Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Friday, 2 August 2013 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Yigal Meir |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Udo Seifert Stochastic thermodynamics of autonomous information machines. From Maxwell's demons to cellular sensing |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | J. Miguel Rubi, Agustin Perez-Madrid, and Luciano Lapas Mesoscopic thermodynamics for near-field heat transfer |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Ulrich Weiss, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, and Benjamin Spreng Thermodynamic anomaly and reentrant classicality of a damped quantum system |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Yoseph Imry A simple quantum derivation of the Jarzynski and Crooks equalities |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - A parallel: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Peter Schmitteckert |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Fabrizio Nichele, Atindra Nath Pal, Patrick Pietsch, Christophe Charpentier, Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin Transport experiments in InAs/GaSb broken-gap quantum wells |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Michael Galperin Molecular nanoplasmonics |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Hyoung Joon Choi Self-energy-corrected scattering-state method for electronic transport in single-molecule junctions |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jong Han Interplay of strong correlation and dissipation in nonequilibrium lattice systems |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - B parallel: Physics of mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Doron Cohen |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Hugues Pothier, Landry Bretheau, Çağlar Girit, Daniel Esteve, and Cristian Urbina Revealing the Andreev degree of freedom in the Josephson effect |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Andreas Prinz-Zwick, Peter Talkner, and Juyeon Yi Zeno effect for repeated projective and finite-time measurements |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Branislav Nikolic, Farzad Mahfouzi, and Naoto Nagaosa Gauge-invariant nonequilibrium density matrix with applications to spin torques driven by spin-orbit coupling |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Antonio Macedo, Victor Cavalcanti, Marcone Sena, and Francisco Almeida Localization effects in quantum dot networks: A unified approach |
| 10:20 - 12:00 | 2 session - C parallel: Thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Vittorio Giovannetti, Davide Venturelli, and Rosario Fazio Minimal self-contained quadridot quantum refrigeration machine |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Lea Santos Relationship between initial state and Hamiltonian as a main factor for thermalization |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Karen Hovhannisyan, Martí Perarnau Llobet, Marcus Huber, and Antonio Acín The role of entanglement in work extraction |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Jiří J. Mareš, Pavel Hubík, and Václav Špička On mathematical structure of physical quantities |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Peter Schmitteckert |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | James Freericks, Wen Shen, and Tom Devereaux Beyond Planck-Einstein quanta: Crossover from frequency driven to amplitude driven excitation in a nonequilibrium many-body system |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Frithjof Anders Influence of vibrational modes on the quantum transport through a nano-device |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Gianluca Stefanucci Nonequilibrium Green's function approach to ultrafast electron |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Woochul Lee, Kyeongtae Kim, Wonho Jeong, Linda Angela Zotti, Fabian Pauly, Juan Carlos Cuevas, and Pramod Reddy Heat dissipation in atomic-scale junctions |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 16:20 | 4 session: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Raymond Chiao |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Hagen Kleinert Quantum field theory of black-swan events |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Norbert Kroo, Peter Racz, and Sandor Varro Nonlinear plasmonics |
| 16:20 - 17:30 | Free time and transfer to the Prague Castle |
| 17:30 - 23:30 | Conference dinner and concert |
| Location: | Prague Castle - Archbishop's Palace and St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Guided tour through Archbishop’s Palace |
| 18:30 - 20:15 | First part of the conference dinner |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Transfer to the St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 20:30 - 21:50 | Concert in the St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 22:00 - 23:30 | Second part of the conference dinner |