Sunday, October 11, 2015

Time Event  
17:45 - 17:45 Boat to Porquerolles - Departure from La Tour Fondue terminal to Porquerolles  
18:30 - 18:30 Boat to Porquerolles - Departure from La Tour Fondue terminal to Porquerolles  
19:30 - 21:00 Opening reception  

Monday, October 12, 2015

Time Event  
08:45 - 10:15 Classical and quantum trajectories  
08:45 - 10:15 › Tutorial -- Fluctuation theorems in classical systems in contact with several baths: theory and experiments - Alberto Imparato, University of Aarhus  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 12:15 Classical and quantum trajectories  
10:45 - 11:15 › Stochastic path integral formalism for quantum trajectories of continuously measured systems - Andrew Jordan, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Rochester  
11:15 - 11:45 › Coherence and measurement in quantum thermodynamics - Janet Anders, University of Exeter  
11:55 - 12:15 › Nonclassical features in the distribution of work performed on a quantum system - Paolo Solinas, Istituto SPIN-CNR  
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch  
13:15 - 14:45 Quantum equilibration  
13:15 - 14:45 › Tutorial: All you ever wanted to know about equilibration and thermalization - Jens Eisert, Freie University Berlin  
14:45 - 16:15 Working Group 1  
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break  
16:45 - 17:55 Quantum detectors of heat and work  
16:45 - 17:15 › TBA - Nikolai Kiesel, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna)  
17:15 - 17:35 › Irreversible Entropy Production in Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium - Matteo Brunelli, Centre for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics (Queen's University Belfast)  
17:35 - 17:55 › Reversible work extraction in a hybrid opto-mechanical system - Cyril Elouard, Institut Néel  
17:55 - 18:15 Classical and quantum trajectories  
17:55 - 18:15 › Thermodynamics of trajectories of a network of quantum harmonic oscillators - Simon PIGEON, Queen's University of Belfast  
19:15 - 20:15 Dinner  
20:15 - 22:00 Poster session 1  
20:15 - 22:00 › A small quantum absorption refrigerator with reversed couplings - Paul Skrzypczyk, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences,  
20:15 - 22:00 › A Spin Chain Quantum Refrigerator - Yasser Omar, Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto de Telecomunicações  
20:15 - 22:00 › Efficiency bounds for quantum engines powered by non-thermal baths - Wolfgang Niedenzu, Weizmann Institute of Science  
20:15 - 22:00 › Fluctuation Limited Free Energy - Jonathan Richens, Quantum Optics and Laser Science, Blackett Laboratory  
20:15 - 22:00 › Single-ion heat engine - Johannes Roßnagel, QUANTUM, University of Mainz  
20:15 - 22:00 › Transient effects due to lead-dot coupling modulation in thermoelectric transport through a quantum dot - Anne-Marie Daré, Institut des Matériaux, de Microélectronique et des Nanosciences de Provence  

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Time Event  
08:45 - 10:15 Thermodynamics and classical information  
08:45 - 10:15 › Tutorial -- The physics of information: from Maxwell's demon to Landauer - Eric Lutz, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 12:15 Thermodynamics and classical information  
10:45 - 11:15 › Information to energy conversion with electronic Maxwell's demons - Jonne Koski, Aalto University  
11:15 - 11:45 › Time asymmetric driving and entropy production - Juan Parrondo, Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear and GISC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid  
11:45 - 12:05 › Measurement of the equilibrium free energy and the tunnel dynamics of a confined electron driven out of equilibrium - Andrea Hofmann, Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zürich  
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch  
13:15 - 14:45 Working Group 2  
14:45 - 16:15 Experiments in the quantum world  
14:45 - 15:15 › Quantum physics and information with spins in diamond - Tim Taminiau, Delft University of Technology  
15:15 - 15:45 › Experimental implementation of a quantum heat engine and its optimization - Roberto Serra, University of York, Federal University of ABC  
15:45 - 16:05 › Experimental demonstration of information to energy conversion in a quantum system at the Landauer Limit - Lucas Céleri, Universidade Federal de Goiás  
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break  
16:45 - 17:25 Thermodynamics and classical information  
16:45 - 17:05 › Extracting work from absence of correlations - Markus Mueller, Heidelberg University, Germany  
17:05 - 17:25 › Thermodynamic meaning and power of non-Markovianity - Bogna Bylicka, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Inf ormatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University  
17:25 - 17:45 Quantum Engines  
17:25 - 17:45 › A magnetic thermal switch for heat management at the nanoscale - Francesco Mazza, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, NEST Istituto Nanoscienze-CNR  
17:45 - 18:05 Experiments in the quantum world  
17:45 - 18:05 › Fluctuation-dissipation relations of a tunnel Junction driven by a quantum circuit - Carles Altimiras, Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé  
19:15 - 20:15 Dinner  
20:15 - 22:00 Poster session 2  
20:15 - 22:00 › Adiabatic and Non-adiabatic entropy production in quantum evolutions - Gonzalo Manzano, Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems, Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear and GISC, Universidad Complutense de Madrid  
20:15 - 22:00 › Energy fluctuations in electron quantum optics - Pascal Degiovanni, Laboratoire de Physique de l'ENS Lyon  
20:15 - 22:00 › Entanglement of a quantum dipolar gas loaded in optical lattices - Laurent Vernac, Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers  
20:15 - 22:00 › Fluctuation relations in a superconducting circuit QED system - Yuta Masuyama, The University of Tokyo  
20:15 - 22:00 › Measuring Work and Heat Statistics in Superconducting Quantum Circuits - Quentin FICHEUX, ENS  
20:15 - 22:00 › Thermoelectricity without absorbing energy from the heat sources - Robert Whitney, Laboratoire de Physique et Modélisation des Milieux Condensés  
20:15 - 22:00 › V-shape artificial atom based on superconducting quantum circuit - remy dassonneville, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inst NEEL  

