Talks for the conference.

Quantum field theory under the influence of external conditions

2011, Sep 18 -- Sep 24

Organizers:
M. Asorey (U. Zaragoza)
M. Bordag (U. Leipzig)
E. Elizalde (ICE, CSIC)

Click here to download the program for plenary lectures.

Click here to download the program for parallel sessions.

Monday, September 19

08:30h	Registration

09:15h	Opening talks

09:30h	Observation of Reduction of Casimir Force Without Change of Dielectric Permittivity (?)
	U. Mohideen
10:15h	Casimir interaction on nanostructured Au surfaces
	R. Decca
11:30h	Observation of the thermal Casimir force
	D. Dalvit
12:15h	Measuring the magnetic birefringence of vacuum: the PVLAS experiment
	G. Zavattini
15:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Precision Measurement of the Casimir Force Gradient Using a Dynamic AFM
	U. Mohideen
	B. Covariant Lagrange multiplier constrained higher derivative gravity with scalar projectors
	S. Nojiri
	C. Aharonov-Bohm effect in scattering of quasiclassical particles
	Y. Sitenko
16:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. The MIR experiment: towards an in-vacuum detection of the Dynamical Casimir Effect
	F. DellaValle
	B. Massive, massless and ghost modes of gravitational waves from higher-order gravity
	S. Capozziello
	C. QFT Methods for Studying the Density of Resonances in Open Disordered Multi-Dimensional Systems
	J. Feinberg
16:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Casimir force in silicon micro- and nano-structures
	H. B. Chan
	B. Yang-Mills condensates in cosmology
	D. Gal'tsov
	C. The Casimir effect for parallel plates involving massless Majorana fermions and the renormalized Casimir energy
	H. Cheng
17:00h	Coffee break

17:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Quantum piston with non-ideal dispersive interface.
	C. Villareal
	B. Quasiblack holes and entropy of black holes
	O. Zaslavskii
	C. Fermion Determinant in non-Abdelian radial Backgrounds
	H. Min
18:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Time-dependent Robin boundary conditions in the dynamical Casimir effect
	C. Farina
	B. Modified Dispersion Relations: from Black – Hole Entropy to the Cosmological Constant
	R. Garattini
	C. Casimir effect of Proca fields
	L. P. Teo
18:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Quantum dissipative effects on imperfect moving mirrors
	F. D. Mazzitelli
	B. Awaking the vacuum in relativistic stars
	W. Lima
	C. Temperature independent Casimir-Polder forces: thermal non-equilibrium and arbitrary geometry
	S. Scheel

Tuesday, September 20

09:00h	Casimir-Polder Repulsion: Edges, Wedges, and Apertures
	K. Milton
09:45h	Energy density and pressure in power-wall models
	S. Fulling
11:00h	New constraints on Yukawa-type interaction from the Casimir effect
	V. Mostepanenko
11:45h	Comparison between experiment and theory for the thermal casimir force
	G. Klimchitskaya
15:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. The zeta-regularized spectral determinant and vacuum energy of graph Schrodinger operators
	J. Harrison
	B. Finite Temperature Casimir effect for graphene and metals
	V. Marachevskii
	C. Finite Irreducible Many-Body Casimir Energies
	M. Schaden
16:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Casimir Energies of Tetrahedra
	E. Abalo
	B. Boundary conditions in the Dirac approach to graphene devices
	G. Beneventano
	C. asimir and Casimir-Polder forces in chiral and non-reciprocal media
	Y. Buhmann
16:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. The Casimir repulsion in sphere-plane geometry
	I. Pirozhenko
	B. Casimir Effects in Graphene Systems
	B. E. Sernelius
	C. Casimir force on amplifying bodies
	A. Sambale
17:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Effective Action and Phase Transitions in Yang-Mills Theory on Spheres
	S. Collopy
	B. Some algorithmic improvements of the loop cloud method
	T. Fischbacher
	C. A model of a non-uniform spatially dispersive plasma
	A. Calogeracos
18:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. The Casimir effect in the sphere-plane geometry
	A. Canaguier - Durand
	Quantum Faraday effect in graphene within relativistic Dirac model
	I. Fialkovsky
	C. The proximity force approximation for the Casimir energy as a derivative expansion
	F. Lombardo
18:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Casimir-Polder potential in the geometry of cosmic string with a cylindrical shell
	A. Kotanjyan
	B. Sommerfeld's image method in the calculation of van der Waals forces
	R. Melo de Souza
	C. Quaternion - Octonion QCD and SU (3) Flavor Symmetry
	P.S.Bisht
19:00h	Poster Session

