Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics

from Tuesday, October 16, 2018 (9:00 AM) to Wednesday, October 17, 2018 (7:15 PM)
St. Catherine's College, Oxford (Bernard Sunley Room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 16, 2018
Oct 17, 2018
AM
9:00 AM Welcome & Purpose of Meeting - Ian Shipsey (University of Oxford (GB))   (Bernard Sunley Room)
9:15 AM Scientific Motivation Overview - Giovanni Villadoro (Abdus Salam Int. Cent. Theor. Phys. (IT))   (Bernard Sunley Room)
10:00 AM Quantum Features Exploitable in Table Top Fundamental Physics (incl.Superposition, Entanglement, Squeezing Back Action Evasion & more) - Sougato Bose (UCL)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
10:45 AM Coffee   ()
11:15 AM Photon-Number-Resolving Imagers and Detectors Based on Superconducting Nanowire - Karl berggren (MIT)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
9:00 AM Precision experiments with phonons, photons and spins to test Lorentz Invariance and to Detect Dark Matter and High Frequency Gravitational Waves - Michael Tobar (U Western Australia)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
9:35 AM National Physical Laboratory Program in Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics - Patrick Gill (NPL)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
10:10 AM The Quantum Programme (Liam Blackwell EPSRC) The SPF EoI themes (Jason Green STFC)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
10:50 AM Coffee   ()
11:10 AM Ion Traps 1 - David Lucas (Oxford)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
11:35 AM beyond-Standard-Model physics with ion trap type methods - Andrew Steane (Oxford)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
11:55 AM alpha-dot measurement with an ion Trap - Rachel Godun (NPL)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
PM
12:00 PM UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Metrology - Kai Bongs (U. Birmingham & NQHSM)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
12:45 PM Extra Discussion   (Bernard Sunley Room)
1:00 PM Lunch   ()
2:00 PM Low Energy Tests of the Standard Model - Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University) Gerald Gabrielse (Harvard University (US))   (Bernard Sunley Room)
2:45 PM Atom Interferometry - Jason Hogan (Stanford)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
3:30 PM Coffee   ()
4:00 PM Trapped Ions, Atomic clocks, fundamental constants. - David Hume (NIST)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
4:45 PM Magnetic Resonance and Atomic Clocks - Yevgeny Stadnik (Mainz)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
5:30 PM Harnessing quantum technologies in the search for dark matter - Konrad Lehnert (JILA)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
6:15 PM The FNAL Quantum Program - Panagiotis Spentzouris (Fermilab)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
7:00 PM Dinner (self-organized)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
12:15 PM Quantum Senors Programme at Cambridge - Stafford Withington (Cambridge)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
12:35 PM Quantum Techniques in Advanced Laser Interferometric Gravity Wave Detectors - Haixing Miao (U. Birmigham)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
12:55 PM Lunch   ()
1:45 PM Atom Interferometry in the UK & MAGIS-100 - Jon Coleman (University of Liverpool)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
2:10 PM The Atom Interferometer Obsrevatory Network - Oliver Buchmuller (Imperial College (GB))   (Bernard Sunley Room)
2:25 PM Levitated quantum optomechanics for fundamental physics - Peter Barker (UCL)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
2:45 PM tabletop quantum sensing experiments with NV centres in diamond including with levitated nanodiamond - Gavin Morley (Warwick)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
3:10 PM Quantum Behavior of Mechanical Structures and the application to fundamental physics - Michael Vanner (Imperial)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
3:35 PM Coffee - Stig Topp-Jorgenson   (Bernard Sunley Room)
3:55 PM Resonant searches for Axions and other ultralight dark matter - Edward Daw (The University of Sheffield)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
4:25 PM Super Conducting Qubits - Peter Leek   (Bernard Sunley Room)
4:55 PM Exploring ultra light to sub-MeV dark matter with atomic clocks and co-magnetometers - Diego Blas Temino (CERN)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
5:10 PM quantum simulators of fundamental physics - Silke Weinfurtner (Nottingham)   (Bernard Sunley Room)
5:25 PM
Town Hall Themes for the EoI (discussion facilitated by STFC) - Jason Green (University of Oxford (GB)) (until 6:25 PM) (Bernard Sunley Room)