3rd Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Wednesday, August 20, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Friday, August 22, 2025 (6:30 PM)
Leibniz University Hannover (B305 Bielefeldsaal)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 20, 2025
Aug 21, 2025
Aug 22, 2025
AM
9:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:30 AM --- Registration ---
10:30 AM
Session (until 12:00 PM)
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))  
9:00 AM
Session - Hendrik Heine (Leibniz University Hannover) Jan Rudolph (Stanford University) Dennis Schlippert (until 10:00 AM)
9:00 AM Atom Sources For High-Bandwidth Atom Interferometry - Carsten Klempt (Leibniz University Hannover)  
9:20 AM Christian Freier - Dr Christian Freier (Nomad Atomics GmbH)  
9:40 AM A high flux Sr source for atom interferometry - Dr Anna Marchant  
10:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
10:30 AM
Session - Carsten Klempt (Leibniz University Hannover) Robin Corgier (LTE, Observatoire de Paris) (until 12:00 PM)
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  
9:00 AM
Session - Elina Fuchs Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) (until 10:00 AM)
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 ---
10:30 AM
Session - Annike Knabe (Institute of Geodesy, Leibniz University Hannover) Dr Jeremiah Mitchell Manuel Schilling (DLR) (until 12:00 PM)
10:30 AM Examining Site Constraints and Earth Science Applications - Dr 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)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:00 PM
Session - Surjeet Rajendran Ernst Maria Rasel (until 2:30 PM)
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 ---
3:00 PM
Session - Sven Abend Naceur Gaaloul (until 4:30 PM)
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 (until 7:30 PM)
12:00 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:00 PM
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 2:30 PM)
1:00 PM Spectroscopic and Gravitational Studies of Antihydrogen: the ALPHA experiment at CERN - Prof. 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 - Dr Charles Baynham (Imperial College London)  
2:00 PM Alexandre Gauguet - Alexandre Gauguet (Université de Toulouse)  
2:30 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:00 PM
Session - Michèle Heurs Prof. John Ellis (Kings College London) (until 4:30 PM)
3:00 PM Einstein Telescope - Dr 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 - Prof. John Ellis (Kings College London)  
4:30 PM
Poster Session & Drinks (until 6:30 PM) (F335 Senatssaal)
12:00 PM --- Lunch Break ---
1:00 PM
Session - Ernst Maria Rasel Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) Naceur Gaaloul (until 2:30 PM)
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 (until 2:40 PM)
3:00 PM
Optional Excursion (until 6:30 PM)