Monday, April 14
Time	Speaker	Title
8:30	Fred O'Callaghan Manager, Astronomy & FP Program Office, JPL	Welcome
8:40	Eugene Trinh Director, Physical Sciences Research, NASA HQs	Changes in the Physical Sciences Research Program
8:50	Mark Lee Fundamental Physics Enterprise Scientist, NASA HQs	Status of the Fundamental Physics Program
9:20	Ulf Israelsson Discipline Scientist, Fundamental Physics, JPL	New Focus for Fundamental Physics Means New Plans
Break
10:30	Melora Larson JPL	Status of the Low Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility
10:50	Wolfgang Ketterle, MIT	Experiments With Quantum-Degenerate Fermionic Lithium Atoms
11:20	Rob Duncan University of New Mexico	Nonlinear Dynamics of the Superfluid Transition: What May We Learn On Orbit?
11:50	Lute Maleki JPL	Experimental Investigations Of The Electromagnetic Vacuum: Can We Weigh The Vacuum?
Lunch
1:30	Ulf Israelsson Discipline Scientist for Fundamental Physics, JPL	Group Discussion of a New Roadmap for Fundamental Physics
3:00	Kurt Gibble Penn State University	Progress on RACE
3:20	Horst Meyer Duke University	Characteristic Times in the Transient to Convection in a Very Compressible Fluid
3:40	Marty Barmatz JPL	Theoretical Analysis of Thermodynamic Measurements Near a Liquid-Gas Critical Point
Break
4:30 - 6:30	Poster Session
Alan Kostelecky Indiana University Sensitive Tests of Lorentz Invariance Scott Diddams NIST-Boulder Femtosecond Laser-based Optical Synthesizers Enrico Lorenzini Harvard-Smithsonian Observatory Testing The Equivalence Principle in an Einstein Elevator: Detector Dynamics & Gravity Perturbations Raymond Newell University of Wisconsin-Madison Evaporative Cooling in a Holographic Atom Trap Inseob Hahn JPL Measurements of the Coexistence Curve Near the Liquid-Gas Critical Point of He-3 Moses H. W. Chan Penn State University Quartz Microbalance Study of 400 Angstrom Thick Helium Film Near the Lambda Point Hung Quach JPL Metglas 2714A for Low Temperature Transformer Core and EMI Filter Konstanin Penanen JPL Thermally Driven Josephson Effect David Lee Cornell University Magnetic Studies of Impurity Helium Solids Joe Rudnick UCLA Progress in Developing a New Field-Theoretical Crossover Equation-of-State Colin Green UNM Precise heater control with rf-biased Josephson junctions Marty Barmatz JPL Progress in the Development of a New Field-Theoretical Crossover Equation-of-State Fang Zhong JPL Measurement of Specific Heat Using a Gravity Cancellation Approach Mark Weilert JPL A 2-D Piston Effect Solution for the Relaxation in the MISTE Cell

 

Tuesday, April 15
Time	Speaker	Title
8:30	Harvey Gould LBNL	Microgravity Electron Electric Dipole Moment Experiment with a Cold Atom Beam
8:50	Moses Chan Penn State University	Measurement of critical adsorption of nitrogen near its liquid-vapor critical point
9:20	Lois Pollock Cornell	Fundamental interactions in macromolecular folding
Break
10:30	Efstratios Manousakis Florida State University	Numerical studies of properties of confined Helium
10:50	Neal Ashby University of Colorado	Science Goals of the Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space (PARCS) Experiment
11:20	Randy Hulet Rice University	Fermion Superfluidity
11:40	Ho Jung Paik University of Maryland	ISLES: Probing extra dimensions using a superconducting accelerometer
Lunch
2:00	Ulf Israelsson Discipline Scientist, Fundamental Physics, JPL	Group Discussion of Free-Flyer Satellites for Fundamental Physics
3:00	David Ceperley University of Illinois	Superfluidity in a Doped Helium Droplet
3:20	John Lipa Stanford University	Microwave Cavity Clocks On Space Station
Break
4:00	Talso Chui JPL	Fluctuations of the Phase Difference across an Array of Josephson Junctions in Superfluid He-4
4:20	Gary Williams UCLA	Vortex Loops at the Superfluid Lambda Transition: An Exact Theory?
4:40	Al Sanders University of Tennessee	Prospects for Measurement of (G-dot)/G at ~10^-14/yr
5:00	Slava Turyshev JPL	LATOR: New mission concept to enable precision tests of relativity in space
7:30	Worksop Banquet	Banquet Speaker: TBD

 

Wednesday, April 16
Time	Speaker	Title
8:40	Dave Brinza JPL	Engineering Developments for the Primary Atomic Reference Clock in Space (PARCS) Experiment
9:00	Weijen Yao Brown University	Coalescence of Liquid Drops
9:20	Slava Turyshev JPL	Improving the Accuracy of Lunar Laser Ranging Tests of Gravitational Theory: Modeling and Future Directions
9:40	Jason Ho Ohio State University	Fast Rotating Scalar and Multi-Component Bose Gases
10:00	Sergei Kopeiken University of Missouri-Columbia	General Relativistic Theory of the VLBI Time Delay in the Gravitational Field of Moving Bodies
Break
10:50	Richard Lee Caltech	Heat Capacity Measurements of the Self-Organised/Superfluid Two Phase State in liquid He-4
11:10	Mike Gehm Duke University	Universal Dynamics of a Strongly-Interacting Fermi Gas
11:30	Jim Valles Brown University	Probing Gravitational Sensitivity in Biological Systems Using Magnetic Body Forces
11:50	Edward Fomalont NRAO	Measurement of the Aberration of Gravity Using Jupiter's Motion
12:10	Dimitri Sergatskov UNM	New propagating mode near the superfluid transition in He-4

Last Updated: 04/07/03