I am pleased to continue to serve as the Representative of IEICE in Taipei. 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. I am
very pleased to know that the number of IEICE overseas members in Taiwan had increased
from 315 in May 2005 to 462 in March 2006.
Since April 2005 and until March 2006, we had organized two
IEICE Distinguished Lecture events at National Taiwan University. The first event
included two one-hour IEICE Distinguished Lectures and was held during November
4 & 5, 2005 in association with the Workshop on Photonic Crystals and Nanophotonics
which was announced as co-sponsored by the IEICE Taipei Section. The workshop
has been very successful and was attended by more than 200 scholars and graduate
students from different institutes in Taiwan. The workshop theme was related to
important new technical areas. Prof. Kiyotoshi Yasumoto from Department of Computer
Science and Communication Engineering, Kyushu University gave the opening lecture
on the first day of the workshop (November 4, 2005, 2:00-3:00pm). Dr. Masaya Notomi
from Photonic Nanostructure Research Group, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Atsugi
was the first speaker on the second day of the workshop (November 5, 2005, 9:00-10:00am).
In addition to these two invited lectures, there were 14 invited papers presented
by scholars from different universities and institutes in Taiwan. The title of
the lecture by Prof. Yasumoto was "Modeling of scattering, guidance, and
radiation in two-dimensional photonic crystals." He described analytical
formulations he and his colleagues have derived for the analysis of photonic crystal
structures and showed numerical results in the applications to different structures.
The title of the lecture by Dr. Notomi was "All-optical switching and dynamic
nonlinear control in photonic crystals." He presented the fabrication and
development of photonic crystal waveguides and related novel photonic devices
in his laboratory, in particular, the fascinating applications in all-optical
switiching and dynamic nonlinear control circuits. Their excellent presentations
of new research results were followed by exciting discussions in and after the
sessions.
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The second Distinguished Lecture event was held on March 29,
2005 and the invited speaker was Prof. Hisamatsu Nakano from Hosei University,
Tokyo, Japan. There were more than 80 attendants including several faculty members.
His talk was entitled "Recent Progress in Antennas." He presented five
topics: (1) realization of a low-profile antenna using an EBG material, (2) beam
direction control for a low-profile antenna using an EBG material, (3) investigation
of the absorption characteristics of an EBG material, (4) dual-frequency operation
of an inverted LFL antenna (InvLFL) at 2.45 GHz and 5.2 GHz, and (5) a PSP antenna
for communications between land base stations and automobiles. His excellent presentation
was followed by exciting discussions.
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 the coming year, at least two distinguished scholars will be invited from Japan
to offer seminars on recent important topics. I will also try to publicize the
IEICE organization in conferences and symposia held 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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