Laboratory Cosmology: Table-top AMO for Fundamental Physics

Thursday, October 3, 2024 - 8:00am to Friday, October 4, 2024 - 6:00pm
60 Oxford St. Cambridge MA 02138 (Ory Forum - Room 301 A/B)

The focus of this workshop is on the emerging methods in atomic and molecular systems for tests of fundamental physics in the laboratory. Topics will include tabletop searches for dark matter and variations in fundamental constants, searches for permanent electric and nuclear dipole moments, tests of quantum electrodynamics through precision spectroscopy and atom interferometry, tests of short-range gravity and relativity, and precision comparisons between optical atomic and nuclear clocks.

Organizing Committee: 

Shimon Kolkowitz (UC Berkeley)
Andrew Jayich (UC Santa Barbara)
Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia University)

Lecturers: 

Invited Speakers:
Masha Baryakhtar (University of Washington)
Dan Carney (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Eric Cornell (JILA)
Dave DeMille (University of Chicago)
Andrei Derevianko (University of Nevada, Reno)
John Doyle (Harvard University)
Xing Fan (Northwestern University)
Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)
Saïda Guellati-Khélifa (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel)
Nick Hutzler (Caltech)
Igor Pikovski (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Piet Schmidt (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
Thorsten Schumm (TU Vienna)
Lindley Winslow (MIT)
Jun Ye (JILA)
Dylan Yost (Colorado State University)