Professor of Electrical Engineering and director of the Electromagnetic Communications Laboratory at Penn State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, Raj Mittra has made fundamental contributions to electromagnetics through his research skills and as a mentor to those studying in the field. His research revolutionized computational electromagnetics, resulting in many antenna, radome, scattering and microwave applications. Dr. Mittra was among the first to recognize the computer's potential for solving large-scale electromagnetic problems. He was also a contributing editor of “Computer Techniques for Electromagnetics,” the first definitive book on computational electromagnetics. His seminal work on finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methodology created a number of novel FDTD techniques, such as the conformal FDTD method. In addition, his approach to evaluating the radiation integrals of reflector antennas led to the design of large and complex antennas involving single and multiple reflectors and normal and offset feeds Dr. Mittra pioneered generalized scattering matrix analysis, which dramatically improved the efficiency and numeral stability of the Moment Method and other techniques for solving integral equations. He is responsible for more than 30 new methods for solving scattering problems, other numerical methods and antenna designs. He also developed original approaches for analyzing scattering by periodic structures. At Penn State and as a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois, Dr Mittra was an advisor to more than 85 doctoral and 85 master's degree candidates. Many of his students went on to make significant contributions to the fields of antennas, propagation and electromagnetics. He has published 35 books or book chapters. As principal author of “Imaging with Coherent Fields,” he investigated the role of electromagnetic fields in holography, sparking research into microwave holography and significant new directions in inverse scattering and coherent acoustical imaging. An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Mittra is the former president of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and was the editor of IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He is President of RM Associates, a consulting organization providing services to industrial and governmental organizations worldwide. Dr. Mittra received his bachelor’s degree in physics from Agra University in India, his master’s degree in radio physics from the University of Calcutta, and his doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto in Canada.
Joe Wiart Ingénieur du corps des Mines (C92), HDR 2015, Dr de l’Université UMPC (95) is the holder of the Chair C2M ("Characterization, Modeling and Mastery"), Chair of the Institut Mines Telecom since 2015. He was previously Head of the Orange Research Unit (formerly France Télécom), in charge of studies relating to human exposure to electromagnetic fields. His research interests are dosimetry, numerical and statistical methods applied in electromagnetism and stochastic dosimetry. His work has resulted in more than 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals and more than 200 papers in congresses. He is the present chair of the CENELEC Technical Committee TC 106x. He is also the chair of the commission K of URSI since 2014.
Managment of the variability in electromagnetism and in dosimetry in particular Joe Wiart; Chaire C2M LTCI Telecom ParisTech
Thanks to the important progress in high performance calculation, numerical simulations have an increasing role in applied electromagnetics and in particular in numerical dosimetry. Numerical methods such as FDTD are more and more used to design system, antennas and assess performances and quantities such human exposure. With the versatile use of the devices and the increasing complexity of the networks the ”deterministic ” assessment of the human population RF exposure is facing limits with variable configurations and usages. Despite the increasing progress in high performance calculations the computattion time does not often allow to usel Monte Carlo method to handle variablitlity. The design of system is facing similar challenge with the propagation of the uncertainty of the simulation inputs. To overcome such limits and face the challenges new approaches based on statistic have been developped in applied electromagnetism. They aim to built meta-model, having a quick computation time, substituting time consuming calculation methods such as FDTD. Nowadays, in applied electro-magnetics, parsimonious methods such as Planning Experiment, Polynomial Chaos Expansion, Kriging or Low rank tensors approximation are often used to manage variability and performed uncertainty quantification. In this talk we will introduce these methods and we will illustrate them with studies in dosimetry.
