FEM2016
Brief history of the Conference
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The series dates back to 1992. The first workshop was entitled Il Metodo degli Elementi Finiti nelle Applicazioni dell'Elettromagnetismo (National Workshop on Finite Elements in Electromagnetic Wave Problems), and was held in San Miniato (Pisa, Italy), May 26-27, 1992. The workshop originated from an idea of Peter P. Silvester (McGill University, Montreal, Ca-nada). The second workshop, held in Siena (Italy, May 24-26, 1994), was already international and titled "International Work-shop on Finite Elements in Electromagnetic Wave Problems."
This highly-focused bi-ennial workshop has continuously provided an ideal meeting place for researchers and practitioners active in the theory and application of the Finite-Element Method in RF and microwave engineering. The tradition of this workshop is to move around the world. The third workshop, scheduled for July 9-11, 1996 in Halifax (Nova Scotia, Canada) was cancelled at the last minute because of the deteriorating health condition of Peter Silvester. The subsequent editions were held at:
- Poitiers (France), 1998
- Boston (Massachusetts, USA), 2000
- Chios (Greece), 2002
- Madrid (Spain), 2004
- Stellenbosch (South Africa), 2006
- Bonn (Germany), 2008
- Meredith (New Hampshire, USA), 2010
- Estes Park (Colorado, USA), 2012 [Report on IEEE AP Mag. 55(2) 2013]
- Chengdu (Cina), 2014 [Report on IEEE AP Mag. 56(4) 2014]
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The IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine has often published reports on the workshop activities that are available on IEEExplore, the latest – relative to the Chengdu edition – appeared in the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, vol. 56(4), pp. 170-176, Aug. 2014. For each edition, selected papers were published in special issues of several international journals. For example, for the Colorado edition (2012), selected papers were published in a special issue of Electromagnetics, vol. 34, 2014.
The 2016 Florence edition has a broader scope than usual, to consider lower and higher (terahertz and optical) frequency applications, with special emphasis on Multiphysic problems.
Florence in May is particularly charming and the workshop will be held in the historical center, nearby the Cathedral and at walking distance from any building or museum you wish to visit!