2nd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Wednesday, April 3, 2024 (8:30 AM) to Friday, April 5, 2024 (6:00 PM)
Imperial College - London

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Apr 3, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
Apr 5, 2024
AM
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:45 AM
Session (until 12:25 PM)
10:45 AM Welcome - Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))  
10:55 AM Introduction UK Funding Agency - Dave Newbold  
11:15 AM Introduction to Proto-Collaboration MoU - Sergio Calatroni (CERN)  
11:25 AM Setting the Science scene - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)  
11:55 AM Setting the Technology scene - Ernst Rasel  
8:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:30 AM
Session - Tiffany Harte Dennis Schlippert Philippe Bouyer (until 11:00 AM)
9:30 AM High-flux source of cold strontium atoms - Shayne Bennetts  
9:50 AM Quantum simulation – Engineering & understanding quantum systems atom-by-atom - Monika Aidelsburger  
10:10 AM Matter-wave collimation to picokelvin energies with scattering length and potential shape control' - Alexander Herbst  
10:30 AM Fast formation of quantum gas for atom interferometers - Shau-Yu Lan  
11:00 AM
Session - Leonardo Salvi Richard Hobson (until 12:30 PM)
11:00 AM Progress towards a squeezed-state atom interferometer in a ring cavity - Onur Hosten  
11:25 AM Progress towards a squeezed-state atom interferometer in a linear cavity - Richard Hobson  
11:40 AM Quantum-enhanced BEC interferometry - Robin Corgier  
12:00 PM Experimental atom interferometry with entanglement-enhanced resolution - Carsten Klempt  
8:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:30 AM
Session - Stephen Fairhurst Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London) (until 11:00 AM)
9:30 AM LVK science - Stephen Fairhurst  
9:55 AM LISA science - Dr Jean-Baptiste Bayle (University of Glasgow)  
10:20 AM DeciHz Synergies - Juan Urrutia  
11:00 AM
Session - Sergio Calatroni (CERN) Marilu Chiofalo Naceur Gaaloul (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Introduction to the Session  
11:10 AM Experience with Proto-Collaborations and Look-Alikes - Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London)  
11:25 AM Discussion  
PM
12:25 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:25 PM
Session - Stefan Soldner-Rembold (until 1:30 PM)
1:30 PM
Session - Marianna Safronova (Uni of Delaware) Christopher McCabe (King's College London) Albert Roura (DLR) (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Gravitational wave opportunities in the deci-Hertz range - Stephen Fairhurst  
2:00 PM Transient Targets for Dark Matter Searches using Quantum Sensors - Josh Eby  
2:30 PM Atom interferometers as freely falling clocks for time-dilation measurements - Albert Roura  
3:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
3:30 PM
Session - Andrea Bertoldi Chris Overstreet (Johns Hopkins University) Michael Holynski (until 5:00 PM)
3:30 PM Optimal Floquet Engineering for Large Scale Interferometers - Alexandre Gauguet (Université Toulouse 3 - LCAR)  
3:50 PM A single-photon large-momentum-transfer atom interferometry scheme for Sr with application to determining the fine-structure constant - Chris Foot  
4:10 PM Atom interferometer using spatially localized beamsplitter - Pierre Clade (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (FR))  
4:30 PM Multi-photon clock atom interferometry - Jason Hogan (Stanford University)  
4:45 PM Managing Bloch Oscillation Phases for Large-Momentum-Transfer Atom Interferometry - Subhadeep Gupta  
5:00 PM
Session - Elias Lopez Asamar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Sean Paling (until 6:20 PM)
5:00 PM Review of site options for VLBAI experiments - Elias Lopez Asamar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)  
5:20 PM Boulby Underground Laboratory - Sean Paling  
6:20 PM --- End of Day 1 ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:30 PM
Session - Alexandre Gauguet (Université Toulouse 3 - LCAR) Naceur Gaaloul Dr Jeremiah Mitchell (until 3:00 PM)
1:30 PM Wave distortion and other systematic effects in high precision atom interferometry - Pierre Clade (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel (FR))  
1:50 PM Coriolis Force Compensation for Long Baseline Atom Interferometry - Jonah Glick  
2:10 PM Baseline optimization for large-scale detectors - Fabio Di Pumpo  
2:30 PM Quantum sensing with ultracold atoms in phase-modulated optical lattices - Carrie Weidner  
3:00 PM
Session - Adam Lowe (Oxford University) Robert Plunkett (until 4:30 PM)
3:00 PM Structural Stability and Instrument Installation of a 10m Interferometer in the Beecroft Building (AION) - Zoie Tam Zhongyin Pan  
3:20 PM Progress and Challenges in MAGIS-100 Construction (MAGIS) - Linda Valerio  
3:40 PM Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc as a site for VLBAI experiments - Elias Lopez Asamar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)  
4:00 PM Update on ZAIGA - Lin Zhou  
4:30 PM
Poster Session & Wine & Coffee - Thomas Walker Leonie Hawkins Elizabeth Pasatembou (until 6:50 PM)
4:50 PM Alice Josset  
4:50 PM Ashkan Alibabaei  
4:50 PM Chung Chuan Hsu  
4:50 PM Daniel Derr, Enno Giese  
4:50 PM Elizabeth Pasatembou  
4:50 PM Florentina Pislan  
4:50 PM Gedminas Elertas  
4:50 PM Hannah Banks  
4:50 PM Jiajun Chen, Yijun Tang  
4:50 PM John Carlton  
4:50 PM Jonathan Ramwell (Toptica)  
4:50 PM Jordan Gué  
4:50 PM Junjie Jiang  
4:50 PM Kamran Hussain  
4:50 PM Leonardo Badurina  
4:50 PM Leonie Hawkins  
4:50 PM Ludovico Iannizzotto Venezze  
4:50 PM Maria Isfan  
4:50 PM Michael Werner  
4:50 PM Oliver Ennis  
4:50 PM Sebastian Wald  
4:50 PM Selyan Beldjoudi  
4:50 PM Simon Hack  
4:50 PM Thomas Walker  
4:50 PM Vishu Gupta  
12:00 PM
Session (until 12:30 PM)
12:00 PM ICAP2024: Satellite meeting  
12:01 PM Closing Remarks