UTAR hosted the 31st Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), which was held for the first time in Malaysia, at a hotel in Petaling Jaya from 27 to 30 March 2012.
"I would like to commend the initiative of UTAR and Professor Chuah in bidding for the hosting of 31st PIERS to be held for the first time in Malaysia," said Tourism Minister Dato' Sri Dr Ng Yen Yen (picture) who was the guest-of-honour at the banquet dinner on 29 March 2012. UTAR successfully brought the symposium, considered as the most prestigious for researchers in the electromagnetics field, to the country after it had been held 30 times in many countries around the world.
"I would like to thank The Electromagnetics Academy for appointing UTAR to be the organiser of this international prestigious symposium," said UTAR President Ir Prof Academician Dato’ Dr Chuah Hean Teik, adding that UTAR was glad to host this prestigious symposium in conjunction with the University’s 10th anniversary celebration this year.
PIERS provides an international forum for reporting progress and advances in the modern development of electromagnetic theory and its new and exciting applications in the areas such as spectra that range from statics to RF (radio frequency), microwave, and photonics. Topics discussed in the symposium are radiation, propagation, diffraction, scattering, guidance, resonance, power, energy and force issues, and all other latest developments in the field.
