M.Hossain Mohammadi successfully defended his PhD thesis (2 Apr. 2019)
M.Hossain Mohammadi defended his PhD thesis on "Geometric Multigrid Preconditioning for the Nonconforming Voxel Finite Element Method in Electromagnetic Scattering".
Prof. Maurizio Repetto presented on the Analysis of magnetic damping in vibrating structures (19 Mar. 2019)
Prof. Maurizio Repetto delivered a presentation on "Analysis of magnetic damping in vibrating structures" to the CompEM lab members.
Nizamuddin Hussain successfully defended his PhD thesis (26 Feb. 2019)
Nizamuddin Hussain defended his PhD thesis on "Geometric Multigrid Preconditioning for the Nonconforming Voxel Finite Element Method in Electromagnetic Scattering".
Ryan Galagusz successfully defended his PhD thesis (29 Nov. 2018)
Ryan Galagusz defended his PhD thesis on "A spectral finite element method on non-conforming meshes: Domain decomposition for high frequency scattering problems".
Fatemeh Afshar successfully defended his PhD thesis (25 Oct. 2018)
Fatemeh Afshar defended his PhD thesis on "Time Domain Numerical Modelling of Graphene".
Vahid Ghorbanian successfully defended his PhD thesis (16 Mar. 2018)
Vahid Ghorbanian defended his PhD thesis on "An HPC-based Data-driven Approach to System-level Design Process for Integrated Motor-Drive Systems".
Rodrigo César Pedrosa Silva successfully defended his PhD thesis (31 Jan. 2018)
Rodrigo César Pedrosa Silva defended his PhD thesis on "Surrogate problem evaluation and selection for optimization with expensive function evaluations".
Armin Salimi successfully defended his PhD thesis (6 Sep. 2017)
Armin Salimi defended his PhD thesis on "Computer-Aided Design of Electrical Machines: The Role of Robustness and Application of Statistical Analysis Techniques in Multi-Objective Design Optimization".
Participation at COMPUMAG 2017 (Jun. 2017)
CompEM lab members including Prof. David A. Lowther, Mohammad Hossain Mohammadi and Sajid Hussain attended and presented five papers at COMPUMAG 2017 in Daejeon, Korea.
These include works on design optimization of electric machines and iron loss modelling.
Refer to the Publications page for the paper titles.
Also, Prof. Lowther delivered a plenary talk on "The Design of Electromagnetic Devices: From Simulation to Reality".
During the closing ceremony, it was announced that he was elected as the President of the International COMPUMAG Society.
Plenary Talk: YouTube video
Participation at IEMDC 2017 (May 2017)
Prof. David A. Lowther attended and presented two papers at IEMDC 2017 in Miami, FL, USA.
Refer to the Publications page for the paper titles.
Prof. David A. Lowther has been elevated to a Fellow of IEEE (Jan. 2017)
Prof. David A. Lowther has been elevated to a Fellow of IEEE for his contributions to, and industrial applications of computer aided design in electromagnetics.
Adam Santorelli successfully defended his PhD thesis (16 Mar. 2017)
Adam Santorelli defended his PhD thesis on "A compact and low-cost microwave radar prototype for breast health monitoring".
IEEE IAS Prominent Lecture by Dr. Mircea Popescu (23 Nov. 2016)
Dr. Mircea Popescu, Head of Engineering of North America from Motor Design Ltd., delivered an IEEE IAS Prominent Lecture on the "Practical Aspects in the Design and Analysis of Electric Machinery for Power Traction Applications".
He later visited the CompEM lab and held discussions with lab members.
Participation at CEFC 2016 (Nov. 2016)
CompEM lab members attended and presented more than ten papers at the 17th IEEE Conference on Electromagnetic Field Computation in Miami, FL, USA.
Refer to the Publications page for the paper titles.
Sajid Hussain successfully defended his PhD thesis (2 Nov. 2016)
Sajid Hussain defended his PhD thesis on "Development of Advanced Material Models for the Simulation of Low Frequency Electromagnetic Devices".
Participation at ICEM 2016 (Sep. 2016)
Vahid Ghorbanian (Ph.D. Candidate) presented his two papers at the XXIIth International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM'2016) in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Refer to the Publications page for the paper titles.
Research Visit from CHARGE Labs (27 Jul. 2016)
A team of researchers from CHARGE Labs of University of Windsor visited CompEM Laboratory from July 27 to July 28.
Dr. Paolo Di Barba presented on the optimization of electromagnetic devices (29 Jun. 2016)
Dr. Paolo Di Barba delivered a presentation on "Strategies of optimal design in electricity and magnetism" to the CompEM lab members. PhD students and lab affiliates also discussed their research work with him through short presentations.
APC Recording at CompEM Lab (10 Feb. 2016)
A professional video was recorded on the existing equipment and research performed at the CompEM Lab in the APC project (YouTube Video).
Left: Sara Hamidzadeh (collaborating Master's student)
Right: Dr. Min Li (post-doctoral fellow)
Ali Akbarzadeh successfully defended his PhD thesis (1 Feb. 2016)
Ali Akbarzadeh defended his PhD thesis on "Finite-Element Time-Domain Modelling of Dispersive Media and Layered Structures".
Moein Nazari successfully defended his PhD thesis (27 Jan. 2016)
Moein Nazari defended his PhD thesis on "Computed Basis Functions for Nonconforming Voxel Finite Element Methods in Electromagnetics".
Tapabrata Mukherjee successfully defended his PhD thesis (22 Jun. 2015)
Tapabrata Mukherjee defended his PhD thesis on "Hierarchical Polygonal Finite Elements of Arbitrary Order".
Professor A. Tounzi gave a presentation on Iron Losses (14 Apr. 2015)
Professor A. Tounzi of Lille1 University France visited COMPEM Lab and gave a presentation on the "Calculation of iron losses in the post processing stage".
Emily Porter successfully defended her PhD thesis (26 Mar. 2015)
Emily Porter defended her PhD thesis on "Microwave time-domain radar for monitoring breast health: development and testing of an early prototype".
Transformer expert visited CompEM Lab (Mar. 2015)
Dr. Ing. Ugo Piovan, internationally-recognized expert in transformer, from Switzerland visited COMPEM on March 2nd 2015.
New visiting researcher joined CompEM Lab (Mar. 2015)
Professor Stéphane Clénet of Lille1 University France joined the CompEM Lab as a visiting researcher on March 2nd 2015. He will be working in collaboration with Prof. D. A. Lowther.
Rajeev Das sucessfully defended his PhD thesis (24 Nov. 2014)
Rajeev Das sucessfully defended his PhD thesis on "Simulation and Optimization of HTS-based Electromagnetic systems".
(From left: Prof. Peter Radziszewski, Prof. David A Lowther, Dr. Rajeev Das, Prof. Boon-Teck Ooi, Prof. Milica Popović, Prof. Richard Chromik, Pro Dean)
Research Seminar (20 Jun. 2012)
Prof. Jin-Fa Lee from the Ohio State University gave a seminar on "Surface Integral Equation Methods for Electrodynamics" at Room 603, McConnell Engineering Building on June 20, 2012.
(From left: Prof. David A Lowther (McGill), Prof. Zoltan Cendes (CMU), Prof. Jin-Fa Lee (OSU), Prof. Jonathan Webb (McGill), Mr. Forghani.)
