General Logistics - From Quantum to Cosmos - 7: NASA 2022 Fundamental Physics Experiments in Space Workshop

Workshop Overview

Due to health concerns with the highly contagious Omicron COVID-19 variant, we have decided to postpone the workshop until sometime in 2023. Once a new workshop date has been identified, we will send out an announcement. The announcement will include a new call for abstracts.

In place of the planned in-person workshop, we will hold a virtual community meeting on March 29, 2022, to discuss the planned release in spring 2022 of a Fundamental Physics NASA Research Announcement (NRA). Future NRAs are planned to be released annually. To register for the virtual meeting, visit https://forms.gle/5DgMaFEzLg7NSrCR9.

Original workshop description follows:

From Quantum to Cosmos - 7 Workshop will be held in person on March 29-31, 2022, at the Watergate Hotel, Washington, D.C. This will continue the tradition of Q2C workshops started in 2006.

The NASA home for laboratory fundamental physics in space research moved from the Human Explorations and Operations Mission Directorate to the Science Mission Directorate in 2020. With this move there is a renewed focus on transformative science and encouragement of new mission development in our parent organization, the Biological and Physical Sciences Division. NASA plans to increase the support provided to U.S. space fundamental physics researchers through regular solicitations, starting in 2022. The focus of the initial solicitation will be to select investigators for International Space Station (ISS) Cold Atom Laboratory research using a new planned science module (SM4), and to select ground-based investigations for potential future flight experiment formulation, development, and implementation. This workshop will provide a forum for the community to learn about NASA’s plans to build a vigorous program of basic research supporting space-based experimental physics.

At the workshop fundamental physics scientists and technologists will share new results and present and discuss pioneering research ideas for future space experimentation on the ISS, the Lunar Gateway, Free Flying Satellites, and the lunar surface. The workshop will focus on theory and experimental research in the following thematic areas: Quantum Matter, Quantum Entanglement, Gravitation, Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Complex Plasma, Lunar Dust and Plasma, and Other Space Fundamental Physics/Technology. Many of these areas are the subjects of intense interest and active research by other divisions within the NASA Science Mission Directorate. The aim of this workshop is to promote the development of space-based experimental approaches to the leading questions in physics.

The workshop agenda will include keynote talks, invited and contributed presentations, and a poster session. Interested scientists, technologists, and government agency representatives are invited to submit abstracts to be considered for contributed presentations. See the Abstract Submission tab for details. The abstract deadline is January 31, 2022, and presentation acceptance letters will be sent by February 28, 2022. The participation of the current NASA-funded investigators or their representatives is kindly requested.

There is no registration fee to participate in the workshop.

NASA participants must submit a request to attend the workshop through the NASA Conference Tracking System by December 11, 2021. The NCTS number is 45524-22, and the event title in the system 2022 NASA/JPL Fundamental Physics in Space Workshop: From Quantum to Cosmos-7.

Important deadlines:

Abstract Deadline: January 31, 2022

Advance Registration Deadline: March 14, 2022

Hotel Reservation Deadline to Receive Discount Lodging Rate: TBD