11th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering – FEM2012
June 4-6, 2012, Estes Park, Colorado, USA
http://www.engr.colostate.edu/FEM2012
General Chairs: Branislav M. Notaros, Colorado State University, notaros@colostate.edu, and Jian-Ming Jin, University of Illinois, j-jin1@ad.uiuc.edu
Technical Program Committee Chair: Milan M. Ilic, University of Belgrade and Colorado State University, milanilic@ieee.org
                                                                TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAM
Overall Technical Program
                                        
  The Historic Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday
  Stanley Hotel June 4 June 4 June 5 June 5 June 6
    Billiard Music Billiard Music  Music S1 Modeling and Design of Antennas and Arrays Using FEM (R. Kindt, D. Filipovic, E. Topsakal)
  Time Slots Room Room Room Room Room S2 Discontinuous Galerkin Methods (Q. H. Liu, W. Cai)
8:00 Slot 1 Paper 1.1 Paper 2.1 Paper 7.1 Paper 8.1   S3 Time-Domain FEM and Applications (D. White, O. Biro, T. Rylander)
8:20 Slot 2 Paper 1.2 Paper 2.2 Paper 7.2 Paper 8.2   S4 FEM and CEM Applications in Optics and Nanophotonics (E. Simsek)
8:40 Slot 3 Paper 1.3 Paper 2.3 Paper 7.3 Paper 8.3   S5 Model Order Reduction Techniques (R. Dyczij-Edlinger, V. de la Rubia)
9:00 Slot 4 Paper 1.4 Paper 2.4 Paper 7.4 Paper 8.4   S6 Advances in Vector Bases for CEM (R. Graglia, A. Peterson, D. Wilton)
9:20 Slot 5 Paper 1.5 Paper 2.5 Paper 7.5 Paper 8.5   S7 FETD Modeling of Complex Media and Structures (R. Lee, F. Teixeira)
9:40 Coffee break         S8 Adaptive FEM, Higher Order Bases, and Advanced FEM Formulations (J. Webb, M. Gavrilovic, M. Salazar Palma, L. Garcia-Castillo)
10:10 Slot 6 Paper 1.6 Paper 2.6 Paper 9.2 Paper 8.6   S9 Advances in Hybrid Methods and Multiphysics Problems (B. Shanker, L. Kempel)
10:30 Slot 7 Paper 1.7 Paper 4.1 Paper 9.3 Paper 8.8   S10 FEM Modeling and Applications of Metamaterials and Periodic Media (K. Sertel, J. Volakis)
10:50 Slot 8 Paper 3.1 Paper 4.2 Paper 9.4 Paper 10.1   S11 Domain-Decomposition Methods (J.-F. Lee, Z. Peng)
11:10 Slot 9 Paper 3.2 Paper 4.3 Paper 9.5 Paper 10.2   S12 Advanced FEM/MoM Modeling, Design, and Optimization (C.J. Reddy, U. Jakobus, J. Zapata, J. Gil, D. Jiao, A. Cangellaris)
11:30 Slot 10 Paper 3.3 Paper 4.4 Paper 9.6 Paper 10.3  
11:50 Lunch break         Open forum discussion 1: Open Forum Discussion on FEM and CEM Bases, Elements, and Formulations
13:10 Slot 11 Paper 3.4 Paper 4.5 Paper 9.7 Paper 10.4                                            (A. Peterson, D. Wilton, J. Webb, K. Sertel)
13:30 Slot 12 Paper 3.5 Paper 4.6 Paper 11.1 Paper 12.1 15:00-15:45 Open forum discussion 2: Open Forum Discussion on DDM, MOR, and Efficient FEM and Hybrid Solutions
13:50 Slot 13 Paper 3.6 Paper 6.1 Paper 11.2 Paper 12.2 Open forum                                          (J.-F. Lee, Zhen Peng, R. Dyczij-Edlinger, V. de la Rubia)
14:10 Slot 14 Paper 5.1 Paper 6.2 Paper 11.3 Paper 12.3 discussion 1 Open forum discussion 3: Open Forum Discussion on FEM-Based Modeling, Design, and Applications
14:30 Slot 15 Paper 5.2 Paper 6.3 Paper 11.4 Paper 12.4 15:45-16:30                                          (L. Kempel, B. Shanker, R. Kindt, C.J. Reddy, K. Zhao, T. Euler)
14:50 Slot 16 Paper 5.3 Paper 6.4 Paper 11.5 Paper 12.5 Open forum
15:10 Coffee break       discussion 2
15:40 Slot 17 Paper 5.4 Paper 6.5 Paper 11.6 Paper 12.6 16:30-16:50                       (Scroll down for Detailed Technical Program)
16:00 Slot 18 Paper 5.5 Paper 6.6 Paper 11.7 Paper 12.7 Coffee break
16:20 Slot 19 Paper 5.6 Paper 6.7 Paper 11.8 Paper 12.8 16:50-18:00
16:40 Slot 20 Paper 5.7 Paper 6.8 Paper 11.9 Paper 12.9 Open forum
17:00 Slot 21 Paper 5.8 Paper 6.9 discussion 3
17:20 Technical program ends for the day    
Technical and Social Program at a Glance
Sunday, June 3, 2012
Welcome Reception 19:00-21:00 (Music Room) 
Monday, June 4, 2012
Breakfast 7:00-8:00 (MacGregor Room) 
Technical Sessions 8:00-11:50 (coffee break 9:40-10:10)
Lunch 11:50-13:10 (MacGregor Room) 
Technical Sessions 13:10-17:20 (coffee break 15:10-15:40)
Stanley Hotel Ghost & History Tour – Monday Tour 17:30-19:00 
Conference Banquet 19:30-22:30 (MacGregor Room) 
 
