IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) Madras Chapter
in association with
Department of ECE, SSN College of Engineering, Kalavakkam
and
IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S) Madras Chapter
present
3 – Day Workshop on KEY ELECTROMAGNETIC CONCEPTS
January 20-22, 2016
Venue: Seminar Hall, Department of ECE
SSN College of Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR), Kalavakkam – 603 110
This workshop is organized for the benefit of faculty and researchers having interest in the areas of
electromagnetics, antennas and propagation. Post graduate students working, or having interest, in
these areas are also welcome. Essentially, the workshop will attempt at giving a good conceptual
understanding of the topics, starting from basics.
Program Schedule (Includes working lunch and tea)
Date
20.01.16
Wednesday
Time
Speaker
Registration
9.00 am – 11.30 am
Understanding electrical
properties of dielectrics
Dr. K.T. Selvan, SSN CE
1.00 pm – 3.15 p.m
Revisiting some important EM
concepts
Talk 1
Integral equation methods in
electromagnetics
Talk 2
Frequency dependence of
refractive index
Dr. S. V. Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
1.00 pm – 3.15 pm
Art of Electrodynamics
9.00 am – 11.30 am
Fundamentals of periodic
structures in electromagnetics
Dr. Debatosh Guha, IIT,
Kharagpur
Dr. K.J. Vinoy,
IISc Bangalore
1.00 pm – 2.30 pm
Understanding antennas on finite
ground planes
2.30 pm – 3.15 pm
Concluding comments and
feedback
9.00 am – 11.30 am
21.01.16
Thursday
22.01.16
Friday
Topic
8.15 am – 9.00 am
Dr. Uday Khankhoje, IIT Delhi
Dr. Harishankar
Ramachandran,
IIT Madras
Dr. S. Joseph Gladwin, SSN CE
Registration information
The number of participants is limited to 75.
The registration fee is Rs. 1000 for IEEE members and full-time students, Rs. 1500 for others.
The fee should be paid by Demand Draft, drawn in favor of “The Principal, SSN College of Engineering”
payable at Chennai.
Please fill-in the registration form, and send along with DD by post to the address given therein.
On-campus accommodation is available on request. The room rent is Rs. 100/- per day (excluding mess)
on twin-sharing basis; this amount can be paid by cash at the time of registration.
Last date for receiving registration form and DD: Saturday, January 16, 2016
For any clarifications, please email any of the workshop coordinators:
Dr. R. Kalidoss, kalidossr@ssn.edu.in
Dr. S. Joseph Gladwin, josephgladwin@ieee.org
Mr. S. Karthie, karthies@ssn.edu.in
Registration Form
IEEE AP-S Workshop on Key Electromagnetic Concepts
January 20-22, 2016
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Participant’s Signature
Please send this form, along with DD to:
Dr. R. Kalidoss
Associate Professor, ECE Department
SSN College of Engineering
Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR)
Kalavakkam – 603 110
Please superscribe the envelope with ‘IEEE AP-S Workshop’
Abstracts of talks
Day 1, Morning
Understanding electrical properties of dielectrics by
Dr. K.T. Selvan, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai.
This talk will cover the electromagnetic properties of dielectrics. The physical principles underlying the idea of
dielectric constant will be discussed. Elementary ideas of the so called artificial dielectrics will also be considered.
Day 1, Afternoon
Revisiting some important EM concepts
Dr. S. V. Kulkarni, IIT Bombay
The talk will briefly cover various important concepts from electrostatics to Maxwell's equations. Some of the
subtle points, not explained or emphasized adequately in many text books on the subject, will be discussed. It is
essential to understand distinction between low frequency and high frequency electromagnetic phenomena and
ways to analyze them. While using commercial software for computing fields, understanding of scalar and vector
magnetic potentials is an important prerequisite. The talk will end with highlighting of current research trends in
computational electromagnetics.
Day 2, Morning
(1) Integral equation methods in electromagnetics
(2) Frequency dependence of dielectric constant by
Dr. Uday Khankhoje, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.
Talk 1 - Integral equations are powerful mathematical techniques that are indispensable to modern
electromagnetic simulations, whether used for computing radar cross-sections of aircraft, or in the design of highspeed microwave circuits. In this lecture, starting with some basic concepts in vector calculus, I will demonstrate a
few building blocks for integral equations. As an illustration, we will derive Huygen's principle and discuss its
physical meaning.
