So after 6 hours of research and 7 hours of writing I finished my report on Particle Swarm Optimization. I have to admit that it seems like a pretty cool way to optimize. Not sure of the relevance uses in computational electromagnetics, but it sure handle the Rosenbrock banana function well.
Here is the report on PSOs for anyone who is interested:
Sidabras, J.W., “A Survey on Particle Swarm Optimization”, MSCS 252 - Deterministic Models of Operations Research, December 14, 2007.