April 10th Schedule (Final Schedule)

Saturday, April 10, 2010
8:30	MORNING REFRESHMENTS
9:00-9:30	Michael Bordag	Casimir Effect for a sphere and a plane at finite temperature
9:30-10:00	John Ralston	The Hierarchy Non-Problem
10:00-10:30	Luis Urrutia	Spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking in Electrodynamics
10:30-11:00	COFFEE
11:00-11:30	Herbert Weigel	Vacuum Energies of Z-Strings
11:30-12:00	Doug McKay	NPQCD, ultrahigh energy neutrino-nucleon scattering and neutrino telescopes
12:00-12:30	Lowell Brown	Quantum Field Theory of Thomas-Fermi Atoms; Does Perturbation Theory in $Z^{-1/3}$ Terminate?
12:30-2:00	LUNCH
2:00-2:30	Iver Brevik	On the common nature of relativistic (isorefractive) media
2:30-3:00	Mike Lieber	Three's a Crowd
3:00-3:30	Sandip Pakvasa	Galactic Neutrino Communication and SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence)
3:30-4:00	COFFEE
4:00-4:30	Klaus Kirsten	Cosmological pistons and zeta functions of graphs
4:30-5:00	Hing Tong Cho	Correlations of the stress energy tensor in AdS spaces via the zeta-function method
5:00-5:30	K.V. Shajesh	Casimir energy using Fradkin's representation
5:30-6:00	Ines Cavero-Pelaez	Universalities and ambiguities