Conference on developments in wave propagation: Introduction

Abstract

In connection with its Industrial Associates program, the California Institute of Technology sponsors four or five conferences or symposia each year on scientific subject matter of topical interest. In May 1961 the Division of Engineering at Caltech was host to a conference on ‘Developments in Wave Propagation’ in this continuing program. With wave propagation as a common theme, the conference program drew on recognized authorities from a broad variety of physical fields for modern accounts of the knowledge, existing problems, and techniques for dealing with them. Specifically, the 3-day meeting had twelve 1-hour lectures, given in sessions on Methods in Wave Problems, Diffraction and Scattering of Elastic Waves, Waves in Dispersive Elastic and Anelastic Media, Hydrodynamic and Magnetohydrodynamic Waves, Electromagnetic Waves, and Nuclear Burst Wave Problems.