Talk by Dr. Amr SAFWAT, Professor at Ain Shams University, on "Microwave Metamaterials in a Decade: Review, Contribution, State-of-the-Art and Insights" (Date: 30 September 2013)
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Dr. Amr SAFWAT, Professor at Ain Shams University, will give a talk on September 30th, 2013. Details for the talk are as follows:
Date and Time: Monday, 30 September 2013 - 05:15 pm
Place: Hall (8209), EECE Department, Cairo University
Title:
Microwave Metamaterials in a Decade: Review, Contribution, State-of-the-Art and Insights
Abstract :
Metamaterial has provided new insights to traditional microwave problems, which has led to the development of new designs of microwave circuits and antennas. Within this vision, the talk will provide a brief survey on the recent advancements in this field and will detail the research activities conducted by the microwave group in the Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University.
Brief Bio:
Amr M. E. Safwat received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Ain Shams University in 1993 and 1997 respectively and the Ph.D. from University of Maryland at College Park, in 2001. All are in electrical engineering. From Aug. 2001 to Aug. 2002, he was with Cascade Microtech Inc. In Aug. 2002, he joined the Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Ain Shams University, where he is currently, professor.
Dr. Safwat had held visiting professor positions at the Otto-Von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany (Sept. 04-Nov. 04), the “Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble”, Grenoble, France (Sept. 05-Nov. 05), and the Radio Laboratory and MilliLab, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (Jul. 06-Jun. 07). In 2008, he was awarded the Egyptian encouragement state prize for engineering sciences.
His research interests include metamaterial, microwave passive planar structures, and microwave photonics.
