The presentation
Maxwell’s Equations are mysterious to many, but they are really a beautiful work of mathematical art that is at the heart of radio. The mathematics seems impenetrable without advanced calculus, however, there is another way to look at it: visually. This talk will take you inside a Gaussian surface, around a curl, and away from a divergence so that you too can see how these four simultaneous differential equations combine to bring the world of radio to life. You will learn the meaning of Maxwell’s Equations in about 45 minutes.
About the presenter
Kristen McIntyre, K6WX, has been interested in radio since she was about five years old. She started in amateur radio in 1979 whilst studying at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kristen has worked in many diverse areas from analogue circuit design to image processing to starting and running an ISP. She is currently working at Apple in Core Networking, and spent many years at Sun Microsystems Laboratories where she was researching robustness and emergent properties of large distributed computer systems. She is a long time denizen of Silicon Valley and has worked at or consulted for many of the usual suspects. Kristen is an active radio amateur and loves to chase DX on HF with her Elecraft K4 and modest station in an urban setting. She is ARRL First Vice President, former ARRL Pacific Division Director, past president of the Palo Alto Amateur Radio Association, past Q&A columnist for Nuts and Volts magazine, and is active in many local clubs. Kristen was recently inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame. She is also an Instrument Rated Private Pilot.
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