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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

27 July - 1 August 2015, Prague, Czech Republic

Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

 
Monday, 27 July 2015

08:00 - 8:30 Opening addresses
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall

08:30 - 10:00 1 Session: Quantum thermodynamics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
08:30 - 09:00 Christopher Jarzynski
Thermodynamics in the presence of large system-environment coupling
09:00 - 09:30 David Jennings
Thermodynamics in extreme quantum regimes
09:30 - 10:00 Gershon Kurizki
Quantum resources may boost the performance of heat machines

10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break

10:20 - 12:10 2 session: Quantum measurement
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
10:20 - 10:50 Andrew Jordan
The quantum road most taken
10:50 - 11:20 Paul Kwiat, Courtney Byard, Trent Graham, and Andrew Jordan
Making weak measurements stronger
11:20 - 11:50 Wolfgang Belzig
Non-Markovian weak measurements in quantum transport
11:50 - 12:10 Lawrence S. Schulman
Quantum mechanics, special states and experiment

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum experiments
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
13:00 - 13:30 Markus Arndt
Quantum optics experiments with biomolecular matter
13:30 - 14:00 Jakob Reichel
Many-body entanglement of ultracold atoms in optical fiber microcavities
14:00 - 14:30 Ekaterina Moreva, Giorgio Brida, Marco Gramegna, Lorenzo Maccone, Vittorio Giovannetti, and Marco Genovese
Time emerging from quantum entanglement: Illustration of a first experimental approach

14:30 - 14:50 Coffee break

14:50 - 16:50 4 session: Foundations of quantum physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
14:50 - 15:20 Gerard ’t Hooft
The cellular automaton interpretation of quantum mechanics
15:20 - 15:50 Gerard J. Milburn
Time and temperature in quantum physics
15:50 - 16:20 Armen Allahverdyan, Roger Balian, and Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
Minimalist principles needed to interpret ideal quantum measurements
16:20 - 16:50 Shmuel Gurvitz
Does the measurement take place when nobody observes it?

16:50 - 17:50 Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace

17:50 - 22:30 Guided tour and Welcome party
Location: Wallenstein Palace and its Garden

17:50 - 19:20 Guided tour through the Wallenstein Palace

19:30 - 22:30 Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden