[Crib-list] TODAY: Speaker: Alejandro Rodriguez-Wong (MIT) -- Computational Research in Boston Seminar (CRiB) -- Friday, May 21, 2010 -- TIME: 12:30 PM in Building 56, Room 154. (fwd)

[Shirley Entzminger]

T O D A Y . . .

		COMPUTATIONAL RESEARCH in BOSTON SEMINAR


NOTE:  Different Building and Room.
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DATE:		Friday, May 21, 2010
TIME:		12:30 PM
LOCATION:	Building 56, Room 154

(Pizza and beverages will be provided at 12:15 PM outside Room 56-154.)


TITLE: 		Computing Casimir Forces in Arbitrary Geometries 
		in the Time Domain


SPEAKER:	Alejandro Rodriguez-Wong (MIT)


ABSTRACT:

Casimir forces arise due to vaccum fluctuations of the electromagnetic 
field and are believed to play a role in the physics of 
micro-electromechanical systems. I will describe a computational approach 
to computing Casimir forces in arbitrary geometries that exploits standard 
techniques from classical electromagnetism. I will describe the conceptual 
development of a time-domain method that allows researchers to employ free 
and of-the-shelf finite-difference time-domain codes without requiring any 
modification. I finish by providing examples of the kinds of effects that 
can arise in complicated structures, which we study using our numerical 
methods.

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Cambridge, MA  02139

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