Abstracts - Dipartimento di Elettronica Applicata

FEM 2010 Foreword
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Meta 2010 & FEM 2010 – Rome, 13-15 December 2010
welcome to the Fourth Italian Workshop on Finite Element Method applied to
Electrical and Information Engineering, held in Rome for the second time. We are
very glad of welcoming all of you to this event and have the occasion of discussing
about so exciting arguments on finite elements applied to electrical and information
engineering during the workshop.
This year the workshop is jointly held with Fifth Italian Workshop on Metamaterials
and Special Materials for Electromagnetic Applications and TLC, that has the
opening session in the morning.
This workshop is aimed to present the recent research advances in the finite element
method and its advanced applications. It includes numerical and experimental
contributions to the comprehension of the behavior of several kinds of devices and to
their applications as magnetic sensors, devices, electrical machines, antennas, and
guiding components at microwave up to optical frequencies. The interest in studying
new theoretical and numerical extensions of the method is renewing together with its
application to an increasing number of different and new fields. Among these we can
cite magnetic modeling, biomedical applications, microwave components,
metamaterials, etc.
This year the Scientific Committee has accepted 16 abstracts, all of them from
excellent research schools and with a very high quality level. This is a clear indication
of the interest that the finite element method is an active area of research in Italy. We
are also very proud to have here one of the most internationally recognized scientists
leading the research on magnetic devices: Prof. Norio Takahashi from Okayama
University, Japan. Thank you for being here and for having accepted our invitation.
Finally, we would like to thank the IEEE Italy Section for technically supporting this
event, Ansoft and CST for the financial support as Gold Sponsors, the members of the
scientific and the organizing committees for the efforts they have spent for making
this event possible, the Rector of “Roma Tre” University who gave us this beautiful
room where we meet today, the authors of the papers for the high-level contributions
they are going to present, and all of you for coming here in Rome to attend this event.
We sincerely hope that you will enjoy your attendance to this workshop and to the
social event we have organized. We will not steal more time to the sessions.
Welcome to Rome!
Augusto Di Napoli & Giuseppe Schettini
Chairmen of the Fourth Italian Workshop
on Finite Element Method applied to Electrical and Information Engineering
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