Schedule for BIGG

Newtonian Constant of Gravitation Workshop - Schedule

THURSDAY, October 9, 2014 Building 101, Lecture Room B

8:30-9:00

REGISTRATION

9:00-9:10

Welcome

9:10-9:35

David Newell (NIST):  CODATA and Fitting Big G

9:35-10:00

Carl Williams (NIST): Setting the Stage: Is a Big G Consortium the Right Way?

10:00-10:10

John Gillaspy (NSF):  Big G and NSF

10:10-10:45

Terry Quinn: General Remarks on Measuring G

10:10-10:45

COFFEE BREAK

11:15-11:50

Riley Newman (UC Irvine): G Measurements with a Cryogenic Torsion Pendulum, and Thoughts about Future G Measurement Instruments

11:50-12:25

Jun Luo (HUST):  Recent Progress in Determining Gravititational Constant G in HUST

12:30-1:30

LUNCH

1:30-2:05

Andrea De Marchi (Politecnico di Torino): The Dual Free Swinging Simple Pendulum Approach for Big G Determination

2:05-2:40

Mark Kasevich (Stanford): Past, Present, and Future Work

2:40-3:15

Le Luo (Indiana Univ-Purdue Univ Indianapolis): Hybrid Atom-Light Interferometer and its Potential Application in Precision Measurements of Newton's Constant

3:15-3:45

COFFEE BREAK

3:45-5:00

Panel Discussion: Peter Mohr (NIST, Moderator), Kazuaki Kuroda (ICRR, Univ Tokyo), William Phillips (NIST, Univ MD), Ian Robinson (NPL)

FRIDAY, October 10, 2014 Building 101, Lecture Room B

9:00-9:30

Charlie Hagedorn (Univ Washington/CENPA): Replicable Analysis and Blind Review

https://github.com/4kbt/ReplicableAnalysis

9:30-10:00

Terry Quinn (BIPM): The BIPM G Apparatus – a New Proposal

10:00-10:30

Stephan Schlamminger (NIST):  A Torsion Balance Experiment with Magnetic Feedback

10:30-11:00

COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:00

Discussion

12:00-1:00

LUNCH

1:00-1:35

Markus Aspelmeyer (VCQ, Univ Vienna): Measuring Gravity Between Sub-mm Source Masses

1:35-2:10

Christian Rothleitner (PTB): Three-test-mass Gravimeter Measurement

2:10-2:40

COFFEE BREAK

2:40-5:00

LABORATORY TOURS