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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

27 July - 1 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

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Saturday, 1 August 2015

08:00 - 10:00 1 session: Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Michael Thoss
08:00 - 08:30 Juan Carlos Cuevas, V. Fernandez-Hurtado, J. Feist, F. J. Garcia-Vidal, B. Song, Y. Ganjeh, S. Sada, S. Thompson, D. Fiorino, A. Kim, K. Lee, W. Jeong, W. Meyhofer, and E. Reddy
Near-field radiative heat transfer at the nanoscale
08:30 - 09:00 Michael Galperin
Energy transport and heating in molecular junctions
09:00 - 09:30 Rudolf Hilfer
On the relation between nonlocality, irreversibility and global existence
09:30 - 10:00 Marcelo Lozada-Cassou and Gerardo Odriozola
Molecular recognition and information theory in the self-assembling of charged particles

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:00 2 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
10:20 - 10:50 Wolfgang Schleich
The Stefan-Boltzmann law: Two classical laws give a quantum one
10:50 - 11:20 Kimball A. Milton, Romain Guerout, Gert-Ludwig Ingold, Astrid Lambrecht, and Serge Reynaud
Negative Casimir entropies in nanoparticle interactions
11:20 - 11:40 Mikhail Baranov
Majorana fermions in atomic-wire networks - realization of non-Abelian anyons
11:40 - 12:00 Joan A. Vaccaro
Quantum mechanism that makes time different to space

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall
chairperson: Jonathan Lavoie
13:00 - 13:30 Mikko Möttönen, Michael W. Ray, Emmi Ruokokoski, Konstantin Tiurev, Saugat Kandel, Harri Mäkelä, and David S. Hall
Discoveries of magnetic-monopole analogues in Bose-Einstein condensates
13:30 - 13:50 Mario Krenn, Johannes Handsteiner, Matthias Fink, Robert Fickler, and Anton Zeilinger
Twisted photon entanglement through turbulent air across Vienna
13:50 - 14:10 Václav Špička, Anděla Kalvová, and Bedřich Velický
Non-equilibrium dynamics: Initial conditions and asymptotic evolution

14:10 - 14:40 Closing and refreshment
Location: Pyramida Hotel Cinema Hall