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Conference on Fundamental Symmetries and Fundamental Constants | (smr 1580)
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  • Wednesday, 15 September 2004
    • 08:00 - 09:00 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:00 Registration 1h0'
    • 09:00 - 09:10 Opening
      • 09:00 Opening 10'
    • 09:10 - 09:55 Constraints on the time variations of fundamental constants using QSO absorption lines
      • 09:10 Constraints on the time variations of fundamental constants using QSO absorption lines 45'
        Speaker: R. Srianand (IUCAA, India)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:55 - 10:30 Looking for time and space variations of the fine-structure constant
      • 09:55 Looking for time and space variations of the fine-structure constant 35'
        Speaker: C. Martins (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 20'
    • 10:50 - 11:25 Is there a time dependence of the QCD scale?
      • 10:50 Is there a time dependence of the QCD scale? 35'
        Speaker: H. Fritzsch (Munich U., Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:25 - 12:00 Effects of variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks
      • 11:25 Effects of variation of fundamental constants from Big Bang to atomic clocks 35'
        Speaker: V. Flambaum (New South Wales U., Australia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:35 Cosmological acceleration and possible oscillatory time-dependence of the fine-structure constant
      • 12:00 Cosmological acceleration and possible oscillatory time-dependence of the fine-structure constant 35'
        Speaker: Y. Fujii (Waseda U., Japan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:35 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:35 Lunch Break 1h55'
    • 14:30 - 15:05 Fundamental constants and Lorentz violation
      • 14:30 Fundamental constants and Lorentz violation 35'
        Speaker: R. Lehnert (Algarve U., Portugal)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:05 - 15:40 Wedding a 3-dimensional Chern-Simons term to 4-dimensional Einstein gravity
      • 15:05 Wedding a 3-dimensional Chern-Simons term to 4-dimensional Einstein gravity 35'
        Speaker: R. Jackiw (MIT, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:40 - 16:15 Time evolution of the electromagnetic coupling in accelerating universes
      • 15:40 Time evolution of the electromagnetic coupling in accelerating universes 35'
        Speaker: O. Bertolami (Lisbon, IST, Portugal)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:15 - 16:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 16:15 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:45 - 17:20 Aspects of varying speed of light theories
      • 16:45 Aspects of varying speed of light theories 35'
        Speaker: J. Magueijo (Imperial Coll., London, UK)
    • 17:20 - 17:55 Does double beta decay rate depend on time?
      • 17:20 Does double beta decay rate depend on time? 35'
        Speaker: A. Barabash (ITEP. Moscow, Russia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 18:00 - 20:00 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 18:00 RECEPTION 2h0'
  • Thursday, 16 September 2004
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Testing Lorentz symmetry
      • 09:00 Testing Lorentz symmetry 45'
        Speaker: R. Bluhm (Colby Coll., USA)
    • 09:45 - 10:20 Atomic clock tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry
      • 09:45 Atomic clock tests of Lorentz and CPT symmetry 35'
        Speaker: R. Walsworth (Harvard, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:55 New tests of Lorentz invariance in the photon sector using precision microwave oscillators
      • 10:20 New tests of Lorentz invariance in the photon sector using precision microwave oscillators 35'
        Speaker: M. Tobar (U. Western Australia, Australia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:55 - 11:20 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 10:55 Coffee Break 25'
    • 11:20 - 11:55 On the way to testing CPT with antihydrogen
      • 11:20 On the way to testing CPT with antihydrogen 35'
        Speaker: G. Bonomi (CERN, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:55 - 12:30 On the fate of Lorentz symmetry in quantum space-time
      • 11:55 On the fate of Lorentz symmetry in quantum space-time 35'
        Speaker: G. Amelino-Camelia (Rome 1 U., Italy)
    • 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Break
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:30 - 15:05 Synchrotron radiation in Lorentz-violating effective electrodynamics
      • 14:30 Synchrotron radiation in Lorentz-violating effective electrodynamics 35'
        Speaker: L. Urrutia (UNAM, Mexico)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:05 - 15:40 The CPT theorem and Lorentz covariance
      • 15:05 The CPT theorem and Lorentz covariance 35'
        Speaker: O. Greenberg (U. Maryland, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:40 - 16:10 Coffee Break
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:10 - 16:45 Aspects of CPT violation and its phenomenology
