Professor Emeritus
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
The University of Akron, OH 44325-3904, USA
Tel. (330) 972-8041
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Books
Electromagnetic Analysis: From Electrostatics to Photonics; five-volume reference set, World Scientific, 2020.
Computational Methods for Nanoscale Applications: Particles, Plasmons and Waves. Springer; 2nd edition, 2020. Third edition to be published in 2026.
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2024 – 2025: Professional Development Leave
Special thanks to my hosts, colleagues and collaborators:
- Che-Ting Chan and Jiannong Wang (Department of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Ya Yan Lu (Department of Mathematics, City University of Hong Kong)
- Carsten Rockstuhl (Institute of Theoretical Solid State Physics and Institute
of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) - Junsuk Rho (Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology – POSTECH, Korea)
- Ralf Hiptmair (Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Z¨urich, Switzerland)
- Bartosz Janaszek, Paweł Szczepański, Anna Tyszka-Zawadzka, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), The Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics. I greatly appreciate the assistance and financial support from the Doctoral School of WUT.
2017 – 2018: Professional Development Leave
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Division of Physics (Visiting Scholar)
- Northwestern University, Department of Chemistry (Visiting Scholar)
- The ICES Institute, UT Austin, Visiting Research Fellow (JTO Faculty Fellowship)
- TU Denmark, DTU Fotonik, Visiting Professor (Otto Mønsteds Fond)
- Plenary/keynote talks at Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, Waves in Complex Photonic Media, EMF’2018, the European School on Metamaterials 2017, IEEE-ICEAA 2017
- Short-term visits: TU Vienna, Austria; Institut Fresnel, France; NUS Singapore; HKUST, Hong Kong; Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy, Hong Kong Polytechnic.
Special thanks to my hosts, colleagues and collaborators:
Yidong Chong, George Schatz, Vadim Markel, Karl Hollaus, Joachim Schöberl, Leszek Demkowicz, Gregory Rodin, Andrei Lavrinenko, Sebastien Guenneau, Boris Gralak, Roberto Graglia, Luca Dal Negro, Che-Ting Chan, Kurt Busch, Guglielmo Rubinacci, Roland Schnaubelt, Ralf Hiptmair, Weinong Fu, Yuan Ping Feng, and many others.
Conferences
- Best Session Organizer Award | PIERS PhotonIcs and Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Prague, July 2023
- CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 CLEO Munich, Germany, June 2023
- ISEM2022 Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2022 (online)
- Conference on Mathematics of Wave Phenomena Karlsruhe, Germany, February 2022 (online)
- Metamaterials: Designing Wave Propagation with a Focus on Electrodynamics, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany, February 2022
- CEFC 2020, Pisa, Italy, November 2020
- APS-URSI, Atlanta GA, July 2019
- CLEO Europe, Munich, Germany, June 2019
- Mathematics of Wave Phenomena, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2018
- Waves in Complex Photonic Media, Anacapri, Italy, June 2018
- EMF’2018, Darmstadt, Germany, April 2018
- Metamaterials 2017 and the European School on Metamaterials, Marseille, France, August-September 2017
- ACOMEN, Ghent, Belgium, September 2017
- IEEE-ICEAA, Verona, Italy, September 2017
- Advanced Concepts in Wave Physics: Topology and Parity-time Symmetries, January 2016, Hong Kong
- AMiTaNS’16 June 2016, Albena, Bulgaria
- The 36th PIERS, July 2015, Prague
- Compumag’15, July 2015, Montreal
- IEEE AP-S / URSI Symposium on Antennas and Propagation, July 2015, Vancouver
- ICCP9 (Computational Physics), January 2015, National University of Singapore