Welcome to the 2003 Microwave Workshops and Exhibition (MWE 2003)

 It is a great pleasure for us to announce that Microwave Workshops and Exhibition (MWE 2003) will be held over a three day period from Wednesday 26th through Friday 28th November 2003, at the exhibition halls in Pacifico Yokohama, Yokohama, Japan. The MWE is the largest exhibition in this field to be held in Japan. We would like to invite as many of you as possible to join in the active discussions that take place at the workshops and to attend the leading edge exhibition.

The theme of MWE 2003 is "Toward the society that wireless broad-band technology creates", and we would like the conference to examine the prospects for microwave technology and its applications.

>> We have two keynote speeches scheduled in the opening ceremony, both of which are based on our main theme. The first speech will be given by Dr. Robert F. Heile(Appairenet Technologies), who will address trends in the standardization of the UWB. The second talk will be a special lecture by Professor Ken Sakamura of The University of Tokyo, who is a pioneer researcher in the field of ubiquitous computing.

>> A further 17 technical sessions are planned, in which novel microwave technologies will be presented and discussed. There are five additional tutorial courses in the program, which are aimed at young engineers and researchers.

>> More than 350 companies, both domestic and overseas, are scheduled to participate at MWE 2003, and they will exhibit new products and introduce technologies in the microwave and millwave areas that are designed to support information communications.

>> The event will feature a university exhibition in which universities and colleges will present their research activities. A historical exhibition showing microwave technology from Japan and an additional system exhibition should also attract a great deal of attention. Finally, as has been the case in the past, the participating companies will provide their own technical seminars.

The MWE has been held annually since 1991, and is affiliated with the APMC (Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference), which is held every four years in Japan. This will be the 13th Conference. The scope of MWE has been developed by adding the new projects that are mentioned above (such as the university, historical, and system exhibitions) to further enhance the original workshops and product exhibitions.

We are confident that MWE will continue to provide valuable information, not only to active engineers and researchers who are in the forefront of their field, but also to promising university students who are aiming at a career in the microwave area. We welcome many of these as visitors to the MWE.

In closing, I would like to extend my sincere appreciation to everyone who supports us in organizing MWE 2003.

Hiroyo Ogawa
Chairman, MWE 2003 Steering Committee