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2002 NASA/JPL Workshop for Fundamental Physics in Space title

Preliminary Agenda
4/15/04

Monday, April 19
6 - 9 PM Pre-Registration - Hotel Lobby
 
Tuesday, April 20
Time Speaker Title
Session 1 Tuesday Morning John Wellman, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room New Directions for Fundamental Physics Research
8:30 Fred O'Callaghan
Manager, Astronomy & Fundamental Physics Office, JPL		 Welcome to the 2004 Fundamental Physics Workshop
8:45 Mark Lee
Enterprise Scientist, NASA HQs		 State of the Fundamental Physics Program
9:15 Ulf Israelsson
Program Scientist, JPL		 Reforming Fundamental Physics/Roadmap Progress
Break
10:00 Hiroto Kobayashi
Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency		 New Results from Fundamental Physics Research
10:20 Michael Nieto
Los Alamos Nat'l Lab		 Controlled Antihydrogen Propulsion for NASA's Future in Very Deep Space
Session 2 Tuesday Morning Humphrey Maris, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Magnetic Levitation for Exploration
10:40 Jim Valles
Brown University		 Magnetic Levitation-based Martian and Lunar Gravity Simulator
11:00 Charles Rosenblatt
Case Western Reserve University		 Temporal Measurements of Surfactant Squeeze-out Using Magnetically-levitated Liquid Bridges
11:20 Yuanming Liu
JPL		 Variable-Gravity Simulator at JPL
11:40 Attendees Discussion
Lunch (no host)
Session 3 Tuesday Afternoon-1 Bill Phillips, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Clocks for Navigation
1:30 Stephen Lichten
JPL		 Lunar/Mars Navigation and Telecom Systems: GPS and GPS-like Systems, and the Role of Precise Clocks
2:00 Kurt Gibble
Penn State University		 Atomic Clock Requirements for Precise Interplanetary Navigation
2:20 John Prestage
JPL		 Small Mercury Ion Clock for On-board Spacecraft Navigation
2:40 Bill Klipstein
JPL		 Options for Navigation at the Moon and at Mars
3:00 Konstatin Penanen
JPL		 A Superfluid Clock
3:20 Attendees Discussion
Break
Session 4 Tuesday Afternoon-2 Mark Kasevich, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Inertial Navigation and Resource Location Technologies
3:50 Mark Kasevich
Stanford University		 Inertial navigation using a cold-atom gyroscope
4:20 Nan Yu
JPL		 Cold-atom gravity gradiometer
4:40 Ho Jung Paik
University of Maryland		 Exploring the Moon and Mars with an orbiting superconducting gradiometer
5:00 Talso Chui
JPL		 Applied Superconductivity And Superfluidity For Exploration Of The Moon And Mars
5:20 Emile Hoskinson
University of California		 Development of Superfluid Interference Gyroscopes
5:40 Attendees Discussion
6:00 - 8:00 Session 5 - Poster Session Stockholm Room - Snacks and no-host bar (click here for details)
 
Wednesday, April 21
Time Speaker Title
Session 6 Wednesday Morning Melora Larson, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Research on the Moon and Mars-1
8:30 Jack Sandweiss
Yale University		 Searches for Strangelets
9:00 Vigdor Teplitz
Goddard Space Flight Center		 Seismic Search for Strange Quark Matter
9:30 Ho Jung Paik
University of Maryland		 Gravitational wave experiments on the Moon
10:00 Robert Duncan
University of New Mexico		 Self-organized Critical Phenomena near the Superfluid Transition
Break
Session 7 Wednesday Morning Melora Larson, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Research on the Moon and Mars-2
10:30 David Lee
Cornell University		 Lunar 3He - If and when?
10:50 Jens Gundlach
University of Washington		 Preparation for Space: Torsion Balance Fundamental Physics Experiments
11:10 Slava Turyshev
JPL		 The Lunar Astrometric Test of Relativity (LATOR) mission
11:30 Ken Nordtvedt
Northwest Analysis		 Orbit considerations for the LATOR mission
11:50 Ron Walsworth
SAO		 Low-field MRI for space explorers
12:10 Attendees Discussion
Lunch (no host)
Session 8 Wednesday Afternoon Don Strayer, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Results from Fundamental Physics Experiments-1
1:45 Pierre Meystre
University of Arizona		 Fermionic atom optics
2:05 Juha Javanainen
University of Connecticut		 Conversion of a degenerate Fermi gas into molecules in a Feshbach resonance
2:25 Randy Hulet
Rice University		 Conversion of an atomic Fermi gas to a molecular Bose gas
2:45 Erik Streed
MIT		 Recent results with ultracold gases
3:05 Murray Holland
JILA & University of Colorado		 Resonance superfluidity in dilute fermion gases
3:25 John Thomas
Duke University		 Hydrodynamics in a Degenerate, Strongly Attractive Fermi Gas
Break
Session 9 Wednesday Afternoon David Goodstein, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room Results from Fundamental Physics Experiments-2
4:00 Horst Meyer
Duke University		 Numerical simulations studies of the transient to steady convection in a supercritical fluid
4:20 David Lee
Cornell University		 Stabilization of High Concentrations of Deuterium and Nitrogen Atoms in Impurity-Helium Solids
4:40 Haruo Kojima
Pennsylvania State University		 Stress-driven Instability on the Solid 4He Surface
BANQUET
6:15 No-host bar Dining Room
7:00 Banquet Dining Room
8:00 Jim Erickson
JPL		 Results from the Mars Rover Exploration Mission
 
