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Minutes of the 69th meeting of the Canadian National Committee of URSI
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Members present:
-Amaya, Cesar (CRC/Ottawa, Comm. F)
-Antar, Yahia (RMC/Kingston, Past Chair)
-Caloz, Christophe (Polytechnique/Montreal, Comm. D)
-Despins, Charles PromptQuebec/Montreal, Comm. C)
-Fear, Elise (UC/Calgary, Comm. K)
-Gray, Andrew (NRC-HIA/Penticton, Comm. J)
-Koustov, Alexandre (U.Sask/Saskatoon, Comm. G+H)
-Petosa, Aldo (CRC/Ottawa, Comm. B)
-Prato, Frank (UWO-LHRI/London, CNC Chair)
-Shafai, Lot (UM/Winnipeg, Comm E)
-Vallee, Jacques P. (NRC-HIA/Victoria, Secret., Acting-Treas., member)
Absent member:
-Freundorfer, Al (Queen'sU/Kingston, Comm. A)
Timeline:
The CNC meeting started at 8h30m am on 17 May 2010 in room 516
at the Info & Communic Techn bldg, University of Calgary.
The CNC mtg ajourned at 13h30m.
An URSI Symposium, open to the public was held at 14h in room 142 of
Sci. B bldg, Univ. Calgary, hosted by Elise Fear:
- Y.Antar on Introduction to URSI
- R. Taylor on Square Km Array
- E. Fear on Microwave breast imaging
- A. Petosa on Communications Research Center
- C. Despins on Prompt
- L. Shafai on Network Centre of Excellence
- F. Prato on Panel discussion with students in the room
The symposium ended at 17h.
The CNC meeting reconvened at 19h30m on 17 May 2010 in room
"The Last Defence" of the MacEwan Student Centre at the University of Calgary
and ended at 21h30m.
Agreed agenda:
Start-up:
01. Welcome and Introductory remarks (Prato)
02. Approval of the Agenda (Prato)
Secretariat:
03. Approval of the Minutes of the 68th Meeting (Vallee)
NB: minutes on CNC managerial web site www.ursi.ca/2009min.html
04. Business arising from the Minutes (Prato)
05. Acting-Treasurer's report (Vallee)
a. NRC HIA [Fahlman] fund for CNC's annual mtg [$9,250 cdn]
b. URSI CNC [Vallee] trust fund for seed/promotion
[$65,151 held at LHRI]
c. NRC CS [Pinard] fund for the HQ in Belgium [8,119 Euros; $12,100 cdn]
d. Other NRC contributions [HIA Secr.; CorpServ deleg. URSI-GA]
06. Canadian URSI Membership lists, by Commissions (Vallee)
NB: current lists sent to all CNC members on 2010 May 3
07. Annual Performance Review, FactSheet, Minutes (Vallee)
General reports:
08. Chair's report (Prato)
09. Short 5min highlights (one from each CNC commission rep.)
10. Past Radio Conferences & URSI Board mtgs (Prato, Antar)
Future radio conferences (Prato):
11. Discussion item: "ANTEM was designated the Cdn URSI conference ...
but our URSI commissions did nod accept it as such" (Shafai)
12. Ottawa 2010 July 5-9 ANTEM-ANEREM (Shafai)
Toronto 2010 July 11-17 NARS/IEEE-APS/URSI US-NC/URSI CNC internat. symp.
wity George Eleftheriades on Skype phone
Toyoma, Japan, 2010 Sept 22-26 Asia-Pacific Radio Sci. confer. (Prato)
Canada 2015 IEEE APS & Joint NRAS mtg (Antar)
13. URSI letter to hold URSI GA & Sci. Symp. in 2014 or 2017 (Antar)
14. URSI letter to secure funds for Young Sci. program (Antar)
Promotion:
15. Evaluation of the Symposium (Fear)
16. Candidates for URSI Medals & awards, and for URSI v-p positions (Prato)
17. CNC student awards (Prato)
18. New CNC appointments or reappointments (Prato)
19. Soliciting new ideas (Prato)
- Action Group 1 : symposium
- Action Group 2 : NSERC
- Action Group 3 : fellowship
20. Public/self-serve/interactive web site www.ursicanada.ca (McNeill) and
Specialist/admin/archival web site www.ursi.ca (Vallee)
Wrap-up:
21 Other businesses (Prato)
22. Tentative date & place for next URSI CNC meeting (Vallee)
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01. Welcome & Introductory remarks
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Dr. Frank Prato, CNC Chair, welcomed all CNC participants.
On behalf of CNC, he thanked Elise Fear for her hosting in Calgary.
02. Approval of the Agenda
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The Chair asked for any change to the agenda.
Dr. Shafai & Dr. Koustov moved for the approval of the agenda. Unanimous.
03. Approval of the Minutes of the 68th Meeting
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The Minutes were available on the URSI CNC specialist/administrative web
site at www.ursi.ca/2009min.html
The Chair asked for any change to the Minutes. No change.
Dr. Petosa & Dr. Gray moved that the Minutes be approved. Unanimous.
04. Business arising from the Minutes
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See below.
05. Acting Treasurer's report
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a. NRC HIA fund [Fahlman]:
NRC-HIA in Victoria paid the travels of the CNC members attending the CNC
annual meeting on 2009 May 11 in London, Ont. amounting to a total of
$9 250.
b. NRC CNC trust fund [Vallee]:
The URSI CNC trust account is held at LHRI in London, and was created
in 2009 February, with $65,151. No money has been spent so far (2010 May).
*** Goals - this trust fund is used for startup money for future conference
partnerships, seed money for conference center reservations,
travel to decision meetings, student awards, promotional efforts, etc.
*** LHRI account rules for the CNC account (Brenda Dubois, 2009 May 11):
-payment approvals (by email) needed from 2 out of 3 people (CNC Chair,
CNC Past Chair, CNC Secretary)
-authorized signature of cheques by Don Atkinson don.atkinson@lhsc.on.ca
-clerical processing by Brenda Dubois bdubois@lawsonimaging.ca
-multi-year account (no annual termination date, no fiscal year limit)
-available for advance conference setup, upfront contribution (invoices)
-maximum of $500 honorarium per student award (not taxed; no limit on
no. of students each year)
-travels to meetings: all travel and food receipts required
c. NRC CorpServ fund [Pinard]:
NRC-CorpServ in Ottawa paid 8119 Euros [about $12,100] to URSI
Headquarters in Belgium, for the annual canadian contribution
[representing 8 URSI votes for Canada at the GA].
d. Sum and other NRC contributions
-The sum for the items (a,b,c) is $86 501 for URSI matters [as of 1 April].
-In addition, NRC-HIA in Victoria pays for one staff involved in
CNC activities, annual meeting, maintaining trust fund, managerial web
site, annual review for CISET, student certificates, etc.
-NRC-CorpServ in Ottawa contributes towards the travel of 1 CNC voting
delegate at the URSI GA [excluding federal government members].
06. Canadian URSI Membership lists, by Commissions
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Dr. Vallee noted that complete lists of all Cdn researchers were sent to CNC
members on 2010 May 3. Each CNC member updates his Cdn commission's list.
There is no election and no fee for memberships on these
'complete lists of Cdn researchers'.
Commission membership conditions were approved at the 2009 CNC annual mtg:
-Canadians who still publish research or work in industry in these fields
-must be based in Canada (excepted for past Canadians outside Canada)
-students in Canada (must have a reference; approved by CNC commission Chair)
-emeritus status (approval by CNC commission Chair)
07. Annual Performance Review, FactSheet, Minutes
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URSI CNC FactSheet was updated by Vallee and sent to
NRC-CS/Denis Pinard on 2010 Feb.11 [3 pages], as requested.
