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Conference Themes

AMEREM 2014 will continue the EUROEM/AMEREM tradition of bringing together the:

— 19th High-Power Electromagnetics Conference (every even year starting in 1978)
— Ultra-Wideband, Short-Pulse Electromagnetics Conference ( to be compiled into a book UWB SP 11)
— Unexploded Ordnance Detection and Range Remediation Conference (to be compiled into a book UXO 11)

HPEM Environments/Effects/Protection & Related Topics

UWB Generation/Propagationand Related
Topics

1.

High-Power Microwaves

1.

Electromagnetic Theory

2.

EMP Phenomenology Propagation, Source Region

2.

Scattering

3.

High-Power Electromagnetic Environments

3.

Propagation

4.

Lightning – Characterization
and Simulation

4.

UWB
Polarimetry

5.

High-Intensity Radiated Fields

5.

UWB Radar Systems

6.

Biological Effects and Medical Application

6.

Underground & Subsurface

7.

Environmental Effects of EM Fields

7.

UWB Antennas

8.

Intentional EMI

8.

Applications of UWB Antennas

9.

Coupling to Structures, Cables

9.

Antennas for UWB Communication

10.

Vulnerability of Systems & Components

10.

Wavelets & Multi- Resolution Algorithms

11.

Hardening & Protection

11.

Time- Domain Signal Processing

12.

Hardness Assurance & Maintenance

12.

Target Detection & Discrimination

13.

CAD Analysis & Synthesis

13.

Time-Domain Computation Techniques

14.

Simulators & Simulation Techniques

14.

Short-Pulse  Measurement Techniques

15.

Pulsed Power

15.

Signal Processing

16.

High-Power RF Source Technology

16.

UWB Communication

17.

Measurements Techniques

17.

Biological Effects

18.

Electromagnetic Topology

 

 

19.

Materials Characterization

 

 

20.

EM Standards & Specifications

 

 

21.

Geomagnetic Storms

 

 

 

TARGET  (Detection, Identification and Neutralization)

UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE

EM Impacts on Critical Infrastructures
& Related Topics

1.

Defining UXO/TID – Sites, Problems

1.

Infrastructure Characterization and modeling

2.

EM Characterization of Soils

2.

EM field effects on infrastructures

3.

Detection, Sensor Technologies

3.

Threats and countermeasures

4.

TID, Feature Signatures, Discrimination

4.

Societal effects

5.

Signal Processing

 5.

Interference with Railway Systems

6.

Sensor Fusion

 

Statistical Methods in HPEM

 

7.

Time-Domain Signal Processing

8.

EOD Tools, Robotics

9.

Containment

1.

Numerical & Statistical Methods

10.

Modeling & Simulation

2.

Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos

11.

Clutter & Discrimination

3.

Random Graph Models

12.

Clutter Rejection Algorithms

4.

Directed and Non-Directed Graphs

13.

Landmines – Detection & Sensor Technologies

5.

Survivable Communication Networks

14.

Landmines - ID, Signatures, & Discrimination