Meetings

Past GPMFC Workshops

2021

GPMFC Workshop 2021: Searches for Beyond-the-Standard-Model Interactions with Precision Measurements

Date: April 16, 2021
Organizers: Lindley Winslow (MIT), Jaideep Singh (Michigan State University), Derek F. Jackson Kimball (California State University - East Bay)

Friday, April 16, 2021 All times are Central
Daylight Time (UTC-5)
Morning  Name Affiliation Talk Title
10:00am - 10:30am Xing Rong University of Science and
Technology China (USTC)		 Searching for exotic spin-dependent interactions
with single nitrogen-
vacancy centers in
diamonds
10:30am - 11:00am Ibrahim Sulai Bucknell University Exotic Field Searches with Global Magnetometer Network
11:00am - 11:30am Ronald Garcia Ruiz Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT)		 Opportunities for new physics searches with exotic atoms and molecules
11:30am - 12:00pm Andrew Jayich University of California at Santa Barbara Radioactive molecules: high gain sensors for new physics
Afternoon
1:00pm - 1:30pm (13:00 - 13:30) Kyle Leach Colorado School of Mines The BeEST Experiment: Searching for BSM Physics in the Neutrino Sector using Superconducting Tunnel Junctions
1:30pm - 2:00pm (13:30 - 14:00) Oscar Navilat-Cuncic Laboratoire Physique Corpusculaire de CAEN (LPC Caen) Search for CP violation in ortho- Positronium decay
2:00pm - 2:30pm (14:00 - 14:30) Tim Kovachy Northwestern University MAGIS-100: A New Experiment for Exploring
Dark Matter and Gravitational Wave Physics
with Atom Interferometry
2:30pm - 3:00pm (14:30 - 15:00) Swati Singh University of Delaware Searching for Dark Matter Using Mechanical Systems

2020

GPMFC Workshop 2020: Precision-measurement Searches for New Physics

Date: June 1, 2020
Organizers: Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware), Dmitry Budker (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley), Holger Müller (University of California, Berkeley)

After careful consideration, the GPMFC replaces the in-person workshop with a Virtual workshop on the same date, June 1, 2020. The goal of the workshop is to survey forefront efforts in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with precision measurements.

In the live session format, the speakers will present by sharing their screen via Zoom, while other participants watch the presentation via a web-based media application that allows for chat and other interactions with the Zoom session. The GPMFC workshop will use the same format and virtual platform as the DAMOP meeting.

Registration for the 2020 Virtual DAMOP meeting now includes the GPMFC workshop.

Workshop Schedule

Workshop timezone: Pacific Daylight Time, same as DAMOP
The workshop is broken into 4 sessions in the program for convenient access.

Session 1: 8:20 - 10:00 a.m. Chair: Dmitry Budker
8:20 a.m. Introduction (Marianna Safronova)
8:30 a.m. Nergis Mavalvala, MIT
Quantum technologies for launching a new era of gravitational-wave astrophysics
9:00 a.m. Gilad Perez, Weizmann Institute
Searching for new physics with isotope shifts & oscillating constants
9:30 a.m. Piet Schmidt, University of Hannover
Highly-charged ion clocks for fundamental physics
10:00 a.m. Break
  Session 2: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Chair: Marianna Safronova
10:30 a.m. Peter Thirolf, LMU
Development of the nuclear clock & future perspectives
11:00 a.m. Markus Arndt, University of Vienna
Quantum interference of massive objects and what it can tell us about the foundations of physics
11:30 a.m. David Moore, Yale
Precision searches for new physics using optically levitated microspheres
12:00 p.m. Break
  Sessions 3/4: 1:00 - 3:15 p.m. Chair: Holger Müller
1:00 p.m. Jacob Taylor, JQI
Review on tabletop experiments on the connection between gravity and quantum mechanics
1:30 p.m. Ariel Zhitnitsky, University of British Columbia
Axion Quark Nuggets dark matter and Matter-Antimatter asymmetry in the Universe as two sides of the same coin: theory, observations, future experimental searches
2:00 p.m. Break
2:15 p.m. Alex Sushkov, Boston University
New limits on interactions of axion-like dark matter, using precision magnetic sensors
2:45 p.m. Nick Hutzler, Caltech
Searching for New Particles and Forces with Polyatomic Molecules

Contact Information

If you have any questions about the workshop e-mail Marianna Safronova at msafrono@udel.edu.