Talk 2 - We all know that light spreads into various colours as it passes through a prism, and that this is because
the prism bends each colour slightly differently. In this lecture, I will derive the physics of this phenomenon by
using a simple ball-spring model of an electron bound to a molecule under the influence of an applied electric
field.
Day 2, Afternoon
Art of electrodynamics by
Dr. Debatosh Guha, Electronics & Electrical Communication Engg., IIT Kharagpur
This talk will address an unconventional approach of understanding the Electromagnetic fields and theory; and
will look at the problem of Maxwellian Electrodynamics from a different angle. This will follow a 'track' which is
entirely different from that we knew from our school days to post-graduate level.
Day 3, Morning
Fundamentals of periodic structures in electromagnetics by
Dr. K.J. Vinoy, IISc, Bangalore.
Metamaterials have caught the attention of electromagnetics researchers for their exciting applications in
microwave and optical frequencies due to their seemingly unique properties. Although the theoretical possibility
of existence of such periodic media was proposed several decades ago, experimental validations for these came
out, only recently. Transmission line equivalents of such media have brought up several new possibilities for the
design of radio frequency components and circuits. Some of these have demonstrated right-handed and lefthanded propagation characteristics above or below a specified frequency. Frequency selective surfaces, high
impedance surfaces, and electromagnetic bandgap materials are just a few other periodic geometries that have
caught the attention at different points of time. This talk will give a general overview of theoretical fundamentals
as well as our research directions on these topics.
Day 3, Afternoon
Understanding antennas on finite ground planes by
Dr. Harishankar Ramachandran, IIT, Madras.
Many modern applications of antennas have them mounted on finite bodies, for instance, automobile antennas,
radiating structures on aeroplanes and space antennas. The radiation patterns of such antennas are quite
different from the traditional antenna, especially when the wavelength of the radiated signal is comparable to the
size of the object on which the antenna is mounted. In this talk we will review the traditional antenna, and look at
why antennas with finite ground planes have different properties and how they can be analysed and simulated.
Speakers' biographies
Dr. Krishnasamy T. Selvan has been a Professor in the Department of ECE, SSN College of Engineering, India,
since June 2012. From early 2005 to mid-2012, he was with the Department of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. From early 1988 to early 2005, Selvan was with SAMEER
– Centre for Electromagnetics, Chennai, India. Here he was essentially involved in antenna analysis, design, and
testing. During 1994–1997, he was the Principal Investigator of a collaborative research programme that SAMEER
had with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA. Later he was the Project Manager/Leader of
some successfully completed antenna development projects.
Selvan's professional interests include electromagnetics, horn antennas, printed antennas, and electromagnetic
education. In these areas, he has authored or coauthored a number of journal and conference papers. Selvan was
on the editorial boards of the International Journal of RF and Microwave Computer-Aided Engineering and the
International Journal on Antennas and Propagation. He has been a reviewer for major journals including the IEEE
Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. He was Technical Programme Committee co-chair for the IEEE
Applied Electromagnetics Conference held in Kolkata in December 2011, and Student Paper Contest co-chair for
IEEE AEMC 2013 held in Bhubaneswar. He was the publications Chair for the IEEE MTT-S International Microwave
and RF Symposium (IMaRC) held in Bangalore in December 2014. He co-organized sessions on EM/microwave
education during IMaRC 2014 and International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, Kochi, 2014.
Selvan founded the Madras Chapter of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) in 2013, and has been
the Chapter Chair since then. Selvan is a member of the Education Committee of the IEEE Antennas and
Propagation Society. He is an AP-S Region 10 Distinguished Speaker for 2015-16. Selvan is a senior member of the
IEEE, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and a Life Member of the Society of EMC Engineers (India).
Dr. S. V. Kulkarni is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay, India. Previously, he worked at Crompton Greaves Limited (1990-2001) and specialized in the design and
development of transformers up to 400 kV class. He was a recipient of the Young Engineer Award conferred by
the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2000 for his contributions to Electromagnetic Field Computations
and High Voltage Insulation Design in transformers. He was also honored with the Career Award for Young
Teachers from All India Council for Technical Education in 2001. He received Best Paper Awards in international
conferences on transformers held in 2002 and 2006.
He has authored a book Transformer Engineering: Design, Technology, and Diagnostics, Second Edition, published
by CRC Press in September 2012. The first edition published in 2004 received an overwhelming response
worldwide. He has also written a chapter Challenges and Strategies in Transformer Design in the book
Transformers: Analysis, Design, and Measurement published by CRC Press in June 2012. He has also adapted an
undergraduate text book on electromagnetics for Asia, Principles of Electromegnetics, Oxford University Press,
published in October 2015.
