Workshop on Fundamental Physics

from Wednesday 3 May 2006 (09:30) to Friday 5 May 2006 (14:00)
The Cosener's House (The Cosener's House Conference Facility)

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