Boeing Colloquium: Invisibility via Transformation Optics

Boeing Distinguished Colloquium, May 23, 2024
Gunther Uhlmann
University of Washington
Title: Invisibility via Transformation Optics
Abstract: 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. We will describe in a non-technical fashion a simple and powerful scientific proposal to achieve invisibility, the so-called transformation optics, and the progress that has been made in achieving the goal since it was proposed about 20 years ago.