Akram Alomainy received the M.Eng. degree in communication engineering and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and electronic engineering (specialized in antennas and radio propagation) from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), U.K., in July 2003 and July 2007, respectively. He joined the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, QMUL, in 2007, where he is an Associate Professor in the Antennas and Electromagnetics Research Group. He is a member of the Institute of Bioengineering and Centre for Intelligent Sensing at QMUL. His current research interests include small and compact antennas for wireless body area networks, radio propagation characterisation and modelling, antenna interactions with human body, computational electromagnetic, advanced antenna enhancement techniques for mobile and personal wireless communications, nano-scale networks and communications, THz material characterisation and communication links and advanced algorithm for smart and intelligent antenna and cognitive radio system. He has managed to secure various research projects funded by research councils, charities and industrial partners on projects ranging from fundamental electromagnetic to nano-scale wearable and in-vivo technologies. He is the lead of Wearable Creativity research at Queen Mary University of London and has been invited to participate at the Wearable Technology Show 2015, Innovate UK 2015 and also in the recent Wearable Challenge organised by Innovate UK IC Tomorrow as a leading challenge partner to support SMEs and industrial innovation. He has authored and co-authored two books, 6 book chapters and more than 250 technical papers (4100+ citations and H-index 31) in leading journals and peer-reviewed conferences. Dr. Alomainy won the Isambard Brunel Kingdom Award, in 2011, for being an outstanding young science and engineering communicator. He was selected to deliver a TEDx talk about the science of electromagnetic and also participated in many public engagement initiatives and festivals. He is a Chartered Engineer, member of the IET, senior member of IEEE, fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK) and also a College Member for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research (EPSRC, UK) and its ICT prioritisation panels. He is also a reviewer for many funding agencies around the world including Expert Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Research, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), United Kingdom and the Medical Research Council (MRC), UK. He is an elected member of UK URSI (International Union of Radio Science) panel to represent the UK interests of URSI Commission B (1 Sept 2014 until 31 Aug 2017).
Exploring the Potentials of EM Waves from Body-scale to Nano-communications for Healthcare Applications
Prof. Sevgi Born in Akhisar / Turkey on 1st January 1958. He received his BsEE, MsEE and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 1982, 1984 and 1990, respectively. In 1987, while working on his PhD, he was awarded a fellowship that allowed him to work with Prof. L. B. Felsen at Weber Research Institute / New York Polytechnic University York for two years. His work at the Polytechnic concerned the propagation phenomena in non-homogeneous open and closed waveguides. He was with Istanbul Technical University (1991–1998), TUBITAK-MRC, Information Technologies Research Institute (1999–2000), Weber Research Institute/Polytechnic University in New York / USA (1988–1990), Scientific Research Group of Raytheon Systems, Canada (1998 – 1999), Center for Defense Studies, ITUV-SAM (1993 –1998 and 2000–2002) and with University of Massachusetts, Lowell (UML) MA/USA as a full-time faculty (2012 – 2013) and with Doğuş University (2001-2014). Since Sep 2014, he has been with Okan University. He has been involved with complex electromagnetic problems and complex communication and radar systems for nearly three decades. His research study has focused on propagation in complex environments, analytical and numerical methods in electromagnetic, EMC/EMI modeling and measurement, communication, radar and integrated surveillance systems, surface wave HF radars, FDTD, TLM, FEM, SSPE, and MoM techniques and their applications, RCS modeling, bio-electromagnetics. He is also interested in novel approaches in engineering education, teaching electromagnetics via virtual tools. He also teaches popular science lectures such as Science, Technology and Society. He is a Fellow member of the IEEE, an AdCom member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) (2013 - 2015), the writer/editor of the “Testing ourselves” Column in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (since Feb 2007) and a member of the IEEE AP-S Education Committee (Jun 2006 -), a member of the IEEE AP-S Field Award Committee (Jan 2018-). He is also a member of several editorial boards (EB), such as the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine (Feb 2007 -), the IEEE Access (2017 - 2019), Wiley’s International Journal of RFMiCAE (Jan 2002 -), etc. He has published more than 10 books in English and Turkish, more than 180 journal/magazine papers/tutorials and attended 100+ international conferences/symposiums. His three books Complex Electromagnetic Problems and Numerical Simulation Approaches (2003), Electromagnetic Modeling and Simulation (2014) and Radiowave Wave Propagation and Parabolic Equation Modeling (2017, with Gökhan Apaydın) were published by the IEEE Press & Wiley. His book A Practical Guide to EMC Engineering (2017) was published by ARTECH House.
