Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Sunday, 24 July 2011 | |
| 17:00 - 21:00 | Registration and welcome refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - lobby |
| Monday, 25 July 2011 | |
| 08:00 - 8:30 | Opening addresses |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:30 - 10:00 | 1 session: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Anton Zeilinger Recent experiments with photons: Testing the foundations of quantum physics and developing new tools for quantum information |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Juerg Froehlich Quantum friction and quantum Brownian motion |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Markus Aspelmeyer How to extend quantum experiments to massive mechanical objects: Prospects and challenges |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Gordon Baym Two-slit diffraction with highly charged particles: Niels Bohr's consistency argument that the electromagnetic field must be quantized |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Kimball Milton Thermal issues in Casimir forces between conductors and semiconductors |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Karl Hess Hidden assumptions in proofs of Bell |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Armen Allahverdyan, Roger Balian, and Theo Nieuwenhuizen Dynamics in a model for quantum measurements and insight in the quantum measurement problem |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ralf Schuetzhold Fundamental quantum effects in the laboratory |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ana María Cetto and Luis de la Peña Implications of radiative corrections for the particle-zeropoint field system: establishing contact with quantum electrodynamics |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Andrei Khrennikov QM as theory of classical signals with noisy background |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Victor Flambaum Evidence for spatial variation of the fine structure constant |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Howard Wiseman and Raisa Karasik Quantum jumps in non-thermal-equilibrium systems: How far beyond Einstein do we need to go? |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Gershon Kurizki Quantum engines via measurements on non-Markovian time scales |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Noam Erez Thermodynamics of quantum measurements |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Lawrence Schulman Non-thermodynamic behavior for non-ergodic interactions: Violation of the 0th law |
| 17:00 - 17:45 | Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace |
| 17:45 - 19:30 | Guided tour through Wallenstein Palace |
| 19:30 - 23:00 | Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden |
| Tuesday, 26 July 2011 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Physics of quantum computing |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Peter Zoller Engineered dissipation for quantum information and many body physics |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Y. Kubo, C. Grezes, F. R. Ong, P. Bertet, Denis Vion, V. Jacques, D. Zheng, A. Dréau, J.-F. Roch, A. Auffeves, F. Jelezko, J. Wrachtrup, M. F. Barthe, P. Bergonzo, and D. Esteve Towards hybrid quantum circuits: Strong coupling of a spin ensemble to a superconducting resonator |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Amnon Aharony, Shmuel Gurvitz, Ora Entin-Wohlman, and Sushanta Dattagupta Retrieving quantum qubit information despite decoherence |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Timothy C. Ralph, S. Jay Olson, Casey Myers, and Jacques Pienaar Relativistic quantum information |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session: Quantum measurement, entanglement and coherence |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Barry Sanders and Alexander Hentschel Efficient algorithm for optimizing adaptive quantum metrology processes |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Andrew Jordan Precision measurements and weak values |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Oded Zilberberg, Alessandro Romito, and Yuval Gefen Weak values in solid state systems: Charge sensing amplification and decoherence effects |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Elisabetta Paladino, Rosario Lo Franco, Antonio D'Arrigo, and Giuseppe Falci Degradation and protection of entanglement between solid state qubits |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - A parallel: Mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Frithjof Anders and Sebastian Schmitt Nonequilibrium Zeeman-splitting in quantum transport through nanoscale junctions |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Michael Galperin Raman spectroscopy of molecular junctions |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Sense Jan van der Molen, Constant Guedon, Hennie Valkenier, Troels Markussen, Kees Hummelen, and Kristian Thygesen Quantum interference in molecular junctions |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Fabio Taddei, Sebastiano Peotta, Fabrizio Dolcini, Marco Gibertini, Marco Polini, Diego Rainis, Lev B. Ioffe, Rosario Fazio, and Allan H. MacDonald Blockade and counterflow supercurrent in exciton-condensate Josephson junctions |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Avraham Schiller From the adiabatic to the anti-adiabtic regime of phonon-assisted tunneling |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Frank Hekking, Laëtitia Pascal, and Hervé Courtois Circuit approach to photonic heat transport |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - B parallel: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | E. Saglamyurek, N. Sinclair, J. Jin, Joshua A. Slater, D. Oblak, F. Bussières, M. George, R. Ricken, W. Sohler, and W. Tittel Broadband waveguide quantum memory for entangled photons |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Anil K. Patnaik, Sukesh Roy, and James R. Gord Ultrafast thermometry using quantum coherence |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Radim Filip and Petr Marek Quantum and semiclassical noiseless amplifier |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Jeremy Amstrong, Nikolaj Zinner, Dmitri Fedorov, and Aksel Jensen Bound states in multilayers of cold polar molecules |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Mark Fox Phonon damping and renormalization of Rabi oscillations in InGaAs quantum dots |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Howard Carmichael, David Norris, Luis Orozco, and Pablo Barberis-Blostein Elastic light scattering from multi-level atoms: Ground-state quantum beats and evolution of coherence through quantum jumps |
