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Invited Speakers

Invited speakers will include:

Public lectures:

• Prof Elizabeth Garber (Stony Brook University, USA)
  Maxwell on subjects great and small: Saturn’s rings and molecular science
• Prof Graham Hall (University of Aberdeen)
  Maxwell’s electromagnetic theory and the special theory of relativity
• Prof Malcolm Longair (University of Cambridge)
  Maxwell and the science of colour
• Dr John Reid (University of Aberdeen)
  James Clerk Maxwell at Aberdeen

Scientific lectures:

• Dr Barbara Anderson (Schlumberger Ltd, USA) and
  Mr Jim White (Schlumberger Ltd, UK)
  How Maxwell’s equations are used on a daily basis in down-hole logging for oil and gas exploration
• Prof Robert Bingham (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
  Photons and future particle accelerators
• Dr Anthony Bond (WRc plc) and
  Dr Ranald Macdonald (Trident Underwater Engineering(Systems) Ltd)
  An example of Professor Maxwell’s work relating to electromagnetics concerning present day water pipeline leak location solutions
• Prof Alan Cairns (University of St Andrews)
  Using electromagnetic waves to heat fusion plasmas
• Prof Renato Fedele (University Federico II of Naples, Italy)
  From the Maxwell theory of Saturn’s ring to the negative-mass instability
• Prof Richard Harrison (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
  The magnetic sun
• Prof David Lowther (McGill University, Canada) and
  Prof Ernie Freeman (Imperial College London)
  Maxwell’s  equations - Solution methods, past, present and future
• Prof Tito Mendonça (Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal)
  Maxwell and the classical wave-particle dualism
• Dr Gordon Ogilvie (University of Cambridge)
  Dynamics of astrophysical discs
• Prof Alan Phelps (University of Strathclyde)
  Coherent electromagnetic wave generation by relativistic electrons
• Prof Padma Shukla (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany)
  Localization of intense electromagnetic waves in plasmas
• Prof Robin Tucker (Lancaster University)
  Perspectives on the relevance of gravitation for the covariant description of electromagnetically polarizable media
• Dr Charles Wang (University of Aberdeen)
  Electromagnetism, relativity and the gauge approach to quantum gravity
• Dr Douglas Wright (QinetiQ, Centre for Marine Technology, Fife)
  TBA

Local Organisers

Dr John Reid and Dr Charles Wang

Advisory Committee

Dr Alan Fenwick (QinetiQ), Prof Celso Grebogi (Aberdeen), Prof Graham Hall (Aberdeen), Dr Jan Skakle (Aberdeen), Prof Michael Thompson FRS (UCL/Cambridge/Aberdeen) and Prof Marian Wiercigroch (Aberdeen)