State-of-the-art, trends, and directions in computational electromagnetics

A workshop on recent advances, the state-of-the-art, trends and directions in computational electromagnetics, sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), was discussed. The workshop sought to recognize immediate and long-term needs for computational electromagnetics, especially as they relate to the armed forces. The meeting was geared towards identifying promising formulations, algorithms and implementations for electromagnetic simulations of interest to DOD. The central problem in computational electromagnetics relates to the prediction of electromagnetic field values in a given, typically complex, configuration of conductors and dielectrics.