| 15:20 - 18:30 | Free time and transfer to St. Simon and Juda Church |
| 18:30 - 22:20 | Evening session: Public lecture of Martin Rees and concert |
| Location: | St. Simon and Juda Church |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 18:45 - 20:00 | Public lecture |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | Martin Rees From Big Bang to biospheres |
| 19:45 - 20:00 | Discussion after the lecture of Martin Rees |
| 20:00 - 20:20 | Break |
| 20:20 - 21:10 | Concert of classical music - first part |
| 21:10 - 21:30 | Break |
| 21:30 - 22:20 | Concert of classical music - second part |
| Wednesday, 27 July 2011 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Nonequilibrium quantum statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Ulrich Weiss Nonlinear quantum transport and noise statistics |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Yuli Nazarov Flows of quantum information quantities |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Yoseph Imry Slow relaxation and aging in the electron glass |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Tamar Seideman Driven electrons in strong laser fields |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - A parallel: Foundations of quantum mechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Kristel Michielsen, Thomas Lippert, Marcus Richter, Bernard Barbara, Seiji Miyashita, and Hans De Raedt Testing the applicability of quantum theory to event-based processes |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Hans De Raedt, Kristel Michielsen, and Fengping Jin Towards a corpuscular event-by-event simulation of optical phenomena |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Luis de la Peña, Ana María Cetto, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández Quantum nonlocality revisited from the point of view of a local stochastic theory |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Čestmír Šimáně Mesic forces in quantum mechanics |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Miloš Lokajíček Controversy between Einstein and Bohr after 75 years, its actual solution and the consequences for the present |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - B parallel: Mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Olov Karlström, Jonas N. Pedersen, Peter Samuelsson, and Andreas Wacker Coherent tunneling and canyon of current suppression in quantum dots |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Florian Bauer, Jan Heyder, David Borowski, Enrico Schubert, Daniela Taubert, Dieter Schuh, Werner Wegscheider, Stefan Ludwig, and Jan von Delft The 0.7-anomaly in quantum point contacts: Evidence for a Nozières' Fermi liquid |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Daniel Sheehan Diodic electric fields in NEMS/MEMS devices: Toward a solid-state second law challenge |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Peter Keefe Relaxation phenomena in the adiabatic phase transition of Type I superconductor particles |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Howard Brandt Microcausality in quantum field theory |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - C parallel: Dissipation, noise and decoherence |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Andrew Armour Noise properties of cavity-driven mechanical oscillations |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Tomáš Novotný, Federica Haupt, and Wolfgang Belzig Inelastic effects on the electronic current noise through nanojunctions |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Lea Santos Quantum chaos and thermalization in isolated many-body systems |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Andrei Zaikin and Andrew Semenov Persistent current noise and electron-electron interactions |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Francesco Petruccione Open quantum random walks |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - A parallel: Nonequilibrium quantum statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | James Freericks, Wen Shen, Brian Moritz, Thomas Devereaux, and Hulikal Krishnamurthy Theory of time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Peter Schmitteckert Transport in and through correlated nanostructures: A density matrix renormalization group perspective |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Rafael Sánchez and Markus Büttiker Transport from hot spots |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Bozidar Novakovic and Irena Knezevic Transient-regime transport in nanostructures |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Ines Safi and Philippe Joyez Time-dependent theory of non-linear response and current fluctuations |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - B parallel: Mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Joachim Ankerhold, Jürgen Stockburger, Rebecca Schmidt, Antonio Negretti, and Tommaso Calarco Optimal control of open quantum systems in non-Markovian environments |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Fabrice Debbasch and Giuseppe di Molfetta Continuous limit of discrete time quantum walks |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Dragos Victor Anghel A new paradigm to describe mesoscopic systems by employing fractional exclusion statistics |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Sigmund Kohler Graphene ratchets |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jerzy Łuczka and Michał Januszewski Indirect control of anomalous transport in a system of two coupled Brownian particles |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, Pavel Hubík, Jaroslav Šesták, Jiří Stávek, and Jozef Krištofik Quantum thermostatics and generalization of Wien's law |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - C parallel: Spins systems, cold atoms, quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | Gilles Montambaux Engineering of Dirac cones in two-dimensional crystals |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Thomas Schmidt, Adilet Imambekov, and Leonid Glazman Spin-charge separation in one-dimensional fermion systems beyond Luttinger liquid theory |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Jorge Dukelsky, Stefan Rombouts, Gerardo Ortiz, and Sergio Lerma Phase diagram of the integrable px+ipy fermionic superfluid |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Alexander Altland Anderson transition in the cold atom kicked rotor |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Norbert Kroo Some novelties in nonlinear plasmonics |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Yuri Rostovtsev Mechanism of anomalous heating of trapped ions |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - A parallel: Physics of quantum computing |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Jens Koch Superconducting qubits grow up: Quantum coherence in circuits with many degrees of freedom |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Alex Retzker, Martin Plenio, Christof Wunderlich, Anders Varon, Michael Johanning, Ingo Baumgart, and Naula Timoney Quantum computing with magnetic insensitive states |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Robert O'Connell Entanglement and coherence: Differences and similarities |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Igor Pikovski, Michael Vanner, Markus Aspelmeyer, Caslav Brukner, and Myungshik Kim Probing the canonical commutator of massive mechanical oscillators |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Christoph Bruder Quantum control of interacting qubits |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - B parallel: Spin systems, dissipation and noise |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Ora Entin-Wohlman Spin-polarized electric currents in quantum transport |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Vadim Cheianov, Volodya Fal'ko, and Yury Sherkunov Statistical mechanics of magnetic impurities on graphene |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Doron Cohen and Daniel Hurowitz Quantum vs stochastic non-equilibrium steady state of driven systems |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Boris Fine and Kai Ji Emergence of non-thermal statistics in isolated many-particle quantum systems after multiple perturbations |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Ivan Levkivskyi and Eugene Sukhorukov Energy relaxation at the quantum Hall edge |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - C parallel: Cosmology, gravitation and astrophysics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Rudy Schild Observations of Black Holes show the possibility of a widely separated accretion disk |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Fumio Abe MOA II gravitational microlensing survey |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Hao Liu and Ti-Pei Li Systematical effects in WMAP data and looking forward to the Planck data release |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Carl H. Gibson Hydro-gravitational-dynamics of the cosmological big bang and the biological big bang |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Hagen Kleinert The purely geometric part of ``dark matter'' -- A fresh playground for ``string theory'' |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Poster session |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - first floor |
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Refreshment |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Jazz concert |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| Thursday, 28 July 2011 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 Session: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Immanuel Bloch Controlling and imaging quantum gases at the single atom level |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Thomas Udem, Maximilian Herrmann, Sebastian Knünz, Valentin Batteiger, Guido Saathoff, and Kerry Vahala A phonon laser |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Gerd Schön Lasing and transport in a quantum dot-resonator circuit |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Helmut Rauch Hadron interferometry with neutrons |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session: Macroscopic quantum behaviour and cold atoms |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Linda Elizabeth Reichl and Erich D. Gust Relaxation processes in a Bose-Einstein condensate |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Fernando Sols Quantum transport of cold atoms |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Eric Akkermans, Gerald Dunne, and Alexander Teplyaev Bose-Einstein condensation, Casimir forces and quantum optics on fractal structures |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Stephanie Reimann Dipolar quantum gases from a few-body perspective |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session: Macroscpic quantum behaviour, interference, dissipation and noise |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Pascal Simon, Francois Crépin, and Gergely Zarand Bose Fermi mixture in a disordered one dimension potential: The Bose Fermi glass |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Benjamin Gschösser, Immo N. Söllner, Patrick Mai, Zoltán Vörös, and Gregor Weihs Multi-order interference and Born's rule |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Wolfgang Belzig and Adam Bednorz Quasiprobability and quantum paradoxes in electronic counting statistics |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Aveek Bid, Nissim Ofek, Hiro Inoue, Merav Dolev, Yaron Gross, Charles Kane, Vladimir Umansky, Diana Mahalu, and Moty Heiblum Observation of `neutral modes' in the QHE regime via shot noise measurements |
