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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

29 July - 3 August 2013, Prague, Czech Republic

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Tuesday, 30 July 2013

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Noise and quantum transport
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Peter Hänggi
08:00 - 08:30 Jan van Ruitenbeek, Manohar Kumar, Remi Avriller, and Alfredo Levy Yeyati
Inelastic signals in shot noise
08:30 - 09:00 Kensuke Kobayashi
Experimental test of Fluctuation Theorem in quantum regime
09:00 - 09:30 Oren Tal, Ran Vardimon, Tamar Yelin, and Marina Klionsky
Relating atomic scale conductance to orbital structure by shot noise measurements
09:30 - 10:00 Jerzy Łuczka, Jakub Spiechowicz, and Peter Hänggi
Anomalous transport in Josephson junction induced by non-equilibrium noise

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - A parallel: Physics of biological systems
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Saar Rahav
10:20 - 10:50 Reinhard Lipowsky
Multiscale motility of molecular motors:
From single motor molecules to cooperative cargo transport
10:50 - 11:20 Bob Austin
Quantum transport in proteins: An experimental tale
11:20 - 11:50 Susana Huelga
Exciton transport in light harvesting complexes
11:50 - 12:10 Stefan Klumpp
Bacterial nanomagnets

10:20 - 12:10 2 session - B parallel: Astrophysics and cosmology
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B
chairperson: Raymond Chiao
10:20 - 10:50 Pavel Kroupa
The failure of the standard cosmological model and first steps towards a possible new direction
10:50 - 11:20 Pavel Naselsky
CMB cosmology after the Planck mission
11:20 - 11:50 Hao Liu, Anna Mette Frejsel, and Pavel Naselsky
CMB large-scale anisotropy and the m=0 modes
11:50 - 12:10 Theo Nieuwenhuizen
Neutrinos: The most standard-model friendly option for dark matter

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:40 3 session: Cold atoms, physics of graphene
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Linda Reichl
13:00 - 13:30 Eric Akkermans
Quantum field theory on fractals -- from spontaneous emission with a fractal QED vacuum to quantum gravity at the Planck scale. Recent results and experiments.
13:30 - 14:00 Gilles Montambaux
Dirac cones, from graphene to cold atoms
14:00 - 14:20 Efrat Shimshoni, Victoria Mazo, Chia-Wei Huang, Herbert Fertig, and Samuel Carr
Superfluid-insulator transitions of collective helical modes in the zero quantum Hall state of bilayer graphene
14:20 - 14:40 Ralf Schuetzhold and Friedemann Queisser
Strong magneto-photoelectric effect in folded graphene

14:40 - 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 - 17:00 4 session: Non-equilibrium statistical physics, publishing
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: David Ferry
15:00 - 15:30 Mauro Antezza
Elementary quantum systems out of thermal equilibrium: From quantum thermalization to entanglement
15:30 - 16:00 Irena Knezevic
Coupling electrons, phonons, and photons for nonequilibrium transport simulation
16:00 - 16:20 Avik Ghosh
Quantum transport and correlated switching -- beating the Landauer limit
16:20 - 16:40 Andrei Zaikin and Andrew Semenov
Quantum decoherence of Cooper pairs
16:40 - 17:00 Suzy Lidström
Peer pressure

17:00 - 18:30 Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum

18:30 - 22:30 Evening session: Public lecture of Serge Haroche and concert
Location: Rudolfinum - Dvořák's Hall
chairperson: Roger Balian, Václav Špička

18:30 - 18:45 Music introduction and opening address

18:45 - 20:00 Public lecture
18:45 - 19:45 Serge Haroche
Juggling with photons in a box to explore the quantum world

19:45 - 20:00 Disscusion after the lecture of Serge Haroche

20:00 - 20:20 Break

20:20 - 21:20 Concert of classical music - first part

21:20 - 21:30 Intermission

21:30 - 22:30 Concert of classical music - second part