13th IET Colloquium and Call for Abstracts on Antennas, Wireless and Electromagnetics (CAWE)
About
The colloquium this year is being hosted by the Dept of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, University of Liverpool
This one-day free-to-attend event brings together early career and experienced research scientists, engineers, and technologists, to share, discuss and debate their latest technical knowledge about antennas, propagation and wireless and electromagnetics in an informal colloquium style event.
The colloquium provides an opportunity for early-stage researchers (such as final year apprentices, MSc and PhD students, research assistants), as well as experienced researchers, and researchers about to start a new project, to gain presentation experience and inform the wider community of their work. The colloquium will also provide an opportunity for young and experienced researchers to network with the antennas and propagation community.
This year we look forward to hearing from researchers on how their work could contribute to the global “Sustainability” challenge (i.e. making us carbon neutral or reducing our energy consumption).
Three keynote presentations will be given and there will be an opportunity to present a short paper or poster, and a tour of the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronic's Reverberation Chamber which is the largest of the UK universities.
Key Topics
• Sustainability
• Antennas
• Propagation
• Dynamic Spectrum Access
• Intelligent radios and antennas
• Electromagnetics
• Wireless applications
• Interference mitigation
• Spectrum resilience
• Cyber electromagnetics
• Spectrum management
• Measurement techniques and strategies
• Radio propagation environments
• Spectrum occupancy and measurement techniques
• Radio application concepts
• Early-stage research
• Simulations
• Research plans
• Collaboration requests
• Research challenges
Call for abstracts now open - how to submit
The technical scope for the abstracts may cover applications from Antennas and propagation research proposals, concepts, ideas, early stage and mature research results, including measurements, modelling, simulations, from across the whole engineering lifecycle from concept to prototypes and demonstration results (TRL 1 – 7).
To submit a short <300-word abstract
please complete the template here on IET EngX
and email it: Deborah-Claire McKenzie with the subject line of ‘CAWE25’ on 28 May 2025 by 5pm.
Important Dates:
Abstracts received by IET by 5pm on 28 May 2025
Authors notified by 5pm on 4 June 2025
Authors presentations received by IET by 9am on 9 June 2025
Presentations given at Colloquium on 11 June 2025
Ten selected abstract authors will have a 10-minute presentation slot with 5 minutes of questions.
Those selected for posters will need to bring their posters on the day. Maximum poster size should be A0 (841 x 1189 mm or 33.1 x 46.8 inches)
Please note that no costs can be covered for travel/accommodation or production/printing of a poster, if you are chosen to present or bring a poster, so please consider this before applying.
Please also read the Call for Abstracts Terms and Conditions
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Continuing Professional Development
This event can contribute towards your Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours as part of the IET's CPD monitoring scheme.
11 Jun 2025
9:00am - 4:30pm
Organiser
- Antennas and Propagation TN
Speakers
Professor Yi Huang
Chair in Wireless Engineering and Head of the High-Frequency Engineering Research Group - University of Liverpool
Prof Yi Huang received a BSc in Physics (Wuhan, China), an MSc (Eng) in Microwave Engineering (Nanjing, China), and a DPhil in Communications from the University of Oxford, UK in 1994. He has been conducting research in the areas of antennas, radio propagation, radar, wireless communications, energy harvesting, and applied electromagnetics since 1987.
He worked as a Research Fellow at British Telecom Labs in 1994 and then joined the Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, at the University of Liverpool. He is at present an Associate Editor of IEEE Trans on Antennas and Propagation, a college member of EPSRC, a member of the New Technology Directions Committee and a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE AP-S, a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), and a Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE).
Professor Amit Kumar Mishra
Director of the National Spectrum Centre (NSC) - Aberystwyth University
Amit Kumar Mishra (Senior Member, IEEE) is an active researcher in the domain of sensor design, telecommunication, radar, applied machine learning, and frugal innovation. His current areas of research are joint communication and sensing (JCAS) and bio-inspired computer architecture.
He is currently a Professor with the Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University where he is also the Director of the National Spectrum Centre (NSC)
Dr Anil Shukla
Senior Fellow - QinetiQ
Anil Shukla (FIET) is a QinetiQ Fellow and a Research and Innovation leader in radio systems, RF technologies, propagation and spectrum regulation. His expertise ranges from medium-wave systems to mm-waves systems and his current research interests include: “Operating Radio Systems in Difficult Environments“, “Physical Layer Security and Resilience,” and “Cognitive / Intelligent Radios.”
At QinetiQ, he manages a wide range of research activities related to communications and networks for systems operating from underwater to space.
He is a sub-editor of the IET Microwaves Antennas and Propagation Journal and the Chair of the IET Antennas and Propagation Technical Network.
Reasons to attend
Present work that is about to be start and seek advice and help.
Discuss early-stage research results to seek collaboration opportunities and peer review of work conducted.
Present mature results for peer review and exploitation.
An opportunity for external researchers to get involved early and those conducting the research to learn from the experience of others that may have done similar work.
Community networking opportunity, particularly for industry who find it difficult to attend multi-day conferences with registration fees.
Opportunity for new and experienced researchers to meet and share experiences and encourage discussions in sustainability.
Programme
Programme
09:00-10:00 Registration and Networking with light refreshments (poster set up)
Session 1
10:00-10:10 Welcome – Housekeeping, Aims of Colloquium
Dr Anil Shukla, CAWE Chair and Chair of IET Antennas & Propagation TN
10:10-10:30 Invited Speaker – Professor Yi Huang, University of Liverpool
Advances in liquid and dispersive antennas
10:30-10:45 Presentation 1
10:45-11:00 Presentation 2
11:00-11:30 Mid-morning break with light refreshments + Reverberation Tour
Session 2
11:30-11:45 Presentation 3
11:45-12:00 Presentation 4
12:00-12:15 Presentation 5
12:15-13:40 Lunch – Networking – + Reverberation Tour
Session 3
13:40-14:00 Invited Speaker - Professor Amit Kumar Mishra, Aberystwyth
Commensal to Symbiotic to CommSense Radar to Bio-Inspired Sensing:
My Joint Communications and Sensing Journey over the last 12 years
14:00-14:15 Presentation 6
14:15-14:30 Presentation 7
14:30-14:45 Presentation 8
14:45-15:15 Mid-afternoon break with light refreshments + Reverberation Tour
Session 4
15:15-15:30 Presentation 9
15:30-15:45 Presentation 10
15:45-16:00 Speaker – Dr Anil Shukla
Exploiting your research
16:00-16:05 Closing remarks and thanks – Dr Anil Shukla
16:05-16:30 Networking