Physics and Astronomy Colloquia Series: Optical cloaking and other applications of metamaterials

Vera Smolyaninova, Towson University

Invisibility is an ancient dream. Applications of principles of transformation optics and metamaterials help to bring this dream closer to reality. What are metamaterials? What properties they can have? Optical cloaking based on emulation of metamaterials properties will be discussed. Applications of metamaterial engineering to different branches of physics, such as superconductivity and even cosmology will be shown.