8th Working Group Meeting of COST network MP1209 “Thermodynamics in the quantum regime”

FOCUS MEETING
Mathematical foundations of quantum thermodynamics
6-9 December 2016, Smolenice, Slovakia

WORKSHOP PROGRAM
TUESDAY 06/12/2016
14:30 - 17:00 conference bus (from Vienna Airport)
17:00 - 18:00 refreshment, registration and accommodation
18:00 - 18:45 Christian Gogolin: Pure state quantum statistical mechanics
18:45 - 19:10 M. Hamed Mohammady: Quantum refrigeration using many body systems
19:15 - 20:00 welcome dinner

WEDNESDAY 07/12/2016
08:00 - 09:00 breakfast
09:00 - 09:45 David Reeb: Fundamental energy cost for quantum measurement
09:45 - 10:10 Fabio Anza: Observable thermalisation
10:10 - 10:35 Senaida Hernández Santana: Decay of correlations in long-range interacting systems at non-zero temperature
10:35 - 11:00 break and refreshemnt
11:00 - 11:45 Yelena Guryanova: Thermodynamics of multiple conserved quantities
11:45 - 12:10 Nicolai Friis: Passivity and practical work extraction using Gaussian operations
12:10 - 12:35 Rodrigo Gallego: Thermodynamics with local control
12:45 - 13:30 lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Lidia del Rio: Currencies and agents in resource theories
14:45 - 15:10 Raam Uzdin: Generalized Clausius inequalities
15:30 - 16:00 break and refreshment
16:00 - 18:30 focused group
19:00 - 21:00 working dinner

THURSDAY 08/12/2016
08:00 - 09:00 breakfast
09:20 - 09:45 Jonatan Bohr Brask: Multiple environments and the quantum master equation
09:45 - 10:05 Mark Mitchison: Non-equilibrium steady states of autonomous thermal machines
10:10 - 10:35 Ralph Silva: Autonomous quantum machines and finite sized clocks
10:35 - 11:00 break and refreshemnt
11:00 - 11:45 Stefan Wolf & Veronika Baumann: From Quantum to Classical
11:45 - 12:10 Paul Erker: Autonomous quantum clocks: Does thermodynamics limit our ability to measure time?
12:10 - 12:35 Harry Miller: Time-reversal symmetric work distributions for closed quantum dynamics in the histories framework
12:45 - 13:30 lunch
14:00 - 16:00 focused group
16:00 - 16:30 break and refreshment
16:30 - 18:30 group reports and discussions
19:00 - 21:00 conference dinner

FRIDAY 09/12/2016
08:00 - 09:00 breakfast
09:30 - 09:55 Philipp Kammerlander: An operational formulation of thermodynamics makes the zeroth law obsolete
09:55 - 10:20 Henrik Wilming: Low-temperature cooling with finite non-equilibrium resources
10:20 - 11:00 refreshment
11:00 - 13:30 conference bus (ends at Vienna Airport)

Supported by COST Action "Thermodynamics in the Quantum Regime"