Program

All talks can be attended in Swain Hall West room 007.
Talks will also be streamed online.
The coordinates will be provided to registered remote participants by email.

Onsite registration and all coffee breaks will be in Swain Hall West room 130.

The listed dates and times are on Eastern Standard Time (EST).

This page last updated January 25, 2024


FRIDAY JANUARY 26, 2024

17:00
Onsite Registration (Swain Hall West room 130)

18:00-21:00
No-host dinner
Location: Nick's English Hut


SATURDAY JANUARY 27, 2024

08:15-08:30
Welcoming Remarks
Mark Messier, Chair, Physics Department
Mike Snow, Director, IUCSS
Ralf Lehnert, IUCSS

Saturday morning session 1
chaired by Charles Lane (Berry)

08:30-09:00
Lijing Shao (Peking)
Astrophysical Tests of Bumblebee Black Holes

09:00-09:30
Neil Russell (Northern Michigan)
The 2024 Data Tables

09:30-10:00
Albert Petrov (UF Paraiba)
Braneworlds in Bumblebee Gravity

10:00-10:30
Coffee Break

Saturday morning session 2
chaired by Arnaldo Vargas (U Puerto Rico)

10:30-11:00
Robert Bluhm (Colby)
Explicit and Spontaneous Breaking of Local Translation Invariance in Einstein-Cartan Theory

11:00-11:30
Agnes Roberts (IUCSS)
Investigating CPT Violation in Neutral Kaons at the Quark Level

11:30-12:00
Jay Tasson (Carleton)
Observational Limits on Lorentz Violation from Gravitational Waves

12:00-14:00
Lunch Break

Saturday afternoon session 1
chaired by Raymond Co (Indiana)

14:00-14:30
Brett Altschul (South Carolina)
Renormalization Issues in the SME

14:30-15:00
Quentin Bailey (Embry-Riddle)
Wave Generation and Spacetime-Symmetry Breaking

15:00-15:30
Charles Lane (Berry)
Classical Analogues for High-Precision Lorentz-Violation Tests

15:30-16:00
Coffee Break

Student session and discussion
chaired by Enrico Lunghi (Indiana)

16:00-16:10
Sapan Karki (South Carolina)
Renormalization Scheme Dependence of β-Functions in Lorentz-Violating Quantum Field Theory

16:10-16:20
Abhishek Rout (South Carolina)
First-Order Perturbation on Reissner-Nordstrom Metric in Modified Chern-Simons Gravity Background

16:20-16:30
Joshua O'Connor (South Carolina)
Lorentz and CPT Violation in Classical Radiation Problems

16:30-16:40
River Govin (Indiana)
Double Beta Decay and the Neutrino a^(5) Coefficient: Preliminary Results

16:40-16:50
Malachy Bloom & Quinn Brannan (Carleton)
SME Limits from Gravitational Wave Dispersion Measurements

17:00
Alan Kostelecky (Indiana)
Discussion

followed by Dinner
Location: Mr. Hibachi


SUNDAY JANUARY 28, 2024

Sunday morning session 1
chaired by Yunhua Ding (Ohio Wesleyan)

08:30-09:00
Enrico Lunghi (Indiana)
Lorentz and CPT Violation in the Quark Sector

09:00-09:30
Marco Schreck (UF Maranhao)
Lorentz-Violating Electrodynamics in (2+1) Spacetime Dimensions

09:30-10:00
Kellie Ault-O'Neil
Spacetime-Symmetry Tests in Gravity

10:00-10:30
Coffee Break

Sunday morning session 2
chaired by Agnes Roberts (IUCSS)

10:30-11:00
Rob Potting (U Algarve)
A Stable Lorentz-Breaking Antisymmetric Two-Tensor Model

11:00-11:30
Albin Nilsson (SYRTE)
Spacetime-Symmetry Breaking Effects in Post-Newtonian Gravitational-Wave Generation

11:30-12:00
Emilie Passemar (Indiana)
Electromagnetic Flavor-Changing Lepton Decays from Lorentz and CPT Violation

12:00-14:00
Lunch Break

Sunday afternoon session 1
chaired by Robert Bluhm (Colby)

14:00-14:30
Babak Seradjeh (Indiana)
Lorentz Violation in Dirac and Weyl Semimetals

14:30-15:00
Arnaldo Vargas (U Puerto Rico)
Prospects for Testing Lorentz Symmetry with Deuterium

15:00-15:30
Yunhua Ding (Ohio Wesleyan)
Searches for Time-Varying Effects for Lorentz and CPT Violation in Penning Traps

15:30-16:00
Coffee Break

Sunday afternoon session 2
chaired by Marco Schreck (UF Maranhao)

16:00-16:30
Alexandre Vieira (UF Triangulo Mineiro)
Scale Anomaly in a Lorentz- and CPT-Violating Quantum Electrodynamics

16:30-17:00
Carlos Reyes (Bio-Bio)
Effective Backgrounds, Late-Time Cosmology, and Dark Energy

17:00 Ralf Lehnert (IUCSS)
Closing Remarks