Speaker: Prof. Roberto Onofrio (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, NH, USA)
Title: Gravitation at the microscopic scale
Abstract: It is usually assumed that gravity does not play a significant role in elementary particle physics, unless processes at the experimentally inaccessible Planck scale are considered. After a general overview on microscopic consequences of gravitation challeging this assumption, I will focus on a proposal to test the weak equivalence principle using genuine quantum states of matter. Some implications of possible unification schemes of gravity and weak interactions at the attometer scale will be finally discussed.
