Colloquium

Testing the Equivalence Principle - From the basis of General Relativity to a key to Quantum Gravity

 

Palaiseau, 19 September 2011

 

 

Program

 

 

09:00 - 10:35 Theoretical Motivations for tests of the weak equivalence principle (WEP)

09:00 - 09:05 E. Rosencher: "Welcome"

09:05 - 09:35 T. Damour: "Theoretical Aspects of the Equivalence Principle"

09:35 - 10:05 C. Lämmerzahl: "On the meaning of the Equivalence Principle"

10:05 - 10:35 C. Cohen-Tannoudji: "Gravitational red shift. Atomic clocks versus atomic gravimeters"

11:00 - 12:20 Ways of testing WEP

11:00 - 11:20 J. Gundlach: "Torsion Balance Equivalence Principle Tests at the University of Washington"

11:20 - 11:40 T. Sumner: "The STEP and GAUGE missions"

11:40 - 12:00 E. Rasel: "Interferometry with matter waves in extended free fall"

12:00 - 12:20 A. Landragin: "Testing the equivalence principle with atom interferometry: the ICE experiment and the QUEST project"

13:20 - 15:05 Microscope: Status and Context

13:20 - 13:40 P. Touboul and G. Métris: "The WEP experiment of the MICROSCOPE mission"

13:40 - 13:55 H. Selig: "Free fall payload test environment and mission simulation"

13:55 - 14:10 D. Hagedorn: "Microscope Test Mass Fabrication - Challenges and Achievements"

14:10 - 14:25 A. Atzei: "The Gaia micro propulsion system and its application for Microscope"

14:25 - 14:45 H. Dittus: "From an experimental idea to a satellite"

14:45 - 15:05 S. Léon-Hirtz: "Microscope status at CNES"

15:30 - 17:00 Round table discussion