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Breakfast 7:00-8:00 (MacGregor Room) 
Technical Sessions 8:00-11:50 (coffee break 9:40-10:10)
Lunch 11:50-13:10 (MacGregor Room) 
Technical Sessions 13:10-17:00 (coffee break 15:10-15:40)
Stanley Hotel Ghost & History Tour – Tuesday Tour 17:30-19:00 
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Breakfast 7:00-8:00 (MacGregor Room) 
Trip to Rocky Mountain National Park 8:00-14:00 (picnic lunch)
Open Forum Discussions 15:00-18:00 (coffee break 16:30-16:50)
Closing Reception 18:00-21:00 (The Elkhorn Lodge & Ranch)
Detailed Technical Program
  Monday, June 4, 2012, Billiard Room
   
  Session 1: Modeling and Design of Antennas and Arrays Using FEM (R. Kindt, D. Filipovic, E. Topsakal)
   
8:00 Paper 1.1. Highly Coupled Bow-Tie Array Design with Passive Elements
  Safa Salman*, Dimitris Psychoudakis, and John L. Volakis
   
8:20 Paper 1.2. Fully Overlapping Domain Decomposition in Simulating Irregularly Arranged Arrays in Large Media
  Tao Peng*, Kubilay Sertel, and John L. Volakis
   
8:40 Paper 1.3. Modeling of Antennas and Arrays Using Domain Decomposition Method
  Kezhong Zhao* and Nancy Lambert
   
9:00 Paper 1.4. Theoretical Analysis of Varactor-loaded Half-width Leaky-wave Antenna Arrays
  Leo C. Kempel*, B. Shanker, Edward J. Rothwell, and Prem Chahal
   
9:20 Paper 1.5. Non-conformal Domain Decomposition Methods for Modeling Large Finite Antenna Arrays
  Zhen Peng, Kheng-Hwee Lim, and Jin-Fa Lee
   
9:40 Coffee break
   
10:10 Paper 1.6. Investigation of the Scattering Behavior of Transponder Antennas in Case of Nonlinear Termination
  Thomas Bauernfeind*, Kurt Preis, Gergely Koczka, and Oszkar Biro
   
10:30 Paper 1.7. On the Design of Finite Planar Ultrawideband Modular Antenna (PUMA) Arrays using Domain Decomposition Methods
  Steve S. Holland, Jack T. Logan, Rick W. Kindt, and Marinos N. Vouvakis*
   
  Session 3: Time-Domain FEM and Applications (D. White, O. Biro, T. Rylander)
   
10:50 Paper 3.1. Numerical Simulation of HPM Devices with ICEPIC
  Andrew D. Greenwood*
   
11:10 Paper 3.2. Time Domain Method for Periodic Nonlinear Eddy Current Problems
  Oszkár Bíró, Gergely Koczka, and Kurt Preis
   
