might be going for a grad degree in computational E&M

[TecHNooB]

Any opinions on this field? I'd like to know who the top advisors are in this field. I have someone in mind (at purdue), but I'm also caught between big name schools vs good advisors. If I only go for my masters, I'd go for the big name school and just take courses. But if I go for my phd, I'd want a good advisor. So if you're in the field of computational E&M, please let me know how the progression has been and which schools/advisors you think are the best.

 

[Born2bwire]

I do CEM. :awe:

But not at Purdue. 😡

Who's the wheel at Purdue that you want to work for? UIUC, Ohio State and MIT are the big three that I think of. But that doesn't mean the other universities do not have strong CEM faculty. For example, Wilton is out in Houston and Glisson is at Ole Miss from what I recollect. It's just that those three are the ones at the top of my mind that have a group of CEM faculty. Michigan has good department I seem to recall. They got Michielssen from us a few years ago.

 

[TecHNooB]

I do CEM. :awe:

But not at Purdue. 😡

Who's the wheel at Purdue that you want to work for? UIUC, Ohio State and MIT are the big three that I think of. But that doesn't mean the other universities do not have strong CEM faculty. For example, Wilton is out in Houston and Glisson is at Ole Miss from what I recollect. It's just that those three are the ones at the top of my mind that have a group of CEM faculty. Michigan has good department I seem to recall. They got Michelsohn from us a few years ago.

I might end up working with Dan Jiao at Purdue. I'll tell you the rest via PM cuz I'd like to keep her opinions private 😛

 

[Born2bwire]

I might end up working with Dan Jiao at Purdue. I'll tell you the rest via PM cuz I'd like to keep her opinions private 😛

Ah, she was a student of Professor Jin. Jin's the current head of the CCEML lab at UIUC. Jin's a great guy and he's had some really good students. I haven't come across Professor Jiao's work before but that's because a quick glance shows me that she is looking into a different area.

 

[TecHNooB]

Ah, she was a student of Professor Jin. Jin's the current head of the CCEML lab at UIUC. Jin's a great guy and he's had some really good students. I haven't come across Professor Jiao's work before but that's because a quick glance shows me that she is looking into a different area.

This is her short bio on her website:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~djiao/danjiao.html

I think her big breakthrough was reducing some O(N^3) to O(N) complexity using cracked out matrix inversion rather than lots of matrix multiplication. Don't know anymore besides that. Apparently Intel was a fan.

 

[Born2bwire]

This is her short bio on her website:
https://engineering.purdue.edu/~djiao/danjiao.html

I think her big breakthrough was reducing some O(N^3) to O(N) complexity using cracked out matrix inversion rather than lots of matrix multiplication. Don't know anymore besides that. Apparently Intel was a fan.

Heh, a lot of the CEM students from UIUC get picked up by Intel. I worked there for one summer under a former student of one CEM faculty and her husband was a former student of my advisor. We even had a barbeque of half a dozen or so former students of my advisor while I was there. UIUC developed a number of breakthroughs in fast algorithms. One of the big ones was true implementation of the Multilevel Fast Multipole Method (MLFMA) which allows you to go from N^3 to NlogN complexity for method of moments problems. That was a huge speedup. But the bulk of the research work in MLFMA was largely done 5-10 years ago.