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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

25 - 30 July 2011, Prague, Czech Republic

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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