Name: Workshop on Fundamental Physics
Start: 2006-05-03T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2006-05-05T14:00:00+02:00
Location: The Cosener's House

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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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) - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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