Speaker:
Gunther Uhlmann
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Institution:
UCI
Time:
Thursday, March 15, 2012 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location:
Natural Sciences 2 RM 1201
Abstract: Can we make objects invisible? This has been a subject of human fascination for millennia in Greek mythology, movies, science fiction, etc. including the legend of Perseus versus Medusa and the more recent Star Trek and Harry Potter. In the last decade or so there have been several scientific proposals to achieve invisibility. We will introduce some of these in a non-technical fashion concentrating on the so-called "transformation optics" that has received the most attention in the scientific literature.