The article, Ten Lutchen Fellows Share Research Highlights, on the Boston University web site was sent to me by a proud aunt of one of the recipients.

Samuel Hoffman (ME, EE’12) highlighted his efforts to optimize the design of a “polymorphic zoom” system that improves the optical performance of standard zoom lenses.

I couldn’t figure out whether to put this on my blog here or on my famous relatives page.

I have always wondered how we might get from the typical spherical lens with its aberrations to a more parabolic lens without those aberrations.  I can hardly wait to talk to Sam about whether his research is leading in that direction.