Organized by METAMORPHOSE Network of Excellence and Helsinki University of Technology

21-23 August 2006, Rovaniemi (Lapland), Finland

Short course on complex material effects
August 21-23, 2006, Lapland, Finland
Teachers: Profs. Ari Sihvola and Sergei Tretyakov, Helsinki University of Technology

This short course is designed for students and young researchers who start working in the field of artificial electromagnetic materials. It will give fundamental knowledge about electromagnetic materials and their effective parameters. Students will learn, for instance, why arrays of wires can behave as free-electron plasma with negative effective permittivity, what determines the permeability of split-ring-resonator media, how negative refraction happens, and how the perfect lens operates. The course combines lectures, problem-solving and self-study sessions, and short presentations by the students. The course will last three days, followed by the next edition of the International Student Seminar on Microwave Applications of Novel Physical Phenomena.

The course is organized by the Metamorphose Network of Excellence, the Radio Laboratory / SMARAD Center of Excellence and the Electromagnetics Laboratory (TKK) as a part of the European Doctoral Degree Programmes on Metamaterials.

Organisers

Metamorphose NoE

TKK Radio Laboratory

TKK Electromagnetics Lab