Time and Matter 2007
from
Sunday 26 August 2007 (11:00)
to
Friday 31 August 2007 (18:00)
Monday 20 August 2007
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Tuesday 21 August 2007
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Wednesday 22 August 2007
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Thursday 23 August 2007
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Friday 24 August 2007
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Saturday 25 August 2007
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Sunday 26 August 2007
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17:00
17:00 - 19:00
19:00
Welcome Reception, Grand Hotel Toplice - Reception Hall
Welcome Reception, Grand Hotel Toplice - Reception Hall
19:00 - 21:00
Monday 27 August 2007
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08:00
08:00 - 09:15
09:15
Welcome
-
Danilo Zavrtanik
(
University of Nova Gorica
)
Welcome
Danilo Zavrtanik
(
University of Nova Gorica
)
09:15 - 09:30
09:30
Welcome from Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology
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Jure Zupan
(
Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
)
Welcome from Minister of Higher Education, Science and Technology
Jure Zupan
(
Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
)
09:30 - 09:45
09:45
09:45 - 10:30
Contributions
09:45
Challenging the Cosmological Constant
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Nemanja Kaloper
(
University of California, Davis
)
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions
11:00
Stable and Accurate Single-Ion Optical Clocks
-
Jim Bergquist
(
NIST Boulder, USA
)
11:45
Optical Clocks with Trapped Ions
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Ekkehard Peik
(
PTB Braunschweig, Germany
)
12:30
Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:15
Contributions
14:30
Cold Atom Clocks and Fundamental Tests
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Cristophe Salomon
(
Kastler Brossel, Paris, France
)
15:15
coffee break
coffee break
15:15 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 16:15
Contributions
15:30
The interaction of gravitational radiation with electron-coated superfluid helium drops: A progress report on experiments at UC Merced
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Raymond Chiao
(
UC Merced, USA
)
Tuesday 28 August 2007
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09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
The Early History of Quantum Entanglement
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Don Howard
(
Univ. of Notre Dame, USA
)
09:45
Decoherence Measurements in Fullerene Interferometry
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Lucia Hackermuller
(
Johannes-Gutenberg University Mayence
)
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 10:45
10:45
10:45 - 11:30
Contributions
10:45
EPR correlations in Y(4S) -> B0 anti-B0 decays
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Aurelio Bay
(
EPFL, Switzerland
)
11:30
coffee break
coffee break
11:30 - 11:45
11:45
11:45 - 12:30
Contributions
11:45
Conceptual Problems in Canonical Quantum Gravity and Cosmology
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Claus Kiefer
(
Univ. Koln, Germany
)
12:30
lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:15
Contributions
14:30
Timeless Records Approach to the Problem of Time in Quantum Gravity
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Edward Anderson
(
Univ. of Cambridge, UK
)
15:15
cofee break
cofee break
15:15 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:15
Contributions
15:30
Investigation of Frame-Dragging-Like Signals Close to Rotating Superconductors
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Martin Tajmar
(
Austrian Research Centers
)
16:15
Towards a New Paradigm: Relativity in Configuration Space
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Matej Pavsic
(
Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana
)
17:15
break
break
17:15 - 18:30
18:30
Banquet - Hotel Ribno. Bus Grande Hotel Toplice - 18:30
Banquet - Hotel Ribno. Bus Grande Hotel Toplice - 18:30
18:30 - 00:30
Wednesday 29 August 2007
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09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
Gravitational Limitations on space and time measurements and fundamental loss of coherence in General Relativity
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Jorge Pullin
(
Louisiana State University
)
09:45
Emergent spacetime
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Matt Visser
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:45
Contributions
11:00
CP Violation in B Meson Decays
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Masanori Yamauchi
(
KEK, Japan
)
11:45
break
break
11:45 - 13:00
13:00
Lunch Break and Excursion, Postojna Cave and Castle by Bus. 13:00.
Lunch Break and Excursion, Postojna Cave and Castle by Bus. 13:00.
13:00 - 20:30
Thursday 30 August 2007
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09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions
09:00
CP and T violation measurements with K mesons
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Marco Sozzi
(
University of Pisa
)
09:45
CP violation and Flavour Physics experiments in the LHC era
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Tatsuya Nakada
(
CERN
)
10:30
coffee break
coffee break
10:30 - 10:45
10:45
10:45 - 11:30
Contributions
10:45
Experimental tests of CPT symmetry and quantum mechanics in the neutral kaon system
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Antonio Di Domenico
(
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
)
11:30
coffee break
coffee break
11:30 - 11:45
11:45
11:45 - 12:30
Contributions
11:45
A Discrete Space and Time before the Big Bang
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Martin Bojowald
(
Penn. State Univ., USA
)
12:30
lunch break
lunch break
12:30 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 15:15
Contributions
14:30
New Matter at the LHC
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Bobby Acharya
(
Abdus Salam ICTP
)
15:15
coffee break
coffee break
15:15 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 16:15
Contributions
15:30
Expectations and challenges from future CMB science
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Carlo Baccigalupi
(
SISSA
)
Friday 31 August 2007
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09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions
09:00
Physics in 6-Dimensions
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Seif Randjbar-Daemi
(
Abdus Salam ICTP
)
10:00
Holography and Chronology Protection
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Martin O'Loughlin
(
University of Nova Gorica
)
10:45
coffee break
coffee break
10:45 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 11:45
Contributions
11:00
Time and Matter - The Future
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Gordana Medin
11:45
11:45 - 12:00
12:00
lunch
lunch
12:00 - 14:00