Invited Speakers:

Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki, Jagiellonian University                                                                                   

Benjamin Knorr, Nordita                                                                                   

Toby Wiseman, Imperial College

Maria Jose Rodriguez, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid & Utah State University

Tanja Hinderer, Utrecht University

Bianca Dittrich, Perimeter Institute

Agata Trovato, University of Trieste & APC, Paris

Igor Khavkine, Czech Academy of Sciences

Agnieszka Janiuk, University of Warsaw 

Tomáš Ledvinka, Charles University

Bernd Brügmann, Jena University

Jean-Luc Lehners, Max Planck Institute

Sascha Husa, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Eva Hackmann, Bremen University

Niels Warburton, University College Dublin

Jan Plefka, Humboldt University

Roland Steinbauer, Vienna University



SPEAKERS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS:

Experimental Challenges in Gravitational Wave Detection

  • Matteo Barsuglia, APC-Paris, France - Instrumental challenges in ground-based gravitational wave detectors 
  • Rita Dolesi, University of Trento, Italy - Instrumental challenges in space-based gravitational wave detectors
  • Philippe Bouyer, Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine - Large-scale atom interferometers: towards observation of Gravitational Waves and more
  • Venkatraman Krishnan, Max Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany - Radio Pulsars and Relativistic Gravity

Fundamental Tests and Equivalence Principle Tests

  • Luigi Cacciapuoti, ESA -  ACES -  Space clocks and fundamental tests: The ACES experiment
  • André Großardt, University of Jena, Germany - Testing fundamentally semiclassical gravity
  • Gugliemo Tino, University of Florence, Italy - Testing gravity with atoms
  • Manuel Rodrigues,  French Aerospace Lab, Onera, France -  Testing the equivalence principle in space with MICROSCOPE: countdown to the final results
  • Marco Giammarchi, INFN-Milano, Italy  -  Antimatter, Gravity and Fundamental Tests

Geodesy and Ranging

  • Luciano Iess, University of Roma Sapienza, Italy - Gravity in the solar system
  • Pieter Visser,   Delft University of Technology,  The Netherlands - Future constellations for observing Earth’s time variable gravity field
  • Helen Margolis, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex, UK -  Relativistic Geodesy using optical clocks
  • Simone Dell'Agnello, LNF-INFN, Italy - Lunar and interplanetary laser ranging
  • Gerhard Heinzel, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik, Hannover, Germany - The first interspacecraft laser ranging interferometer on GRACE Follow-On, and conclusions for future gravity missions