Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday
| Wednesday, 17 July 2019 | |
| 07:50 - 9:50 | 1 session: Thermodynamics and foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall |
| chairperson: | Eric Lutz |
| 07:50 - 08:20 | Udo Seifert The inevitable cost of precision |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | Abraham Nitzan Thermodynamics of strongly coupled driven quantum systems |
| 08:50 - 09:20 | Igor Dotsenko, Valentin Metillon, Michel Brune, and Jean-Michel Raimond Quantum themodynamics in cavity QED |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | E. Rebufello, S. Virzì, A. Avella, F. Piacentini, R. Lussana, El. Cohen, G. Brida, L. Vaidman, A. Tosi, Marco Gramegna, I. P. Degiovanni, and M. Genovese A journey through quantum measurement paradigms: From weak measurements to protective measurements, and more |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: Nonequilibrium statistical physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | James Freericks |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Michael Bonitz Ultrafast dynamics of strongly correlated finite fermion systems |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Claudio Verdozzi Steering magnetic skyrmions with currents: A nonequilibrium Green’s functions approach |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Pawel Danielewicz, Hao Lin, Hossein Mahzoon, and Arnau Rios Nuclear slabs in terms of Green's functions: Collective oscillations with short-range correlations |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Frithjof B. Anders Theory of inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy for probing correlated many-body systems |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Igor Dotsenko |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Gershon Kurizki Quantum thermodynamics under control |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Tamir Admon, Saar Rahav, and Yael Roichman Against the flow: A colloidal Maxwell's demon |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Rafael Sánchez, Janine Splettstoesser, and Robert S. Whitney Non-equilibrium systems as demons |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Paweł Bialas, Jakub Spiechowicz, and Jerzy Łuczka Quantum analogue of energy equipartition theorem |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - C parallel: Light matter interaction |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Edward Fry |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Evgenii Narimanov Ballistic metamaterials |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | Radim Filip Quantum and stochastic physics of instable systems |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Robert Bettles, Lewis Williamson, Mark Lee, Magnus Borgh, Simon Gardiner, and Janne Ruostekoski Open quantum dynamics of cooperatively coupled atoms and light |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Michele Governale and Gianluca Rastelli Single-atom lasing in normal-superconductor quantum dots |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - D parallel: Physics of quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Denis Vion |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Oleg Nikiforov, Erik Fitzke, and Thomas Walther Quantum key distribution in a telecom network |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | K. Goswami, L. A. Howard, Y. Cao, G. G. Gillett, G. A. Paz-Silva, M. E. Pearce, R. A. Abrahão, P. Kok, J. Romero, and Andrew G. White Communicating via ignorance & imaging via counting |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | Mario Krenn On computer-inspired science |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | Francesco M. D. Pellegrino, Giuseppe Falci, and Elisabetta Paladino Critical current 1/f noise in graphene Josephson junction |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - A parallel: Many body physics, Quantum transport |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Jürgen Stockburger |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Shmuel Gurvitz Directed particle flow at zero bias induced by random versus periodic drive |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Francesco Petruccione From unitary to open quantum walks |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Thais V. Trevisan, Gustavo M. Monteiro, and Amir O. Caldeira Amplification of the diamagnetic response in small Hubbard rings |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Michael Ridley Numerically exact full counting statistics of the Anderson impurity model |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Peter Schmitteckert Learning DFT and inverse mean field theories |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Yasuhiro Utsumi Full-counting statistics of information content and the optimum capacity |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - B parallel: Quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Abraham Nitzan |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Stefan Nimmrichter, Stella Seah, Kiran E Khosla, and Valerio Scarani Quantum (thermo-)dynamics of randomly probed systems |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Bei-Lok Hu and Jen-Tsung Hsiang Quantum thermodynamics from the nonequilibrium dynamics of open systems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Konstantin E. Dorfman Quantum heat engine with weak and strong coupled baths |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Jaegon Um, Konstantin Dorfman, and Hyunggyu Park Coherence effect in a multi-level quantum-dot heat engine |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Haitao Quan and Ken Funo Path integral approach to quantum thermodynamics |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Matteo Scandi, Harry J. D. Miller, Janet Anders, and Marti Perarnau-Llobet Work fluctuations in slow processes: Quantum signatures and optimal control |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - C parallel: Topological states |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Thomas Vojta |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Hannes Weisbrich, Wolfgang Belzig, and Gianluca Rastelli Decoherence and relaxation of topological states in extended quantum Ising models |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Maxime Garnier, Andrej Mesaros, and Pascal Simon Topologically protected Majorana zero modes around the edge of a magnetic skyrmion |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Pavel E. Dolgirev, Mikhail S. Kalenkov, and Andrei D. Zaikin Topology-controlled macroscopic quantum coherent effects in multi-terminal Andreev interferometers |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Llorenç Serra Conductance oscillations and magnetic orbital effects with chiral Majorana modes |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Jerome Rech, Dario Ferraro, Flavio Ronetti, Luca Vannucci, Matteo Acciai, Thibaut Jonckheere, Maura Sassettti, and Thierry Martin Minimal excitations in the fractional quantum Hall regime |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Walter Hahn and Boris V. Fine Thermalization as an invisibility cloak for fragile quantum superpositions |
| 13:00 - 15:30 | 3 session - D parallel: Foundations of quantum physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall D |
| chairperson: | Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | Arkady Plotnitsky Something happened: The real, the virtual, and the actual in quantum field theory |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Ana María Cetto, Luis de la Peña, and Andrea Valdés-Hernández On the physical meaning of the spin projection operator |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Toshio Croucher and Joan A. Vaccaro The quantum theory of time: Sources of T violation |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Bryan Dalton Bell non-locality in macroscopic systems |
| 14:50 - 15:10 | Andrei Khrennikov Getting rid of the nonlocality nonsense: Violation of the Bell's type inequalities as a local expression of incompatibility |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Andrea Valdés-Hernández, Luis de la Peña, and Ana María Cetto Strong entanglement criterion based on momentum weak values |
| 15:30 - 17:00 | Free time and transfer to National House |
| 17:00 - 22:00 | Evening session: Public lectures of Rainer Weiss, Wolfgang Ketterle and concert |
| Location: | National House of Vinohrady - Mayakovsky Hall |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička, Wolfgang Schleich, Peter Keefe |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Music introduction and opening address |
| 17:15 - 18:30 | Public lecture |
| 17:15 - 18:15 | Rainer Weiss The beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Discussion after the lecture of Rainer Weiss |
| 18:30 - 19:00 | Break |
| 19:00 - 20:15 | Public lecture |
| 19:00 - 20:00 | Wolfgang Ketterle Cooling close to absolute zero temperature: A recipe for discoveries |
| 20:00 - 20:15 | Discussion after the lecture of Wolfgang Ketterle |
| 20:15 - 20:30 | Break |
| 20:30 - 22:00 | Concert of classical music |