Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Thursday, 13 July 2017 | |
| 08:00 - 10:00 | 1 session: Physics of mesoscopic systems |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Yaakov Kleeorin, Yigal Meir, Catalin Pascu Moca, and Gergely Zarand How can one measure the entropy of a mesoscopic system? |
| 08:30 - 09:00 | Hermann Grabert Input-output theory for AC driven tunnel junctions |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Amnon Aharony Spin orbit interactions, time reversal symmetry and spin filtering |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Michael Pollak A new look at an old controversy: Interacting electrons in Anderson-Mott insulators |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 - 12:10 | 2 session: Optomechanics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Nikolai Kiesel New frontiers in quantum optomechanics: From levitation to gravitation |
| 10:50 - 11:20 | Andreas Nunnenkamp Non-reciprocity and directional amplification with cavity optomechanics |
| 11:20 - 11:50 | Yaxing Zhang, Jennifer Gosner, Björn Kubala, Steven M. Girvin, Mark Dykman, and Joachim Ankerhold Multiple-period Floquet states and time-translation symmetry breaking in quantum oscillators |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Niels Lörch, Simon E. Nigg, Andreas Nunnenkamp, Rakesh P. Tiwari, and Christoph Bruder Quantum synchronization |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - A parallel: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Michael Thoss Simulation of quantum transport in molecular junctions using multiconfiguration wavefunction and reduced density matrix methods |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Francesco Petruccione and Ilya Sinayskiy A repeated interaction approach to open quantum walks and open quantum Brownian motion |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Eric Lutz Irreversibility and the arrow of time in a quenched quantum system |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Peter Schmitteckert A discrete energy space induced fermion parity breaking fixed point of the Kondo model |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - B parallel: Thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Shin-ichi Sasa, Sho Sugiura, and Yuki Yokokura Thermodynamic entropy as a Noether invariant |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ilana Bogod and Saar Rahav The copying fidelity of a polymerase facing an obstacle |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Thomas L. Schmidt and Patrick Haughian Quantum thermodynamics in strongly coupled quantum dots |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Roberto M. Serra Experimental rectification of entropy production by a Maxwell's demon in a quantum system |
| 13:00 - 14:40 | 3 session - C parallel: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Nicolas Roch Quantum simulation of the spin-boson model: Monitoring the bath |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Bryan J Dalton and Margaret D Reid EPR steering, Bell non-locality and entanglement in systems of identical massive bosons |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Hans A Schuessler, Kunihiro Okada, Aiko Takamine, Michiharu Wada, Feng Zhu, Cade Perkins, James Bounds, and Hideki Iimura Sympathetic cooling of mixed ion Coulomb crystals |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Suzy Lidström and Roland E Allen Life, the universe, and everything -- the emerging Renaissance of physics and astronomy |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | 4 session - A parallel: Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Pascal Stadler, Wolfgang Belzig, and Gianluca Rastelli Ground state cooling of a nanomechanical resonator by electron transport |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Rafael Sánchez, Holger Thierschmann, and Laurens W. Molenkamp All-thermal transistor based on stochastic switching |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Miguel Ortuno, Louk Rademaker, and Andres M. Somoza Many-body localization from displacement transformations |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | 4 session - B parallel: Stochastic thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Zongping Gong, Yueheng Lan, and Haitao Quan Stochastic thermodynamics of a particle in a box |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Édgar Roldán, Izaak Neri, and Frank Jülicher Negative records of entropy production: The infimum law |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Izaak Neri, Simone Pigolotti, Édgar Roldán, and Frank Jülicher Universal statistics of entropy production in Langevin processes |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | 4 session - C parallel: Superconductivity |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Conference Room 3 |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Peter D. Keefe Proposed experimental investigation into relaxation phenomena in the adiabatic phase transition of Type I superconductor particles |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Dragos-Victor Anghel New phenomenology from an old theory -- the BCS theory of superconductivity revisited |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Mojtaba A. Rahimi, Ali G. Moghaddam, Cameron Dykstra, Michele Governale, and Ulrich Zülicke Unconventional superconductivity from magnetism in transition metal dichalcogenides |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Free time |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Special talk |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| 16:20 - 17:00 | Emmanuel Fort Hydrodynamic analog of wave-particle duality |
| 17:00 - 18:50 | Poster session and refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel - first floor |
| 18:50 - 20:00 | Transfer to St. Vitus Cathedral |
| 20:00 - 21:10 | Concert of classical music |
| Location: | Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral |