BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Small satellites developments and radio communication impacts DTSTART:20130405T110000 DTSTAMP:20260510T091700Z UID:8ee89fdfad22cd827db32020e166fb6c4c57b6c6ae2d04b70673a19b CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Prof. Jacob Gavan\, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering\, Isr ael\nBio: Jacob Gavan earned the B.Sc. degree in the Technion Haifa 1961\, the  MEE in Eindhoven Technological University the Nederland\, both\, wi th distinction\, in 1969 using a scholarship of  Philips Ind. and  his P h.D. degree in radio communication in 1979 in ENSERG  Grenoble (France) w ith congratulations of the Jury. He worked as an ITU Expert from 1963 to 1 967 & 1971 to 1974\, and held positions in the radio communication industr y in Israel. He was also an Adjunct Associate Professor in Microwaves and Communication Systems at the  Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.\nJacob Gavan was elected as IEEE fellow in 1995 and founded a department of Commu nication Engineering at the Holon Academic Institute of Technology (HAIT\, Israel). He was selected to Dean of the HAIT new school of Electrical\, E lectronic and Communication Engineering as Full Professor from December 20 01 and elected as Dean from 1/10/03 for a two years period. Prof. Jacob Ga van leaded the establishment of a M.Sc program in Electronic and Communica tion Engineering which was approved by the council  of higher education i n Israel and include around 130 students most of them in Communication Eng ineering.\nHe was Consultant in radio communications systems especially on Radio mutual Interference and Radiation effects and RF up to millimeter w aves circuitry and systems  to several large Israeli and international co mpanies. He has published over 150 papers on theoretical and applied radio and Satellite communications\, electromagnetics\, and Radar Systems espec ially on Radio mutual Interference and Radiation effects. All shown in www .hait.ac.il staff\, "Jacob Gavan" CV and publications or in Google search tool for Jacob (Jacques) Gavan.\nProfessor Jacob Gavan is active in the Un ion Radio Science International URSI Commission E and Chairman of E8 worki ng group on "Interference in Radio Systems above 30 MHz" and in General As sembly Session E/C/F "Interference in radio communication". He earned the best paper award from the IEEE International Symposium on EMC.\, Santa Cla ra\, September 1982 and was associated editor of the Transactions on EMC f or several years. Recently Professor Jacob Gavan was elected as distinguis hed lecturer by the IEEE Communication society and as chairman of the stud ent activities by IEEE Israel. His biography is listed in the Internationa l Directory of Distinguished Leadership.\nA short introduction will descri be: The tremendous developments in satellites from the first Sputnik in 19 57 to the mega-satellite Sky-Terra in 2010\, their numbers\, main orbits a nd the importance of the radio communication subsystems.  An extreme mini aturization as predicted by Moore's law enables the design and realization of high quality small satellites. The classification\, advantages and dis advantages of micro\, nano\, pico and even femto satellites will be discus sed as well as their main applications .Will be described the pioneering d evelopments of the radio amateurs OSCAR satellites and ground stations\, f ollowed now by the design and development of hundreds low cost small satel lites by students all over the world. This enhanced significantly the quan tity and quality of the engineers and scientists in the aerospace and radi o communication fields. In addition will be discussed advanced small satel lites selected projects especially for the NASA and special missions\, as well as main activities in the USA\, Europe\, and all over the world inclu ding Israel.\nThe seminar will conclude by forecasting the future of small satellites and an extended bibliographic list will be\nprovided. LOCATION:BM 1130 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%201130 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR