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Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - Prof. James Battat, Wellesley College

Title: "Testing Fundamental Physics by Ranging to the Moon."

Friday, May 13, 2016
3:30pm – 4:30pm
Wilder 104
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Lectures & Seminars

Abstract:  Lunar Laser Ranging has enabled comprehensive, precision tests of gravity for nearly 50 years.  I will discuss my work on the Apache Point Observatory Lunar Laser-ranging Operation (APOLLO), which achieves millimeter-precision measurements of the lunar orbit.  Such high-precision measurements, coupled with decades of archival data, provide exquisite constraints on gravitational physics. In fact, LLR currently provides the tightest bounds on the strong equivalence principle, the inverse square law of gravity at relevant scales, gravitomagnetic interactions, the time-rate of change of G and Lorentz symmetry in the gravitational sector.

For more information, contact:
Tressena Manning
tressena.a.manning@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2854
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