Name: 2nd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop
Start: 2024-04-03T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-04-05T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Imperial College - London

2nd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Wednesday, 3 April 2024 (08:30) to Friday, 5 April 2024 (18:00)

Monday, 1 April 2024
Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Wednesday, 3 April 2024

10:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 - 10:45
10:45 Session: Welcome & Introduction
Welcome & Introduction
10:45 - 12:25
Contributions

10:45 Welcome - Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))

10:55 Introduction UK Funding Agency - Dave Newbold

11:15 Introduction to Proto-Collaboration MoU - Sergio Calatroni (CERN)

11:25 Setting the Science scene - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)

11:55 Setting the Technology scene - Ernst Rasel
12:25 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:25 - 13:25

13:25 Session: Welcome from Imperial College London Physics Department
Welcome from Imperial College London Physics Department
13:25 - 13:30
13:30 Session: Physics
Physics
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Gravitational wave opportunities in the deci-Hertz range - Stephen Fairhurst

14:00 Transient Targets for Dark Matter Searches using Quantum Sensors - Josh Eby

14:30 Atom interferometers as freely falling clocks for time-dilation measurements - Albert Roura
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Session: Atom interferometry: Large momentum transfer techniques
Atom interferometry: Large momentum transfer techniques
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Optimal Floquet Engineering for Large Scale Interferometers - Alexandre Gauguet (Université Toulouse 3 - LCAR)

15:50 A single-photon large-momentum-transfer atom interferometry scheme for Sr with application to determining the fine-structure constant - Chris Foot

16:10 Atom interferometer using spatially localized beamsplitter - Pierre Clade (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (FR))

16:30 Multi-photon clock atom interferometry - Jason Hogan (Stanford University)

16:45 Managing Bloch Oscillation Phases for Large-Momentum-Transfer Atom Interferometry - Subhadeep Gupta
17:00 Session: Possible site Options for a TVLBAI
Possible site Options for a TVLBAI
17:00 - 18:20
Contributions

17:00 Review of site options for VLBAI experiments - Elias Lopez Asamar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

17:20 Boulby Underground Laboratory - Sean Paling
18:20 End of Day 1
End of Day 1
18:20 - 18:50
Thursday, 4 April 2024

08:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
08:30 - 09:30
09:30 Session: Atom sources: Scaling atom number and temperature
Atom sources: Scaling atom number and temperature
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 High-flux source of cold strontium atoms - Shayne Bennetts

09:50 Quantum simulation – Engineering & understanding quantum systems atom-by-atom - Monika Aidelsburger

10:10 Matter-wave collimation to picokelvin energies with scattering length and potential shape control' - Alexander Herbst

10:30 Fast formation of quantum gas for atom interferometers - Shau-Yu Lan
11:00 Session: Squeezing and multipartite entanglement for atom interferometry
Squeezing and multipartite entanglement for atom interferometry
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Progress towards a squeezed-state atom interferometer in a ring cavity - Onur Hosten

11:25 Progress towards a squeezed-state atom interferometer in a linear cavity - Richard Hobson

11:40 Quantum-enhanced BEC interferometry - Robin Corgier

12:00 Experimental atom interferometry with entanglement-enhanced resolution - Carsten Klempt
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Session: Atom interferometry: Metrology & Systematics
Atom interferometry: Metrology & Systematics
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Wave distortion and other systematic effects in high precision atom interferometry - Pierre Clade (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (FR))

13:50 Coriolis Force Compensation for Long Baseline Atom Interferometry - Jonah Glick

14:10 Baseline optimization for large-scale detectors - Fabio Di Pumpo

14:30 Quantum sensing with ultracold atoms in phase-modulated optical lattices - Carrie Weidner
15:00 Session: Site & Engineering Challenges for a large-scale AI
Site & Engineering Challenges for a large-scale AI
15:00 - 16:30
Contributions

15:00 Structural Stability and Instrument Installation of a 10m Interferometer in the Beecroft Building (AION) - Zhongyin Pan Zoie Tam

15:20 Progress and Challenges in MAGIS-100 Construction (MAGIS) - Linda Valerio

15:40 Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc as a site for VLBAI experiments - Elias Lopez Asamar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

16:00 Update on ZAIGA - Lin Zhou
16:30 Poster Session & Wine & Coffee
16:30 - 18:50
Contributions

16:50 Jiajun Chen, Yijun Tang

16:50 Michael Werner

16:50 Elizabeth Pasatembou

16:50 Junjie Jiang

16:50 Kamran Hussain

16:50 Leonie Hawkins

16:50 Daniel Derr, Enno Giese

16:50 Jordan Gué

16:50 John Carlton

16:50 Selyan Beldjoudi

16:50 Ashkan Alibabaei

16:50 Sebastian Wald

16:50 Thomas Walker

16:50 Jonathan Ramwell (Toptica)

16:50 Florentina Pislan

16:50 Alice Josset

16:50 Maria Isfan

16:50 Ludovico Iannizzotto Venezze

16:50 Chung Chuan Hsu

16:50 Simon Hack

16:50 Vishu Gupta

16:50 Oliver Ennis

16:50 Gedminas Elertas

16:50 Leonardo Badurina

16:50 Hannah Banks
Friday, 5 April 2024

08:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
08:30 - 09:30
09:30 Session: Synergies of Cold Atom and Laser Interferometry GW Experiments
Synergies of Cold Atom and Laser Interferometry GW Experiments
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 LVK science - Stephen Fairhurst

09:55 LISA science - Jean-Baptiste Bayle (University of Glasgow)

10:20 DeciHz Synergies - Juan Urrutia
11:00 Session: Towards a Proto-Collaboration
Towards a Proto-Collaboration
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to the Session

11:10 Experience with Proto-Collaborations and Look-Alikes - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)

11:25 Discussion
12:00 Session: Closing
Closing
12:00 - 12:30
Contributions

12:00 ICAP2024: Satellite meeting

12:01 Closing Remarks