A survey of classical and recent results in RLC circuit synthesis
Abstract:
The talk will recall some of the main results of classical circuit synthesis: Foster’s Reactance theorem, the constructions of Brune and Darlington, reactance extraction, and the Bott-Duffin procedure. An introduction will also be provided to the enumerative method for RLC synthesis and the recent results of Hughes and Smith, Jiang and Smith.
Biography:Malcolm Smith received the B.A. (M.A.) degree in mathematics, the M.Phil degree in control engineering and operational research and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering fromCambridge University, England. He was subsequently a Research Fellow at the German Aerospace Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Fellow with the Department of Electrical Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. He is now a Fellow of Gonville and Caius College and a Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.