Schedule

Monday, July 14

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic
 9:00 - 10:00 Registration  
 10:00 - 11:00 Victor FlambaumIntroduction
 11:00 - 12:00 Maxim PospelovReview of Models
 12:00 - 2:00 Justin KhouryChameleon Theories
 1:00 - 2:40 Lunch
 2:40 - 3:20 Michael Murphy

Quasar absorption line constraints on variable fundamental constants

 3:20 - 4:00 Raghunathan SrianandProbing the variation of fundamental constants using QSO absorption lines
 4:00 Discussion and Coffee 

 


Tuesday, July 15

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic
 9:30 - 10:10 Mikhail KozlovLimits on variation of fundamental constants from microwave and infrared transitions in atoms and molecules
 10:00 -10:50 A.V. IvanchikTesting the m_p/m_e cosmological variation from H_2 lines in High-Redshift QSO spectra
 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee Break 
 11:20 - 12:00 Wim UbachsIn search for mu-variation: laboratory spectroscopy and astronomical observations of molecular hydrogen
 12:00 - 12:40 Federico Piazza Coupling variations and equivalence principle violations in string inspired scenarios
 12:40 - 2:40 Lunch
 2:40 - 3:20 Nelson NunesReconstructing the evolution of dark energy with the variaton of fundamental parameters
 3:20 - 4:00 Lee Smolin How to test Multiverse Theories
 4:00 Discussion and Coffee


Wednesday, July 16

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic
 9:30 - 10: 10 Julian Berengut

Hadronic Mass Variation in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

 10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break
 10:40 - 11:20 Savely KarshenboimConceptual problems in phenomenological interpretation in searches for variation of constants and violation of various invariances
 11:20 - 12:00 Ekkehard Peik

Laboratory search for temporal variations of fundamental constants with optical clocks

 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

 2:00 - 2:40 Michael TobarPrecision microwave oscillators and interferometers to test Lorentz Invariance and Local Position Invariance
 2:40 -  3:20 James Bergquist

 

 3:20 - 3:50 Coffee Break  
 3:50 - 4:30 Jan ThomsenHigh accuracy 87Sr atomic lattice clock for laboratory measurements of alpha variation
 6:00 Conference Dinner  


Thursday, July 17

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic
 9:30 - 10:10 Julian King

Stringent constraint on variation in mu from three quasar spectra

 10:10 - 10:40 Coffee Break 
 10:40 - 11:20 Dmitry DudkerSearch for temporal variation of \alpha in radio-frequency transitions of atomic dysprosium
 11:20 - 12:00 Eric Hudson

Enhanced Sensitivity to Variation of me/mp in Molecular Spectra

 12:00 - 2:00 Lunch

 2:00 - 2:40 Hidetoshi KatoriOptical lattice clocks with bosonic/fermionic Sr and with the other atomic elements
 2:40 - 3:20 John F. DonoghueNuclear binding and the light quark masses – Dynamics and constraints
 3:20 - 3:50 Coffee Break  
 3:50 - 4:30 Thomas Dent Recent and Local Variations and Unified Models


Friday, July 18

 TimeSpeaker or EventTopic
 9:30 - 10:10 Rishi Khatri

21 cm radiation: A new probe of fundamental physics

 10:10 - 10:40 Neil Weiner 
 10:40 - 11:20 Coffee Break
 11:20 - 12:00 Justin Torgerson

Search for temporal variation of \alpha in radio-frequency transitions of atomic dysprosium

 12:00 Lunch

 
 
 
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