ITC 2023 Alexandria Keynote Talk

Antenna, RF, microwave, radar, microelectronics, wireless, and lightwave technologies are exploding! The importance of electromagnetic theory, computation, and design to these technologies can hardly be overstated. This keynote talk presents several novel methodologies and computational technologies of electromagnetics, including uncertainty quantification, error control, and adaptive refinement, which are essential for modern, effective, and reliable simulation-based design in mission-critical electromagnetic applications. Our novel approaches, constituted by accelerated, rigorous, adaptive, goal-oriented error estimation and control, sensitivity and uncertainty quantification, and model refinement for electromagnetics and engineering in general, show unparalleled accuracy, efficiency, robustness, and versatility of analyses and simulations. The talk also presents several advanced research projects combining electromagnetics with emerging topics and interdisciplinary applications to solve general realworld problems with impacts on communication, medicine, and meteorology. The applications include cyber-physical systems in smart underground mining; design of RF coils/antennas for next-generation magnetic resonance imaging scanners; direct electromagnetic coupling system for orthopedic fracturehealing diagnostics; and optical and radar measurements, modeling, and characterization of snowflakes and snow. While these topics and applications are really “all over” science and engineering, the talk will focus on the one strong interweaving common thread among all of them – electromagnetics.

Branislav M. Notaroš is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Electromagnetics Laboratory, and a University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Colorado State University. Previously, he held assistant/associate-professor positions at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the University of Belgrade. His research contributions are in computational and applied electromagnetics. His publications include more than 300 journal and conference papers and textbooks “Electromagnetics” (2010) and “MATLAB-Based Electromagnetics” (2013) with Pearson Prentice Hall and “Conceptual Electromagnetics” (2017) with CRC Press. Prof. Notaroš serves as President-Elect of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, Immediate Past President of the Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society, Chair of the USNC-URSI Commission B, and Track Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He served as General Chair of the IEEE APS/URSI 2022 Denver Conference, Chair of the IEEE AP-S Meetings Committee, Chair of the Joint Meetings Committee, and AP-S AdCom member. He was the recipient of the 1999 IEE Marconi Premium, 2005 IEEE MTT-S Microwave Prize, and 2022 IEEE Antennas and Propagation Edward E. Altshuler Prize Paper Award, 2019 ACES Technical Achievement Award, 2014 Carnegie Foundation Colorado Professor of the Year Award, 2015 ASEE ECE Distinguished Educator Award, 2015 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and many other research and teaching awards. He is a Fellow of IEEE and ACES