Agenda - July 7, 2008

DAY ZERO - July 6, 2008 - Sunday
15:00 - 21:00	Registration
New Ideas for Fundamental Physics Research in Space - Slava G. Turyshev, JPL, Chair
Time	Speaker	Title
16:30 - 16:50	Slava G. Turyshev, JPL	Welcome, workshop objectives
16:50 - 17:15	Serge Reynaud, LKB	Testing general relativity in the solar system
17:15 - 17:40	Marie-Christine Angonin, SYRTE, Paris Observatory	The SAGAS Project
17:40 - 18:00	Sergei Kopeikin, U of Missouri-Columbia	Gravitational Physics of Reference Frames and Ranging Measurements
18:00 - 18:20	Varun Sahni, IUCAA, Pune, India	An Artificial Planetary System in Space (APSIS) to probe modifications to the inverse square law and the possible existence of extra dimensions
18:20 - 18:40	Quentin G. Bailey, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U	Gravitational experiments testing Lorentz symmetry
18:40 - 19:00	Tanmay Vachaspati, IAS, Princeton/CWRU, Cleveland	Cosmic Magnetic Fields and Baryogenesis
19:00 - 20:00	Dinner
DAY ONE - July 7, 2008 - Monday
07:30 - 08:30	Breakfast
08:00 - 17:00	On-site registration
Opening Session - Ulf E. Israelsson, JPL, Chair
Time	Speaker	Title
09:00 - 09:30	Jean Cottam Allen, OSTP	Keynote: Opening Address
09:30 - 10:00	Max Tegmark, MIT	Cosmology from space
10:00 - 10:30	Gary T. Horowitz, UCSB	The Remarkable Power of Einstein's Equation
10:30 - 10:55	Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:15	Binetruy Pierre, University Paris Diderot	European roadmap for fundamental physics in space
11:15 - 11:35	Craig Hogan, U of Washington	Measuring Indeterminacy of Quantum Geometry
11:35 - 12:05	Karsten Danzmann, AEI, Potsdam, Germany	LISA: Listening to the Universe with Gravitational Waves
12:05 - 12:30	Curt J. Cutler, JPL	LISA and Fundamental Physics
12:30 - 12:55	William J. Weber, Università di Trento and INFN	Ground testing of free-fall for LISA Pathfinder, LISA, and future space missions requiring high purity geodesic motion
12:55 - 14:00	Lunch Break
LISA and Fundamental Physics Research in Space - Eanna Flanagan, Cornell U, Chair
14:00 - 14:25	Lee Samuel Finn, PennState U	LISA: A Space-Based Gravitational Wave Probe of Fundamental Physics
14:25 - 14:50	Peter S. Shawhan, U of Maryland	Gravitational Wave Detection from the Ground Up
14:50 - 15:10	Richard Easther, Yale U	Gravitational Waves and the End of Inflation
15:10 - 15:35	Michael H. Salamon, NASA HQ	Fundamental Physics at NASA
15:35 - 16:00	Coffee Break
Testing Gravity with Laser Ranging and Optical Interferometry - Hansjoerg Dittus, ZARM, Chair
16:00 - 16:25	Thomas W. Murphy, UCSD	APOLLO: A Comprehensive Test of Gravity via Lunar Laser Ranging
16:25 - 16:50	Michael Shao, JPL	Technologies for Ultra Precise Distance and Angle Measurements in Space
16:50 - 17:15	Ignazio Ciufolini, U of Lecce, INFN, Italy	The accurate measurement of dragging of inertial frames using the LAGEOS satellites and the forthcoming LARES satellite
17:15 - 17:40	Peter Bender, JILA, U of Colorado	Measurement of the Gravitational Time Delay from L-1
17:40 - 18:05	Hamid Hemmati, JPL	Planetary Precision Laser-Ranging and High-Rate Lasercom
18:05 - 18:30	Nan Yu, JPL	Coherent Optical Transponder at Femto-Watt Light Levels
18:30 - 18:55	Benjamin Lane , Draper Laboratory, MIT	Beyond Einstein Advanced Coherent Optical Network (BEACON)
18:55 - 20:00	Dinner
Expansion of the Universe and Dark Energy - Alexander Kusenko, UCLA, Chair
20:00 - 20:30	Wolfgang Schleich, U of Ulm, Germany	Fundamental physics in space
20:30 - 21:00	Mark Kasevich, Stanford U	Gravity wave detection using atom interferometry
DAY TWO - July 8, 2008 - Tuesday
07:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
08:00 - 17:00	On-site registration
Dark Matter and Particle Physics - Curt J. Cutler, JPL, Chair
Time	Speaker	Title
08:30 - 09:00	Charles D. Dermer, NRL	Science with GLAST
09:00 - 09:20	Alexander Kusenko, UCLA	Dark matter research in space
09:20 - 09:40	Kev Abazajian, U of Maryland	Detecting the Dark Matter in the X-ray
09:40 - 10:00	Michael Loewenstein, GSFC	Search for Warm Dark Matter with Suzaku Observations of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
10:00 - 10:20	Harvey Gould, LBNL	Electron Electric Dipole Moment Experiments in Space
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break
Structure of the Universe, Dark Matter and Dark Energy - Richard Easther, Yale U, Chair
10:50 - 11:20	Gary Hinshaw, GSFC	5-year results from WMAP with a Glimpse Ahead
11:20 - 11:45	Benjamin D. Wandelt, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Fundamental Physics with Planck
11:45 - 12:10	Edward Shaya, U of Maryland	Dark Matter on 1-5 Mpc Scales
12:10 - 12:40	Vladimir Zharov, SAI, Moscow	Apparent motion of extragalactic radio sources
12:40 - 14:00	Lunch Break
Modified Gravity and Experiment - Claus Laemmerzahl, ZARM, Chair
14:00 - 14:20	Orfeu Bertolami, U Technico, Lisbon	The coupling of dark energy with Standard Model states
14:20 - 14:40	Stephen L. Adler, IAS, Pinceton	Can the flyby anomaly be attributed to earth-bound dark matter?
14:40 - 15:10	John Moffat, Perimeter Institute	Observationally verifiable predictions of modified gravity
15:10 - 15:30	Kenji Numata, U of Maryland, GFSC	DECIGO : The Japanese Space Gravitational Wave Antenna
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break
Gravitational Experiments in Space - Ephraim Fischbach, Purdue U, Chair
16:00 - 16:20	Robert D. Reasenberg, Harvard, CfA	A Sounding Rocket Test of the WEP
16:20 - 16:40	Ho Jung Paik, U of Maryland	SMART to Test the Equivalence Principle and the Inverse-Square Law
16:40 - 17:00	James Overduin, Stanford U	The Science Case for STEP
17:00 - 17:20	Sami Asmar, JPL	Instrumentation for Tests of General Relativity By the BepiColombo Mission
17:20 - 17:40	Robert Byer, Stanford U	Advances in LISA Technology
17:40 - 18:00	Neil Russell, U of North Michigan	Constraining spacetime torsion
18:00 - 18:20	Alvin J. Sanders, Oak Ridge National Laboratory	Was Woit GNORW?
18:30 - 19:30	Dinner
Q2C: Roadmap for the Next Decade I - Ulf E. Israelsson, JPL, Chair
19:30 - 19:50	Michael H. Salamon, NASA HQ	Decadal process
19:50 - 20:10	Moshe Pniel, JPL	Programmatic realities for the Decadal
20:10 - 20:25	Slava G. Turyshev, JPL	Exploring gravity with laser-ranging and optical interferometry
20:25 - 20:40	Ho Jung Paik, U of Maryland	Exploring gravity with proof-mass technologies
20:40 - 20:55	Nan Yu, JPL	Fundamental physics with clocks and atom interferometry
20:55 - 21:10	Robert V. Duncan, U of NM	Condensed matter physics and technologies in space
21:10 - 21:30	Summary and discussion	All participants: Q2C: Roadmap for the Next Decade
DAY THREE - Wednesday, July 9, 2008
07:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
08:00 - 11:00	On-site registration
Clocks and Fundamental Physics - Nan Yu, JPL, Chair
Time	Speaker	Title
08:30 - 08:55	Victor Flambaum, U of Sydney	Variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks: theory and observations
08:55 - 09:20	Christophe Salomon, ENS, France	The ACES Mission and Fundamental Physics
09:20 - 09:40	John Prestage, JPL	Developments in Compact Hg Microwave Ion Clocks for Fundamental Physics in Space
09:40 - 10:10	Leo W. Hollberg, NIST, Boulder	Optical Atomic Clocks: Ready for Space?
