Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Wednesday, 12 July 2017 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Molecular machines, quantum engines |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Saar Rahav |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Ronnie Kosloff Dynamical view of quantum thermodynamics |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Gershon Kurizki, Wolfgang Niedenzu, Abraham Kofman, and Victor Mukherjee Universal thermodynamic bound on quantum engine efficiency |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Stefan Nimmrichter, Alexandre Roulet, Juan Miguel Arrazola, Stella Seah, Jibo Dai, and Valerio Scarani Quantum rotor engines and absorption fridges |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Ortwin Hess, Joachim M Hamm, Tommaso Tuffarelli, Heiko Gross, and Bert Hecht Quantum theory of room temperature single quantum-dot strong-coupling with plasmonic nanoresonators |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: Molecular Junctions |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Ferdinand Evers |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Galen Craven and Abraham Nitzan Electron transfer across thermal gradients |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Ora Entin-Wohlman Enhanced performance of three-terminal thermoelectric devices |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Maayan Kuperman and Uri Peskin Field-induced inversion of resonant tunneling currents through single molecule junctions and the directional photo-electric effect |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Oren Tal Magneto-conductance and spin related shot noise properties of half-metallic molecular junctions |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Cold atoms, transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Yoram Alhassid |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Thomas Gasenzer Strongly anomalous non-thermal fixed point in a quenched Bose gas |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Linda E. Reichl and Erich D Gust Microscopic hydrodynamic modes in a hard sphere binary mixture |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Gergely Zarand, Marton Kormos, and Pascu Moca A semi-semiclassical approach to quantum quenches |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Jalil Khatibi Moqadam, Marcos Cesar de Oliveira, and Renato Portugal Staggered quantum walks with superconducting microwave resonators |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session - C parallel: Physics of information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | William Wooters |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Antonio D'Arrigo, Giuseppe Falci, and Elisabetta Paladino Quantum control of non-Gaussian noise in hybrid quantum networks |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Giuseppe Falci, Alessandro Ridolfo, Pietro G. Di Stefano, and Elisabetta Paladino Probing ultrastrong coupling by coherent amplification of population transfer |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Austin Peter Lund, Saleh Rahimi-Keshari, and Timothy Cameron Ralph Boson sampling and continuous variables |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Masanao Ozawa Quantum root mean square error and universally valid uncertainty relations |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - A parallel: Quantum Thermodynamics, transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Kevin Marc Seja, Gediminas Kirsanskas, Carsten Timm, and Andreas Wacker Violation of Onsager’s theorem in approximate master equation approaches |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Soumya Bera, Giuseppe DeTomasi, Felix Weiner, and Ferdinand Evers Propagation of charge and energy density in disordered interacting quantum wires - ergodic phases with subdiffusive dynamics? |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Gilles Montambaux The generalized Stefan-Boltzmann law |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Rudolf Hilfer Thermodynamics in the presence of anomalous flows |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Jonathan Reiner, Abhay Kumar Nayak, Nurit Avraham, Binghai Yan, Yan Sun, Ion Cosma Fulga, Jung-Hyun Kang, Torsten Karzig, Hadas Shtrikman, and Haim Beidenkopf One dimensional hot electrons regain coherence in semiconducting nanowires |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - B parallel: General physics, biophysics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Stefan Klumpp |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Denys Bondar, Renan Cabrera, Andre Campos, and Herschel Rabitz Measurement inspired modeling of dynamical systems |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Michael Guidry A multidisciplinary approach to the theory of emergent states |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Marcelo Lozada-Cassou and Enrique González-Tovar Long range correlation in complex fluids |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Andrei E. Tarkhov, Sandro Wimberger, and Boris V. Fine Lyapunov exponents in many-body systems from Loschmidt echoes |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Jiří J. Mareš, Pavel Hubík, and Václav Špička Possible role of quantum diffusion in ontogenesis of nervous tissue |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | 3 session - C parallel: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Ana María Cetto, Luis de la Peña, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández A physical explanation for the connection between the electron spin and statistics |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Joan A Vaccaro Physical signatures of the quantum nature of time |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Luis de la Peña, Ana María Cetto, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández Classical explanation of the quantum problem of the particle in a well: Role of the zero-point radiation field |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Carlos Baladrón and Andrei Khrennikov Bell inequality violation in the framework of a Darwinian approach to quantum mechanics |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Arkady Plotnitsky "Human, All Too Human:" On the concept of quantum state, from Bohr’s atom to quantum automata |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Coffee break |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - A parallel: Superconducting junctions |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Oren Tal |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Kuan Yen Tan, Shumpei Masuda, Matti Partanen, Russell Evan Lake, Joonas Govenius, Matti Silveri, Hermann Grabert, and Mikko Möttönen Experiments on temporally controllable dissipation in superconducting quantum circuits |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Artem V. Galaktionov, Dmitry S. Golubev, and Andrei D. Zaikin Andreev levels as a quantum dissipative environment for superconducting nanojunctions |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Liliana Arrachea, Alberto Camjayi, Armando Aligia, and Felix von Oppen Josephson current in time-reversal invariant topological superconductors |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Thibaut Jonckheere, Jerome Rech, Alex Zazunov, Reinhold Egger, and Thierry Martin Hanbury Brown and Twiss noise correlations in a topological superconductor beam splitter |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 session - B parallel: Fluctuations |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Yasuhiro Utsumi |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Sebastien Jezouin, Zubair Iftikhar, Anne Anthore, Francois Parmentier, Ulf Gennsser, Antonella Cavanna, Abdelkarim Ouerghi, Ivan Levkivskyi, Edvin Idrisov, Eugen Sukhorukov, Leonid Glazman, and Frederic Pierre Controlling charge quantization with quantum fluctuations |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Kensuke Kobayashi Fluctuations along symmetry crossover in a Kondo-correlated quantum dot |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | David Sanchez Cotunneling drag effect in double quantum dots |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Marti Perarnau-Llobet, Elisa Bäumer, Karen V. Hovhannisyan, Marcus Huber, and Antonio Acin No-go theorem for the characterisation of work fluctuations in coherent quantum systems |
| 15:20 - 17:00 | 4 Session - C parallel: Graphene, Casimir forces |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| chairperson: | Giles Montambaux |
| 15:20 - 15:50 | Eric Akkermans, Omrie Ovdat, Eva Andrei, and Jinhai Mao Quantum symmetry breaking: Observation of scale anomaly in graphene |
| 15:50 - 16:20 | Luciano C. Lapas, Agustin Pérez Madrid, and J. Miguel Rubi Casimir forces out of equilibrium |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Laura Cohnitz, Alessandro De Martino, Wolfgang Häusler, and Reinhold Egger Chiral interface states in pn junctions in graphene |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Sense Jan van der Molen Probing the electronic coupling between atomically thin layers in van der Waals systems |
| 17:00 - 19:00 | Free time and transfer to Rudolfinum |
| 19:00 - 22:30 | Evening session: Public lecture of John Pendry and concert |
| Location: | Rudolfinum Dvořák's 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 | John Pendry Metamaterials and the science of invisibility |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Discussion after the lecture of John Pendry |
| 20:30 - 20:45 | Break |
| 20:45 - 22:00 | Concert of classical music |