The Technical Program Review Committee has been selected.
Notification of TPRC membership has been sent.
If you completed your survey, and did not receive an email, please ensure that you have white-listed the addresses above then contact the TPC Chairs.
If you are a new applicant and did not submit a survey we will be unable to include you at this late date. Please consider serving on the TPRC for IMS 2017.
Thank You for your interest in serving on the TPRC.
The deadline to submit has passed.
Invitation to Submit Proposals for Panel and Rump Sessions: The IMS2016 Technical Program Committee is soliciting proposals for panel and rump sessions. Topics in the RF/microwave arena which are particularly timely or controversial are encouraged, as are topics which are particularly relevant to the symposium's San Francisco area venue.
Click here to download the Call for Proposals
Click here to download the Submission Instructions
Click here to submit your Proposal
Panel Sessions: Panel Sessions are one hour and twenty minutes long, typically held during lunchtime on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Examples of Panel Sessions at previous symposia include:
Rump Sessions: Rump Sessions are typically several hours and are typically held Tuesday evening. Examples of Rump Sessions at previous symposia include:
Contact Information: Please submit any suggestions or questions (not proposals) via e-mail to
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IMS2017 Paper Instructions and Templates
Paper Templates - Coming Soon
Paper Submission Instructions - Coming Soon
The following information will assist you in preparing your IMS2016 presentation.
A. Regular Session Oral Presentation (Slides):
An extremely important WARNING to authors about ITAR and publication clearances (PDF).
Presentation materials must be provided ahead of time so they will be ready at the beginning of the session. A document (PDF) describing the procedure and requirements is available here.
Do not plan to load your presentation at the beginning of the session or just before you are scheduled to speak. Unless you have a special need and have made arrangements beforehand, you must use the computer provided.
Slides must be in electronic form; PowerPoint or PDF files are acceptable. Transparent slides, either viewgraphs or 35mm, are no longer used at the IMS. Technical paper presentation materials are not published or archived, so they need not be Xplore compliant.
Please see Oral Presentation Slide Template (PPTX). These are especially important if you have never made an IMS presentation.
B. Interactive Forum
Please remember that papers assigned to the Interactive Forum require a written manuscript according to the same rules and deadlines as regular-session papers. The presentation is in power point format, however. For information on the interactive forum presentations, use the links below.
To all full-time University Students:
All eligible students or student teams are invited to consider taking part in the Student Design Competitions (SDC) during the 2016 International Microwave Symposium (IMS2016) week in San Francisco, CA, USA. The SDC is one of the most exciting part of the microwave symposium. This is the only IMS event that students get to put theories into real hardware and software designs.
Click here to download the Student Design Competition Information
Click here to download the instruction for application submission
Click here to download the competition table layout
Design Competition Topics: Design details can be download from below links.
Students interested to participate in the Student Design Competition are encouraged to contact the organizers in each topic directly. A submission site is set up for students to sign-up for the competition. Please refer to the "Click here to download the instruction for application submission". The submission deadline is March 20th, 2016.
All student design competitions will take place on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, with the competition winners recognized at the Student Awards Luncheon on Thursday, May 26, 2016. Student competitors should be aware that the IMS will not assist participants in getting necessary equipment or designed circuits/systems into the United States.
General Rules and Requirements:
a) There may be between 1 and 4 people working together on a project.
b) You and any team partners must be full-time students while you are working on the project.
c) At least one of you must register for IMS2015 and attend. One or more of you will be standing with your project and answering questions while it is being tested/judged on Tuesday.
d) You must notify the student design competition organizers a week before the date of the judging if you need to withdraw from the competition or will not be able to participate in person. Failure to participate in person may prevent you from being accepted for future participation.
e) Your professors and advisors must certify that this is your work, not theirs.
f) You may only enter one project. It may be either an entry in one of the Student Design Competitions or a separate live Student Design Demonstration.
g) You must submit a demonstration or competition application form along with the form from your professor or advisor absolutely no later than March 20th, 2016. You are encouraged to contact the coordinators of the competition of your interest to ensure a full understanding of the design specifications and judging criteria before your submission.
h) Travel visas and possibly shipping of your project equipment are your responsibility.
Student Design Competitions are sponsored by the 27 Technical Committees of the MTT. Each committee has been given $2000 in prize money if they choose to sponsor a competition in their technical area. Not all technical committees participate in the competition every year. Each will make their own rules for the competitions that they sponsor.
Contact Information: Please submit any suggestions or questions via e-mail to,
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