Workshop on Fundamental Physics
from
Wednesday 3 May 2006 (09:30)
to
Friday 5 May 2006 (14:00)
Monday 1 May 2006
Tuesday 2 May 2006
Wednesday 3 May 2006
09:30
Laboratory Tests of Gravitation
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Clive Speake
(
University of Birmingham
)
Laboratory Tests of Gravitation
Clive Speake
(
University of Birmingham
)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:00
Short range forces and the Casimir effecr
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Astrid Lambrecht
(
CNRS - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
)
Short range forces and the Casimir effecr
Astrid Lambrecht
(
CNRS - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
)
10:00 - 10:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:30
Fundamental Physics on the ISS - experience from complex plasma experiments
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Greg Morfill
(
Max Planck Institute
)
Fundamental Physics on the ISS - experience from complex plasma experiments
Greg Morfill
(
Max Planck Institute
)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:00
Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:15
An hypothesis for the collective scattering of gravitational radiation by massive particles
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Brian McNeil
(
University of Strathclyde
)
An hypothesis for the collective scattering of gravitational radiation by massive particles
Brian McNeil
(
University of Strathclyde
)
11:15 - 11:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:45
Detection of Unruh Radiation
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Gert Brodin
Detection of Unruh Radiation
Gert Brodin
11:45 - 12:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
12:30
Pondermotive forces in media and gravitational interactions
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Robin Tucker
(
University of Lancaster
)
Pondermotive forces in media and gravitational interactions
Robin Tucker
(
University of Lancaster
)
12:30 - 13:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
14:00
(no title)
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Ed Hinds
(
Imperial College, London
)
(no title)
Ed Hinds
(
Imperial College, London
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
14:45
Atom Chips: integrating coherence
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Jakob Reichel
(
Laboratoire Kastler - Brossel CNRS
)
Atom Chips: integrating coherence
Jakob Reichel
(
Laboratoire Kastler - Brossel CNRS
)
14:45 - 15:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
15:30
Diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates on a magnetic lattice
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Josef Fortagh
(
Universitat Tubingen
)
Diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates on a magnetic lattice
Josef Fortagh
(
Universitat Tubingen
)
15:30 - 16:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
16:15
Coffee
Coffee
16:15 - 16:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
16:30
Matter wave interferometry in a double well on an atom chip
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Sebastian Hofferberth
(
University of Heidelberg
)
Matter wave interferometry in a double well on an atom chip
Sebastian Hofferberth
(
University of Heidelberg
)
16:30 - 17:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
17:15
Anomolous quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein
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Mark Fromhold
(
University of Nottingham
)
Anomolous quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein
Mark Fromhold
(
University of Nottingham
)
17:15 - 17:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
17:45
Bose-Fermi mixtures of metastable helium
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Wim Vassen
(
Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy De Boelelaan
)
Bose-Fermi mixtures of metastable helium
Wim Vassen
(
Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy De Boelelaan
)
17:45 - 18:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
18:15
Session End
Session End
18:15 - 18:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
Thursday 4 May 2006
09:30
Developments towards atomic sensors in space
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Wolfgang Ertmer
(
University of Hannover
)
Developments towards atomic sensors in space
Wolfgang Ertmer
(
University of Hannover
)
09:30 - 10:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:15
Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates
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Robert Nyman
(
Universitat Ulm, Germany
)
Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates
Robert Nyman
(
Universitat Ulm, Germany
)
10:15 - 10:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:45
Coffee
Coffee
10:45 - 11:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:00
Matter Waves, a new tool for the detection of GW
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Pacome Delva
Matter Waves, a new tool for the detection of GW
Pacome Delva
11:00 - 11:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:30
Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates
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Endre Kajari
(
Universitat Ulm, Germany
)
Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates
Endre Kajari
(
Universitat Ulm, Germany
)
11:30 - 11:50
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:50
Bose-Einstein condensates under microgravity
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Gerrit Nandi
Bose-Einstein condensates under microgravity
