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lectures
Prep session (undergraduates only):
09:00-10:30, Thursday May 09, 2024
Charles Lane (Berry College)
Introduction to Lorentz-Symmetry Breaking in Classical Mechanics
FRIDAY MAY 10, 2024
Opening session
chaired by
Raymond Co (Indiana)
08:45-09:00
Welcoming Remarks
Mark Messier, Chair, Physics Department
Mike Snow, Director, IUCSS
Ralf Lehnert, IUCSS
09:00-10:30
Alan Kostelecky (Indiana)
Essential Concepts
10:30-10:45
Break
Friday morning session 2
chaired by
Celio Moura (UF ABC)
10:45-11:45
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
Tabulating Results of Spacetime Symmetry Tests
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Quentin Bailey (Embry Riddle)
Overview of Spactime-Symmetry Violation and Gravity
SATURDAY MAY 11, 2024
Saturday morning session 1
chaired by
Agnes Roberts (IUCSS)
09:00-10:30
Don Colladay (New College)
The Minimal SME
10:30-10:45
Break
Saturday morning session 2
chaired by
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
10:45-11:45
Marco Schreck (UF Maranhao)
Dispersion Relations, Applications in Particle Decays, and Classical-Particle Limit
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Rob Potting (Algarve U)
Sources for Lorentz and CPT Violation in Underlying Physics
SUNDAY MAY 12, 2024
Sunday morning session 1
chaired by
Jorge Alfaro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)
09:00-10:30
Brett Altschul (South Carolina)
Theoretical Topics in SME Physics
10:30-10:45
Break
Sunday morning session 2
chaired by
Ali Ovgun (Eastern Mediterranean)
10:45-11:45
Jay Tasson (Carleton)
Matter-Gravity Couplings in the SME
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Zonghao Li (IUCSS)
Types of Spacetime-Symmetry Violations in Gravitational Contexts
MONDAY MAY 13, 2024
Monday morning session 1
chaired by
Herb Fertig (Indiana)
09:00-10:30
Babak Seradjeh (Indiana)
SME Applications in Condensed-Matter Physics
10:30-10:45
Break
Monday morning session 2
chaired by
Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy)
10:45-11:45
Matt Mewes (Cal Poly)
The Nonminimal SME
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Yunhua Ding (Ohio Wesleyan)
SME Studies With Trapped Charged Particles
TUESDAY MAY 14, 2024
Tuesday morning session 1
chaired by
Nathaniel Sherrill (Sussex)
09:00-10:30
Enrico Lunghi (Indiana)
Lorentz Violation in the QCD Sector
10:30-10:45
Break
Tuesday morning session 2
chaired by
John Urheim (Indiana)
10:45-11:45
Lijing Shao (Peking)
Astrophysical Tests of SME Gravity
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Jorge Diaz (IUCSS)
Neutrino Physics in the SME
WEDNESDAY MAY 15, 2024
Wednesday morning session 1
chaired by
Brett Altschul (South Carolina)
09:00-10:30
Arnaldo Vargas (U Puerto Rico)
Theoretical Aspects of Testing Lorentz and CPT Symmetry in Spectroscopy Experiments
10:30-10:45
Break
Wednesday morning session 2
chaired by
Chris Meyer (Indiana)
10:45-11:45
Nicolas Chanon (IP2I Lyon)
Collider Searches for Lorentz Violation
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Robert Bluhm (Colby)
Spontaneous vs Explicit Breakdown of Lorentz Symmetry
THURSDAY MAY 16, 2024
Thursday morning session 1
chaired by
Andre Gomes (UF Ouro Preto)
09:00-10:30
Alan Kostelecky (Indiana)
Question and Answer Session
10:30-10:45
Break
Thursday morning session 2
chaired by
Marco Giammarchi (INFN)
10:45-11:45
Eberhard Widmann (Austrian Academy)
Spectroscopic Searches for Lorentz and CPT Violation
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Charles Lane (Berry College)
Induction of SME Coefficients from Noncommutative Geometry
FRIDAY MAY 17, 2024
Friday morning session 1
chaired by
Enrico Lunghi (Indiana)
09:00-10:30
