4th Terrestrial Very-Long-Baseline Atom Interferometry Workshop

from Monday, 2 February 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 4 February 2026 (18:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Feb 2026
3 Feb 2026
4 Feb 2026
AM
10:30 --- Registration ---
11:30
Session (until 12:30)
11:30 Welcome from the Local Organizers - Elias Lopez Asamar Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE)  
11:50 REDONGRA (Spanish Network of Gravitational Wave Physics) - Carlos F. Sopuerta (Institute of Space Sciences of the Spanish National Research Council (ICE, CSIC))  
12:10 Introduction from the TVLBAI Chair - Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))  
09:00
Session -Dr Michael Werner (Institute Of Quantum Optics Hannover) Dr Charles Baynham (Imperial College London) (until 11:00)
09:00 AION/AICE  
09:20 ELGAR  
09:40 MAGIS  
10:00 MIGA - Benjamin CANUEL (LP2N, Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Université Bordeaux-IOGS-CNRS:UMR 5298, 1 rue F. Mitterrand, F-33400 Talence, France)  
10:20 VLBAI - Dennis Schlippert  
10:40 ZAIGA - Lin Zhou  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Session - Lucas Lombriser (University of Geneva) Rosa Poggiani Dr Jeremiah Mitchell Maurits van der Grinten (RAL) Christopher McCabe (King's College London) Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky) (until 12:30)
09:00
Session - Alexandre Gauguet Richard Hobson (until 11:00)
09:00 Sources  
09:30 Large Momentum Transfer  
10:00 Squeezing  
10:30 Space  
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Session (until 12:30)
11:30 WP1 Scientific Foundations and Physics Goals  
11:40 WP2 Advanced Atom Interferometry Techniques  
11:50 WP3 Site Options and Engineering & Infrastructure  
12:00 WP4 Network Integration and Synergies  
12:10 WP5 Data Analysis and Interpretation  
12:20 WP6 Community Building and Outreach  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Session -Dr Albert Roura (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) David Benjamin Keitel (until 17:00)
15:00 Tests of general relativity, quantum mechanics and physics beyond the Standard Model - Peter Millington (University of Manchester)  
15:30 Overview of GW detection with atom interferometry - Leonardo Badurina (California Institute of Technology)  
16:00 Dark-matter detection with atom interferometers - Yikun Wang  
16:30 Synergies with laser interferometers - Rosa Poggiani  
17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
17:30
Session - Enno Giese Peter Millington (University of Manchester) (until 18:30)
17:30
Session - Tiffany Harte Samuel Lellouch (until 18:30)
12:30 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Lab Tours (until 16:00)
15:00
Lab Tours (until 16:00)
16:00
Session -Dr Fabio Di Pumpo Marilu Chiofalo (until 17:00)
17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:30
Early Career Session (until 19:00)
12:30
Session (until 12:40)
12:40 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Lab Tours (until 16:00)