The Saratov/Penza AP/ED/MTT/CPMT/NPS Joint Chapter in the Central Russia IEEE Section was founded in 1995 and became affiliated with the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society in October 2008. Its membership normally ranges from 30 to 40, and includes members from both academia and industry. Most of the members represent Saratov State University (SSU), Saratov State Technical University (SSTU), the Saratov Branch of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics (SB IRE) of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS), and the Federal State Enterprise “Almaz.” Many of the members work in the fields of high power vacuum microwave tubes, pulsed power technique, particle beams and accelerators.
The main activity of the Chapter is the technical and financial cosponsorship of many conferences that are held in Saratov. Among them are the Saratov Winter School–Seminar on Microwave Electronics and Radio Physics, the International Conference on Chaotic Oscillations and Pattern Formation (CHAOS), and the International Conference on Actual Problems of Electronic Devices Engineering (APEDE). The Chapter also supports two annual conferences for young scientists, including both graduate and undergraduate students: “Nonlinear Days in Saratov,” organized by the SSU, and “Nanoelectronics, Nanophotonics and Nonlinear Physics,” organized by the SB IRE.
In addition to these conferences, the Chapter holds the annual Workshop “Electromagnetics of Microwaves, Submillimeter and Optical Waves” at which 10 technical papers are typically presented. Since 2003, this Workshop has been part of the International School on Optics, Laser Physics, and Biophysics “Saratov Fall Meeting,” which is organized in collaboration with the Saratov SPIE Chapter. The Chapter publishes selected papers presented at the Workshop in “Modeling in Applied Electrodynamics and Electronics.” Eight issues have been published since 1998.
The most recent major event supported by the Chapter was the XIV Saratov Winter School–Seminar in Microwave Electronics and Radio Physics, which was held in Saratov on February 3–8, 2009. These schools have been held every third year since 1970, and provide a unique opportunity for presentations and discussion of broad topics related to vacuum microwave electronics. The XIV School was organized by the SSU and the SB IRE, with financial cosponsorship by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research and the “Dynasty” Foundation. Members of the Saratov/Penza Chapter played an active role in organizing the School. Prof. D. I. Trubetskov served as the Conference Chairman, and Prof. Yu. I. Levin, Prof. Yu. P. Sharaevsky and Prof. N.M. Ryskin were the key members of the Local Organizing Committee responsible for the technical and social program.
The technical program of the School included 27 invited plenary lectures reviewing topical problems of theory, simulation and technology of vacuum tubes, high-power microwaves, vacuum microelectronics, microwave electrodynamics, and nonlinear science and its application to microwave electronics. Also, the program included 20 oral and 36 poster presentations. The total number of participants was nearly 100, representing many regions of Russia as well as guests from Belarus, Ukraine, and the USA. The plenary lectures included:
- “Vlasov’s kinetic theory of plasma” by P.A. Polyakov, Moscow State University
- “Development of field emitters from carbon-containing materials” by G.G. Sominsky, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
- “Quasi-optical control of intense beams of microwave radiation” by M.I. Petelin, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod
- “Terahertz band gyrodevices” by V.L. Bratman, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod
- “Non-stationary discrete modeling of coupled-cavity traveling wave tubes” by N.M. Ryskin, Saratov State University
Special issues of the Russian journals Applied Nonlinear Dynamics and Radiophysics and Quantum Electronics that include selected papers presented at the conference will be published in 2009.
More information about the Saratov/Penza Chapter structure and activities can be found on the Chapter web page http://www.sgu.ru/faculties/physical/IEEE/. |
