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)
Evening “after dinner” lecture
- Terry Quinn (BIPM, France)