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Meta 2010 Foreword<br />
La<strong>di</strong>es and Gentlemen,<br />
Meta 2010 & FEM 2010 – Rome, 13-15 December 2010<br />
welcome to the Fifth Workshop on Metamaterials and Special Materials for<br />
Electromagnetic Applications and TLC, held in Rome for the third time. As the<br />
chairmen of the workshop, we are very glad of welcoming all of you to this venue and<br />
to host these three exciting days of talks on metamaterials and special material<br />
applications in electromagnetics. This year the workshop is held jointly with the IV<br />
Italian Workshop “The Finite Element Method Applied to Electrical and Information<br />
Engineering”, that will be introduced in the afternoon by Profs. Giuseppe Schettini<br />
and Augusto Di Napoli.<br />
This workshop is aimed to present the recent research advances in the metamaterials<br />
and special materials area. It includes theoretical, numerical, and experimental<br />
contributions to the understan<strong>di</strong>ng of the behavior of several classes of metamaterials<br />
and to their potential applications in components, devices, and antennas at microwave<br />
up to optical frequencies. There is evidently a renewed interest around the scientific<br />
community in using and designing artificial structures to develop composite materials<br />
that mimic known material responses and that have new, physically realizable<br />
response functions that are not rea<strong>di</strong>ly available in nature. Starting from the word<br />
itself, meta-materials, it is evident how physicists, chemists and engineers involved in<br />
this field are investigating new possibilities for going beyond the limits that natural<br />
materials have in <strong>di</strong>fferent applications.<br />
This year the Scientific Committee, chaired by Prof. Filiberto Bilotti, has accepted 24<br />
abstracts, all of them from excellent research schools and with a very high quality<br />
level. This is a clear in<strong>di</strong>cation of the interest that metamaterials and special materials<br />
are raising at the moment in Italy. We are also very proud to have here three among<br />
the most internationally recognized scientists lea<strong>di</strong>ng the research on Metamaterials:<br />
Prof. Nikolay Zheludev from the University of Southampton, UK, Prof. Rick<br />
Ziolkowski from the University of Arizona, USA, and Prof. Silvio Hrabar from<br />
Zagreb University, Croatia. Thank you for being here and for having accepted our<br />
invitation.<br />
Finally, we would like to thank the IEEE Italy Section for technically supporting this<br />
event, Anosoft and CST for the financial support as Gold Sponsors, the members of<br />
the scientific and the organizing committees for the efforts they have spent for making<br />
this event possible, the Rector of “Roma Tre” University who gave us this beautiful<br />
room where we meet today, the authors of the papers for the high-level contributions<br />
they are going to present, and all of you for coming here in Rome to attend this event.<br />
We sincerely hope that you will enjoy your attendance to this workshop and to the<br />
social event we have organized. We will not steal more time to the sessions.<br />
Welcome to Rome!<br />
Lucio Vegni & Alessandro Toscano<br />
Chairmen of the Fifth Italian Workshop<br />
on Metamaterials and Special Materials for Electromagnetic Applications and TLC<br />
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