IUTAM Symposium on Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves in Structured Media

Overview.- Electric and Elastic Properties of Linear and Non-linear Composites.- Advances in the Rayleigh Multipole Method for Problems in Photonics and Phononics.- Aspects of Electromagnetic Waves.- Random Scattering and the Detection Capability of the Magnetotelluric Method.- Phase Singularities in Beams.- Nonlinear Pulse Propagation in Fibre Gratings.- Aspects of Mechanical Waves.- Radiation from a Transducer into an Elastic Half-space.- Energy Flux in Elasticity and Electromagnetism.- On Oscillation of Layered Structures with Imperfect Interfaces.- Free Vibration of Elastic Solids: Effect of Boundary Perturbation on Fundamental Frequencies.- Diffusing Acoustic Wave Transport and Spectroscopy.- Composites.- Charged Dust Structures in Plasmas.- Longitudinal Magneto-elastic Waves in Solids with Microstructure.- Transport Properties of a Fibre-layer Composite Material.- Laplace Transform Methods and the Rayleigh Identity for an Array of Elliptical Cylinders.- Homogenization.- Symmetry Breaking in Annular Domains for a Ginzburg-Landau Superconductivity Model.- Diffraction by Perfectly Conducting Capacitive Grids: Photonic Band Structures and Circuit Models.- Photonic Crystal Optics and Homogenization of 2D Periodic Composites.- Asymptotics of Photonic Band Structures for Doubly-periodic Arrays.- Photonic Band Gap Materials and Localization.- Electromagnetic Modelling of Dielectric and Metallic Photonic Crystals.- Band Gap Engineering in Metallic PBG Materials at Microwave Frequencies using Composite Material and Defect Lattice.- Photonic Bands and Scattering for Stacks of Lossy, Dispersive Cylinders.- Surface Plasmons and Zero Order Metal Gratings.- General Characteristics of Localization in Stratified Media with Random Loss and Gain.- Light Amplification and Attenuationin Stratified Structures with Complex Refractive Index.