10:10 - 10:30	John E. Kitching, NIST	Chip-Scale Atomic Devices for Space
10:30 - 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:30	Patrick Gill, NPL, UK	Opportunities for space-based experiments using optical clock and comb technology
11:30 - 11:50	Scott Diddams, NIST	Combing through space: Precision Optical Frequencies for Astronomy
11:50 - 12:10	Jan W. Thomsen, JILA, NIST, U of Colorado	High accuracy 87Sr atomic lattice clock for laboratory measurements of alpha variation
12:10 - 12:30	Kurt E. Gibble, Penn State	Probing Ultra-Cold Atom-Atom Interactions with Atomic Clock Accuracy
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch Break
Atom Interferometry in Space - Wolfgang Ertmer, Max Plank Institue for Quantum Optics, Chair
14:00 - 14:20	Philippe Bouyer, Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique	ICE: Towards a UFF test with ultra cold atoms in microgravity
14:20 - 14:40	Erika D'Ambrosio, INFN, Florence, Italy	Quantum superposition of test-masses to probe general relativity
14:40 - 15:00	Guglielmo Tino, U of Florence, Italy	Precision Experiments on Gravity by Atom Interferometry
15:00 - 15:20	Sasha Buchman, Stanford U	STAR Space Time Asymmetry Research
15:20 - 15:50	Coffee Break
Astrophysics in Strong Gravity Fields - Neil Russell, U of North Michigan, Chair
15:50 - 16:20	Tod E. Strohmayer, GFSC	Neutron Star Fundamental Physics with Constellation-X
16:20 - 16:40	Chris Reynolds, U of MD	Black Hole Physics with Constellation-X
16:40 - 17:00	Deepto Chakrabarty, MIT	Determining the Equation of State of Ultradense Matter with the Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR)
Analog Physical Phenomena and physics on the ISS - Konstantin Penanen, JPL, Chair
17:00 - 17:20	Brad Carpenter, NASA HQ	The ISS National Laboratory and the Future of Research in Space
17:20 - 17:40	Mark Lee, NASA HQ	Fundamental Physics on Space Shuttle and ISS
17:40 - 18:00	Friedrich Koenig, St. Andrews U, UK	Fiber-optical analogue of the event horizon
18:00 - 18:20	George Pickett, U of Lancaster, UK	Superfluid Helium-3: A Tabletop Universe
18:20 - 18:40	Robert V. Duncan, U of NM	Cosmology Model Tests Using Quantum Fluids
18:40 - 19:00	Inseob, Hahn, JPL	Critical phenomena in microgravity
19:00 - 20:00	Dinner
Emerging Technologies - Philippe Bouyer, Laboratory C. Fabry, Optics Institute, Chair
20:00 - 20:40	Wolfgang Ertmer, MPI QO	Quantum Sensors on Ground and in Space
20:40 - 21:00	TBD	TBD
DAY FOUR - Thursday, July 10, 2008
07:30 - 8:30	Breakfast
08:00 - 11:00	On-site registration
Gravitational & Astrophysics Experiments in Space - Robert D. Reasenberg, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Chair
Time	Speaker	Title
08:30 - 09:00	Eanna Flanagan, Cornell U	Difficulties inherent in terrestial tests of post-Newtonian gravity
09:00 - 09:20	Eckehard W. Mielke, U Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico	Toroidal halos in a BEC type scalar model of dark matter
09:20 - 09:40	Andrej Cadez, University in Ljubljana, Slovenia	Tidal potential energy release before plunging into a black hole
09:40 - 10:00	Ephraim Fischbach, Purdue U	Possible Detection of Neutrinos from Solar Flare
10:00 - 10:20	Talso Chui, JPL	Seismic Search for Strange Quark Nuggets and/or other Unknown Massive Particles - a Secondary Science Objective for Lunar Exploration
10:20 - 10:40	Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00	Claus Laemmerzahl, ZARM	Space and Mathematics
11:00 - 11:20	Anna Nobili, U of Pisa, Italy	"Galileo Galilei" (GG) to Test the Equivalence Principle in Space: Improvements with the Laboratory Prototype
11:20 - 11:40	Yoshiyuki Takahashi, U of Alabama	Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) on board Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of ISS and the quest of highest energy universe
11:40 - 12:00	Steven R. Majewski, U of Virginia	Exploring Local Dark Matter with the Space Interferometry Mission
12:00 - 12:30	Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, U of Rome La Sapienza	Planck-scale physics in space
Q2C: Roadmap for the Next Decade II - Slava G. Turyshev, JPL, Chair
12:30 - 13:00	Israelsson, Turyshev, JPL	All participants: Q2C: Roadmap for the Next Decade - Closing remarks
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch Break