Japanese URSI Commission-K Activity Report

June 2002 ― October 2002

S.Ueno, M.Taki and T.Shigemitsu

1. MEETING

A Domestic Meeting

1) August 30, 2002: 5^th Regular Meeting of Japanese URSI-K Commission, jointly with Magnetic Study Meeting of IEEJ.

Place, Sanjo-Kaikan Conference Room, University of Tokyo

Topic 1. “Recent Research Trend in Photocatalytic Reaction and its industrial 　

　　　　applications” by Prof. Fujishima (Univ. of Tokyo)

Topic 2. “ Some present problem and discussion on SAR in human head models of

adult and children for mobile phones through inter-laboratory comparison”

by Prof. Fujiwara (Nagoya Institute of Technology)

In addition to above special lectures, the topics of BEMS and URSI-GA were presented and the business talking by Profs. Ueno and Taki are also discussed.

B International Meeting

1) August 17-24, 2002: URSI, 27^th Triennial General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science, URSI-GA was held at Exhibition & Congress Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

　　　The sessions of Commission-K were as follows.

K1: Mechanism & modelling of electromagnetic interference with biological systems

(Oral: 7 papers, Poster: 5 papers)

K2: Biological effects of electromagnetic fields (Oral: 11 papers, Poster: 4 papers),

K3: Hazard assessment for wireless communication (Oral: 5 papers),

K4: Biomedical applications of electromagnetic fields and waves

(Oral: 11 papers, Poster: 14 papers),

K5: Epidemiology of exposure to environmental electromagnetic fields (Oral: 4

papers),

K6: Topics in bioelectromagnetics (Oral: 2 papers),

KA: Exposure assessment for cellular and personal telecommunications

(Oral: 7 papers, Poster: 10 papers),

KB: Computation of electromagnetics fields in the human body

(Oral: 10 papers, Poster: 4 papers),

KC: Health effects of mobile telephones (Oral: 8 papers, Poster: 2 papers),

KE: Electromagnetic interference with medical devices (Oral: 4 papers),

KT: Tutorial lecture “ High field human MRI: clinical applications and safety

aspects” by Dr. Alayar Kangarlu and General Lecture “WHO’s assessment of the health effects of EMF exposure” by M.H.Repacholi (WHO)

　The total number of abstract of Commission-K was 70 oral papers and 37 poster presentations. Among them, total 28 papers were from Japanese researchers, main contributors in Commission K.

　At a Business Meeting, as a head of Commission-K, Dr Veyret of the University of Bordeaux moved up from vice chair, replacing Prof. Ueno of the University of Tokyo. , Prof. Prato of the University of Western Ontario in Canada was elected vice chair of Commission –K as a result of election, from three candidates.

　Next URSI-GA will be held in New Delhi in October 2005.

2) September 17-25, 2002: Third International Conference on EMF and human health, Moscow and St.Peterburg, RUSSIA, http://www.pole.com.ru/conf2002

3) October 7-12, 2002; 2^nd workshop on biological effects of EMF, Rhodes, GREECE, http://www.uoi.gr/conf_sem/bioeffects

4) October 21-27, 2002: World Health Organization and U.S.Air Force Asia Pacific EMF Conference, Phuket Arcadia Beach Resort, Thailand

5) October 29-31: 2002: WHO Working Group on EMF Standards Harmonization in China, http://www.who.int/peh_emf/meetings.htm

2. FUTURE MEETING

A. Domestic meeting

1) December 6, 2002: 7th Regular Meeting of Japanese URSI Commission K will be

held at the Seminar Room, CRIEPI, Abiko Laboratory, Abiko, Chiba

2) January 27-28, 2003: Magnetic Study Meeting of IEEJ, Hirosaki University, School

of Medicine, Hirosaki, Aomori

3) June 3-5, 2003: 42th Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and

Biological Engineering, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido

http://www.e-convention.org/me2003

B. International meeting

1)November 19-22, 2002: 2002 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC2002), Kyoto 　

　International Conference Hall, Kyoto, http://www.apmc-mwe.org/index.html

2) November 26-28, 2002: 8^th ISAP, 2002 Interim International Symposium on 　

　Antennas and Popagation, Yokosuka Research Park, Yokosuka, 　

　http://www.ieice.org/cs/ap/ISAP2002/

3) November 10-14, 2002: Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine-EPSM 2002, 　

　The Rotorua Convention Centre, New Zealand, http://www.epsmw2002.com

4) Movember 11-12, 2002: Mobile Telecommunications and Health Research (MTHR)

　seminar, The Royal Society, London, U.K, http://www.mthr.org.uk/MOBILE

5) November 12-13, 2002: COST 281 Seminar, “Subtle temperature effects of RF-EMF.”, 　The Royal Society, London, U.K, http://www.cost281.org

6)November 25-27, 2002: Genetic and Cytogenetic Aspects of RF-Field Interaction, Loewnstein, Germany

6) April 19-23, 2003: WHO Working Group on EMF Standards Harmonization, Guilin, 　

　China, http://www.who.int/peh-emf/meetings.htm

7)May 11-16, 2003: The 2003 IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic 　

　Compatibility (EMC), Istanbul Hilton Hotel, Turkey, http://www.ortra.com/emc2003

8)une 11-13, 2003: ElectroMed 2003, San Antonio, Texas, USA, 　

　http://www.electromed2003.com

9) June 22-26, 2003: 25^th Annual Meeting of Bioelectromagnetic Society, Outrigger

Wailea Resort, Maui, Hawaii

10) November 12-15, 2003: The European Bio Electromagnetics Association (EBEA) 6^th

International Congress, Budapest, Hungary, http://www.ebea.org

11)May 23-28,2004: IRPA International Congress. Madrid,Spain. Home page;

http://www.sepr.es

12)June 20-24, 2004, The Bioelectromagnetics Society 26^th Annual Meeting, Omni

Shoreham Hotel in Washingotn DC,

3．Others

1) WHO handbook on risk communication is now available on the WHO Web site.

The title is “Establishing a Dialogue on Risks from Electromagnetics Fields. The full document may be found at

http://www.who-int/peh-emf/publications/EMF_Risk_ALL.pdf

2) The European Commission’s Scientific Committee on Toxicity, Ecotoxicity and the

Environment (CSTEE) published the opinion on “Effects of electromagnetic fields on

health”. Web site is http://www.eurelectric.org

3) The California Department of Health has posted its final report on the Internet at

http://www.dhs.ca.gov/ps/deodc/ehib/emf/RiskEvaluation/riskeval.html