Description
Popular Talk.
Speaker: Harsha Hutridurga.
Date and Time: Wednesday 03 April, 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm.
Venue: Ramanujan Hall, Department of Mathematics.
Title: Intrigue of Invisibility cloaking.
Abstract: Rendering objects or oneself invisible to others has fascinated
us since the dawn of human civilization. Illustration of such vanishing
acts are often made in sci-fi movies. Even though this idea of making
oneself invisible to others sounds out of reach, lately it is gaining
traction in the scientific community. This has led to the emergence of a
fascinating field of meta-materials which deals with the design and study
of assemblies of ordinary materials such that the assembly as a whole
behaves in an exotic manner. This talk will try to present some elementary
ideas involved in the theory of invisibility cloaking. The talk is
intended for non-experts and will be accessible to people familiar with
basic notions in multivariable calculus.