Program
| Time |
Event |
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09:30 - 10:00
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Welcome and coffee |
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10:00 - 10:10
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Welcome - Pierre Touboul |
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10:10 - 12:10
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Session 1 - G. Metris |
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| 10:10 - 10:50 |
› Microscope – Testing the Weak Equivalence Principle in Space - Pierre Touboul, Onera - The French Aerospace Lab |
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| 10:50 - 11:30 |
› The MICROSCOPE data tree for science analysis - Manuel Rodrigues, Onera - The French Aerospace Lab |
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| 11:30 - 12:10 |
› The Equivalence Principle and the Origin of Mass - Thibault Damour, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques |
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12:10 - 13:30
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Lunch |
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13:30 - 15:30
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Session 2 - S. Leon-Hirtz |
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| 13:30 - 14:10 |
› Kelvin probe force microscopy of metallic surfaces used in Casimir force measurements - Serge Reynaud, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel |
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| 14:10 - 14:50 |
› Satellite gravity : a probe on Earth's system dynamics - Isabelle Panet, IGN |
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| 14:50 - 15:30 |
› Fundamental Physics in the Framework of DLR´s Research and Technology Programme - Hansjoerg Dittus, German Aerospace Center |
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15:30 - 15:50
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Coffee break |
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15:50 - 18:00
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Session 3 - P. Fayet |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 |
› Fundamental Physics at CNES - Sylvie Leon-Hirtz, Centre National des Etudes Spatiales |
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| 16:10 - 16:50 |
› Retrieval of Thermosphere density and wind from space-borne accelerometry - activities at TU Delft - Petrus Visser, Delft University of Technology |
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| 16:50 - 17:30 |
› LISAPF flight through the saddle point - Timothy Sumner, Imperial College London |
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| 17:30 - 18:00 |
› MICROSCOPE as a test of Lorentz invariance and neutrino physics - Ephraim Fischbach, Purdue University |
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18:15 - 19:15
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SWG meeting (permanent and invited members of the SWG) |
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014
| Time |
Event |
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09:00 - 10:30
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Session 4 - H. Dittus |
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| 09:00 - 09:30 |
› Testing Lorentz symmetry with MICROSCOPE - Jay Tasson, St. Olaf College |
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| 09:30 - 10:00 |
› Constraining screening mechanisms with MICROSCOPE - Joel Bergé, ONERA |
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| 10:05 - 10:30 |
› Cold damping in Microscope : a quantum thermodynamical analysis of noise. - Jean-Michel Courty, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel |
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10:30 - 10:50
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Coffee break |
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10:50 - 11:50
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Session 5 - P. Visser |
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| 10:50 - 11:20 |
› Testing environmental disturbances in precision accelerometry onboard low Earth orbiters - Jakob Flury, Leibniz Universität Hannover [Hannover] |
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| 11:20 - 11:50 |
› Measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect with MICROSCOPE - Quentin Baghi, Département de Mesures Physiques |
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11:50 - 12:30
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Discussion |
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12:30 - 14:00
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Lunch |
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14:00 - 15:40
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Session 6 - T. Sumner |
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| 14:00 - 14:25 |
› Data analysis of equivalence principle test in space: advantage of measurements in 2D and sensitivity of the laboratory prototype - Anna M. Nobili, University of Pisa, Department of Physics "E. Fermi" |
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| 14:25 - 14:50 |
› Space environment simulations and free fall tests for MICROSCOPE - Hanns Selig, Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity - University of Bremen |
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| 14:50 - 15:15 |
› Variations of a grand gravitational theme: Dynamics, Equivalence Principle, Universality of Free Fall and the Principle of Relativity - CS Unnikrishnan, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research |
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| 15:15 - 15:40 |
› Testing Modified Gravity with Neutrons - Philippe Brax, Institut de Physique Theorique |
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15:40 - 16:00
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Coffee and end of the colloquium |
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16:00 - 16:30
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SWG meeting (permanent and invited members of the SWG) |
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