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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

25 - 30 July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

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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