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Time Event  
08:45 - 10:15 Quantum Engines  
08:45 - 10:15 › Tutorial -- TBA - Kilian Singer, Institut für Physik [Mainz]  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
11:00 - 17:00 Boat tour - Visit of Port Cros Island  
17:30 - 19:00 Quantum Engines  
17:30 - 17:50 › Steady-state entanglement in an autonomous quantum thermal machine - Jonatan Bohr Brask, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Geneve  
17:50 - 18:10 › Coherence-assisted single-shot cooling by quantum absorption refrigerators - Mark Mitchison, Quantum Optics and Laser Science, Blackett Laboratory  
18:10 - 18:30 › Quantum machines coupled to nonequilibrium reservoirs - Obinna Abah, Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg  
18:30 - 18:50 › Realization of a quantum Maxwell demon using superconducting circuits - Nathanael Cottet, Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain  
19:15 - 20:15 Dinner  

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Time Event  
08:45 - 10:15 Experiments in the quantum world  
08:45 - 10:15 › Tutorial -- Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics: quantum trajectories, feedback and reservoir engineering - Jean-Michel Raimond, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel  
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break  
10:45 - 11:45 MC - Management committee meeting  
11:45 - 12:15 Quantum equilibration  
11:45 - 12:15 › System-environment correlations in open quantum systems - Ahsan Nazir, The University of Manchester [Manchester]  
12:15 - 13:15 Lunch  
13:15 - 14:45 Working Group 3  
14:45 - 15:25 Quantum equilibration  
14:45 - 15:05 › Thermalisation of a quantum system from first principle - Gregoire Ithier, Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London  
15:05 - 15:25 › Energy and temperature fluctuations in the single electron box - Tineke Van den Berg, Lund University, Department of Physics  
15:25 - 16:15 Experiments in the quantum world  
15:25 - 15:55 › Mesoscopic transport with cold atoms - Jean-Philippe Brantut, Department of physics, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland  
16:15 - 16:45 Coffee break  
16:45 - 18:15 Quantum Engines  
16:45 - 18:15 › TBA - Masahito Ueda, Department of Physics [Tokyo]  
19:15 - 21:00 Conference dinner at "Villa Sainte Anne"  

Friday, October 16, 2015

Time Event  
08:45 - 09:45 Quantum detectors of heat and work  
08:45 - 09:15 › Heat transport in quantum conductors - Anne Anthore, Laboratoire de photonique et de nanostructures  
09:15 - 09:45 › Counting propagating microwave photons and generating single phonons - Göran Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology  
09:45 - 10:15 Quantum Engines  
09:45 - 10:15 › Fermion­-parity duality and energy relaxation in interacting open systems - Janine Splettstoesser, RWTH Aachen University  
10:15 - 10:30 Conclusions  
10:45 - 10:45 Boat to La Tour Fondue - Departure from Porquerolles  
11:30 - 11:30 Boat to La Tour Fondue - Departure from Porquerolles