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 - Diego Blas (ICREA/IFAE) Elias Lopez Asamar  
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))  
09:20
Session -Dr Charles Baynham (Imperial College London) Dr Michael Werner (Institute Of Quantum Optics Hannover) (until 11:00)
09:20 AION/AICE - John Carlton  
09:40 MAGIS - Nicholas Dreux Entin  
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 - Christopher McCabe (King's College London) Susan Gardner (University of Kentucky) Maurits van der Grinten (RAL) Lucas Lombriser (University of Geneva) Dr Jeremiah Mitchell Rosa Poggiani (until 13:00)
11:30 WP3: Update from Porta Alpina - Michael Guinchard (CERN)  
11:45 WP3: Bedretto Lab Physics - Switzerland’s first deep underground physics research laboratory - Marcelle Soares-Santos  
12:00 WP4 - Dr Jeremiah Mitchell  
12:15 MAGIS-100 offline coordination and plans - Jonathan Tinsley (University of Liverpool)  
09:20
Session - Richard Hobson Alexandre Gauguet (until 11:00)
09:20 Space  
09:40 Large Momentum Transfer  
10:40 Atom Sources  
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 ---
14:30
Session - David Benjamin Keitel Dr Albert Roura (German Aerospace Center (DLR)) (until 16:30)
14:30 New physics in the IR - Peter Millington (University of Manchester)  
15:00 Overview of GW detection with atom interferometry - Leonardo Badurina (California Institute of Technology)  
15:30 Dark-matter detection with atom interferometers - Yikun Wang (Johns Hopkins University)  
16:00 Synergies with laser interferometers - Rosa Poggiani (University of Pisa)  
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Session - Enno Giese Peter Millington (University of Manchester) (until 18:00)
17:00 Flash talks  
18:00
Session - Samuel Lellouch Tiffany Harte (until 19:00)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Lab Tours (until 17:00)
17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:30
Session - Marilu Chiofalo Dr Fabio Di Pumpo (until 18:00)
18:00
Early Career Session (until 19:00)
18:00 Methods for Absolute Gravity Sensing with VLBAI - Kai Grensemann  
18:20 Robust Atom Interferometry with Double Bragg Diffraction - Rui Li  
18:40 Unified Theory of Large Momentum Transfer in Optical Lattices - Patrik Mönkeberg  
12:30
Session (until 12:40)