Seminar - Anna Maciołek: Critical Casimir Forces

Date & Time: 
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 - 14:00 to 15:00
Location: 
1555 Century Avenue, Pudong New Area, Shanghai

Speaker:
Anna Maciołek, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Venue:
Room 301, Pudong Campus, 1555 Century Avenue (世纪大道 1555 号，浦东校区, 301 教室)

The seminar is co-sponsored by NYU-ECNU Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU Shanghai and NYU-ECNU Institute of Physics at NYU Shanghai.

 

Location & Details: 

Title:
Critical Casimir Forces

 

Abstract of the Talk:

Long-ranged correlations in a fuid near its critical point lead to clearly identifiable effective forces acting on confining walls. The corresponding universal scaling functions are discussed for different boundary conditions and geometries. The theoretical predictions are compared with high precision experimental data for He4 and He3/He4 wetting films near the superfluid phase transition as well as with synchrotron scattering data from classical binary liquid mixtures. Direct measurements and applications for colloidal suspensions are discussed.

 

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