2019

GPMFC Workshop 2019: New Ideas in Dark Matter Searches

Date: April 12, 2019
Organizers: Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware), Dmitry Budker (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley), Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

"New Ideas in Dark Matter Searches" is a one-day workshop organized by the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC). It will take place in Denver, CO on April 12, 2019—the day before the APS April meeting begins. It will be held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, the site of April Meeting 2019. The goal of the workshop is to survey a broad range of new ideas in dark matter searches and bring together researchers from different communities. The audience will consist of senior researchers, postdocs, and students who are using a wide variety of tools for dark matter searches.

Links to previous GPMFC workshops can be found on the GPMFC website.

Workshop Program

8:50 Introduction
9:00 Surjeet Rajendran, UC Berkeley
Detecting Dark Blobs
9:30 Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington
Recent ADMX results at DFSZ Sensitivity
10:00 Sae Woo Nam, NIST, Boulder
Detecting photons from Dark Matter
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Masha Baryakhtar, New York University
Searches for Ultralight Axions with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
11:30 Lam Hui, Columbia
Ultra-light axion dark matter
12:00 Kent Irwin, Stanford
Probing the QCD Axion with the Dark Matter Radio
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Eric Hudson, UCLA
HUNTER: Precision Massive-Neutrino Search Based on a Laser Cooled Atomic Source
14:30 Chrisian Smorra, RIKEN
Dark matter searches with antimatter
15:00 Yoni Kahn, University of Chicago
Detection of sub-MeV dark matter with three-dimensional Dirac materials
15:30 Coffee and posters
16:45 Ken Van Tilburg, Institute for Advance Study
Formation of dense axion minihalos
17:15 Hartmut Abele, TU Wien – Atominstitut
Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy with neutrons and the dark sector
17:45 GPMFC "Best Student Poster" award

Workshop Registration

(1) If you are attending April 2019 meeting, register for the Friday workshop when you are registering for the April meeting. Registration fee: $75. To encourage and support the student attendance of the workshop, the student registration fee is only $25. Workshop space is limited so register early.

(2) If you are not attending the April meeting, fill in the April meeting form only for the workshop registration and e-mail to Don Wise at APS at wise@aps.org with a subject line “Registration for the GPMFC workshop” or fax to (301) 209-3652 (address the fax to Don Wise). He will register you. This cannot be done via online registration.

We recommend registering early as the number of participants is limited.

Poster Session and GPMFC Student Poster Competition

Posters are highly encouraged!

The workshop will include a poster session. The poster boards are 4 ft. high by 8 ft wide. To submit a poster, e-mail you name, affiliation, and a title of your poster to msafrono@udel.edu. Number of posters at the poster session is limited due to the space constraints so e-mail your poster title as soon as possible. If you are giving a talk/poster at the April meeting relevant to the subject of the workshop, you may still submit poster on the same subject at the workshop.

The Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC) will award a “Best Student Poster” award, consisting of a $500 cash prize for a poster presented at the workshop. Both graduate students and undergraduate students are eligible, and the applicant must be the first (presenting) author of the workshop poster. To apply, send a 1-page abstract of your poster in PDF format to andrew.geraci@northwestern.edu by March 19th. Please also include name, affiliation and email information for the applicant as well as the poster title at the top of the abstract page. To participate in the poster competition, you must be a member of GPMFC—you can join at the homepage.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about the workshop e-mail Marianna Safronova at msafrono@udel.edu.

2018

GPMFC Workshop 2018: Precision-measurement Searches for New Physics

Date: May 28, 2018
Organizers: Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) and Dmitry Budker (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley)

Precision-measurement searches for new physics" is a one-day workshop organized by the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC). It will take place in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on May 28, 2018 – the day before the DAMOP meeting begins. It will be held at the same venue as the DAMOP meeting (Room: Convention Center 315/316).

The workshop will survey forefront efforts in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model with precision measurements. The workshop will be complemented by eight invited talks at the DAMOP meeting on the same subject.

