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		<p><span class="formTitle" style="font-weight: bold;">MA6618 Mathematical Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Waves</span><p>
		    
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		<font face="arial"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span>Course Aims &amp; Objectives:<span>&nbsp;</span></span></strong></font></font><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> <p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><span><font face="arial" size="2">The aim of this course is to introduce basic mathematical theories and computational techniques for some important wave propagation problems in electromagnetics and optics. Necessary physical concepts will be introduced, but the emphasis of this course is on mathematical methods.</font></span></p><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span>Units:<span>&nbsp;</span></span></strong><span>3</span></font></font></p><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span>Level:</span></strong><span><span>&nbsp;</span>P6</span></font></font></p><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial">Medium of Instruction:</span></strong><span style="font-family: Arial"> English</span></font></font></p><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><br /><strong>Keyword Syllabus:</strong></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" align="justify"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span>Physical background, Maxwell's equations, radiation conditions, Green's functions, waves in homogeneous media, waves in layered media, scattering from cylinders and spheres, optical waveguides, diffraction grating, photonic crystals, optical bistability, harmonic generation, nonlinear Schroedinger equation, solitons.</span></font></font><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p></span></font></font><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span><font face="arial" size="2">Teaching pattern:</font></span></strong></p><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span>Duration of course:<span>&nbsp;</span>one</span><span> semester</span></font></font></p><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span>Suggested lecture/tutorial/laboratory mix:<span>&nbsp;</span>3/0/0</span></font></font></p><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;</p><p style="text-justify: inter-ideograph; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span><font face="arial" size="2">Assessment pattern:<br /></font></span></strong><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span>Examination duration:<span>&nbsp;</span>3 hours<br /></span></font></font><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span>Percentage of coursework, examination, etc.:<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>50/50%<br /></span></font></font><font face="arial"><font size="2"><span>Grading pattern :<span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Standard (A+ A A- &hellip; F)</span></font></font></p><p><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span>Pre-requisites:</span></strong><span><span>&nbsp;</span></span><span>Nil</span></font></font><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> </p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: -45.0pt -36.0pt 144.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span>Pre-cursor:<span>&nbsp;</span></span></strong><span>MA5601</span></font></font></p><span><font face="arial" size="2">&nbsp;</font></span> <p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; tab-stops: 144.0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font face="arial"><font size="2"><strong><span>Equivalent Courses:</span></strong><span> Nil</span></font></font></p></font>
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