The fifteenth edition of the International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 2013) is supported by the Politecnico di Torino, by the Istituto Superiore Mario Boella and by the Torino Wireless Foundation, with the principal technical cosponsorship of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society and the technical cosponsorship of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) and the IEIIT – CNR. It is coupled to the third edition of the IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications (APWC 2013), and to the first edition of the Electromagnetic Metrology Symposium (EMS 2013) organized by Commission A of URSI in cooperation with ICEAA. The three conferences consist of invited and contributed papers, and share a common organization, registration fee, submission site, workshops and short courses, banquet, and social events.