ECE DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER SERIES The convergence of fundamental Recently he has introduced a new science and nanotechnology is leading approach to photonics devices and optical to revolutionary advances in light- materials design, known as flat optics, based technologies, from the ability to which have led him to the generalization see images with details much smaller of the laws of refraction and reflection than the wavelength of light, such as based and to the demonstration of proteins, to efficient solid-state aberration free flat lenses. He is a member lighting. The pace of progress in of the National Academy of Sciences, the photonics is relentless: I will describe National Academy of Engineering, a recent research of my group ranging fellow of the American Academy of Arts from quantum cascade lasers, which and Sciences and a foreign member of the are revolutionizing ultrahigh Accademia dei Lincei. His awards sensitivity sensing, climate change include the IEEE Sarnoff Award, the chemistry and medical diagnostics, to Materials Research Society Medal, the flat optics, a new technology with Franklin Institute Wetherill Medal, the Federico Capasso myriad of future applications such as Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, the Harvard University aberration free lenses, smart skins and Optical Society Wood Prize, the IEEE augmented reality. Edison Medal, the American Physical Hosts Society Arthur Schawlow Prize in Laser Professor Yongmin Liu Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor Matteo Rinaldi Science, the King Faisal Prize, the Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard Berthold Leibinger Zukunft Prize, the University, which he joined in 2003 Julius Springer Prize in Applied Physics, New Frontiers in the after 27 years at Bell Labs where his the Institute of Physics Duddell Medal, career advanced from postdoctoral the Jan Czochralski Award for lifetime Nanotechnology of Light: fellow to Vice President for Physical achievements in Materials Science, the From Quantum Cascade Research. He has made major European Physical Society Quantum contribution to optics, photonics and Lasers to Flat Optics Electronics Prize, the Rumford prize of nanotechnology, pioneering the band- the American Academy of Science, the gap engineering technique to design SPIE Gold Medal and the Gold Medal of Tuesday, February 23 semiconductor nanostructures, the President of Italy for meritorious 440 Egan Research Center including the invention and realization achievement in science. He holds 10 am – 11 am of the quantum cascade laser, and the honorary doctorates from Lund study of forces due to quantum University, Diderot University and the Reception to follow fluctuations at the nanoscale, such as the Universities of Bologna and Roma II (Tor first measurement of the repulsive Vergata). Sponsored by the Department Casimir force. of Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE Distinguished Speaker Series Committee Members: Matteo Rinaldi ([email protected]) Marvin Onabajo ([email protected]) Stratis Ioannidis ([email protected]) .