Invited Speakers

 

Invited talks will be presented in six sessions, each of which will focus on a certain aspect of the physics of fundamental constants, and one evening lecture. 

 

What are fundamental constants? How many of those do we need?

  • John D. Barrow (Cambridge, UK) 
  • Jean-Philippe Uzan (Paris, France) 
  • Christof Wetterich (Heidelberg, Germany) 
  • Gabriele Veneziano (CERN, Switzerland)

 

Time variation of fundamental constants

  • Marianna Safronova (Delaware, USA) 
  • Ekkehard Peik (PTB, Germany) 
  • Wim Ubachs (Amsterdam, The Nederland) 
  • Mikhail Kozlov (St. Petersburg, Russia) 

 

Metrology, fundamental constants and their best values

  • Klaus von Klitzing (Stuttgart, Germany) 
  • Holger Müller (Berkeley, USA) 
  • Sven Sturm (Heidelberg, Germany) 
  • Barry Wood (NRC, Canada)

 

Future of time (Definition of second)

  • Hidetoshi Katori (RIKEN, Japan)
  • Jun Ye (NIST, USA) 
  • Gesine Grosche (PTB, Germany) 
  • Peter Thirolf (München, Germany) 
  • David Hume (NIST, USA) 

 

Fundamental constants, symmetries and anti-world

  • Stefan Ulmer (CERN, Switzerland) 
  • Stefan Eriksson (Swansea, UK) 
  • Masaki Hori (München, Germany)
  • Tanya Zelevinsky (Columbia, USA)
     

Fundamental constants and proton radius

  • Randolf Pohl (Mainz, Germany) 
  • Vladimir Yerokhin (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • François Nez (Paris, France) 
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    Evening “after dinner” lecture

  • Terry Quinn (BIPM, France)