The Industrial Microwave Modeling Group - International Seminars

13^th Seminar "Computer Modeling in Microwave Engineering and Applications"

Advances in Determining Material Parameters

March 7-8, 2011

Thun, Switzerland

Organized by

IMMG of the Department of Mathematical Science, WPI

and

Laboratory for Advanced Material Processing
Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

In cooperation with

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

SIAM

Endorsed by

Association for Microwave Power in Europe for Research and Education

AMPERE

Seminar Chair:

Vadim V. Yakovlev, IMMG, WPI

Seminar Vice-Chair:

Sébastien Vaucher, Laboratory for Advanced Material Processing, EMPA

Seminar Secretaries:

Erin Kiley, IMMG, WPI
Manuela Stir, Laboratory for Advanced Material Processing, EMPA

Organizing & Program Committee:

Didier Bouvard, INP-Grenoble, France
Jos� M. Catal�-Civera, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain
Kuruvilla Cherian, Spheric Technologies, Inc., USA
Patrik Hoffmann, EMPA, Switzerland
Sam Kingman, University of Nottingham, England
Marilena Radoiu, SAIREM, Neyron, France
Paolo Veronesi, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy
Suzanne Weekes, WPI, USA, SIAM representative

Seminar Site:

EMPA
Feuerwerkerstrasse 39
CH-3602 Thun
Switzerland

How to get there? (PDF)

Seminar Objectives:

Electromagnetic and thermal parameters of materials are of high importance to the designers of systems for microwave thermal processing. Determination of these parameters is experimentally challenging and, at the same time, involves (usually quite non-trivial) computation of the parameters in question from measurable quantities. This one-and-a-half day interdisciplinary forum will bring together:

experimentalists with expertise in measurement of complex permittivity and thermal parameters,
analysts working with techniques of mathematical/computer modeling applicable to determination of material characteristics, and
researchers studying microwave thermal processing of materials and developing corresponding applications.

The attendees will share their experience in the related fields with their counterparts, discussing major issues that slow down development of adequate and accurate technologies for reconstruction of material properties.

General Profile:

The Seminar will start with a half-day Workshop featuring introductory and review presentations given by renowned experts in the field, representatives of measurement equipment manufacturers, and representatives of software companies.
For its technical sessions, the Seminar invites technical contributions related (but not limited) to:

advances in measurements of the dielectric constant and loss factor of different materials (including temperature- and density-dependent characteristics);
modeling-based techniques of reconstruction of complex permittivity (homogeneous and heterogeneous distributions) and NDE/NDT;
modern techniques of determination of thermal conductivity, heat capacity and density (including temperature-dependent characteristics);
new findings about material properties of particulate materials - ceramic, metal, composite powders;
R&D projects illuminating importance of precise data on material parameters in the entire temperature range for designing microwave heating systems.

Important Dates:

Submission of titles and abstracts:	January 10, 2011
Notification of acceptance:	January 25, 2011
Submission of papers:	February 7, 2011
End of advanced registration:	February 18, 2011
Preliminary program:	February 21, 2011
Seminar & Final program:	March 7-8, 2011

Seminar Information:

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