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Graeme Milton is a distinguished emeritus professor at the University of Utah. He has been awarded Sloan and Packard Fellowships, the 2003 SIAM Ralph Kleinman Prize for research bridging the gap between mathematics and applications, the 2007 Society for Engineering Science Prager Medal for contributions to theoretical mechanics, the 2012 Landauer Medal of the ETOPIM association for seminal contributions to the field of composite material science, the 2015 International prize Tullio Levi-Civita for the Mathematical and Mechanical Sciences, and this year the MetaMAT medal. He is a fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
His main interests are in the fields of composite materials, metamaterials, inverse problems, cloaking theory, discrete networks, electromagnetism and elasticity theory, with over 190 published papers. He, with his collaborators, are best known for: the book "The Theory of Composites" followed with the book "Extending the Theory of Composites to other Areas of Science” joint with M.Cassier, O.Mattei, M.Milgrom, and A.Welters; the "Bergman-Milton" bounds on the complex moduli of composites; the Milton zeta and eta parameters that partly govern the electrical and elastic response of microstructures; the CLM (Cherkaev, Lurie and Milton) theorem giving exact results for the effective elastic moduli of 2d-composites; the general theory of exact relations for composites; pentamode materials that are a sort of anisotropic gel that can guide stress; metamaterials that can reverse the Hall-coeffcient; the discoveries of anomalous resonance, ghost sources, cloaking due to anomalous resonance, and active exterior cloaking; and the discovery of a new type of wave, called a field pattern, in microstructures where the moduli vary in both time and space.