CDSAGENDA V.5 Workshop on Effective Gravity in Fluids and Superfluids

Workshop on Effective Gravity in Fluids and Superfluids

Cosponsor(s):

Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanti (SISSA)International School for Advanced Studies

Start Time:

9 July 2012 at 08:30

Ends On:

13 July 2012

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

AGH (Giambiagi Lecture Hall)

Organizer(s):

Directors: Joseph Niemela (ICTP), W.G. Unruh (Canada), Silke Weinfurtner (SISSA)

Description:

A major problem of quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, and quantum gravity more generally, is the lack of sufficient observational and experimental guidance. To address this issue we proposing a multidisciplinary workshop to stimulate the exchange of ideas involving possible connections between quantum gravity and easy-to-access physical systems whose description is well-established in other fields, such as fluid dynamics and superfluidity. The proposed workshop brings together the following communities:

• Semi-classical quantum gravity
• Analogue gravity
• Experimental and theoretical fluid dynamics
• Experimental and theoretical superfluidity

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Material:

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Monday, 9 July 2012

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

08:30
09:15

REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES

45'

Room: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)

09:15
09:30

Welcome and about ICTP

15'

Joseph Niemela
ICTP, Trieste, Italy

09:30
10:15

Analogue Models of Gravity: The ubiquitous space-time

45'

Stefano Liberati
SISSA, Trieste, Italy

10:15
10:45

Coffee break

30'

10:45
11:30

Fundamental effects in the laboratory

45'

Ralf Schutzhold
University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

11:30
12:15

Robustness of superradiance against modified dispersion relations

45'

Mauricio Richartz
Universidad do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil

12:15
12:30

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Matt Visser

15'

12:30
14:00

Lunch break

01h30'

14:00
14:45

Trans-Planckian terrains of spacetime and its analogs

45'

Ted Jacobson
University of Maryland, USA

14:45
15:30

The trans-Planckian problem as guiding principle

45'

Carlos Barcelo
Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain

15:30
15:45

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Bill Unruh

15'

15:45
16:15

Coffee break

30'

16:15
17:00

Black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity

45'

Thomas Sotiriou
SISSA, Trieste, Italy

16:45
17:15

Spacetime from bits

30'

Silke Weinfurtner
SISSA, Trieste, Italy

17:00
17:45

How spacetime could be simultaneously continuous and discrete in the same way that information can be.

45'

Achim Kempf
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

17:45
18:15

DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - Chaired by Bill and Matt)

30'

Tuesday, 10 July 2012

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

08:30
09:15

Fibre-optical analogue of the event horizon

45'

Ulf Leonhard
University of St Andrews, UK

09:15
10:00

Negative frequency generation in flowing optical media

45'

Danielle Faccio
Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

10:00
10:15

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Renaud Parentani

15'

10:15
10:45

Coffee break

30'

10:45
11:30

Quantum vacuum radiation in optical glass

45'

Matt Visser
Victoria University of Wellington, Australia

11:30
12:15

Quantum vacuum emission from strong light pulses

45'

Stefano Finazzi
SISSA, Trieste, Italy

12:15
12:30

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Renaud Parentani

15'

12:30
14:00

Lunch break

01h30'

14:00
14:45

Nonlocality of nonlinearity and fluctuations near sonic horizon

45'

Victor Fleurov
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

14:45
15:30

An event horizon in an optical analogue of a Laval nozzle

45'

Shimshon Barad
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

15:30
15:45

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ted Jacobson

15'

15:45
16:15

Coffee break

30'

16:15
17:00

Spacetime from bits

45'

Silke Weinfurtner
SISSA, Trieste, Italy

17:00
17:30

DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - chaired by Ted and Renaud)

30'

Wednesday, 11 July 2012

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

08:30
09:15

Measurement of the Hawking Temperature for an Analog Horizon

45'

Bill Unruh
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Vancouver, Canada

09:15
10:00

What one can measure in rotating and stratified flows

45'

Bob Ecke
Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

10:00
10:15

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Joseph Niemela

15'

10:15
10:45

Coffee break

30'

10:45
11:30

Hawking Emission in a Laboratory Flume

45'

Greg Lawrence
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

11:30
12:15

Hydrodynamic black/white hole analogues and the trans-Planckian problem

45'

Gil Jannes
Aalto University School of Science, Aalto, Finland

12:15
12:30

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Joseph Niemela

15'

12:30
14:00

Lunch break

01h30'

14:00
14:45

Massive modes and undulations

45'

Alessandro Fabbri
Univ. Valencia CSIC, Burjassot, Spain

14:45
15:30

Bathtub vortex flows

45'

Anders Andersen
the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

15:30
15:45

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Chris Westbrook

15'

15:45
16:15

Coffee break

30'

16:15
17:00

Irrotational flows and vortex lines in superfluid helium and atomic condensates

45'

Carlo F. Barenghi
University of Newcastle, UK

17:00
17:45

Memory driven wave-particle duality

45'

Emmanuel Fort
Institut Langevin ESPCI ParisTech, France

17:45
18:30

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Chris Westbrook

45'

Thursday, 12 July 2012

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

08:30
09:15

Numerical methods for analogue gravity BECs

45'

Piyush Jain
University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada

09:15
10:00

The consequences of causality for tunable condensates undergoing rapid magnetic field quenches

45'

R. Rivers
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK

10:00
10:15

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ralf Schuetzhold

15'

10:15
10:45

Coffee break

30'

10:45
11:30

Signature-change events and trans-Planckian physics in Bose-Einstein condensates

45'

Angela White
Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK

11:30
12:15

Black hole physics in BEC

45'

Renaud Parentani
Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France

12:15
12:30

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ralf Schuetzhold

15'

12:30
14:00

Lunch break

01h30'

14:00
14:45

Ab-initio studies of Hawking radiation effects in atomic and optical superfluids

45'

Iacopo Carusotto
Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy

14:45
15:30

Resonant Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates

45'

Ivar Zapata
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

15:30
15:45

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Carlo Barenghi

15'

15:45
16:15

Coffee break

30'

16:15
17:00

Analoge Hawking radiation from a step-like event horizon in out-of-equilibrium superfluid

45'

Dario Gerace
Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

17:00
17:45

TBA

45'

Bob Bingham
STFC/RAL, Didcot, UK.

17:45
18:30

DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - chaired by Ralf and Carlo)

45'

20:00
20:00

CONFERENCE DINNER FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS - Menarosti Restaurant in Trieste, on Thursday 12 July 2012 - Be at bus stop below Adriatico Guest House for boarding a special bus at 19:15.

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Friday, 13 July 2012

Room: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall

08:30
09:15

A meta-stable Mott insulator state with strong attractive interactions

45'

Manfred Mark
University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

09:15
10:00

An acoustic analogue to the dynamical Casimir effect in a BEC

45'

Christoph Westbrook
Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France

09:15
10:00

Atom optics in a guided environment

45'

D. Guery-Odelin
Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

10:00
10:15

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Achim Kempf

15'

10:15
10:45

Coffee break

30'

10:45
11:30

Microscopically shaping environments for ultracold atoms on chips and analog models

45'

Peter Kruger
the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

11:30
12:15

Thermal phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate

45'

Jeff Steinhauer
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

12:15
12:30

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Achim Kempf

15'

12:30
14:00

Lunch break

01h30'

14:00
14:45

Relativistic Entanglement

45'

Ivette Fuentes
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

14:45
15:30

Entanglement, cavities, metrology and more

45'

David Edward Bruschi
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

15:30
15:45

DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ray Rivers

15'

15:45
16:15

Coffee break

30'

16:15
17:00

Shaking Entanglement

45'

Nicolai Friis
University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK

17:00
17:30

DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - Chaired by Ray and Achim)

30'