Casimir Conference: September 27-29, 2009

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PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26:

       Arrival to Santa Fe

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27:

       Poster Set-up
       10:00 AM

       10:00 AM – 12:00 AM: Registration
       12:00 AM – 1:30 PM: Lunch Reception / Opening Remarks and Discussions
      
       Session 1:  Chair: Babb
       1:30 PM – 2:10 PM
        Lev Pitaevskii -- Physics of Repulsive van der Waals Forces
       2:10 PM – 2:50 PM
        Alex Cronin -- Improved C3 Measurements with Atom Interferometry

       2:50 PM – 3:20 PM: Coffee Break / Posters
      
       Session 2:  Chair: Maia Neto
       3:20 PM – 4:00 PM
        Carsten Henkel -- A Magnetic analysis of Casimir(Polder) forces
       4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
        Jeremy Munday -- Engineering the Casimir-Lifshitz force for levitation, ultra-low
        static friction devices, self-sorting, and QED torques

       4:40 PM – 5:10 PM: Coffee Break / Posters

       Session 3:  Chair: Aksyuk
       5:10 PM – 5:50 PM
        Umar Mohideen -- Using light and contour to control the Casimir force
       5:50 PM – 6:30 PM
        Thorsten Emig -- Shape and material dependence of Casimir-Lifshitz forces
        from scattering theory

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28:

       Session 4:  Chair: Bimonte
       9:00 AM – 9:40 AM
        Davide Iannuzzi -- What can we learn from Casimir force measurements under ambient conditions?
       9:40 AM – 10:20 AM
        Steven Johnson -- Numerical methods for Casimir interactions

      

       10:20 AM – 10:50 AM: Coffee Break / Posters
      
       Session 5:  Chair: Sernelius
       10:50 AM - 11:30 AM
        Vladimir Mostepanenko -- The Casimir Effect And Fundamental Physics
       11:30 PM – 12:10 PM
        Serge Reynaud -- The scattering approach to the Casimir force

       12:10 PM – 2:10 PM: Lunch (not provided)

       Session 6:  Chair: Antezza
       2:10 PM – 2:50 PM
        Ricardo Decca -- Casimir force measurements using microelectromechanical systems
       2:50 PM – 3:30 PM
        Maarten De Boer -- Surface Forces in MEMS – Adhesion and Friction Experiments

       3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break / Posters
      
       Session 7:  Moderator: Milonni
       4:00 PM – 6:00 PM: Round Table

       7:30 PM – onwards: Banquet
       Keynote Speaker: Igor Dzyaloshinskii

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29:

       Session 8:  Chair: Klimchitskaya
       9:00 AM – 9:40 AM
        Maarten DeKieviet -- Explorations in Casimir-Polder Forces
       9:40 AM – 10:20 AM
        Joel Chevrier -- Measures of Casimir force and of near-field radiative heat transfer

       10:20 AM – 10:50 PM: Coffee Break / Posters
            
       Session 9:  Chair: Mazzitelli
       10:50 AM – 11:30 AM
        Clemens Bechinger -- Direct measurement of critical Casimir forces
       11:30 AM – 12:10 PM
        John O'Hara -- Metamaterial Design Considerations for Casimir Force Control

       12:10 PM – 2:10 PM: Lunch (not provided)                                             

       Session 10:  Chair: Ford
       2:10 PM – 2:50 PM
        Ho Bun Chan -- Measuring the geometry dependence of the Casimir force on nanostructured silicon surfaces
       2:50 PM – 3:30 PM
        Giuseppe Bimonte -- Bohr-van Leeuwen theorem and the thermal Casimir effect for conductors


       3:30 PM – 4:00 PM: Coffee Break / Poster Removal

       Session 11:  Chair: Brevik
       4:00 PM – 4:40 PM
        Adrian Parsegian -- Carbon nanotubes, lipid bilayers, salt solution – forces from
fluctuations across the spectrum

       4:40 PM – 5:20 PM
        Kimball Milton -- Multiple Scattering Casimir Force Calculations: Layered and Corrugated Materials, Wedges, and CP Forces

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30:

       Departure from Santa Fe

POSTERS

       Andrew Sykes -- Casimir-like drag forces in superfluids
       Francesco Intravaia -- Thermal effects in the magnetic Casimir-Polder interactions
       Francesco Intravaia -- Can Surface Plasmons tune the Casimir Forces between
Metamaterials?

       Gustavo Moreno -- Bragg spectroscopy for measuring Casimir-Polder interactions with Bose-Einstein condensates above corrugated surfaces
       Gennady Berman -- Effects of electrostatic fields and Casimir force on cantilever vibrations
       Lilia Woods -- Long Range Interactions in Cylindrical Structures
       Rongkuo Zhao -- Repulsive Casimir Force in Chiral Metamaterials

 

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