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Informatics Represented at Leading International Gathering

With sponsorship from the elite Royal Society of London, Professor Peter Excell was able to attend the 28th General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, held in New Delhi in October 2005. This prestigious gathering occurs once every three years and draws in the full range of researchers over wholefield of Radio and Wireless. This was the first time that this had beenheld inIndia and only the second time in the developing world. Over 1400 people attended and the huge number of papers meant that many parallel sessions were held. Three papers were presented by the Bradford team (a collaboration between Informatics (EIMC) and the School of Engineering, Design and Technology):

'Electromagnetic Modelling of Biological cells using Lumped Element-FDTD', by Chan See, Raed Abd-Alhameed and Peter Excell.

'New Dielectric Resonator Antenna Design for Mobile Handsets', by T.H.Lee, Raed Abd-Alhameed and Peter Excell.

'Design of Folded and Slotted Internal Antenna for 3G IMT-2000 Mobile Handsets', by Chan See, Raed Abd-Alhameed and Peter Excell.

The meeting was held in a government conference centre (Vigyan Bhavan) and received significant support from the Indian state, including two lectures by the President of India (Professor Abdul Kalam), who is a physicist with an understanding of Radio Science. These lectures addressed highly relevant points, including a timely suggestion of research into the possibility of prediction of earthquakes from radio sensing measurements, and a visionary plan to give the majority of India's population access to the Internet via low-cost Multiple Access Wireless Communications. Exciting work on the latter topic has already been done by a group in Chennai (Madras) and we have had some contact with them through a recent PhD student. This vision seems entirely realistic and offers the potentially exciting prospect of turning the significant proportion of disadvantaged people into a potential knowledge resource with the opportunity to interact with the global Internet knowledge community.