Workshop

Do the constants of nature vary ?

Laser Centre VU Amsterdam

Thursday June 11^th

Lecture Hall P647 (6^th floor Sciences building VU Campus)

13:00 Thomas Dent (Cardiff)

Theories on changing constants

13:45 Edcel Salumbides (VU)

Laser precision metrology experiments at LCVU

14:10 Toncho Ivanov and Gareth Dickinson (VU)

Spectroscopy of hydrogen at the Soleil synchrotron

14:30 Coffee break

14:50 Lex Kaper (UvA and VU)

The prospects of the X-shooter instrument

15:10 Julian King (University of New South Wales, Sydney, and VU)

Constraint on a varying m from H₂ quasar data

15:35 Freek van Weerdenburg (UvA and VU)

H₂ and HD in the J2123 quasar observed at VLT

15:55 Rick Bethlem (VU)

Varying m from laboratory spectroscopy ?

16:15 Break

16:30 Michael T. Murphy (Swinburne University, Melbourne)

Varying constants on a cosmological time scale; status report

17:15 Drinks (Laser Centre Lecture Hall G1)

Information and registration: Marja Herronen (m.herronen@few.vu.nl)

Organisation: Wim Ubachs (VU)

Sponsored by the FOM industrial partnership program I11 (Metrology)