Speaker:
Professor Gunther Uhlmann
Institution:
University of Washington
Time:
Thursday, February 22, 2007 - 4:00pm
Location:
MSTB 254
The subject of invisibility has fascinated people for thousands
of years. There has recently been considerable theoretical and practical
progress in understanding how to cloak objects. We will discuss some of
the recent work on the subject of invisibility which involves using
singular electromagnetic parameters, or singular Riemannian metrics.