Sunday, 25 July 2004

Location: Masaryk's Residence Halls - Thakurova street

18.00 - 21.00:	Registration and welcome refreshment

Monday, 26 July 2004

Location: Wallenstein Palace

8.00 -  9.00:	Registration - Wallenstein Palace
9.00 -  9.30:	Opening addresses
9.30 - 13.00:	Morning session: Molecular motors
chairperson:
9.30 - 10.10:	M. Scully:	Quantum Controversy: From Maxwell's Demon and Quantum Eraser to Black Hole Radiation
10.10 - 10.50:	T. Seideman:	Current-driven dynamics in molecular scale electronics. From surface nanochemistry to new forms of molecular machines
10.50 - 11.10:	Coffee break
11.10 - 11.50:	H. Linke:	Nanomachines: From Biology to Quantum Heat Engines
11.50 - 12.30:	H. Grabert:	Quantum Brownian Motion With Large Friction
12.30 - 13.00:	M. Grifoni:	Duality transformation for quantum ratchets
13.00 - 15.30:	Lunch
15.30 - 17.50:	Afternoon session: Quantum thermodynamics
	Special session to honour a memory of Vladislav Čápek
chairperson:
15.30 - 15.40:	Introduction
15.40 - 16.20:	T. Nieuwenhuizen:	Quantum thermodynamics: thermodynamics at the nanoscale
16.20 - 16.50:	G. Mahler:	Quantum Thermodynamics: Emergence of Thermodynamical Behavior in Composite Quantum Systems
16.50 - 17.20:	D. Sheehan:	Dissing equilibrium
17.20 - 17.50:	L. Schulman:	Quantum coherence and Carnot engines
17.50 - 18.50:	Small refreshment
17.50 - 18.50:	Guided tour through the Wallenstein Palace
19.00 - 20.00:	Concert in the Main Hall of the Wallenstein Palace
20.00 - 23.00:	Welcome party in the Sala Terrena and in the Garden of the Wallenstein Palace

Location: Wallenstein Palace - Main Hall

8.30 - 12.40:	Morning session: Physics of quantum computing, mesoscopic physics
chairperson:
8.30 -   9.10:	G. Schön:	Dephasing at symmetry points
9.10 -   9.50:	H. Mooij:	Decoherence in superconducting flux qubits
9.50 - 10.20:	E. Paladino:	Telegraph and 1/f noise in Josephson qubits: decoherence and quantum control
10.20 - 10.40:	Coffee break
10.40 - 11.20:	P. Hänggi:	Brownian motors
11.20 - 12.00:	U. Weiss:	Nonequilibrium quantum transport, noise and decoherence: quantum impurity systems and qubits
12.00 - 12.40:	B. Altshuler:	Non-Gaussian low-frequency noise as a source of decoherence of qubits
12.40 - 14.40:	Lunch
14.40 - 17.30:	Afternoon session: Quantum measurement, coherence and dissipation
chairperson:
14.40 - 15.20:	A. Zeilinger:	Exploring the boundary between the quantum and the classical worlds
15.20 - 16.00:	R. Balian:	Solvable model of quantum measurement
16.00 - 16.20:	Coffee break
16.20 - 16.50:	A. Khrennikov:	Quantum representation of classical probabilistic model
16.50 - 17.30:	A. Caldeira:	Dissipative dynamics of spins in quantum dots
19.30 - 21.00:	Public lecture - A. J. Leggett (Nobel prize winner 2003):
	Does the everyday world really obey quantum mechanics?
21.00 - 22.30:	Refreshment in the Sala Terrena and in the Garden of the Wallenstein Palace

