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GAUGE Workshop 14th November 2006

The GAUGE Workshop will be held at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) on 14th November 2006.

This will be a one-day meeting and the aims will be:

  • review the scientific motivations for the various experiment themes
  • review experiment concepts
  • review our team structure
  • agree proposal preparation plans

 Please follow the appropriate links for further information regarding how to get to RAL and accommodation.


Meeting Agenda

10:00 Welcome (RB)
10:15 Purpose of Meeting (RB)
10:30 Fundamental Physics within ESA (TJS)
11:00 Discussion on ESA strategy (All)
11:30 Coffee
11:50 Probing Fundamental Physics including Planck Scale Physics and Equivalence Principle using Matter Wave Interferometry (CWang)
12:10 Potential science mission opportunities for relativity and fundamental constants with cold atom and ion clocks (HM)
12:40 Mass-spin coupling experiments (CT)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Quantum sensors for fundamental tests and applied sciences (ER)
14:30 EP-G-1/r^2 input from previous studies/proposals (TBA on behalf of NL)
15:00 Activities at ZARM (HD)
15:20 Coffee
15:40 GP-B Lessons (GG)
16:00 STEP within the US (TL)
16:20 LISAPF and STEP within Astrium (CWarren)
16:00 Discussion and Actions
17:00 End

Participants   

Karen Aplin RAL    K.L.Aplin@rl.ac.uk
Bob Bingham RAL R.Bingham@rl.ac.uk
Hansjoerg Dittus ZARM, University of Bremen dittus@zarm.uni-bremen.de
Gaylord Green Stanford University gaylord@relgyro.stanford.edu
Christian Jentsch
Ulrich Johann EADS, Germany Ulrich.Johann@astrium.eads.net
Hugh Klein NPL hugh.klien@npl.co.uk
Frank Loeffler PTB Frank.Loeffler@ptb.de
Tony Lyons Marshall Space Flight Center Tony.Lyons@nasa.gov
Helen Margolis NPL helen.margolis@npl.co.uk
Tito Mendonca titomend@ist.utl.pt
Ernst Rasel Leibniz University rasel@iqo.uni-hannover.de
Mike Sandford RAL m.sandford@lineone.net
Andrea Sondag ZARM, University of Bremen sondag@zarm.uni-bremen.de
Tim Sumner Imperial College London t.sumner@imperial.ac.uk
Calum Torrie Glasgow University c.torrie@physics.gla.ac.uk
Christian Trenkel    Imperial College London  c.trenkel@imperial.ac.uk
Charles Wang   Aberdeen University   c.wang@abdn.ac.uk
Carl Warren EADS, UK      Carl.WARREN@astrium.eads.net
Adam Woodcraft   ATC   alw@roe.ac.uk

                                                  
                                       
Apologies:
Wolfgang Ertmer
Patrick Gill
Phillipe Jetzer
Nick Lockerbie
Colin Pegrum
Christophe Salomon
Pierre Touboul
Stefano Vitale
Wolfgang Vodel

For any further information please contact Professor Tim Sumner Imperial College London Tel: 020 7594 7552
or CfFP Secretary (RAL) Niki Legge Tel: 01235 44 5621

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