Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Location: Whitaker Lab 303
Lehigh University's Materials Science and Engineering department would like to remind you about its upcoming speakers in it Fall 2021 Seminar Series. Seminars are open to all visitors. Attendance is required for all full-time MSE graduate students.
On Tuesday, November 9 at 4:30 p.m. EDT, Andrea Alù will present "Exotic wave-matter interactions in metamaterials with broken symmetries," as part of Materials Science and Engineering's Fall 2021 Seminar Series. The event will be held in person at Whitaker Lab Room 303.
Abstract:
In this talk, Alù will discuss our recent efforts in the context of nano-optics, photonics and acoustics, and more broadly of wave physics and engineering, with a special emphasis on strong wave-matter interactions enabled by metamaterials tailored at the nanoscale.
In particular, he will discuss the role that various forms of symmetry and symmetry-breaking can play to tailor and enhance these responses. He will discuss broken geometrical, time-reversal and parity-time symmetry in metamaterials, their role in inducing topological wave phenomena and the various opportunities they enable for photonics technologies.
About The Speaker:
Andrea Alù is the Founding Director and Einstein Professor at the Photonics Initiative, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. He received his Laurea (2001) and PhD (2007) from the University of Roma Tre, Italy, and, after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until Jan. 2018.
Dr. Alù is a Fellow of NAI, MRS, AAAS, IEEE, OSA, SPIE and APS, and has received several scientific awards, including the Blavatnik National Award for Physical Sciences and Engineering, the AAAFM Heeger Award, the Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, the Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from DoD, the ICO Prize in Optics, the NSF Alan T. Waterman award, the OSA Adolph Lomb Medal, the Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience, and the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal.