CLK08 - Electromagnetic Metamaterials

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September 22-25, 2008

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions

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Monday, September 22
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland)
9:25 - 9:30	Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10	Robert Kohn (New York University) “Near-cloaking by change of variables at finite frequency I: an approach using lossy layers” [Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55	Matti Lassas (Helsinki University of Technology) “Existence and non-existence results for invisibility cloaking”
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Thomas Philbin (Information and Photonics in Erlangen ) “Creating Horizons For Light Using Metamaterials” [Presentation Slides]
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Eitan Tadmor (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Arthur Yaghjian (Air Force Research Laboratory) “Alternative Derivation of Electromagnetic Cloaks and Concentrators” [Presentation Slides]
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	Jensen Li (University of California, Berkeley) “A Dielectric Invisibility Carpet” [Presentation Slides]
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Tuesday, September 23
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	*Chair:* Dio Margetis (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Michael Vogelius (Rutgers University) “Estimates for the Effect of Small Electromagnetic Inhomogeneities and their Relevance to Approximate Cloaking” [Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55	Daniel Onofrei (University of Utah) “Near-cloaking by change of variables at finite frequency II: numerical assessment, success, and limitations”
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Oscar Bruno (California Institute of Technology) “Negative refraction and high-performance PDE solvers: Superlens cloaking of small dielectric bodies”
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Dio Margetis (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Che Ting Chan (Hong Kong University of Science) “Some ideas to manipulate waves using the transformation media concept” [Presentation Slides]
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
EVENING ACTIVITIES
6:30	*DINNER AT FRANKLIN'S RESTAURANT*
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Wednesday, September 24
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	*Chair:* Michael Vogelius (Rutgers University)
9:30 - 10:10	Allan Greenleaf (University of Rochester) “Isotropic transformation optics and approximate cloaking” [Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55	Michael Weinstein (Columbia University) “Resonance Problems for Microstructures in Linear and Nonlinear Photonics”
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Panel discussion
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
2:00 - 3:00	*CSCAMM Seminar* Yonatan Sivan (Tel-Aviv University) “Qualitative and quantitative analysis of stability and instability dynamics of positive lattice solitons” [Presentation Slides]
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Thursday, September 25
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Radu Balan (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Graeme Milton (University of Utah) “Solutions in folded geometries, and associated cloaking due to anomalous resonance”
10:15 - 10:55	Alexander Kildishev (Purdue University) "Transformation Media for the Extreme Control of Light"
11:00 - 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10	Igor Smolyaninov (BAE Systems) “Two-dimensional cloaking in the visible frequency range”
12:15	*CLOSING*
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