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DESCRIPTION:Physics Colloquium\n\nNatalia M. Litchinitser\nUniversity at Bu
 ffalo\, The State University of New York\n\nABSTRACT: In this talk\, I dis
 cuss fundamental optical phenomena at the interface of singular and nonlin
 ear optics in artificial media\, including theoretical and experimental st
 udies of linear and nonlinear light-matter interactions of vector and sing
 ular optical beams in metamaterials. I will show that unique optical prope
 rties of metamaterials open unlimited prospects to “engineer” light it
 self. Thanks to their ability to manipulate both electric and magnetic fie
 ld components\, metamaterials open new degrees of freedom for tailoring co
 mplex polarization states and orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light. I w
 ill discuss several approaches to structured light manipulation on the nan
 oscale using metal-dielectric\, all-dielectric and hyperbolic metamaterial
 s. These new functionalities\, including polarization and OAM conversion\,
  beam magnification and de-magnification\, and sub-wavelength imaging enab
 led by the unique properties of metamaterials are likely to enable a new g
 eneration of on-chip or all-fiber structured light applications.\n\nBio: N
 atalia Litchinitser is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at University
  at Buffalo\, The State University of New York. Her group research focuses
  on fundamental properties and applications of structured light in metamat
 erials\, biomedical imaging\, optical communications and nonlinear optics.
  Natalia M. Litchinitser earned her Master’s degree in Physics from Mosc
 ow State University in Russia and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
  from the Illinois Institute of Technology. She completed postdoctoral tra
 ining at the Institute of Optics\, University of Rochester in 2000. Prof. 
 Litchinitser joined the faculty of the department of Electrical Engineerin
 g at the State University of New York at Buffalo as Assistant Professor in
  2008. Natalia Litchinitser previously held a position of a Member of Tech
 nical Staff at Bell Laboratories\, Lucent Technologies and of a Senior Mem
 ber of Technical Staff at Tyco Submarine Systems. Natalia Litchinitser’s
  research interests include linear and nonlinear optics in metamaterials\,
  photonic devices\, and optical communications. She is a Fellow of the Opt
 ical Society of America\, Fellow of the American Physical Society\, and a 
 Senior Member of the IEEE.\n\nPartially sponsored/funded by the Visiting W
 omen & Minority Lecturer/Scholar Series
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED Light-Matter Interactions in Engineered Optical Media
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