Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Wednesday, 29 July 2015 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Christopher Jarzynski |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Udo Seifert Universal thermodynamic inequalities for biomolecular processes |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Ivan M. Khaymovich, Jonne V. Koski, Olli-Pentti Saira, Vladimir E. Kravtsov, and Jukka P. Pekola Stochastic thermodynamics in single electron circuits |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Peter Hänggi Quantum fluctuation theorems: The state of the art |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Yuli Nazarov and Mohammad H. Ansari Rényi entropy flows from quantum heat engines |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Roger Balian |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Frederico Borges Brito, Francisco Marques Rouxinol, Matthew D. LaHaye, and Amir Ordacgi Caldeira Testing time reversal symmetry in artificial atoms |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Luiz Davidovich Quantum metrology: Towards the ultimate precision limits in parameter estimation |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Alexander Unzicker On the origin of the constants c and h |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Jiří J. Mareš, Václav Špička, and Pavel Hubík Infiniteness – a fundamental misconception in physics |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Biological systems, quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Joan Vaccaro |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Reinhard Lipowsky and Sophia Rudorf From in-vitro to in-vivo kinetics of biomolecular machinesvia kinetic distance minimization |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Ofer Biham Competition, feedback and fluctuations in transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulatory networks in cells |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Andrei Khrennikov and Irina Basieva Quantum-like modeling of cognition: On violation of Aumann theorem |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Michael J W Hall, Dirk-Andre Deckert, and Howard M Wiseman Can quantum phenomena be modelled via interactions between many classical worlds? |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - C parallel: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Uri Peskin |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Michael Thorwart Iterative path integral approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Michael Thoss Quantum transport in molecular junctions: Vibrational effects and time-dependent phenomena |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Michele Campisi, Jukka Pekola, and Rosario Fazio Nonequilibrium fluctuations in quantum heat engines: Theory, example, and possible solid state experiments |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Rafael Sánchez, Björn Sothmann, and Andrew N. Jordan Three terminal quantum Hall thermoelectrics |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - A parallel: Optomechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Yaroslav Blanter |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Andrew Armour Quantum non-linear dynamics of photons and Cooper-pairs in a Josephson junction-cavity system |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Pascal Simon Quantum electrodynamics of quantum conductors in micro-waves cavity |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Oriol Romero-Isart Near-field levitated quantum optomechanics with nanodiamonds |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Cyril Elouard, Maxime Richard, and Alexia Auffèves Reversible work extraction in a hybrid opto-mechanical system |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - B parallel: Cold atoms |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Frédéric Chevy |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Linda E. Reichl and Erich D. Gust Sound mode decay in Bose-Einstein condensates |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Fernando Sols Hawking radiation from sonic black holes in flowing atom condensates |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Nir Navon, Alexander L Gaunt, Robert P Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic Exploring the dynamics of BEC in a box potential |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Jean-Philippe Brantut, Sebastian Krinner, Dominik Husmann, Martin Lebrat, Shuta Nakajima, Charles Grenier, Samuel Häusler, and Tilman Esslinger Quantum point contacts for cold atoms |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - C parallel: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Howard J. Carmichael, Simon J. Whalen, and Arne L. Grimsmo Time-local master equations: The coherently driven qubit with delayed coherent feedback |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Francesco Petruccione and Ilya Sinayskiy Microscopic derivation of open quantum Brownian motion |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Michael Marthaler Switching between stable states in quantum systems far from equilibrium |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Vyacheslavs Kashcheyevs and Peter Samuelsson Shaping of on-demand electron wave-packets by tunnel-barrier design |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | 4 session - A parallel: Optomechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Andrew Armour |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Yaroslav M. Blanter Non-linear microwave optomechanics |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Vittorio Peano Cavasola, Christian Brendel, Michael Schmidt, and Florian Marquardt Topological phases of sound and light in an optomechanical array |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | David Vitali Probing deformed commutators with macroscopic harmonic oscillators |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Nikolai Kiesel, Florian Blaser, Uros Delic, David Grass, Markus Aspelmeyer, Andreas Dechant, and Eric Lutz Thermodynamic cycles using levitated optomechanics |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Jason Twamley Engineering mesoscopic quantum systems using quantum magneto-mechanics |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | 4 session - B parallel: Spins, quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Fernando Sols |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Oren Tal Controlling spin transport and magnetoresistance at the atomic scale |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Etienne Maréchal, Bruno Naylor, Aurélie De Paz, Olivier Gorceix, Paolo Pedri, Laurent Vernac, and Bruno Laburthe-Tolra Dipolar chromium atoms: Spin dynamics in optical lattices and thermodynamics |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Boris Fine Nonsecular resonances of interacting nuclear spins in solids |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Andrei D. Zaikin and Andrew G. Semenov Noise and full counting statistics of quantum phase slips |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | 4 session - C parallel: Thermalisation |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Joachim Ankerhold |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Vladimir G Zelevinsky Quantum chaos and thermalization in a mesoscopic many-body system |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Gregoire Ithier and Florent Benaych-Georges Thermalisation of a quantum system from first principles |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Lea F Santos and Jonathan Torres-Herrera Relaxation process of interacting quantum systems |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Doron Cohen Minimal models for superfluidity and thermalization |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Hyunggyu Park, Jaegon Um, Haye Hinrichsen, and Chulan Kwon Energetics and efficiency of an information engine |
| 17:00 - 18:30 | Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum |
| 18:30 - 21:30 | Evening session: Public lecture of Gerard ’t Hooft and concert |
| Location: | Rudolfinum - Dvořák's Hall |
| chairperson: | Peter Keefe, Václav Špička |
| 18:30 - 18:45 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 18:45 - 20:00 | Public lecture |
| 18:45 - 19:45 | Gerard ’t Hooft The quantum deep down |
| 19:45 - 20:00 | Discussion after the lecture of Gerard ’t Hooft |
| 20:00 - 20:20 | Break |
| 20:20 - 21:30 | Concert of classical music |