Gerrit Nandi
11:50 - 12:10
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
12:10
Search for quantum gravity using matter waves
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Charles Wang
(
University of Lancaster
)
Search for quantum gravity using matter waves
Charles Wang
(
University of Lancaster
)
12:10 - 12:40
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
12:40
Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
14:00
Quantum gravity phenomenology
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Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
(
University of Rome La Sapienza
)
Quantum gravity phenomenology
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia
(
University of Rome La Sapienza
)
14:00 - 14:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
14:45
Slow light tests of Lorentz Invariance
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Ben Varcoe
(
University of Sussex
)
Slow light tests of Lorentz Invariance
Ben Varcoe
(
University of Sussex
)
14:45 - 15:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
15:15
Equivalence Principle Measurements in Space
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Tim Sumner
(
Imperial College, London
)
Equivalence Principle Measurements in Space
Tim Sumner
(
Imperial College, London
)
15:15 - 15:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
15:45
Dissipation-Induced symmetry breaking in a drivenm optical lattice
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Ferruccio Renzoni
(
University College London
)
Dissipation-Induced symmetry breaking in a drivenm optical lattice
Ferruccio Renzoni
(
University College London
)
15:45 - 16:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
16:15
Coffee
Coffee
16:15 - 16:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
16:30
Ultracold Sr at JIL: Precision spectroscopy, optical clock, and future outlooks
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Tetsuya Ido
Ultracold Sr at JIL: Precision spectroscopy, optical clock, and future outlooks
Tetsuya Ido
16:30 - 17:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
17:00
Optical clocks and search for variations of fundamental constants
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Peik Ekkehard
(
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
)
Optical clocks and search for variations of fundamental constants
Peik Ekkehard
(
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
)
17:00 - 17:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
17:30
Macroscopic matter waves at thermal regime
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Renato Fedele
(
Università Federico II and INFN, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Via Cintia
)
Macroscopic matter waves at thermal regime
Renato Fedele
(
Università Federico II and INFN, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Via Cintia
)
17:30 - 18:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
18:00
Session Ends
Session Ends
18:00 - 18:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
18:15
Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:15 - 18:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
Friday 5 May 2006
09:30
Time refraction and the quantum properties of vacuum
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Mendonca Tito
(
Instituto Superior Tecnico
)
Time refraction and the quantum properties of vacuum
Mendonca Tito
(
Instituto Superior Tecnico
)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:00
Detecting elastic photon-photon scattering using intense lasers
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Mattias Marklund
Detecting elastic photon-photon scattering using intense lasers
Mattias Marklund
10:00 - 10:30
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:30
Collective recoil-induced instabilities
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Gordon Robb
(
University of Strathclyde
)
Collective recoil-induced instabilities
Gordon Robb
(
University of Strathclyde
)
10:30 - 10:50
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
10:50
Vacuum polarizartion using intense lasers
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Jose Ribeiro
(
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector research
)
Vacuum polarizartion using intense lasers
Jose Ribeiro
(
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector research
)
10:50 - 11:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:00
Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:15
Waves in quantum plasmas
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Padma Shukla
(
University of Strathclyde
)
Waves in quantum plasmas
Padma Shukla
(
University of Strathclyde
)
11:15 - 11:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
11:45
Drag feee satellites for fundamental physics
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Barry Kent
(
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
)
Drag feee satellites for fundamental physics
Barry Kent
(
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
)
11:45 - 12:35
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
12:35
LISA & LISA Pathfinder: Test mass charging
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Diana Shaul
(
Imperial College, London
)
LISA & LISA Pathfinder: Test mass charging
Diana Shaul
(
Imperial College, London
)
12:35 - 12:45
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
12:45
ESA Representative
ESA Representative
12:45 - 13:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility
14:00
Workshop End
Workshop End
14:00 - 14:15
Room: The Cosener's House Conference Facility