11:30 Paper 3.3. Hybrid FETD/FDTD Techniques Based on the Discontinuous Galerkin Method
  Bao Zhu, Jiefu Chen, Wanxie Zhong, and Qing Huo Liu
   
11:50 Lunch break
   
13:10 Paper 3.4. Transient Thermal Analysis using a Non-conformal Domain Decomposition Approach
  Yang Shao* , Zhen Peng, and Jin-Fa Lee
   
13:30 Paper 3.5. An Explicit and Unconditionally Stable Time-Domain Finite-Element Method of Linear Complexity
  Qing He, Duo Chen, and Dan Jiao
   
13:50 Paper 3.6. Conformal PML Modeling in DGTD using Continuous Material Properties
  Jue Wang*, Zhen Peng, and Jin-Fa Lee
   
  Session 5: Model Order Reduction Techniques (R. Dyczij-Edlinger, V. de la Rubia)
   
14:10 Paper 5.1. Reduced-order Electromagnetic Modeling in the Presence of Uncertainty
  Juan S. Ochoa and Andreas C. Cangellaris*
   
14:30 Paper 5.2. Efficient Model Order Reduction for FEM Analysis of Waveguide Structures and Resonators
  Fotyga G.*, Kulas L., Nyka K., and Mrozowski M.
   
14:50 Paper 5.3. Model Order Reduction for Systems with Geometrical Parameters
  Kynthia K. Stavrakakis*, Tilmann Wittig, Wolfgang Ackermann, and Thomas Weiland
   
15:10 Coffee break
   
15:40 Paper 5.4. Reduced-Order Models for Geometric Parameters
  Stefan Burgard*, Ortwin Farle, and Romanus Dyczij-Edlinger
   
16:00 Paper 5.5. Seamless Reduced Basis Element Method for Waveguide Simulation
  Yanlai Chen*, Jan S. Hesthaven, and Yvon Maday
   
16:20 Paper 5.6. The Reduced Basis Method for Saddle Point Problems
  Karen Veroy* and Anna-Lena Gerner
   
16:40 Paper 5.7. Reliable Fast Frequency Sweep of Microwave Circuits via the Reduced-Basis Method
  Valentin de la Rubia
   
17:00 Paper 5.8. Reduced Order Modeling of High Magnetic Field Magnets
  C. Daversin, C. Prudhomme, C. Trophime*, and S. Veys
   
17:20 Technical program ends for the day
  Monday, June 4, 2012, Music Room
   
  Session 2: Discontinuous Galerkin Methods (Q. H. Liu, W. Cai)
   
8:00 Paper 2.1. On the Physics, Accuracy, and Efficiency of the Dual-Field Domain-Decomposition Method for Time-Domain Electromagnetic Simulation
  Xiaolei Li and Jian-Ming Jin*
   
8:20 Paper 2.2. A Full Vectorial Generalized Discontinuous Galerkin Beam Propagation Method for Optical Waveguides
  Wei Cai*
   
8:40 Paper 2.3. Non-Conformal and Parallel and Interior Penalty Discontinuous Galerkin Method for the Time-Domain Maxwell's Equations
  Stylianos Dosopoulos and Jin-Fa Lee
   
9:00 Paper 2.4. Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Ideal MHD Equations
  Fengyan Li*
   
9:20 Paper 2.5. New Spectral-Prism-Element for Layered Structures implemented in an efficient implicit DG-FETD method
  Luis E. Tobon and Qing H. Liu*
   
9:40 Coffee break
   
10:10 Paper 2.6. An Efficient Discontinuous Galerkin Finite-Element Time-Domain Method and its Application to Micro-Resistivity Imager
  Jiefu Chen, Carlos Haramboure, Lance Pate, Shawn Wallace, Jay Martin, Medhat Mickael, and Mac Wisler
   
  Session 4: FEM and CEM Applications in Optics and Nanophotonics (E. Simsek)
   
10:30 Paper 4.1. Electromagnetic Scattering of Finite Size Periodic Large Scale System: Simulation by Domain Decomposition Spectral Element Method
  Ma Luo and Qing Huo Liu*
   
