Cosmology in the Laboratory (COSLAB)

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Workshops

A Workshop on Condensates in Physics: from atoms to cosmology will be held at the University of Nottingham on 19-21 April 2006.
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Previous Meetings:

The COSLAB 2005 conference Cosmological phenomena and their condensed matter analogies was held in Smolenice, Slovakia, from 28 August to 4 September 2005.  For more details go to website

An international workshop Quantum Simulations via Analogues was held in Dresden on 25-28 July 2005. For further information go to website

A meeting on Disorder and Topological Defects, a Helium Primer was held in Chamrousse, Grenoble, France, from 17-22 December 2004. For further information go to website

The  ESF-COSLAB Network Conference 2004 was held in Ambleside, Lake District, UK on 10-17 September 2004. For further information go to website

A COSLAB  workshop on Turbulence and Vacuum Instability in Condensed Matter and Cosmology, took place in Lammi (Finland) on 17-22 August 2004. For further information go to website

The COSLAB Programme held a workshop on Testing Theories of Defect Formation in Vietri, Italy from 11-13 September 2003. For more information go to website

COSLAB held a joint COSLAB-VORTEX-BEC2000+ workshop in Bilbao, Spain from 10-16 July 2003. For more information go to website

In conjunction with the NATO Advanced Study Institute,  the ESF COSLAB Programme held a Summer School on Patterns of Symmetry Breaking in Cracow, Poland from 15 to 29 September 2002. The Summer School was organised by Henryk Arodz Email . Workshop programme and report (PDF 91 KB) For background information go to website

The Programme’s second workshop on Quantum-vaccuum Properties in Condensed Matter Physics and Cosmology was held in Tours, France from 17 to 20 May 2002. It was organised by Ulf Leonhardt, Renaud Parentani (local organiser) , and Grisha Volovik. Workshop programme and report (PDF 87 KB)

The Programme’s first workshop was held at Imperial College, London from 7 to 10 July 2001 on the programme’s overall theme Cosmology in the Laboratory. Workshop programme and report (PDF 48 KB)

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