Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
/Contributions and Accomplishments of USNC-URSI Commission B
50th Anniversary Plenary Speaker, January 11, 2024
Abstract: The 2024 National Radio Science Meeting (NRSM) to be held from January 9-13, 2024 at the University of Colorado at Boulder is the 50th Anniversary Event of NRSMs Boulder. Namely, at the 2024 NRSM, we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of holding this meeting in Boulder, Colorado. This talk presents contributions of the Commission B of the U.S. National Committee (USNC) for the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) to the very rich 50-year history and legacy of USNC-URSI and NRSM achievements with discussions of the present activities and an outlook for the future.
USNC-URSI Commission B covers all technical and scientific aspects of Fields and Waves. Commission B topics for NRSM Boulder meetings are clustered around Antennas; Propagation, Scattering, and Sensing; Numerical Methods of Electromagnetics; Electromagnetic Theory, Materials, and Education; and Devices, Systems, and Applications. We have organized, in every year, a great number of NRSM Special Sessions on established and emerging theories, techniques, technologies, and applications of Fields and Waves, with prominent invited authors and speakers within Commission B as well as leaders of interdisciplinary research and practice within the radio science community. USNC-URSI Commission B has also been a very active participant in our joint summer meetings with the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), IEEE International Symposia on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meetings – APS/URSI Joint Meetings.
The talk outlines USNC-URSI Commission B achievements and activities within half of a century, both technical/scientific and professional, in a celebratory spirit, but also addresses an outlook for the future of the commission and the organization, as well as encountered or anticipated challenges of the present time and the future. It emphasizes the accomplishments directly related to NRSM Boulder Meetings but also discusses the activities of the commission overall including APS/URSI Joint Meetings and our technical and professional activities outside of the meetings and conferences. The overview is greatly facilitated by the USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting Archive, which includes copies of most of the proceedings of the National Radio Science Meetings in Boulder and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meetings, held jointly with IEEE AP-S, spanning the period from 1963 to the present, as well as other useful information.
Biography: Branislav M. Notaros is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of Electromagnetics Laboratory, and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. Previously, he held assistant/associate-professor positions at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and University of Belgrade. His research contributions are in computational and applied electromagnetics. His publications include more than 300 journal and conference papers, and textbooks “Electromagnetics” (2010) and “MATLAB-Based Electromagnetics” (2013) with Pearson Prentice Hall and “Conceptual Electromagnetics” (2017) with CRC Press.
Prof. Notaroš serves as President Elect of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S), Chair of the USNCURSI Commission B, Immediate Past President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES), and Track Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He served as General Chair of the IEEE APS/URSI 2022 Denver Conference, Chair of the IEEE AP-S Meetings Committee, Chair of the Joint Meetings Committee, and AP-S AdCom member. He was the recipient of the 1999 IEE Marconi Premium, 2005 IEEE MTTS Microwave Prize, 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award, 2019 ACES Technical Achievement Award, 2014 Carnegie Foundation Colorado Professor of the Year Award, 2015 ASEE ECE Distinguished Educator Award, 2015 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and many other research and teaching awards. He is Fellow of IEEE and ACES.
