2nd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Wednesday 3 April 2024 (08:30) to Friday 5 April 2024 (18:00)
Imperial College - London

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024
5 Apr 2024
AM
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:45
Session (until 12:25)
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  
08:30 --- Coffee Break ---
09:30
Session - Tiffany Harte Dennis Schlippert Philippe Bouyer (until 11:00)
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 - Leonardo Salvi Richard Hobson (until 12:30)
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  
08:30 --- Coffee Break ---
09:30
Session - Stephen Fairhurst Jonathan R. Ellis (King's College London) (until 11:00)
09:30 LVK science - Stephen Fairhurst  
09:55 LISA science - Dr Jean-Baptiste Bayle (University of Glasgow)  
10:20 DeciHz Synergies - Juan Urrutia  
11:00
Session - Sergio Calatroni (CERN) Marilu Chiofalo Naceur Gaaloul (until 12:00)
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  
PM
12:25 --- Lunch Break ---
13:25
Session - Stefan Soldner-Rembold (until 13:30)
13:30
Session - Marianna Safronova (Uni of Delaware) Christopher McCabe (King's College London) Albert Roura (DLR) (until 15:00)
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 ---
15:30
Session - Andrea Bertoldi Chris Overstreet (Johns Hopkins University) Michael Holynski (until 17:00)
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 - Elias Lopez Asamar (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Sean Paling (until 18:20)
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 ---
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
13:30
Session - Alexandre Gauguet (Université Toulouse 3 - LCAR) Naceur Gaaloul Dr Jeremiah Mitchell (until 15:00)
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 - Adam Lowe (Oxford University) Robert Plunkett (until 16:30)
15:00 Structural Stability and Instrument Installation of a 10m Interferometer in the Beecroft Building (AION) - Zoie Tam Zhongyin Pan  
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 - Thomas Walker Leonie Hawkins Elizabeth Pasatembou (until 18:50)
16:50 Alice Josset  
16:50 Ashkan Alibabaei  
16:50 Chung Chuan Hsu  
16:50 Daniel Derr, Enno Giese  
16:50 Elizabeth Pasatembou  
16:50 Florentina Pislan  
16:50 Gedminas Elertas  
16:50 Hannah Banks  
16:50 Jiajun Chen, Yijun Tang  
16:50 John Carlton  
16:50 Jonathan Ramwell (Toptica)  
16:50 Jordan Gué  
16:50 Junjie Jiang  
16:50 Kamran Hussain  
16:50 Leonardo Badurina  
16:50 Leonie Hawkins  
16:50 Ludovico Iannizzotto Venezze  
16:50 Maria Isfan  
16:50 Michael Werner  
16:50 Oliver Ennis  
16:50 Sebastian Wald  
16:50 Selyan Beldjoudi  
16:50 Simon Hack  
16:50 Thomas Walker  
16:50 Vishu Gupta  
12:00
Session (until 12:30)
12:00 ICAP2024: Satellite meeting  
12:01 Closing Remarks