SCALES 1st General Meeting - Superfluid Condensates in Astrophysics and Laboratory Experiments

Session

NS - generic

26 Jun 2026, 09:00

Physics Department, University of Coimbra

Conveners

NS - generic: 1st morning session

• Armen Sedrakian (University of Wroclaw and FIAS)

51. The dense-matter equation of state from cold neutron stars to protoneutron stars: status, methods, and signatures

Mr Tuhin Malik (CFisUC, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra)

26/06/2026, 09:00

Talk

The equation of state (EoS) of strongly interacting matter at the densities reached inside neutron stars (NSs) sits at the interface of low-energy nuclear theory, perturbative QCD, and multi-messenger astronomy. In this talk I will first review the current status of the zero-temperature EoS and the constraints that shape it: chiral effective field theory below nuclear saturation, perturbative...

57. Investigating the nuclear matter equation of state with neutron stars

Melissa Mendes (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

26/06/2026, 09:50

Talk

Neutron star interiors are very interesting environments to probe the nuclear matter equation of state (EOS), especially at the limit of high density and temperature. In this talk, I will discuss two approaches to constraining the neutron star EOS. The first approach consists of constraining the EOS with observations of neutron star mass, radius, and tidal deformability. I will explain how...

13. How effectively can Neural Posterior Estimation infer the Neutron Star Equation of State?

Valéria Carvalho

26/06/2026, 10:15

Talk

The equation of state (EoS) of neutron star matter encodes the relationship between pressure and density at supranuclear densities, fundamentally governing the star’s structure and observable macroscopic properties, such as mass, radius, and tidal deformability. In this work, we apply Neural Posterior Estimation (NPE) with conditional normalising flows to infer the EoS from synthetic...