Thursday, April 22
Time Speaker Title
Session 10 Thursday Morning Talso Chui, Chair -- Oslo/Copenhagen Room SQUIDs and Other technologies
8:30 James Adams
Marshall Space Flight Center		 Radiation hazards and countermeasures for human space flight
9:00 Claudia Tesche
JPL		 Using MEG to Explore Issues in Psychology
9:30 Slava Turyshev
JPL		 Physics contributions to human health and to human life support
10:40 Talso Chui
JPL		 Development of SQUIDs for applications in exploration
Break
11:10 Michael Romalis
Princeton University		 Ultra-sensitive non-cryogenic magnetometer for space missions
11:30 Virendra Sarohia
JPL		 Bioengineered autonomous systems for exploration of space
11:50 Attendees Discussion


 
Poster Session Details
Name/Affiliation Title
Tom Adams, Design_net Space Flight Qualified SQUID Control and Readout Electronics for Monitoring Astronaut Health
Stephen Boyd, UNM Radiation Detection and Monitoring in Space with Low-Temperature Bolometric Techniques
Talso Chui, JPL High-Resolution Displacement Sensor Using SQUID Array Amplifier
Talso Chui, JPL Thermal and Quantum Mechanical Noise of a Superfluid Gyroscope
Talso Chui, JPL Using the Moon and Mars as a Giant Detectors for Strange Quark Nugget
Scott Diddams, NIST High Precision Optical Frequency Synthesis with Femtosecond Optical Frequency Combs
Rob Duncan, UNM Demonstration of an Ultra-Stable Cryogenic Platform with 25 pK/root-Hz Stability
Dan Heinzen, Texas New apparatus to search for an electron electric dipole moment
Sergi Jerebets, JPL Measurements of thermal conductivity of superfluid helium near its Tlambda in a 2-D confinement
Alex Kuzmich, GaTech Entangled atomic clock
Melora Larson, JPL The Legacy of the Low Temperature Microgravity Physics Facility
David Lee, Cornell Pulsed Electron Spin Resonance Spectrometer for Impurity-Helium Solids
John Lipa, Stanford Critical point of oxygen with gravity cancellation
John Lipa, Stanford Status of the SUMO experiment
Humphrey Maris, Brown Coalescence of Liquid Drops
Warren Nagourney, UW Optical Atomic Frequency Standards: Current Status and New Directions
Lois Pollock, Cornell Spatial distribution of competing ions around DNA in solution
Michael Romalis, Princeton Search for Lorentz violation using K-3He co-magnetometer
Dmitri Sergatskov, UNM A Robust, Fast, and Deterministic Spike-reduction Algorithm for Autonomous Real-time Control
Dmitri Sergatskov, UNM New Precision Feedback Controls for Low-Temperature Experiments
Slava Turyshev, JPL Laser Ranging to the Moon, Mars and Beyond
Peter Weichman, Alphatec Superfluid Transitions in Bosonic Atom-Molecule Mixtures Near Feshbach Resonance
Peter Weichman, Alphatec Theoretical Investigations of Near-Critcal Superfluid Dynamics
Li You, GaTech Quantum entanglement and correlation of Bose condensed atoms



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