Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Tuesday, 11 July 2017 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Cold atoms |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Linda Reichl |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Yoram Alhassid The nature of superfluidity in the cold atomic unitary Fermi gas |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Tilman Esslinger Supersolid phases in quantum gases |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Frédéric Chevy From ultraslow to ultrafast. Analog simulation of Weyl fermions using ultracold atoms |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Christophe Salomon, Sebastien Laurent, Matthieu Pierce, Marion Delehaye, Shuwei Jin, Tarik Yefsah, Igor Ferrier-Barbut, and Frederic Chevy Bose-Fermi dual superfluids |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session: Plasmonics, biophysics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Marlan Scully |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Partha Partim Pal and Tamar Seideman Current-driven phenomena in surface nanoscience |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Philip Hemmer and Todd Zapata Organic nanodiamonds |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Reinhard Lipowsky From curvature elasticity to synthetic biology |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Stefan Klumpp Life in crowded conditions |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - A parallel: Cold atoms, biophysics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Yoram Alhassid |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Davide Dreon, Leonid A Sidorenkov, Chayma Bouazza, Thomas Chalopin, Wilfried Maineult, Jean Dalibard, and Sylvain Nascimbene Ultracold dysprosium gases: A complex system from radiative trapping to many-body physics |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Nir Navon Tuning the dissipation scale of a quantum-gas turbulent cascade |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Fernando Sols Synthetic magnetic fields in cold atom systems |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Francesco Scazza, Giacomo Valtolina, Andrea Amico, Pedro Tavares, Pietro Massignan, Alessio Recati, Alessia Burchianti, Chiara Fort, Massimo Inguscio, Matteo Zaccanti, and Giacomo Roati From N+1 to N+N: Exploring repulsive many-body states with ultracold spin mixtures |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Lawrence S. Schulman Model of horizontal gene transfer, and another power law mystery |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - B parallel: Quantum transport, thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Andrea Hofmann, Ville Maisi, Tobias Krähenmann, Christian Reichl, Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn, and Klaus Ensslin Spin-orbit interaction on the level of individual electrons |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Jae Sung Lee and Hyunggyu Park Carnot efficiency in an irreversible process |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Martin Josefsson, Artis Svilans, Adam M Burke, Claes Thelander, Martin Leijnse, and Heiner Linke A quantum-dot heat engine operated near its theoretical efficiency limits |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Mauro Antezza Excitation injector in an atomic chain: Long-ranged transport and efficiency amplification |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Jakub Spiechowicz, Peter Talkner, Peter Hänggi, and Jerzy Luczka Nonmonotonic temperature dependence of diffusion in driven periodic systems |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - C parallel: Quantum phase transitions |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Alexander Shnirman |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Daniel Podolsky, Efrat Shimshoni, Giovanna Morigi, and Shmuel Fishman Classical and quantum buckling transitions in cold ion crystals |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Konstantin Krutitsky, Andreas Osterloh, and Ralf Schuetzhold Avalanche of entanglement and correlations at quantum phase transitions |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Thomas Vojta, Jack Crewse, and Daniel Arovas Fate of the amplitude (Higgs) mode at a disordered quantum phase transition |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Ricardo Gutiérrez-Jáuregui and Howard J Carmichael Fluctuations in dissipative quantum phase transitions at finite size |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Roland E Allen, Ayman Abdullah-Smoot, Michelle Gohlke, David Lujan, James Sharp, and Ross Tagaras Ultrafast phase transitions in advanced materials, including light-induced superconductivity |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - A parallel: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Marlan Scully |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Edward Strauss Fry Integrating cavities and ultra-sensitive absorption spectroscopy |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Cyril Laplane, Pierre Jobez, Jean Etesse, Nicolas Gisin, and Mikael Afzelius Multiplexed quantum correlated photons generated with a tunable delay in a solid-state ensemble |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Janne Ruostekoski, Gaetan Facchinetti, and Stewart Jenkins Cooperative atom response to light and giant subradiant correlations in arrays of atoms |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Radim Filip Non-Gaussian quantum optics and optomechanics |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - B parallel: Majorana fermions |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Thomas Vojta |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Stefan Backens, Yuval Gefen, Yuriy Makhlin, Johan E. Mooij, Gerd Schoen, and Alexander Shnirman Emulating Majorana fermions and their braiding by Ising spin chains |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Pascal Simon Topological superconductivity and Majorana bound states in 2D superconductors |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Llorenç Serra Current distributions and conductance oscillations in stripe Majorana junctions |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Kyrylo Snizhko, Reinhold Egger, and Yuval Gefen Measurement and control of Coulomb-blockaded parafermion box |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - C parallel: Cosmology, quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Arkady Plotnitsky |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Andrei Khrennikov Quantum-like models: From information laser to color revolutions, Brexit and Donald Trump |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Pavel Kroupa Galaxy formation in Milgromian gravitation |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen Subjecting theories of dark matter to the cluster test |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Y. Jack Ng, Doug Edmonds, Duncan Farrah, Djordje Minic, and Tatsu Takeuchi Gravitational thermodynamics and modified dark matter |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Free time and transfer to National House |
| 19:00 - 22:30 | Evening session: Public lecture of Anton Zeilinger and concert |
| Location: | National House of Vinohrady - Mayakovsky Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Peter Keefe |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 19:15 - 20:30 | Public lecture |
| 19:15 - 20:15 | Anton Zeilinger From quantum puzzles to quantum information technology |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Discussion after the lecture of Anton Zeilinger |
| 20:30 - 20:45 | Break |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | Concert of classical music |