3rd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

20 Aug 2025, 08:00 → 22 Aug 2025, 18:30 Europe/Berlin

F303 Bahlsensaal (Leibniz University Hannover)

Long_Baseline_Workshop_2-Poster_2025.pdf

TVLBAI Schedule.pdf

Wednesday 20 August

09:30 → 10:30 Coffee Break

09:30 → 10:30 Registration

10:30 → 12:00 Session: 1. Welcome and Introduction

10:30 Welcome from the Organizers

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:30 Session: 2. Physics cases

Conveners: Ernst Maria Rasel, Surjeet Rajendran

13:00 Marianna Safronova

Speaker: Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)

13:30 Saïda Guellati-Khelifa

Speaker: Saïda GUELLATI-KHELIFA (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:30 Session: 3. Large Momentum Transfer

15:00 Lin Zhou

Speaker: Lin Zhou

15:20 Dennis Schlippert

Speaker: Dennis Schlippert

16:30 → 19:30 Lab Tours

Lab tours at the
1. VLBAI facility
2. Einstein Elevator
3. Institute of Quantum Optics

TVLBAI 3D Campus Map.pdf

Thursday 21 August

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee Break

09:00 → 10:30 Session: 4. Atom Sources

09:00 Carsten Klempt

Speaker: Carsten Klempt (Leibniz University Hannover)

10:30 → 12:00 Session: 5. Squeezing

10:30 Henning Vahlbruch

Speaker: Henning Vahlbruch (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:30 Session: 6. Metrology

13:00 Charles Baynham

Speaker: Dr Charles Baynham (Imperial College London)

13:20 Alessandro Spallicci

Speaker: Alessandro Spallicci (Université d'Orléans - CNRS)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 → 16:30 Session: 7. Laser Gravitational Wave Detection

16:30 → 18:30 Poster Session & Drinks

Friday 22 August

08:30 → 09:00 Coffee Break

09:00 → 10:30 Session: 8. Dark Matter & Dark Energy

09:00 Christopher McCabe

Speaker: Christopher McCabe (King's College London)

09:20 Surjeet Rajendran

Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran

10:30 → 12:00 Session: 9. Sites & Geodesy

Conveners: Annike Knabe (Institute of Geodesy, Leibniz University Hannover), Dr Jeremiah Mitchell

10:30 Jeremiah Mitchell

Speaker: Dr Jeremiah Mitchell

10:50 Sergio Calatroni

Speaker: Sergio Calatroni (CERN)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch Break

13:00 → 14:30 Session: 10. Space

13:00 Mingshen Zhan

Speaker: Mingshen Zhan (Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

13:25 Naceur Gaaloul

Speaker: Naceur Gaaloul

14:30 → 14:40 Session: Poster Prize & Closing Remarks

15:00 → 18:30 Optional Excursion: Trip to GEO600

More information will follow.
We will leave the Welfencastle between 15:00 and 15:30. The tour will take roughly two hours. The bus should be back at the Welfencastle around 18:30, or 19:00 latest!

More information about the GEO600 facility: https://www.geo600.org