Monday, 6th September |
Session I - Chair: Carlos Martins (CAUP) |
11:30 - 12:00 | Astrophysical Probes of Fundamental Physics Carlos Martins (CAUP) |
12:00 - 12:15 | Probing Dark Energy with Varying Fundamental Parameters Nelson Nunes (Heidelberg) |
12:15 - 12:45 | Varying Speed of Light and Cosmic Structure João Magueijo (Imperial) |
12:45 - 13:00 | Beyond Bekenstein's Theory Lucila Kraiselburd (La Plata) |
Session II - Chair: Wim Ubachs (Amsterdam) |
14:30 - 15:00 | Varying Fundamental Constants from Big Bang to Atomic Clocks Victor Flambaum (UNSW) |
15:00 - 15:30 | Experiments with Optical Clocks Based on Trapped Ions Ekkehard Peik (PTB) |
15:30 - 16:00 | Testing the stability of fundamental constants using LNE-SYRTE clock ensemble Sébastien Bize (Paris) |
Session III - Chair: João Magueijo (Imperial) |
16:30 - 17:00 | White Dwarf Constraints on Varying Constants Enrique Garcia-Berro (Barcelona) |
17:00 - 17:30 | Constraining the variation of fundamental physics with the cosmic microwave background Silvia Galli (APC) |
17:30 - 17:45 | The Variation of G in a Negatively Curved Space-time José Pedro Mimoso (Lisbon) |
17:45 - 18:00 | String Theory, Dark Energy and Varying Couplings Marco Zagermann (Hannover) |
Tuesday, 7th September |
Session IV - Chair: Patrick Petitjean (IAP) |
9:00 - 9:45 | New Analysis of a Large Sample of VLT Quasar Spectra for Varying Fine-structure Constant John Webb (UNSW) |
9:45 - 10:00 | The Value of the Fine-structure Constant over Cosmological Times Carlos Gutierrez (IAC) |
10:00 - 10:30 | Current State of μ Measurements Versus Cosmic Time Rodger Thompson (Steward Obs.) |
Session V - Chair: Rodger Thompson (Steward Obs.) |
14:30 - 15:00 | On the Variation of the Proton-to-electron Mass Ratio Wim Ubachs (Amsterdam) |
15:00 - 15:15 | Robust Limit on a Varying Proton-to-electron Mass Ratio from a Single H2 System Martin Wendt (Hamburg) |
15:15 - 15:30 | Sensitivity of Molecular Microwave Spectra to Varying Fundamental Constants Mikhail Kozlov (Petersburg Inst.) |
15:30 - 16:00 | Searching for Chameleon-like Scalar Fields Sergey Levshakov (Ioffe Inst.) |
Session VI - Chair: Paolo Molaro (Trieste) |
16:30 - 17:00 | Detection of 21cm, H2 and D Absorption at z>3 Along the Line of Sight of J1337+3152 Patrick Petitjean (IAP) |
17:00 - 17:15 | Cosmological Birefringence Sperello Di Serego Alighieri (Arcetri) |
17:15 - 17:45 | Future Facilities for Probing Fundamental Constants Paolo Molaro (Trieste) |
17:45 - 18:00 | Closing Remarks Carlos Martins (CAUP |