The late Professor Stephen Benton, co-inventor of the world's first holographic video system, sometimes quipped that we were "only 3 Nobel Prizes away" from a practical product. This presentation describes the baby steps, technical breakthroughs, and most recent (perhaps even prize-worthy) developments in this exciting new medium. Topics covered include: Why is it so difficult? (Or, how to hand...

A novel design of dynamic holographic stereogram with a curved array of spatial light modulators (SLMs) is proposed. In general, it is difficult to simultaneously achieve a wide viewing angle and an available width for the digital holographic display. Moreover, the wide viewing angle of a display system needs a large optical numerical aperture where the paraxial approximation fails, and thus an...

More than 30 years ago Migdal proposed a model for hadronic resonances based on rational approximants [1]. The final aim was to determine the spectrum of vector mesons in the large-Nc limit which best fulfills quarkhadron duality. The strategy was to start from the short distance behavior of the vector vacuum polarization function < V V > and build the Padé approximant thereof. Migdal further s...

We discuss the anthropic principle when applied to the holographic dark energy. We find that if the amplitude of the density fluctution is variable, the holographic dark energy fares better than the cosmological constant.

We present a holographic treatment of Chern-Simons (CS) gravity theories in odd dimensions. We construct the associated holographic stress tensor and calculate the Weyl anomalies of the dual CFT.

I review recent work toward constructing, via five-dimensional holographic duals, fourdimensional theories in which spin-2 states (gravitons) are emergent. The basic idea is to extend to gravity model-building the applications of holographic duality to phenomenology construction.

We employ the holographic model of interacting dark energy to obtain the equation of state for the holographic energy density in non-flat (closed) universe enclosed by the event horizon measured from the sphere of horizon named L.

We demonstrate that semiconductor nanowires can be translated, rotated, cut, fused and organized into nontrivial structures using holographic optical traps. The holographic approach to nano-assembly allows for simultaneous independent manipulation of multiple nanowires, including relative translation and relative rotation.

The holographic bound in Brans-Dicke k = 1 matter dominated Cosmology is discussed. In this talk, both the apparent horizon and the particle horizon are taken for the holographic bound. The covariant entropy conjecture proposed by Bousso is also discussed.

Holographic interferometry was used to study the vibration modes of a C4 handbell. Holographic interferograms were made of four of the vibration modes of the bell. Finite element analysis was used to create a preliminary model of the bell.