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