	Nonstandard recursion relations for Fresnel coefficients: Casimir force across a layered medium
	Marin-Slobodan Tomas
	Dynamical Casimir effect in 3+1 dimensions with Robin boundary conditions
	Andreson Luis Carvalho Rego
	Nonstationary boundary effect in a double SQUID at finite temperatures
	S. Matsuo, T. Fujii, and N. Hatakenaka

Wednesday, September 21

16:00h	Casimir friction force for moving harmonic oscillators
	I. Brevik
16:45h	Van der Waals friction: energy production and energy distribution
	G. Barton
18:00h	Cosmic Strings Stabilized by Fermion Fluctuations
	H. Weigel
18:45h	Quantum Field Theory in Graphene
	D. Vassilevich

Thursday, September 22

09:00h	(Euler-Heisenberg session) Heisenberg-Euler and Beyond
	G. Dunne
09:45h	(Euler-Heisenberg session) Electromagnetic superconductivity of vacuum induced by strong magnetic field
	M. N. Chernodub
11:00h	(Stuart Dowker session) Casimir forces in the presence of background potentials
	K. Kirsten
11:45h	(Stuart Dowker session) Zeta function regularization in Casimir effect calculations and Stuart Dowker's Contribution
	E. Elizalde
15:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	(Euler-Heisenberg session) A. The Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian beyond one-loop
	C. Schubert
	B. Phase diagram and thermodynamics for asymmetric planar fermionic systems in the presence of external fields
	R. Ramos
	C. Development of a high-sensitivity torsion balance to study the thermal Casimir force
	W. J. Kim
16:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	(Euler-Heisenberg session) A. Radiation damping effects in high intensity laser fields
	C. Harvey
	B. Canonical quantization of macroscopic electromagnetism and the Casimir effect
	T. Philbin
	C. Energy-Momentum Tensors with Worldline Numerics
	M. Schaefer
16:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	(Euler-Heisenberg session) A. QED processes in intense laser fields
	A. Ilderton
	B. Casimir effect -- algebraic perspective
	A. Herdegen
	C. The Casimir effect with nanostructured surfaces
	R. Guerout
17:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	(Euler-Heisenberg session) A. Optical probes of the quantum vacuum - the photon polarization tensor in external fields
	F. Karbstein
	B. Negative Casimir Entropy between spheres
	P. Rodriguez-Lopez
	C. Feynman graphs for dispersion forces with excited molecules
	H. Haakh
18:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	(Euler-Heisenberg session) A. Generalizations of the Heisenberg-Euler energy to strong electric fields
	S. Gavrilov
	B. Numerical computation of Casimir forces via stochastic quantization
	R. Soto
	C. Electrostatic Patch Effects in Casimir Force Measurements
	R. Behunin
18:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	(Euler-Heisenberg session) A. Creation of Neutral Fermions by Magnetic Barriers
	T. Adorno
	B. The Casimir Effect for Conical Pistons
	G. Fucci
	C. Quantum friction: polarisation vectors near surfaces
	G. Pieplow

Friday, September 23

09:00h	Nonperturbative stochastic dynamics of light quantum fields during inflation
	A. Starobinsky
09:45h	Quantum corrections to gravity and their implications for cosmology and astrophysics
	I. Shapiro
11:00h	(Euler-Heisenberg session) Strong-Field QED and High-Power Lasers
	T. Heinzl
11:45h	Casimir theory and experiments
	S. Reynaud
15:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Interference Effects in Vacuum Pair Production in Time Dependent Laser Pulses
	C. Dumlu
	B. Modal approach to Casimir forces
	F. Intravaia
	C. Effective actions of magnetic flux tubes
	D. Mazur
16:00h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. Near Field Heat Transfer for Anisotropic Media
	F. Da Rosa
	B. Significance of many-body contributions to Casimir energy
	V. Shajesh
	C. The electromagnetic vacuum of random media
	M. Donaire
16:30h	Parallel sessions A, B, C

	A. A New Perspective on Path Integral Quantum Mechanics in Curved Space-Time
	D. Singh
	B. Casimir pressure in MDS-structures
	V. Yurova