ACES Workshop

Fundamental and applied science
with clocks and cold atoms in space

University Zurich, Switzerland — June 29 & 30, 2017

Programme

We are happy to announce the final program. Please note that small last minute changes might still be possible, this page however will always represent the latest version.

All the talks will take place in Zurich at University Irchel, in lecture room Y15-G-20. You can find directions here.

Final Program - List

Thursday 29th of June 2017

  • 08:00 – 08:45: Registration opens
  • 08:45 – 09:00: Welcome talk
  • Chair: U. Schreiber

  • 09:00 – 09:30: C. Salomon ‹ ACES Scientific Objectives - From fundamental physics tests to time and frequency metrology ›
  • 09:30 – 10:00: L. Cacciapuoti ‹ ACES Mission Status ›
  • 10:00 – 10:30: C. Laemmerzahl ‹ Status of Experimental Gravity ›
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 – 11:30: P. Wolf ‹ ACES MWL data processing center at SYRTE ›
  • 11:30 – 12:00: K. Gibble ‹ Accuracy Evaluation of PHARAO: the Microwave Lensing, Cavity Phase, and Collision Frequency Shifts ›
  • 12:00 – 12:30: C. Guerlin ‹ New constraints on Lorentz symmetry with nucleons in a Cs fountain and perspectives for the ACES mission ›
  • 12:30 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • Chair: L. Cacciapuoti

  • 14:00 – 14:30: S. Capozziello ‹ Constraining models of extended gravity using Gravity Probe B and LARES experiments ›
  • 14:30 – 15:00: J. Flury ‹ Clock networks and relativistic geodesy ›
  • 15:00 – 15:30: H. Schnatz ‹ Progress towards a European metrological fiber network: current status and prospects ›
  • 15:30 – 16:00: U. Schreiber ‹ Delay compensated Optical Time and Frequency Distribution for Space Geodesy ›
  • 16:00 – 16:30: Coffee Break
  • 16:30 – 16:50: P. Delva ‹ Galileo gravitational Redshift test with Eccentric sATellites (GREAT) ›
  • 16:50 – 17:10: S. Seidel ‹ Creating the First Bose-Einstein Condensate in Space ›
  • 17:10 – 17:30: P. Exertier ‹ Optical Laser Time Transfer for accurate Clocks in Space ›
  • 17:30 – 17:50: L. Lusanna ‹ Relativistic Celestial Metrology: Dark Matter as an Inertial Gauge Effect ›
  • 17:50 – 18:10: A. Spallicci ‹ Clocks and cold atoms for testing electromagnetism ›
  • 18:10 – 18:30: T. Kalaydzhyan ‹ Searching for dark matter with atomic clocks in space ›
  • 19:30 – 22:30: Dinner

Friday 30th of June 2017

    Chair: P. Wolf

  • 08:30 – 09:00: M. Rodrigues ‹ Preliminary results of MICROSCOPE mission ›
  • 09:00 – 09:30: H. Pihan-Le Bars ‹ Testing Lorentz symmetry from space with MICROSCOPE ›
  • 09:30 – 10:00: S. Schiller ‹ Mission I-SOC: an optical clock on the ISS ›
  • 10:00 – 10:30: R. Hutson ‹ Next generation optical lattice clocks ›
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break
  • 11:00 – 11:20: M. Heß ‹ ACES Development and Integration Status  ›
  • 11:20 – 11:40: I. Prochazka ‹ Recent achievements in photon counting laser time transfer ›
  • 11:40 – 12:00: J. Kodet ‹ Optical Time Transfer and its Impact on System Biases ›
  • 12:00 – 12:20: S. Marz ‹ Simulation study on ELT time transfer ›
  • 12:20 – 12:40: J. Eckl ‹ Ground station requirements for optical Time Transfer ›
  • 12:40 – 14:00: Lunch Break
  • Chair: Ch. Salomon

  • 14:00 – 14:20: S. Bauer ‹ GFZ Potsdam contributions to ELT ›
  • 14:20 – 14:40: S. Shemar ‹ ACES microwave link-related activities at the National Physical Laboratory ›
  • 14:40 – 15:00: M. Siciliani de Cumis ‹ ASI activities for space quantum communication and metrology ›
  • 15:00 – 15:20: A. Schlicht ‹ ACES from the viewpoint of geodesy ›
  • 15:20 – 15:40: Coffee Break
  • 15:40 – 16:00: M. Lezius ‹ Frequency combs in space: Design considerations, recent experiments, and future applications  ›
  • 16:00 – 16:20: M. Tobar ‹ Progress at UWA for Participation in ACES ›
  • 16:20 – 16:50: Discussion and final remarks

Final Program - Schedule

Conference Dinner

The dinner will take place in LaSalle, Zurich.