EM Programmer's notebook - General chair's report on the 8th International Workshop on Finite Elements for Microwave Engineering, Stellenbosch, South Africa, May 2006

[DBD] This is also the last EM Programmer's Notebook that John will be co-editing. With great foresight, John initiated the first column in the October, 1992, issue, and it has gone from strength to strength as computational electromagnetics has continued to grow in importance as an increasingly crucial component of con­ temporary antenna engineering. John's duties as Director of the ElectroScience Laboratories keep him so busy at present that he has asked to pass on the mantle. From all of us in the community, on the Magazine staff, and especially from myself as co-editor since June, 1999, we would like to take the opportunity to pro­ foundly thank John for all the contributions this column, his brain­ child, has made.