3rd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Wednesday, 20 August 2025 (08:00) to Friday, 22 August 2025 (18:30)
Leibniz University Hannover (B305 Bielefeldsaal)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
20 Aug 2025
21 Aug 2025
22 Aug 2025
AM
09:30 --- Coffee Break ---
09:30 --- Registration ---
10:30
Session (until 12:00)
10:30 Welcome Address from the Local Organizers - Naceur Gaaloul  
11:15 Welcome Address from the TVLBAI Study Chair - Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))  
09:00
Session - Hendrik Heine (Leibniz University Hannover) Jan Rudolph (Stanford University) Dennis Schlippert (until 10:00)
09:00 Atom Sources For High-Bandwidth Atom Interferometry - Carsten Klempt (Leibniz University Hannover)  
09:20 Christian Freier - Dr Christian Freier (Nomad Atomics GmbH)  
09:40 A high flux Sr source for atom interferometry - Dr Anna Marchant  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Session - Carsten Klempt (Leibniz University Hannover) Robin Corgier (LTE, Observatoire de Paris) (until 12:00)
10:30 Squeezed light for laser interferometeric gravitational-wave detectors - Henning Vahlbruch (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)  
10:50 Squeezing-enhanced scalable network of Mach-Zehnder interferometers - Luca Pezzè  
11:10 Multiparameter quantum metrology with an array of entangled atomic sensors - Philipp Treutlein  
11:30 Prospects for squeezed clock interferometry - Richard Hobson  
09:00
Session - Elina Fuchs Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) (until 10:00)
09:00 Uncovering dark matter properties with atom interferometry - Christopher McCabe (King's College London)  
09:20 Searching for new Monopole-Dipole Forces using Atom Interferometers - Surjeet Rajendran  
09:40 New ideas for dark matter searches at TVLBAIs: spin-2 ULDM and GWs from superradiant clouds - Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE)  
10:00 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Session - Annike Knabe (Institute of Geodesy, Leibniz University Hannover) Dr Jeremiah Mitchell Manuel Schilling (DLR) (until 12:00)
10:30 Examining Site Constraints and Earth Science Applications - Dr Jeremiah Mitchell  
10:50 Implementation study for an O(100m) AI at CERN - Sergio Calatroni (CERN)  
11:10 Two Years of Operational Experience with Absolute Quantum Gravimeters: Insights from International Comparisons and Continuous Measurements - Mohamed Sobh  
11:30 Paul Scovell - Paul Scovell (STFC)  
PM
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00
Session - Surjeet Rajendran Ernst Maria Rasel (until 14:30)
13:00 Multimessenger Astronomy Beyond the Standard Model: New Window from Quantum Sensors - Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)  
13:30 Probing the spatial distribution of k-vectors in situ with Bose-Einstein condensates - Saïda GUELLATI-KHELIFA (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)  
14:00 Quantum Gases in Space: Status and Opportunities - Naceur Gaaloul  
14:30 --- Coffee Break ---
15:00
Session - Sven Abend Naceur Gaaloul (until 16:30)
15:00 Long-baseline LMT Clock Atom Interferometry - Jan Rudolph (Stanford University)  
15:20 MIGA at LSBB: Status and Experimental Progress - Andrea Bertoldi  
15:40 Large Momentum Transfer with Double-Diffraction Raman Transition for Dual-Species Atom Interferometer - Lin Zhou  
16:00 The Hannover VLBAI facility - Dennis Schlippert  
16:30
Lab Tours (until 19:30)
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00
Session -Dr Michael Werner (Institute Of Quantum Optics Hannover) Benjamin CANUEL (LP2N, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Université Bordeaux-IOGS-CNRS:UMR 5298, 1 rue F. Mitterrand, F-33400 Talence, France) (until 14:30)
13:00 Spectroscopic and Gravitational Studies of Antihydrogen: the ALPHA experiment at CERN - Prof. Jeffrey Scott Hangst (Aarhus University (DK))  
13:20 New tools for cosmology by Extended Theories of Electro-Magnetism (ETEM) - Alessandro Spallicci (Université d'Orléans - CNRS)  
13:40 Differential, single-photon interferometry with the 87Sr clock transition for AION - Dr Charles Baynham (Imperial College London)  
14:00 Alexandre Gauguet - Alexandre Gauguet (Université de Toulouse)  
14:30 --- Coffee break ---
15:00
Session - Michèle Heurs Prof. John Ellis (Kings College London) (until 16:30)
15:00 Einstein Telescope - Dr Harald Lück (Leibniz University Hannover)  
15:20 German Center for Astrophysics (DZA) - Michèle Heurs  
15:40 The science of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors - David Keitel  
16:00 Gravitational Waves: Complementarity & synergies between atom interferometers & other experiments - Prof. John Ellis (Kings College London)  
16:30
Poster Session & Drinks (until 18:30) (F335 Senatssaal)
12:00 --- Lunch Break ---
13:00
Session - Ernst Maria Rasel Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) Naceur Gaaloul (until 14:30)
13:00 ACES On-orbit Commissioning: Preliminary Results - Luigi Cacciapuoti (European Space Agency)  
13:20 Christian Schubert - Christian Schubert (DLR, Institute for Satellite Geodesy and Inertial Sensing)  
13:40 Laser interferometry for the gravimetry missions GRACE-C and NGGM - Vitali Müller (Albert Einstein Institute)  
14:00 Equivalence Principle Test with Atom Interferometry in Space - Mingsheng Zhan (Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences)  
14:30
Session (until 14:40)
15:00
Optional Excursion (until 18:30)