International Workshop Gravity, Spectroscopy and Interference With Atoms and Neutrons

from Thursday, 27 August 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 28 August 2026 (18:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 Aug 2026
28 Aug 2026
AM
08:00
Session 1 (until 10:15)
08:00 Opening - Prof. Valery Nesvizhevsky Sergey Vasiliev (University of Turku)  
08:15 Gravitational and other shifts of whispering-gallery and gravitational state interference patterns of light neutral particles - Prof. Valery Nesvizhevsky  
08:45 Search for a new spin-dependent short-range interaction at the nanometer scale using Whispering Gallery States of neutrons - Jason Pioquinto (University of Virginia)  
09:15 Magnetic shift of the neutron whispering gallery - Katharina Schreiner  
09:45 Measurement of WGS with neutrons at SNS - Stefan Baessler  
10:15 --- Coffee ---
10:45
Session 2 (until 12:15)
10:45 Isotope effect for quantum reflection of Hydrogen and Deuterium on Silicon - Serge Reynaud  
11:15 Effects of dielectric charges on quantum reflection from Silicon - Alexander Voronin (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))  
11:45 Update on QR and GQS measurements in Vienna - Victoria Kletzl (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
08:00
Session 5 (until 10:00)
08:00 KAMATE: Recent results and future plans - Caroline Rodenbeck  
08:30 Characterization of atomic hydrogen beams for future neutrino mass experiments - David Frese  
09:00 Towards precision 1S-2S spectroscopy of magnetically trapped H at Turku - Tom Kiilerich  
09:30 Developments of cold sources of D and T - Janne Ahokas  
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:40
Session 6 (until 12:20)
10:40 Magnetic evaporative cooling of tritium - Akshima Negi  
11:20 Magnetic guiding of T - Alec Lindman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
11:50 A cryogenic atomic tritium cell for polarization spectroscopy and chemical potential measurements - Paul Harmston  
PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Session 3 (until 15:30)
13:30 Updates on experiments with positronium - Evans Javary  
14:00 Progress on the Zeeman decelerator - Elio Bera  
14:30 Antihydrogen beam for hyperfine spectroscopy – status - Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
15:00 Nuclear recoil correction to atom-surface interactions - Grzegorz Łach (University od Warsaw)  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Session 4 (until 17:00)
16:00 Fresnel diffraction in X-ray whispering gallery - Alexander Voronin (M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (RU))  
16:30 Experiments on magnetic trapping at Turku - Aleksei Semakin  
12:20 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Session 7 (until 15:30)
13:30 Bound-state beta decay of Tritium and neutrino mass - Dr Thierry Lasserre (Max Planck Institute Fuer Kernphysik)  
14:00 CW spectroscopy of H at ETH - Paolo Crivelli (ETH Zurich (CH))  
14:30 The GBAR experiment and towards a measurement of the 2S1/2-2P1/2 Lamb shift of antihydrogen atoms - Dr Christian Regenfus (ETH Zurich (CH))  
15:00 Optical spectroscopy with D and T - Sergey Vasiliev (University of Turku)  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Session 8 (until 17:00)
16:00 2D detection of H - Melanie Federer