*Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 1:30PM, BRK 2001*: "The Art of Taming Light at the 
Nanoscale," Alex Kildishev, Purdue University. *NOTE*: /Dr. Kildishev is a 
prospective ECE Research Associate Professor candidate./
 
*Abstract*: This talk will review some of my recent studies, which are focused 
on the following topics:
 
   1. 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;
   2. transformation optics concepts and applications:
      ? designing non-imaging gradient-index optics;
      ? designing and validating planar nanoplasmonic elements of diffractive
      optics;
   3. 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.
 
*HOST: *Prof. Andrew Weiner (amw@purdue.edu <mailto:amw@purdue.edu>; 45574)