All talks will be in Cunniff Hall, which is room 199 of the Science Center.
Coffee breaks will be in the Eldridge Commons in the Science Center.
This page last updated October 8, 2012
SATURDAY OCTOBER 13, 2012
08:00-08:45
Welcome and coffee
08:45-09:00
Opening remarks
Michael Brown, Chair, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Swarthmore
Ralf Lehnert, Senior Fellow, IUCSS
Matthew Mewes, Physics Department, Swarthmore
Saturday morning session 1
chaired by Neil Russell
9:00-9:30
Luis Urrutia (UNAM)
Emergent electrodynamics from spontaneous Lorentz symmetry breaking
09:30-10:00
Robert Wagner (MPI, Munich)
MAGIC observations of extragalactic gamma-ray sources and their relevance for Lorentz invariance violation tests
10:00-10:30
Coffee
Saturday morning session 2
chaired by Michael Hohensee
10:30-11:00
Alan Kostelecky (Indiana)
Lorentz violation in the photon sector
11:00-11:30
Stephen Parker (Western Australia)
Michelson-Morley resonant cavity tests of local Lorentz invariance
11:30-12:00
Marco Schreck (Karlsruhe)
Properties of Lorentz-violating quantum field theories in the photon sector
12:00-14:00
Lunch
Saturday afternoon session 1
chaired by Ben Zitzer
14:00-14:30
Matt Mewes (Swarthmore)
Nonminimal Lorentz-violating operators and photons
14:30-15:00
Mauro Cambiaso (Andres Bello)
Massive photons and Lorentz violation
15:00-15:30
James Battat (Bryn Mawr)
Lunar laser ranging and Lorentz invariance: an update on the millimeter-precision APOLLO project
15:30-16:00
Coffee
Saturday afternoon session 2
chaired by Floyd Stecker
16:00-16:30
Vlasios Vasileiou (Montpellier)
Constraining Lorentz invariance violation with Fermi-LAT observations of gamma-ray bursts
16:30-17:00
Gregory Adkins (Franklin and Marshall)
Corrections to the hydrogen spectrum from the SME
17:00-17:30
Don Colladay (New College)
Quantization of Lorentz-violating photons
17:30-19:30
Reception
Eldridge Commons, Science Center
SUNDAY OCTOBER 14, 2012
08:30-9:00
Coffee
Sunday morning session 1
chaired by Gregory Adkins
9:00-9:30
Floyd Stecker (NASA Goddard)
X-ray and gamma-ray astrophysics tests of Lorentz invariance
09:30-10:00
Shailendra Saraf (Stanford)
Space-Time Asymmetry Research (STAR): Testing Lorentz invariance in low-earth orbit
10:00-10:30
Coffee
Sunday morning session 2
chaired by Vlasios Vasileiou
10:30-11:00
Michael Hohensee (Berkeley)
Testing the isotropy of the speed of light with birefringent cavities
11:00-11:30
Quentin Bailey (Embry-Riddle)
Parallels between the photon and gravity sectors of the SME
11:30-12:00
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
Limits on photon-sector SME coefficients
12:00-14:00
Lunch
Sunday afternoon session 1
chaired by Robert Wagner
14:00-14:30
Ben Zitzer (Argonne)
LIV prospects for VERITAS and CTA
14:30-15:00
Jorge Diaz (Indiana)
Testing Lorentz invariance with astrophysical neutrinos and photons
15:00-15:30
Coffee
Sunday afternoon session 2
chaired by Luis Urrutia
15:30-16:00
Ralf Lehnert (IUCSS)
Collider tests of Lorentz symmetry involving photons
16:00-16:30
Petr Satunin (INR, Moscow)
On calculation of cross sections in Lorentz violating QED
16:30-17:00
Yuri Bonder (Indiana)
SME-like terms arising from spacetime discreteness: the photon sector