IEEE ComSoc talk on Smart Antennas - Wednesday

Ed Casas (edc@ece.ubc.ca) Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:32:55 -0800 

Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 13:32:55 -0800
From: Ed Casas <edc@ece.ubc.ca>
Subject: IEEE ComSoc talk on Smart Antennas - Wednesday




	       IEEE Communications Society Seminar

		Wednesday, November 18 at 7:30 PM

		  How Smart Are Smart Antennas?

	       Jim Cavers, Simon Fraser University
				
Adaptive antenna arrays - smart antennas - have become a very
busy research area in mobile and personal communications, largely
because of the boost they give to capacity and reliability.
Unfortunately, much of our collective intuition gained from
several decades of prior work in radar arrays is misleading or
wrong in this new environment.  The talk will highlight some of
the ways we have had to rethink arrays, and will present new
results that demonstrate dramatic improvement from formulating
the use of arrays correctly.

Speaker:

Jim Cavers received a BASc in engineering physics in 1966 and a
PhD in electrical engineering in 1970, both from the University
of British Columbia.  From 1970 to 1979 he was an Assistant, then
Associate, Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at
Carleton University in Ottawa.  He spent 1979 to 1982 as a
program manager at MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates, in
Vancouver, followed by a year as senior engineer at Glenayre
Electronics, also in Vancouver.  In 1983 he joined the School of
Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University as Professor.
>From 1990 to 1994, he was Director of the School.  His research
interests include modulation and detection for mobile
communications and integrated RF/DSP design.  Dr. Cavers is the
1992 recipient of the Stentor Telecommunications Research Award
and the 1995 recipient of the Gold Medal in Engineering and
Applied Science from the Science Council of B.C.


The talk will be held at the BCIT North-West 1 Boardroom, 3700
Willingdon St, Burnaby.  You can also meet the speaker at a
no-host dinner before the talk at 6:00 PM at Earl's, 4361
Kingsway.  All are welcome, no notice required.  For more
information contact Ed Casas, UBC Electrical and Computer
Engineering, at 822-2592 or e-mail Engineering, at 822-2592 or e-mail edc@ece.ubc.ca.

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Keith Olds, Motorola's system architect for the Teledesic program
and lead communications engineer on the Iridium program will
present a talk on low earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems in
January.  Details will be announced via the comsoc mailing list:

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