This talk will provide an overview of some recent work on so-called
techniques of "cloaking by mapping". The goal is to surround part
of space with a (specially constructed) "cloak" in such a way
that
the cloak, and any object placed inside the cloak, is invisible
(or nearly invisible) to external electromagnetic inspection. I will
focus on a particular approximate cloaking scheme, and rigorous
estimates for the degree of near-invisibility it provides. The
estimates have in order of increasing difficulty been carried out
for the Conductivity Problem, the fixed frequency Helmholtz
Problem, and the full (time-domain) scalar Wave Problem. I shall
try to describe some of the mathematical problems and their solutions in
all of these three settings. This work has at various stages been joint
with R.V. Kohn, H-M. Nguyen, D. Onofrei and M. Weinstein.
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