Name: 3rd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop
Start: 2025-08-20T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-08-22T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Leibniz University Hannover

3rd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Wednesday, August 20, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 22, 2025 (6:30 PM)

Monday, August 18, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

9:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F335 Senatssaal

Registration
Registration
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
10:30 AM Session: 1. Welcome and Introduction
1. Welcome and Introduction
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

10:30 AM Welcome Address from the Local Organizers - Naceur Gaaloul

11:15 AM Welcome Address from the TVLBAI Study Chair - Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
1:00 PM Session: 2. Physics cases
2. Physics cases
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

1:00 PM Multimessenger Astronomy Beyond the Standard Model: New Window from Quantum Sensors - Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)

1:30 PM Probing the spatial distribution of k-vectors in situ with Bose-Einstein condensates - Saïda GUELLATI-KHELIFA (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

2:00 PM Quantum Gases in Space: Status and Opportunities - Naceur Gaaloul
2:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
3:00 PM Session: 3. Long Baseline Interferometers
3. Long Baseline Interferometers
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

3:00 PM Long-baseline LMT Clock Atom Interferometry - Jan Rudolph (Stanford University)

3:20 PM MIGA at LSBB: Status and Experimental Progress - Andrea Bertoldi

3:40 PM Large Momentum Transfer with Double-Diffraction Raman Transition for Dual-Species Atom Interferometer - Lin Zhou

4:00 PM The Hannover VLBAI facility - Dennis Schlippert
4:30 PM Lab Tours

4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, August 21, 2025
9:00 AM Session: 4. Atom Sources
4. Atom Sources
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

9:00 AM Atom Sources For High-Bandwidth Atom Interferometry - Carsten Klempt (Leibniz University Hannover)

9:20 AM Christian Freier - Christian Freier (Nomad Atomics GmbH)

9:40 AM A high flux Sr source for atom interferometry - Anna Marchant
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
10:30 AM Session: 5. Squeezing
5. Squeezing
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

10:30 AM Squeezed light for laser interferometeric gravitational-wave detectors - Henning Vahlbruch (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

10:50 AM Squeezing-enhanced scalable network of Mach-Zehnder interferometers - Luca Pezzè

11:10 AM Multiparameter quantum metrology with an array of entangled atomic sensors - Philipp Treutlein

11:30 AM Prospects for squeezed clock interferometry - Richard Hobson
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
1:00 PM Session: 6. Metrology
6. Metrology
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

1:00 PM Spectroscopic and Gravitational Studies of Antihydrogen: the ALPHA experiment at CERN - Jeffrey Scott Hangst (Aarhus University (DK))

1:20 PM New tools for cosmology by Extended Theories of Electro-Magnetism (ETEM) - Alessandro Spallicci (Université d'Orléans - CNRS)

1:40 PM Differential, single-photon interferometry with the 87Sr clock transition for AION - Charles Baynham (Imperial College London)

2:00 PM Alexandre Gauguet - Alexandre Gauguet (Université de Toulouse)
2:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
3:00 PM Session: 7. Laser Gravitational Wave Detection
7. Laser Gravitational Wave Detection
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

3:00 PM Einstein Telescope - Harald Lück (Leibniz University Hannover)

3:20 PM German Center for Astrophysics (DZA) - Michèle Heurs

3:40 PM The science of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors - David Keitel

4:00 PM Gravitational Waves: Complementarity & synergies between atom interferometers & other experiments - John Ellis (Kings College London)
4:30 PM Poster Session & Drinks

4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
Friday, August 22, 2025
9:00 AM Session: 8. Dark Matter & Dark Energy
8. Dark Matter & Dark Energy
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

9:00 AM Uncovering dark matter properties with atom interferometry - Christopher McCabe (King's College London)

9:20 AM Searching for new Monopole-Dipole Forces using Atom Interferometers - Surjeet Rajendran

9:40 AM New ideas for dark matter searches at TVLBAIs: spin-2 ULDM and GWs from superradiant clouds - Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
10:30 AM Session: 9. Sites & Geodesy
9. Sites & Geodesy
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

10:30 AM Examining Site Constraints and Earth Science Applications - Jeremiah Mitchell

10:50 AM Implementation study for an O(100m) AI at CERN - Sergio Calatroni (CERN)

11:10 AM Two Years of Operational Experience with Absolute Quantum Gravimeters: Insights from International Comparisons and Continuous Measurements - Mohamed Sobh

11:30 AM Paul Scovell - Paul Scovell (STFC)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: F335 Senatssaal
1:00 PM Session: 10. Space
10. Space
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal
Contributions

1:00 PM ACES On-orbit Commissioning: Preliminary Results - Luigi Cacciapuoti (European Space Agency)

1:20 PM Christian Schubert - Christian Schubert (DLR, Institute for Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing)

1:40 PM Laser interferometry for the gravimetry missions GRACE-C and NGGM - Vitali Müller (Albert Einstein Institute)

2:00 PM Equivalence Principle Test with Atom Interferometry in Space - Mingsheng Zhan (Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
2:30 PM Session: Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
2:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: B305 Bielefeldsaal

3:00 PM Optional Excursion: Trip to GEO600
Trip to GEO600
3:00 PM - 6:30 PM

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