In the year 2016, for the 11th anniversary of the Electromagnetic Wave Interaction with Water and Moist Substances Conference, we are pleased to welcome you to Florence, Italy. The conference will take place between May 23 and 27 in the Congress Center of the National Research Council (CNR) of Sesto Fiorentino. The Congress Center is located in the CNR Research Area, inside the Scientific Pole of the University of Firenze. The program is to be announced shortly.

The goal of the ISEMA 2016 conference is to encourage “meeting of the minds” among many of the world’s best-known experts in this field and others who have a deep desire to understand RF and microwave aquametry and related dielectric methods more thoroughly and apply them more effectively. The format of the conference includes informal question and answer sessions as well as in-depth technical presentations to encourage active participation by all attendees.

INSTITUTE
OF APPLIED PHYSICS
NELLO CARRARA
via Madonna del Piano 10
50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI)
Ph+39 055 5226436
Fax+39 055 5226477
r.pini@ifac.cnr.it
www.ifac.cnr.it

Transportation:

The Research Area can be easily reached by the bus no. 59 from the Railway Station of Firenze Rifredi.

Location:

The CNR Research Area is located in the Scientific Pole in Sesto Fiorentiono, a small town to the north-west of Firenze, a few-kilometers from Firenze, very close to the Vespucci Airport and to the A1 and A11 motorway exits.

AIMS & SCOPE

The International Society for Electromagnetic Aquametry (ISEMA) is an informal association of scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government who are bound together by their common interest in the theory, technology, and practical application of RF and microwave measurements of water content in a wide range of materials. ISEMA activities have revolved around their biennial conferences on that subject matter.

This 11^th ISEMA conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform for sharing experience and discussing latest scientific results in understanding, development and application of electromagnetic moisture measurement techniques. The format of the conference will encourage informal discussions as well as in-depth formal oral and poster presentations.

TOPICS

The conference will address all problems relevant to both physical concepts and technological aspects of practical implementation of electromagnetic measurement techniques for determining the amount of water in moist substances (Microwave Aquametry), and the electromagnetic properties of materials. The conference will concentrate on, but is not limited to the following subjects:

1. Dielectric properties of water in materials with various degrees of binding.
2. Theory and applications of electromagnetic mixing rules and formulas.
3. Computational methods of electromagnetic wave propagation in dispersive and lossy dielectrics.
4. Dielectric spectroscopy and applications.
5. Dielectric relaxation properties of water in biological substances and tissues.
6. Electromagnetic sensors in time and frequency domain for moisture content determination.
7. Integrated techniques using RF and/or microwave dielectric measurements with other methods such as impedance spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, NMR etc.
8. Applications in civil engineering, agriculture, industry etc.
9. Static and dynamic moisture content determination in agricultural products.
10. Moisture content determination and monitoring in soil, snow and waste disposals.
11. Electromagnetic determination of physical properties of materials.
12. Standardization of measuring methods.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION

Deadline for submission of two-page abstracts: November 1, 2015 – exceeded

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Abstracts must be written in English. They should contain sufficient detail to convey clearly the approach and the results of research. The Scientific Organizing Committee will review the submitted abstracts to ensure the novelty, quality, relevance and clarity of the accepted papers and to group presentations into cohesive oral and poster sessions. Accepted abstracts will be published in the conference program which will be available from April 2016.

You can download a template for the abstract here.

 

PAPER SUBMISSION

Deadline for submission of the accepted papers: February 15, 2016

Camera-ready copies and Microsoft Word files of the accepted presentations (8-10 pages including drawings) should be submitted until February 15, 2016. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be distributed at the conference and available for purchase after the conference.

Presenting authors are kindly required to register at the Conference through the online registration procedure.
In order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registered Author is required for papers to be published in the Conference Proceedings. 

Final Paper template download:
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