His extensive interactions with transformer and power industries are reflected in his numerous consultancy
projects for them. He has organized several training programs on transformers and computational
electromagnetics for engineers from industries and academia in India. He has also set up the Field Computation
Laboratory and the Insulation Diagnostics Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay.
He has more than 150 publications to his credit in reputed journals and conferences. He has one US patent on
transformer deformation diagnostics. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering. He is also an
Editor of IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery. His current areas of research include Analysis and Diagnostics of
Power Transformers, Advanced Electromagnetic and Coupled Field Computations, and Distributed Generation
and Smart Grids.
Dr. Uday Khankhoje is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi,
New Delhi, India, since 2013. He received a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai, India, in 2005, an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech),
Pasadena, USA, in 2010, all in Electrical Engineering. He was a Caltech Postdoctoral Scholar at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory (NASA/Caltech) from 2011-2012, and a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of
Electrical Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, from 2012-2013. His research
interests lie in the area of computational electromagnetics and its applications to remote sensing and inverse
imaging. He received an Institute award for teaching excellence at IIT Delhi in 2015 for an undergraduate course
on electromagnetism.
Dr. Debatosh Guha is HAL Chair Professor in the Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering
Department at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, on leave from the Institute of Radio Physics and
Electronics at the University of Calcutta. He received the B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees from the University of
Calcutta in 1987 and 1989, respectively and started his career in a Wireless Industry. After graduating with a Ph.
D. in microwave engineering from Calcutta University, he joined the same University as an Assistant Professor in
1994. He spent about two years with the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario as Visiting Research
Professor working largely on the developments of various antennas.
He has researched in developing Microstrips and Dielectric Resonator Antenna technologies. Defected Ground
Structure (DGS)-inspired antenna is one of his major areas of contribution. He has published over 200 technical
papers and articles in top Journals and Conferences along with a Book entitled ‘Microstrip and Printed Antennas:
New Trends, Techniques and Applications’ Wiley, UK, 2011. He has developed novel antennas for commercial
wireless products, available in the North American market since 2007.
Professor Guha is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) and National Academy of Science
India (NASI). He is a recipient of some international awards which include Raj Mittra Travel Grant Award 2012
from IEEE AP Society, URSI Young Scientist Award 1996, and Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Prize 1984. He is
present Chair for Commission B of the Indian National Committee for URSI (INCURSI). He has been serving IEEE
Region 10, IEEE Kolkata Section, and IEEE AP-MTT Kolkata Chapter in different capacities. In 2007, he introduced
IEEE Applied Electromagnetics Conference (AEMC) as a major biennial conference in India and co-chaired its first
three editions. He also conceptualized and introduced IEEE Indian Antenna Week (IAW) as an annual IEEE
Workshop in 2010 and chaired its first two editions. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Antennas and Wireless
Propagation Letters and also member of the Review Boards of several IEEE Journals.
He has mentored more than a dozen of doctoral students and over 35 Masters students. His current research
interests include defected ground structure (DGS) for antenna application, unresolved issues of microstrip
antenna design, UWB hybrid antennas, unconventional radiating modes and new feed concepts for dielectric
resonator antennas, and compact high gain antennas for wireless equipment.
Dr. K. J. Vinoy is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Communication Engineering at the Indian Institute of
Science Bangalore. He received Ph.D. degree from the Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests
cover several topics in microwave engineering including, computational electromagnetics, microwave antennas,
microwave circuits, RF MEMS, and metamaterials. He has published over 180 papers in technical journals and
conferences. He has published five books which are widely used internationally. He is serving in the editorial
boards of several journals and reviews submissions to many others. Dr Vinoy is a Fellow of the Indian National
Academy of Engineering (INAE).
Dr. Hari Ramachandran, received his B.Tech. from IIT Bombay in 1982 and his Ph.D. from the University of
California at Berkeley, both in Electrical Engineering. He was a research scientist in the Physics Department at the
University of California, Los Angeles for five years before returning to India. He was a scientist at the Institute for
Plasma Research, Gandhinagar, from 1993 till 2001 and joined IIT Madras in Nov 2001, where he is now a
Professor in, and Head of, the Electrical Engineering Department. His research interests include computational
optics, nonlinear optics, computational plasma physics and optical link design and planning.