Minutes of last year's URSI CN Meeting, written by Vallee, were sent to
NRC-CS/Denis Pinard on 2009 Oct.8 [8 pages], as per HIA-CS contract.
Dr. Vallee explained the 3rd CNC Annual Performance Report [APR], sent to
NRC-CS/Denis Pinard on 2009 Dec.14. [24 pages], as requested by NRC CISET.
The 2nd annual APR was sent in 2009 Jan. [23 pages],
and the 1st APR was sent in 2008 Febr. [20 pages].
Dr. Prato noted that our CNC is ranked in the middle of the pack
by NRC CISET. URSI CNC got 2 high notes, and one low note.
Yahia will write a draft letter about the low note. CNC should ask for a
calibration of each reviewer [a reviewer could give low notes to all
those CNCs under his review], before adding the grades of the 3 reviewers.
CNC surmises that some report can be too long, beyond the stated maximum
no. of characters [there is no penalty, the lawbreaker expects full
reading and better grades].
Dr. Prato and Dr. Vallee will create a template before the next APR,
to be sent to each URSI CNC member, in order to allow a timely and
structured response to NRC CISET via NRC-CS.
08. Chair's report
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Dr. Prato noted the energizing effort due to launching the first URSI
CNC Symposium (this afternoon).
Dr Yahia Antar continues as Vice-President of URSI.
With the advent of a public/interactive web site, individual Canadians could
ask to join or be removed from the URSI list. Their names and email addresses
will not appear on the public web site without their permission.
Charles will draft a letter to that effect.
NB: These 'public lists' may differ somewhat from the 'complete lists of
Cdn researchers' (see Item 6 above with research requirements).
09. Short 5min highlights (one from each CNC commission representative)
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Each CNC member spoke about on-going activities & developments in their
field. Some concerns expressed were outside the purview of the CNC mandate.
Each commission representative should try to disseminate, to the Cdn
members of their own commission, the information about URSI & meetings.
* Summary / highlights received from Al Freundorfer (A):
Things done in Commission A in the past year:
-2010 IEEE APS/URSI Symposium TPC
-emailed membership about 2010 IEEE APS/URSI Symposium
-2010 14th International Symposium on Antenna Technology and Applied
Electromagnetics [ANTEM] and the American Electromagnetics
Conference [AMEREM].TPC
-emailed membership about 2010 ANTEM/AMEREM
-emailed Prof. Brussaard about investigate the possibility of introducing
an "URSI Fellow" similar to IEEE Fellow in Canada.
* Summary / highlights received from Aldo Petosa (B):
Activities
1. APS/URSI 2010 Symposium (July 2010 in Toronto)
(a) Co-Chair of the Publicity Committee of the APS/URSI Steering Committee.
Attended two Steering Committee Meetings (in Charleston, June 2009
and Toronto, March 2010).
Performed many activities related to advertising for the APS/URSI
Symposium.
(b) URSI Abstract Reviews
Along with the USNC Commission B Chair (Dr. Nader Engheta) and Vice
Chair (Dr. Rengarajan Sembiam) and with the help of Dr. Michel Clenet from
Defence Research and Development Canada, we reviewed 240 URSI Commission B
abstracts and organized them into sessions.
(c) APS/URSI Technical Program Committee Meeting (TPC), March 2010 in Toronto.
Attended the APS/URSI TPC meeting to review and organize the submitted
papers. 1185 AP papers and 423 URSI were received with 31 AP papers and
4 URSI abstracts rejected.
2. ANTEM 2010 Conference (July 2010 in Ottawa)
Volunteered to be the Technical Program Committee (TPC) Chair for the
ANTEM conference.
Formed the TPC for this conference where 150 papers were submitted and
reviewed.
Organized the TPC meeting in February in Ottawa to finalized the
technical program.
