PROGRAMME
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Sunday, 25 July 2004 |
Location:
Masaryk's Residence Halls - Thakurova street
| 18.00 - 21.00: | Registration and welcome refreshment | |
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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
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9.30 - 10.10: | M. Scully:
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Quantum Controversy: From Maxwell's Demon and Quantum Eraser to Black Hole Radiation
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10.10 - 10.50: | T. Seideman:
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Current-driven dynamics in molecular scale electronics. From surface nanochemistry to new forms of molecular machines
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10.50 - 11.10: | Coffee break
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11.10 - 11.50: | H. Linke:
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Nanomachines: From Biology to Quantum Heat Engines
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11.50 - 12.30: | H. Grabert:
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Quantum Brownian Motion With Large Friction
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12.30 - 13.00: | M. Grifoni:
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Duality transformation for quantum ratchets
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13.00 - 15.30: | Lunch
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15.30 - 17.50:
| Afternoon session: Quantum thermodynamics
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Special session to honour a memory of Vladislav ??pek
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15.30 - 15.40: | Introduction
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15.40 - 16.20: | T. Nieuwenhuizen:
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Quantum thermodynamics: thermodynamics at the nanoscale
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16.20 - 16.50: | G. Mahler:
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Quantum Thermodynamics: Emergence of Thermodynamical Behavior in Composite Quantum Systems
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16.50 - 17.20: | D. Sheehan:
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Dissing equilibrium
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17.20 - 17.50: | L. Schulman:
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Quantum coherence and Carnot engines
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17.50 - 18.50: | Small refreshment
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17.50 - 18.50:
| Guided tour through the Wallenstein Palace
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19.00 - 20.00: | Concert in the Main Hall of the Wallenstein Palace
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20.00 - 23.00:
| Welcome party in the Sala Terrena and
in the Garden of the Wallenstein Palace
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Tuesday, 27 July 2004 |
Location:
Wallenstein Palace - Main Hall
| 8.30 - 12.40: | Morning session: Physics of quantum computing, mesoscopic physics | |||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| 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?
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21.00 - 22.30: |
Refreshment in the Sala Terrena and in the Garden of the Wallenstein Palace
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Wednesday, 28 July 2004 |
Location: Masaryk Residence Halls - Thakurova street
| 8.30 - 13.00: | Morning session: Mesoscopic and nanomechanical systems | |
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| 8.30 - 9.10: | A. Aharony: | g12_1f.pdf" 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 | |
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| 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 | |
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Thursday, 29 July 2004 |
Location: Masaryk Residence Halls - Thakurova street
| 8.30 - 12.40: | Morning session: Quantum thermodynamics, quantum effects in small systems | |
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| 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 | |
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| 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 |
| 18.00: | Closing address | |
| 20.00 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner | |