| Time |
Speaker |
Title |
| 8/20, 12:00 pm |
Rudi Podgornik
NIH |
Fluctuation Forces Between Carbon Nanotubes[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/21, 10:30 am |
Organisers |
Overview[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/21, 12:00 pm |
Anna Maciolek
MPI Stuttgart |
Effective forces induced by fluctuating interface: exact results[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/22, 10:30 am |
Joseph O. Indekeu
Katholieke Univ. Leuven |
Fluctuation-induced forces and wetting phenomena in colloid-polymer mixtures: Are renormalization group predictions measurable?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/26, 10:30 a.m. |
Maarten De Kieviet
Heidelberg Univ. & KITP |
Atomic Beam Spin Echo: Precision Experiments on Fluctuation Induced Quantum Effects[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/27, 12:00 p.m. |
Klaus Klingmüller
RWTH Aachen Univ. & KITP |
Simulating Quantum Fluctuations: The Worldline Approach to the Casimir Effect[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/28, 10:30 a.m. |
Steven G. Johnson
MIT |
Virtual Photons in Imaginary Time: Computing Casimir Forces in New Geometries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 8/29, 12:00 p.m. |
Ariel Edery
Bishop's Univ. & KITP |
Compact Dimensions and the Casimir Effect: the Proca Connection[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/02, 10:30 a.m. |
Moses Chan
Pennsylvania State Univ. |
Fluctuation Induced Thinning of Superfluid Film : Confirmation of Finite Size Scaling[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/03, 12:15 p.m. |
Roya Zandi
UCR & KITP |
Wetting in Helium |
| 9/04, 10:30 a.m. |
Hans Werner Diehl
Univ. Duisburg & KITP |
RG Studies of Critical Casimir Forces[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/05, 12:15 p.m. |
Joshua Feinberg
Univ. Haifa & KITP |
Spectral Methods in Soliton Mass Calculation: The Gross-Neveu Model as an Example[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/09, 10:30 a.m. |
Yacov Kantor
Tel Aviv Univ. & KITP |
Fluctuations, Geometry and Entropic Elasticity[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/10, 12:15 p.m. |
Giuseppe Bimonte
Univ. Napoli & KITP |
Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Cavity: The Aladin Experiment[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/10, 1:00 p.m. |
Joseph Indekeu
Katholieke Univ. & KITP |
Critical Casimir Stress in a Superconducting Film[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/11, 10:30 a.m. |
Luca Peliti
Univ. Federico II & KITP |
Fluctuation Relations for Manipulated Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/12, 12:15 p.m. |
Kay Wiese
ENS & KITP |
Fluctuation Forces on 2D Polymers[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/15, 12:15 p.m. |
Thorsten Emig
Universite Paris Sud & KITP |
Overview of Fluctuation Forces[Podcast][Aud][Cam]
KITP Blackboard Lunch |
| 9/16, 10:30 a.m. |
Woo-Joong Kim
Yale |
Precision Measurements of the Casimir Force using a Torsion Pendulum[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/17, 12:30 p.m. |
David Dean
Univ Paul Sabatier & KITP |
Fluctuation Effects in 1D Coulomb Fluids[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/18, 10:30 a.m. |
Ron Horgan
Univ. of Cambridge & KITP |
The Thermal Casimir Effect, Soap Films and the Schroedinger Functional[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Matthias Schmidt
Univ. of Bayreuth & KITP |
Interfaces in Driven Ising Models: Shear Enhances Confinement[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/23, 10:00 a.m. |
Siegfried Dietrich
MPI & KITP |
Critical Casimir Effect: Theory, Experiment, and Applications[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/24, 12:30 p.m. |
Siegfried Dietrich
MPI & KITP |
Critical Casimir Forces between Geometrically Structured Plates[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/25, 10:30 a.m. |
Ali Naji
(UCSB)
Rudi Podgornik
(LPSB/NICHD & KITP) |
Fluctuation and Correlation Forces in Coulomb Fluids: An Overview[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/29, 12:30 p.m. |
Jeremy Munday
Caltech |
Measurements of the Casimir Force with Application to Nanotechnology[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 9/30, 10:30 a.m. |
Jeremy Munday
Caltech |
Casimir-Lifshitz Forces and QED Torques in Fluid[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/01, 12:30 p.m. |
Ho Chan
Univ of Florida |
Measurement of the Casimir Force on Nanoscale Corrugated Surfaces[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/02, 12:30 p.m. |
Joe Imry
Weizmann Inst. & KITP |
Normal-metal Persistent Currents and Superconducting Fluctuations with Pair-Breaking: A Solution to the Puzzle?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/06, 11:00am |
Peter Kleban
University of Maine & KITP |
Exact Factorization of Correlations in 2-D Critical Systems[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/07, 10:30am |
Umar Mohideen
UC Riverside & KITP |
Modulation of the Casimir Force with Light: Experiment and Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/08, 12:30pm |
Umar Mohideen
UC Riverside & KITP |
Single Bio Molecular Nanomechanics[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/09, 10:30am |
Joseph Rudnick
UCLA & KITP |
Critical Casimir Force: Effects of Boundary Conditions and Dimensionality[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/10, 12:30pm |
Eugene Kolomeisky
Univ. Virginia & KITP |
Geometrical Interpretation of the Casimir Effect[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/13, 12:30 p.m. |
