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Past seminars

UNIVERSAL MATTER-WAVE INTERFEROMETRY: FROM ATOMS TO MASSIVE NANOPARTICLES

14 October 2020 Prof. Dr Markus  Arndt (Universität Wien)

LONG LIVED OPTICAL AND SPIN COHERENCES IN RARE EARTH DOPED NANOMATERIALS

11:00 AM  (CET) 20 October 2020. Prof. Dr PHILIPPE GOLDNER (Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris)

SEARCHING FOR “FIFTH-FORCES”, DARK MATTER, AND QUANTUM GRAVITY IN THE LAB

4:00 PM  (CET) 27 October 2020. Prof. Dr ANDREW GERACI (Northwestern University)

MATTER-WAVE INTERFEROMETERS  ON THE ATOM CHIP

4:00 PM  (CET) 10 November 2020. Prof. Dr RON FOLMAN (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF COHERENT QUANTUM GRAVITY

4:00 PM  (CET) 17 November 2020. Prof. Dr CRAIG HOGAN (Fermi lab, University of Chicago)

TERRESTRIAL GRAVITY FLUCTUATIONS AS FUNDAMENTAL SENSITIVITY LIMIT OF GW DETECTORS

4:00 PM  (CET) 24 November 2020. Prof. Dr JAN HARMS (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

POSSIBILITIES FOR PROBABILITIES AND REASONING ABOUT BOLTZMANN BRAINS​

4:00 PM  (CET) 26 November 2020. Prof. Dr DON N. PAGE (University of Alberta)

​QUANTUM FOUNDATIONAL EXPERIMENTS USING DIAMOND NV CENTERS

11:00 AM  (CET) 1 December 2020. Prof. Dr RONALD HANSON (University of Delft )

QUANTUM CONTROL OF LEVITATED SOLIDS: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON THE GRAVITY-QUANTUM INTERFACE

4:00 PM  (CET) 17 December 2020. Prof. Dr MARKUS ASPELMEYER (University of Vienna)

QUANTUM GRAVITY IN THE LAB: THE PERSPECTIVE OF A QUANTUM GRAVITY THEORIST

4:00 PM  (CET) 12 January 2021. Prof. Dr CARLO ROVELLI (Aix-Marseille University)

CAN WE SHOW THAT CMB ANISOTROPIES ARE OF QUANTUM-MECHANICAL ORIGIN?

4:00 PM (CET) 2 February 2021. Prof. Dr. JÉRÔME MARTIN (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

THE SMALL CORRECTIONS THEOREM

4:00 PM (CET) 23 February 2021. Prof. Dr. SAMIR D. MATHUR ( Ohio State University)

TOWARDS PRECISION PULSED LEVITATED OPTOMECHANICS IN A MAGNETO-GRAVITATIONAL TRAP

17:00 (CET) 23 March,   Prof. Dr. Brian R. D'Urso  (Montana State University)

TOWARDS QUANTUM SENSING WITH TABLE-TOP SCALE PENDULUM​

12:00 (CET) 16 March,   Prof. Dr Nobuyuki Matsumoto (Tohoku University, Japan )

COLD ATOMS IN MICROGRAVITY - THE ADVANTAGE OF FREE FALL FOR FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS

5:00 PM  (CET) 2 March 2021. Prof. Dr CLAUS LÄMMERZAHL (University of Bremen)

​​​MAGNETIC QUANTUM ENGINEERING OF LEVITATION SYSTEMS FOR SENSING AND TESTING OF QUANTUM GRAVITY

 11:00 (CET) April 6,  Prof. Dr. Jason Twamley  (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University)

Towards Macroscopic Quantum Physics with Levitated Particles

 17:00 (CET) May 4,  Prof. Dr. Oriol Romero-Isart (Austrian Academy of Sciences and University of Innsbruck)

DECOHERENCE IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND QUANTUM COSMOLOGY

 17:00 (CET) May 11,  Prof. Dr. Claus Kiefer ( University of Cologne)

Title: Quantum interferometry in the presence of time dilation

 17:00 (CET) May 18,  Prof. Dr. Igor Pikovski (Stockholm University)

Title: Displacemon electromechanics: an approach towards testing quantum interference using a tethered vibrating carbon nanotube

 17:00 (CET) May 25,  Prof. Dr. Edward Laird (Lancaster University)

Title: Quantum Frequency Interferometry: with applications ranging from gravitational wave detection to dark matter searches

 16:00 (CET) June 15 Prof. Dr. Ivette Fuentes (University of Southampton)

Title: Relativistic effects in macroscopically delocalized quantum superpositions

 16:00 (CET) June 22 Prof. Dr. Albert Roura (Institute of Quantum Technologies, German Aerospace Center (DLR))

Title: The SHAFT and CASPEr searches for ultralight axion-like dark matter using precision magnetometry and magnetic resonance”

 17:00 (CET) June 29,  Prof. Dr. Alex Sushkov (Boston University)

Title: Quantum information technologies and entanglement with trapped ions

 16:00 (CET) Feb 08, 2022,  Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (University of Mainz)

Title: Spacetime from atoms - an introduction to loop quantum gravity

 16:00 (CET) Feb 22,2022  Dr. Konstantin Eder (FAU, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Title: Strawman theories of gravity and experiments to knock them down
16:00 (CET) Mar 01,2022 Prof. Dr Jake Taylor (NIST)

Title: What about “Newtonian noise at Virgo and Einstein Telescope”?
08 March 2022 Prof. Dr Jahannes Van den Brand  (NIKHEF)

Title: Searching for Signatures of Quantum Gravity with Ultracold Quantum Gases 
15 March 2022 Prof. Dr Simon Haine (Australian National University)

Title: Quantum gravity from ordinary quantum systems
22 March 2022 Prof. Dr Juan Maldacena  (IAS, Princeton)

Title: Quantum interference of levitated nanorotors
19 April 2022 Prof. Dr Ben Stickler  (University of Duisburg-Essen)

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