International Workshop 60 years of Casimir effect

In 1948, Hendrick Casimir published an
article, where he showed that neutral ideal metallic plates attract each other, an effect ascribed to the influence of quantum vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. For the past 60 years, this remarkable phenomenon, called nowadays the Casimir Effect, charmed several generations of physicists. Various consequences, generalizations and possible applications were found in such different areas as particle, nuclear, atomic and molecular physics, cavity quantum electrodynamics, condensed matter physics and cosmology.
Moreover, Interest in the subject keeps growing, especially due to impressive progress in experimental skills and its importance for the recently emerged area of micro- and nano-electromechanical systems.
We expect that the Workshop in Brasilia will gather leading specialists in the area, both theoreticians and experimentalists, as well as young researchers and post-graduate students who wish to hear about the most recent achievements in the field and to discuss the related problems. We are planning to have from 12 to 15 plenary/review talks (50 minutes) and about 45 regular talks of 25 minutes, as well as presentations of posters.
The main topics to be discussed are as follows:
* Theoretical problems and mathematical methods related to the Casimir effect in different areas.
* Recent experimental achievements and their comparison with theoretical models.
* The Casimir effect in real metals, semiconductors, superconductors,
meta-materials, Bose-Einstein condensates, thin filmes, etc.
* Lateral Casimir forces and Casimir torques.
* The influence of geometry and surface properties.
* Dynamical (nonstationary) Casimir effect: theory and experiments.
* Casimir effect and micro/nano-electromechanical systems.
* Possible applications in different areas.