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Workshop Schedule

September 24 (Thursday)

09:00 – 10:00	Registration & Coffee
10:00 – 10:20	Welcome by Nuno Borges Carvalho and Antonis Dimitriou
10:20 – 14:20	WG3 Session: Novel Materials and Technologies (Chair: Prof. John Sahalos)
10:20 – 11:00	Keynote by Prof. Anastasis Polycarpou, “Use of Liquid Crystals as Tunable Materials in Electromagnetics, Antenna, and Sensor Technology”.
11:00 – 11:20	G. Andia-Vera, Y. Duroc and S. Tedjini, “Cooperative Harvesting”.
11:20 – 11:40	Evmorfili Andreou, I. Fidanis and K. Siakavara, “Microwave Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting by Specifically Designed EBG Systems”.
11:40 – 12:00	Zbynek Raida, “Novel textile materials for WPT in vehicles”.
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break at local restaurant “Elia Lemoni”
14:00 – 14:20	Theodoros Kaifas, E. Vafiadis, G. Kyriakou, and J. Sahalos, “Electromagnetic Power Harvesting via Metamaterial Type Antennas Employing Characteristic Mode Theory”.
14:20 – 17:00	WG4 Session: Applications (Chair: Luca Roselli)
14:20 – 15:00	Keynote by Konstantinos Elmasides, “Energy Storage Technologies in Greek Research and Industry”.
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 15:40	WG4 Leader Presentation by Luca Roselli
15:40 – 16:00	Aggelos Bletsas, “Reinventing Wireless with Scatter Radio for the Internet of Vegetables”.
16:00 – 16:20	Sotiris Nikoletseas and Theofanis P. Raptis, “WPT Algorithms and Applications in IoT Systems”.
16:20 – 16:40	Ioan Plotog, “ELF magnetic field generator for biological applications”.
16:40 – 17:00	Anastasis Polycarpou, T. Samaras, A. Bletsas, A. Dimitriou, and John Sahalos, “Development of an Intelligent Library Management System using RFID Technology”.
18:00 – 19:00	Bus Tour around Historical City Centre (Start/Finish: White Tower of Thessaloniki)
19:30	Official Dinner at the city’s water-front “Macedonia Palace Hotel” (Cloud Level – 9th floor)

September 25 (Friday)

09:00 – 10:10	WG2 Session: Near-Field WPT Systems (Chair: Jan Kracek)
09:00 – 09:10	WG2 Leader Presentation by Jan Kracek
09:10 – 09:30	Jan Kracek, Milan Svanda, Milos Mazanek, Jan Machac, “Implantable Inductively Powered RFID Tag”.
09:30 – 09:50	X. Mitsalas, T. Kaifas, J. Sahalos, and George Kyriacou, “Wireless Power Transmission In and Out of the Human Body Through Leaky Waves”.
09:50 – 10:10	Ioan Plotog, “Awards of Resonant Structures for Non-Invasive Medical Uses”.
10:10 – 10:30	Bojan Dimitrijevic, “FDTD-CPML Simulation Environment”.
10:30 – 11:10	Coffee Break / Student Contest Poster Session
Posters	Panos N. Alevizos, “Fully Customizable SDR Readers for Scatter Radio Networks”. Spyridon-Nektarios Daskalakis, “Soil Moisture Wireless Sensor Network with Analog Scatter Radio, Low Power, Ultra-Low Cost, and Low Complexity”. Charalambos Oikonomou, “Design and Construction of a Wideband UHF Rectenna”. Massimo Del Prete, “Energy-autonomous Bi-directional Wireless Power Transmission (WPT) and Energy Harvesting Circuit”. Ricardo Dias Fernandes, “Constructive combination of resonant magnetic coupling and resonant electrical coupling”. Przemyslaw Kant, “Intelligent Transmitter for Spatial WPT”. Alex Pacini, “On the move”.
11:10 – 12:00	WG5 Session: Regulation and Society Impact (Chair: John Sahalos)
11:10 – 11:50	Keynote by Prof. Theodoros Samaras “Compliance of WPT systems with human exposure guidelines using numerical dosimetry”.
11:50 – 12:00	Ceremony Student Paper Contest and Closing Ceremony
12:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break at local restaurant “Elia Lemoni”
14:00 – 16:00	MC Meeting

Dinner Venue: Makedonia Palace (9^th floor)

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