题　目：Win Some or Lose Some: A Re-look And Out-look of Metamaterials
报告人：Prof. Cheng-Wei Qiu（新加坡国立大学）
时　间：1月8日（周二），上午10:00-11:00
地　点：南校区第一实验楼406会议室

报告摘要：
Metamaterials, derived from transformation optics or negative refraction law, have been receiving intensive attention. Exciting progress has been made to pave the way from fundamental physics to real-world devices, exhibiting unprecedented light phenomena, such as cloaking, super-resolution, focusing, redistribution of photon momentum, etc. In this talk, we will present an alternative look into the realm of non-metamaterials, and see whether they can perform as equally well as, if not better than, the metamaterial counterpart. In particularly, we will demonstrate back-to-back comparative results in cloaking, focusing, super-resolution, and tractor beam, including our very recent results published or to be published. Interestingly new phenomena can be found in classic methods or materials which can definitely compete with its counterpart in metamaterials. Nevertheless, it again proves the universal truism that neither of these two routes is perfect.

个人简介：
•2003年，中国科学技术大学，电子工程与信息科学系，学士
•2007年，Doctoral degree in electrical engineering from Joint Singapore-France PhD program of National University of Singapore and École Supérieure d’Électricité
•2008-2009年，Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
•2009年至今，Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore

He was the recipient of the SUMMA Graduate Fellowship in Advanced Electromagnetics in 2005, IEEE AP-S Graduate Research Award in 2006, Young Scientist Travel Grant of ISAP in 2007, URSI Young Scientist Award in 2008, and NUS Young Investigator Award in 2011, and MIT Technology Review Award in 2012. His research interests are in the areas of light-matter interaction, transformation/diffractive optics, and nanophotonics. He has published over 60 journal papers and one book chapter, with media coverage by Science, 联合早报, Straits Times, and many others. He has been serving as Associate Editor for the Advanced Electromagnetics Journal.