 Scientific Commissions and Committee .............................................................7 Standing Committees ..........................................................................................8 URSI Representatives on other Scientific Organisations ....................................9 Member Committees .........................................................................................10 Associate Member Committees ........................................................................ 11 URSI Secretariat ................................................................................................12 Opening Meeting ..........................................................................................................13 Welcome by the Chair of National Organising Committee ...............................13 Address by the President of URSI.....................................................................14 Address by the President of India......................................................................18 Report by the Secretary General of URSI .........................................................23 Awards ceremony .........................................................................................................27 Presentation of the Balthasar van der Pol Gold Medal......................................27 Presentation of the John Howard Dellinger Gold Medal ..................................30 Presentation of the Appleton Prize ....................................................................32 Presentation of the Booker Gold Medal ............................................................34 Presentation of the Issac Koga Gold Medal ......................................................36 Vote of thanks by the Chairman local organising Committee ...........................38 Closing Meeting ...........................................................................................................40 Closing remarks by the Secretary General ........................................................40 Closing remarks by the outgoing President .......................................................42 Closing remarks by the incoming President ......................................................44 Concluding remarks by the Chairman local organising Committee .................45 Reports of Meetings......................................................................................................47 Board of Officers ...............................................................................................47 Council ..............................................................................................................48 Terms of Reference ...........................................................................................53 Co-ordinating Committee ..................................................................................59 Treasurers Report on URSI Finances ..........................................................................63 Reports of the Standing Committees ...........................................................................76 URSI Standing Finance Committee ..................................................................76 URSI Standing Committee on Publications ......................................................77 XXVIIIth General Assembly, New Delhi, India, 23 - 29 October 2005 3 URSI Long Range Planning Committee ...........................................................80 URSI Standing Committee on Developing Countries .......................................81 URSI Standing Committee on Young Scientists ...............................................84 Reports on Activities of Inter-Union Organisations .....................................................86 IUCAF, the Scientific Committee on Frequency Allocations for Radio Astronomy and Space Science (2003 2005) .........................................86 Business transacted by Commissions ..........................................................................88 Commission A - Electromagnetic Metrology ....................................................88 Commission B - Fields and Waves....................................................................91 Commission C - Radio-communication Systems and Signal Processing .........96 Commission D - Electronics and Photonics ......................................................98 Commission E - Electromagnetic Noise and Interference ..............................102 Commission F - Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing ...............................104 Commission G - Ionospheric Radio and Propagation .....................................109 Commission H - Waves in Plasmas ................................................................. 115 Commission J - Waves in Plasmas ..................................................................121 Commission K - Electromagnetics in Biology & Medicine............................124 Resolutions and Recommendations of the Council ....................................................128 Résolutions et Recommandations du Conseil.............................................................130 4 XXVIIIth General Assembly, New Delhi, India, 23 - 29 October 2005 INTRODUCTION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The XXVIIth General Assembly of URSI was held at the Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi, India, from 23 to 29 October 2005. In introducing this account of the records, it seems appropriate to offer the warmest thanks of the Union to: - the Indian Committee for URSI; - the Indian Organising Committee; - the Coordinator and the Associate Coordinator of the Scientific Programme; - the Chairs and Vice-Chairs of URSI Commissions, who planned the scientific sessions, and to the session Chairs and speakers; - the organisations which provided funds in support of the Young Scientist Programme: the URSI Member Committees in Japan and the United States and the Royal Society of London. - to the sponsors of this meeting : Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi, India; Defence Research and Development Organization (DRDO), Ministry of Defence, Govt. of India, New Delhi, India; Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, New Delhi, India; Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Govt. of India, Bangalore, India; Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi, India. OUTLINE OF THE ASSEMBLY The URSI Council - which is composed of the official representatives of the Member Committees - met in New Delhi on four occasions between 23 and 29 October 2005. The Resolutions and Recommendations adopted by the Council are reproduced at the end of this volume. Summary accounts of the business transacted by the Council are given elsewhere. An abundant scientific programme, consisting of 1531 papers (815 oral communications and 716 posters of which 500 were actually presented), had been prepared for the 1131 registrants (among them 143 official Young Scientists). The programme consisted of 3 General Lectures, 2 Public Lecture, 10 Tutorials, 74 Commission Sessions and 30 Joint Sessions. XXVIIIth General Assembly, New Delhi, India, 23 - 29 October 2005 5 The General Lectures, of interest to all participants, were entitled : * Solar Power Satellites * UWB Systems and Spectrum Management * Impacts of Extreme Solar Disturbances on the Earths Near-Space Environment Two one-hour General Lectures were presented: * Electronic Connectivity for Billion People * 100 Years of Radio Science in India Each Commission had been asked to provide a Tutorial Lecture in its own sphere of interest. The titles of these Lectures were as follows : - The role of plasmon-polaritons in the optical properties of thin metal films and nanostructures (Commission A) - Advances in Computational Models for the Design of Planar and Compact Antennas (Commission B) - Ultrawideband Communications; Signal Processing for Analog Smart Antennas (Commission C) - Nanoelectronics (Commission D) - High Power Sources and Intentional EMI: From the Generation of HPEM to their Use and Consequences (Commission E) - Spaceborne Radar Mapping of Boreal Forests (Commission F) - Coherent Radar Imaging (Commission G) - Tracking Energetic Phenomena in the Solar Corona and Interplanetary Space using Radio Observations (Commission H) - Low-Frequency