Matthias Schindler (South Carolina)
Lorentz Violation in Hadronic Physics
10:30-10:45
Break
Friday morning session 2
chaired by
Don Colladay (New College)
10:45-11:45
Carlos Arguelles (Harvard)
Searches for Lorentz Violation in Neutrino Physics
11:45-12:00
Break
12:00-13:00
Jim Davis (Indiana)
Basics of Finsler Geometry
SATURDAY MAY 18, 2024
Saturday morning school session 1
chaired by
Robert Bluhm (Colby)
08:30-09:30
Agnes Roberts (IUCSS)
Overview of CPT-Violation Studies in the Neutral-Meson System
09:30-09:45
Break
09:45-10:45
Zhongmin Shen (IU Indianapolis)
Non-Riemannian Ricci-flat metrics with Lorentz signature
10:45-11:00
Break
Saturday morning school session 2
chaired by
Alexandre Vieira (UF Triangulo Mineiro)
11:00-12:00
Rob Potting (Algarve U)
Theoretical Aspects of the SME
12:00-12:15
Break
Saturday afternoon student session
chaired by
Kellie O'Neal-Ault (Embry Riddle)
12:15-12:25
Samy Aoulad Lafkih (SYRTE)
Measuring Lorentz-Invariance Violations With Gravitational Waves and the SME Formalism
12:25-12:35
Mateusz Kmiec (NCNR)
Search for CPT-Symmetry Violation in the Charm Sector
12:35-12:45
Alessandro Santoni (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)
Constraining the VSR Origin of Graviton Mass Through Binary Pulsars
12:45-12:55
Hailey Murray (Embry Riddle)
Spacetime-Symmetry Breaking and Black-Hole Solutions
12:55-13:05
Connor Petway (Indiana)
Compton-Edge Studies in the SME
13:05-13:15
River Govin (Indiana)
Lorentz and CPT Violation in Double Beta Decay
13:15-13:25
Joao Paulo da Silva Melo (CBPF)
Loop Quantum Gravity Effects on Electromagnetic Properties of Charged Leptons
SUNDAY MAY 19, 2024
Sunday morning workshop session 1
chaired by
Arnaldo Vargas (U Puerto Rico)
08:30-08:50
Victor Flambaum (U New South Wales)
Effects of New Physics in Atomic and Nuclear Transitions
08:50-09:10
Jorge Alfaro (Pontificia Universidad Catolica)
Electron's Anomalous Magnetic Moment in Very Special Relativity QED with a Massive Photon
09:10-09:30
Ali Ovgun (Eastern Mediterranean U)
Probing Schwarzschild-like Black Holes in Metric-Affine Bumblebee Gravity with Accretion Disk, Deflection Angle, Greybody Bounds, and Neutrino Propagation
09:30-09:50
Zhi Xiao (North China EPU)
A Revisit of the CPT-odd LV Extension of Maxwell's Equations
09:50-10:10
Albin Nilsson (IBS Daejeon)
Recent Results in Explicit Breaking
10:10-10:25
Break
Sunday morning workshop session 2
chaired by
Marco Schreck (UF Maranhao)
10:25-10:45
Albert Petrov (UF Paraiba)
Two-Loop corrections to the Carroll-Field-Jackiw Term in a CPT-odd Lorentz-Violating Scalar QED
10:45-11:05
Tanmay Kumar Poddar (INFN Salerno)
Explaining Pulsar Kick Through Neutrino Oscillation in Dark Matter Background and Relation with SME
11:05-11:25
David Alvarez Castillo (INP Polish Academy)
Studying the Variation of Fundamental Constants at the Cosmic Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory
11:25-11:45
Jean Carlos Coelho Felipe (UF Sao Joao)
On the Nonlinear Electrodynamics in a Lorentz-Breaking Scenario
11:45-12:00
Break
Sunday afternoon workshop session
chaired by
Quentin Bailey (Embry Riddle)
12:00-12:20
Vitalii Vertogradov (Herzen State Pedagogical University)
General Approach on Shadow Radius and Photon Spheres in Asymptotically Flat Spacetimes and the Impact of Mass-Dependent Variations
12:20-12:40
Oscar Castillo Felisola (UT Federico Santa Maria)
A Polynomial Affine Model of Gravity: A Gravitational Tale with no (Fundamental) Metric
12:40-13:00
Adailton Azevedo Araujo Filho (UF Paraiba)
Gravitational Traces of Bumblebee Gravity in Metric–Affine Formalism
13:00-13:20
Nathaniel Sherrill (Sussex)
Lorentz and CPT Violation in Flavor-Changing Lepton Decays
13:20
Ralf Lehnert (IUCSS)
Closing Remarks