Program Schedule

Updated as of 5 Jul 2016

Venue: IAS Lecture Theater, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST

Format of Talk:

- Invited Talk: 25 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A session
- Contributed Talk: 20 minutes with 5 minutes of Q&A session

Poster Session:

Notes for Poster Presenter

25 Apr | 26 Apr | 27 Apr | 28 Apr

Presentation videos: (New)

Presentation videos of the program are uploaded here.

25 Apr (Mon)

Time Event
08:30-08:55 Registration
08:55-09:05 Welcoming Remarks
Morning Session:
Chair: Stefan Buhmann (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
09:05-09:40 "Casimir Force Measurements at Yale" [Abstract]
Steve Lamoreaux (Yale University)
09:40-10:15 "Three-body Retarded Dispersion Potentials Involving Electric Octupole Coupling" [Abstract]
Akbar Salam (Wake Forest University)
10:15-10:35 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
10:35-11:10 "Subcycle Quantum Optics: Electric Field Vacuum Fluctuations and Time-Domain Tomography"
Denis Seletskiy (University of Konstanz)
11:10-11:45 "Casimir Forces and Heat Transfer between Heterostructures" and "Influence of External Magnetic Fields" [Abstract]
Raul Esquivel-Sirvent (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
11:45-12:20 "Casimir Forces and Torques: Recent Experimental Progress and the Effect of Patch Potentials" [Abstract]
Jeremy Munday (University of Maryland)
12:20-13:30 Lunch (For registered participants only; Venue: G/F China Garden Restaurant)
13:30-14:40 Free Discussion
Afternoon Session:
Chair: Karin Jacobs (Saarland University and INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials)
14:40-15:15 "Secondary Casimir Effect in Fluctuation Hydrodynamics" [Abstract]
Rudolf Podgornik (Jožef Stefan Institute)
15:15-15:40 "Statistical Aspects of Quantum Friction" [Abstract]
Francesco Intravaia (Max Born Institute)
15:40-16:05 "Progress on the Power-Wall Model" [Abstract]
Stephen Fulling (Texas A&M University)
16:05-16:25 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
16:25-17:00 "Directional Spontaneous Emission and Lateral Casimir-Polder Force on an Atom Close to a Nanofiber" [Abstract]
Stefan Scheel (University of Rostock)
17:00-17:35 "Casimir Free Energy of Metallic Films: New Way to Discriminate between Drude and Plasma Models" [Abstract]
Galina Klimchitskaya (Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University)
17:35-18:35 "Photon Torpedoes and QED Pinwheels: Theoretical Modeling of Novel Geometries in Non-Equilibrium Casimir Physics" (Tutorial) [Abstract]
M. T. Homer Reid (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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26 Apr (Tue)

Time Event
Morning Session:
Chair: Daniel Lopez (Argonne National Laboratory)
09:00-09:35 "Non-additivity of Molecule-surface van der Waals Potentials from Force Measurements and Reconstruction of the Surface Holding Potential" [Abstract]
Stefan Tautz (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
09:35-10:10 "Precision Measurement of the Casimir Force in 2D Materials"
Umar Mohideen (University of California at Riverside)
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
10:30-11:05 "Van der Waals Interactions in Wetting, Adhesion, Adsorption and Friction Experiments" [Abstract]
Karin Jacobs (Saarland University and INM - Leibniz Institute for New Materials)
11:05-11:40 "Forces beyond 2nd Order with Electromagnetic Response Theory" [Abstract]
Carsten Henkel (University of Potsdam)
11:40-12:30 Discussion "Stress Tensor for a Scalar Field in a Spatially Varying Background Potential: Divergences, 'Renormalization', Anomalies, and Casimir Forces" [Abstract]
Leader: Kimball Milton (University of Oklahoma)
12:30-13:40 Lunch (For registered participants only; Venue: G/F China Garden Restaurant)
13:40-14:40 Free Discussion
Afternoon Session:
Chair: Diego Dalvit (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
14:40-15:05 "Casimir Forces from Conductive Silicon Carbide Surfaces" [Abstract]
Mehdi Sedighi (University of Groningen)
15:05-15:30 "Surface Plasmons for Doped Graphene at Zero and Finite Temperature and the Casimir Effect" [Abstract]
Irina Pirozhenko (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)
15:30-15:55 "Cryogenic Casimir Force Measurement with a Superconducting Torsion Balance" [Abstract]
Christopher Collins (University of Birmingham)
15:55-16:15 Group Photo and Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
16:15-18:00 Poster Session (Venue: IAS Lobby) [List of Posters]
18:00 Dinner (By invitation only; Venue: Conference Lodge)
19:30 Excursion (By invitation only)

