Abstract :
The first Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS) was held in Boston on July 25 and 26, 1989. It was followed by an NSF-sponsored workshop on Future Directions in Electromagnetics Research. The worksho! included six panels, spanning the entire range of su jects of interest to AP-S members. In a well-attended plenary session, on July 27, the panels summarized the state of the art and noted emerging trends. Although the recommendations comprised a pot-pourri of techniques and methodologies in electromagnetics, one dominant theme emerged repeatedly. As one of the panelists (L. B. Felsen) observed, "If one were to coin a single phrase describing where electromagnetics is going, I would choose complexity." The final report on the workshop should be available from NSF later this year.
