Alex Kildishev Purdue University Wednesday, April 25th 1:30 pm BRK 2001 The Art of Taming Light at the Nanoscale This talk will review some of my recent studies, which are focused on the following topics: (i) optical metamaterials and plasmonic nanoantennas for imaging and sensing systems - developing fast meshless solvers for modeling periodic metamaterials and metasurfaces; - pulse shaping with metamaterials/metasurfaces; - bi-anisotropic homogenization of optical metamaterials; (ii) transformation optics concepts and applications: - designing non-imaging gradient-index optics; - designing and validating planar nanoplasmonic elements of diffractive optics; (iii) time-domain multiphysics modeling of the periodic and random nanostructures: - accurate modeling of dispersive plasmonic materials; - experiment-fit modeling of stimulated emission in organic dyes. I will also cover my efforts directed towards making the modeling and optimization tools freely available to a larger research community through nanoHUB.org. NOTE: Dr. Kildishev is a prospective ECE Research Associate Professor candidate. Prof. Andrew Weiner (amw@purdue.edu; 45574) is hosting Alex Kildishev.