Workshop

A two-day workshop featuring senior researchers presenting their recent research.

   Monday, June 11, 2018: 0830 - 1715, Dinner at 1930

0830 - 0900: Welcome note by James Dawson and Iver Brevik w/ coffee 

0900 - 1030: Session I - Kimball A. Milton (Chair)

0900 - 0930: Michael Bordag --- On the entropy of a spherical plasma shell

0930 - 1000: Sergei Odintsov --- Unifying inflation with dark energy in higher-derivative gravity

1000 - 1030: Aram Saharian --- The Casimir effect for current densities in braneworlds with compact dimensions

1030 - 1100: Coffee Break

1100 - 1230: Session II - Sergei Odintsov (Chair)

1100 - 1130: Kimball A. Milton --- Quantum electromagnetic stress tensor in an inhomogeneous medium

1130 - 1200: Johan Høye --- Correlation energy of the uniform quantized electron gas

1200 - 1230: Iver Brevik --- Repulsive Casimir forces

1230 - 1400: Lunch Break

1400 - 1530: Session III - Michael Bordag (Chair)

1400 - 1430: Irina Pirozhenko --- Dispersion forces between fields confined to half spaces

1430 - 1500:  Inés Cavero-Peláez --- Renormalization group flow and C-functions

1500 - 1530: K. V. Shajesh --- Casimir energies for fractal configurations

1530 - 1545: Coffee Break

1545 - 1715: Session IV - Aram Saharian (Chair)

1545 - 1615: Bing S.- Lu --- Van der Waals interaction between anisotropic topological insulator slabs

1615 - 1645: Prachi Parashar --- On the Casimir energy and torque for biaxially anisotropic materials using a perturbative approach

1645 - 1715: Priyadarshini Thiyam --- Sign-reversal of Casimir-Lifshitz torque over distance for anisotropically polarizable dielectric materials

1930: Dinner

   Tuesday, June 12, 2018: 0830 -1300

0830 - 0845: Coffee

0845 - 1045: Session V - Raul Esquivel Sirvent (Chair)

0845 - 0915: Roland Kjellander --- Nonlocal electrostatics in electrolytes: consequences for screened electrostatic interactions

0915 - 0945: Drew Parsons --- Ion specific effects at low concentration: interplay between surface charge and nonelectrostatic physisorption

0945 - 1015: Mathias Boström --- A habitat for life

1015 - 1045: Johannes Fieldler --- Orientational dependent van der Waals forces and their application to spectroscopy

1045 - 1100: Coffee Break

1100 - 1300: Session VI - Roland Kjellander (Chair)

1100 - 1130: Raul Esquivel Sirvent --- General formalism of Casimir forces under external magnetic fields

1130 - 1200: Manuel Donaire --- Casimir momentum of chiral molecules and nucleons in magnetic fields

1200 - 1230: Eduardo Lima --- Colloid science and van der Waals interactions: applications in biology, cosmetics, and petroleum science

1230 - 1300: Kristian Berland --- Recent developments in van der Waals density functional theory and its future

1300: End Note by Mathias Boström

End of the workshop part of the event. (Free for rest of the day.)

Summer school

A four-day event from Wednesday to Saturday, where various aspects of the field are presented in a lecture-type format. Evening sessions will showcase students' research presentations.

  Wednesday, June 13, 2018: 0830 - 1730

Casimir physics: theoretical background

• 0830 - 1020: Session 1
• Kimball Milton
  Fundamentals of Casimir Physics: calculating Casimir energies and forces using Schwinger's effective action and Green's functions
• 0830 - 0920: (a) Formalism: Effective electromagnetic action and variational principle, Symbolic reformulation, TGTG formula, Local description, Finite temperature
• 0930 - 1020: (b) Application: Force on a dielectric body, Planar geometries, Lifshitz formula
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• 1020 - 1040: COFFEE BREAK
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• 1040 - 1230: Session 2
• Johan Høye
  Statistical mechanical approach to induced Casimir forces
• 1040 - 1130: Lecture 1
• 1140 - 1230: Lecture 2
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• 1230 - 1400: LUNCH BREAK
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• 1400 - 1550: Session 3
• Raul Esquivel Sirvent 
• 1400 - 1450: (a) Dielectric function of Au, Theory, Experiment, and Validity
• 1500 - 1550: (b) Plasmonic and polaritonic materials in the Casimir force - Real frequency representation
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• 1550 - 1615 : COFFEE BREAK
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• 1615 - 1730: Session 4
• Students' presentations
• 1615 - 1630: Wijnand Broer --- Casimir Force and Torque between  Multilayer Anisotropic Topological Insulators 
  1630 - 1645: Vinicius Henning --- Derjaguin approximation and specular reflection application of semiclassical Mie scattering to the Casimir effect 
  1645 - 1700: Victoria Esteso --- Casimir force and levitation phenomena in plane-parallel systems made of dielectric materials
  1700 - 1715: Patrícia Abrantes --- Repulsive van der Waals interaction between an atom and a nanoring
  1715 - 1730: Frieder Lindel --- Casimir Force and Torque for Nonreciprocal Media and Applications to Photonic Topological Insulators

