Analogue models of gravity and fluctuation-induced phenomena (Higgs Centre Workshop)

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27 Jun / 08:00—08:30

Welcome (0h30′)

27 Jun / 08:30—09:15

William Unruh - University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada. Detection of acceleration temperature in BEC (0h45′)

27 Jun / 09:15—10:00

Martin Bojowald - Pennsylvania State University; University Park, United States. A moment approach to non-adiabatic quantum dynamics (0h45′)

27 Jun / 10:30—11:00

Julien Grain - Paris-Saclay University - CNRS; Orsay, France. Stochastic inflation: modeling the back reaction of quantum fluctuations in cosmology (0h30′)

27 Jun / 11:00—11:30

Ivan Agullo - Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, United States. Quantum aspects of stimulated Hawking radiation on an analog white-black Hole pair (0h30′)

27 Jun / 13:00—13:45

Bei-Lok Hu - University of Maryland; College Park, United States. Quantum Fluctuations in Gravity: Gravitational Cat State, Graviton Noise and Stochastic Gravity (0h45′)

27 Jun / 13:45—14:15

Luca Giacomelli - University of Paris; Paris, France. Toy-model black holes in BECs: quantum superradiance and more 15:15 (0h30′)

27 Jun / 14:45—15:30

Larry Ford (Remote talk) - Tuft University; Medford, United States. Analog Models for Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations (0h45′)

27 Jun / 15:30—16:00

Maxime Jacquet - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel - Sorbonne University; Paris, France. Vacuum quantum excitation of the quasi-normal modes of an analogue black hole in a polariton fluid (0h30′)

27 Jun / 16:00—16:20

Poster Session (0h20′)

28 Jun / 08:00—08:45

Jeff Steinhauer - Technion; Haifa, Israel. Hawking radiation in the presence of two analogue horizons (0h45′)

28 Jun / 08:45—09:30

Ian Moss - Newcastle University; Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. The hot big bang in a cold gas (0h45′)

28 Jun / 09:30—10:00

Elisabeth Giacobino - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel - Sorbonne University; Paris, France. Analog gravity and Hawking effect in a quantum fluid of light (0h30′)

28 Jun / 10:30—11:00

Fabio Biancalana - Heriot-Watt University; Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Nonlinear Optics and the Holographic Principle (0h30′)

28 Jun / 11:00—11:30

Gregory Kaplanek - Imperial College London; London, United Kingdom. Decoherence in de Sitter space (0h30′)

28 Jun / 13:00—13:45

Gabriele Ferrari - University of Trento; Trento, Italy. Observation of Massless and Massive Collective Excitations in a Two-Component Superfluid (0h45′)

28 Jun / 13:45—14:15

David Bermudez - Cinvestav; Mexico City, Mexico. Effective Michelson interference observed in fiber-optical analogue of Hawking radiation (0h30′)

28 Jun / 14:45—15:30

Daniele Faccio - University of Glasgow; Glasgow, United Kingdom. Fundamental phenomena in a rotating world (0h45′)

28 Jun / 15:30—16:00

Cisco Gooding - University of Nottingham; Nottingham, United Kingdom. Detecting the Unruh Effect in an Analogue (0h30′)

28 Jun / 16:00—16:30

Friedrich König - University of St. Andrews; St. Andrews, United Kingdom. Optical Soliton Analogue of Black Hole Quasinormal Mode Oscillations (0h30′)

28 Jun / 18:30—20:30

Social dinner (Amber restaurant, 354 Castlehill) (2h00′)

29 Jun / 08:00—08:45

Miles Blencowe - Dartmouth College; Hanover, United States. Analogue gravity with optomechanical circuit systems (0h45′)

29 Jun / 08:45—09:30

Silke Weinfurtner - University of Nottingham; Nottingham, United Kingdom. Preheating experiments (0h45′)

29 Jun / 09:30—10:00

Francesco Intravaia - Humboldt University of Berlin; Berlin, Germany. On the physics of Quantum Friction (0h30′)

29 Jun / 10:30—11:00

Jibril Ben Achour - Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics; Munich, Germany. From gravity to fluid mechanics via dynamical symmetries (0h30′)

29 Jun / 11:00—11:30

Thomas Colas - Paris-Saclay University; Paris, France. Cosmological Master Equations (0h30′)

29 Jun / 11:30—12:00

Final discussions & Conclusions - Chairs: Iacopo Carusotto, S. Giulio Butera, Suddho Brahma (0h30′)