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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

14 - 20 July 2019, Prague, Czech Republic

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Thursday, 18 July 2019

07:50 - 9:50 1 session: Quantum physics and gravitation
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Michael Guidry
07:50 - 08:20 Wolfgang Schleich
Quantum waves and gravity
08:20 - 08:50 Ernst Rasel
Space-borne matter-wave interferences
08:50 - 09:20 Hartmut Abele
Gravity resonance spectroscopy and the dark sector
09:20 - 09:50 Hansjoerg Dittus
Quantum technology on GNSS

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Wolfgang Schleich
10:10 - 10:40 William D. Phillips
The revolutionary changes to the International System of Units
10:40 - 11:10 Wolfgang Ketterle
Ultracold atoms as quantum simulators for new materials – optical lattices and synthetic gauge fields
11:10 - 11:40 Rainer Weiss
Quantum noise in LIGO
11:40 - 12:10 Theodor W. Hänsch
From the Lamb dip to the proton radius puzzle

12:10 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30 3 session: Quantum optics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Yuri Rostovtsev
13:00 - 13:30 Lothar Maisenbacher, Axel Beyer, Vitaly Andreev, Alexey Grinin, Arthur Matveev, Ksenia Khabarova, Nikolai Kolachevsky, Randolf Pohl, Dylan Yost, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Thomas Udem
Challenging QED with atomic hydrogen
13:30 - 14:00 Olga Kocharovskaya
Quantum optics with X-rays: Dynamical control of resonant interaction
14:00 - 14:30 Federico Capasso
Metasurfaces: From flat optics to structured light

14:30 - 14:50 Break

14:50 - 16:20 4 session: Foundations of physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Andrew Jordan
14:50 - 15:20 Gerard ’t Hooft
Constructing deterministic models for quantum mechanical systems
15:20 - 15:50 Stephen A. Fulling
Things we are still learning about uniform acceleration
15:50 - 16:20 Marlan O. Scully
From Bose condensates to black holes: Tribute to Bogoliubov

16:20 - 16:40 Cofee break

16:40 - 19:00 Round table discussion
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall
chairperson: Václav Špička, Wolfgang Schleich

16:40 - 17:00 Opening

17:00 - 17:30 Tribute to Marlan Scully

17:30 - 19:00 Disscusion: M. Scully, T. Hänsch, W. Ketterle, W. Phillips, G. ’t Hooft, R. Weiss, and others

19:00 - 20:00 Transfer to St. Vitus Cathedral

20:00 - 21:10 Concert of classical music
Location: Prague Castle - St. Vitus Cathedral