Times in program corresponds to
Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
| Monday, 27 July 2026 | |
| 07:50 - 8:20 | Opening address |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 08:20 - 9:50 | 1 session: Stochastic and quantum thermodynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Eric Lutz |
| 08:20 - 08:50 | |
| 08:50 - 09:20 |
Udo Seifert
Entropy production and its model-free inference |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session: Quantum computing |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Eric Akkermans |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Yuval Gefen, Josias Langbehn, George Mouloudakis, Emma King, Raphael Menu, Giovanna Morigi, Igor Gornyi, and Christiane Koch
Quantum Cooling through Measurements |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 |
Mohammad Ansari
Information Transport in Classical-Quantum Hybrid System |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - A parallel: Many body systems out of equilibrium |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Riku Tuovinen |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Branislav K. Nikolic, Federico Garcia-Gaitan, Jalil Varela-Manjarres, and Felipe Reyes-Osorio
Driven-dissipative quantum spin systems: Fate of their entanglement and the origins of the classical Landau-Lifshitz equation |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Michael Galperin
Green's function methods for open molecular systems |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Sean Fancher and Jordan Horowitz
The geometry of nonequilibrium response |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
David Edward Bruschi
Toward Algebraic Quantum Control |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - B parallel: Quantum information |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Jens Eisert |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Laura Hoek, Neta Ben Ari, Remi Goerlich, Yael Roichman, and Saar Rahav
Information engines with self-propelling particles |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Alberto Imparato
Information engine fueled by first–passage times |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | |
| 14:30 - 14:50 |
Soroush Khademi, Jesse J Slim, Kiarn T Laverick, Jin Chang, Jingkun Guo, Simon Groblacher, Howard M Wiseman, and Warwick P Bowen
Post-processed estimation of quantum evolution |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
Jose Este Jaloveckas, Alexander Shnirman, and Moshe Schechter
Conditional Dynamics of a Dual-Rail Qubit with Asymmetric Erasure Rates |
| 13:00 - 15:10 | 3 session - C parallel: Quantum optics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Ernst Rasel |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Dana Z. Anderson and Katarzyna Krzyzanowska
The Mechanics of Maxwell Matter Waves |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Volker Deckert
Scale Effects in Plasmon-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Walter Pfeiffer, Andreas Gebauer, Luis Maschmann, Nikolay M. Kabachnik, and Eugene E. Krasovskii
Impact of surface scattering on photoelectron escape times |
| 14:30 - 14:50 |
Fabio Pistolesi
Quantum Rabi Model in the slow Oscillator Regime |
| 14:50 - 15:10 |
Sarthak Girdhar, Edvin G. Idrisov, and Thomas L. Schmidt
Fabry–Perot interferometry with stochastic anyonic sources |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 18:00 | 4 session: Foundations of quantum physics, dedicated to the memory of Luis de la Peña |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Theo Nieuwenhuizen |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Ana María Cetto and Eduardo Varela
The vacuum electromagnetic field as the source of atomic stability |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Mathias Van Den Bossche and Philippe Grangier
Contextual unification of classical and quantum physics |
| 17:30 - 18:00 |
Hervé Zwirn
Are Events Absolute? |
| 18:00 - 19:00 | Free time and transfer to Wallenstein Palace |
| 19:00 - 22:00 | Welcome Party |
| Location: | Wallenstein Palac and its Garden |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Opening |
| 19:30 - 22:00 | Welcome party in the Wallenstein Palace Garden |