Workshop on Effective Gravity in Fluids and Superfluids

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Workshop on Effective Gravity in Fluids and Superfluids | (smr 2355)

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Monday, 9 July 2012
- 08:30 - 09:15 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
  
  Location: Adriatico Guest House - Giambiagi Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
  - 08:30 REGISTRATION AND ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES 45'
- 09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and about ICTP
  - 09:15 Welcome and about ICTP 15'
    
    Speaker: Joseph Niemela (ICTP, Trieste, Italy)
- 09:30 - 10:15 Analogue Models of Gravity: The ubiquitous space-time
  - 09:30 Analogue Models of Gravity: The ubiquitous space-time 45'
    
    Speaker: Stefano Liberati (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
  - 10:15 Coffee break 30'
- 10:45 - 11:30 Fundamental effects in the laboratory
  - 10:45 Fundamental effects in the laboratory 45'
    
    Speaker: Ralf Schutzhold (University of Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany)
- 11:30 - 12:15 Robustness of superradiance against modified dispersion relations
  - 11:30 Robustness of superradiance against modified dispersion relations 45'
    
    Speaker: Mauricio Richartz (Universidad do ABC, São Paulo, Brazil)
- 12:15 - 12:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Matt Visser
  - 12:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Matt Visser 15'
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
  - 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Trans-Planckian terrains of spacetime and its analogs
  - 14:00 Trans-Planckian terrains of spacetime and its analogs 45'
    
    Speaker: Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland, USA)
- 14:45 - 15:30 The trans-Planckian problem as guiding principle
  - 14:45 The trans-Planckian problem as guiding principle 45'
    
    Speaker: Carlos Barcelo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Granada, Spain)
- 15:30 - 15:45 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Bill Unruh
  - 15:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Bill Unruh 15'
- 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
- 16:15 - 17:00 Black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity
  - 16:15 Black holes in Lorentz-violating gravity 45'
    
    Speaker: Thomas Sotiriou (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 16:45 - 17:15 Spacetime from bits
  - 16:45 Spacetime from bits 30'
    
    Speaker: 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.
  - 17:00 How spacetime could be simultaneously continuous and discrete in the same way that information can be. 45'
    
    Speaker: Achim Kempf (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
- 17:45 - 18:15 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - Chaired by Bill and Matt)
  - 17:45 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - Chaired by Bill and Matt) 30'
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
- 08:30 - 09:15 Fibre-optical analogue of the event horizon
  - 08:30 Fibre-optical analogue of the event horizon 45'
    
    Speaker: Ulf Leonhard (University of St Andrews, UK)
- 09:15 - 10:00 Negative frequency generation in flowing optical media
  - 09:15 Negative frequency generation in flowing optical media 45'
    
    Speaker: Danielle Faccio (Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
- 10:00 - 10:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Renaud Parentani
  - 10:00 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Renaud Parentani 15'
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
  - 10:15 Coffee break 30'
- 10:45 - 11:30 Quantum vacuum radiation in optical glass
  - 10:45 Quantum vacuum radiation in optical glass 45'
    
    Speaker: Matt Visser (Victoria University of Wellington, Australia)
- 11:30 - 12:15 Quantum vacuum emission from strong light pulses
  - 11:30 Quantum vacuum emission from strong light pulses 45'
    
    Speaker: Stefano Finazzi (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 12:15 - 12:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Renaud Parentani
  - 12:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Renaud Parentani 15'
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
  - 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Nonlocality of nonlinearity and fluctuations near sonic horizon
  - 14:00 Nonlocality of nonlinearity and fluctuations near sonic horizon 45'
    
    Speaker: Victor Fleurov (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
- 14:45 - 15:30 An event horizon in an optical analogue of a Laval nozzle
  - 14:45 An event horizon in an optical analogue of a Laval nozzle 45'
    
    Speaker: Shimshon Barad (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel)
- 15:30 - 15:45 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ted Jacobson
  - 15:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ted Jacobson 15'
- 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
- 16:15 - 17:00 Spacetime from bits
  - 16:15 Spacetime from bits 45'
    
    Speaker: Silke Weinfurtner (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
- 17:00 - 17:30 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - chaired by Ted and Renaud)
  - 17:00 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - chaired by Ted and Renaud) 30'
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
- 08:30 - 09:15 Measurement of the Hawking Temperature for an Analog Horizon
  - 08:30 Measurement of the Hawking Temperature for an Analog Horizon 45'
    
    Speaker: Bill Unruh (Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Vancouver, Canada)
- 09:15 - 10:00 What one can measure in rotating and stratified flows
  - 09:15 What one can measure in rotating and stratified flows 45'
    
    Speaker: Bob Ecke (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
- 10:00 - 10:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Joseph Niemela
  - 10:00 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Joseph Niemela 15'
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
  - 10:15 Coffee break 30'
- 10:45 - 11:30 Hawking Emission in a Laboratory Flume
  - 10:45 Hawking Emission in a Laboratory Flume 45'
    
    Speaker: Greg Lawrence (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
- 11:30 - 12:15 Hydrodynamic black/white hole analogues and the trans-Planckian problem
  - 11:30 Hydrodynamic black/white hole analogues and the trans-Planckian problem 45'
    
    Speaker: Gil Jannes (Aalto University School of Science, Aalto, Finland)
- 12:15 - 12:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Joseph Niemela
  - 12:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Joseph Niemela 15'
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
  - 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Massive modes and undulations
  - 14:00 Massive modes and undulations 45'
    
    Speaker: Alessandro Fabbri (Univ. Valencia CSIC, Burjassot, Spain)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Bathtub vortex flows
  - 14:45 Bathtub vortex flows 45'
    
    Speaker: Anders Andersen (the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark)
- 15:30 - 15:45 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Chris Westbrook
  - 15:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Chris Westbrook 15'
- 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
- 16:15 - 17:00 Irrotational flows and vortex lines in superfluid helium and atomic condensates
  - 16:15 Irrotational flows and vortex lines in superfluid helium and atomic condensates 45'
    
    Speaker: Carlo F. Barenghi (University of Newcastle, UK)
- 17:00 - 17:45 Memory driven wave-particle duality
  - 17:00 Memory driven wave-particle duality 45'
    
    Speaker: Emmanuel Fort (Institut Langevin ESPCI ParisTech, France)
- 17:45 - 18:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Chris Westbrook
  - 17:45 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Chris Westbrook 45'
Thursday, 12 July 2012
- 08:30 - 09:15 Numerical methods for analogue gravity BECs
  - 08:30 Numerical methods for analogue gravity BECs 45'
    
    Speaker: Piyush Jain (University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada)
- 09:15 - 10:00 The consequences of causality for tunable condensates undergoing rapid magnetic field quenches
  - 09:15 The consequences of causality for tunable condensates undergoing rapid magnetic field quenches 45'
    
    Speaker: R. Rivers (Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK)
- 10:00 - 10:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ralf Schuetzhold
  - 10:00 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ralf Schuetzhold 15'
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
  - 10:15 Coffee break 30'
- 10:45 - 11:30 Signature-change events and trans-Planckian physics in Bose-Einstein condensates
  - 10:45 Signature-change events and trans-Planckian physics in Bose-Einstein condensates 45'
    
    Speaker: Angela White (Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK)
- 11:30 - 12:15 Black hole physics in BEC
  - 11:30 Black hole physics in BEC 45'
    
    Speaker: Renaud Parentani (Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France)
- 12:15 - 12:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ralf Schuetzhold
  - 12:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ralf Schuetzhold 15'
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
  - 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Ab-initio studies of Hawking radiation effects in atomic and optical superfluids
  - 14:00 Ab-initio studies of Hawking radiation effects in atomic and optical superfluids 45'
    
    Speaker: Iacopo Carusotto (Università degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Resonant Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates
  - 14:45 Resonant Hawking radiation in Bose-Einstein condensates 45'
    
    Speaker: Ivar Zapata (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain)
- 15:30 - 15:45 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Carlo Barenghi
  - 15:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Carlo Barenghi 15'
- 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
- 16:15 - 17:00 Analoge Hawking radiation from a step-like event horizon in out-of-equilibrium superfluid
  - 16:15 Analoge Hawking radiation from a step-like event horizon in out-of-equilibrium superfluid 45'
    
    Speaker: Dario Gerace (Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
- 17:00 - 17:45 TBA
  - 17:00 TBA 45'
    
    Speaker: Bob Bingham (STFC/RAL, Didcot, UK.)
- 17:45 - 18:30 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - chaired by Ralf and Carlo)
  - 17:45 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.
  - 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.
Friday, 13 July 2012
- 08:30 - 09:15 A meta-stable Mott insulator state with strong attractive interactions
  - 08:30 A meta-stable Mott insulator state with strong attractive interactions 45'
    
    Speaker: Manfred Mark (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria)
- 09:15 - 10:00 An acoustic analogue to the dynamical Casimir effect in a BEC
  - 09:15 An acoustic analogue to the dynamical Casimir effect in a BEC 45'
    
    Speaker: Christoph Westbrook (Laboratoire Charles Fabry de l'Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France)
- 09:15 - 10:00 Atom optics in a guided environment
  - 09:15 Atom optics in a guided environment 45'
    
    Speaker: D. Guery-Odelin (Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France)
- 10:00 - 10:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Achim Kempf
  - 10:00 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Achim Kempf 15'
- 10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
  - 10:15 Coffee break 30'
- 10:45 - 11:30 Microscopically shaping environments for ultracold atoms on chips and analog models
  - 10:45 Microscopically shaping environments for ultracold atoms on chips and analog models 45'
    
    Speaker: Peter Kruger (the University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
- 11:30 - 12:15 Thermal phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate
  - 11:30 Thermal phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate 45'
    
    Speaker: Jeff Steinhauer (Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel)
- 12:15 - 12:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Achim Kempf
  - 12:15 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Achim Kempf 15'
- 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
  - 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
- 14:00 - 14:45 Relativistic Entanglement
  - 14:00 Relativistic Entanglement 45'
    
    Speaker: Ivette Fuentes (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
- 14:45 - 15:30 Entanglement, cavities, metrology and more
  - 14:45 Entanglement, cavities, metrology and more 45'
    
    Speaker: David Edward Bruschi (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
- 15:30 - 15:45 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ray Rivers
  - 15:30 DISCUSSIONS - Chair: Ray Rivers 15'
- 15:45 - 16:15 Coffee break
  - 15:45 Coffee break 30'
- 16:15 - 17:00 Shaking Entanglement
  - 16:15 Shaking Entanglement 45'
    
    Speaker: Nicolai Friis (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
- 17:00 - 17:30 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - Chaired by Ray and Achim)
  - 17:00 DISCUSSIONS (Round table discussion - Chaired by Ray and Achim) 30'