Seminar Announcement: Alexander Quandt

Data pubblicazione: 15-ott-2019 14.58.28

Announcement

Tuesday, 15 October 2019, 15:00

Sala Grande Palazzina C via alla Cascata 56/C

"Computational Photonics and Topological Materials"

Alexander Quandt

University of the Witwatersrand,

WITS University 1 Jan Smuts Avenue Braamfontein 2000,

Johannesburg,

South Africa

Abstract

In recent years it became clear that many photonic structures show interesting topological properties, which had simply been overlooked in the past. I will give an introduction into this fascinating topic and discuss various examples like topological photonic crystals and topological waveguide arrays. My focus will be on an elementar y discussion of the main results, where I will slightly deviate from the standard approaches and show how to apply rather intuitive concepts like the Brouwer degree, instead of falling back on more abstract mathematical concepts. Finally, I will discuss so me of the numerical approaches used to study topological photonic systems.