WEBINAR

Metasurface-based photonics

Explore how engineered metasurfaces are reshaping light control and photonic tech. Join Andrea Alù to uncover cutting-edge advances in imaging, sensing, AR, and quantum optics. Don’t miss this visionary talk—register now!
December 04, 2025
4:00 PM UTC
1 hour

December 4, 2025
Time: 11:00 AM ET | 10:00 AM CT | 8:00 AM PT | 4:00 PM GMT
Duration: 60 Minutes

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Summary

In this talk, Andrea Alù will discuss his group’s recent research activity on engineered surfaces and metasurfaces to tailor light propagation, scacttering and emission. They leverage sophisticated photonic engineering at the nanoscale to control the photonic spectrum, both temporal and spatial, and engineer light-matter interactions. The resulting metasurfaces support a plethora of responses ideally suited for a range of photonic technologies, from sensing to imaging, from energy to computing. He will discuss the basic principles and the opportunities for analog image processing, augmented reality, secure communications, nonreciprocal responses, tailored thermal emission, sensing and spectroscopy, as well as enhanced light-matter interactions for nonlinear and quantum optics.

Speaker:

Andrea Alù

Andrea Alù

Photonics Initiative, Advanced Science Research Center, City University of New York

Physics Program, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Andrea Alù is a Distinguished Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY), the Einstein Professor of Physics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and the Founding Director of the Photonics Initiative at the CUNY Advanced Science Research Center. He received his Laurea (2001) and Ph.D. (2007) from the University of Roma Tre, Italy, and, after a postdoc at the University of Pennsylvania, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in 2009, where he was the Temple Foundation Endowed Professor until Jan. 2018. Dr. Alù is a Fellow of 10 professional societies, and has received several scientific awards, including the Blavatnik National Award in Physics and Engineering, the Max Born Award, the Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience, the IEEE Kiyo Tomiyasu Award, a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from DoD, the ICO Prize in Optics, the NSF Alan T. Waterman award, the Brillouin Medal, and the URSI Issac Koga Gold Medal.

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