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SUMMARY:Sculpting light in space and time with metamaterials
DESCRIPTION:What happens when we manipulate light not just in space\, but i
 n time? Discover how light waves from the past and future can interact wit
 h Professor Riccardo Sapienza\, Professor of Physics. \nPlease register to
  attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance will be availa
 ble here shortly. \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 7 October!
 \nImperial Inaugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest P
 rofessors\, recognising their academic journey and showcasing their resear
 ch.\nAbstract\nLight powers the global internet\, enables deep-space and m
 edical imaging\, and sustains life on Earth. But how do we actually contr
 ol the flow of something so fast and intangible? For centuries\, traditio
 nal optics relied on the simple curved surfaces of glass lenses. Today\, t
 he modern science of light is driven by metamaterials\, nanostructured mat
 erials with optical properties not found in nature\, which have already gi
 ven us ultra-thin lenses\, miniaturized photonic devices\, and unconventio
 nal lasers that perform artificial-intelligence computations. \nBut what 
 happens when we manipulate light not just in space\, but in time? Can we m
 ake light waves from the past and the future interact? The answer\, surpri
 singly\, is yes. \nIn this lecture\, Riccardo Sapienza will trace our fir
 st steps toward spatio-temporal control of light\, including our recent e
 xperiments demonstrating double-slit diffraction in time and the scatter
 ing of light from superluminal modulations (synthetic\, of course\, so rel
 ativity is not broken!). He will close by looking ahead to what intertwini
 ng space and time could unlock: from dynamic holograms to entirely new par
 adigms for analogue computing. \nBiography\n\nRiccardo Sapienza is Profes
 sor of Physics and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Natural Scienc
 es at Imperial College London\, where he is also Joint Director of the Ce
 ntre for Plasmonics and Metamaterials. His research explores how light i
 nteracts with nanostructured matter\, spanning optical metamaterials\, unc
 onventional lasing\, and neuromorphic photonic computing. He is co-founder
  and co-CTO of the spin-out RAYD Technologies\, which translates this res
 earch into practice. \n\n\n \n\n\nHe earned his PhD jointly from the Lab
 oratory for Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence and the École Norma
 le Supérieure (ENS) in Paris\, and held postdoctoral positions at the I
 nstitute of Materials Science (ICMM-CSIC) in Madrid and ICFO – the Insti
 tute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona. He was on the faculty of King’s 
 College London before joining Imperial in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/212233/sculpting-light-in-space-and-t
 ime-with-metamaterials/
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LOCATION:Lecture theatre 1\, Blackett Building\, South Kensington Campus\, 
 Imperial College London\, London\, SW7 2AZ\, United Kingdom
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