Werner S. Weiglhofer
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Werner Siegfried Weiglhofer (25 August 1962 — 12 January 2003) was an Austrian applied mathematician, physicist, engineer and mountaineer, who was a professor at the Department of Mathematics at University of Glasgow. He was best known for his contributions to the electromagnetic theory of complex materials.
Werner Siegfried Weiglhofer | |
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Weiglhofer c. 2002 | |
| Born | 25 August 1962 Bruck an der Mur, Austria |
| Died | 12 January 2003 (aged 40) Trollstigen, Norway |
| Alma mater | Graz University of Technology |
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| Thesis | The representation of electromagnetic fields in anisotropic media in terms of dyadic Green’s functions (1986) |
| Walter Papousek | |
Biography
Werner Siegfried Weiglhofer was born in Bruck an der Mur on 25 August 1962. He obtained his doctorate in technical sciences from Graz University of Technology in 1986; his doctoral studies focused on scalar Hertz potentials in anisotropic materials. Following his post-doctoral studies at University of Adelaide on the basis of an Australian-European Fellowship, he joined the Department of Mathematics at University of Glasgow as a research assistant in 1988, working on magnetohydrodynamics. Becoming a lecturer at the department in 1991, he eventually was tenured as a professor in 2002.[1][2]
Weiglhofer's main research interests were magnetohydrodynamics and electrodynamics of complex materials, such as chiral and bi-anisotropic media.[1][3] His research career was marked with extensive collaborations with Akhlesh Lakhtakia. During his research career, he authored or co-authored 135 research publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as an undergraduate textbook on ordinary differential equations. He has served on the editorial boards of the journals AEU — International Journal of Electronics and Communications and Electromagnetics, and was the recipient of multiple URSI Young Scientists awards,[1][2] as well as a research fellowship from Royal Society of Edinburgh.[4] In 1997, he organized the Bianisotropics '97 conference in University of Glasgow.[2]
Weiglhofer had an avid interest in mountaineering and snowshoeing, and climbed to all of the Munros in Scotland.[2] From 1991 onwards, he has travelled extensively to Romsdal for mountain climbing and published two guidebooks to its peaks. Having learnt Norwegian language, he contributed to local newspapers on mountaineering-related topics.[1] On 12 January 2003, he died in an avalanche at Bispen mountain in Trollstigen, Norway. By the time of his death, he was co-editing the monograph Introduction to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics, which was released in the same year posthumously.[2] A conference in honour of Weiglhofer, titled Weiglhofer Symposium on Electromagnetic Theory, was first held in July 2022 in University of Edinburgh; it was organized by Akhlesh Lakhtakia and Weiglhofer's only doctoral student, Tom G. Mackay.[5]
Selected publications
- Books
- Weiglhofer, W. S., ed. (1997). Proceedings of Bianisotropics'97, International Conference and Workshop on Electromagnetics of Complex Media. Glasgow, Great Britain.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - Weiglhofer, W. S.; Lindsay, K. A. (1999). Ordinary Differential Equations & Applications: Mathematical Methods for Applied Mathematicians, Physicists, Engineers, Bioscientists. Chichester, England: Horwood Publishing Limited.
- Weiglhofer, Werner S. (1999). The summits of the Romsdal Alps = Toppene av Romsdalsalpene. Glasgow, Scotland: University of Glasgow.
- Lakhtakia, A.; Weiglhofer, W. S.; Messier, R., eds. (2000). Complex Mediums. SPIE International symposium on optical science, engineering, and instrumentation. Vol. 4097. San Diego, California, USA: SPIE.
- Lakhtakia, A.; Weiglhofer, W. S.; Hodgkinson, I. J., eds. (2001). Complex Mediums II: Beyond Linear Isotropic Dielectrics. SPIE International symposium on optical science and technology. Vol. 4467. San Diego, California, USA: SPIE.
- Weiglhofer, W. S.; Lakhtakia, A., eds. (2003). Introduction to Complex Mediums for Optics and Electromagnetics. Bellingham, WA: SPIE Press.
- Journal articles
- Weiglhofer, Werner S. (November–December 1993). "Analytic methods and free-space dyadic Green's functions". Radio Science. 28 (6): 847–857. doi:10.1029/93RS00903.
- Weiglhofer, W. S.; Lakhtakia, A. (1993). "Electromagnetic wave propagation in super-cholesteric materials parallel to the helical axis". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 26 (12): 2117–2122. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/26/12/004.
- Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Weiglhofer, Werner S. (1995). "On light propagation in helicoidal bianisotropic mediums". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 448 (1934): 419–437. doi:10.1098/rspa.1995.0025.
- Weiglhofer, Werner S.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh (1997). "On the non-existence of linear non-reciprocal bi-isotropic (NRBI) media". Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General. 30 (7): 2597–2600. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/30/7/035.
- Mackay, Tom G.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Weiglhofer, Werner S. (2000). "Strong-property-fluctuation theory for homogenization of bianisotropic composites: Formulation". Physical Review E. 62 (5): 6052–6064. doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.62.6052.
- Mackay, Tom G.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Weiglhofer, Werner S. (2001). "Homogenisation of similarly oriented, metallic, ellipsoidal inclusions using the bilocally-approximated strong-property-fluctuation theory". Optics Communications. 197 (1–3): 89–95. doi:10.1016/S0030-4018(01)01433-X.
- McCall, Martin W.; Lakhtakia, Akhlesh; Weiglhofer, Werner S. (2002). "The negative index of refraction demystified". European Journal of Physics. 23 (3): 353–359. arXiv:physics/0204067. doi:10.1088/0143-0807/23/3/314.