PIERS2009 Public Sessions

	Active and Passive Microwave Sensing: Modelling and Simulations  Organized by Saibun Tjuatja and Kun-Shan Chen
	Advanced MEMS/NEMS Organized by Guoan Wang
	Advances in the Bioeffects and Exposure Standards for Non-Ionizing Radiation Organized by Michael Murphy
	Antenna Measurements  Organized by Boon Kuan Chung
	Antenna Theory and Radiation, Microstrip and Printed Antennas  Organized by Hou Zhang
	Applications and Physical Properties of Ferrofluid  Organized by Ping-Hei Chen
	Biomedical Applications of Electromagnetic waves Organized by Xu Li
	Biomedical Electromagnetism Instruments and Imaging Organized by Ganquan Xie
	Computational Techniques Organized by Yoichi Okuno and Tsuneki Yamasaki
	Elecromagnetic Field in The Materials and EM Field Dispersion In The Photonic Crystals Organized by Ganquan Xie, Tzong-Jer Yang, and Chien-Jang Wu
	Electric and Magnetic Properties of Atoms and Molecules Organized by Telhat Ozdogan
	Electromagnetic and Optical Wave Technologies for Communication and Sensing Organized by Yasumitsu Miyazaki and Chuzo Ninagawa
	Electromagnetic Field Modeling and Inversion And Applications Organized by Ganquan Xie, Michael Oristaglio, and Jianhua Li
	Electromagnetic Model for HIS in Antenna Application  Organized by Habiba Hafdallah Ouslimani and Zhirun Hu
	Electromagnetic Near Field Effects in Problems of Wave Radiation from and Scattering by Ordered and Disordered Media Organized by Yuru Nicolaevich Barabanenkov
	EM Based Modeling and CAD Techniques  Organized by Qijun Zhang
	EM, Flow, Heat and Stress Field in Earthquake and Geophysics Organized by Ganquan Xie and Michael Oristaglio
	Fiber Optics, Optical Sensors, and All-optical Signal Processing  Organized by Chongqing Wu
	High Entropy Alloys and Bulk Metallic Glasses  Organized by Yong Zhang
	Integrated RF Components Organized by Guoan Wang
	Mathematical and Numerical Tools for Metamaterials Organized by Didier Felbacq
	Metamaterial Technologies from Microwave to Optics Organized by Didier Lippens and Ji Zhou
	Microcavity Lasers and Filters Organized by Yong-Zhen Huang
	Microwave Devices and Circuits Organized by Debendra Kumar Panda
	Microwave Generation - Vacuum Beam Devices  Organized by Hoyoung Song
	Microwave Remote Sensing and Global Climate Change Organized by Hong-Tat Ewe and Yang Du
	Microwave Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture  Organized by Jiancheng Shi and Thomas J. Jackson
	Microwave/Terahertz Photonics Technologies and Thier Applications  Organized by Katsumi Iwatsuki
	Millimeter-wave on-chip Antennas, Filters, and Passive Components Organized by Huey-Ru Chuang
	Nitride Deep UV LED Organized by Jinqiao Xie
	Non-Thermal Mechanisms of Interaction between Electromagnetic Fields and Living Matter  Organized by Livio Giuliani
	Novel Computation Techniques in Microwaves  Organized by Filiz Günes
	Novel Mathematical Methods in Electromagnetics Organized by Kazuya Kobayashi and Yury V. Shestopalov
	Novel THz Sources and Applications  Organized by Ghanshyam Singh
	Photonic Crystals with Superconducting Materials  Organized by C. H. Raymond Ooi
	Photonics Sensors  Organized by Gaozhi (George) Xiao
	Piezoelectric Devices and Systems  Organized by Junhui Hu
	Plasmonics for Waveguiding and Biosensing Organized by Dangyuan Lei
	Plasmonics Nanophotonics Organized by Din Ping Tsai and Yung-Chiang Lan
	Radio-Over-Fiber Communication System Organized by Weiwei Hu
	Recent Advances in Metamaterials and Invisibility Cloaking Organized by Hongsheng Chen and Bae-Ian Wu
	RF Exposure Safety Issues Organized by Chung-Kwang Chou
	RFID Systems Organized by Amin Shameli
	Rough Surface Scattering, Volume Scattering, and Electromagnetic Theory Organized by Zhen-Sen Wu
	Scattering by Canonical Objects  Organized by Egon Marx and Andrey V. Osipov
	Signal Processing for Communication Systems & Cognitive Radar Organized by Jinkuan Wang
	State of the Art in Time Domain Methods Organized by Salvador Gonzalez Garcia
	Superconductors Organized by Mumtaz Humayun
	Synthetic Aperture Radar and Its Applications Organized by Kazuo Ouchi and Tat Soon Yeo
	Tunable and Nonlinear Metamaterials Organized by Ilya V. Shadrivov and Tie Jun Cui
	VLF Sferics Propagating in the Earth-ionosphere Waveguide Organized by A. B. Bhattacharya
	Wave Propagation in Random Media Organized by George Vakhtang Jandieri
	Wireless Sensor Network and Environment Monitoring Organized by Yang Du and Hong-Tat Ewe