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News & Information DOI. No. 10.1109/MAES.2016.160001 VECTORS in Radar Technology Hugh Griffiths, Clayton Stewart University College London, UK INTRODUCTION In mid-November 2015 a two-day event took place at University College London (UCL), intended to be the first of a new type of professional meeting. The motivation was a realization that most of the conferences and events that we currently organize are inherently retrospective - that is to say, they are reporting on work that has already been performed. There seemed, therefore, to be a niche for an event that encourages participants to look forward, to speculate and even to argue on the advances that will need to be made over the next ten, twenty years or even further into the future, and what the key challenges might be. This should be more than an academic exercise, of course - the results would be of interest to many parties, including governments, funding agencies, and research program managers. The resulting workshop was made possible by a generous grant from the U. S. Office of Naval Research (Global) and the U. S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research International Office, which enabled a total of some eighty participants, by invitation, from thirteen different countries, to converge on UCL for the event. These included some of the 'big names' in radar research from all over the world, with clear ideas and strong opinions. A poster event on the first evening was kindly supported by the Australian High Commission in London, also with support from the IEEE AES Society. The format of the event consisted of eight individual sessions, with themes addressing current hot topics in radar research. Each session was led by a keynote speaker whose brief was to identify and explain the challenges, but the bulk of the time was devoted to discussion. And there was no shortage of that - in all cases the discussions had to be curtailed in order to keep the event on schedule. The program was as follows: Waveform Diversity Shannon Blunt, University of Kansas, USA Antonio de Maio, University of Napoli, Italy Compressive Sensing Bernie Mulgrew, University of Edinburgh, UK Naser Yorouzi, Amirkabir University, Iran Bistatic and Networked Radar Chris Baker, Aveillant, UK Mike Cherniakov, University of Birmingham, UK Cognitive Radar Alex Charlish, FKIE, Germany Simon Haykin, McMaster University, Canada Multifunction RF Systems Alfonso Farina, UCL, UK Alex Yarovoy, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands High-resolution Imaging and NCTR Dan André, Cranfield University, UK Børge Torvik, FFI, Norway Marco Martorella, University of Pisa, Italy Phenomenology Stuart Anderson, University of Adelaide, Australia Simon Watts, UCL, UK Biologically-inspired Processing Musical entertainment during the poster session. AUGUST 2016 Alessio Balleri, Cranfield University, UK IEEE A&E SYSTEMS MAGAZINE 41

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