On Monday, 09 September 2024, Dr Stephan Schlamminger from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg USA, will give a guest lecture on ‘Experimental Gravitation: What we know --- and don't’.

The lecture will take place in the Newton Building, room 2010 at 01:00 pm.

Interested parties are cordially invited. 

Abstract:

Historically, the theory of gravitation was constructed first through inductive
reasoning based on observations and later refined through deductive
reasoning with the equivalence of acceleration and a uniform gravitational field as
a core tenet. In any case, experiments played an important role in testing the main
and the alternative theories of gravitation. In this talk, I’ll give an overview of
experimental gravitational work. In the talk, I will focus on laboratory experiments
but will mention satellite and astronomical observations in passing.