Plenary sessions from Monday to Friday
Monday, 12/9 | |
Jean-Philippe Uzan | Fundamental constants, gravitation and cosmology – recent developments |
João Magueijo | Varying constants, cosmology and the puzzle of quantum gravity |
Ekkehard Peik | Search for New Physics with Atomic Clocks |
Tuesday, 13/9 |
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Hidetoshi Katori | Frequency ratios of optical lattice clocks at the 17th decimal place |
Wim Ubachs | Search for varying constants and new physics from molecular hydrogen |
Julian Berengut | Measuring α-variation using highly-charged ions: clocks, calculations and astrophysics |
Wednesday, 14/9 | |
Andrzej Królak | Observations of gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers |
M. C. David Marsh | Varying constants and the cosmological constant problem |
Thursday, 15/9 |
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John Webb | Spacetime variations of the varying alpha: The first 1000 high-precision measurements |
Michael Murphy | New, precise and reliable quasar absorption limits on alpha-variation |
Carlos Martins | Fundamental cosmology in the E-ELT era |
Friday, 16/9 |
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Carsten van de Bruck | Disformal electrodynamics: from varying alpha to vacuum Cherenkov radiation |
John Moffat | Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Gravitational Waves and Black Holes |
Laura Mersini-Houghton | Predictions from the Quantum Multiverse |
Saturday: Philosophy and cutting edge of physics and cosmology
Paul C. W. Davies | Where do the laws of physics come from? |
Michael Heller | How to justify the history of the universe? |
Krzysztof Meissner |
Plato and Modern Physics
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Thomas Naumann | Do we live in the Best of all Worlds? – The fine tuning of the constants of Nature |