Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology – VARCOSMOFUN’16

12-17 September 2016
Szczecin, Poland
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Plenary Lectures

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 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 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 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 Thomas Naumann Do we live in the Best of all Worlds? – The fine tuning of the constants of Nature

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