3. CNC CO-DATA Meeting, Sept. 2009
Gave a presentation on behalf of Frank Prato on CNC-URSI actvities at the
CNC CO-DATA annual meeting, held in Ottawa on Sept. 25, 2009.
4. CNC-URSI Fellowship
Participated on a sub-committee along with Andrew Gray, Al Freundofer and
Cesar Amaya, to look into the possibility of creating a CNC-URSI Fellowship
program.
5. CRC Presentation at CNC-URSI Annual Meeting Symposium, Calgary, May 17, 2010
Presented an overview of the Communications Research Centre (CRC) for the
CNC-URSI Symposium
* Summary / highlights received from Charles Despins (C):
...
* Summary / highlights received from Christophe Caloz (D):
1. Organization of URSI double (two time slots) special session at the
AP-S URSI USNC/CNC, Toronto
"Nanoparticles and Nano-Structured Materials for RF Applications"
Christophe Caloz, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal,
George W. Hanson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
2. Organization of joint B-D special session at the URSI XXXth General
Assembly, Istanbul "Metamaterial Theory"
Richard W. Ziolkowski ziolkows@ece.arizona.edu
Christophe Caloz christophe.caloz@polymtl.ca
Nader Engheta engheta@ee.upenn.edu
3. Organization of joint D-B special session at the URSI XXXth General
Assembly, Istanbul "Metamaterial Applications"
C. Caloz christophe.caloz@polymtl.ca
R. W. Ziolkowski ziolkows@ece.arizona.edu
N. Engheta engheta@ee.upenn.edu
* Summary / highlights received from Lot Shafai (E):
1 - Chaired APS/URSI 2010 Technical committee
Set up and streamlined the TPC Paper reviews,
Set up the super reviewers and reviewers team
Organized the sessions,
Oversaw the Organized sessions' ratings and final selection,
Chaired the reviewers' meeting in Toronto on March 6 &7,
Informed the authors of the review results,
Coordinated the conference final program,
Coordinated all other TPC related activities.
2 - Organized AMEREM 2010 Conference in Ottawa, July 5-8
Chaired the conference and the Steering Committee
Prepared the conference budget
Chaired all conference related activities
Invited and selected the plenary speakers
Selected the conference site and negotiated the contract
Coordinated the special sessions selections and organization
Handled the paper review process and session designs, etc
Invited the authors for registration and handled the process
Coordinated the conference activities.
3 - Organized ANTEM 2010 in Ottawa, July 5-8
Selected the Conference and TPC Chairs
Invited colleagues the chair other conference committees
Coordinated the conference organization with the conference and TPC Chairs
Set the conference budget
Attended the TPC final meeting in Ottawa in March
Coordinated the authors' invitation and other conference activities
4 - APS/URSI 2015 in Vancouver
Visited several potential conference sites in Vancouver
Met with colleagues at UBC and SFU to invite them to join the conference
committee
Prepared and delivered a presentation to APS conference committee
in Toronto on March 6Th
Selected a potential conference site
Selected a potential conference organizer
Prepared a tentative conference budget
Organized a tentative conference committee
* Summary / highlights received from Cesar Amaya (F):
1- Participation in the subcommittee created to propose initiating CNC/URSI
Fellowship program.
Several discussions, through e-mail, were held with the subcommittee
members. A list of questions was drafted for consideration and discussion
at the 2010 CNC/URSI annual meeting in Calgary.
2- ANTEM/AMEREM 2010 Conference - to be held on July 2010 in Ottawa Member
of the TPC.
Organization of special session titled "Recent Developments on Earth-Space
Propagation Research Applied to Satellite Communications".
Paper presentations will include contributions from Canadian commission F
members. The idea to organize a session in this area was suggested by Lot
Shafai.
3- IEEE APS/URSI USCN/CNC - to be held on July 2010 in Toronto
Member of the TPC. Review of conference papers submitted to commission F
and organization of sessions for this commission. CNC_URSI Comm. F chair
has been scheduled to chair two sessions: "Radio Propagation Measurements
and Models," and "Propagation over Terrain and Sea Surfaces".
