Name: SCALES 1st General Meeting - Superfluid Condensates in Astrophysics and Laboratory Experiments
Start: 2026-06-22T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-26T18:10:00+01:00
Location: Physics Department, University of Coimbra

Monday, 22 June 2026

08:00 Registration

08:00 - 08:50

08:50 Opening

08:50 - 09:00
09:00 WG1 - Vortex Dynamics: 1st morning session
1st morning session
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Vortices and glitches in rotating dipolar supersolids - Elena Poli (Pitaevskii BEC Center, CNR-INO, Trento, Italy)

09:50 Modelling Vortex Avalanches in Neutron Stars using the Vortex Filament Model - Julie Jacob Thomas (Newcastle University)

10:15 Vortex Pinning, 2D Turbulence, and Vorticity Avalanches in Nanoconfined Helium-4 - Emil Varga (Univerzita Karlova, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics)
10:40 Coffe Break
Coffe Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 2nd morning session
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Structure and Dynamics of Pairing Field in Inhomogeneous Fermi Superfluids - Bugra Tuzemen (IFPAN)

12:00 Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Fermionic Superfluids: Numerical Approach - Michał Śliwiński (Warsaw University of Technology)

12:25 Vortex-nucleus interaction in the inner crust of neutron star - Daniel Pęcak (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30 1st afternoon session
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Vortex pinning in a spin-triplet superfluid - Riku Rantanen (Aalto University)

15:20 Investigating pinning in neutron stars with simulations and laboratory experiments - Brynmor Haskell (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

15:45 Vortex Avalanches and Pinning Scales - Ali Alpar (Sabanci University)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40 2nd afternoon session
16:40 - 17:55
Contributions

16:40 Josephson effects and atomtronic circuits in atomic superfluids - Klejdja Xhani (Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology)

17:30 Local Quantum Cooling for Large Fermi Systems with Pairing - José Ernesto Alba-Arroyo (Warsaw University of Technology)
18:00 Outreach WG4 EDI session

18:00 - 18:30

18:30 Welcome Reception

18:30 - 20:00
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
09:00 WG2: Superfluid Turbulence: 1st morning session
1st morning session
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Glitch Studies in Superfluid Helium - Rena Zieve (University of California, Davis)

09:50 BEC phase transitions in a system of interacting relativistic bosonic particles and antiparticles at finite temperatures - Denys Zhuravel (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

10:15 Reproducible nucleation and control of stable quantum vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates - Giorgia Iori (Università degli Studi di Milano)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 2nd morning session
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Dynamical universality in a driven quantum fluid of light - Dario Ballarini (CNR Nanotec)

12:00 Cold atoms in an optical cavity: from phase transitions to subradiant scattering - David Nagy (HUN-REN Wigner RCP)

12:25 Bouquets of Topological Defects and Pinning in Neutron Stars - Marco ANTONELLI (CNRS - LPC Caen)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30 1st afternoon session
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Quantum turbulence in a Bose gas close to an anomalous non-thermal fixed point - Thomas Gasenzer (Heidelberg University, Germany)

15:20 Self-consistently connecting the neutron star mode spectrum to fundamental nuclear physics - Duncan Neill (University of Bath)

15:45 Modeling neutron star glithces triggered by superfluid vortex avalanches - Alessandro Costanzo

15:50 Performance and Dynamics of an Ultracold Atomic Superfluid as a Quantum Engine Working Fluid - Henry Harper-Gardner (Newcastle University)

15:55 Interactive 3D Particle-In-Cell Simulation of a Global Pulsar Magnetosphere - Armin Vahdat (University of Tübingen)

16:00 Probing the Stability of Neutron Star Magnetic Fields through Configurational Entropy - Brynmor Haskell (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences) Davide Castellani (Università degli Studi di Milano)
16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40 2nd afternoon session
16:40 - 17:55
Contributions

16:40 Neutron star glitches in dipolar atoms: towards a layered structure - Héctor Briongos-Merino (University of Barcelona, ICCUB)

17:05 Pulse Profile Modulation due to Superfluid Phase Transition in the Pulsar Interior - DEEPTHI GODABA VENKATA (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani)

17:30 Microscopic GPE Calculations for Vortices Interaction in Neutron 1S0 and 3P2 Mixed Phase at the Crust-Core Boundary - Tatsuhiro Hattori (Institute of Science Tokyo)
18:00 Outreach talk

