Welcome to the July Issue [From the Editor’s Desk

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Welcome to the July issue of <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">IEEE Microwave Magazine</i> . Although I’m writing this “From the Editor’s Desk” column in early April, I predict that you and I attended the 2022 International Microwave Symposium (IMS), in Denver, Colorado. Making predictions is hazardous, especially about the future (with apologies to the originators of the quote, often attributed to a number of people, including Danish politician Karl Kristian Steincke and American baseball player Yogi Berra), but I am sure that everyone who attended IMS2022 was glad to be back in the conference scene of learning new technologies, seeing old friends, and making new ones. IMS is truly a unique conference, in that it blends our microwave engineering practices of theory, application, and hardware into a “see it all in one place” experience. And, as I mentioned in last month’s column, it looks like the trend toward more in-person conferences (or at least with a significant in-person component) is continuing, another sign that we are returning to approaching a prepandemic normal.