4- Prof. Madhu Chandra, Chair of Commission F International, mentioned
during a conversation held on April 2010 that he
plans to organize a Comm. F Triennial Open Symposium in Germany in 2011
(same year of URSI GA conference in Istambul).
* Summary / highlights received from Alexandre Koustov (G + H):
It has been a successful period for the G-H community. Currently we have
66 members, and this number stays stable for a number of years. There
are 3 CRCs: J.-P. St-Maurice (U of S), E. Donovan (U of C), and I. Mann
(U of A). Community strongly participated in a number of sessions at the
Spring, Toronto and Fall, San Francisco American Geophysical Union Joint
Assembly. Prof. Wayne Hocking (UWO) organized 12-th MST (Mesosphere-
Stratosphere-Thermosphere radars) International Workshop in London,
Ontario: http://mst12.com/. Participants (~100) were from Europe, Asia,
Australia, and North America. He also organized and run summer radar
school for grad students in conjunction with this conference. A
significant news is that the U of C with E. Donovan and J-P St-Maurice
from the U of S and M. Connors from the Athabasca U landed ~$20 million
CFI project money for construction of a new powerful incoherent scatter
radar at Resolute Bay; construction to begin in 2010. Additional HF
coherent radar will be built in Greenland to make further expansion of the
SuperDARN radar network. Research activities in High Arctic are also
expanding at the U of New Brunswick (P.T. Jayachandran) with installation
of a number of GPS receivers and CADI ionosondes.
* Summary / highlights received from Andrew Gray (J):
Activities for the past year:
-participated in the sub-committee assessing "URSI Fellow" awards;
-updated the Com. J member list;
-acted as a conduit, forwarding URSI emails to the Com. J membership list
-there were no Com. J submissions to the Toronto NARS meeting, so I did
not participate in the TPC
A full written report on Canadian Com. J activities is in the works.
* Summary / highlights received from Elise Fear (K):
My activities were focused around the 2010 IEEE APS and URSI conference
in Toronto, as well as the 2010 CNC URSI business meeting and symposium:
-Reviewed papers for 2010 ANTEM meeting.
-Reviewed papers and organized sessions for 2010 URSI meeting.
-Organized sessions for 2010 IEEE APS meeting.
-Attempted student paper competition for IEEE CCECE 2010 conference.
-Organized symposium and 2010 CNC URSI business meeting.
-Scheduled to organize Commission K session on microwave breast imaging
with Prof. Susan Hagness at 2011 URSI General Assembly.
10. Past radio conferences & URSI Board mtg
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-URSI International Board Meeting, April 2010. Dr. Antar attended as
URSI V-P. Various concerns were raised: the 2008 Chicago GASS deficit,
raising the URSI profile, some nations want to reduce their votes/fees, etc.
11. Discussion item: "ANTEM was designated the Cdn URSI conference ...
but our URSI Commissions did not accept it as such"
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Lot would expect that there would be a URSI session within the ANTEM
conference, every two years. Not enough URSI researchers and students
are attending the ANTEM conference. Perhaps URSI Commission Chairs
should be in the ANTEM steering committee. ANTEM needs a change in culture
to move away from being 'revenue-neutral'.
Yahia suggested a 1-day URSI conference within the next ANTEM mtg,
adjacent to the CNC annual meeting. Yahia and Lot will discuss a possible
scheme and report on a possible sharing of admin tasks and finance surplus.
Lot proposed, seconded by Yahia, to have an ANTEM-URSI conference in 2012,
with full financial partnership. UNANIMOUS.
Lot, Yahia, Aldo, Frank, Elise will form a committee to settle details
(date, place, etc).
12. Future radio conferences
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* Ottawa 2010 July 5-9 ANTEM-AMEREM
Lot reported that it is ready to go. About 300 papers involved.
