BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Turkey BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20380119T061407 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=3TU;BYMONTH=1 TZNAME:+03 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20160907T000000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0300 TZOFFSETTO:+0300 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1WE;BYMONTH=9 TZNAME:+03 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20181123T125018Z UID:620642CD-4DEE-4EC8-A455-6FD3A9BB2CDF DTSTART;TZID=Turkey:20181116T133000 DTEND;TZID=Turkey:20181116T153000 DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Prof. Hamza Kurt\, TOBB-ETÜ\n\nTopic: "Slow Light and Optical Cloaking"\n\nLocation: Middle East Technical University\, Ankara\ , Turkey\n\nAbstract: In recent years\, there have been huge research effo rts in the field of nanophotonics to reduce the speed of light (ultimately reaching zero group velocity) and manipulate the way that light interacts with the objects. While optical communication ensures high speed data tra nsportation what would be the benefits of slowing down the light propagati on in optical waveguides. Similarly\, detection and imaging are very impor tant applications of photonics. However\, making an object invisible (if p ossible) at first seems counterintuitive. The importance of optical invisi bility and slow light studies will be explained during the presentation.\n \nBio: Hamza Kurt received the B.S. degree from Middle East Technical Univ ersity (METU)\, Ankara\, Turkey\, in 2000\, the M.S. degree from the Unive rsity of Southern California (USC)\, Los Angeles\, CA\, USA\, in 2002\, an d the Ph.D. degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) \, Atlanta\, GA\, USA\, in 2006\, all in electrical and electronics engine ering. He was a Research Fellow with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Bio -photonics Research Lab\, Los Angeles\, from 2001 to 2002. He was a post-d octoral Research Fellow with Georgia Tech for a short period and then he h as spent a year with the Institut d’Optique Graduate School\, Paris\, Fr ance\, as a post-doctoral Scientist. Since December 2007\, he has been wit h the TOBB University of Economics and Technology\, Ankara and promoted to full-professor level in 2015. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific papers including two invited papers and six single-author pape rs. He has given contributed and invited presentations and published more than 100 conference abstracts and proceedings. His current research intere sts include nanophotonics including the design and analysis of nanophotoni c materials and media for the realization of wavelength and sub-wavelength scale optical elements\, slow light structures\, graded index optics\, hi gh-resolution imaging\, polarization insensitive devices\, optical cavitie s/waveguides\, optical biosensors\, and metasurfaces (flat-optics).\n\nPro f. Kurt received the Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award 2010\, TOBB Uni versity and Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Awar d (TUBA-GEBIP) 2010. He is a member of the Optical Society of America\, IE EE Photonics Society and associate member of Turkish Academy of Sciences. He is director of nanophotonics research group at TOBB University in Ankar a.\n\nSpeaker(s): Prof. Hamza Kurt\, \n\nAnkara\, Ankara\, Türkiye LOCATION:Ankara\, Ankara\, Türkiye ORGANIZER:ozergul@metu.edu.tr SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:IEEE AP/MTT/EMC/ED TURKEY CHAPTER SEMINAR SERIES -- SEMINAR 39 URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/182727 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Speaker: Prof. Hamza Kurt\, TOBB-ET&Uuml\; </p>\n<p>Topic: "Slow Light and Optical Cloaking"</p>\n<p>Location:&nbsp\; Middle East Technical University\, Ankara\, Turkey</p>\n<p>Abstract: In re cent years\, there have been huge research efforts in the field of nanopho tonics to reduce the speed of light (ultimately reaching zero group veloci ty) and manipulate the way that light interacts with the objects. While op tical communication ensures high speed data transportation what would be t he benefits of slowing down the light propagation in optical waveguides. S imilarly\, detection and imaging are very important applications of photon ics. However\, making an object invisible (if possible) at first seems cou nterintuitive. The importance of optical invisibility and slow light studi es will be explained during the presentation.</p>\n<p>Bio: Hamza Kurt rece ived the B.S. degree from Middle East Technical University (METU)\, Ankara \, Turkey\, in 2000\, the M.S. degree from the University of Southern Cali fornia (USC)\, Los Angeles\, CA\, USA\, in 2002\, and the Ph.D. degree fro m the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)\, Atlanta\, GA\, USA\ , in 2006\, all in electrical and electronics engineering. He was a Resear ch Fellow with the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center\, Bio-photonics Research La b\, Los Angeles\, from 2001 to 2002. He was a post-doctoral Research Fello w with Georgia Tech for a short period and then he has spent a year with t he Institut d&rsquo\;Optique Graduate School\, Paris\, France\, as a post- doctoral Scientist. Since December 2007\, he has been with the TOBB Univer sity of Economics and Technology\, Ankara and promoted to full-professor l evel in 2015. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed scientific paper s including two invited papers and six single-author papers. He has given contributed and invited presentations and published more than 100 conferen ce abstracts and proceedings. His current research interests include nanop hotonics including the design and analysis of nanophotonic materials and m edia for the realization of wavelength and sub-wavelength scale optical el ements\, slow light structures\, graded index optics\, high-resolution ima ging\, polarization insensitive devices\, optical cavities/waveguides\, op tical biosensors\, and metasurfaces (flat-optics).</p>\n<p>Prof. Kurt rece ived the Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award 2010\, TOBB University and Turkish Academy of Sciences Distinguished Young Scientist Award (TUBA-GEBI P) 2010. He is a member of the Optical Society of America\, IEEE Photonics Society and associate member of Turkish Academy of Sciences. He is direct or of nanophotonics research group at TOBB University in Ankara.</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR