July - December 1999
Organisers: VA Rubakov (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow), PJ Steinhardt (Princeton), NG Turok (Cambridge)
Futuristic Detectors for Cosmology
Thursday 11 November 1999
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
Seminar Room 1, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge
| 10.00 | Registration |
| 10.30 | Coffee |
| 11.00 | Introduction |
| 11.10 | Photons: M Griffin (QMW) Futuristic Detectors for mm/sub mm photons W Gear (Cardiff/UCL) Polarisation Detectors S Withington (Cavendish) Heterodyne Detectors for the Submillimetre-Wave and THz Frequency Range |
| 12.40 | Sandwich Lunch to be served in the Institute |
| 14.00
14.30 |
Ultra Sensitive Quantum Devices B Sauer (Sussex) Neutron and Electron Spin Precession Experiments Gravity Waves K Strain (Glasgow) Future of g-wave detection |
| 15.00 | Dark Matter N Spooner (Sheffield) Future of DM detectors |
| 15.30 | Tea |
| 16.00 | Neutrinos D Wark (Sussex) Detecting Astrophysical Neutrinos P Smith (RAL) Future Prospects for relic neutrino detection |
These lectures are linked to the Isaac Newton Institute Programme on
Structure Formation in the Universe
Anyone interested is welcome to attend. A Sandwich Lunch will be available at £2 per person; please let Maureen Clark at the Institute know by 8 November 1999 if you intend to come, to help us to plan for lunch: Telephone: (01223) 331539; Fax: (01223) 330508. There are limited funds available to assist research students to attend: please apply by 8 November 1999 to Maureen Clark at the Institute. However, we cannot guarantee to reimburse travel unless we are notified in advance. Scientific enquiries may be addressed to Professor Neil Turok, Isaac Newton Institute, 20 Clarkson Road, Cambridge CB3 0EH.