| 15:00 - 18:30 | Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum |
| 18:30 - 21:40 | Evening session: Public lecture of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji and concert |
| Location: | Rudolfinum - Dvořák's Hall |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 18:45 - 20:00 | Public lecture |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | Claude Cohen-Tannoudji Laser manipulation of atoms |
| 19:45 - 20:00 | Discussion after the lecture of Claude Cohen-Tannoudji |
| 20:00 - 20:20 | Break |
| 20:20 - 21:40 | Concert of classical music |
| Friday, 29 July 2011 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Spin systems and their dynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Yoram Alhassid The coexistence of superconductivity and ferromagnetism in nanoscale metallic grains |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Dietrich Belitz and Ted Kirkpatrick Phases, broken symmetries, and Goldstone modes in helical magnets |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Ted Kirkpatrick Generic non-Fermi-liquid behavior in metallic helimagnets |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Thomas Vojta, Paul Goldbart, Priyanka Mohan, Rajesh Narayanan, and John Toner Anomalously elastic, intermediate phase in randomly layered superfluids, superconductors, and planar magnets |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Branislav K. Nikolic, Farzad Mahfouzi, John Q. Xiao, and Naoto Nagaosa Spin pumping in magnetic tunnel junctions and topological insulators: Theory and experiment |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Miguel Rubi Mesoscopic non-equilibrium thermodynamics |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Udo Seifert Optimization in stochastic thermodynamics: Efficiency of nano-machines (at maximum power) |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Eric Lutz and Sebastian Deffner Nonequilibrium entropy production for open quantum systems |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jens Eisert Relaxation, thermalization, and a quantum algorithm to prepare Gibbs states |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Pawel Danielewicz, Arnau Rios, Brent Barker, and Mark Buchler Advancing quantum transport for nuclear reactions |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Stefano Sanvito Electron transport in large systems including fluctuating environment and many body effects |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Antti-Pekka Jauho, Tue Gunst, Jing Tao Lü, Mads Brandbyge, and Troels Rasmussen Heat conduction in nanostructured graphene |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Dietrich Kremp, Thomas Bornath, and Dirk Semkat Bound states in non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 17:20 | 4 session: Quantum measurement, entanglement and coherence |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Dirk Bouwmeester Towards quantum superpositions of a mirror |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Paul G. Kwiat, Aditya Sharma, and Kevin McCusker Finding hidden entanglement |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Julien Laurat Quantum-to-classical transition of single-photon counters |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Jean-Daniel Bancal, Denis Rosset, Nicolas Gisin, Yeong-Cherng Liang, and Stefano Pironio Device independent witnesses for genuine multipartite entanglement |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Bruno Sanguinetti, Enrico Pomarico, Pavel Sekatski, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin Can one see entanglement? |
| 17:20 - 18:30 | Free time and transfer to Prague Castle |
| 18:30 - 24:00 | Conference dinner and concert |
| Location: | Prague Castle - Vikárka Restaurant and St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 18:30 - 20:30 | First part of the conference dinner |
| 20:30 - 21:50 | Concert in St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 21:50 - 24:00 | Second part of the conference dinner |
| Saturday, 30 July 2011 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Biological systems, molecular motors |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Andrew White Simulating quantum systems in biology, chemistry and physics |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Stefan Klumpp Mechanisms and economy of molecular machines |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Hans Frauenfelder, Robert D. Young, and Paul W. Fenimore Quasielastic spectra in the Mössbauer effect and neutron scattering |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Michael Bonitz Strongly correlated few-fermion systems: From equilibrium properties to ultrafast dynamics |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session: Foundations of quantum mechanics, macroscopic quantum behavior |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Arkady Plotnitsky What is quantum field theory, technologically, mathematically, and philosophically? |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Raymond Y. Chiao, Stephen J. Minter, and Kirk Wegter-McNelly Generation of gravitational radiation via superluminal quantum mass currents |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Stephen J. Minter, Kirk Wegter-McNelly, and Raymond Y. Chiao Using macroscopic discontinuities in magnetic susceptibility within a loop of type-II superconducting wire to measure global decoherence rate |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Václav Špička, Anděla Kalvová, and Bedřich Velický Fast dynamics of molecular bridges |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:20 | 3 session: Patent law, mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 13:00 - 13:20 | William Blackman and Peter Keefe International intellectual property issues of concern to scientists |
| 13:20 - 13:50 | Yaroslav M. Blanter Backaction and self-oscillations in nanomechanical systems |
| 13:50 - 14:20 | Aashish Clerk Full counting statistics of phonon and photon shot noise fluctuations |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | Closing address |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |