Special Session on Topics
of Physics Related to Stochastic Electrodynamics
This conference consisted of a one day
session of presentations on stochastic electrodynamics (SED) held
at Boston University on June 4, 2001, followed by an afternoon of discussion on June 6th. Approximately
20-25 scientists from around the world took part in these sessions. CIPA
(California Institute of Physics and Astrophysics)
sponsored this event. This workshop was held just prior
to the much larger four day conference entitled, "7th
International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty
Relations, ICSSUR 2001," held June 5-8, 2001,
at the same location. The sponsors of this conference
were IUPAP, CIPA, NASA, and BU. On Tuesday, June 5,
most of the participants in Monday's SED workshop, plus
many others, participated in an afternoon session at
ICSSUR 2001, on Casimir effects. D. Cole organized the
SED workshop and the ICSSUR Casimir session.
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Participants
Millard Baublitz |
Velvel Hushwater |
Alfonso Rueda |
Timothy Boyer |
Al Kracklauer |
James Slinkman |
Alberto Casado |
Jordan Maclay |
Vlad Savchenko |
Daniel Cole |
Trevor Marshall |
Roh Tung |
Khaled Dechoum |
Umar Mohideen |
Max Wallis |
Humberto Franca |
Harold Puthoff |
Yi Zou |
Stephen Furkay |
L.J. Nikisch |
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Bernard Haisch |
Ramon Risco-Delgado |
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Presentations
Time
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Speaker |
Topic |
Time |
9:00 AM |
Dan Cole |
Welcome, introductions, &
brief perspective on SED, and comments by B. Haisch |
30 |
9:30 AM |
Trevor Marshall |
Why locality has become the central
problem |
30 |
10:00 AM |
Timothy Boyer |
The Semiclassical Explanation
of the Matteucci-Pozzi and Aharonov-Bohm Phase Shifts |
45 |
10:45 AM |
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Coffee break |
15 |
11:00 AM |
Humberto M. Franca |
What We can Learn from a Classical
Description of the Stern-Gerlach Phenomenon |
30 |
11:30 AM |
Dan Cole |
Initial Simulation Investigation
Probing the Nonlinear Behavior of the Classical Hydrogen Atom,
by D. Cole and Yi Zou |
30 |
12:10 PM |
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Lunch |
1 hr. 10 min. |
1:20 PM |
Hal Puthoff |
Discussion of Experiment Involving
Lowering of Ground State Energy for Oscillator in Casimir
Cavity |
20 |
1:40 PM |
Alberto Casado Rodriquez |
A Local Hidden Variables Model
Based on the Wigner Function Formalism for Parametric Down
Conversion, by
A. Casado, R. Risco Delgado, Trevor W. Marshall, and E. Santos |
45 |
2:25 PM |
L.J. Nickisch |
Motion of Massless Charges |
20 |
2:45 PM |
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Coffee break |
15 |
3:00 PM |
Alfonso Rueda |
Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum
Inertia Hypothesis I - Why it is so Reasonable |
30 |
3:30 PM |
Roh Tung |
Gravity and the Quantum Vacuum
Inertia Hypothesis II - How it is Tackled in General Relativity |
25 |
3:55 PM |
Millard Baublitz |
Shortcomings of SED |
15 |
4:10 PM |
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Further short talks, summaries
of work, discussion of future activities |
1 & 1/3 hr |
5:30 PM |
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Need to end by 5:30, or change
rooms |
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