10:50 Paper 4.2. Efficient alternatives to edge vector finite elements for EM field calculations using Hermite interpolation polynomial basis functions on a nodal grid in 2D
  J. D. Albrecht, C. R. Boucher, C. I. Ahheng, and L. R. Ram-Mohan
   
11:10 Paper 4.3. Parallel Finite Element Electromagnetic Code Suite for Accelerator Modeling and Simulation
  Cho Ng, Lixin Ge, Kwok Ko, Kihwan Lee, Zenghai Li, Greg Schussman, and Liling Xiao
   
11:30 Paper 4.4. Optical, Electromagnetics, and Thermal Modeling of Interaction of a Focused Beam of Light with Plasmonic Nanoparticles
  Eren S. Unlu and Kursat Sendur*
   
11:50 Lunch break
   
13:10 Paper 4.5. Finite Element Analysis of Wideband Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Applications
  Niccolo Breda, Giuseppe Pelosi, Stefano Selleri, and Ruggero Taddei
   
13:30 Paper 4.6. Hybrid Optical Waveguides
  Ergun Simsek* and Qing H. Liu
   
  Session 6: Advances in Vector Bases for CEM (R. Graglia, A. Peterson, D. Wilton)
   
13:50 Paper 6.1. On the Construction of Well-conditioned Hierarchical Bases for Tetrahedral H(curl)-Conforming Nedelec Element
  Wei Cai* and Jianguo Xin
   
14:10 Paper 6.2. High Order Finite Elements for Computational Physics: An LLNL Perspective
  Robert N. Rieben*
   
14:30 Paper 6.3. FEM-MoM-Diakoptic Analysis of Scatterers with Anisotropic Inhomogeneities Using Hierarchical Vector Bases on Large Curved Elements
  Ana B. Manić*, Dragan I. Olćan, Milan M. Ilić, and Branislav M. Notaroš
   
14:50 Paper 6.4. Rapid, High-Order Finite Element Modelling with FEniCS and SUCEM:FEM
  A.J. Otto*, E. Lezar, N. Marais, R.G. Marchand, and D.B. Davidson
   
15:10 Coffee break
   
15:40 Paper 6.5. Issues Arising in Connection with Singular Vector Bases
  Roberto D. Graglia and Andrew F. Peterson*
   
16:00 Paper 6.6. An Orthogonal Prism Vector Bases Based Quadratic Eigenvalue Solver of Linear Complexity for 3-D Electromagnetic Analysis
  Jongwon Lee, Duo Chen, and Dan Jiao
   
16:20 Paper 6.7. Preliminary Research on the Discontinuous Enrichment Method Based Domain Decomposition Scheme for Solving the Three-Dimensional Vector Curl-Curl Equation
  Ming-Feng Xue* and Jian-Ming Jin
   
16:40 Paper 6.8. An Iterative Domain Decomposition Method for Solving Wave Propagation Problems
  Gergely Koczka, Kurt Preis*, Thomas Bauernfeind, and Oszkár Bíró
   
17:00 Paper 6.9. Evaluating Singular and Near-Singular Integrals on Curvilinear Elements
  Donald R. Wilton*
   
17:20 Technical program ends for the day
  Tuesday, June 5, 2012, Billiard Room
   
  Session 7: FETD Modeling of Complex Media and Structures (R. Lee, F. Teixeira)
   
8:00 Paper 7.1. FETD/FDTD with Automatic Hybrid Mesh Generation
  Shumin Wang*
   
8:20 Paper 7.2. Study of Numerical Dispersion for Quadrilateral and Triangular Elements Used in the Mixed Finite Element Method
  Luis E. Tobon and Qing H. Liu*
   
8:40 Paper 7.3. Probabilistic Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method Through Stochastic Electromagnetic Macro-Models
  Ata Zadehgol*, Andreas C. Cangellaris
   
9:00 Paper 7.4. Advancing Ultrahigh Field Human MRI using FDTD Method
  Tamer S. Ibrahim*
   
9:20 Paper 7.5. The Use of Multiple Time Steps in the FDTD Method
  Ruben Ortega and Robert Lee*
   
9:40 Coffee break
   
  Session 9: Advances in Hybrid Methods and Multiphysics Problems (B. Shanker, L. Kempel)
   
