{"id":448,"date":"2021-05-29T20:16:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T20:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/?page_id=448"},"modified":"2021-06-18T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T21:41:03","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-474 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052.jpg\" alt=\"Lancaster University\" width=\"1600\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052.jpg 1600w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052-300x113.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052-1024x384.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052-768x288.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/DJI_0052-1536x576.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a>The UCMMT 2021 Committees are pleased to invite you to the 14th UK, Europe, China Millimeter Waves and Terahertz Technology Workshop that will be held virtually, organised by Lancaster University, UK, on 13-15 September 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">UCMMT was formerly UK-China Millimeter Waves and Terahertz Technology Workshop created in 2007 to stimulate and strengthen the cultural exchange between UK and China.\u00a0In 2012 the Workshop, held in Nanjing, was extended to the mainland Europe, stating the importance of even closer collaboration for the progress of science and technology. Since the first UCMMT meeting held in Chengdu in 2008,\u00a0UCMMT is held alternatively one year in China and one year in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">UCMMT is a unique forum, where lead scientists in particular from China, Europe and United Kingdom, but open to the full scientific community share their knowledge in the field of millimeter waves and THz sources, devices, systems and applications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">For the first time, nine relevant thematic tracks are proposed to cover the broad field of millimeter waves and THz and offer a topic oriented submission process.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lancaster University<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Economic-Impact.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Economic-Impact.jpg\" alt=\"Lancaster University\" width=\"874\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Economic-Impact.jpg 874w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Economic-Impact-300x99.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/05\/Economic-Impact-768x254.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 874px) 100vw, 874px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lancaster University campus occupies a beautiful 560-acre parkland site and is proud to be one of only a handful of UK universities to have a collegiate system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lancaster is a research-intensive university, with 35% of our research classed as world-leading and 48% classed as internationally excellent in the UK Government&#8217;s latest independent review, the 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/results.ref.ac.uk\/Results\/ByHei\/121\/\">Research Excellence Framework<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Lancaster is 135th out of more than 1,000 universities in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.topuniversities.com\/university-rankings\/world-university-rankings\/2021\">QS World University Rankings 2021<\/a>. Lancaster is ranked 136th in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/world-university-rankings\/2021\/world-ranking\">Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021<\/a>, up from 139th in 2020 making Lancaster 17th out of the 101 UK universities included in the table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Past UCMMT Editions<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2020 Tianjin<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2019 London<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-340\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/04\/GroupPhoto_title_small-300x149.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/04\/GroupPhoto_title_small-300x149.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/04\/GroupPhoto_title_small.jpeg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2018 Hangzhou<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2017 Liverpool<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2016 Beijing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2015 Cardiff<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2014 Chengdu<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2013 Rome<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-488\" src=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/UCMMT_2013_130_zps9735867b-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/UCMMT_2013_130_zps9735867b-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/UCMMT_2013_130_zps9735867b-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ucmmt2021\/files\/2021\/06\/UCMMT_2013_130_zps9735867b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2012 Nanjing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">2011 Glasgow<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UCMMT 2021 Committees are pleased to invite you to the 14th UK, Europe, China Millimeter Waves and Terahertz Technology Workshop that will be held virtually, organised by Lancaster University, UK, on 13-15 September 2021. 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