The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) is a society of the IEEE.

History

Before the merger of AIEE and IRE in 1963, the predecessor of the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society (AP-S) was the IRE Professional Group on Antennas and Propagation (PGAP), formed in 1949.

Field of Interest

The society’s field of interest is defined on its homepage as “antennas, including analysis, design, development, measurement, and testing; radiation

Radiation

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, radio propagation

Radio propagation

Radio propagation is the behavior of radio waves when they are transmitted, or propagated from one point on the Earth to another, or into various parts of the atmosphere...

, and the interaction of electromagnetic waves with discrete and continuous media; and applications and systems pertinent to antennas, propagation, and sensing

Sensing

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, such as applied optics

Optics

Optics is the branch of physics which involves the behavior and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behavior of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light...

, millimeter- and sub-millimeter-wave techniques, antenna signal processing

Signal processing

Signal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...

 and control, radio astronomy

Radio astronomy

Radio astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that studies celestial objects at radio frequencies. The initial detection of radio waves from an astronomical object was made in the 1930s, when Karl Jansky observed radiation coming from the Milky Way. Subsequent observations have identified a number of...

, and propagation and radiation aspects of terrestrial and space-based communication, including wireless, mobile, satellite, and telecommunications".

Publications

The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society publishes three notable academic publications, including:

• IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
  IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation is a peer reviewed scientific journal. The targeted readership is derived from those whose field of interests dovetail with the IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society...
  
  
• IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
  IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters is an annual peer-reviewed scientific journal with the goal of rapid dissemination of short manuscripts, in the antennas and wireless propagation domain. It is an official journal of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society...
  
  
• IEEE Antennas & Propagation Magazine

Conferences

AP-S sponsors a number of conferences

Academic conference

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around the world that focus on its field of interest.

The 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting will be held 8-13 July 2012 in Chicago, IL

The 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting was held 3-9 July 2011 in Spokane, WA, USA

The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting was held July 11–14, 2010 in Toronto, Canada.