16:00 - 20:00 |
Registration |
19.00 |
Welcome Buffet |
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9:00 - 9:10 |
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Welcome |
9:10 - 9:40 |
G. Veneziano, CERN |
Alternative theories of gravity and cosmology |
9:40 - 10:10 |
S. Vitale, Trento Univ. |
LISA Pathfinder and LISA |
10:10 - 10:40 |
O. Bertolami, IST |
Alternatives to dark energy and dark matter and
their implications |
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Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
L. Iess, Rome Univ. |
Testing General Relativity with interplanetary spacecraft |
11:30 - 12:00 |
P. Gill, NPL |
Recent advances in atomic frequency standards and precision measurements |
12:00 - 12:30 |
L. Cacciapuoti, ESA |
Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space |
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Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
T.W. Haensch, MPQ |
A passion for precision |
14:30 - 15:00 |
J. Ye, JILA |
Precision measurement based on ultracold atoms and molecules |
15:00 - 15:30 |
P. Lemonde, SYRTE |
An accurate optical lattice clock with 87Sr atoms |
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Coffee Break |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
S. Bize, SYRTE |
Fundamental physics tests using rubidium and cesium fountains |
16:30 - 17:00 |
E. Peik, PTB |
The 171Yb+ single-ion optical frequency standard at 688 THz |
17:00 - 17:30 |
C. Chardonnet, Paris Univ. |
Long distance frequency dissemination at 10-18 level |
17:30 - 18:00 |
E. Samain, OCA |
T2L2 on Jason 2: First results of the engineering model |
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Poster Session |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
M. Kasevich, Stanford Univ. |
Navigation, gravitation and cosmology with cold atom sensors |
9:00 - 9:30 |
T. Schumm, Heidelberg Univ. |
Interference with Bose-Einstein condensates on atom chips |
9:30 - 10:00 |
E. Rasel, Leibniz Univ. |
Quantum sensors for fundamental tests and applied sciences |
10:00 - 10:20 |
A. Peters, Humboldt Univ. |
QUANTUS - Experiments with Bose-Einstein condesates in micro-gravity |
10:20 - 10:40 |
P. Bouyer, IOTA |
New transportable atom inertial sensors and their applications to space experiments |
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Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
C. Bordé, CNRS |
Comparison between optical interferometry and matter-wave interferometry, towards new sensors and clocks using matter-wave cavities for ground and space applications |
11:30 - 12:00 |
G. Tino, Firenze Univ. |
Gravity tests by atom interferometry: Measurement of G and test of Newtonian law at micrometric distances |
12:00 - 12:20 |
C. Schwob, LKB |
A new determination of the fine structure constant with cold rubidium atoms |
12:20 - 12:40 |
J. Vigué, P. Sabatier Univ. |
Phase noise due to vibrations in Mach-Zehnder atom interferometers |
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Lunch Break |
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14:00 - 14:30 |
A. Lambrecht, LKB |
Short range tests of gravity and the Casimir effect |
14:30 - 15:00 |
M. Antezza, Trento Univ. |
Thermal effects of the Casimir forces on ultra-cold gases |
15:00 - 15:20 |
D. Vitali, Camerino Univ. |
Study of a quantum-limited force measurement through quantum Langevin equations |
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Coffee Break |
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15:50 - 16:20 |
P. Bender, JILA |
Requirements for measuring the gravitational time delay between drag-free spacecraft |
16:20 - 16:50 |
S. Schiller, Düsseldorf Univ. |
Proposal for a Gravity Explorer satellite mission |
16:50 - 17:20 |
P. Touboul, ONERA |
MICROSCOPE status, mission definition and recent instrument development |
17:20 - 17:50 |
A. Nobili, Pisa Univ. |
Galileo Galilei (GG) space experiment to test
the Equivalence Principle to 10-17: design, error budget and relevance of experimental results with the GGG prototype |
17:50 - 19:30 |
Round Table |
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19.30 |
Social Dinner |
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8:30 - 9:00 |
W. Bencze, Stanford Univ. |
Gravity Probe B: Testing General Relativity with orbiting gyroscopes |
9:00 - 9:30 |
H. Dittus, Bremen Univ. |
Is physics within the Solar System really understood? |
9:30 - 10:00 |
S. Klioner, Lohrmann Obs. |
Fundamental physics with Gaia |
10:00 - 10:20 |
M.T. Crosta,INAF |
General Relativistic Astrometry: The RAMOD project |
10:20 - 10:40 |
P. Delva, Paris Obs. |
Gravitational waves detectors based on matter wave interferometry |
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Coffee Break |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
J.Y. Vinet, OCA |
Two exotic uses of LISA |
11:30 - 11:50 |
C. Wang, Aberdeen Univ. |
Probing Plank scale physics, cosmic acceleration and Equivalence Principle using atom interferometry |
11:50 - 12:10 |
C. Nesvizhevsky, LL |
Studies of quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field |
12:10 - 12:30 |
S. Karshenboim, MPQ |
Conceptual problems in interpretation of searches for variation of fundamental constants and other 'new physics' |
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Lunch Break |
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13:50 - 14:20 |
S. Turyshev, JPL |
Progress in the laser-enabled tests of gravity in the Solar System |
14:20 - 14:40 |
P. Teyssandier, Paris Obs. |
General post-Minkowskian expansions of time delays and frequency shifts |
14:40 - 15:10 |
I. Ciufolini, Lecce Univ. |
Gravitomagnetism and its measurement |
15:10 - 15:30 |
C. Cantone, LNF |
The INFN-LNF Space Climatic Facility for the LARES mission and the ETRUSCO project |
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Coffee Break |
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15:50 - 16:20 |
M. Jaekel, LPT |
Pioneer anomaly and post-Einsteinian theory |
16:20 - 16:40 |
L. Iorio, Bari Univ. |
The Pioneer anomaly and the motion of the outer planets of the Solar System |
16:40 - 17:00 |
C. Trenkel, Imperial College |
GAUGE, a Cosmic Vision proposal: GrAnd Unification And Gravity Explorer |
17:00 - 17:30 |
B. Schutz, MPG |
LISA and its possible Successors |