各位老师和同学:
兹邀请Department of Physics, University of Washington的Paul Boynton教授、School of Physical Sciences, University of California Irvine的Riley D.Newman教授以及Eric Berg博士等人于7月13日至15日来我实验室访问,期间安排了系列报告(报告题目和时间如下),请请相互转告并准时参加。
13-Jul, PM:
Talk 1: 3:30 PM(TBD)Empirically testing a foundation of GTR(Prof . Paul. Boynton)
Talk 2: 4:30 PM, Review of G-2008 Analysis (Prof. Riley D.Newman)
14-Jul, 9:00 AM,
Talk1: Torsion Fibers at Low Temperature and Gravitational Inverse Square Law Tests (Prof. Riley D.Newman)
Talk2: Measurement of G Using a Cryogenic Torsion Pendulum, The Story up to 2008 (Dr. Eric Berg)
CV of talkers:
Professor Emeritus, Physics & Astronomy
School of Physical Sciences, University of California Irvine
Research Interests:Experimental elementary particle and gravitational physics
Current works are focusing on precision gravity tests with cryogenic torsion balances:
1. Measurement of the gravitational constant G, (motivated by large discrepancies between results of G measurements by other groups in recent years),
2. Searches for new extremely weak forces in nature with macroscopic range,
3. Tests of the equivalence of inertial and gravitational mass.
Associate Project Scientist,Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California Irvine,
PhD University of California Los Angeles, 1994
Communications Systems Engineer, General Dynamics, 1996-2001
Associate Project Scientist, University of California Irvine, 2001-2013
Current works: precision gravity tests with cryogenic torsion balances.
Professor Paul Boynton, Department of Physics, University of Washington
PhD Princeton University, 1968
Assistant Professor Princeton University, 1968-1970
Professor University of Washington, 1970-2009
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2013-7-12