See http://antem.ee.umanitoba.ca/antem_amerem2010/Home.html
* Toronto 2010 July 11-17 NARS/IEEE-APS/URSI US-NC/URSI CNC internat symp.
George Eleftheriades on the phone (Skype) reported that about 1600 papers
are involved (400 URSI and 1200 APS). The formula for the excess revenues
will be formalized in July.
See http://www.apsursi2010.org/
* Toyoma, Japan, 2010 Sept. 22-26 Asia-Pacific Radio Sci. Conference:
Frank reported on the current situation.
See http://www.ap-rasc10.jp/
* Canada 2015 IEEE APS & Joint NRAS mtg:
Lot reported that a proposal was made. If APS approves, one would expect
about 2000 papers. Excess revenues: first half goes 50%-50%, and second
half goes according to the number of US vs Canada papers.
13. URSI letter to hold URSI GASS in Canada in 2014 ort 2017
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Yahia explained the offer, made as well to other countries.
Canada held the URSI GASS in 1969 Ottawa and in 1999 Toronto.
Charles & Christophe will study the issue for Montreal (expect 1500 papers).
14. URSI letter to secure funds for URI Young Scientists Programme
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Yahia explained the request. ICSU refused. We are not obligated. Not a big
appetite in the CNC.
15. Evaluation of the CNC Symposium
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CNC thanked Elise, who spent a lot of time to promote and organize the
the first CNC Symposium, held in Calgary.
A quick count of the Symposium audience showed 11 CNC members, 9 graduate
students, and 3 other Calgary professors.
Undergraduates were not on the campus at this time.
In the final Panel discussion, Frank asked the students their views. It
appeared that URSI is more science whereas IEEE is more engineering.
URSI needs to develop more contacts in order to help solve problems.
URSI conferences are open to all nations, whereas IEEE refuses papers
from some countries [Iran, etc].
16. Candidates for URSI medals and awards, and for URSI V-P positions
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-CNC supports Yahia Antar to be re-elected as Vice-President of URSI.
Five awards or medals are possible, to be submitted before 15 Aug. 2010 to
the URSI HQ, the winners being presented on 14 Aug. 2011 at GASS in Turkey.
See http://www.ursi.org/awards.asp
Should URSI CNC asks the Cdn members of URSI, for possible candidates?
-can Yahia Antar write to Lot Shafai, URSI Booker Gold medal ?
-can Alexandre Koustov write to J.-P. St.Marie, URSI Appleton prize ?
+can Christophe Caloz write to Wolfgang Hoefer, URSI van der Pol medal?
17. CNC student awards
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In 2003 April, the CNC agreed that such student awards should be for:
-work done in Canada
-conference held in Canada
-student must be at a Canadian university
The CNC Award consists of a Certificate, as well as the amount stated.
Since the inception of CNC awards for best student
presentation, the CNC trust fund in Victoria has granted $16 800 to
38 students as follows:
- 2000 Aug. - ANTEM Winnipeg - $500 to A. Grbic
- 2002 Aug. - ANTEM Montreal - $500 to R. Curiac
- 2002 Aug. - WIRELESS Calgary - $500 to G. Cheung
- 2004 Aug. - ANTEM Winnipeg - $500 to M. Heshmatzadeh
- 2004 June - CASCA Winnipeg - $250 to M. Livingstone & $250 to K. Douglas
- 2006 Aug. - ANTEM Montreal - $500 to J. Schwartz
- 2006 Sep. - WIRELESS Montreal - $500 to V. Vivekanandan
- 2007 July - URSI-NARS Ottawa - $6 000 awards ($300 each to 20 students)
- 2007 July - ISSSE Montreal - $500 to H. van Nguyn & $500 to S. Fatah
- 2007 Oct. - CRSS Ottawa - $500 to S. Soenen
- 2008 June - CRSS Whitehorse - $300 to T. Nguyen
- 2008 June - URSI GA Chicago - $5000 awards ($1000 each to 5 students)
- 2009 Mar. - ANTEM Banff - $500 to S. Podilchuk
At the previous CNC meeting in 2009,
* A $500 URSI CNC award was proposed by Shafai, seconded by Petosa,
for the best Cdn-based student paper at the
ANTEM-AMEREM conference in Ottawa in 2010 July. Agreed.
