RMCEMC July Meeting

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Our last meeting was.. The Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields

Speaker: Professor Michel Ianoz (bio)

Date : July 26th 2004.

Location : Front Range Community College

What we saw: The lecture discussed the sources of electromagnetic fields which are of concern for the population : power lines and mobile communications (phones and antennas). It presented measured biological effects of electric and magnetic fields (low frequency and high frequency) and it discussed possible effects on health.

A research program initiated in 1997 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne, Switzerland to study the effects of low frequency magnetic fields on very simple vegetable structures (mosses) and high frequency effects on more complicated organisms like nematodes was discussed. A method based on fractals to evaluate the effects was presented.

This lecture is aimed at engineers, physicists, and persons concerned with environmental problems due to electromagnetic fields.

Speaker Bio

Michel Ianoz (Senior Member IEEE 85, Fellow IEEE 96) was born in 1936.He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1958 and the Ph.D. degree in 1968.From 1966 to 1973 he worked in different International Centers for Nuclear Research, in Russia and Switzerland. In 1975 he joined the Power System Laboratory of the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland) where he has been teaching EMC as a Professor of the Electrical Department and engaged in research activities concerning the calculation of electromagnetic fields, transient phenomena, lightning and EMP effects on power and telecommunication networks, and biological effects of EM fields, until he retired in 2001. He is now continuing his scientific activity as a Honorary Professor. He is coauthor of a book "High Voltage Engineering", and of a book "EMC Analysis Methods and Computational Models" and author or coauthor of about 140 scientific papers, from which about 60 in internationally reviewed journals and conferences.

Prof. Ianoz is Chairman of the Subcommittee 77B (HF phenomena) of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), President of the Swiss Committee of the URSI. He has also been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on EMC, from 1994 to 2001. He is serving as Distinguished lecturer of the EMCS of the IEEE in 2003 and 2004. He an EMP Fellow since 1994 and IEEE Fellow since 1996. In 2000, Prof. Ianoz has received the title of Doctor Honoris Causa of the Technical University of St. Petersburg (Russia).

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