Name: 3rd International Workshop on Antimatter and Gravity (WAG 2015)
Start: 2015-08-04T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-08-07T14:00:00+01:00
Location: UCL

3rd International Workshop on Antimatter and Gravity (WAG 2015)

from Tuesday 4 August 2015 (20:00) to Friday 7 August 2015 (14:00)

Monday 3 August 2015
Tuesday 4 August 2015

20:00 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
20:00 - 22:30
Room: North Cloisters
Wednesday 5 August 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 10:00
Room: ROBERTS BUILDING
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to WAG2015

10:15 Free Fall Experiments with Charged Particles - A historical journey - Michael Holzscheiter (University of New Mexico)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: ROBERTS BUILDING
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

11:30 Advances in antiproton and positron trapping in the AEGIS experiment - Ruggero Caravita (CERN, Universita degli Studi di Genova)

12:00 The ALPHA experiment - Niels Madsen (Swansea University (GB))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

14:00 Towards High-Precision Investigations of the Fundamental Properties of the Antiproton - Christian Smorra (CERN)

14:30 Reaction cross section measurements for the positive antihydrogen ion production in the GBAR experiment - Laszlo Liszkay (IRFU CEA Saclay)

15:00 Techniques for Ground state cooling of anti-Hydrogen-ions - Sebastian Wolf (Johannes Gutenberg-Univesity Mainz)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: ROBERTS BUILDING
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

16:00 Studying Antimatter Gravity with Muonium - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)

16:30 Towards a novel high-brightness muon beam line for next generation precision experiments - Andreas Eggenberger (ETH Zurich)
Thursday 6 August 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

09:00 Positronium laser excitation and its detection in the AEgIS experiment - Zeudi Mazzotta (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))

09:30 High precision spectroscopy of Ps. - David Cooke (Eth Zurich)

10:00 Rydberg-Stark states of positronium - Adam Deller (University College London)
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:15
Room: ROBERTS BUILDING
11:15
11:15 - 12:15
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

11:15 Gravitation astrometric tests in the internal Solar System: the Astrometric Gravitation Probe mission goals - Mario Gai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)

11:45 On principles of repulsive gravity: the Elementary Process Theory. - Marcoen Cabbolet (Free University of Brussels)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

14:00 Rydberg positronium for tests of antimatter gravity - Stephen Hogan (University College London)

14:30 Accelerating positronium using pulsed travelling optical lattices - Michael Charlton (Swansea University)

15:00 On the use of Atom Optical Tools for Antimatter Experiments - Philippe Braunig (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: ROBERTS BUILDING
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

16:00 Imaging of antihydrogen – A Vertexing Detector overview - Joseph Mc Kenna (TRIUMF (CA))

16:30 Updated status of the GRANIT facility - Damien Roulier (Institut Laue Langevin)
19:30 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
Friday 7 August 2015
09:30
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

09:30 What if quantum vacuum fluctuations are virtual gravitational dipoles? - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Cetinje, Montenegro)

10:00 Gravitation astrometric tests in the Solar System: the QVADIS collaboration goals - Mario Gai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)

10:30 Do black holes create polyamory? - Jonathan Oppenheim (UCL)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: ROBERTS BUILDING
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

11:30 ALPHA-g: a precision antimatter gravity experiment with a magnetic trap - Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF (CA))

12:00 Status and prospects for the AD and ELENA - Lars Varming Joergensen (CERN)
12:30
12:30 - 13:15
Room: Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT
Contributions

12:30 WAG2015 Summary - Patrice Perez (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

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