Time and Matter 2007

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

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