{"id":36036,"date":"2025-02-26T16:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T15:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/?post_type=events&p=36036"},"modified":"2025-03-10T09:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T08:52:05","slug":"the-science-of-invisibility-public-lecture-ulf-leonhardt-weizmann-institute-of-science-israel","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fstm-en\/events\/the-science-of-invisibility-public-lecture-ulf-leonhardt-weizmann-institute-of-science-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"The science of invisibility: Public lecture by Prof. Ulf Leonhardt, Weizmann Institute of Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Who would not like to be invisible sometimes? To escape embarrassing situations or to stroll around unseen, an invisibility cloak would come in handy. Can such things exist? What does science say about invisibility? People have dreamt about invisibility for millennia, but the science of invisibility is a rather recent endeavor. It began only twenty years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lecture will explain the first technological steps towards achieving invisibility in practice<\/strong> and the fascinating ideas behind this field of science. It will take the audience on a fantastic journey from the world of illusions and deceptions to the enigma of dark energy and the fate of the universe. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n

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Prof. Ulf Leonhardt, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Distinguished IAS (Institute of Advance Studies<\/a>).

Ulf Leonhardt joined the Weizmann Institute of Science as a Professor of Physics in November 2012 after an international career. Ulf Leonhardt was born in Schlema, in former East Germany, in 1965. He studied physics at Friedrich-Schiller University Jena, Moscow State University, and Humboldt University Berlin, where he received his PhD in 1993. He was a Visiting Scholar at the Oregon Center for Optics in the US, a Habilitation Fellow at the University of Ulm in Germany, and a G\u00f6ran-Gustafson and Feodor-Lynen fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. <\/p>\n\n\n\n