Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| 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 |