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| Preface | |
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| Organizing Committee | |
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| Schedule of Talks | |
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| Calculations of Casimir Forces | |
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| Casimir Forces Between Spheres and Loop Integrals | |
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| Analytic Corrections to the Electromagnetic Casimir Interaction Between a Sphere and a Plate at Short Distances | |
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| Casimir Physics: Geometry, Shape and Material | |
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| Semitransparent Pistons | |
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| Using Boundary Methods to Compute the Casimir Energy | |
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| Electromagnetic Non-contact Gears: Prelude | |
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| The Scattering Approach to the Casimir Force | |
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| Scalar Casimir Energies for Separable Coordinate Systems: Application to Semi-transparent Planes in an Annulus | |
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| Measurement of Casimir Forces | |
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| Demonstrating the Strong Geometry Dependence of the Casimir Force on a Surface with Deep, Nanoscale Corrugations | |
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| New Results for the Casimir Interaction: Sample Characterization and Low Temperature Measurements | |
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| Casimir Force Experiments in Air: Two Birds with One Stone | |
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| Experimental Features of the Recent Lateral Casimir Force Measurement | |
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| Lateral Casimir-Polder Force Measurement Using Bose Einstein Condensates | |
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| Repulsive Casimir and van der Waals Forces: From Measurements to Future Technologies | |
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| Macroscopic Quantum Vacuum and Microscopic Gravitation | |
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| The PVLAS Experiment and Its Results: Probing the Quantum Vacuum with Polarized Light and Magnetic Fields | |
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| Thermal Casimir Effects | |
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| Thermal Casimir Effect for Conducting Plates and the Bohr-van Leeuwen Theorem | |
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| Electromagnetic Casimir Effect in Wedge Geometry and the Energy-Momentum Tensor in Media | |
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| Casimir-Polder Potential in Thermal Non-equilibrium | |
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| Geometry-Temperature Interplay in the Casimir Effect | |
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| Thermal Effects in the Magnetic Casimir-Polder Interaction | |
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| Mode Contributions to the Casimir Effect | |
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| Thermal Casimir Force Between Magnetic Materials | |
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| The Casimir Effect and the Force Between Magnetic Materials | |
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| Casimir-Lifshitz Forces and Entropy | |
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| The Thermal Casimir Effect: Saturation | |
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| Finite Temperature Casimir Effect in the Presence of Extra Dimensions | |
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| Casimir Forces for Real Materials | |
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| The Role of Magnetoplasmons in Casimir Force Calculations | |
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| Suspended Graphene Films and Their Casimir Interaction with Ideal Conductor | |
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| Casimir Energy of Finite Width Mirrors: Renormalization, Self-interaction Limit and Lifshitz Formula | |
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| Role of Surface States in the Casimir Force Between Semiconducting Films | |
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| On the Casimir Entropy Between "Perfect Crystals" | |
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| Theory of the Casimir Effect for Gratings | |
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| The Role of the Surface Modes in the Casimir Repulsion Through Liquids | |
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| Casimir Stress in and Force on a Metal Slab in a Planar Cavity | |
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| Bose-Einstein Condensation in Quasi-2D Systems: Applications to High-T<sub>c</sub> Superconductivity | |
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| Casimir-Polder Forces | |
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| Noble Gas, Alkali and Alkaline Atoms Interacting with a Gold Surface | |
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| Nonperturbative Access to Casimir-Polder Forces | |
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| Graphene van der Waals Interactions with an Adatom and within a Double Layer | |
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| Casimir-Polder Forces Between Two Accelerating Atoms and the Unruh Effect | |
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| Dynamical Casimir Effect | |
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| Dynamical Casimir Effect with Robin Boundary Conditions in a Three Dimensional Open Cavity | |
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| Theoretical Studies on Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Superconducting Artificial Atom | |
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| Critical Casimir Forces | |
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| Controlling and Harnessing Critical Casimir Forces | |
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| Critical Casimir Forces Involving a Chemically Structured Substrate | |
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| Gravitational Effects | |
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| Twistor-Beams and Holographic Structure of a Pre-quantum Kerr-Schild Geometry | |
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| Repulsive Casimir Forces and Alternatives to Einsteinian Gravity | |
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| Quantum Back Reaction to Asymptotically AdS Black Holes | |
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| Topological Casimir Effect in Power-Law FRW Cosmologies | |
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| The Trace Anomaly and Dynamical Vacuum Energy in Cosmology | |
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| Quasi-black Holes and Lorentz-Abraham Electron in General Relativity | |
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| Heat Kernels and Spectral Determinants | |
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| Worldline Approach to QFT on Manifolds with Boundary | |
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| Vacuum Energy, Spectral Determinant and Heat Kernel Asymptotics of Graph Laplacians with General Vertex Matching Conditions | |
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| Efficient Evaluation of Effective Action in Radial Backgrounds | |
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| Local Measures of Convex Surfaces Induced by the Wiener Measure of Paths | |
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| Energy Densities | |
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| Negative Energy Densities in Quantum Field Theory | |
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| Vacuum Energy Density and Pressure Near Boundaries | |
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| Solitons and Nanotubes | |
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| Local Analysis of the sine-Gordon Kink Quantum Fluctuations | |
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| Quantum Fluctuations of Topological S<sup>3</sup>-Kinks | |
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| Topological Casimir Effect in Nanotubes and Nanoloops | |
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| Schwinger Effect and Quantum Electrodynamics | |
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| The Search for the Schwinger Effect: Nonperturbative Vacuum Pair Production | |
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| On the Gravitationally Induced Schwinger Mechanism | |
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| Quantum Statistics Effects for Schwinger Pair Production in Short Laser Pulses | |
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| Scalar-Fermion Bound State with Finite Size Corrections | |
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| Three-Loop Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian and Asymptotic Analysis in 1 + 1 QED | |
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| Field Theory in Backgrounds | |
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| Characteristics of Gluon Plasma in Chromomagnetic Field at High Temperature | |
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| Exact Formfactors in the One-Loop Curved-Space QED and the Nonlocal Multiplicative Anomaly | |
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| Spin Light in Neutrino Transition Between Different Mass States | |
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| Chiral Symmetry Breaking and Stability of the Magnetized Vacuum | |
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| List of Participants | |