Workshop: Cosmology in the Laboratory with Liquid Helium

Workshop on Cosmology and Condensed Matter: Friday 15th August

Organisers: Richard Haley, Grisha Volovik, Ralf Schuetzhold

In recent years there has been a realization that phenomena on a cosmic scale have analogies in the quantum condensates of ultralow temperature physics. This workshop brings together physicists from these very different disciplines to exploit the remarkable correspondences emerging between processes and mechanisms on hugely different scales. The aim is to promote discussion and foster collaboration for the future.

The workshop will be preceded by a morning plenary talk by George Pickett (Lancaster) providing an overview of the field.

Time	Speaker	Title
14:00	M. Krusius	Introduction to Defects in Superfluids
14:15	A.-C. Davis/ M. Sakellariadou	Brane Inflation and Defect Formation/Dynamics of Cosmic Superstrings
14:55	R. Rivers	Kibble-Zurek Causality Bounds and Fundamental Strings
15:20	J. Zaanen	Condensed Matter Physicist's View on AdS-to-high-Tc
15:45	C. Barcelo	Sensitivity of Hawking Radiation to Superluminal Dispersion Relations
16:10		COFFEE/TEA BREAK Posters available in adjacent room
16:30	Y. Kurita	Particle creation in Bose-Einstein Condensates:an analogue of cosmological particle creation
16:55	Y. Bunkov	BEC of magnons (Superfluid 3He example)
17:20	P. Skyba	Non-Goldstone Collective Mode and Symmetry Breaking Field in Superfluid 3He-B
17:35	H. Kleinert	World Crystal and Third Quantization
18:00		CLOSE