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27 Apr (Wed)

Time Event
Morning Session:
Chair: Rudolf Podgornik (Jožef Stefan Institute)
09:00-09:35 "Recent Development in the Differential Measurement of Subfemtonewton Forces" [Abstract]
Ricardo Decca (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
09:35-10:10 "Utilizing Casimir-Polder Forces of Nanophotonic Structures for Atomic Trapping" [Abstract]
Darrick Chang (Institut de Ciències Fotòniques)
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
10:30-11:05 "Fluctuation Phenomena in Novel Systems at the Nanoscale" [Abstract]
Lilia Woods (University of South Florida)
11:05-11:40 "Non-equilibrium Casimir-Lifshitz Force between Gratings" [Abstract]
Brahim Guizal (University of Montpellier)
11:40-12:30 Discussion: "Connection between Lifshitz Theory and Correlation Energy Theories from Solid State Physics and Quantum Chemistry: vdW-bound 2D Layers and Layered Solids as a Case Study" [Abstract]
Leader: John Dobson (Griffith University)
12:30-13:40 Lunch (For registered participants only; Venue: Conference Lodge)
13:40-14:40 Free Discussion
Afternoon Session:
Chair: Lilia Woods (University of South Florida)
14:40-15:05 "Measurement of Casimir Forces between Silicon Nanostructures Fabricated Using Electron Beam Lithography" [Abstract]
Ho Bun Chan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
15:05-15:30 "Experimental Test of the Entanglement of Radiation Generated by the Dynamical Casimir Effect" [Abstract]
Ben Schneider (Chalmers University of Technology)
15:30-15:55 "Unified Boundary Conditions and Casimir Forces for Fields with Arbitrary Spin" [Abstract]
Robert Bennett (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
15:55-16:15 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
16:15-18:00 Poster Session (Venue: IAS Lobby) [List of Posters]
18:15 Dinner (By invitation only and transport provided; Venue: Sai Kung)

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28 Apr (Thu)

Time Event
Morning Session:
Chair: Stefan Scheel (University of Rostock)
09:00-09:35 "Towards Casimir Force Measurements with Optical Tweezers" [Abstract]
Paulo Maia Neto (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
09:35-10:10 "Nonadditivity of Critical Casimir Forces" [Abstract]
Andrea Gambassi (International School for Advanced Studies, SISSA)
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
10:30-11:05 "Spectroscopic Measurements of the Casimir-Polder Interaction with Atoms and Molecules" [Abstract]
Athanasios Laliotis (University of Paris 13)
11:05-11:40 "New Features of the Casimir Force for Magnetic Materials and Graphene" [Abstract]
Vladimir Mostepanenko (Pulkovo Observatory of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University)
11:40-12:30 Discussion: Casimir Force and the Universe [Abstract]
Leader: Emilio Elizalde (Institute of Space Sciences, ICE-CSIC)
12:30-13:40 Lunch (For registered participants only; Venue: Conference Lodge)
13:40-14:40 Free Discussion
Afternoon Session:
Chair: George Palasantzas (University of Groningen)
14:40-15:05 "An Update on Casimir Physics in Amsterdam" [Abstract]
René Sedmik (VU University Amsterdam)
15:05-15:30 "Renormalizing Casimir Forces in Inhomogeneous Media" [Abstract]
Itay Griniasty (Weizmann Institute of Science)
15:30-15:55 "Medium-assisted Casimir–Polder Interaction between Chiral Molecules" [Abstract]
Pablo Barcellona (Albert-Ludwigs University of Freiburg)
15:55-16:15 Coffee Break (Venue: IAS Lobby)
16:15-16:50 "Dipole Waves and van der Waals Interactions at the Nanoscale" [Abstract]
Alexandre Tkatchenko (University of Luxembourg)
16:50-17:25 "Casimir Friction" [Abstract]
Iver Brevik (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
17:25-18:00 "Zero-point Forces in Electronic Circuits: Alternative Route to Measuring Casimir Phenomena?" [Abstract]
Efi Shahmoon (Harvard University)
18:00 Closing Remarks

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