Check out our daily programme.
Kindly note that event locations may vary:
The welcome reception on Sunday will be in the Djanogly Art Gallery.
The programme on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday will start in the Trent Building.
Events on Tuesday afternoon will be taking place in the Physics Building.
The Art and Philosophy day on Wednesday will take place in the Djanogly Recital Hall.
Welcome reception and private viewing of Cosmic Titans
Registration
Welcome by Silke Weinfurtner
Ruth Gregory
"The helium black hole simulator"
Dmitry Solnyshkov
"Analogue black hole merger in polariton condensates"
Friederich Koenig
"Bright solitons ring like black holes"
Coffee break
Elisabeth Giacobino
"Analogue quantum field theory simulation on bespoke curved spacetimes"
Sangshin Baak
"Number-conserving approach to backreaction in analogue gravity"
Marion Cromb
"Beyond the binary: a ‘revolutionary’ approach to physics and life"
Thematic discussion: Quantum black holes
Chair: Konstantinos Kokkotas
Lunch
Xavier Rojas
"Microwave optomechanics for detecting third-sound waves in analogue gravity systems"
Germain Tobar
"Witnessing vacuum particle content with quantum-controlled boundary conditions"
Tobi Haas
"Information measures for quantum simulators"
Thematic discussion: Quantum optomechanics
Chair: Hendrik Ulbricht
Alessandro Zenesini
"False vacuum decay: how magnetism meets cosmology in ultracold atoms"
Transfer to Senate Chamber
Poster session
Nick Proukakis
"Simulating an observed galactic halo as an interacting quantum gas"
Scott Robertson
"Particle and entanglement production in an analogue preheating experiment"
Stefan Floerchinger & Christian Schmidt
"Cosmological particle production formulated as a scattering problem and quantum simulated"
Coffee break
Christoph Westbrook
"Generation of entangled phonon modes in a modulated Bose-Einstein condensate"
Ian Spielman
"The Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a binary quantum fluid"
Victor Gondret
"Quantifying entanglement of two-mode Gaussian states of bosons from their full counting statistics"
Thematic discussion: Cosmology I
Chair: Matthew Johnson
Lunch
Maurício Richartz
"Exploring vorticity in analogue black holes: superradiance and superradiant instabilities"
Sam Patrick
"Black hole ringdown in laboratory analogues"
Horacio Santana Vieira
"Quasibound states of Unruh acoustic black holes with circulation"
Liam Farrell
"Quantum dam-breaks and sonic horizons in expanding Bose-Einstein condensates"
Thematic discussion: Analogue black holes
Chair: Nils Andersson
Transfer to Physics Building
Refreshments
Photon Bricks workshop
Tour of the Gravity Laboratory
QSimFP consortium meeting
Helen Kennedy
"Designing possible worlds: technological frontiers in immersive experience research"
Ulrike Kuchner
"Where Art and Science meet: creativity, collaboration, and discovery"
Patrik Svancara
"Photon Bricks"
Alistair McClymont
"An Early Universe"
Coffee break
Bryan Roberts
"Why black holes and their analogues are hot"
Karen Crowther
"What's special about analogue experiments?"
Lunch
Michael Berry
"The physics of light in eighty pictures"
Coffee break
Lina Jansson
"Explanation and confirmation in analogue simulations: when loveliness enables likeliness"
Niels Linnemann
"Understanding gravity through analogies"
Thematic discussion: Philosophy of science
Chair: Conor Cunningham
Refreshments
Ruth Gregory and Conrad Shawcross
"Black holes"
Ralf Schützhold
"Ultra-cold atoms as quantum simulators for relativistic phenomena"
Robert Mann
"Harvesting entanglement in the lab?"
Cisco Gooding
"Unruh detectors in unruly simulators"
María Rosa Preciado-Rivas
"Quantum superposition of permittivities"
Coffee break
Grégoire Ithier
"Many-body density of states of a system of non interacting quantum particles"
Maria Chiara Braidotti
"Unveiling the power of rotation: amplified waves and quantum entanglement"
Tales Rick Perche
"Operationally quantifying the entanglement in quantum field theory"
Thematic discussion: Relativistic quantum information
Chair: Jorma Louko
Lunch
Ian Moss
"The hot big bang in a cold gas"
Duncan O'Dell
"Quantum catastrophes in expanding Bose-Einstein condensates"
Coffee break
Alex Jenkins
"Cold-atom analogues for vacuum decay"
Alex Jenkins, on behalf of the Cavendish QSimFP group
"Update on Cambridge’s false vacuum decay setup"
Thomas Billam
"Bubble nucleation and expansion in cold atomic gases: boundaries, bubble correlations and collisions"
Emilie Hertig
"Probing the effective potential in lattice simulations of false vacuum decay"
Thematic discussion: False vacuum decay
Chair: Hiranya Peiris
Banquet
David Kaiser
"Preparing the Big Bang: nonlinear processes in post-inflation reheating"
Anastasios Avgoustidis
"Cosmic reheating in an analogue 2-fluid system"
Thomas Gasenzer
"Universal dynamics with sub-diffusive scaling: sine-Gordon-type low-energy effective theory"
Coffee break
Elinor Kath & Markus Oberthaler
"Quantum field simulator: bouncing cosmology and supersolidity"
Clare Burrage
"Searching for screened scalar fields"
Thematic discussion: Cosmology II
Chair: Oliver Gould
Lunch
David Kaiser
"Quantum Legacies: Grappling with Quantum Theory over a Turbulent Century"
Networking
Silke Weinfurtner
"Closing remarks"
Coffee break & Workshop close