From Quantum to Cosmos

09:00 – 10:00 Registration and welcome coffee
10:00 – 10:15 Opening
10:15 – 12:30 SESSION: FROM QUANTUM TO COSMOS I
10:15 – 11:00 Precision spectroscopy of hydrogen
Theodor W. Hänsch – München, Germany
11:00 – 11:45 PLANCK and fundamental physics (pdf)
Jean-Loup PUGET – IAS, Orsay, France
11:45 – 12:30 High Accuracy Astrometry and fundamental physics with Gaia (pdf)
François MIGNARD – Lagrange, Nice, France
   
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
POSTER SESSION
14:00 – 19:00 SESSION: FROM QUANTUM TO COSMOS II
14:00 – 14:30 Fundamental physics in space: review and perspectives (pdf)
Richard BONNEVILLE – CNES, Paris, France
14:30 – 15:00 Fundamental physics in the ESA Program (pdf)
Luigi CACCIAPUOTI – ESA, Nordwijk, The Netherlands
15:00 – 15:30 ACES: Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (pdf)
Christophe SALOMON – LKB, Paris, France
15:30 – 15:50 The PHARAO Space Clock (pdf)
Philippe LAURENT – SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France
15:50 – 16:10 Data simulation and analysis for the ACES mission (pdf)
Pacôme DELVA – SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France
   
16:10 – 16:40 COFFEE BREAK
16:40 – 17:10 Novel Systematic Errors in Microwave Space Clocks and Optical-Lattice Clocks (pdf)
Kurt E. GIBBLE – Penn State University, University Park, USA
17:10 – 17:40 STE-QUEST Science (pdf)
Peter WOLF – SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France
17:40 – 18:10 Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in microgravity (pdf)
Ernst-Maria RASEL - Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany
18:10 – 18:30 SOC2: Towards Neutral-atom Space Optical Clocks (pdf)
Yeshpal SINGH et al – University of Birmingham, UK
18:30 – 18:50 An overview of NASA’s program for fundamental physics research in the ISS
Ulf ISRAELSSON – JPL, Pasadena, USA

 

 WEDNESDAY 16 OCTOBER 

 

09:00 – 13:00 SESSION: FROM QUANTUM TO COSMOS III
09:00 – 09:40 Gravitational Waves and Dynamics of Coalescing Binary Systems (pdf)
Thibault DAMOUR – IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette, France
09:40 – 10:10 The MICROSCOPE mission: two years before the launch (pdf)
Pierre TOUBOUL – ONERA, Palaiseau, France
10:10 – 10:30 Accurate measurements and calibrations of the MICROSCOPE mission (pdf)
Gilles METRIS – GéoAzur, Valbonne, France
10:30 – 10:50 A catapult tests for microgravity characterization of the MICROSCOPE accelerometers (pdf)
Manuel RODRIGUES – ONERA, Chatillon, France
   
10:50 – 11:10 COFFEE BREAK
11:10 – 11:40 EP with STEP and Alternative Theories of Gravity with LISAPF
Timothy SUMNER – Imperial College of London, UK
11:40 – 12:10 Integration time in space tests of the equivalence principle (pdf)
Anna NOBILI – University of Pisa, Italy
12:10 – 12:40 Quantum physics and the equivalence principle (pdf)
Claus LÄMERZAHL – ZARM, Bremen, Germany
12:40 – 13:10 ICE: Interferometry with Cold Atoms
Philippe BOUYER – LP2N, Bordeaux, France
   
13:10 - 14:00 LUNCH
   
 
14:00 – 18:30
 
 
Technical visit: THALES ALENIA SPACE
 
   
 
20:00 – 23:00
 
 
CONFERENCE DINNER HOTEL NEGRESCO
 

  THURSDAY 17 OCTOBER

09:00 – 12:30 SESSION: FROM QUANTUM TO COSMOS IV
09:00 – 09:40 Testing general relativity in the strong field regime (pdf)
Clifford M. WILL – University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
09:40 – 10:10 LISA Pathfinder
Stefano VITALE – University of Trento, Italy
10:10 – 10:30 Testing Lorentz invariance and fundamental constants with clocks and oscillators (pdf)
Michael TOBAR – University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
10:30 – 10:50 MAQRO: Matter-wave interferometry with massive objects in space
Rainer KALTENBAEK – University of Vienna, Austria
   
10:50 – 11:10 COFFEE BREAK
11:10 – 11:40 eLISA: opening a window on the gravitational universe (pdf)
Harry WARD – University of Glasgow, UK
11:40 – 12:10 The ESA-Euclid mission and precision cosmology (pdf)
Yannick MELLIER – Institut Astrophysique de Paris, France
12:10 – 12:30 Mini-STAR: a Small Kennedy-Thorndike Space Test Mission (pdf)
Sasha BUCHMAN et al – Stanford, USA
   
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
POSTER SESSION
14:00 – 17:40 SESSION: FROM QUANTUM TO COSMOS V
14:00 – 14:40 Gravitational constraints from planetary dynamics in the Solar System
Jacques LASKAR & Agnès FIENGA – IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France
14:40 – 15:10 Contributions of the Time Transfer by Laser Link (T2L2) experiment
Pierre EXERTIER – GéoAzur, Valbonne, France
15:10 – 15:30 The ACES – ELT laser link performance ground tests results and ps accuracy capability of time transfer in optical domain (pdf)
Ivan PROCHAZKA - Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
15:30 – 15:50 MoonLIGHT and SCF_Lab, laser ranging and altimetry to moons and planets (pdf)
Simone DELL’AGNELLO - INFN-LNF, Roma, Italy
   
15:50 – 16:10 COFFEE BREAK
16:10 – 16:40 General relativistic observables for the GRAIL mission
Slava G. TURYSHEV – JPL, Pasadena, USA
16:40 – 17:00 Status of GAP: an electrostatic accelerometer for interplanetary fundamental physics (pdf)
Françoise LIORZOU – ONERA, Chatillon, France
17:00 – 17:20 X-ray pulsar timing for deep space navigation and advanced space experiments
Setnam SHEMAR et al – NPL, Teddington, UK
17:20 – 17:40 Advanced Virgo (Title TBC) (pdf)
Jean-Yves VINET – ARTEMIS, Nice, France
17:40 – 17:50 Closing

 POSTERS SESSION 

1 - Solar wind test of the de Broglie-Proca's massive photon with Cluster
Alessandro SPALLICCI - CNRS-LPC2E, Orléans, France
2 - Self-consistent motion in radial fall
Alessandro SPALLICCI - CNRS-LPC2E, Orléans, France
3 - A compact and transportable cold atom interferometer for a test of weak equivalence principle
Pierre-Alain GOMINET – LP2N, Université de Bordeaux 1, France
4 - A relativistic origin for Einstein’s light quanta?
Christian BRACCO – ARTEMIS, Nice & Syrte, Paris, France
5 - From a laboratory experiment to a space mission
Astrid HESKE – ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
6 - Recent gravitational experiments with binary pulsars
Paulo FREIRE – Max-Planck-Institut, Bonn, Germany
7 - Long distance absolute laser ranging at the nanometer precision level: the two-mode interference measurement in the Iliade rangemeter
Duy-Hà PHUNG and Michel LINTZ – ARTEMIS, Nice, France
8 - Time of flight measurement at the micrometric level for the Iliade rangemeter
Etienne SAMAIN – GéoAzur, Caussols, France
9 - ISS fundamental Physics Activities at JPL? CAL, ACES, QTEST
Nan YU – JPL, Pasadena, USA
10 - Tests of gravitation beyond the PPN formalism
A. HEES – JPL, Pasadena, US