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Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics

21-27 July 2024, Prague, Czech Republic

20th anniversary of the first (FQMT'04) conference, 10th FQMT conference.

Full Program | Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday

Times in program corresponds to Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
 
Saturday, 27 July 2024

08:20 - 9:50 1 session: Gravity, Cosmology
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Theo Nieuwenhuizen
08:20 - 08:50 Daine L Danielson, Gautam Satishchandran, and Robert M Wald
Black Holes Decohere Quantum Superpositions
08:50 - 09:20 Ron Folman and the Atom Chip Group
Can a Rock be a Wave? From 100 years of De-Broglie's Wave-Particle Duality, to Quantum-Gravity.
09:20 - 09:50 John C Mather
Discoveries with the JWST, and what comes next

09:50 - 10:10 Coffee break

10:10 - 12:10 2 session: Cold atoms
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Dana Anderson
10:10 - 10:40 Peter McClintock, Malcolm Poole, Roch Schanen, Aneta Stefanovska, Viktor Tsepelin, Dmitry Zmeev, David Schmoranzer, Simon Midlik, Deepak Garg, and Kalpana Devi
Experiments on quantum turbulence in superfluid He-4
10:40 - 11:00 Milan Radonjić, Leon Mixa, Axel Pelster, and Michael Thorwart
Nanomechanically-induced nonequilibrium quantum phase transition in a Bose-Einstein condensate
11:00 - 11:20 Nicola Grani, Diego Hernandez-Rajkov, Cyprien Daix, Giulia Del Pace, and Giacomo Roati
Dynamics of vortices in strongly interacting Fermi gases
11:20 - 11:40 Alberto Imparato
A quantum thermodynamics approach to optimization in complex systems

11:50 - 13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 15:30 3 session: General physics
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: Václav Špička
13:00 - 13:30 James K Freericks, Jason Tran, and Leanne Doughty
A Modernizing View of Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics
13:30 - 14:00 Eliahu Cohen
Uncertainty relations and flow of time in inertial and non-inertial quantum reference frames
14:00 - 14:30 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
How the vacuum explains the Lorentz electron, regular black hole interiors and the dark matter
14:30 - 15:00 Cyril Elouard and Camille Lombard Latune
Extending the Laws of Thermodynamics for Arbitrary Autonomous Quantum Systems
15:00 - 15:30 Peter D. Keefe
Reflections on the 200th Anniversary of the Second Law

15:30 - 16:00 Closing remarks
Location: Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A
chairperson: