题　目：Indistinguishable from Magic?(A Perspective on Some Aspects of Materials Research in the Next Decade)
报告人：Edwin L.Thomas教授（美国Rice大学工程学院院长美国工程院院士，美国人文与科学院院士）
时　间：4月27日（周一）下午14:00-15:15
地　点：中法中心C401会议室

活动安排 (Program)：

•开幕式 (Opening Ceremony) （下午14:00-14:15）

校领导将为Thomas教授颁发同济大学顾问教授证书。

Ceremony of awarding the advisory professor of Tongji University.

报告摘要：

Addressing multifunctional materials: the mighty electron, the cool photon and the lowly phonon...how waves in periodic materials lead to interesting properties.

Problem Driven Research: Improving Sets of Properties

Creating the Magic: Synthetic MetaMaterials blur the distinction and bridge the regime in between engineered microstructured materials with their enhanced conventional properties and multicomponent structured devices that can display novel (and sometimes unexpected) functionality (amplification, filtering, sensing etc.). Such material systems open a whole new range of heretofore unimagined material system behaviors (e.g. cloaking, one way transmission etc).

个人简介：(http://msne.rice.edu/nedthomas/) 

Thomas is a materials scientist and mechanical engineer and is passionate about promoting engineering leadership and student design competitions. His research is currently focused on using 2D and 3D lithography, direct-write and self-assembly techniques for creating metamaterials with unprecedented mechanical and thermal properties. Thomas is the former head of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he held from 2006 until his appointment at Rice in July 2011. He was named Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in 1989 and is the founder and former director of the MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology (2002-2006). He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009, Inaugural Fellow of the Materials Society in 2008, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003 and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1986. He wrote the undergraduate textbook, The Structure of Materials, and has coauthored more than 420 papers and holds 16 patents.