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I would like to express my pleasure to serve for another term as
the Representative of IEICE in Taipei, one of the present nine IEICE Overseas
Area Representatives. I am pleased to know that this year four Representatives
in Korea and Hong Kong has been newly established and appointed. The IEICE is
a very successful professional society. It holds many conferences and technical
meetings and issues high-quality periodical publications which has already attracted
many articles from international authors. I am glad that the IEICE is strongly
promoting the Overseas Area Representatives Program. One mission of the local
area representative is to act as a bridge between the Institute and the members
in the local area through academic meetings.
According to IEICE statistics, Taiwan has been an important
IEICE overseas area in terms of the number of members as well as the number of
articles published in the Institute's English Transactions. Having more lecture
meetings or workshops would help publicize these facts and let the general attendants
get familiar with the IEICE activities. In fact, electronics, computers, and telecommunications
industries are key industries in Taiwan and therefore they are always in need
of engineers in these areas. All major universities now have established College
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a good population of graduate
students. There is thus good opportunity in recruiting more new members.
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During 2004 and until March 2005, we have organized two IEICE Distinguished Lectures
at National Taiwan University. For the first Distinguished Lecture event held
on December 25, 2004, the invited speaker was Prof. Toshihiko Baba from Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Yokohama National University, Yokohama,
Japan. His talk was entitled "Photonic Crystals and High Index Contrast Devices"
and attracted more than 70 attendants. The lecture was related to an important
and rapidly growing new technical area: nanophotonics and photonic crystals. Prof.
Baba is an internationally known scholar in this area. He overviewed fundamentals
to possible applications of photonic crystals and also presented some other competitive
photonic nanostructures, i.e., quasiperiodic photonic crystals (QPCs), whispering
gallery mode (WGM) cavities, and high index contrast (HIC) waveguides. He successfully
brought his valuable experience and newest development in the field to the audience,
in particular, many young researchers through his very clear presentation.
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The second Distinguished Lecture event was held on March 9,
2005 and the invited speaker was Prof. Makoto Ando from Tokyo Institute of Technology,
Tokyo, Japan. There were more than 70 attendants including more than ten faculty
members from National Chiao-Tung University, National Taipei University of Technology,
and NTU. His talk was entitled "Single Layer Waveguide Slot Arrays for Low
Cost Wireless Access Systems and Large Area Plasma Generation for Processing."
The lecture was related to the important technical area of wireless communication.
Prof. Ando has many years of experience in antenna research and is internationally
known for his many research outcomes. He has also been very active in international
academic societies. He described high efficiency and low cost planar waveguide
arrays he and his laboratory members proposed and developed by using four kinds
of single-layer waveguides. He gave excellent presentation and showed many interesting
results. The lecture was followed by exciting discussions.
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During the past year, I had the opportunities of
endorsing new IEICE membership applications in Taiwan and answering questions
from local members. In the coming year, I wish to interact with more local members
and consult them about their opinions on how to promote IEICE activities. As for
lecture events in 2005, I plan to invite at least two distinguished scholars from
Japan to offer seminars on recent important topics and try to publicize the IEICE
organization in domestic conferences and symposia in Taiwan.
Finally, I briefly introduce myself. I am currently
a Professor at National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. I am affiliated with
the Department of Electrical Engineering, the Graduate Institute of Electro-Optical
Engineering, and the Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering of the University,
which are all under the College of EECS. My research interests include guided-wave
structures and devices for photonics, computational electromagnetics for problems
in photonics, and photonic crystal structures and applications.
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Professor Hung-chun Chang
Room 513, Department of Electrical Engineering,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan 106-17, R.O.C.
Tel: +886-2-23635251 ext. 513
Fax: +886-2-23638247
E-mail:
hcchang@cc.ee.ntu.edu.tw
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