Introduction and Overview

Abstract

First of all, since I am the cause of all this commotion, I would like to express my appreciation, to each participant here for having managed to squeeze this event at short notice into an undoubtedly busy work schedule. In arranging the technical program, whose timing had to be coordinated with the date of the Opening Ceremony of the 2003 Academic Year in Benevento and was therefore beyond our control, we at the organizing end recognized that the interval between the announcement and the actual date of the event was very short indeed. Therefore, we decided on the two-day minisymposium-workshop format in order to minimize the scheduling difficulties for potential participants. We also decided to accommodate all submitted papers, and to adjust the time for each presentation accordingly. Within these constraints, we arrived at the 15 min. allocation for each talk, with more detailed open discussion reserved for the one-hour closing session tomorrow.

The Almanac will be published in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, together with a summary of the Benevento festivities.