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

The Cosener's House Conference Facility

The Cosener's House

Abingdon Oxfordshire UK
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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
    • 1
      Laboratory Tests of Gravitation
      Speaker: Dr Clive Speake (University of Birmingham)
      Talk
    • 2
      Short range forces and the Casimir effecr
      Speaker: Dr Astrid Lambrecht (CNRS - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)
    • 3
      Fundamental Physics on the ISS - experience from complex plasma experiments
      Speaker: Prof. Greg Morfill (Max Planck Institute)
      Talk
    • 11:00
      Coffee
    • 4
      An hypothesis for the collective scattering of gravitational radiation by massive particles
      Speaker: Dr Brian McNeil (University of Strathclyde)
      Talk
    • 5
      Detection of Unruh Radiation
      Speaker: Gert Brodin
    • 6
      Pondermotive forces in media and gravitational interactions
      Speaker: Prof. Robin Tucker (University of Lancaster)
      Talk
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 7
      (no title)
      Speaker: Prof. Ed Hinds (Imperial College, London)
    • 8
      Atom Chips: integrating coherence
      Speaker: Jakob Reichel (Laboratoire Kastler - Brossel CNRS)
    • 9
      Diffraction of Bose-Einstein condensates on a magnetic lattice
      Speaker: Dr Josef Fortagh (Universitat Tubingen)
    • 16:15
      Coffee
    • 10
      Matter wave interferometry in a double well on an atom chip
      Speaker: Dr Sebastian Hofferberth (University of Heidelberg)
    • 11
      Anomolous quantum reflection of Bose-Einstein
      Speaker: Mark Fromhold (University of Nottingham)
    • 12
      Bose-Fermi mixtures of metastable helium
      Speaker: Dr Wim Vassen (Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy De Boelelaan)
    • 18:15
      Session End
  • Thursday 4 May
    • 13
      Developments towards atomic sensors in space
      Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Ertmer (University of Hannover)
      Talk
    • 14
      Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates
      Speaker: Dr Robert Nyman (Universitat Ulm, Germany)
    • 10:45
      Coffee
    • 15
      Matter Waves, a new tool for the detection of GW
      Speaker: Pacome Delva
    • 16
      Matter-wave interferometry with freely falling Bose-Einstein condensates
      Speaker: Endre Kajari (Universitat Ulm, Germany)
    • 17
      Bose-Einstein condensates under microgravity
      Speaker: Gerrit Nandi
    • 18
      Search for quantum gravity using matter waves
      Speaker: Dr Charles Wang (University of Lancaster)
      Talk
    • 12:40
      Lunch
    • 19
      Quantum gravity phenomenology
      Speaker: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (University of Rome La Sapienza)
    • 20
      Slow light tests of Lorentz Invariance
      Speaker: Dr Ben Varcoe (University of Sussex)
      Talk
    • 21
      Equivalence Principle Measurements in Space
      Speaker: Prof. Tim Sumner (Imperial College, London)
    • 22
      Dissipation-Induced symmetry breaking in a drivenm optical lattice
      Speaker: Dr Ferruccio Renzoni (University College London)
    • 16:15
      Coffee
    • 23
      Ultracold Sr at JIL: Precision spectroscopy, optical clock, and future outlooks
      Speaker: Tetsuya Ido
    • 24
      Optical clocks and search for variations of fundamental constants
      Speaker: Dr Peik Ekkehard (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt)
    • 25
      Macroscopic matter waves at thermal regime
      Speaker: Renato Fedele (Università Federico II and INFN, Complesso Universitario di M.S. Angelo, Via Cintia)
    • 18:00
      Session Ends
    • 18:15
      Workshop Dinner
  • Friday 5 May
    • 26
      Time refraction and the quantum properties of vacuum
      Speaker: Mendonca Tito (Instituto Superior Tecnico)
      Talk
    • 27
      Detecting elastic photon-photon scattering using intense lasers
      Speaker: Prof. Mattias Marklund
    • 28
      Collective recoil-induced instabilities
      Speaker: Dr Gordon Robb (University of Strathclyde)
    • 29
      Vacuum polarizartion using intense lasers
      Speaker: Jose Ribeiro (Laboratory of Malaria and Vector research)
      Talk
    • 11:00
      Coffee
    • 30
      Waves in quantum plasmas
      Speaker: Prof. Padma Shukla (University of Strathclyde)
      Talk
    • 31
      Drag feee satellites for fundamental physics
      Speaker: Prof. Barry Kent (CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
    • 32
      LISA & LISA Pathfinder: Test mass charging
      Speaker: Dr Diana Shaul (Imperial College, London)
    • 33
      ESA Representative
    • 13:00
      Lunch
    • 14:00
      Workshop End
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