Cold Atoms For Testing Quantum Mechanics and Parity Violation In Gravitation

Techniques of Atom trapping and laser cooling have proved to be very important tools in probing many aspects of fundamental physics. In this talk I wish to present ideas on how they may used to settle certain issues in the foundational aspects of quantum mechanics on the one hand and about some quantum gravitational interactions of matter that violate parity and time-reversal, on the other hand.