Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics Experiments
Natural Sciences & Math

Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics Experiments

Center for Quantum Sensors Mini-Symposium (Hosted by Krawczynski)

7:30am Coffee and Bagels (Compton 241)

8:00am-8:15am Welcome, Henric Krawczynski (Wash. U.) & Tim Kovachy (Northwestern) (Compton 241)

8:15am-9:15am Matthew Robbins (U. Waterloo): Detecting Gravitational Waves with Bose-Einstein Condensates

9:20am-10:20am Xin Zheng (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Optical lattice clocks for tests of fundamental physics

10:25am-11:25am Timothy Kovachy (Northwestern): Gravitational Wave Detection and Dark Matter Searches with Atom Interferometry

11:30am-12:30pm Joel Ullom (NIST): Development of Quantum Sensors at NIST 

12:45pm-2:15pm Lunch

2:15pm-3:15pm Tour of Lab Facilities

3:30pm-4:30pm Lei Feng (UMD): Quantum Simulation of Hawking Radiation with Cold Atoms and  Current Activities at UMD

4:35pm-5:35pm Roger Fu (Harvard): Using a Quantum Diamond Microscope to Study Early Solar System Geomagnetism

5:35pm-6:00pm Discussion

7pm-9pm Dinner