10:10 Paper 9.2. Thermal-Aware DC IR-Drop Co-Analysis using a Non-conformal Domain Decomposition Approach
  Yang Shao*, Zhen Peng, Jin-Fa Lee
   
10:30 Paper 9.3. Development of Time Domain Discontinuous Galerkin-Vector Generalized Finite Element Method
  O. Tuncer, B. Shanker*, L. C. Kempel
   
10:50 Paper 9.4. Multi-solver-based Generalized Impedance Boundary Condition for Complicated EM Simulation
  Shiquan He, Jun Hu*, Zaiping Nie, Lijun Jiang, W. C. Chew
   
11:10 Paper 9.5. Analysis of Electromechanical Devices Using the Dual-Primal Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting Method Incorporated with the LU Recombination Method
  Wang Yao*, Jian-Ming Jin
   
11:30 Paper 9.6. Alternative Formulations for Hybrid Electromagnetic-Circuit Simulators
  Vivek Subramanian, Ali E. Yılmaz*
   
11:50 Lunch break
   
13:10 Paper 9.7. Symmetric and Nonsymmetric FEM-MoM Techniques Using Higher Order Hierarchical Vector Basis Functions and Curved Parametric Elements
  Ana Manić*, Milan Ilić, Branislav Notaroš
   
  Session 11: Domain-Decomposition Methods (J.-F. Lee, Z. Peng)
   
13:30 Paper 11.1. Analysis of Three-Dimensional Array Structures Using Nonconformal and Cement FETI-DP Methods
  Ming-Feng Xue* and Jian-Ming Jin
   
13:50 Paper 11.2. A Domain-Decomposition-Based Preconditioner of FE-BI-MLFMA for Computing EM Scattering by Large Inhomogeneous 3D Targets
  Ming-Lin Yang, Xin-Qing Sheng, and Cheng-Dan Huang
   
14:10 Paper 11.3. On the Computational Complexity of Domain Wise Multilevel Multifrontal Method
  Peng Liu* and Chao-Fu Wang
   
14:30 Paper 11.4. Harmonic Balance Domain Decomposition Finite Element for Nonlinear Passive Microwave Devices Analysis
  Laurent Ntibarikure, Giuseppe Pelosi, and Stefano Selleri
   
14:50 Paper 11.5. Application of Tree-Cotree Splitting to the Dual-Primal Finite Element Tearing and Interconnecting Method for Solving Low-Frequency Breakdown Problems
  Wang Yao* and Jian-Ming Jin
   
15:10 Coffee break
   
15:40 Paper 11.6. Edge Elements and DPM with PBSV to Accelerate Solving Scattering Problems of Electrically Large Objects
  Lianyou Sun*, Lishan Xue, and Wei Hong
   
16:00 Paper 11.7. Enhancement of Second-harmonic Generation in an Air-bridge Photonic Crystal Slab: Simulation by Spectral Element Method
  Ma Luo and Qing Huo Liu*
   
16:20 Paper 11.8. A Non-overlapping and Non-conformal Domain Decomposition Method with Optimized Second Order Transmission Conditions for Time-Harmonic Maxwell Equations in R3
  Zhen Peng and Jin-Fa Lee
   
16:40 Paper 11.9. The Quest for Robust Domain Decomposition Methods in CEM: Are We There Yet?
  Marinos N. Vouvakis* and Georgios N. Paraschos
   
17:00 Technical program ends for the day
  Tuesday, June 5, 2012, Music Room
   
  Session 8 Adaptive FEM, Higher Order Bases, and Advanced FEM Formulations (J. Webb, M. Gavrilovic, M. Salazar Palma, L. Garcia-Castillo)
   
8:00 Paper 8.1. Hp-adaption for Computing Scattering Parameters on Tetrahedral Meshes
  J. P. Webb
   
8:20 Paper 8.2. Efficient RCS Prediction of Jet Engine Air Intakes Using hp-FEM and Reduced Order Modeling
  Adam Zdunek* and Waldemar Rachowicz
   
8:40 Paper 8.3. Rules for Adoption of Expansion and Integration Orders in FEM Analysis Using Higher Order Hierarchical Bases on Generalized Hexahedral Elements
  Nada J. Šekeljić*, Slobodan V. Savić, Milan M. Ilić, and Branislav M. Notaroš
   