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  Thursday, June 14, 2018: 0830 - 1800

Casimir effect in the cosmological context

• 0830 - 1020: Session 5
• Emilio Elizalde
  Zeta functions, the Casimir Effect, and Cosmology
• 0830 - 0920: Lecture 1
• 0930 - 1020: Lecture 2
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• 1020 - 1040: COFFEE BREAK
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• 1040 - 1230: Session 6
• Sergei Odintsov
  Introduction to modified gravity with applications to universe history
• 1040 - 1130: Lecture 1
• 1140 - 1230: Lecture 2
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• 1230 - 1400: LUNCH BREAK
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• 1400 - 1550: Session 7
• Aram Saharian
  The Casimir effect in gravitational fields
• 1400 - 1450: Lecture 1
• 1500 - 1550: Lecture 2
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• 1550 - 1610: COFFEE BREAK
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• 1610 - 1700: Session 8
• Iver Brevik
  1610 -1700: On 5-dimensional cosmology

• 1700 - 1800: Session 9
• Students' presentations
• 1700 - 1715: Yang Li --- Casimir Force on Bodies Immersed in Inhomogeneous Media
  1715 - 1730: Daniel Reiche --- Spatial dispersion in Atom-surface interactions
  1730 - 1745: Marty Oelschläger --- Manipulating Dispersion Forces with Superlattice Nano-structures
  1745 - 1800: César  Romaniega  Sancho --- Schördinger operators with $\delta$-$\delta'$ potentials and their application to Quantum Field Theory
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  Friday, June 15, 2018: 0830 - 1800

Dispersion forces and its applications in surface physics

• 0830 - 0920: Session 10
• Roland Kjellander
• 0830 - 0920: (a) Electrostatics and dispersion interactions in bulk electrolytes
• 0930 - 1020: (b) Surface interactions in electrolyte systems
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• 1020 - 1040: COFFEE BREAK
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• 1040 - 1230: Session 11
• Drew Parsons
• Impact of Casimir effects on surface adsorption
• 1040 - 1130: Lecture 1
• 1140 - 1230: Lecture 2

1230 - 1400: LUNCH BREAK

• 1400 - 1550: Session 12
• Eduardo Lima
  Modeling specific ion effects and colloidal interactions: from Poisson-Boltzmann to Density Functional Theory
• 1400 - 1450: Lecture 1
• 1500 - 1550: Lecture 2

1550 - 1610: COFFEE BREAK

• 1610 - 1700: Session 13 
• Kristian Berland
  1610 - 1700: Electronic and optical properties in density functional theory and beyond

• 1700 - 1800: Session 14
• Students' presentations
• 1700 - 1715: Benjamin Spreng --- Numerics for the Casimir interaction for spherical geometries in the plane-wave basis
  1715 - 1730: Luís Pires --- Probing colloidal interactions with optical tweezers
  1730 - 1745: Severin Bang --- Calculating Interatomic Coulombic Decay Rates from Atomic Data: A case study
  1745 - 1800: Helge Dobbertin --- Van der Waals interaction at finite temperature

   Saturday, June 16, 2018: 0830 - 1600

DFT, theoretical and experimental outlook of Casimir physics

• 0830 - 1020: Session 15
• Kristian Berland 
  van der Waals density functional theory
• 0830 - 0920: (a) Dispersion forces in density functional theory
• 0930 - 1020: (b) Applications

1020 - 1040: COFFEE BREAK

• 1040 - 1230: Session 16
• George Palasantzas
  Experimental overview and future directions in the Casimir Physics
• 1040 - 1130: (a) Complex materials and optical properties towards Casimir-Lifshitz forces
• 1140 - 1230: (b) Geometry, morphology towards Casimir actuation and surface adhesion

1230 - 1400: LUNCH BREAK

• 1400 - 1550: Session 17
• Kimball Milton
• Theoretical overview and future directions in the Casimir Physics

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• 1550 - 1600: School Closing

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