Here is the final schedule of
talks.
Topics of QFEXT09 included the following:
- Casimir and van der Waals forces
- Progress in theory and new experiments
- Applications at micro- and nanoscale
- Casimir effect
- Exact and approximate methods
- Related mathematical problems
- Quantum vacuum effects in classical background fields
- Renormalization
- Singular backgrounds
- Applications to particle, high energy, and atomic physics
- Vacuum energy and gravity
- Renormalization of Einstein's equations
with singular source functions
- Vacuum energy in supersymmetric and noncommutative theories
QFEXT09 was a continuation of a series of
workshops of the same title held at the University of Leipzig in
1989, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2001, 2007, at the University of Oklahoma
in 2003, and at the University of Barcelona in 2005.
The average number of participants has been about 80.
Started with the intention of bringing about an East-West scientific dialog,
QFEXT developed into one of the most prominent meetings in the field of the
Casimir effect, vacuum energy, and related questions in several areas,
ranging from quantum field theory and cosmology to atomic, subnuclear,
and experimental physics. Typically mathematical questions related to
spectral geometry are represented as well. These meetings have created a
unique atmosphere where theoreticians, mathematicians and experimentalists are
brought together for a week, where talks by colleagues that they might rarely
hear otherwise often spark lively debate and result in numerous collaborations.
The Proceedings of the last six
workshops were published as follows:
M. Bordag and V. M. Mostepanenko, eds., J. Phys. A 41,
No. 16 (2008), special issue devoted to papers presented in the 8th workshop
on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions,
E. Elizalde and S. D. Odintsov, eds., J. Phys. A 39,
No.21 (2006), special issue devoted to papers presented in the 7th workshop
on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions,
K. A. Milton, ed., Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Quantum
Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions
(Rinton Press, Princeton, 2004),
M. Bordag, ed.,
Int. J. Mod. Phys. 17, Nos. 5&6, pp. 771-1064 (2002),
M. Bordag, ed., The Casimir Effect 50 Years Later
(World Scientific, Singapore,1999),
M. Bordag, ed., Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of
External Conditions (Teubner, Stuttgart, 1996).
Talks:
The formal structure of the conference consisted of plenary and
contributed talks, the latter organized in parallel sessions.
In addition there was a poster session.
Here is the final schedule
of talks.
Proceedings of the conference, have now been published by World Scientific.
The plenary speakers included
Michael Bordag
Iver Brevik
Ho Bun Chan
Joel Chevrier
Diego Dalvit
Ricardo Decca
Maarten DeKieviert
Gerald Dunne
Emilio Elizalde
Thorsten Emig
Larry Ford
Steve Fulling
Holger Gies
Carsten Henkel
Davide Iannuzzi
Steven Johnson
Klaus Kirsten
Israel Klich
Galina Klimchitskaya
Umar Mohideen
Emil Mottola
Vladimir Mostepanenko
Jeremy Munday
Roberto Onofrio
Lev Pitaevskii
Serge Reynaud
Bo Sernelius
Ilya Shapiro
Award:
"QFEXT09 Junior Paper Award"
(Sponsored by the ESF network
CASIMIR). During the conference, an international jury chaired by Dr. Michael
Bordag selected the best junior papers of
QFEXT09
on Casimir and closely related effects. The winners were
Jeremy Munday
of Caltech and Simen Ellingsen
of the Norwegian University of Science
and Technology, who shared a
1000
Euros prize.
International Advisory Committee
- Michael Bordag, University of Leipzig, Chair
- Gerald Dunne, University of Connecticut
- Emilio Elizalde, IEEC/CSIC, Barcelona
- Kimball Milton, University of Oklahoma
- Umar Mohideen, University of California, Riverside
- Vladimir Mostepanenko, A. Friedmann Lab., St. Petersburg
- Alexei Starobinsky, Landau Institute, Moscow
- Herbert Weigel, University of Siegen
Local Organizing Committee
- Kimball Milton, Chair
- Steve Fulling, TAMU
- Brad Abbott
- Phil Gutierrez
- Ron Kantowski
- Chung Kao
- Mike Strauss
Sponsors include:
- The University of Oklahoma
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- The Vice President for Research
- The College of Arts and Sciences
- The Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy
- National Science Foundation
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- US Department of Energy
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- European Science Foundation
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World Scientific Publishing Company
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Journal of Physics A
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Proceedings:
The Proceedings, edited by K. A. Milton and M. Bordag,
have now been published by World Scientific. All registered
participants will receive a copy by mail from the publisher.
Plenary talks have also been published in a special issue
of the International Journal of Modern Physics A:
IJMPA 25, No. 11, 30 April 2010.
Conference Organizer:
For further information, contact the Conference Organizer:
Kimball A. Milton
email: milton@nhn.ou.edu
mail: QFEXT09, H. L Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy,
440 West Brooks,
University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019-2061 USA
phone: +1-405-325-3961 x 36325
fax: +1-405-325-7557
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