Casimir Forces: Recent Developments in Experiment and Theory

November 14 - 16, 2002

Organizers: Umar Mohideen and James Babb

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Barton	Bordag	Brevik	Carugno	Cole	Dalvit	Elizalde
Fischbach	Ford	Fulling	Graham	Hushwater	Iannuzzi	Kardar
Khemani	Klimchitskaya	Lafyatis	Maclay	Milton	Mohideen	Mostepanenko
Ninham	Nussinov	Parsegian	Ruoso	Sernelius	Shimizu	Sucher
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Schedule

Thursday Nov. 14 (Pratt Conference Room)

Session I: Temperature Dependence of the Casimir Effect

Chair: U. Mohideen

8:30 Coffee
8:45 K. Kirby: Welcome remarks,
9:00 B. Sernelius: Van der Waals and Casimir Forces: Effects of Finite Temperature and Dissipation
9:30 G. Klimchitskaya: Problems with the Thermal Casimir Force Between Real Metals
10:00 Coffee
10:30 B. Ninham: Casimir -Lifshitz: LESSONS from CHEMISTRY
11:00 D. Cole: Thermodynamic Issues Related to Casimir Forces from a Classical Physics Perspective
11:30 Informal discussion
12:00 Lunch

 

Session II: Experimental Realizations in the Solid State

Chair: TBD

2:00 U. Mohideen: Casimir Force Experiments Using the Atomic Force Microscope 
2:30 D. Iannuzzi: Influence of the Optical Properties of Materials in the Casimir-Lifshitz Force
3:00 G. Ruoso: Measurement of the Casimir Force Between Parallel Metallic Surfaces
3:30 Coffee
4:00 G. Carugno: Motion Induced Radiation
4:30 D. Dalvit: Dynamical Casimir Effect in 3D
5:00 C. Villarreal: Casimir Forces in Non-Homogeneous Planar and Spherical Systems

5:30 Reception

Friday Nov. 15 (Phillips Auditorium)

Session III: Quantum Field Theoretic Approaches to the Casimir Effect. I.

Chair: K. Milton

8:45 M. Bordag: On the Vacuum Energy of the Color Magnetic Vortex
9:15 S. Fulling: Systematics of the Relationship between Vacuum Energy Calculations and Heat Kernel Coefficients
9:45 N. Graham: Casimir Energies in Light of Quantum Field Theory
10:15 Coffee

Session IV: Quantum Field Theoretic Approaches to the Casimir Effect. II.

Chair: S. Fulling

10:45 K. Milton: Calculating Casimir Energies in Renormalizable Quantum Field Theory
11:15 E. Elizalde: Calculations of the Casimir Effect in Cosmology
11:45 V. Khemani: Fermion Vacuum Energy Effects on the Higgs Sector of the Electroweak Theory
12:15 Lunch

Session V: Quantum Field Theoretic Approaches to the Casimir Effect. III.

Chair: M. Bordag

2:00 M.Kardar: Path Integral Formulation for Deformed Boundaries
2:30 G. Barton: Casimir Effects for a Conducting Spherical Shell: Between C60 and the Lamb Shift
3:00 I. Brevik: Casimir effect in dielectrics: On the low-frequency contributions
3:30 Coffee

Session VI: Casimir Effects and Atoms

Chair: J. Babb

4:00 F. Shimizu: Quantum Reflection of a Neutral Atom from Solid Surface
4:30 G. Lafyatis: Measurements of Long-Range Atom-Surface Forces
5:00 J. Sucher: Higher-Order Poles in Electron-Hydrogen Scattering: Who Ordered That?
5:30 Discussion

Saturday, Nov. 16 (Phillips Auditorium)

Session VII: Shape Dependencies of the Casimir Effect

Chair: V. Mostepanenko

8:45 V. Hushwater: Survey of Repulsive Casimir Forces
9:15 S. Nussinov: New Variants and Other Results for the Casimir Effect
9:45 J. Maclay: Casimir Forces in Cavities with a Finite Plasma Frequency
10:15 Coffee

Session VIII: Long-Range Forces

Chair: L. Ford

10:30 E. Fischbach: Isotopic Dependence of the Casimir Force: Theory and Experiment
11:00 V. Mostepanenko: Constraints on Predictions of Fundamental Physics from the Recent Casimir Force Measurements
11:30 L. Ford: Focusing Vacuum Fluctuations

