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		"title": "CREOL Calendar",
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		"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/calendar/3325/creol-calendar/"
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	"id": "4189378",
	"title": "CREOL Fall Colloquium: Mikael Rechtsman",
	"subtitle": null,
	"description": "\u003Cp\u003EMikael Rechtsman\u003Cbr\u003EPhysics Department, Penn\u0026nbsp\u003BState University\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETile:\u003C/strong\u003E Two experiments on aperiodic photonic crystals\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C/strong\u003E Photonic crystals \u002D\u002D transparent periodic dielectric structures \u002D\u002D have been called \u0022semiconductors for light\u0022 in the sense that photons propagate through them much as electrons propagate through crystalline solids.\u0026nbsp\u003B In the first part of my talk, I will show how straining a photonic crystal can make photons behave as though they were electrons immersed in a magnetic field, leading to Landau levels for light.\u0026nbsp\u003B In the second part, I will employ photonic crystals to explore the scattering properties of highly spatially correlated, so\u002Dcalled \u0022stealthy\u002Dhyperuniform,\u0022 disorder.\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp\u003B\u003C/p\u003E\u000A\u003Cp\u003E\u003C/p\u003E",
	"location": "CREOL: 102",
	"location_url": "http://www.creol.ucf.edu/",
	"virtual_url": "https://ucf.zoom.us/j/97856347160?from\u003Daddon",
	"registration_link": null,
	"registration_info": null,
	"starts": "Fri, 13 Nov 2026 11:00:00 -0500",
	"ends": "Fri, 13 Nov 2026 12:00:00 -0500",
	"ongoing": "False",
	"category": "Speaker/Lecture/Seminar",
	"tags": ["Photonics","CREOL","Optics"],
	"contact_name": "Arin Partington",
	"contact_phone": null,
	"contact_email": "Arin.Partington@ucf.edu",
	"url": "https://events.ucf.edu/event/4189378/creol-fall-colloquium-mikael-rechtsman/"
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