Workshop on Fundamental Physics

3 May 2006, 09:30 → 5 May 2006, 14:00 Europe/Zurich

The Cosener's House Conference Facility (The Cosener's House)

This is the second meeting to be held at RAL's Coseners House on aspects of fundamental physics. Topics included were: Fundamental Physics : theories of gravity, Planck scale physics, extreme physics, BEC, Quantum engineering … Precision Measurements: Atom interferometry, atom chip… Ground and Space Based Detectors: Clocks, interferometers...

Wednesday 3 May

09:30 → 10:00 Laboratory Tests of Gravitation

Speaker: Dr Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)

Talk Clive_Speake.pdf Clive_Speake.ppt

10:00 → 10:30 Short range forces and the Casimir effecr

Speaker: Dr Astrid Lambrecht (CNRS - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)

10:30 → 11:00 Fundamental Physics on the ISS - experience from complex plasma experiments

Speaker: Prof. Greg Morfill (Max Planck Institute)

Talk Morfill.pdf Morfill.ppt

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 An hypothesis for the collective scattering of gravitational radiation by massive particles

Speaker: Dr Brian McNeil (University of Strathclyde)

Talk WFP_talk_2006.pdf WFP_talk_2006.ppt

11:45 → 12:30 Detection of Unruh Radiation

Speaker: Gert Brodin

12:30 → 13:00 Pondermotive forces in media and gravitational interactions

Speaker: Prof. Robin Tucker (University of Lancaster)

Talk RWTUCKER.pdf

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 (no title)

Speaker: Prof. Ed Hinds (Imperial College, London)

14:45 → 15:30 Atom Chips: integrating coherence

Speaker: Jakob Reichel (Laboratoire Kastler - Brossel CNRS)

15:30 → 16:15 Diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates on a magnetic lattice

Speaker: Dr Josef Fortagh (Universitat Tubingen)

16:15 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:15 Matter wave interferometry in a double well on an atom chip

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Hofferberth (University of Heidelberg)

17:15 → 17:45 Anomolous quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein

Speaker: Mark Fromhold (University of Nottingham)

17:45 → 18:15 Bose-Fermi mixtures of metastable helium

Speaker: Dr Wim Vassen (Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy De Boelelaan)

18:15 → 18:30 Session End

Thursday 4 May

09:30 → 10:15 Developments towards atomic sensors in space

Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Ertmer (University of Hannover)

Talk ERTMER.pdf ERTMER.ppt

10:15 → 10:45 Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates

Speaker: Dr Robert Nyman (Universitat Ulm, Germany)

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:30 Matter Waves, a new tool for the detection of GW

Speaker: Pacome Delva

11:30 → 11:50 Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates

Speaker: Endre Kajari (Universitat Ulm, Germany)

11:50 → 12:10 Bose-Einstein condensates under microgravity

Speaker: Gerrit Nandi

12:10 → 12:40 Search for quantum gravity using matter waves

Speaker: Dr Charles Wang (University of Lancaster)

Talk Wang.pdf Wang.ppt

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:45 Quantum gravity phenomenology

Speaker: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (University of Rome La Sapienza)

14:45 → 15:15 Slow light tests of Lorentz Invariance

Speaker: Dr Ben Varcoe (University of Sussex)

Talk Varcoe.pdf Varcoe.ppt

15:15 → 15:45 Equivalence Principle Measurements in Space

Speaker: Prof. Tim Sumner (Imperial College, London)

15:45 → 16:15 Dissipation-Induced symmetry breaking in a drivenm optical lattice

Speaker: Dr Ferruccio Renzoni (University College London)

16:15 → 16:30 Coffee

16:30 → 17:00 Ultracold Sr at JIL: Precision spectroscopy, optical clock, and future outlooks

Speaker: Tetsuya Ido

17:00 → 17:30 Optical clocks and search for variations of fundamental constants

Speaker: Dr Peik Ekkehard (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)

17:30 → 18:00 Macroscopic matter waves at thermal regime

Speaker: Renato Fedele (Università Federico II and INFN, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Via Cintia)

18:00 → 18:15 Session Ends

18:15 → 18:30 Workshop Dinner

Friday 5 May

09:30 → 10:00 Time refraction and the quantum properties of vacuum

Speaker: Mendonca Tito (Instituto Superior Tecnico)

Talk Coseners2006.pdf Coseners2006.ppt

10:00 → 10:30 Detecting elastic photon-photon scattering using intense lasers

Speaker: Prof. Mattias Marklund

10:30 → 10:50 Collective recoil-induced instabilities

Speaker: Dr Gordon Robb (University of Strathclyde)

10:50 → 11:00 Vacuum polarizartion using intense lasers

Speaker: Jose Ribeiro (Laboratory of Malaria and Vector research)

Talk VacII.pdf

11:00 → 11:15 Coffee

11:15 → 11:45 Waves in quantum plasmas

Speaker: Prof. Padma Shukla (University of Strathclyde)

Talk cosners06.pdf

11:45 → 12:35 Drag feee satellites for fundamental physics

Speaker: Prof. Barry Kent (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

12:35 → 12:45 LISA & LISA Pathfinder: Test mass charging

Speaker: Dr Diana Shaul (Imperial College, London)

12:45 → 13:00 ESA Representative

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:15 Workshop End