12:00 A. Parsegian:  e(z)
12:30 Discussion on Dark Energy and the Casimir Effect

Participants

Dr. James F. Babb ITAMP MS 14, 60 Garden St. Cambridge, MA 02138 jbabb@cfa.harvard.edu Prof. Gabriel Barton [Abstract] Centre for Theoretical Physics University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK G.Barton@sussex.ac.uk Dr. Michael Bordag [Abstract] Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Leipzig Augustusplatz 10 04109 Leipzig, GERMANY michael.bordag@itp.uni-leipzig.de Prof. Iver H Brevik [Abstract] Division of Applied Mechanics Norwegian University of Science and Technology N-7491 TRONDHEIM Norway iver.h.brevik@mtf.ntnu.no Dr. Federico Capasso Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Room 1D-269 600 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 fc@lucent.com Dr. Giovanni Carugno [Abstract] Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Via Marzolo, 8- 35131 Padova, Italy carugno@pd.infn.it Prof. Dan C. Cole [Abstract] Department of Manufacturing and Engineering Boston University 15 St. Mary's Street Brookline, MA 02446 dccole@bu.edu Mr. Hector M. Crocce Physics Department New York University 4 Washington Pl, P.O. Box 52 New York, NY 10003 hmc238@nyu.edu Dr. Diego A. R. Dalvit [Abstract] Theoretical Division P.O. Box 210 Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos, NM 87545 dalvit@lanl.gov Prof. Emilio Elizalde [Abstract] IEEC/CSIC Edifici Nexus, Gran Capita, 2-4 08034 Barcelona, Spain elizalde@ieec.fcr.es Prof. Ephraim Fischbach [Abstract] Physics Department Purdue University 525 Northwestern Ave. W. Lafayette, IN 47907-2036 ephraim@physics.purdue.edu   Prof. Larry H. Ford [Abstract] Physics Department Tufts University Medford, MA 02155 ford@cosmos.phy.tufts.edu

Prof. Stephen A. Fulling [Abstract] Mathematics Department Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-3368 fulling@math.tamu.edu Prof. Noah M. Graham [Abstract] Bicentennial Hall Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 ngraham@middlebury.edu Dr. Velvel S. Hushwater [Abstract] 455 Grant Ave., #7 Palo Alto, CA 94306 quantcosmos@yahoo.com Dr. Davide Iannuzzi [Abstract] Lucent Technologies Bell Laboratories Innovations Room 7c202 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, NJ 07974 diannuzzi@lucent.com Prof. Enrico Iacopini INFN - Sezione di Firenze Largo E. Fermi, 2 I-50125 FIRENZE, Italy iacopini@fi.infn.it Prof. Robert L. Jaffe Director, Center for Theoretical Physics 6-311 MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 jaffe@mit.edu Prof. Mehran Kardar [Abstract] Physics Department, Room 12-108 MIT 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 kardar@MIT.EDU Mr. Vishesh Khemani [Abstract] 6-106 Center for Theoretical Physics M.I.T. 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139 vishesh@mit.edu Prof. Galina L. Klimchitskaya [Abstract] Departamento de Fisica Universidade Federal da Paraiba, C.P.5008, CEP 58059-970, Joao Pessoa, Pb-Brazil galina@fisica.ufpb.br Prof. Gregory P. Lafyatis [Abstract] Department of Physics Ohio State University 274 W. 18th Ave. Columbus, OH 43210 lafyatis@mps.ohio-state.edu Dr. Jordan Maclay [Abstract] Quantum Fields LLC 20918 Wildflower Lane Richland Center, WI 53581 jordanmaclay@quantumfields.com Prof. Kimball A. Milton [Abstract] Department of Physics and Astronomy 440 West Brooks, Room 131 The University of Oklahoma Norman, OK 73019-2061 milton@nhn.ou.edu

Prof. Umar Mohideen Department of Physics University of California Riverside, CA 92506 umar.mohideen@ucr.edu Prof. Vladimir M. Mostepanenko [Abstract] Departamento de Fisica Universidade Federal da Paraiba, C.P. 5008, CEP 58059-970, Joao Pessoa, Pb-Brazil mostep@fisica.ufpb.br Prof. Barry W. Ninham [Abstract] Department of Chemistry and CSGI, University of Florence via della Lastruccia 3, Sesto Fiorentino 50019 Florence, Italy Barry.Ninham@anu.edu.au Prof. Shmuel Nussinov [Abstract] Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences Institute for Advanced Study Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 nussinov@post.tau.ac.il [Home Institution] Tel-Aviv University School of Physics and Astronomy Kaplun Bldg 404 Ramat Aviv Tel-Aviv, Israel Dr. V. Adrian Parsegian [Abstract] 12A/2041 NIH Bethesda, MD 20892-5626 aparsegi@helix.nih.gov Dr. Giuseppe Ruoso [Abstract] INFN LNL Viale dell'Universitá, 2 35020 Legnaro, Italy Ruoso@lnl.infn.it Prof. Bo E. Sernelius [Abstract] Dept. of Physics and Measurement Technology Linköping University SE-581 83 Linköping, SWEDEN bos@ifm.liu.se Prof. Fujio Shimizu [Abstract] University of Electro-Communications Institute for Laser Science Chofu-shi, 182-8585, Tokyo, Japan fshimizu@ils.uec.ac.jp Prof. Joseph Sucher [Abstract] Department of Physics University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742 jsucher@physics.umd.edu Dr. Carlos Villarreal [Abstract] Institute de Fisica Universidad Autonoma de Mexico Apartado Postal 20-364 Mexico, 01000, D.F. carlos@fisica.unam.mx

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