Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

26-29 July 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

Satellite of the 20th General Conference
of the EPS Condensed Matter Division
19 - 23 July Prague 2004

Under the auspicies of

Prof. Petr Pithart
President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic

Prof. Helena Illnerová, DSc.
President of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Prof. Ing. Ivan Wilhelm, CSc.
Rector of the Charles University

Supported by

Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society
Committee on Education, Science, Culture, Human Rights and Petitions of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic
Institute of Physics, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University
Center for Theoretical Study, Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Amsterdam
Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, USA

List of topics

Quantum, mesoscopic and (partly) classical thermodynamics
Quantum limits to the second law
Quantum measurement
Quantum decoherence and dephasing
Mesoscopic and nanomechanical systems
Classical molecular motors, ratchet systems and rectified motion
Quantum Brownian motion
Quantum motors
Physics of quantum computing
Relevant experiments from the nano- to the macro-scale

Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

26-29 July 2004, Prague, Czech Republic

Satellite of the 20th General Conference of the EPS Condensed Matter Division 19 - 23 July Prague 2004

Satellite of the 20th General Conference
of the EPS Condensed Matter Division
19 - 23 July Prague 2004