Mathematics of Invisibility
Journées équations aux dérivées partielles (2007), article no. 5, 11 p.

We will describe recent some of the recent theoretical progress on making objects invisible to electromagnetic waves based on singular transformations.

DOI: 10.5802/jedp.44
Greenleaf, Allan 1; Kurylev, Yaroslav 2; Lassas, Matti 3; Uhlmann, Gunther 4

1 Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA. Partially supported by NSF grant DMS-0551894.
2 Department of Mathematics, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC1E 5BT, UK
3 Helsinki University of Technology, Institute of Mathematics, P.O.Box 1100, FIN-02015, Finland. Partially supported by Academy of Finland CoE Project 213476.
4 Department of Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Partially supported by the NSF and a Walker Family Endowed Professorship.
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Greenleaf, Allan; Kurylev, Yaroslav; Lassas, Matti; Uhlmann, Gunther. Mathematics of Invisibility. Journées équations aux dérivées partielles (2007), article  no. 5, 11 p. doi : 10.5802/jedp.44. http://www.numdam.org/articles/10.5802/jedp.44/

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