Changzhi Li, Holger Maune
As the chair and cochair of the 19th IEEE Radio & Wireless Week (RWW), we warmly welcome you to join this exciting event the week of 21–24 January 2024 in San Antonio, TX, USA. The city of San Antonio is located in the heart of Texas and is known for an eclectic mix of Mexican, German, French, and Old West cultures that combine to create an “only in San Antonio” experience. The conference venue, Grand Hyatt San Antonio River Walk, celebrates the history and charm of the Alamo City with a welcoming spirit and an elegant style. Besides built-in world-class conference facilities for professional activities, the hotel offers plenty of family-friendly rooms and suites right on the River Walk in downtown San Antonio, steps from top attractions like the Alamodome, the AT&T Center, and the Alamo.
Over the years, RWW has become an icon of the “January family reunion” for the radio and wireless community from all over the world to discuss the latest trends in their areas of expertise based on five co-located conferences:
This complementary subconference structure covers all timely topics of radio wireless technologies, from theory to practical implementation, from integrated chips to large-scale systems, from kilohertz to terahertz, and from communication to sensing and space applications. PAWR, SiRF, WiSNet, and SHaRC have their focus days, while at least one track of RWS sessions flows from Monday through Wednesday.
Starting from Sunday afternoon, 21 January 2024, parallel workshops on diverse topics will address the latest trends in radio and wireless. More workshops will be offered on Wednesday before the conclusion of the week. To continue with the RWW tradition, we will highlight interactive demonstrations given by exemplary researchers. Co-located with the RWW 2024 exhibition, the Demo Track will showcase hardware and systems based on live demonstrations of technologies presented in a selection of high-quality technical papers.
We are very proud that again the Automatic Radio Frequency Techniques Group (ARFTG) will co-locate its 102nd symposium with RWW. ARFTG is a technical organization interested in all aspects of RF and microwave test and measurement. The ARFTG symposium is known as the premier event focused on RF, microwave, and millimeter-wave measurements, calibration, and measurement uncertainty. More information about ARFTG and its symposia can be found at www.arftg.org. Besides the ARFTG symposium with technical papers and short courses, a joint ARFTG and RWW exhibition will be hosted to showcase the latest products and solutions from industry. The exhibition floor will also highlight an industry reception open to all conference attendees.
Another highlight is the co-located Internet of Things (IoT) Vertical and Topical Summit, one of the very successful collaborations of the IEEE Microwave Theory and Technology Society (MTT-S) with other communities, such as the IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, IEEE Reliability Society, IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, IEEE Power Electronics Society, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. As always, the IoT Summit will be highly interactive, with strong involvement of the audience in panel discussions. This year, the IoT Summit will feature a health-care theme. Industrial, academic, and health-care sectors will meet for inspiring discussions on future technologies that will impact health-related quality of life.
RWW 2024 features plenty of social–technical events for friendly professional networking. For example, a reception in the exhibition hall on Monday evening offers exhibitors and all of the attendees full-flavored snacks while they chat in a relaxed atmosphere. Subsequently, we will offer a panel discussion on state-of-the-art wireless technologies. Besides this reception, there will be many more opportunities—currently in the planning stage—to gather, meet in a relaxed atmosphere, and network.
The Women in Microwaves (WIM) Committee will again organize an outstanding panel session of female role models. All conference attendees are invited to this interactive WIM event that includes snacks and drinks. Two world-renowned keynote speakers will give their insights during the plenary session on Tuesday morning, where the winners of the Student Paper Competition will also be awarded.
An important goal of RWW is to motivate and help students develop a successful career in radio and wireless technologies. A Young Professionals (YP) panel will feature several distinguished YPs in the field of radio and wireless to interact with other YPs. Following the YP panel, the YPs will have the opportunity to network with all of the conference attendees in a business casual party. We will also continue the prominent Student Paper Competition to further engage conference attendees. Students whose papers are rated excellent by the reviewers will show up as finalists in a poster presentation to a panel of reviewers. In addition, they will give a “Shark Tank”-style elevator pitch to engage with a group of judges and audience. The awards ceremony will take place during the plenary session on Tuesday.
To help students participate in RWW, the Steering Committee has obtained generous support from the National Science Foundation and the MTT-S to financially sponsor 25 to 35 students to attend the conference through the Student Sponsorship Initiative. The program is open to all students to apply. San Antonio is a 75-min drive from Austin, TX, which is home to many semiconductor and high-tech companies. The RWW 2024 Steering Committee is working hard to include as many industrial partners as possible. In addition, RWW has a “career platform” for student attendees to engage with industrial exhibitors and sponsors.
Each year the MTT-S carefully selects about four Distinguished Microwave Lecturers (DMLs), who are internationally recognized experts and technical leaders in their fields within the Society. The 2024 Class of MTT-S DMLs will present their talks during a dedicated track on Monday, which is a perfect opportunity to get a comprehensive overview of popular MTT-S fields.
One of the central events will be the plenary session on Tuesday morning with two invited speakers giving keynote talks together with the announcement of the Student Paper Competition award.
For the first time in RWW history, we are planning a forum with the MTT-S Fellow Search Committee, which operates under the Awards Committee and is independent of the Fellow Evaluation Committee. The goal of the forum is to increase the awareness of the IEEE Fellow Program. We would like to help the IEEE attendees better understand the Fellow nominations process and prepare for good nominations.
We invite you to visit our conference website at www.radiowirelessweek.org/ and register to participate in various activities of RWW 2024. We will also be very happy to communicate with you directly on any thoughts or questions. RWW makes every effort to support researchers and practitioners in radio and wireless technologies. With our joint efforts, we look forward to a strong program and a wonderful event for professional interactions during RWW 2024 in San Antonio!
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