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Seminar Announcement
These events are organized by various sub-sets of the IEEE Toronto Section.
The contact person listed below is the volunteer who has arranged this event.
Please use the e-mail link provided if you have any questions, suggestions,
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The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
an IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society Distinguished Lecture
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| Speaker
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Dr. James C. Rautio
Sonnet Software, Inc.
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| Day and Time
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Thursday, September 8, 2005 at 4:00 p.m.
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| Location
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Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 1230
University of Toronto
40 St George Street, Toronto
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| Organizer
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IEEE Electromagnetics and Radiation Joint Chapter
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| Contact
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George Eleftheriades, E-mail:
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| Abstract
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James Clerk Maxwell stands shoulder to shoulder with Newton and Einstein,
yet even those of us who have spent decades working with Maxwell's
equations are almost totally unfamiliar with his life and times. This
presentation, from the viewpoint of a microwave engineer, draws on many
sources in providing an understanding of James Maxwell himself. What was
Maxwell like as an infant? What was the tragedy at eight years old that
profoundly influenced his life? What unique means of transportation did
young Maxwell use to escape a cruel tutor? What memorable event occurred
on his first day of school? When did he publish his first papers, and
what were they about? What did Maxwell have to do with the rings of
Saturn? Why did he lose his job as a professor? Why did he have a hard
time getting another job? What was his wife like? What is Maxwell's
legacy to us? The answers to these questions provide insight into Maxwell
the person and add an extra dimension to those four simple equations we
have studied ever since.
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| Biography
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James C. Rautio received a BSEE from Cornell in 1978, a MS Systems
Engineering from University of Pennsylvania in 1982, and a Ph. D. in
electrical engineering from Syracuse University in 1986. From 1978 to
1986, he worked for General Electric, first at the Valley Forge Space
Division, then at the Syracuse Electronics Laboratory. At this time he
developed microwave design and measurement software, and designed
microwave circuits on Alumina and on GaAs. From 1986 to 1988, he was a
visiting professor at Syracuse University and at Cornell. In 1988 he went
full time with Sonnet Software, a company he had founded in 1983. In 1995,
Sonnet was listed on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing privately
held US companies, the first microwave software company ever to be so
listed. Today, Sonnet is the leading vendor of 3-D planar high frequency
electromagnetic analysis software.
Dr. Rautio was elected a fellow of the
IEEE in 2000 and received the IEEE MTT Microwave Application Award in 2001
and is an adjunct professor at Syracuse University.
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