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

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

from Monday, June 22, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 26, 2026 (6:10 PM)

Monday, June 22, 2026

8:00 AM Registration

8:00 AM - 8:50 AM

8:50 AM Opening

8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM WG1 - Vortex Dynamics: 1st morning session
1st morning session
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Vortices and glitches in rotating dipolar supersolids - Elena Poli (Pitaevskii BEC Center, CNR-INO, Trento, Italy)

9:50 AM Modelling Vortex Avalanches in Neutron Stars using the Vortex Filament Model - Julie Jacob Thomas (Newcastle University)

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

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

12:00 PM Bouquets of Topological Defects and Pinning in Neutron Stars - Marco ANTONELLI (CNRS - LPC Caen)

12:25 PM Reassessing pulsar braking indices: A vortex line–flux tube interaction model - erbil gügercinoğlu (Sabancı University)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM 1st afternoon session
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Vortex pinning in a spin-triplet superfluid - Riku Rantanen (Aalto University)

3:20 PM Investigating pinning in neutron stars with simulations and laboratory experiments - Brynmor Haskell (Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy)

3:45 PM Vortex Avalanches and Pinning Scales - Ali Alpar (Sabanci University)
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM 2nd afternoon session
4:40 PM - 5:55 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Local Quantum Cooling for Large Fermi Systems with Pairing - José Ernesto Alba-Arroyo (Warsaw University of Technology)

5:05 PM Josephson effects and atomtronic circuits in atomic superfluids - Klejdja Xhani (Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology)
6:00 PM Outreach WG4 EDI session

6:00 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM Welcome Reception

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
9:00 AM WG2: Superfluid Turbulence: 1st morning session
1st morning session
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Glitch Studies in Superfluid Helium - Rena Zieve (University of California, Davis)

9:50 AM 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 AM Reproducible nucleation and control of stable quantum vortex rings in Bose-Einstein condensates - Giorgia Iori (Università degli Studi di Milano)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM 2nd morning session
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:25 PM Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability in Fermionic Superfluids: Numerical Approach - Michał Śliwiński (Warsaw University of Technology)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM 1st afternoon session
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Quantum turbulence in a Bose gas close to an anomalous non-thermal fixed point - Thomas Gasenzer (Heidelberg University, Germany)

3:20 PM Beyond the thousands: Lessons from simulating a neutron star with 10^5 quantized vortices - Anantharaman Viswanathan (Ashoka University)

3:45 PM Modeling neutron star glithces triggered by superfluid vortex avalanches - Alessandro Costanzo

3:50 PM Quantum many-body physics of ultracold Fermi gases on a spherical surface - Lorenzo Frigato (Università degli Studi di Padova)

3:55 PM Performance and Dynamics of an Ultracold Atomic Superfluid as a Quantum Engine Working Fluid - Henry Harper-Gardner (Newcastle University)

4:00 PM Interactive 3D Particle-In-Cell Simulation of a Global Pulsar Magnetosphere - Armin Vahdat (University of Tübingen)

4:05 PM 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)
4:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM 2nd afternoon session
4:40 PM - 5:55 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Neutron star glitches in dipolar atoms: towards a layered structure - Héctor Briongos-Merino (University of Barcelona, ICCUB)

5:05 PM Pulse Profile Modulation due to Superfluid Phase Transition in the Pulsar Interior - DEEPTHI GODABA VENKATA (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani)

5:30 PM Microscopic GPE Calculations for Vortices Interaction in Neutron 1S0 and 3P2 Mixed Phase at the Crust-Core Boundary - Tatsuhiro Hattori (Institute of Science Tokyo)
6:30 PM Outreach talk

6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
9:00 AM WG3 - Macroscopic scales - NS and their laboratory analogues: 1st morning session
1st morning session
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Neutron stars as cosmic laboratories for superfluid dynamics - Nils Andersson

9:50 AM Tayler-Spruit dynamo, low-field magnetars and central compact objects - Andrei Igoshev (Newcastle University)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM 2nd morning session
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:25 PM Turbulence Modelling in Magnetised Neutron Stars - William Cook (FSU Jena)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM

2:30 PM Free afternoon
Free afternoon
2:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Thursday, June 25, 2026
9:00 AM Astro - generic: 1st morning session
1st morning session
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Bulk viscosity and damping of density oscillations in binary neutron star mergers - Arus Harutyunyan (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory, Yerevan State University)

9:50 AM Beyond the Taylor Expansion: Systematics in the phase of continuous gravitational wave - Anirudh Nemmani (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, CAMK PAN)

10:15 AM Self-consistently connecting the neutron star mode spectrum to fundamental nuclear physics - Duncan Neill (University of Bath)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
11:10 AM 2nd morning session
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:25 PM Superfluid vorticity, Magnus mountains, and gravitational waves - Ian Jones (University of Southampton)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM NS crust: 1st afternoon session
1st afternoon session
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM Vortex Avalanches in Neutron Stars - Gary Liu (Department of Physics, Royal Holloway University of London)

3:20 PM Entrainment effects in the inner crust and outer core of a neutron star - Nicolas CHAMEL (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

3:45 PM Vortex-nucleus interaction in the inner crust of neutron star - Daniel Pęcak (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM 2nd afternoon session
4:40 PM - 5:55 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Superfluid fraction in the inner crust of neutron stars - Giorgio Almirante

5:05 PM Josephson currents in neutron stars - Armen Sedrakian (University of Wroclaw and FIAS)

5:30 PM Hydrodynamic Simulation of Glitches in Neutron Star Crusts - Charlie Perkins (Newcastle University)
6:00 PM MC meeting

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

8:00 PM Conference dinner

8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Friday, June 26, 2026
9:00 AM NS - generic: 1st morning session
1st morning session
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM 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)

9:50 AM Investigating the nuclear matter equation of state with neutron stars - Melissa Mendes (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

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

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

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

12:25 PM Bayesian inference of hybrid stars with large quark cores - Milena Albino (University of Coimbra)
12:50 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM 1st afternoon session
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM From effective field theories of higher-form symmetries to neutron stars and superfluids - Saso Grozdanov (University of Edinburgh, University of Ljubljana)

3:20 PM Amortized Neural Posterior Estimation for Relativistic Mean-Field Constraints on the Neutron-Star Equation of State - Prashant Thakur (Yonsei University)

3:45 PM Hybrid star with the NJL model using a density-dependent vector coupling - Rafael Cardoso (Federal University of Santa Catarina and University of Coimbra)
4:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM 2nd afternoon session
4:40 PM - 5:55 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Role of the δ meson in the direct Urca cooling of neutron stars - Luigi Scurto (Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Infn)

5:05 PM Statistical Analysis of Neutron Star Cooling: Implications for the Nuclear Equation of State and Nucleon Pairing - Afonso Ávila (University of Coimbra)

5:30 PM Persistent gravitational radiation from glitching pulsars - Thippayawis Cheunchitra (The University of Melbourne)
6:00 PM Closing

6:00 PM - 6:10 PM