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Almost every year, with the exception of the war years, the Scientific Radio Fund Foundation
Veder awards a prize to one or more scientists, belonging to the Dutch nationality
, who have made extraordinary merits in the field of radio or
related sciences or techniques. This award is called the Veder Prize.

The Vederfonds website provides extensive information about the Stichting Wetenschappelijk Radio-fonds Veder, which was founded on 4 August 1927, and about the selection process of the prize winner.

The KIVI Telecommunications Department will co-present the Veder Prize in a theme meeting, where a presentation will highlight the social and technical relevance of the prizewinner's subject and then the prizewinner will make his/her presentation.

This year's Veder Prize goes to Anouk Hubrechsen of Eindhoven University of Technology for her work on 'Antenna Measurements in mmWave Reverberation Chambers'.

Presentation of the Veder Prize 2023

The presentations and award ceremony will take place in the Senate Hall of the Auditorium at Eindhoven University of Technology

Agenda

Meeting agenda:
15:00 Walk-in and reception in the Senate Hall, Auditorium, TU/e
15:30 Opening by Mark Bentum
15:35 "The importance of antennas and measuring antennas" by Bart Smolders
15:55 "A Guide To Antenna Measurements in mmWave Reverberation Chambers", by Anouk Hubrechsen
16:25 Considerans spoken by Jan Geralt bij de Vaate
16:30 Award ceremony by Eduard van Hoboken
16:35 Drinks

Moderator

Mark Bentum is a Full Professor in Radio Science with the research group Electromagnetics at the TU/e department of Electrical Engineering. He is also affiliated with the Netherlands Foundation for Research in Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), where he is head of the radio group. His main research interest is in radio astronomy, particular in low frequency radio astronomy. He is the initiator of the OLFAR project, the Orbiting Low Frequency Antennas for Radio astronomy. OLFAR is a space-based radio telescope to observe the sky at frequencies below 30 MHz consisting of many small satellites. Opening this virtually unexplored frequency band will possibly lead to new scientific insights, like the formation of the Universe and the detection of magnetised exoplanets.

At TU/e his work focuses on various aspects of this radio telescope, such as the antenna systems, the calibration of the array, the clocking and synchronization of all the elements, localization, interference mitigation and the signal processing aspects of the telescope. Mark Bentum is a senior member of the IEEE, vice chair of the IEEE Benelux section, initiator and chair of the IEEE Benelux AESS/GRSS chapter, and has acted as a reviewer for various conferences and journals.

Speaker

Bart Smolders is Full Professor and Chair of the Electromagnetics (EM) group of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His key areas of expertise include antenna systems and microwave engineering. In the EM research group Smolders' main focus is advanced integrated antenna systems and related applications such as phased-arrays and focal-plane arrays for future wireless communications (6G and beyond).

Bart's team is collaborating on a number of large European and national projects, including MyWAVE (Efficient Millimetre-Wave Communications for mobile users, see: www.mywave-project.eu), SILIKA (Silicon-based Ka-band massive MIMO antenna systems for new telecommunication services, see www.silika-project.eu), EAST (tunable antenna concepts for 5G mobile), Integrant (90 GHz wireless point-to-point systems), MUSIC (60 GHz single-chip MIMO radar) and SMART-One (millimetre-wave channel sounding).

He is also co-founder of AntenneX, a start-up company that provides over-the-air test facilities for millimetre-wave software antennas for 5G/6G and radar sensing applications.

Register

You are cordially invited to attend. Please send a message to Mark Bentum(m.j.bentum@tue.nl), so that we know how many people we can count on.