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Abstract:
Electromagnetic field computation (the area of scientific computing that explores the numerical solution of Maxwell's equations) is an effective tool for understanding a surprisingly large and diverse range of applications in electrical engineering.

This talk will focus on three examples: wireless/wireline channel modeling, superluminal pulse propagation in dispersive media and the design of artificial dielectrics with unconventional properties beyond those encountered in natural media (widely called meta-materials). We will see these topics through the lens of numerical methods that solve Maxwell's equations in the time-domain, accelerated both by mathematical/software innovations as well as by means of general purpose computing on graphics processor units (GP-GPU).

Biography:
Costas Sarris received a M.Sc. in applied mathematics and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, He is currently an Associate Professor in the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, where he conducts research on numerical electromagnetics.

Prof. Sarris is the author of Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Time-Domain Numerical Electromagnetics (Morgan-Claypool, 2007) and the recipient of the Early Researcher Award (recognizing promising Canadian scholars at early stages of their career) in 2007. His studentshave received student paper awards at the 2009 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium and the 2008 Applied Computational Electromagnetics Conference; and three honorable mentions in the 2008, 2009 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation. He serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS, a Technical Program Committee member for the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium and a Technical Program co-Chair for the 2010 IEEE AP-S International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation.