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

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

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Aug 2015
5 Aug 2015
6 Aug 2015
7 Aug 2015
AM
08:30 --- Registration ---
10:00
Welcome Address (until 11:00) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
10:00 Welcome to WAG2015   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
10:15 Free Fall Experiments with Charged Particles - A historical journey - Prof. Michael Holzscheiter (University of New Mexico)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30
Session A (until 12:30) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
11:30 Advances in antiproton and positron trapping in the AEGIS experiment - Ruggero Caravita (CERN, Universita degli Studi di Genova)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
12:00 The ALPHA experiment - Niels Madsen (Swansea University (GB))   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
09:00
Session D (until 10:30) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
09:00 Positronium laser excitation and its detection in the AEgIS experiment - Zeudi Mazzotta (Università degli Studi e INFN Milano (IT))   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
09:30 High precision spectroscopy of Ps. - David Cooke (Eth Zurich)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
10:00 Rydberg-Stark states of positronium - Adam Deller (University College London)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:15
Session E (until 12:15) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
11:15 Gravitation astrometric tests in the internal Solar System: the Astrometric Gravitation Probe mission goals - Mario Gai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
11:45 On principles of repulsive gravity: the Elementary Process Theory. - Marcoen Cabbolet (Free University of Brussels)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
09:30
Session H (until 11:00) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
09:30 What if quantum vacuum fluctuations are virtual gravitational dipoles? - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology; Cetinje, Montenegro)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
10:00 Gravitation astrometric tests in the Solar System: the QVADIS collaboration goals - Mario Gai (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
10:30 Do black holes create polyamory? - Prof. Jonathan Oppenheim (UCL)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
11:00 --- Coffee ---
11:30
Session I (until 12:30) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
11:30 ALPHA-g: a precision antimatter gravity experiment with a magnetic trap - Makoto Fujiwara (TRIUMF (CA))   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
12:00 Status and prospects for the AD and ELENA - Lars Varming Joergensen (CERN)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
PM
20:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session B (until 16:00) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
14:00 Towards High-Precision Investigations of the Fundamental Properties of the Antiproton - Christian Smorra (CERN)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
14:30 Reaction cross section measurements for the positive antihydrogen ion production in the GBAR experiment - Dr Laszlo Liszkay (IRFU CEA Saclay)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
15:00 Techniques for Ground state cooling of anti-Hydrogen-ions - Sebastian Wolf (Johannes Gutenberg-Univesity Mainz)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Session C (until 17:00) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
16:00 Studying Antimatter Gravity with Muonium - Daniel Kaplan (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
16:30 Towards a novel high-brightness muon beam line for next generation precision experiments - Andreas Eggenberger (ETH Zurich)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
12:15 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Session F (until 15:30) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
14:00 Rydberg positronium for tests of antimatter gravity - Dr Stephen Hogan (University College London)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
14:30 Accelerating positronium using pulsed travelling optical lattices - Michael Charlton (Swansea University)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
15:00 On the use of Atom Optical Tools for Antimatter Experiments - Philippe Braunig (Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (DE))   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Session G (until 17:00) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
16:00 Imaging of antihydrogen – A Vertexing Detector overview - Joseph Mc Kenna (TRIUMF (CA))   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
16:30 Updated status of the GRANIT facility - Damien Roulier (Institut Laue Langevin)   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
19:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:30
Summary Talk (until 13:15) (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)
12:30 WAG2015 Summary - Patrice Perez (CEA/IRFU,Centre d'etude de Saclay Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))   (Room G06 - Sir Ambrose Fleming LT)