This Year's Symposium

Click here to go to the official MTT-IMS web site.

Every year the Steering Committee puts together a web site both to advertise the symposium and to disseminate information. The web site has pretty much all the official information you need to attend the symposium. There is a link for on-line registration, as well. 

New things this year

First Baltimore IMS in about a dozen years. 

The Plenary Session will be held on Monday evening. This makes it more convenient to avoid, given that it's usually pretty boring. The one notable exception, in recent years, was the 2007 Plenary Session in Hawaii. Wow! 

The TPC will institute a system of double-blind reviewing of submitted papers. This means that authors' names, as well as references and acknowledgements that might hint at the authors' identities, must be removed. This eliminates the nonexistent problem of nonexistent bias against certain authors, or authors from certain countries. For better or worse, it retains the bias against really crappy papers, which many authors would like to eliminate as well. Maybe in 2015 the Arizona legislature will fix that problem. 

After some major changes earlier in this century, the whole system has largely stabilized. This year's symposium represents a continuation of the old, well used, successful IMS formula, in contrast to an attempt at something new, experimental, and exciting. This is the MTT Society, after all.

Why go to the IMS this year?

In any case, you should attend for the same reason you'd go in any other year: for microwave geeks, the IMS is far and away the most important technical event of the year. However, there are even more good reasons: 

• Hell, it's just a really nice city. What more do you want?
• Great seafood. Catching the crabs in Baltimore is a good thing!
• It's really far from Arizona.
• There's actually some microwave activity in the area.

For information about Baltimore, here's a good place to start.