Times in program corresponds to
Prague time zone (UTC/GMT +2 hours).
| Thursday, 30 July 2026 | |
| 07:50 - 9:50 | 1 session: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Ralf Schuetzhold |
| 07:50 - 08:20 | |
| 08:20 - 08:50 |
Aida Sadeghi, Fatema Tanjia, and Joan Alfina Vaccaro
The quantum theory of time: Emergence of Lorentz invariance |
| 08:50 - 09:20 |
Bei-Lok Hu
Vacuum Viscosity |
| 09:20 - 09:50 | |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Coffee break |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - A parallel: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | John Bush |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Georgi Gary Rozenman, Joel Been, Arnaud Lazarus, and John W M Bush
Aharonov–Bohm, Kennard Phase, and Three-Slit Dynamics in Pilot-Wave Hydrodynamics |
| 10:40 - 11:10 |
Stefan Nimmrichter, Dennis Rätzel, Isobel C Bicket, Michael S Seifner, and Philipp Haslinger
Electron-enabled Nanoparticle Diffraction |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 |
Themistoklis Mavrogordatos
Quantum Jumps in Amplitude Bistability: Tracking a Coherent and Invertible State Localization |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - B parallel: Many body systems, dynamics, spins |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall B |
| chairperson: | Branislav Nikolic |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Jaroslav Fabian
Correlations and spins in 2D materials |
| 10:40 - 11:10 | |
| 11:10 - 11:40 |
Vincenzo Varrica, Giuseppe Falci, Elisabetta Paladino, and Francesco Pellegrino
Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with two-dimensional material-based Josephson Junctions |
| 11:40 - 12:10 | |
| 10:10 - 12:10 | 2 session - C parallel: Quantum optics and dynamics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall C |
| chairperson: | Fabio Pistolesi |
| 10:10 - 10:40 |
Peter Samuelsson, Daniel Holst, and Patrick P Potts
Lindblad master equation for deep strong coupling regime of the quantum Rabi model |
| 10:40 - 11:10 |
Francesco Marzioni, Giacomo Novelli, Riccardo Natali, Michele Bonaldi, Antonio Borrielli, Enrico Serra, Nicola Malossi, David Vitali, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, and Paolo Piergentili
Radio frequency to optical transducer based on a soft-clamped membrane |
| 11:10 - 11:40 | |
| 11:40 - 12:10 |
Oleh V. Ivakhneko, Diana O. Shendryk, Sergey N. Shevchenko, and Franco Nori
(online)
Fast Nonadiabatic Gates for Quantum Signal Processing via Landau–Zener–Stückelberg–Majorana interferometry |
| 12:10 - 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | 3 session: Quantum optics, cold atoms |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Dana Anderson |
| 13:00 - 13:30 |
Aephraim Matthew Steinberg, Daniela Angulo, Kyle Thompson, Vida-Michelle Nixon, Andy Jiao, and Howard M. Wiseman
The Private Lives of Photons: Asking particles where they spent the night |
| 13:30 - 14:00 |
Jens D. Berdahl, Andrew F. McDonald, Takaho Tsubakiyama, and Frank A. Narducci
Sensitivity functions and phase scaling in light-pulse atom interferometers |
| 14:00 - 14:30 |
Jeremy R Armstrong, Neelam Shukla, Oleks V Marchukov, Bastien Humbert, Jan Arlt, and Artem G Volosniev
Finite Size Effects in LHY Droplets |
| 14:30 - 14:50 | Coffee break |
| 14:50 - 16:50 | 4 session: General physics |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Joachim Ankerhold |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | |
| 15:20 - 15:50 |
Shmuel Gurvitz and Dmitri Sokolovski
Time Delay in Tunneling Current and the Tunneling Time |
| 15:50 - 16:20 |
Nitay Hurvitz, Alon Kochol, Victor Fleurov, and Eran Sela
Arrow of Time as an Order Parameter for Measurement-Induced Phase Transitions |
| 16:20 - 16:50 |
Fernando Sols
Hawking time crystals |
| 16:50 - 18:40 | Poster session and refreshment |
| Location: | Pyramida hotel - first floor |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Free time |
| 19:00 - 22:10 | Evening session: Public lecture of Amir Caldeira and concert, dedicated to the memory of Anthony J. Leggett |
| Location: | Pyramida Hotel Lecture Hall A |
| chairperson: | Václav Špička |
| 19:00 - 19:10 | Opening address |
| 19:10 - 19:40 | Fernando Sols: Remembering Tony Leggett |
| 19:40 - 20:30 | Public lecture: |
| 19:40 - 20:30 | |
| 20:30 - 20:40 | Discussion after the lecture of Amir Caldeira |
| 20:40 - 21:00 | Break |
| 21:00 - 22:10 | Concert of classical music |