Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions; Norman, OK

该奖项提供资金，帮助支付学生和青年科学家的费用，使他们能够参加将于2009年9月在俄克拉荷马州大学举行的第九次外部条件影响下的量子场论研讨会（QFEXT 09）。这次会议是为了纪念H. B。G. 1909年的卡西米尔。 本次研讨会将讨论的主题包括卡西米尔和货车德瓦尔斯力：理论和新实验的进展，在微米和纳米尺度上的应用;卡西米尔效应：精确和近似方法，相关的数学问题;经典背景场中的真空量子效应：重整化，奇异背景，粒子和高能物理学的应用;真空能量和重力：具有奇异源函数的爱因斯坦方程的重整化，超对称和非对易理论中的真空能量。这次会议是讨论量子真空现象的主要论坛，该领域的大多数领导工作者都参加了会议。 更广泛的影响是，资金将用于支持受邀参加研讨会的美国初级参与者（研究生和博士后）的旅行，否则他们将无法参加。出版讲习班的成果将确保传播新的调查结果。与前几次会议一样，这次会议促进的非正式合作将对这一领域今后的研究产生深远影响。美国和外国的学生和博士后人数相等，这将为国际交流和合作提供很大的机会。

This award provides funds to help defray the expenses of students and young scientists in order to enable them to attend the Ninth Workshop on Quantum Field Theory Under the Influence of External Conditions (QFEXT09) which will be held at the University of Oklahoma in September 2009. The conference commemorates the birth of H. B. G. Casimir in 1909. Topics to be addressed in this workshop include 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; vacuum quantum effects in classical background fields: renormalization, singular backgrounds, applications to particle and high energy physics; vacuum energy and gravity: renormalization of Einstein's equations with singular source functions, vacuum energy in supersymmetric and noncommutative theories. This meeting is the leading forum for the discussion of quantum vacuum phenomena, with participation by most of the leading workers in the field. The broader impacts are that the funding will be used to support the travel of invited junior US participants (graduate students and postdocs) in the workshop who otherwise would be unable to attend. Publication of the results of the workshop will ensure the dissemination of new findings. Informal collaborations fostered by this meeting, as in previous meetings, will have profound impacts on future research in this area. There will be equal numbers of US and foreign students and postdocs which will provide great chances for international interchanges and collaborations.