Schedule

General schedule:
(Aud) ||= Seminar : Theory II (Aud) || (FR) ||= Lunch discussion (SSR) ||= Informal lunch meeting (FR) ||= Lunch discussion (SSR) || pm ||=  ||=   ||= KITP Colloquium (MSR) ||=   ||=   || pm ||=  ||= Physics Dept. Colloquium (BROIDA) ||=  ||=   ||=   || __Informal lunch meeting__: Further discussion of preceding seminar and related topics. __Lunch discussion__: Short presentation of 15-20 minutes on open problems, questions and/or recent progress, followed by discussion. //Please contact the coordinators if you want to suggest topics for this category.// Legend: Aud=Auditorium, SSR=Small Seminar Room, MSR=Main Seminar Room, FR=Founders' Room
 * = **Time** ||= **Monday** ||= **Tuesday** ||= **Wednesday** ||= **Thursday** ||= **Friday** ||
 * = 10:30 am ||=  ||= Seminar : Experimenter of the week (Aud) ||=   ||= Seminar : Theory I
 * = 12:30 pm ||=  ||= Informal lunch meeting
 * = 12:30 pm ||= KITP Blackboard Lunch (Aud) ||=  ||=   ||=   ||=   ||
 * = 2:00
 * = 4:00

colloid-polymer mixtures: Are renormalization group predictions measurable?// ||<  || (Note exceptional change of venue.) || J. Indekeu** || Lunch discussion: //Casimir effect in a superconducting cavity: the Aladin experiment / Critical Casimir stress in a superconducting film// ||  || R. Podgornik** || Seminar:  //TBA// ||   || large-separation asymptotic// ||  || force// || Exp. of the week || K. Müller-Nedebock** || Lunch discussion: //Interface-mediated interactions: from ground state calculations to fluctuation-induced effects// / //Effective interactions between macro-ions: valence-dependence of condensed counter-ions// ||  || F. da Rosa** || Lunch discussion: //Anatomy of the Casimir Effect/ Casimir Effect and Metamaterials// ||  ||
 * ~ __Date__ ||~ __Time__ ||~  __Place*__ ||~ __Speaker__ ||~ __Title__ ||~ __Comments, Links,...__ ||
 * ~ **Week of 08/18** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * > Tue, Aug 19 ||> 11:00 am ||< SSR ||< **Program Organisers** ||< //Organisational Meeting with all Participants// ||<  ||
 * >  ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||<   ||< Informal lunch meeting ||<   ||
 * > Wed, Aug 20 ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||< **R. Podgornik** ||< Lunch discussion: //Fluctuation forces between carbon nano tubes// ||<  ||
 * > Thu, Aug 21 ||> 10:30 am ||< Aud ||< **M. Kardar** ||< Seminar: //The Theory and Practice of Fluctuation-Induced Interactions// ||<  ||
 * >  ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||< **A. Maciolek** ||< <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)"> <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Effective forces induced by fluctuating interface: exact results// ||<   ||
 * > Fri, Aug 22 ||> 10:30 am ||< Aud ||< **J. O. Indekeu** ||< <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Fluctuation-induced forces and wetting phenomena in
 * >  ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||<   ||< <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)"> <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||<   ||
 * ~ **Week of 08/25** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * > Tue, Aug 26 ||> 10:30 am ||< MSR ||< **Maarten De Kieviet** ||< <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">//Atomic Beam Spin Echo: Precision Experiments on Fluctuation induced quantum effects// ||< Exp. of the week
 * >  ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||<   || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * > Wed, Aug 27 ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||< **K. Klingmüller** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Simulating quantum fluctuations: the worldline approach to the Casimir effect// ||  ||
 * > Thu, Aug 28 ||> 10:30 am ||< MSR ||< **S. Johnson** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Virtual photons in imaginary time: Computing Casimir forces in new geometries// || (Note exceptional change of venue.) ||
 * >  ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||<   || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * > Fri, Aug 29 ||> 12:00pm ||< SSR ||< **A. Edery** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Compact dimensions and the Casimir effect: the Proca connection// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 09/01** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * > Tue, Sep 2 ||> 10:30 am ||< Aud ||< **M. Chan** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Fluctuation induced thinning of superfluid film : confirmation of finite size scaling// || Exp. of the week ||
 * >  ||> 12:00 pm ||< SSR ||<   || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * > Wed, Sep 3 ||> 12:15 pm ||< SSR ||< **R. Zandi** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Wetting in Helium// ||  ||
 * > Thu, Sep 4 ||> 10:30 am ||< Aud ||< **H. W. Diehl** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //RG studies of critical Casimir forces// ||   ||
 * >  ||> 12:15 pm ||< SSR ||<   || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * > Fri, Sep 5 ||> 12:15 pm ||< SSR ||< **J. Feinberg** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Spectral methods in soliton mass calculation: The Gross-Neveu Model as an example// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 09/08** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * > Tue, Sep 9 ||> 10:30 am ||< Aud ||< **Y. Kantor** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Fluctuations, Geometry and Entropic Elasticity// ||   ||
 * >  ||> 12:15 pm ||< SSR ||<   || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * > Wed, Sep 10 ||> 12:15 pm ||< SSR ||< **G. Bimonte
 * > Thu. Sep 11 ||> 10:30 am ||< Aud ||< **L. Peliti** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Fluctuation relations for manipulated systems// ||   ||
 * >  ||> 12:15 pm ||< Goleta Beach ||<   || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * > Fri, Sep 12 ||> 12:15 pm ||< SSR ||< **K. Wiese** ||< <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Fluctuation Forces by 2D polymers// ||>  ||
 * ~ **Week of 09/15** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Mon, Sep 15 || 12:30 pm || Aud || **T. Emig** || KITP Blackboard Lunch: //Overview of Fluctuation Forces// ||  ||
 * Tue, Sep 16 || 10:30 am || Aud || **W.-J. Kim** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Precision measurements of the Casimir force using a torsion pendulum// || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Sep 17 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **D. Dean** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Fluctuation effects in 1D Coulomb fluids// ||  ||
 * Thu, Sep 18 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. Horgan** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //The Thermal Casimir Effect, Soap Films and the Schroedinger Functional// ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fri, Sep 19 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **M. Schmidt** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Interfaces in Driven Ising Models: Shear Enhances Confinement// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 09/22** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Tue, Sep 23 || **<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 81)">10:00 ** am || Aud || **S. Dietrich** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Critical Casimir Effect:// Theory, Experiment, and Applications ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Sep 24 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **S. Dietrich** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: Critical Casimir Forces between geometrically structured plates I ||  ||
 * Thu, Sep 25 || 10:30 am || Aud || **A. Naji/
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fri, Sep 26 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **S. Dietrich** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: Critical Casimir Forces between geometrically structured plates II ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 09/29** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * < Mon, Sep 29 ||< 12:30 pm ||< Aud ||< **J. Munday** ||< <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Measurements of the Casimir force with application to nanotechnology// ||< Exp. of the week ||
 * Tue, Sep 30 || 10:30 am || Aud || **J. Munday** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Casimir-Lifshitz forces and QED torques in fluid// || Exp. of the week ||
 * Tue, Sep 30 || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Oct 1 || 12:30 pm || Aud || **H. B. Chan** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Measurement of the Casimir force on nanoscale corrugated surfaces// || Exp. of the week ||
 * Thu, Oct 2 || 12:30 pm || Aud || **J. Imry** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Normal-metal Persistent Currents and Superconducting Fluctuations with Pair-Breaking: A Solution to the Puzzle?// ||   ||
 * ~ **Week of 10/06** ||  ||   ||   ||   ||
 * Mon, Oct 6 || 11:00 am || SSR || **P. Kleban** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Exact factorization of correlations in 2-D critical systems// ||   ||
 * Tue, Oct 7 || 10:30 pm || Aud || **U. Mohideen** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Modulation of the Casimir Force with Light: Experiment and Theory// || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Oct 8 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **U. Mohideen** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Single Bio Molecular Nanomechanics// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 9 || 10:30 am || Aud || **J. Rudnick** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> //Critical Casimir force: effects of boundary conditions and dimensionality// ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fri, Oct 10 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **G. Kolomeisky** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Geometrical interpretation of the Casimir effect// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 10/13** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Mon, Oct 13 || 12:30 pm || Aud || **P. Martin** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Microscopic theory of the Casimir force at thermal equilibrium:
 * Tue, Oct 14 || 10:30 am || Aud || **J. Dobson** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Strange van der Waals power laws from nonlocal response// ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Oct 15 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **R. H. French** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //New Perspectives on London Dispersion Interactions and Hamaker Coefficients: At Atomically Abrupt Grain Boundaries in SrTiO3 And In Intergranular Films in Re-M-O-N:Si3N4// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 16 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. H. French** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> van der Waals - London Dispersion Interactions For Metallic and Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes From ab initio Unixial Optical Properties// || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fri, Oct 17 || 10:30 am || SSR || **F. Pinto** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Finite-Difference Casimir Force Computations: Development and Convergence towards Industrial Applications // ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR || **P. Buenzli** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Nonplanar objects in a fluctuating fluid out of equilibrium: self-forces, self-torques, and violation of the action-reaction principle// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 10/20** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Tue, Oct 21 || 10:30 am || Aud || **G. Palasantzas** || Kinetic surface roughening and optical properties influence on the Casimir force between gold surfaces || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Oct 22 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **T. Maggs** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Constrained electrodynamics- numeric methods and interactions// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 23 || 10:30 am || Aud || **A. Wirzba** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Fermionic and Scalar Casimir Effect within the Scattering Approach // ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * ~ **Week of 10/27** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Tue, Oct 28 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. Decca** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Experimental observation of Casimir forces in tricritical and liquid crystalline films // || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Oct 29 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **A. Hanke** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Non-equilibrium Casimir force between two moving plates// ||  ||
 * Thu, Oct 30 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. L Jaffe** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)"> Casimir Effects in Light of Quantum Field Theory// ||   ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fr, Oct 31 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **J. Guven** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Conical defects in paper sheets// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 11/3** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Tue, Nov 4 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. Garcia** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Experimental observation of Casimir forces in tricritical and liquid crystalline films// || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Nov 5 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **A. Gambassi** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Critical Casimir forces at work// ||  ||
 * Thu, Nov 6 || 10:30 am || Aud || **D. Roberts** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Casimir drag in superfluids// ||  ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fri, Nov 7 || 10:30 am || Aud || **I. Klich** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Casimir physics within the TGTG approach// ||  ||
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR || **O. Kenneth** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //TBA// ||  ||
 * ~ **Week of 11/10** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Mon, Nov 10 || 12:30 pm || Aud || **D. Dalvit** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Recent progress in Casimir physics of atom-surface interactions// ||  ||
 * Wed, Nov 12 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **S. de Man** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //A new experimental set-up for high-statistics measurements of the Casimir
 * Thu, Nov 13 || 10:30 am || Aud || **S. J. Rahi**
 * T. Emig** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //A general formulation for the Casimir energy and its practical applications// ||  ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Fri, Nov 14 || 10:30 am || SSR || **P. Maia Neto** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"> Casimir energy between a plane and a sphere in electromagnetic vacuum// ||  ||
 * || 12:30 pm || SSR || **S. A. Fulling** || <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Kaluza-Klein Models as Pistons// ||  ||
 * ~ **Last Week** ||~  ||~   ||~   ||~   ||
 * Mon, Nov 17 || **<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 3)">2:00 ** pm || Aud || **M. Müller
 * Tue, Nov 18 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. Onofrio** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Casimir forces: confronting different geometries// || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || FR ||  || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)">Informal lunch meeting ||   ||
 * Wed, Nov 19 || 12:30 pm || SSR || **F. Intravaia
 * Thu, Nov 20 || 10:30 am || Aud || **R. Onofrio** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //Towards experimental test of the dynamical Casimir effect// || Exp. of the week ||
 * || 12:30 pm || Aud || **E. Kats** || <span style="color: rgb(116, 190, 220)"> <span style="color: rgb(146, 22, 22)">Lunch discussion: //Casimir effect in soft matter: Membranes and liquid crystals// ||  ||
 * Fri, Nov 21 || 10:30 am || SSR || **A. Parsegian** || <span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)">Seminar: //<span style="color: rgb(244, 148, 47)"> TBA// ||  ||

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