Gunther Uhlmann
Thursday, February 7, 2019 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
PDL C-036
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 fifteen years or so there have been several scientific proposals to achieve invisibility. We will introduce in a non-technical fashion one of them, the so-called "transformation optics," which has received the most attention in the scientific community.