Session I3: Focus Session: Searches for Relativity Violations (Co-Sponsored by GPMFC)

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Chair: Neil Russell, Northern Michigan University
Keller Building - 104


Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:00AM - 8:36AM

I3.00001: Theory and Status of Lorentz Violation
Invited Speaker: Alan Kostelecky

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:36AM - 8:48AM

I3.00002: Searching for Lorentz violation with new Ives-Stilwell tests
Michael Hohensee , David F. Phillips , Ronald L. Walsworth

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
8:48AM - 9:00AM

I3.00003: Atom interferometric test of the isotropy of Post-Newtonian gravity.
Sheng-wey Chiow , Sven Herrmann , Holger Mueller , Steven Chu

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:00AM - 9:12AM

I3.00004: Gravitationally Coupled Atoms as a Probe of Lorentz Symmetry
Jay D. Tasson , V. Alan Kostelecky

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:12AM - 9:48AM

I3.00005: Modern Optical Tests of Special Relativity
Invited Speaker: Achim Peters

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
9:48AM - 10:00AM

I3.00006: New Limits on Coupling of Fundamental Constants to Gravity by Absolute Frequeny Measurements of $^{87}$Sr Optical Lattice Clocks
Sebastian Blatt , Gretchen K. Campbell , Andrew D. Ludlow , Jan W. Thomsen , Michael J. Martin , Martin M. Boyd , Jun Ye

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:00AM - 10:12AM

I3.00007: Molecular Optical Lattice Clock
Tanya Zelevinsky , Svetlana Kotochigova , Jun Ye

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Thursday, May 29, 2008
10:12AM - 10:24AM

I3.00008: Cavity Tests of Higher-Order Lorentz Violation
Matthew Mewes

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