AP-S Distinguished Lecturer Program for 2005-2006

J(Yiannis) C. Vardaxoglou, Chair, Distinguished Lecturers Pro­gram, Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough U ni versi ty, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LEI I3TU United Kingdom; Tel: +44(0)1509 227089 (or Mrs. Rosemarie Lander at +44(0)1509 227006); Fax: +44(0)1509 227008; E-mail: lC.Vardaxoglou@lboro.ac.uk.

The full abstracts of most of the Distinguished Lecturers' talks and the Lecturers' biographies appeared in the June, 2005, issue of the Magazine; the abstracts of Peter de Maagt's talks appeared in the February, 2006, issue. This information can also be obtained by sending an e-mail request to info.distlect.ap@ieee.org.

Distinguished Lecturers and Their Lectures

"Distance Measurement Error Associated with Antenna Phase­Center Displacement in

'Time-Reference Radio Positioning Sys­

tems," "Optimizing the Performance of Electrically Small Anten­nas," and "The Performance Properties, and Limitations of Antenna Elements Closely Spaced to PEC, PMC, and Electromagnetic Bandgap Ground Planes," Dr. Steven R. Best, MITRE Corpora­tion, MIS S230, 202 Burlington Rd., Bedford MA 01730 USA; Tel: + I (781) 271-8879; Email: steven.best@mitre.org.

"Electromagnetic Design for Wireless Applications and Multidis­ciplinary Optimization," Dr. Nicholas E. Buris, Motorola Labs, 1301 E. Algonquin Rd., Schaumburg, IL 60196 USA; E-mail: nickburis@motorola.com.

"Overview of Nonlinear Inverse Scattering," "Overview of Com­putational Electromaggetics: From Very-Low-Frequency to Ultra­Large-Scale Problems," and "Complex Coordinate Stretching for Absorbing Boundary Condition," Prof. Weng Cho Chew, 379 Everitt Laboratory, MC-702, Department of Electrical and Com­puter Engineering, University of Illinois, 1406 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL 61801-2991 USA; E-mail: w-chew@uiuc.edu.

Correction In the letter to the Editor in the February issue (E. K. Miller,

'Comments on 'From the Summation-by-Parts Algorithm to pr,' IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, 48, 1, February 2006, pp.134-135), a digit was omitted from the first position in the sec­ond row of Table 1. The corrected table is printed here.

Table 1. The first 240 digits for iT. The locations of the first incorrect digits for n = 1 , n = 2 , and n = 3 are underlined.

3.14159262,3 1693993751 9862803482 7093844609 2841027019 6442881097

66

5897932384 0582097494 5342117067 5505822317 ,1852110555 5665933446

6264338327 4592307816 9821480865 2535940812 9644622948 1284756482

9502884197 4062862089 1328230664 8481117450 9549303819 3378678193

"Terahertz Technology for Space and Earth Applications," and "Electromagnetic Bandgap Materials," Dr. Peter de Maagt, Electromagnetic Division, PO Box 99, NL Noordwijk, The Neth­erlands; Tel: +31 71 565 5906; Fax: +31 71 565 4999; E-mail: peter.de.maagt@esa.int.

"Negative-Refraction Metamaterials and Their Applications," "Imaging Beyond The Diffraction Limit With Negative-Refrac­tive-Index Lenses," Prof. George V. Eleftberiades, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada; E-mail: gelefth@waves.utoronto.ca.

"Antenna-Human Body Interaction in Wireless Communication," and "Applications of Microwaves in Medicine," Prof. Maria A. Stuchly, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, PO Box 3055 STN CSC, Victoria, BC,V8W 3P6 Canada; E-mail: mstuchly@ece.uvic.ca.

"The Marvels of Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Structures," "Personal Communication Antennas Including Human Interac­tions: Handheld, Wearable, and Implanted Devices," and "Genetic Algorithms (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) in Engi­neering Electromagnetics," Prof. Yahya Rahmat-Samii, Electri­cal Engineering Department, University of California, Los Ange­les, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; E-mail: rahmat@ee.ucla.edu.

"Metamaterials for Miniaturization of Narrowband and Ultra­Wideband Antennas," "Miniature Antennas & Arrays Embedded within Magnetic Photonic Crystals,': and "Hybrid Frequency­Domain Methods for Electromagnetics: From Analysis to Design," Prof. John L. Volakis, ElectroScience Laboratory, Dept. of Elec­trical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University, 1320 Kinnear Rd., Columbus, OR 43212 USA; E-mail: volakis@ece.osu.edu.

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