I. Lund Symposium on Stored Energy
(September 19-23, 2016, Lund, Sweden)
Participants (A-Z order)
Topics: stored energy, recoverable energy.
See result of the workshop: Schab, K., Jelinek, L., Capek, M., Ehrenborg, C., Tayli, D., Vandenbosch, G.A.E., Gustafsson, M.: Energy Stored by Radiating Systems, IEEE Access, Vol. 6, pp. 10553-10568, 2018. 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2807922. [Online]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07942
II. Prague Springtime Optimization Meeting (PrSO)
(March 15-17, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic)
Participants (A-Z order)
Topicss: optimal currents, optimal antennas.
III. Stockholm Archipelago Antenna and Current Optimization Workshop (SAACOW)
(September 7-9, 2017, Stockholm, Sweden)
Participants (A-Z order)
Topics: optimal planar structures.
Further materials:
IV. Meeting on Optimization Plasmonics and Energy in Leuven (MOOPEL)
(August 20-23, 2018, Leuven, Belgium)
Participants (A-Z order)
Miloslav Capek
Casimir Ehrenborg
Mats Gustafsson
Lukas Jelinek
Lars Jonsson
Sven Nordebo
Kurt Schab
Guy Vandenbosch (organizer)
Xuezhi Zheng (organizer)
Topics: plasmonics, stored energy and bounds for volumetric bodies.
Further materials:
- (Mo) Guy A. E. Vandenbosch: General About Plasmonics, Part 1 – Introduction
- (Mo) Guy A. E. Vandenbosch: General About Plasmonics, Part 1 – Applications
- (Mo) Xuezhi Zheng: State of the Art Computational Methods for Plasmonics
- (Mo) Kurt Schab: Material Properties of Plasmonics
- (Tue) Sven Nordebo: On the Optimal Plasmonic Resonances in Lossy Media
- (Tue) Casimir Ehrenborg: Q-Factor for Dispersive Structures
- (Tue) Lars Jonsson: Q-Factor in Scattering
- (Wed) Mats Gustafsson: FFT for Volumetric Method of Moments
- (Wed) Miloslav Capek: Utilization of Matrix Operators in Small Antenna Theory
V. Workshop on Antennas, Spheres and Pi in Lund (WASPL)
(March 27-29, 2019, Lund, Sweden)
Participants (A-Z order)
Topics: plasmonics, volumetric method of moments, Purcell’s factor.
Also (heavily) discussed:
- Characteristic modes of two spheres.
- Existence of Pi constant outside Euclidean geometry.
- Electrical current.
VI. Bratrice Optimal Optics Meeting (BOOM)
(September 3-6, 2019, Bratrice, Czech Republic)
Participants (A-Z order)
Mats Gustafsson
Lukas Jelinek (main organizer, driver)
Vit Losenicky
Kurt Schab
Guy Vandenbosch
Xuezhi Zheng
Topics: plasmonics, scattering, topology senstivity, Purcell’s factor, scattering and cross sections bounds.
See the results of the workshop: Gustafsson, M., Schab, K., Jelinek, L., Capek, M.: Upper bounds on absorption and scattering, New Journal of Physics, Vol. 22, pp. 1-25, July 2020. [Online]
and Jelinek, L., Gustafsson, M., Capek, M., Schab, K.: Fundamental Bounds on the Performance of Monochromatic Passive Cloaks, Vol. 29, No. 15, Optics Express, pp. 24068-24082, 2021 [Online].
VII. Summit: Bounds on Realizable Antennas and Materials Based on Optimization Routines and Matrix Implementations (S-BRAMBORaMI)
(April 21-24, 2022, Bratrice, Czech Republic)
Participants (A-Z order)
Topics: Evaluation of characteristic modes via FDTD and FEM, time-domain characteristic modes, the sensitivity of fundamental bounds.
See the result of the workshop: Capek, M., Lundgren, J., Gustafsson, M., Schab, K., Jelinek, L.: Characteristic Mode Decomposition Using the Scattering Dyadic in Arbitrary Full-Wave Solvers, arxiv. [Online]
VIII. Nederland’s Optimization Gathering on Antennas and Photonics (NoGAP)
(July 15-19, 2022, Nederland, Colorado, United States)
Participants (A-Z order)
Kimiko Gustafsson (chef)
Mats Gustafsson (driver)
Lukas Jelinek
Johan Lundgren (on-line)
Kurt Schab (organizer)
Topics: Substructure characteristic modes, iterative solvers for CMA, quantum systems and CMA, cloaking (general excitation),
See the result of the workshop: TBA soon
IX. Nattavaara B (to be confirmed)
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