Name: New Windows on Fundamental Physics: from tabletop devices to large scale detectors
Start: 2026-01-19T08:20:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-23T17:10:00+00:00
Location: University of Manchester

New Windows on Fundamental Physics: from tabletop devices to large scale detectors

from Monday, 19 January 2026 (08:20) to Friday, 23 January 2026 (17:10)

Monday, 19 January 2026

11:00 Coffee and Arrival
Coffee and Arrival
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
11:20 Opening Remarks & Welcome - Lucien Heurtier & Jamie McDonald
Opening Remarks & Welcome
- Lucien Heurtier & Jamie McDonald
11:20 - 11:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
11:30 One-DAY UK-APP Meeting Morning II
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter with MOLeQuTE: a Massive Optically Levitated Quantum Tabletop Experiment - Louis Hamaide (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)

12:00 Detection of Ultralight Dark Matter Bosenovae with Quantum Sensors - Jason Arakawa (University of Delaware)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
13:30 UK-APP Afternoon 1
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

13:30 Dark Matter Axion Search with the HAYSTAC and ALPHA Experiment - Xiran Bai (Yale University)

14:00 From lattice simulations to quantum analogues of false vacuum decay - Emilie Hertig (University of Cambridge)

14:30 The RADES Experiment - Status and Future - Tobias Ortmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

15:00 Matter Sourced Bubble Nucleation in the Asymmetron Scalar-Tensor Theory - Usama Syed Aqeel (University of Nottingham)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
16:00 UK-APP One-Day Afternoon II
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:00 A high quality factor dielectric Fabry-Perot cavity for detecting dark matter axions - Jiacheng Shi

16:30 Atom Interferometry in Gravity: From Gravity Gradients to Gravitational Waves - Jeremiah Mitchell
Tuesday, 20 January 2026

09:00 Arrival and Registration

09:00 - 09:50
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
09:50 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:50 - 10:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:50 Workshop Welcome - Jamie McDonald
10:00 Tuesday Morning I
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

10:00 Quantum Technologies for Neutrino Mass - Ruben Saakyan

10:30 Configurable optical lattices: Quantum simulation and sensing for fundamental physics - TIffany Harte
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
11:30 Tuesday Morning II
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 AION - Jeremiah Mitchell

12:00 Probing the ground state of gravitational entanglement: Incompleteness of quantum foundations without holography in the background space-time - Ohkyung Kwon (University of Chicago and Cardiff University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
14:00 Tuesday Afternoon I
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:00 QI (Quantum-enhanced Interferometry for new physics) - Hartmut Grote

14:30 Dark energy and modified gravity with levitated sensors - Sofia Qvarfort
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Wednesday, 21 January 2026
09:30 Wed Morning I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:30 QSNET - A network of clocks for measuring the stability of fundamental constants - Giovanni Barontini

10:00 Multimessenger Astronomy Beyond the Standard Model: New Window from Quantum Sensors - Jason Arakawa (University of Delaware)

10:30 Probing Rare Interactions from LZ to Snowball Chambers - Cecilia Levy (University at Albany, SUNY)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
11:30 Wed Morning II
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 QSHS - Quantum Sensors for Hidden Sectors - Ed Daw

12:00 Quantum Enhanced Sensing of Ultra-Light Dark Matter - Bin Xu (KIAS)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
14:00 Wed Afternoon I
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Dark Energy - Clare Burrage

14:30 A new search for dark matter axions using quantum technologies. - Jack Devlin

15:00 NuBits and QuBits with Single Molecule Fluorescence - Ben Jones
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Thursday, 22 January 2026
09:30 Thursday Morning I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:30 Superradiant Neutrino Sources - Joseph Formaggio

10:00 Laser Cooling of Molecules for Precision Tests of Fundamental Symmetries - Tim Langen

10:30 Axion Experiments at Manchester - Jamie McDonald (University of Manchester)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
11:30 Thursday Morning II
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 Superconducting Circuits, Neutrinos & an Old Gold Mine - Wouter Van De Pontseele

12:00 QSimFP – Quantum Simulators for Fundamental Physics - Silke Weinfurtner
12:30 Lunch & Poster Session
Lunch & Poster Session
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
14:00 Thursday Afternoon I
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Probing the gravity-quantum interface with interferometers and nanoparticles - Animesh Datta (University of Warwick)

14:30 DRD5 - Steven Worm

15:00 Levitated Optomechanical Sensors - Andrew Geraci

15:30 Towards ultra-low backgrounds for high-efficiency transition edge sensors in optical and infrared axion searches - Manuel Meyer
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Friday, 23 January 2026
09:30 Friday Morning I
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:30 Quantum Sensing and Axions - Takis Kontos

10:00 QuestDMC - Elizabeth Leason

10:30 High-frequency gravitational wave signals in electromagnetic resonators - Tom Krokotsch (Universität Hamburg)
11:00 Coffee
Coffee
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
11:30 Friday Morning II
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:30 The MAGO cavity and prospects for high-frequency GW searches - Krisztian Peters

12:00 GravNet - Kristof Schmieden
12:30 Lunch & Departure
Lunch & Departure
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Jocelyn Bell Burnell Lecture Theatre

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