Invited Speakers

Invited Speakers:

1. Prof. Dr. Hartmut Abele (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
   • TBD
2. Prof. Dr. Eric Adelberger (University of Washington, Department of Physics, USA) 
   • Torsion balance and lunar laser ranging tests of the equivalence principle
3. Prof. Dr. Markus Arndt (Universität Wien, Fakultät für Physik, Austria)
   •  Quantum interferometry enhanced measurements of molecular properties and external force fields
4. Prof. Dr. Rainer Blatt (Universität Innsbruck, Institut für Experimentalphysik,  Austria)
   •  Quantum entanglement and information processing with trapped ions
5. Prof. Dr. Christian Bordé (Laboratoire de physique des lasers - Université Paris-Nord, France)
   • 5D relativistic atom optics and interferometry. Implications for metrology and applications to gravito-inertial sensors
6. Prof. Dr. Philippe Bouyer (Laboratoire Photonique, Numérique et Nanosciences, Université Bordeaux, France)
   •  TBD 
7. Prof. Dr. Caslav Brukner (Universität Wien, Quantum Optics, Austria)
   • Tests with clocks, mirrors and Alice and Bob
8. Dr. Uwe Dorner (University of Oxford,Clarendon Laboratory, United Kingdom)
   •  Quantum frequency estimation with trapped ions and atoms 
9. Prof. Dr. Domenico Giulini (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany)
   • Quantum systems under Gravity
10. Prof. Dr. Daniel Greenberger (The City College of New York, Physics Department, USA)
    •  TBD
11. Prof. Dr. Michael Hohensee (University of California, Dep. of Physics, USA)
    • Quantum tests of gravity and metrology with matter-waves
12. Prof. Dr. Susana Huelga (Universität Ulm, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany)
    •  Quantum metrology in noisy environments
13. Dr. David Hume (Universität Heidelberg, Kirchoff Institut für Physik, Germany)
    • Relativistic measurements with quantum logic clocks
14. Prof. Dr. Mark Kasevich (Stanford University, Physics Department, USA)
    •  Precision atom interferometry 
15. Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer (Universität zu Köln, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany)
    • Quantum gravity - general introduction and recent developments
16. Dr. Carsten Klempt (Leibniz Universität Hannover,Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany)
    •  The generation of entangled matter waves 
17. Prof. Mikhail Lukin ( Harvard University, Department of Physics, USA)
    • TBD 
18. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Müller (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Erdmessung, Germany)
    •  Lunar Laser Ranging for testing the equivalence principle 
19. Prof. Dr. K. Nordtvedt (Montana State University, Bozeman, USA)
    • Energy, masses and equivalence in gravity
20. Dr. Roee Ozeri (Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Israel)
    •  Quantum lock-in amplifier 
21. Dr. Jorge Pullin (Louisiana State University, Theoretical Physics, USA)
    • Fundamental limitations in measurement and the structure of observable quantum mechanics
22. Prof. Dr. Achim Peters (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, AG Optische Metrologie, Germany) 
    •  TBD 
23. Prof. Dr. Serge Reynaud (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, France)
    •  Quantum time and mass observables
24. Prof. Dr. Christophe Salomon (Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)
    • Fundamental physics tests with space clocks
25. Dr. Augusto Smerzi (University of Florence and LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spektroscopy, Italy)
    •  Entanglement and distinguishability of quantum states
26. Prof. Dr. Guglielmo Tino (University of Florence and LENS (European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spektroscopy, Italy)
    • Testing gravity with atom interferometry
27. Dr. Sike Weinfurtner (SISSA, Astrophysics sector, Italien)
    • Measurement of stimulated Hawking emission in an analogue system
28. Prof. Dr. Christoph Wetterich (Universität Heidelberg, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Germany)
    • What can we infer from cosmology for the fundamental laws of physics
29. Prof. Dr. Reinhard Werner (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Theoretische Physik, Germany)
    • Detection time as a quantum observable
30. Prof. Dr. Samuel Werner (NIST, Gaithersburg, Physics Laboratory, USA)
    • Does a neutron know that the earth is rotating?
31. Prof. Dr. Clifford Will (Washington University, Physics Department, USA)
    • Principles of equivalence: An introduction
32. Dr. Peter Wolf ( SYRTE, Observatoire de Paris, France)
    • Tests of the Einstein equivalence principle: Clocks, atoms and macroscopic test-masses