Abstract or Additional Information
Invisibility has been a subject of human fascination for millenia, from the Greek legend of Perseus versus Medusa to the more recent The Invisible Man,
The Invisible Woman, Star Trek and Harry Potter, among many others.
Over the years, there have been occasional scientic prescriptions for invisibility in various settings but the route to cloaking that has received the
most attention has been transformation optics. To achieve invisibility one can design materials that would steer light around a hidden region, returning
it to its original path on the far side. Not only would observers be unaware of the contents of the hidden region, they would not even be aware that
something was being hidden.
In this talk I will explain the Mathematics behind transformation optics.