      • 16:10 Aspects of CPT violation and its phenomenology 35'
        Speaker: N. Mavromatos (King's Coll., London, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:45 - 17:20 Testing Planck scale Lorentz violations with high energy astrophysics
      • 16:45 Testing Planck scale Lorentz violations with high energy astrophysics 35'
        Speaker: S. Liberati (SISSA, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:20 - 17:55 Lorentz violation in supersymmetric theories
      • 17:20 Lorentz violation in supersymmetric theories 35'
        Speaker: M. Berger (Indiana U., USA)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Friday, 17 September 2004
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Laboratory tests of Newtonian gravity
      • 09:00 Laboratory tests of Newtonian gravity 45'
        Speaker: B. Heckel (Washington U., USA)
    • 09:45 - 10:20 Long-distance gravity and violation of Lorentz invariance
      • 09:45 Long-distance gravity and violation of Lorentz invariance 35'
        Speaker: V.A. Rubakov (INR, Moscow, Russia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:55 Universal dynamics of spontaneous Lorentz violation and a new spin-dependent inverse-square law force
      • 10:20 Universal dynamics of spontaneous Lorentz violation and a new spin-dependent inverse-square law force 35'
        Speaker: J. Thaler (Harvard U., USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:55 - 11:25 Coffee Break
      • 10:55 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:25 - 12:00 Gauge anomalies and extra dimensions
      • 11:25 Gauge anomalies and extra dimensions 35'
        Speaker: M. Shaposhnikov (Lausanne Ecole Poly., Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:35 Nontrivial topology and CPT violation
      • 12:00 Nontrivial topology and CPT violation 35'
        Speaker: F.R. Klinkhamer (U. Karlsruhe, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:35 - 14:35 Lunch Break
      • 12:35 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:35 - 15:10 Dark energy arising in string theory
      • 14:35 Dark energy arising in string theory 35'
        Speaker: E. Copeland (Sussex U., UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:10 - 15:45 A string theorist tampers with the laws of thermodynamics
      • 15:10 A string theorist tampers with the laws of thermodynamics 35'
        Speaker: K. Dienes (Arizona U., USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:45 - 16:20 Effective field theory and fundamental interactions
      • 15:45 Effective field theory and fundamental interactions 35'
        Speaker: I. Shapiro (Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora, Brazil)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 16:20 - 16:50 Coffee Break
      • 16:20 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:50 - 17:25 Aspects of non-commutative field theories
      • 16:50 Aspects of non-commutative field theories 35'
        Speaker: M. Chaichian (Helsinki U., Finland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 17:25 - 18:00 Baryon-antibaryon asymmetry as a Lorentz invariance violation effect
      • 17:25 Baryon-antibaryon asymmetry as a Lorentz invariance violation effect 35'
        Speaker: J. Gamboa (Santiago de Chile U., Chile)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Saturday, 18 September 2004
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Milli-charged particles
      • 09:00 Milli-charged particles 45'
        Speaker: R.N. Mohapatra (U. Maryland, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:45 - 10:20 Experimental check of the Pauli exclusion principle - the VIP experiment
      • 09:45 Experimental check of the Pauli exclusion principle - the VIP experiment 35'
        Speaker: C.O. Petrascu (LNF-INFN, Frascati, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:20 - 10:55 Mass varying neutrinos, neutrino oscillations and dark energy
      • 10:20 Mass varying neutrinos, neutrino oscillations and dark energy 35'
        Speaker: A. Nelson (Washington U., USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:55 - 11:25 Coffee Break
      • 10:55 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:25 - 12:00 Topological defects in theories with Lorentz violation
      • 11:25 Topological defects in theories with Lorentz violation 35'
        Speaker: M. Lubo (ICTP, Trieste)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:35 From classical to modern ether-drift experiments: a sharp test for a preferred frame
      • 12:00 From classical to modern ether-drift experiments: a sharp test for a preferred frame 35'
        Speaker: M. Consoli (INFN, Catania, Italy)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:35 - 14:35 Lunch Break
      • 12:35 Lunch Break 2h0'
    • 14:35 - 15:10 Relativistic invariance as a long distance effect
      • 14:35 Relativistic invariance as a long distance effect 35'
        Speaker: S. Randjbar-Daemi (ICTP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:10 - 15:30 Concluding Remarks
      • 15:10 Concluding Remarks 20'
        Speaker: G. Fiorentini (INFN, Ferrara)
        Material: lecture notes
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