IPC 2024 – From wireless telegraphy to free space communications

10 November 2024

Time 2:00pm-3:30pm

Cardo Roma, Autograph Collection | Viale del Pattinaggio, 100 | 00144 Roma RM, Italy

In the framwork of the IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), flagship meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society, that will be held from 10-14 November 2024 in Rome (Italy) our chapter propose a special session for the Sunday Program:

From Wireless Telegraphy to Free Space Communications: Celebrating 150 Years Since Marconi’s Birth

This year the world celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian inventor and electrical engineer who pioneered radio communication. It was 1895 when Marconi managed to transmit and receive wireless signals for the first time. Only six years later, in 1901, he transmitted the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean. Marconi’s pioneering role in the development of wireless telegraphy led to him being jointly awarded the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Braun. The session aims to remember the inventor, but, above all, to celebrate over a century of scientific research that has revolutionized the realm of telecommunications.  Photonics has made an essential contribution to this field, providing advanced technologies that have transformed our ability to connect.

Organizer

Antigone Marino

President of the IEEE Photonics Society Italy Chapter, Italy

Speakers

Barbara Valotti, Fondazione Marconi, Italy

Guglielmo Marconi and the Origins of Wireless

Barbara Valotti received the Laurea (cum laude) degree in Philosophy from the University of Bologna, with a dissertation in the History of Science on young Marconi’s background. She has been the Marconi Museum Director since its foundation (1999) in which she was the coordinator of the team that designed the museum, also providing the historical contents. She is the author and curator of several books and papers on Guglielmo Marconi (among them, “Marconi. Il ragazzo del wireless”, Hoepli, 2015, and “Beyond the Myth of the Self-taught Inventor: The Learning Process and Formative Years of Young Guglielmo Marconi“, History of Technology volume 32, 2014, pp. 259-275.) and recently edited the Italian translation of Marc Raboy’s biography “Marconi. The Man Who Networked the World”. She has been the coordinator and curator of exhibitions in Italy and abroad on the history of radiocommunications. She has been invited as speaker to several meetings and conferences on Guglielmo Marconi and the history of telecommunications.

Stefano Selleri, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione (DINFO), Italy

Guglielmo Marconi: Technologist and Entrepreneur

Stefano Selleri (S’92–M’96–SM’03) received the Laurea (cum laude) degree in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree in computer science and telecommunications from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, in 1992, the McGill University, Montreal, Canada, in 1994, and the Laboratoire d’Electronique, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, Nice, France, in 1997. From February to July 1998, he was a Research Engineer with the Centre National d’Etudes Telecommunications (CNET) France Telecom, La Turbie, France. He is currently an Associate Professor of Electromagnetic Fields with the University of Florence, where he conducts research on numerical modeling of microwave, devices, and circuits with particular attention to numerical optimization. He authored about 140 papers on peer reviewed journals on the aforementioned topics, as well as 6 books and 6 books chapters. He is also active in the field of telecommunications and electromagnetism history, having published about 50 papers and book chapters. He is member of the IEEE History Committee, member of the IEEE History Activity Committee, Region 8 and member of the IEEE History Activity Committee, Italy Section where he serves and secretary. Dr. Selleri has been an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, since September 2007 and on the Editorial board of the International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering from 2008 to 2018 and ACES Journal since 2020.

Marco Di Renzo, CNRS and CentraleSupelec, Paris, France

Marconi’s 150th anniversary: Has the time of smart radio environments come?

Marco Di Renzo is a CNRS Research Director (Professor) and the Head of the Intelligent Physical Communications group with the Laboratory of Signals and Systems at CentraleSupelec – Paris-Saclay University (Paris, France). He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IET, EURASIP, AAIA, and AIIA; an Ordinary Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the Academia Europaea; an Ambassador of the European Association on Antennas and Propagation; and a Highly Cited Researcher. He is a recipient of the 2022 Michel Monpetit Prize conferred by the French Academy of Sciences and the 2024 Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications conferred by the IEEE Communications Society. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Communications Letters in 2019-2023, and he is now serving as a Voting Member of the Fellow Evaluation Standing Committee and as the Director of Journals of the IEEE Communications Society. He is a Founding Member, Academic Vice Chair, and Rapporteur of the Industry Specification Group on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.

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