Theoretical Methods for Determining the Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Structures

I. Low and Intermediate Frequency Scattering Methods.- 1. Introduction to moment methods with simple applications.- 2. Wires and wire grid models for radiation and scattering including ground effects.- 3. Surface integral equations for conducting and dielectric bodies.- 4. Aperture problems.- 5. Natural mode methods in frequency and time domain analysis.- 6. Direct time-domain techniques for transient radiation and scattering - wires.- 7. Time domain solutions via integral equations - surfaces and composite bodies.- 8. Inverse scattering.- PANEL DISCUSSION, "Modelling of three dimensional bodies - solid patches and wire grids".- 9. On using isoperimetric inequalities and isoperimetric quotients in electromagnetic theory and applied physics.- PANEL DISCUSSION, Comparison and evaluation of different formulations for scattering problems - integral equations, differential equation and combined methods..- PANEL DISCUSSION, Availability and limitations of general purpose computer programs.- II. High Frequency Scattering Methods and Applications.- 1. Introduction to geometrical optics.- 2. Foundations of the geometrical theory of diffraction.- 3. Canonical problems and diffraction coefficients.- 4. Uniform theories of diffraction by edges.- 5. A uniform GTD for the diffraction by edges, vertices and convex surfaces.- 6. Introduction to GTD applications.- 7. GTD applied to reflector antenna analysis.- 8. GTD applications at LCT.- 9. Transform approach to electromagnetic scattering.- 10. Some useful asymptotic and numerical techniques for solving high-frequency scattering problems.- 11. High-frequency fields excited by a line source located on a perfectly conducting concave cylindrical surface.- 12. Gaussian beams: paraxial theory.- 13. Evanescent waves.- III. Mechanisms of Biological Interaction and Microwave Bioeffects.- 1. History and state of the art on the quantitation of the interaction of electromagnetic fields with biological structures.- 2. Theoretical and numerical methods of quantitation of absorption patterns in man and animal bodies.- 3. Medical diagnosis and imaging using electromagnetic techniques.- PANEL DISCUSSION, Experimental methods of the quantitation of absorption patterns in biological tissues.- List of Lecturers and Delegates.