Date and Place:

October 4 - 8, 2010

Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
http://www.epfl.ch/index.en.html
How to reach:

You will find here all the information to reach EPFL

Accommodation:

You will find here any information concerning the accommodation in Lausanne

Organizer:

Prof. Giuseppe Vecchi, Politecnico di Torino (I)

Prof. Juan R. Mosig, EPFL (CH)
Audience:

PhD students, researchers and industry engineers
Additional Info:

Successful participation to the course and to the assessment tests gives a minimum of 2 ECTS credits

Fees:

PhD students / university employees: 400 EUR
Industry employees: 1.000 EUR
The registration fee includes course materials, lunches, coffee and a social dinner.
Contact and Registration:
For registration please fill the registration form and send it by 15th September 2010 to the following email address:
esoa2010cem@epfl.ch
Information about the Bank Transfer Payment will be provided to registered participants.
Please, before to fill and send the registration form, register to the course by the EurAAP website clicking on the button Register To This Course.

Grants:
The grant covers course fees of 400 EUR (accommodation and travel expenses are not included).

In order to apply for it, please fill the provided grant application form and attach a recommendation letter from your supervising professor and your CV (including publications). The deadline for applying for a grant is Tuesday, August 31, 2010.
Please email your grant application to esoa2010cem@epfl.ch

Course Topics:

Review of IE/MoM fundamentals – G. Vecchi, F. Andriulli
Integral‐Equation/MoM formulation; Geometrical and EM discretization; Antenna modeling issues; Problem conditioning; Iterative Methods for linear systems; Convergence and preconditioners
Integration methods for 3D structures – F. Vipiana
Singularities in MoM matrix entries: overview; Integration of singular terms for patches and wires
Higher order basis functions – D.R. Wilton
Higher‐order polynomial vector basis functions; Higher order modeling of both geometry and equivalent currents
IE/MoM for multilayered planar structures (1) – J. R. Mosig
Integral equations, spectral domain potentials; Sommerfeld integrals, spectral singularities, modal expansions
IE/MoM for multilayered planar structures (2) – A. G. Polimeridis
Integration of singular terms for multilayer planar structures; Double exponential techniques, weighted averages
Domain‐Decomposition – G. Vecchi
Aggregate functions: strategies, implementations
High‐density mesh and multi‐scale problems – G. Vecchi
“Low‐frequency” issues in antenna modeling; Mesh‐related issues: solenoidal decomposition; Multi‐Resolution (wavelet) approaches for 3D structures
Fast methods – F. Andriulli
Overview of fast methods; FFT based methods (AIM); Fast multipole method (FMM): single ‐ and multilevel (MLFMA); Static‐based methods (ACA)

All information on the course is available here