- Royce Fellowship
Adam
Backer
Concentration
Engineering; Physics
Award Year
2007
Investigating Optical Properties of Metamaterials through Computer Simulation with Applications to Invisibility Devices
Faculty Sponsor: Rashid Zia
Adam studied the optical properties of unusual materials using computational simulations. He modified existing numerical methods in order to investigate materials composed of small particles interspersed randomly throughout a host medium, and developed new algorithms to improve computational elegance and efficiency