9:00 Paper 8.4. Auxiliary Space Preconditioning for Hierarchical Elements
  A. Aghabarati, J. P. Webb
   
9:20 Paper 8.5. Chain Homotopy Operators and Whitney form-based Finite Element Analysis
  P. Robert Kotiuga*
   
9:40 Coffee break
   
10:10 Paper 8.6. Comparative Performance of Nodal-Based Versus Edge-Based Finite Element Formulations
  Ruben Otin*, Santiago Badia, and Luis E. Garcia-Castillo
   
10:30 Paper 8.8. A Three-Dimensional Self-Adaptive hp Finite Element Method for the Characterization of Waveguide Discontinuities
  Ignacio Gomez-Revuelto, Luis E. Garcia-Castillo, Sergio Llorente-Romano, and David Pardo
   
  Session 10: FEM Modeling and Applications of Metamaterials and Periodic Media (K. Sertel, J. Volakis)
   
10:50 Paper 10.1. Finite Element Modeling of Magnetic Metamaterials and Associated Challenges for Their Experimental Characterization
  Nil Apaydin* , Kubilay Sertel, and John L. Volakis
   
11:10 Paper 10.2. A Method for Rapid Evaluation of Space-time Convolutions with the Time Domain Periodic Green's Function
  D. Dault and B. Shanker*
   
11:30 Paper 10.3. Finite Element Analysis of Photon Density of States for Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals with Omnidirectional Light Propagation
  R. F. Jao and M. C. Lin
   
11:50 Lunch break
   
13:10 Paper 10.4. A Hybrid Approach for Characterizing Large Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Metamaterial Structures
  Justin G. Pollock and Ashwin K. Iyer*
   
  Session 12: Advanced FEM/MoM Modeling, Design, and Optimization (C.J. Reddy, U. Jakobus, J. Zapata, J. Gil, D. Jiao, A. Cangellaris)
   
13:30 Paper12.1. Overview of the Hybrid Finite Element Method/Method of Moments Capability in FEKO
  Marianne Bingle*, Ulrich Jakobus, and Johann J. van Tonder
   
13:50 Paper12.2. Application of Hybrid FEM/MoM Technique for Handheld Mobile Devices
  Rensheng Sun and C. J. Reddy
   
14:10 Paper12.3. Application of Hybrid FEM/MoM Technique for Cavity Backed Apertures
  Gopinath Gampala, Rensheng Sun and C. J. Reddy
   
14:30 Paper12.4. Eigenproblem Approach for Analysis and Optimization of Microwave Filters Using Finite Element Method
  Adam Lamecki, Michal Mrozowski
   
14:50 Paper12.5. Does Sensitivity Analysis for Fast Frequency Sweeps Converge?
  Andreas Köhler, Ortwin Farle, Romanus Dyczij-Edlinger*
   
15:10 Coffee break
   
15:40 Paper12.6. Benchmark of Conformal Finite-Difference Method against Finite Element Method
  M. C. Lin
   
16:00 Paper12.7. Layout-Integrated Electromagnetic Interconnect Characterization and Simulation
  Dennis Nagle, Jilin Tan, Jian-Ming Jin
   
16:20 Paper12.8. An Extraction-Free Circuit Simulator of Linear Complexity Guided by Electromagnetics-Based First Principles
  Qing He, Duo Chen, and Dan Jiao
   
16:40 Paper12.9. A model reduction method for multiple particle electromagnetic scattering in three dimensions
  M. Ganesh*, J. Hesthaven, and B. Stamm
   
17:00 Technical program ends for the day
  Wednesday, June 6, 2012, Music Room
   
15:00 Open forum discussion 1: Open Forum Discussion on FEM and CEM Bases, Elements, and Formulations
                          (A. Peterson, D. Wilton, J. Webb, K. Sertel)
15:45 Open forum discussion 2: Open Forum Discussion on DDM, MOR, and Efficient FEM and Hybrid Solutions 
                          (J.-F. Lee, Zhen Peng, R. Dyczij-Edlinger, V. de la Rubia)
16:30 Coffee break
   
16:50 Open forum discussion 3: Open Forum Discussion on FEM-Based Modeling, Design, and Applications 
                          (L. Kempel, B. Shanker, R. Kindt, C.J. Reddy, K. Zhao, T. Euler)
18:00 Technical program ends for the day