April 9th Schedule (Final Schedule)
Location: Stephenson Research and Technology Center, Seminar room
| Friday, April 9, 2010 | ||
| 8:30 | REGISTRATION | |
| MORNING REFRESHMENTS | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Greg Parker (Chair) Paul Bell (Dean of Arts and Sciences) Lee Williams (Dean, Graduate College) Kelvin Droegemeier (VPR) |
Welcome |
| 9:30-10:30 | Roman Jackiw | Fractional charge: the physics of zero-energy modes |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Jack Ng | Spacetime Foam, Holography, Turbulence, and Dark Energy |
| 11:30-12:00 | Robert Finkelstein | A Possible SLq(2) Substructure of the Standard Model |
| 12:00-12:30 | Martin Schaden | Semiclassical Vacuum Energies of Spheres and Cylinders |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Kim Milton | Quantum Vacuum Forces Between Bodies -- Multiple Scattering Results |
| 2:30-3:00 | Carl Bender | Complex Correspondence Principle |
| 3:00-3:30 | Peter Milonni | Electromagnetic Fields in Dielectric Media |
| 3:30-3:45 | COFFEE | |
| 3:45-4:00 | GROUP PHOTO | |
| 4:00-4:30 | Roberto Onofrio | Quantum vacuum versus gravitation: phenomenological considerations |
| 4:30-5:00 | Gerald Dunne | Crystalline Condensates in the Gross-Neveu Model |
| 5:00-5:30 | Steve Fulling | Wedges, Cosmic Strings, and the Reality of Vacuum Energy |
| 7:00 | BANQUET (OMU, University Club) | |