Syllabus
MA 4800 – REU class on Cloaking Theory - Room JWB 308, 2:00-2:50 PM
Metamaterials and Invisibility, a confluence of ideas
Professor: Daniel Onofrei
Office: JWB 328
Teaching assistant: Lindsay Michelle Crowl
Email: onofrei@math.utah.edu
Email: crowl@math.utah.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
Lecture notes: Due to the fact that the material to be covered in the class is very new there is no
textbook. There will be lecture notes provided after each class.
Prerequisites: MA 2250 and MA 3150 are strongly recommended.
Material covered: A description of the material to be covered can be found at
URL:
http://www.math.utah.edu/vigre/ugrad/reu/4950/. This class is intended to be a part of your
research experience as undergraduate students.
The purposes of the class are:
1. To understand of the basic ideas behind cloaking
2. To have a real applied mathematics research experience by participating in one of the
projects to be proposed in class.
Grading: Individual projects will be assigned after the first part of the class (roughly about 5
weeks). Each student should, start to understand his\her project problem early on, try to establish
possible ways to solve it, analyze it numerically and theoretically where possible. Each student
should work on his\her project on a continuous basis during the semester and one week before
class ends produce and deliver a written document with his\her results. During the last class the
students will give a 10 minutes oral presentation in class and the final grade will be an average of
the grades obtained for the written project and the oral presentation.
Recitation sessions: Room LCB 115, Friday – time to be decided
Attendance and academic honesty:
Attendance is highly recommended. Team work is encouraged but you will be graded for your
own accomplishments.
ADA statement: The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for
people with disabilities. If you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to
the Center for Disability Services, 162 Olpin Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the
instructor to make arrangements for accommodations. All written information in this course can be made available
in alternative format with prior notification to the Center for Disability Services.