XXXVI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium  

August 15-22, 2026, Kraków, POLAND

Venue: ICE - International Congress Centre, Kraków

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Call for Papers

The URSI GASS 2026 is the main event of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI), and will be held in Kraków, Poland on August 15 – 22, 2026. 
 
The scientific program will have a series of open and convened sessions covering the areas of URSI Commissions A to K, comprising oral/poster sessions with invited and contributed papers and General Lectures. In addition, there will be workshops, short courses, young scientist programs including the Young Scientist Award and the Student Paper Competition, an accompanying persons’ program, and an exhibition.
 
Prospective participants are invited to submit papers for inclusion in the scientific program. Detailed information will be posted on the URSI GASS 2026 website. Any topics related to URSI Commissions are welcome. In addition, papers addressing multidisciplinary aspects will be assigned to inter-Commission joint sessions.
 
The conference will be held as an in-person conference with only on-site presentations.

Overview of the topics and description of the sessions
 ALL TOPICS: Download here
Commission A: Electromagnetic Metrology - Download here
Commission B: Fields and Waves - Download here
Commission C: Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Systems - Download here
Commission D: Electronics and Photonics - Download here
Commission E: Electromagnetic Environment and Interference - Download here
Commission F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing - Download here
Commission G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation - Download here
Commission H: Waves in Plasmas - Download here
Commission J: Radio Astronomy - Download here
Commission K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine - Download here

Important Dates:

Paper submission site opened: November 12, 2025
Paper submission deadline: January 25, 2026
Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2026

All Summary Papers physically presented at GASS 2026 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore (unless the author opts out). Special sections/topics will also be considered for submission to IEEE MTT-S and IEEE AP-S journals.

SUBMIT YOUR PAPER HERE

URSI Commissions

Commission A: Electromagnetic Metrology
Commission B: Fields and Waves
Commission C: Radiocommunication and Signal Processing Systems
Commission D: Electronics and Photonics
Commission E: Electromagnetic Environment and Interference
     Commission F: Wave Propagation and Remote Sensing
Commission G: Ionospheric Radio and Propagation
Commission H: Waves in Plasmas
Commission J: Radio Astronomy
Commission K: Electromagnetics in Biology and Medicine
 

Young Scientist Award and Student Paper Competition

For the details on applications for the Young Scientist Award (YSA) and the Student Paper Competition (SPC), please click here. 
 

Committees

URSI

Ari SIHVOLA, URSI President, Aalto University, Finland
Peter Van DAELE, URSI Secretary-General, Ghent University, Belgium

URSI GASS 2026 General Chair

Józef MODELSKI, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
 

URSI GASS 2026 Scientific Program Committee

Co-Chairs:  John VOLAKIS, Florida International University, USA
Andrzej KRANKOWSKI, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland 
 
URSI Commissions A-K: Chairs, Vice-Chairs, ECRs

URSI GASS 2026 Local Organizing Committee

Chair:   Józef MODELSKI, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Vice-Chairs:  Artur RYDOSZ, AGH University of Kraków, Kraków,  Poland 
Andrzej WITCZAK, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland, 
Sławomir AMBROZIAK, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland
Sławomir HAUSMAN, Łódź University of Technology, Łódź, Poland
Secretary:  Grzegorz BOGDAN, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Members: Iwona STANISŁAWSKA, Space Research Center, Warsaw, Poland
Ilona PIEKARZ, AGH University of Kraków, Kraków, Poland
Piotr SŁOBODZIAN, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland
Grzegorz TATOŃ, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
Tomasz A. MIŚ Warsaw University of Technology, Space Research Center, Warsaw, Poland

PCO - Symposium Cracovience 

Krakow, Poland https://www.symposium.pl/ 

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Polish National Committee of URSI

 

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