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

Europe/London
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      Welcome
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      William Unruh - University of British Columbia; Vancouver, Canada. Detection of acceleration temperature in BEC
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      Martin Bojowald - Pennsylvania State University; University Park, United States. A moment approach to non-adiabatic quantum dynamics
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
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      Julien Grain - Paris-Saclay University - CNRS; Orsay, France. Stochastic inflation: modeling the back reaction of quantum fluctuations in cosmology
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      Ivan Agullo - Louisiana State University; Baton Rouge, United States. Quantum aspects of stimulated Hawking radiation on an analog white-black Hole pair
    • 12:30
      Lunch
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      Bei-Lok Hu - University of Maryland; College Park, United States. Quantum Fluctuations in Gravity: Gravitational Cat State, Graviton Noise and Stochastic Gravity
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      Luca Giacomelli - University of Paris; Paris, France. Toy-model black holes in BECs: quantum superradiance and more 15:15
    • 15:15
      Coffee break
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      Larry Ford (Remote talk) - Tuft University; Medford, United States. Analog Models for Quantum Stress Tensor Fluctuations
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      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
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      Poster Session

      Hugo Candan, University of Edinburgh - Detecting quantum noise in primordial gravitational waves

      Riccardo Falcone, Sapienza Roma - Observing single-particles beyond the Rindler horizon

      Kevin Falque, Kastler Brossel Laboratory - Experimental investigation of quasi-normal modes and Hawking effect in a polariton fluid

      Moatasem Hassan, University of Edinburgh - Entangelment Entropy in the Early Universe

      Haruna Katayama, Hiroshima University - A soliton black hole using SNAILs

      Bettina Beverungen, Humboldt University of Berlin - Fluctuation-induced interactions in non-trivial geometries

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      Jeff Steinhauer - Technion; Haifa, Israel. Hawking radiation in the presence of two analogue horizons
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      Ian Moss - Newcastle University; Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. The hot big bang in a cold gas
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      Elisabeth Giacobino - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel - Sorbonne University; Paris, France. Analog gravity and Hawking effect in a quantum fluid of light
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
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      Fabio Biancalana - Heriot-Watt University; Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Nonlinear Optics and the Holographic Principle
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      Gregory Kaplanek - Imperial College London; London, United Kingdom. Decoherence in de Sitter space
    • 12:30
      Lunch
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      Gabriele Ferrari - University of Trento; Trento, Italy. Observation of Massless and Massive Collective Excitations in a Two-Component Superfluid
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      David Bermudez - Cinvestav; Mexico City, Mexico. Effective Michelson interference observed in fiber-optical analogue of Hawking radiation
    • 15:15
      Coffee Break
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      Daniele Faccio - University of Glasgow; Glasgow, United Kingdom. Fundamental phenomena in a rotating world
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      Cisco Gooding - University of Nottingham; Nottingham, United Kingdom. Detecting the Unruh Effect in an Analogue
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      Friedrich König - University of St. Andrews; St. Andrews, United Kingdom. Optical Soliton Analogue of Black Hole Quasinormal Mode Oscillations
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      Social dinner (Amber restaurant, 354 Castlehill)
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      Miles Blencowe - Dartmouth College; Hanover, United States. Analogue gravity with optomechanical circuit systems
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      Silke Weinfurtner - University of Nottingham; Nottingham, United Kingdom. Preheating experiments
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      Francesco Intravaia - Humboldt University of Berlin; Berlin, Germany. On the physics of Quantum Friction
    • 11:00
      Coffee break
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      Jibril Ben Achour - Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics; Munich, Germany. From gravity to fluid mechanics via dynamical symmetries
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      Thomas Colas - Paris-Saclay University; Paris, France. Cosmological Master Equations
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      Final discussions & Conclusions - Chairs: Iacopo Carusotto, S. Giulio Butera, Suddho Brahma
    • 13:00
      Lunch