In Search for Variations of Fundamental Couplings and Mass Scales - 2008

Weclome and introduction

Victor Flambaum - University of New South Wales (UNSW)

Review of models

Maxim Pospelov - University of Minnesota

Chameleon Theories

Justin Khoury - University of Pennsylvania

Quasar absorption line constraints on variable fundamental constants

Probing the variation of fundamental constants using QSO absorption lines

Raghunathan Srianand - Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Limits on variation of fundamental constants from microwave and infrared transitions in atoms amd molecules

Mikhail Kozlov - University of Turku

Testing the m_p/m_e cosmological variation from H_2 lines in High-Redshift QSO spectra

A.V. Ivanchik - Ioffe Institute

In search for mu-variation: laboratory spectroscopy and astronomical observations of molecular hydrogen

Wim Ubachs - Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU University) - Department of Physics and Astronomy

Coupling variations and equivalence principle violations in string inspired scenarios

Federico Piazza - Aix-Marseille University

Reconstructing the evolution of dark energy with the variaton of fundamental parameters

Nelson Nunes - University of Cambridge

How to test mutiverse theories

Lee Smolin - Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Hadronic Mass Variation in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Julian Berengut - University of New South Wales (UNSW)