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SUMMARY:Extreme Photonics
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Nader Engheta\, University of Pennsylvania\nBio: Nader E
 ngheta is the H. Nedwill Ramsey Professor at the University of Pennsylvani
 a in Philadelphia\, with affiliations in the Departments of Electrical and
  Systems Engineering\, Physics and Astronomy\, Bioengineering\, and Materi
 als Science and Engineering.  He received his B.S. degree from the Univer
 sity of Tehran\, and his M.S and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech.  Selected as
  one of the Scientific American Magazine 50 Leaders in Science and Technol
 ogy in 2006 for developing the concept of optical lumped nanocircuits\, he
  is a Guggenheim Fellow\, an IEEE Third Millennium Medalist\, a Fellow of 
 IEEE\, American Physical Society (APS)\, Optical Society of America (OSA)\
 , American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)\, and SPIE-Th
 e International Society for Optical Engineering\, and the recipient of num
 erous awards for his research including 2014 Balthasar van der Pol Gold Me
 dal from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)\, 2013 Benjamin F
 ranklin Key Award\, 2013 Inaugural SINA Award in Engineering\, 2012 IEEE E
 lectromagnetics Award\, 2008 George H. Heilmeier Award for Excellence in R
 esearch\, the Fulbright Naples Chair Award\, NSF Presidential Young Invest
 igator award\, the UPS Foundation Distinguished Educator term Chair\, and 
 several teaching awards including the Christian F. and Mary R. Lindback Fo
 undation Award\, S. Reid Warren\, Jr. Award and W. M. Keck Foundation Awar
 d.  His current research activities span a broad range of areas including
  nanophotonics\, metamaterials\, nano-scale optics\, graphene optics\, ima
 ging and sensing inspired by eyes of animal species\, optical nanoengineer
 ing\, microwave and optical antennas\, and engineering and physics of fiel
 ds and waves.  He has co-edited (with R. W. Ziolkowski) the book entitled
  “Metamaterials:  Physics and Engineering Explorations” by Wiley-IEEE
  Press\, 2006.  He was the Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Pla
 smonics in June 2012.\nRecent development in nanotechnology\, materials sc
 ience and engineering\, and condensed matter physics has made it possible 
 to tailor materials with unusual parameters and characteristics.  In my g
 roup\, we have been exploring light-matter interaction in metamaterials an
 d metastructures with extreme parameters\, such as near-zero permittivity 
 and near-zero permeability\, and with extreme features such as very high p
 hase velocity\, very low energy velocity\, extremely thin (one-atom-thick 
 metasurfaces)\, subwavelength nonreciprocal vortexes\, extreme anisotropy\
 , giant nonlinearity in phase-change dynamics\, “static optics”\, nano
 scale computation in optical nanocircuits\, and more. \nSuch “extreme p
 hotonics” provides us with unprecedented features and functionalities in
  both wave physics and quantum optics and engineering.  I will discuss so
 me of our ongoing work in these areas.
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