The W. M. Keck Foundation has awarded a $1 million grant to Tulane physicists Dr. Denys Bondar (left) and Dr. Diyar Talbayev to complete an unsolved experiment involving superoscillations of light. (Photos courtesy of Tulane’s Department of Physics and Physics Engineering)
Tulane University’s School of Science and Engineering has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation to do what no physicist has ever done before: see
through opaque matter using superoscillations of light in a time-domain spectroscopy lab.
That phrase might be difficult for the layperson to grasp, but its results could eventually transform a wide range of fields and technologies, from wireless communications and remote sensing to X-rays and security screenings.