Philippe Martin
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale & KITP |
Microscopic Theory of the Casimir Force at Thermal Equilibrium: Large-separation Asymptotics[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/14, 10:30 a.m. |
John Dobson
Griffith Univ. & KITP |
Strange van der Waals Power Laws from Nonlocal Response[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/15, 12:30 p.m. |
Roger French
DuPont Co. & KITP |
New Perspectives on London Dispersion Interactions and Hamaker Coefficients: At Atomically Abrupt Grain Boundaries in SrTiO3 And In Intergranular Films in Re-M-O-N:Si3N4[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/16, 10:30 a.m. |
Roger French
DuPont Co. & KITP |
Van Der Waals - London Dispersion Interactions For Metallic and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes From ab initio Unixial Optical Properties[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/17, 10:30 a.m. |
Fabrizio Pinto
Interstellar Technologies Corporation & KITP |
Finite-Difference Casimir Force Computations: Development and Convergence towards Industrial Applications[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/17, 12:30 p.m. |
Pascal Buenzli
Univ. Chile & KITP |
Nonplanar Objects in a Fluctuating Fluid out of Equilibrium: Self-Forces, Self-Torques, and Violation of the Action-Reaction Principle[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/21, 10:30 a.m. |
George Palasantzas
Univ. Groningen |
Kinetic Surface Roughening and Optical Properties Influence on the Casimir Force Between Gold Surfaces[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/22, 12:30 p.m. |
Tony Maggs
ESPCI & KITP |
Constrained Electrodynamics -- Numerics and Interactions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/23, 10:30 a.m. |
Andreas Wirzba
Forschungszentrum Juelich & KITP |
Fermionic and Scalar Casimir Effect within the Scattering Approach[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/28, 10:30 a.m. |
Ricardo Decca
IUPUI, NIC |
Precise Measurements of the Casimir Force using Micromechanical Torsional Oscilators[Slides][Podcast][Vid][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/29, 12:30 p.m. |
Andreas Hanke
Univ. Texas & KITP |
Non-Equilibrium Casimir Force Between Two Moving Plates[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/30, 10:30 a.m. |
Bob Jaffe
MIT & KITP |
Casimir Effects in Light of Quantum Field Theory[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 10/31, 12:30 p.m. |
Jemal Guven
UNAM & KITP |
Conical Defects in Paper Sheets[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/04, 10:30 a.m. |
Rafael Garcia
WPI |
Experimental Observation of Casimir Forces in Tricritical and Liquid Crystalline Films[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/05, 12:30 p.m. |
Andrea Gambassi
MPI & KITP |
Critical Casimir Forces at Work: Measuring and Tuning femto-Newton Forces[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/06, 10:30 a.m. |
David Roberts
LANL & KITP |
Casimir Drag in Superfluids[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/07, 10:30 a.m. |
Israel Klich
UCSB & KITP |
Casimir Physics within the TGTG Approach[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/07, 12:30 p.m. |
Oded Kenneth
Technion & KITP |
Lunch Discussion: TBA[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/10, 12:30 p.m. |
Diego Dalvit
LANL & KITP |
Recent Progress in Casimir Physics of Atom-surface Interactions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/12, 12:30 p.m. |
Sven de Man
Vrije Universiteit |
A New Experimental Set-up for High-statistics Measurements of the Casimir Force[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/13, 10:30 a.m. |
Sahand Jamal Rahi
(MIT & KITP)
Thorsten Emig
(Universite Paris Sud & KITP) |
A General Formulation for the Casimir Energy and its Practical Application[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/14, 10:30 a.m. |
Paulo Maia Neto
Univ. Rio De Janeiro & KITP |
Casimir Energy between a Plane and a Sphere in Electromagnetic Vacuum[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/14, 12:30 p.m. |
Steve Fulling
Texas A M & KITP |
Kaluza-Klein Models as Pistons[Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Martin Mueller
ENS & KITP |
Interface-mediated Interactions: from Ground State Calculations to Fluctuation-induced Effects[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/17, 2:00 p.m. |
Kristian Müller-Nedebock
Univ. Stellenbosch & KITP |
Effective Interactions between Macro-ions: Valence-dependence of Condensed Counter-ions[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/18, 10:30 a.m. |
Roberto Onofrio
Dartmouth |
Casimir Forces: Confronting Different Geometries[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Francesco Intravaia
Univ. Potsdam & KITP |
Anatomy of the Casimir Effect[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/19, 12:30 p.m. |
Felipe da Rosa
LANL & KITP |
Casimir Effect and Metamaterials[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/20, 10:30 a.m. |
Roberto Onofrio
Dartmouth |
Towards Experimental Test of the Dynamical Casimir Effect[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/20, 12:30 p.m. |
Efim Kats
Institut Laue Langevin |
Casimir Effect in Soft Matter: Membranes and Liquid Crystals[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
| 11/21, 10:30 a.m. |
Adrian Parsegian
NIH & KITP |
"van der Waals" "Hamaker" "Casimer" "Lifshitz" "fluctuation" "electrodynamic": Where Now? What Next?[Slides][Podcast][Aud][Cam] |
