FW: Late Seminar Announcement: Friday March 30 @ 11AM

[Nicholas Xuanlai Fang <nicfang MIT EDU>]

Friday, March 30, 2012  11 AM
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Special Seminar
" Applied Matter and Devices with Quantum and Engineered Classical Media"
Dr. Yuki Sato 
(Rowland Institute, Harvard)
MIT Seminar Room: 3-270, Host: Nick Fang

Abstract
Taking advantage of macroscopic quantum phenomena and/or employing 
artificially engineered materials, one can construct devices that exhibit 
properties that are not typically found in nature. In this talk, I will 
first describe a matter wave interferometer whose operation is based on 
the counter-intuitive quantum phenomena of superfluid Josephson 
oscillations and discuss its novel application as an absolute rotation 
sensor. I will then describe the use of artificial materials with 
prescribed variation in constitutive parameters to manipulate the path of 
energy propagation. In particular, I will discuss the manipulation of dc 
magnetic fields with a hybrid structure of superconducting and 
soft-ferromagnetic elements and controlling heat conduction with an 
anisotropic composite made of layers of conventional isotropic materials.