Wednesday, 28 July 2004

Location: Masaryk Residence Halls - Thakurova street

8.30 - 13.00:	Morning session: Mesoscopic and nanomechanical systems
chairperson:
8.30 -   9.10:	A. Aharony:	Phase measurements in Aharonov-Bohm interferometers
9.10 -   9.50:	M. Büttiker:	Energetics of Ground State Entanglement and Persistent Currents
9.50 - 10.20:	E. Sukhorukov:	Fluctuation Statistics in Networks: a Stochastic Path Integral Approach
10.20 - 10.50:	T. Brandes:	Shot Noise Spectrum of Open Dissipative Quantum Two-level Systems
10.50 - 11.10:	Coffee break
11.10 - 11.50:	K. Schwab:	Quantum Electro-mechanical Devices: Our recent success to approach the Uncertainty Principle
11.50 - 12.30:	A. MacKinnon:	Theory of some Nanoelectromechanical Systems
12.30 - 13.00:	M. Blencowe:	Semiclassical Dynamics of Nanoelectromechanical Systems
13.00 - 14.00:	Lunch
14.00 - 17.30:	Afternoon session: Transport properties, measurements
chairperson:
14.00 - 14.40:	G. Ingold:	Residual conductance of correlated one-dimensional nanosystems
14.40 - 15.10:	S. Rotter:	Decoherence and Fano resonances in transport through quantum dots
15.10 - 15.40:	U. Hohenester:	Quantum control of electron-phonon scatterings in artificial atoms
15.40 - 16.00:	Coffee break
16.00 - 16.30:	A. Zaikin:	Parity-restricted persistent currents in superconducting nanorings
16.30 - 17.00:	J. Pekola:	Solid-state microcooling and non-equilibrium at sub-kelvin temperatures
17.00 - 17.30:	T. Heikkilä:	Thermopower induced by the supercurrent in superconductor-normal-metal structures
17.30 - 19.30:	Poster session

Thursday, 29 July 2004

Location: Masaryk Residence Halls - Thakurova street

8.30 - 12.40:	Morning session: Quantum thermodynamics, quantum effects in small systems
chairperson:
8.30 -   9.00:	J. Gemmer:	Thermodynamical Behavior in Parts of Closed Quantum Systems
9.00 -   9.30:	A. Allahverdyan:	Work extraction from finite quantum systems
9.30 -   9.50:	A. Nikulov:	Quantum limits to the second law and breach of a symmetry
9.50 - 10.10:	J. Berger:	The Chernogolovka experiment
10.10 - 10.30:	P. Keefe:	Quantum Limit to the Second Law by Magneto-Caloric Effect Adiabatic Phase Transition of Type I Superconductor Particles
10.30 - 11.00:	Coffee break
11.00 - 11.30:	R. F. O'Connell:	Entropy of a Quantum System coupled to a Heat Bath and implications for Quantum Thermodynamics
11.30 - 12.00:	Y. Rostovtsev:	CO2 Laser Coupled Quantum Heat Engine
12.00 - 12.20:	J. Kivioja:	Escape Measurements on DC-SQUIDs with Small Junctions: Macroscopic Quantum Tunneling, Thermal Activation and Phase Diffusion
12.20 - 12.40:	Y. Avishai:	Kondo effect in systems with dynamical symmetries
12.40 - 13.00:	E. Kamenetskii:	Mesoscopic quantum effect of symmetry breaking for magnetic-dipolar oscillating modes
13.00 - 14.00:	Lunch
14.00 - 18.00:	Afternoon session: Classical and Quantum thermodynamics
chairperson:
14.00 - 14.40:	F. Haake:	Semiclassical basis of universality in quantum chaos
14.40 - 15.10:	P. Tombesi:	Macroscopic entanglement for high precision measurements
15.10 - 15.40:	D. Cohen:	Quantum pumping and dissipation in closed systems
15.40 - 16.00:	Coffee break
16.00 - 16.30:	D. Gross:	Microcanonical Thermodynamics
16.30 - 17.00:	S. Klumpp:	Movements of molecular motors: Random walks and traffic phenomena
17.00 - 17.30:	V. Spicka:	Long and short time quantum dynamics
17.30 - 18.00:	Closing address
20.00 - 22:00	Conference Dinner