Dr. Kurt Oughstun’s two volume book entitled, “Electromagnetic and Optical Pulse Propagation” (Volume 1 published in 2006 and Volume 2 published in 2009) has received rave reviews in two prestigious science magazines: IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine and Optics & Photonics News.
Dr. Costas Sarris, from the University of Toronto, calls Oughstun’s two-volume book “a treatise on the theory of pulse propagation in temporally dispersive media,” that has “a remarkably combined mathematical rigor and the presentation of cutting-edge engineering applications with a captivating and eloquent writing style.” This review appears in the December 2010 issue of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine.
Dr. K. Alan Shore, from Bangor University in the U.K., was drawn to Oughstun’s expositions of asymptotic approximations where potentially challenging techniques are carefully derived and illustrated with well-chosen figures and says the work is firmly rooted in physical understanding and ultimately directed at real-world applications.Shore’s review appears in the June 2010 issue of Optics & Photonics News
Oughstun is professor in the School of Engineering at the UVM College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences and is well known for his world class expertise in the electromagnetics and optics fields. He is a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy (FEMA) and a Fellow of the Optical Society of America -- both organizations work to increase and diffuse the knowledge of optics, pure and applied and to promote the common interests of investigators of optical problems, of designers and of users of optical apparatus of all kinds.