18:00 - 19:00
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
09:00 WG3 - Macroscopic scales - NS and their laboratory analogues: 1st morning session
1st morning session
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories for superfluid dynamics - Nils Andersson

09:50 Tayler-Spruit dynamo, low-field magnetars and central compact objects - Andrei Igoshev (Newcastle University)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 2nd morning session
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Magnetic and Thermal Evolution of Neutron Stars with Superfluid and Superconducting Interiors - Clara Dehman (University of Alicante)

12:00 Interior Magnetic field in Magnetars - Raj Kishor Joshi (CAMK, Warsaw, Poland)

12:25 Turbulence Modelling in Magnetised Neutron Stars - William Cook (FSU Jena)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30

14:30 Free afternoon
Free afternoon
14:30 - 18:30
Thursday, 25 June 2026
09:00 Astro - generic: 1st morning session
1st morning session
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Bulk viscosity and damping of density oscillations in binary neutron star mergers - Arus Harutyunyan (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Yerevan State University)

09:50 Beyond the Taylor Expansion: Systematics in the phase of continuous gravitational wave - Anirudh Nemmani (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, CAMK PAN)

10:15 Beyond the thousands: Lessons from simulating a neutron star with 10^5 quantized vortices - Anantharaman Viswanathan (Ashoka University)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 2nd morning session
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Measuring the crust-superfluid coupling time-scale for 105 UTMOST pulsars - Wenhao Dong (University of Melbourne & OzGrav)

12:00 Constraining neutron star properties with current and future gravitational wave observations of glitching pulsars - Matthew Ball

12:25 Superfluid vorticity, Magnus mountains, and gravitational waves - Ian Jones (University of Southampton)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30 NS crust: 1st afternoon session
1st afternoon session
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 Vortex Avalanches in Neutron Stars - Gary Liu (Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London)

15:20 Entrainment effects in the inner crust and outer core of a neutron star - Nicolas CHAMEL (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

15:45 Reassessing pulsar braking indices: A vortex line–flux tube interaction model - erbil gügercinoğlu (Sabancı University)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40 2nd afternoon session
16:40 - 17:55
Contributions

16:40 Superfluid fraction in the inner crust of neutron stars - Giorgio Almirante

17:05 Josephson currents in neutron stars - Armen Sedrakian (University of Wroclaw and FIAS)

17:30 Hydrodynamic Simulation of Glitches in Neutron Star Crusts - Charlie Perkins (Newcastle University)
18:00 MC meeting

18:00 - 19:30

20:00 Conference dinner

20:00 - 22:00
Friday, 26 June 2026
09:00 NS - generic: 1st morning session
1st morning session
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 The dense-matter equation of state from cold neutron stars to protoneutron stars: status, methods, and signatures - Tuhin Malik (CFisUC, Department of Physics, University of Coimbra)

09:50 Investigating the nuclear matter equation of state with neutron stars - Melissa Mendes (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

10:15 How effectively can Neural Posterior Estimation infer the Neutron Star Equation of State? - Valéria Carvalho
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 2nd morning session
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Black hole microstates and strongly coupled hydrodynamics - Mihailo Cubrovic (Institute of Physics Belgrade)

12:00 Calibrating the medium effects of light clusters in heavy-ion collisions - Tiago Custódio

12:25 Bayesian inference of hybrid stars with large quark cores - Milena Albino (University of Coimbra)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:30
14:30 1st afternoon session
14:30 - 16:10
Contributions

14:30 From effective field theories of higher-form symmetries to neutron stars and superfluids - Saso Grozdanov (University of Edinburgh, University of Ljubljana)

15:20 Amortized Neural Posterior Estimation for Relativistic Mean-Field Constraints on the Neutron-Star Equation of State - Prashant Thakur (Yonsei University)

15:45 Hybrid star with the NJL model using a density-dependent vector coupling - Rafael Cardoso (Federal University of Santa Catarina and University of Coimbra)
16:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40 2nd afternoon session
16:40 - 17:55
Contributions

16:40 Role of the δ meson in the direct Urca cooling of neutron stars - Luigi Scurto (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Infn)

17:05 Statistical Analysis of Neutron Star Cooling: Implications for the Nuclear Equation of State and Nucleon Pairing - Afonso Ávila (University of Coimbra)

17:30 Persistent gravitational radiation from glitching pulsars - Thippayawis Cheunchitra (The University of Melbourne)
18:00 Closing

18:00 - 18:10