GAUGE Workshop

Tuesday 14 Nov 2006, 09:00 → 18:00 Europe/Zurich

Conference Room 3 R.1 (The Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

This will be a one-day meeting and the aims will be: *review the scientific motivations for the various *experiment themes *review experiment concepts *review our team structure *agree proposal preparation plans

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Robert Bingham (RAL)

10:15 → 10:30 Purpose of Meeting

10:30 → 11:00 Fundamental Physics within ESA

Speaker: Timothy Sumner (Imperial College London)

Talk GAUGE_nov06.pdf GAUGE_nov06.ppt

11:00 → 11:30 Discussion on ESA stratergy

11:30 → 11:50 Coffee

11:50 → 12:10 Probing Fundamental Physics including Planck Scale Physics and Equivalence Principle using Matter Wave Interferometry

Speaker: Dr Charles Wang (Aberdeen University)

Talk

• 2006-11-14-RAL-Wang.pdf
• 2006-11-14-RAL-Wang.pdf
• 2006-11-14-RAL-Wang.ppt

12:10 → 12:40 Potential science mission opportunities for relativity and fundamental constants with cold atom and ion clocks

Speaker: Helen Margolis (NPL)

Talk RAL_optical_clocks_in_space_talk_v3.pdf RAL_optical_clocks_in_space_talk_v3.ppt

12:40 → 13:00 Mass-spin coupling experiments

Speaker: Dr Christian Trenkel (Astrium)

Talk Trenkel.pdf Trenkel.ppt (Protected)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Quantum sensors for fundamental tests and applied sciences

Speaker: Ernst Rasel (Leibniz University)

14:30 → 15:00 EP-G-1/r^2 input from previous studies/proposals

15:00 → 15:20 Activities at ZARM

Speaker: Hansjoerg Dittus (ZARM)

15:20 → 15:40 Coffee

15:40 → 16:00 GP-B Lessons

Speaker: Gaylord Green (Stanford University)

Talk Green_GPB_Presentation.pdf Green_GPB_Presentation.ppt

16:00 → 16:20 STEP within the US

Speaker: Tony Lyons (Marshall Space Flight Center)

Talk Lyons_GAUGE_Pitch_11-14-06_Final.pdf Lyons_GAUGE_Pitch_11-14-06_Final.ppt

16:20 → 17:00 LISAPF and STEP within Astrium

Speaker: Carl Warren (EADS, UK)

Talk Warren.pdf

17:00 → 17:15 End of Session