INDIAN CONFERENCE ONANTENNAS & PROPAGATION (InCAP)

December 16-19, 2018, Hyderabad, India

General Chairs: Yogesh Verma (Chair), Anandan CK (Vice-Chair)

Workshops & Invited Talks: V.V. Srinivasan, Rakesh Kr Singh, Sudhakar Rao

Special Sessions: Srinivasa Rao Nookala, M B Mahajan, Debatosh Guha,K.P. Ray, Ramana Reddy, Amalendu Patnaik

Sponsorship & Exhibition Committee: Puneet Mishra, CJ Reddy, M. Lakshminarayana, Giancarlo Guida, A K Singh, Rajeev Jyoti, Yogesh Verma

Finance Committee: Sandeep Satao, Puneet Mishra, D.C. Pande,Chandrakanta Kumar, A. Bharathi

Publicity: Bhaskar Gupta, Rabindra Mishra, K.J. Vinoy, K.T. Selvan, K.C. James Raju, Pujara Dhaval Kumar, M. Haindavi

YP in Space & Engineering: Puneet Mishra, Koushik Dutta

IEEE SIGHT: Jawad Siddiqui, Chinmoy Saha, Ajay Poddar

Women in Engineering (WiE): Maria Pour, Abhilasha Mishra, Hema Singh

Student Activities: Suvadeep Choudhury, Chandreyee Sarkar, Gaurangi Gupta

Organizing Chairs:Debatosh Guha, Rajeev Jyoti, Sudhakar Rao(IEEE APS Liaison)

InCAP2018 ORGANIZATION

Advisory Committee: Prabhakar Pathak, Surendra Pal, Atif Shamim, Andrea Massa, Levent Sevgi, Lot Shafai, Ahmed Kishk, Yahia Antar, Robert Nevels, Andrea Neto, Desmond Sim, Kin-Lu Wong, Makoto Ando, Sungtek Kahng, Rabindra Mishra, Hsi-Tseng Chou, Ch. Vishwanatham, S.B. Sharma, Sanjeev Kulsheeshtra, Lars Foged, Peter Rinous, K.M. Luk, P. Mohanan, R. Garg, A. Alphones, Girish Kumar, G. Chattopadhyay, D. Bhatnagar

CALL FOR PAPERS

Travel Grants: Travel grants to selected students (to & fro sleeper class train fare) are available and application forms for travel grants will be posted in the website by Jan 31, 2018

Paper Submission: Guidelines for paper submission will be posted in the website by Jan 31, 2018

Exhibition: InCAP presents a unique opportunity for Industries and Academia to exhibit their products and research. More information will be posted in the website by Jan 31, 2018

Sponsorships: Sponsorship opportunities will be posted in the website by Jan 31, 2018

Indian APS Chapters in association with IEEE APS announce the first Indian Conference on Antennas and Propagation (InCAP) to be held in Hyderabad, India during December 16-19, 2018. InCAP combines three past conferences IAW, AEMC, and iAIM into a larger conference which rotates among different major cities in India on a yearly basis. InCAP 2018 will be held in the Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC) that is conveniently connected to the Novotel Hotel. This conference will provide a forum to academic researchers, practicing engineers, and industry experts to present and discuss their recent work, technical advancements, and new products related to antennas for radars, satellites, antenna measurements, and propagation studies. Main objective of InCAP is to bring synergy between academia and industry. InCAP 2018 will include technical sessions, poster sessions, special sessions, invited talks from experts, workshop/tutorials, Young Professionals in Space and Engineering forum, and Women in Engineering (WiE) forum. Eminent professionals from International Space Agencies, Defense Establishments, National Research Organizations, Academia and Industries will deliver expert talks and tutorials and organize special sessions related to recent developments. During this 4-day international event, fore-noon sessions are common to all attendees and include invited talks, workshops/tutorials, and panel discussions while the afternoon sessions will have presentations from contributory authors in the form of oral and poster presentations. Participants will be from various academic institutions and industrial organization from India & abroad.

General Topics include (but not limited to): • Phased array antennas • Reflector and reflect-array antennas • Horn antennas & Feed components • Microstrip antennas • Frequency selective surfaces • Radar and remote sensing antennas • Satellite antennas and payloads • Aircraft antennas • Antennas for seekers and defense applications • Ultra Wide Band and multi-band antennas • RFID and passive microwave devices

• Dielectric resonator antennas • Metamaterial, metasurface and EBG antennas • Reconfigurable antennas • Antenna, EM theory and computational EM • Antenna measurements • MIMO and 5G antennas • Millimeter-wave & Terahertz antennas • Embedded and wearable antennas • Conformal antennas • Beamforming techniques • Propagation studies and experiments

• Scattering & Diffraction

Last Date for Paper Submission: July 31, 2018 Notification of Acceptance: September 14, 2018Early Bird Registration: October 30, 2017 Last Date for Registration: Dec 05, 2018

Important Dates

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HYDERABAD SECTION

Technical Program Committee:

Dhananjay Jahagirdar (Chair), Ramakrishna Janaswamy (Vice Chair), Satyajit Chakrabarti (Vice Chair), A.R. Harish (Vice Chair)

Awards:Best Paper Awards (1st, 2nd, 3rd) : INR 20000, INR 15000, INR 10000Best Poster Paper Award (1st, 2nd) : INR 15000 and INR 10000Franco Bardelli Best Student Paper Award : INR 5000NNSSRK Prasad award for Best Female Student (Female) : INR 5000Sudhakar Rao Best Student Application Paper (Male, Female) : INR 10000, INR 10000

www.InCAP2018.org