       Unruh Acceleration Radiation, Vacuum Entanglement and Relativity 
                                           PCTS virtual workshop 
                              Organizers: Marlan Scully and William Unruh 
Zoom Information: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/ 92424499144     Meeting ID: 924 2449 9144     
Tuesday 
December 8, 2020   
Princeton Time (EST) (GMT-5) 
Time Speaker Title 
8:50-9:00 Marlan Scully William Unruh  
Welcome from the organizers 
First Session Moderator: Marlan Scully  
9:00-9:30 Marlan Scully Texas A&M, Princeton,  and Baylor Universities 
Acceleration Radiation from a Quantum Optical Perspective 
9:30-10:00 Anatoly Svidzinsky Texas A&M University 
Unruh and Cherenkov radiation from a negative frequency perspective and causality in quantum optics 
10:00-10:30 Arash Azizi Texas A&M University 
Unruh radiation and Causality 
10:30-11:00 Break  
Second Session Moderator: Anatoly Svidzinsky  
11:00-11:30 Carlos Ordóñez University of Houston;  Rice University 
Near-horizon conformal aspects of acceleration radiation detected by a two-level atom freely falling into static or rotating black holes 
11:30-12:00  
Stephen Fulling  Texas A&M University 
What Is Still to be Learned about Classical Acceleration Radiation? 
12:00-12:30  
Wolfgang Schleich University of Ulm, Germany  
Tunneling in an inverted harmonic oscillator  viewed from phase space 
*https://theias.zoom.us/j/89544657610?pwd=QWNVSWVCbFZNUGdrYTVhYWVPZzdLQT09 
Wednesday 
December 9, 2020   
Princeton Time (EST) (GMT-5) 
Time Speaker Title 
First Session Moderator: Stephen Fulling   
9:00-9:30 Michael Duff Imperial College London; Texas A&M University 
Hawking temperature from higher dimensional embedding 
9:30-10:00 Atsushi Higuchi University of York, UK 
The Unruh effect in interacting scalar field theory 
10:00-11:00 Edward Witten  Institute for Advanced Study 
Some Comments on Energy Inequalities 
 Note: this talk addresses issues of entanglement entropy, of interest to many of us; if you are interested, you may use the zoom information below* to access this talk. 
Second Session Moderator:  William Unruh  
11:00-11:30 Freyja Ullinger  University of Ulm, Germany 
The event horizon and the logarithmic phase singularity in the inverted harmonic oscillator 
11:30-12:00  
Gary Rozenman  Tel-Aviv University, Israel 
Black Holes in Phase Space and Logarithmic Phase Singularity in Surface Gravity Water Waves 
12:00-12:30  
Eduardo Martin-Martinez University of Waterloo 
The Unruh effect in slow motion 
12:30-13:00 Christopher Pope Texas A&M University; Cambridge University 
Black Holes, The Gibbs Surface and Negative Temperatures 
Thursday 
December 10, 2020   
Princeton Time (EST) (GMT-5) 
Time Speaker Title 
First Session Moderator: Arash Azizi  
9:00-9:30 Franco Nori  RIKEN, Saitama, Japan;  The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 
Theoretical prediction and subsequent observation of the dynamical Casimir effect in a superconducting circuit 
9:30-10:00  Salvatore Savasta  University of Messina, Italy 
Dynamical Casimir Effect: fully quantum-mechanical and non-perturbative description of both the cavity field and the oscillating mirror 
10:00-10:30 Robert Wald The University of Chicago 
The Particle and Energy Cost of Entanglement of Hawking Radiation with the Final Vacuum State 
10:30-11:00 Break  
Second Session Moderator: Christopher Pope  
11:00-11:30 George Matsas  São Paulo State University, Brazil 
On the observability of the Unruh effect in the laboratory 
11:30-12:00  
Jeff Steinhauer Technion – Israel Institute of Technology 
Spontaneous Hawking radiation and beyond:  Observing the time evolution of an analogue black hole 
12:00-12:30  
William Unruh University of British Columbia; Texas A&M University 
Measurement of Acceleration Radiation in BEC Analogue system 
12:30-13:00 Silke Weinfurtner University of Nottingham, UK 
Quantum simulators for fundamental physics 