Workshop Program

9:00 Marianna Safronova, University of Delaware
Introduction: Precision-measurement searches for new physics
9:30 Dave DeMille, Yale University
New physics at high energy scales via electric dipole moments
10:00 Guglielmo Tino, University of Florence, LENS, INFN, Italy
Testing gravity with cold atom interferometry
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 Jun Ye, JILA, NIST and Univeresity of Colorado
Search for the dark matter with an atomic clock
11:30 Maria Simanovskaia, University of California, Berkeley
Status of the HAYSTAC experiment
12:00 Nils Huntemann, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
Limits of the Einstein equivalence principle from clock comparisons at PTB
12:30 Lunch
14:00 William Bertsche, University of Manchester, UK
Precision measurements with trapped antihydrogen
14:30 Klaus Blaum, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany
Precision measurements of fundamental properties of atoms and nuclei in Penning traps
15:00 José Crespo López-Urrutia, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Germany
Fundamental studies using VUV and EUV frequency metrology with highly charged ions
15:30 Coffee and posters
16:30 Roee Ozeri, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Probing new physics with Isotope shift spectroscopy
17:00 Lothar Maisenbacher, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Germany
Hydrogen spectroscopy and the proton radius puzzle
17:30 Dmitry Budker, Helmholtz Institute Mainz, Germany and UC Berkeley
Conclusion

 

Workshop Registration

(1) If you are attending DAMOP 2018 meeting, register for the Monday workshop when you are registering for the DAMOP meeting. Check the “GPMFC Workshop: Precision-measurement searches for new physics” box on the registration form. Registration fee: $75.

To encourage and support the student attendance of the workshop, the student registration fee is only $25 — there is a separate box for the student workshop registration.

(2) If you are not attending DAMOP meeting, fill in the DAMOP meeting form only for the workshop registration and e-mail to Don Wise at APS at wise@aps.org with a subject line “Registration for the GPMFC workshop” or fax to (301) 209-3652 (address the fax to Don Wise). He will register you. This cannot be done via online registration.

Poster Session

Posters are highly encouraged!

The workshop will include a poster session. To submit a poster, e-mail you name, affiliation, and a title of your poster to msafrono@udel.edu. Number of posters at the poster session is limited due to the space constraints so e-mail your poster title as soon as possible. If you are giving a talk/poster at the DAMOP meeting relevant to the subject of the workshop, you may still submit poster on the same subject at the workshop.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about the workshop e-mail Marianna Safronova at msafrono@udel.edu.

2017

GPMFC Workshop 2017: Ultralight Dark Matter

Date: January 27, 2017
Organizers: John Doyle (Harvard University, GPMFC Chair), Dmitry Budker (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley), Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)

"Ultralight dark matter" is a one-day workshop organized by the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC). It will take place in Washington, DC on January 27, 2017 – the day before the APS April meeting begins. It will be held at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, the site of April Meeting 2017. The workshop on Friday will be complemented by a GPMFC invited session at the APS April meeting on the same subject on Saturday morning.

The goal of the workshop is to survey forefront efforts in searches for ultralight dark matter. The audience will consist of senior researchers, postdocs, and students who are using a wide variety of tools for the search for ultralight dark matter.

Workshop Schedule

8:50 Welcome
9:00 Mina Arvanitaki, Perimeter Institute, Canada
The principle of plenitude: new ideas in ultralight dark matter
9:45 Karl van Bibber, University of California, Berkeley
Progress in Microwave Cavity Searches for Dark Matter Axions
10:15 Coffee break
10:45 Caterina Braggio, INFN, University of Padova, ltaly
Magnetized media as detectors for galactic axions
11:15 Mike Pivovaroff, LLNL
The search for solar axions: results from CAST and plans for IAXO
11:45 Jesse Thaler, MIT
Prospects for Cosmic Axion Detection with ABRACADABRA
12:15 Lunch
13:45 Matthias Schott, University of Mainz, Germany
Status and Prospects of Light-Shining-Through-A-Wall
14:15 Derek Jackson Kimball, CSU-East Bay
Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics
14:45 Alex Sushkov, Boston University
CASPEr: the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment
15:15 Coffee and posters
16:15 Mike Snow, Indiana University, Bloomington
Searchers for Exotic Interactions with Neutrons and Nuclei
16:45 Lutz Trahms, PTB-Berlin, Germany
Nuclear spin precession in ultra low fields - a probe for ultralight dark matter
17:15 Andrew Geraci, University of Nevada, Reno
The Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE)

APS April meeting GPMFC Invited session (January 28, Saturday morning)

Dmitry Budker, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley
Searching for ultralight dark matter with atomic spectroscopy and magnetic resonance
Andrei Derevianko, University of Nevada, Reno
First results for dark matter search with Global Positioning System
Yannis Semertzidis, IBS and KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Overview of axion searches at KAIST

Workshop Registration

APS April meeting online registration deadline: January 6, 2017

(1) If you are attending APS April 2017 meeting, register for the Friday workshop when you are registering for the April meeting at http://www.aps.org/meetings/april/registration/index.cfm. Check the “GPMFC WORKSHOP: Ultralight Dark Matter” box on the registration form.

To encourage and support the student attendance of the workshop, the student registration fee is only $25 – there is a separate box for the student workshop registration.

Note that April meeting has an option to attend for one day, this will include Saturday morning session.

(2) If you are not attending April meeting, fill in the April meeting form only for the workshop registration and e-mail to Don Wise at APS at wise@aps.org with a subject line “Registration for the GPMFC workshop” or fax to (301) 209-3652 (address the fax to Don Wise). He will register you. This cannot be done via online registration.

Poster Session

Posters are highly encouraged!
The workshop will include a poster session. To submit a poster, e-mail you name, affiliation, and a title of your poster to msafrono@udel.edu. Number of posters at the poster session is limited due to the space constraints so e-mail your poster title as soon as possible. If you are giving a talk/poster at the April meeting relevant to the subject of the workshop, you may still submit poster on the same subject at the workshop.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about the workshop e-mail Marianna Safronova at msafrono@udel.edu.

2015

GPMFC Workshop 2015: Tests of Fundamental Symmetries

Date: April 10, 2015
Organizers: Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware) and Dmitry Budker (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley)

The APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC) and the Group on Few-body Systems (GFB) have co-organized a workshop on “Tests of fundamental symmetries." This workshop will take place in conjunction with next year’s APS April Meeting (APR15) in Baltimore, MD. It will begin on April 10, 2015 and extend into the April meeting.

A number of prominent speakers will present forefront results on searches for electric dipole moments and measurements of parity violation. The talks will showcase results from both the atomic-physics and nuclear/particle-physics communities. This is a great opportunity to get a snapshot of this exciting area of physics from leaders in the field. We encourage you to attend. Post-docs and graduate students should especially consider coming, in particular because both GFB and GPMFC have travel grants designed to defray expenses for junior scientists who wish to attend the April meeting.

The workshop will commence on Friday, April 10 (the day before APR15) with a number of invited presentations, and an afternoon poster session. It will continue with an invited session within the April meeting itself. We are striving to have that invited session on Saturday, April 11, but the schedule for APR15 is not yet finalized.

Confirmed speakers are:

  • David Bowman (LANL)
  • Dmitry Budker (Mainz/Berkeley)
  • Sid Cahn (Yale)
  • Tim Chupp (Michigan)
  • John Doyle (Harvard)
  • Wick Haxton (Berkeley)
  • Blayne Heckel (Washington)
  • Klaus Kirch (PSI)
  • Zheng-Tiang Lu (Argonne)
  • Luis Orozco (Maryland)
  • Roxanne Springer (Duke)
  • Rob Timmermans (Groningen)

In order to defray costs we will charge a small registration fee to attend the workshop. This will be collected on-site and will be separate from the registration fee for APR15. The price will be $50 for those who are not members of GFB or GPMFC. Members of either group will pay $40 and students $25. Any APS member will have the opportunity to add group membership — free for the first year — at the workshop.

More details on the workshop can be found at the workshop website. If you decide to attend you will find a .pdf registration form at the website. Please download the form, fill it out, and email it to workshopTFS15@gmail.com. If you plan to present a poster you should indicate that on the form, and give a proposed title. Those submitting posters for Friday’s workshop poster session may also present a contributed talk at APR15. Abstract submission is available for APR15.

Any questions regarding these arrangements can be sent to workshopTFS15@gmail.com.