That is, I don't think its a hoax. Whether or not it its for real or not is something else. I went to the website and looked up the paper on the agenda (there was no abstract, just the title and authors) and it seems that the paper is real and someone is willing to publish the results of this test. The title hints at extreme caution on the part of the authors, which is certainly appropriate.

It does violate a few fundamental physical laws, so if this is for real (as opposed to some accidental but honest error in the test) this is a much bigger story than just a novel means of spacecraft propulsion. This is a really big deal, even if it never makes it past the laboratory curiosity stage. We're talking "inertialess drive", "Dean drive", pushing against the quantum foam itself.

Wow.