Date: Monday, December 5, 2022
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Location: Virtual
Speaker:  Francesco Monticone
Speaker’s Title:  Assistant Professor
Speaker’s Affiliation: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University
Seminar Title: Emerging Frontiers in Meta-Optics and Nano-Photonics

Abstract: 
In this talk, we will delve into the field of metamaterials and nanophotonics, and review some of the recent work in developing novel approaches to manipulate light and understand the associated fundamental limits and tradeoffs. We will focus on topics at the frontier of this broad area of research, with an emphasis on new approaches to control how light is (i) scattered (e.g., invisibility effects), (ii) absorbed and emitted (anomalous light absorption and thermal emission), (iii) focused (local and nonlocal metasurfaces), and (iv) confined and guided (topological/nonreciprocal materials).

Biographical Sketch of the Speaker: 
Francesco Monticone is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (summa cum laude) degrees from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2009 and 2011, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016, where he was advised by Prof. Andrea Alù. Dr. Monticone joined the faculty of Cornell University in January 2017. Dr. Monticone has authored and co-authored over 150 scientific contributions in peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters, and conference proceedings, and has given over 50 invited talks and seminars. Dr. Monticone’s current research interests are in the areas of applied electromagnetics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, and nanophotonics, with a focus on the theoretical and computational aspects of these fields. His work is motivated both by fundamental scientific questions about engineered wave-matter interactions and novel applications in a range of areas including imaging and sensing, information processing, communication, defense, and energy. Over the past few years, Dr. Monticone has received several research and teaching awards, including the ONR Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the U. S. Department of the Navy, Office of Naval Research (2022), the Franco Strazzabosco Award for Research in Engineering (2021), the Michael Tien ’72 Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Engineering Education Award from Cornell University (2020), the Leopold B. Felsen Award for Excellence in Electrodynamics (2019), the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (YIP) from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2018), and the Inaugural Margarida Jacome Dissertation Award from The University of Texas at Austin (2017). Dr. Monticone is a member of the IEEE, the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and has been elected a full member of the International Union of Radio Science.