* A $500 URSI CNC award was proposed by Fear, seconded by Shafai,
for the best Cdn-based student paper at the
IEEE Canadian conference on Electronic & Computer Engineering in
Calgary in 2010 May. Agreed.
There was no student award proposed this year, for conferences occurring
in 2011.
18. New CNC appointments or reappointments
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This time around, all positions are taken. At our next CNC mtg,
we currently expect 5 re-appointments and 2 replacements.
19. Soliciting new ideas
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ACTION 1, on CNC Symposium. Done - see item 15 above. Thanks again, Elise.
ACTION 2, on NSERC support. Not done - this avenue is terminated.
ACTION 3, on CNC Fellowship. Continuing - no action recommended now.
20. Public/self-serve/interactive web site www.ursicanada.ca (McNeill)
and Specialist/admin/archival web site www.ursi.ca (Vallee)
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Dr. Dean McNeill (U.Manitoba) reported on 2010 May 14 on the availability of
the CNC's public/interactive web site at www.ursicanada.ca, following his
acceptance of the CNC's $4 500 cheque. Software is in place to:
- permit each commission chair to enter and administer
their own information on the site, including posting files and images;
- allow the general public to submit inscription onto a mailing list, plus
approval/removal by each commission chair,
- allow the general public, once registered, to
update their own account/contacts with time, and be notified of changes,
- permit each commission chair to manage his/her lists, including sending
emails to everyone on his/her commission list.
Of notes:
-About 90% of the web pages in the specialist ursi.ca web site
has been copied into the public ursicanada.ca web site.
Not imported were: the CNC members' info (coordinates, pictures, web links),
and the CNC's technical reports (annual meeting reports, Annual Performance
Reports, radio astronomy Commission J reports).
We will ask each web site to make a link to each other, and the
duplications will be removed from the specialist ursi.ca web site.
- www.ursicanada.ca is not yet bilingual;
the CNC committee is supported and created by NRC and thus should follow
bilingual web guidelines imposed on all NRC committees. We will ask Dean
to make a 'bilingual frame', but each individual posting by a CNC commission
chair will be in the official language of the writer.
The same policy already applies to the specialist ursi.ca web site.
- The public site ursicanada.ca effectively transfers a workload on each CNC
commission Chair, to accept/deny public inscriptions, upload info about his/
her own commission, etc. The list of Cdn commission members shall not be
posted publicly. Charles will write a letter to all current Cdn commission
members about the new ursicanada.ca site, and invite them to join the site
and get an account/password to update their coordinates and choose options.
21. Other business
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Can we boostrap an CNC activity with a IEEE meeting held in Canada?
Can we provide a URSI Speaker, to each IEEE meeting held in Canada?
Christophe, Charles, Yahia, Elise will look onto this.
22. Tentative Date and Place for the next URSI CNC meeting
==================================================================
There was a suggested or pencilled-in date for Polytechnique
in Montreal, sometimes in April/May 2011,
hosted by Christophe Caloz, along with the 2nd CNC Symposium.
Dr. Prato thanked all members present for their work on the CNC.
Dr. Prato thanked Dr. Vallee for his hard work, corporate memory & reminders.
Dr Vallee thanked all members on behalf of NRC-HIA for helping Radio
Science in Canada, and encouraged them to fill their NRC Travel Claim Form
and to send them to Sharon Dousset at NRC-HIA in Victoria.
Dr Despins moved to close the meeting. The CNC meeting ended near 21h30m.
PS: Minutes written by J.P. Vallee [except for commission reports in item 9].