EM diffraction is critical in many applications including antennas and propagation. Understanding and visualizing EM wave – object interaction is crucial in designing new antenna systems, in predicting path losses through complex propagation paths, etc. In order to do that wave pieces such as diffracted waves, Fringe waves, etc., should first be studied on canonical structures. Then, complex objects can be investigated by using HFA as well as numerical methods in hybrid form intelligently. EM wave scattering from waves – objects interaction has long been investigated. Interesting wave phenomena, diffraction, occur when objects have sharp edges and tips. Methods known as High Frequency Asymptotics, such as Geometric optics (GO), Physical Optics, (PO), Geometrical Theory of Diffraction, (GTD), Uniform Theory of Diffraction (UTD), Physical Theory of Diffraction (PTD) and Theory of Edge Diffraction (TED) have been successfully applied to variety of EM problems. Recently, numerical methods, such as Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD), Method of Moments (MoM) and Finite Element Method (FEM) have also been used in modeling EM diffraction. These powerful methods, together with novel approaches, have shown to be successful not only in modeling EM diffraction but also in distinguishing wave pieces such as scattered waves, diffracted waves, Fringe waves, etc., which is very important in visualizing and understanding complex wave – object interaction.
Royal Military College of Canada& Queen's University Kingston. Dr. Yahia Antar obtained degrees from the University of Alexandria(BSC) and the Universityof Manitoba (MSc. ,PhD). He worked at CRC and NRC in Ottawa before joining the staff of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston where he has held the position of professor since 1990. Dr. Antar is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada (FEIC). He served as an Associate Editor (Features) of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, IEEE AWPL. He served on NSERC grants selection and strategic grants committees, Ontario Early Research Awards (ERA) panels, and on review panels for the National Science Foundation. In May 2002, Dr. Antar was awarded a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Electromagnetic Engineering which was renewed in 2009. In 2003 he was awarded the Royal Military College of Canada “Excellence in Research” Prize and in 2012 the Class of 1965 Teaching Excellence Award. He serves on the URSI Board as Vice President, and on the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Administration Committee. In January 2011, Dr. Antar was appointed Member of the Canadian Defence Advisory Board (DAB). In October 2012 he received from the Governor General of Canada, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition for his contribution to Canada. He is the recipient of the 2014 IEEE Canada RA Fessenden Silver Medal. In 2015 he was the recipient of the IEEE Canada J. M. Ham Outstanding Engineering Educator Award and the 2015 RMC Cowan Prize for excellence in research.
was born in Ankara, Turkey. He received his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees all in electrical engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey with high honors. After working in defense industry (Aselsan, Havelsan, TAI) for many years, he founded Engitek Ltd company where he is president. He is also one of the founders and board member of Communication Technologies Cluster (CTC) in Turkey. Mr. Ciydem is an associate professor of electromagnetics, communications and lectures occasionally in several universities (Bilkent Univ., Gazi Univ., Karatay Univ., Hacettepe Univ., and Army War Academy). His research interests are in the areas of electromagnetics, antennas, RF/microwave engineering, radar, communication systems and mobile communications network (4G, 5G). This talk will be about several aspects of 5G mobile communications which is expected to be deployed by starting 2020 around the world. It will offer new technological experiences touching people’s daily life and countries’ industrial evolution. 5G will also drive many vertical sectors including V2X, Industry 4.0, IoT, ITS, defence, healthcare, agriculture etc. Turkey aims to be one of the first countries deploying 5G network with his own technology by 2020. Communication Technologies Cluster (CTC) has been established in 2017 for this purpose and has initiated end-to-end 5G mobile network project.