Dinesh Agrawal, professor of engineering science and mechanical science, materials science and engineering, and director of Microwave Processing and Engineering Center, gave a keynote lecture at the Fifth International Symposium on Electromagnetic Processing of Materials, organized by The Iron and Steel Institute of Japan, held at Sendai, Japan. His talk was titled "Electromagnetic Field Processing of Materials at Microwave Frequency (2.45 GHz)." He also gave a plenary talk on "Application of Microwave Energy for Materials Processing: Global Trends and Commercialization" at the Sixth Symposium on Microwave Science and Applications to Related Fields in Ogaki-City, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.