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