Analogue Gravity in 2026
Analogue Gravity in 2026

Organizers:

I. Agullo (Louisiana State University), A. Fabbri (University of Valencia), M. Jacquet (Paris Sorbonne University), J. Wilson (Louisiana State University)


Thursday, January 08

10:00-11:00 Registration
11:00-13:00 Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and analogue gravity
JOSE NAVARRO-SALAS
13:00-14:00 Analog gravity in Bose Einstein Condensates
Iacopo Carusotto
14:00-15:30 Lunch break
15:30-17:30 Relativistic Quantum information
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-20:00 Analog gravity in Bose Einstein Condensates
Iacopo Carusotto
20:00-21:30 Welcome reception

Friday, January 09

15:30-17:30 Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and analogue gravity
JOSE NAVARRO-SALAS
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-20:00 Relativistic Quantum information

Saturday, January 10

11:00-12:00 Analog gravity in Bose Einstein Condensates
Elinor Kath
12:00-14:00 Relativistic Quantum information
14:00-15:30 Lunch break
15:30-16:10 Fluids of light, dynamical effects, Hawking radiation and super-radiance
Alberto Bramati
16:10-17:30 Fluids of light, dynamical effects, Hawking radiation and super-radiance
Kevin Falque
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-20:00 Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes and analogue gravity

Monday, January 12

11:00-12:00 Fluids of light, dynamical effects, Hawking radiation and super-radiance
12:00-14:00 Analog gravity in Bose Einstein Condensates
14:00-15:30 Lunch break
15:30-16:30 Gravitational dynamics in analogue systems: a proposal
Daniele Oriti
16:30-17:10 Dispersive waves in inhomogeneous media: vortex flows, black holes and beyond?
Samuel Patrick
17:10-17:30 Hawking Time Crystals
Juan Ramón Muñoz de Nova
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-18:30 Toward probing QFT vacuum entanglement
Adrià Delhom i Latorre
18:30-18:50 Collective excitations of quantum gravity condensates
Andrea Calcinari

Tuesday, January 13

15:30-16:30 Hydrodynamical black holes in theory and in practice
Scott Robertson
16:30-16:50 Field theory description of surface and vorticity waves incident on an analogue black hole
Alessia Biondi
16:50-17:10 Quantum metasurfaces as probes of vacuum particle content
Germain Tobar
17:10-17:30 Spatially resolved 2d velocity reconstruction using bragg spectroscopy
Jelte Duchene
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-18:20 Superradiance and Ergoregion Instabilities in Rotating Polariton Fluids
Paula Calizaya Cabrera
18:20-18:40 Experimental observation of rotational superradiance in a polariton quantum fluid
Killian Guerrero
18:40-19:00 Probing Penrose-type singularities inside sonic black holes
Satadal Datta

Wednesday, January 14

11:00-12:00 Quantum Hall, Quantum Optics and Analog Gravity
Smitha Vishveshwara
12:00-14:00 Analogue gravity in non-linear optical systems
David Bermudez Rosales
14:00-15:30 Lunch break
15:30-16:30 Exploiting rotation: from the amplification of waves to the generation of quantum correlations (ONLINE)
Maria Chiara Braidotti
16:30-16:50 Spectral cascade formation in a two-fluid analogue cosmology system
Seán Gregory
16:50-17:10 Exploring highly nonlinear wave interactions in classical and quantum fluid dynamical simulators
Silvia Schiattarella
17:10-17:30 Analogue gravity experiments in superfluid helium
Chris Goodwin
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-18:20 The Analogue Unruh Effect in Thin-Film Superfluid Helium-4
Ilaria Dimina
18:20-18:40 Analogue Black hole Spectroscopy
Leonardo Solidoro
18:40-19:00 Acoustic black holes in becs with an extended sonic region
Daniel Peñalver
19:00-19:20 Implications of quantum trajectories for a superposition universe
Lisa Mickel

Thursday, January 15

11:00-12:00 Analogue gravity in non-linear optical systems
David Bermudez Rosales
12:00-14:00 Quantum Hall, Quantum Optics and Analog Gravity
Smitha Vishveshwara
14:00-15:50 Lunch break
15:50-16:50 Quantun features of a BEC analog black hole
Nicolas Pavloff
16:50-17:10 Thermodynamics of analogue black holes in a non-Hermitian tight-binding model
Diego Felipe Munoz Arboleda
17:10-17:30 Worldline instantons for non-perturbative particle production in metrics that depend on both space and time
Philip Semrén
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-18:20 Towards an analog de sitter schwinger effect
António Manso
18:20-18:40 Simulating particle creation on a quantum computer
Dimitrios Kranas
18:40-19:00 Quantum action of optical instruments: Beam splitter vs parametric amplifier
Isaac Bernal Rodríguez

Friday, January 16

15:30-16:30 Entangled phonon pairs in an analog of cosmological preheating
Christoph Westbrook
16:30-16:50 Curvature-induced anomalous Casimir effect
Loïc Malgrey
16:50-17:10 Classical Electromagnetism as a Pathway beyond Lorentzian Analogues
Sebastian Schuster
17:10-17:30 Correlation and entanglement partners in gaussian systems
Sergi Nadal Gisbert
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-18:20 Backreaction Effects in Analogue Gravity: Number-Conserving Approach
Sang Shin ­Baak
18:20-18:40 Quantum entanglement of Hawking-Partner modes in expanding cavities
José Manuel Montes Armenteros
18:40-19:00 Hawking radiation due to a quench on the surface of a topological superconductor
Shriya Hirve