17. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF RAIDIO SCIENCE (URSI)

Introduction

The International Union of Radio Science (URSI) was created in 1919.  The objectives of the URSI are:

-to promote and organise research requiring international cooperation, and the discussion and dissemination of the results of this research;

-to encourage the adoption of common methods of measurement, and the inter comparison and standardization of the measuring instrumets used in scientific work;

-to stimuilate and coordinate studies of (i) the scientific aspects of telecommunications using electromagnetic waves, guided and unguided; (ii) the generation and detection of these weaves and the processing of the signals embedded in them

Secretariat:

P.Lagasse, Secretary-General, URSI Secretariat, C/o Univeristy of Gent (INTEC), Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium,

Fax (32 9)264 4288, E,mail:heleu@intec.rug.ac.be, http://www.ursi.org

Subscription: EURO 6,856(2002)  Category: IV (8 units)

No. of Votes: 8

No. of Sections: 10

Positions in URSI

1.A.P.Mitra: President, 1983-88, Vice President, 1982
2.B.M.Reddy: Chairman URSI Special committee on Developing countries, 1994-1997
3.G.Swarup, Chairman, URSI Standing Committee on Developing Countries, 1998-2000

XXV General Assembly of URSI at Lille, France from 28.8.96 to 5.9.96.

1. G.Swarup, FNA
2. B.M.Reddy, FNA
3. P.Banerjee, NPL, New Delhi
4. B.N.Biswas, Burdwan Univ., Burdwan
5. K.K.Mahajan, FNA
6. OPN Calla, SAC, Ahmedabad
7. D.R.Lakshmi, NPL, New Delhi
8. T.L.Venkatasubramanian,Poona univ.Pune
9. B.S.Mathur, NPL, New Delhi

The XXVI General Assembly of URSI in Toronto, Canada during August,1999

1. V.U.Reddy, FNA
2. K.K.mahajan, FNA
3. J.Behari, JNU, New Delhi
4. Harish Chandra, PRL, Ahmedabad
5. D.R.Lakshmi, NPL, New Delhi
6. A.Pramesh Rao, NCRA, Pune
7. Ashish Dasgupta, Calcutta Univ.,
8. B.N.Biswas, Burdwan Univ.
9. G.Swarup, FNA 10. P.Banerjee,NPL, New Delhi

Seminar/Symposia

Symposium on Millimetre Waves Sources & Propagation at New Delhi during February 1994.

Annual  Workshop of the Int. Reference Ionosphere at New Delhi during  9-13 January 1995.

Int. Advanced Course on Radio Science Methodology in relation to Hydrological Mapping in Developing Countries during November 1997 at NGRI Hyderabad.

Seminar/Symposia

Int. Symposium on Essential Drugs and Rational Use of Drugs in Developing Countries at AIIMS New Delhi during 16-20 December 1990.

Int. Workshop on Teaching of Pharmacology/Clinical Pharmacology at New Delhi during 6-9 July 1991.

II Congress on Toxicology in Developing Countries during 24-28 November 1991 at New Delhi.

STATUS REPORT

Status Reports covering period (1984-86),(1987-89), (1993-95) and (1996-98)