Name: Time and Matter 2007
Start: 2007-08-26T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2007-08-31T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Bled, Slovenia

Time and Matter 2007

from Sunday 26 August 2007 (11:00) to Friday 31 August 2007 (18:00)

Monday 20 August 2007
Tuesday 21 August 2007
Wednesday 22 August 2007
Thursday 23 August 2007
Friday 24 August 2007
Saturday 25 August 2007
Sunday 26 August 2007

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

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Raymond Chiao (UC Merced, USA)
Tuesday 28 August 2007
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The Early History of Quantum Entanglement - Don Howard (Univ. of Notre Dame, USA)

09:45 Decoherence Measurements in Fullerene Interferometry - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Martin Tajmar (Austrian Research Centers)

16:15 Towards a New Paradigm: Relativity in Configuration Space - 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
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Gravitational Limitations on space and time measurements and fundamental loss of coherence in General Relativity - Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University)

09:45 Emergent spacetime - 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 - 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
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 CP and T violation measurements with K mesons - Marco Sozzi (University of Pisa)

09:45 CP violation and Flavour Physics experiments in the LHC era - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Carlo Baccigalupi (SISSA)
Friday 31 August 2007
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Physics in 6-Dimensions - Seif Randjbar-Daemi (Abdus Salam ICTP)

10:00 Holography and Chronology Protection - 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 - Gordana Medin
11:45

11:45 - 12:00

12:00 lunch
lunch
12:00 - 14:00

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