The annual meeting of the Italian URSI Committee will be held on June 25-26, 2025, jointly with the URSI International Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory (EMTS 2025), organized by URSI Commission B (Fields and Waves) of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna.
Venue: Aule Belmeloro, via Beniamino Andreatta 8, Bologna,Italy.
Date: Wednesday 25 – Thursday 26, June 2025
Organizers: Carlo Carobbi (University of Florence), Giuliano Manara (University of Pisa)
The URSI Italian National Meeting is intended to disseminate and promote the activities of the International Radio Science Union, one of the oldest and largest scientific Unions supporting education and research in all Radio Science fields (www.ursi.org). The meeting offers an URSI Special Session with tutorials exemplifying the activities of three URSI Scientific Commissions, and the presentations of the three finalist papers of the 2025 Best Paper Young Scientist Award delivered by the URSI Italian National Committee and named after Prof. Roberto Sorrentino.
Visit the URSI Italian National Committee website for further information on our activities.
Wednesday June 25 – Room G
h 10:00 – National and International URSI Activities
- Carlo Carobbi (President URSI Italy) , The International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in Italy
- Peter Van Daele (Secretary General ,URSI), The 100 years history and recent activities of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
h 11:30 – Pathways and Perspectives: Women Navigating RadioScience (URSI WIRS Italy Chapter)
- Paola Russo, Activities of the chapter WIRS-Italy
- Francesca Vipiana, The Women in Engineering Perspectives through the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine Column
- Alice Buffi, Expanding Horizon of RFID Localization: From Logistics to Safety
- Michela Longhi, The Woman Behind the Wave: Exploring Metasurfaces Through a Gendered Lens
- Alessandra Costanzo, Closing remarks
h 15:30 – “Roberto Sorrentino” Award Session. The three finalist will be
- Giada Maria Battaglia, “Near-Field Power Synthesis of a Controlled Distribution in Half-Space Media“
- Federico Giusti, “Open-Stopband Suppression for Extended Nondiffractive Rangesin Leaky-Wave Circularly Polarized Bessel Beams“
- Giuseppe Labate, “Non-radiating currents and where to find them: 13 years on the quest for zeros in electromagnetic scattering and radiation“
Thursday June 26 – Room G
h 09:00 – URSI Special Session
- Claudio Cesaroni (Commissions G) – AI-powered IonosphericForecasting
- Gianfranco Brunetti (Commission J) – LOFAR and the gigantic leap forward in low – frequency radioastronomy
- Ari Sihvola (Commissions B) – Paths from early origins of electricity to modern radioscience