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SUMMARY:Sculpting light in space and time with metamaterials
LOCATION:Imperial College: Lecture theatre 1\, Blackett Building
DESCRIPTION:What happens when we manipulate light not just in space\, but 
 in time? Discover how light waves from the past and future can interact wi
 th Professor Riccardo Sapienza\, Professor of Physics. \nPlease register t
 o attend in person. A live stream link for online attendance is available 
 here. \nWe look forward to seeing you on Wednesday 7 October!\nImperial I
 naugurals are term-time lectures that celebrate our newest Professors\, 
 recognising their academic journey and showcasing their research.\nAbstrac
 t\nLight powers the global internet\, enables deep-space and medical imagi
 ng\, and sustains life on Earth. But how do we actually control the flow
  of something so fast and intangible? For centuries\, traditional optics r
 elied on the simple curved surfaces of glass lenses. Today\, the modern sc
 ience of light is driven by metamaterials\, nanostructured materials with 
 optical properties not found in nature\, which have already given us ultra
 -thin lenses\, miniaturized photonic devices\, and unconventional lasers t
 hat perform artificial-intelligence computations. \nBut what happens when
  we manipulate light not just in space\, but in time? Can we make light wa
 ves from the past and the future interact? The answer\, surprisingly\, is 
 yes. \nIn this lecture\, Riccardo Sapienza will trace our first steps tow
 ard spatio-temporal control of light\, including our recent experiments 
 demonstrating double-slit diffraction in time and the scattering of light
  from superluminal modulations (synthetic\, of course\, so relativity is n
 ot broken!). He will close by looking ahead to what intertwining space and
  time could unlock: from dynamic holograms to entirely new paradigms for a
 nalogue computing. \nBiography\n\nRiccardo Sapienza is Professor of Physi
 cs and Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Imperi
 al College London\, where he is also Joint Director of the Centre for Pl
 asmonics and Metamaterials. His research explores how light interacts wit
 h nanostructured matter\, spanning optical metamaterials\, unconventional 
 lasing\, and neuromorphic photonic computing. He is co-founder and co-CTO 
 of the spin-out RAYD Technologies\, which translates this research into p
 ractice. \n\n\n \n\n\nHe earned his PhD jointly from the Laboratory for 
 Nonlinear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence and the École Normale Supérieu
 re (ENS) in Paris\, and held postdoctoral positions at the Institute of 
 Materials Science (ICMM-CSIC) in Madrid and ICFO – the Institute of Phot
 onic Sciences in Barcelona. He was on the faculty of King’s College Lond
 on before joining Imperial in 2017.
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