Program

cost_2014 Program

Sunday, March 23
Time	Session/Lecture info
18:00-20:00	Cost Management Committee Meeting
18:00-20:00

Monday, March 24
Time	Session/Lecture info
08:45-09:00	Welcome
08:45-09:00	Welcome by Prof. Daniel Zajfman, President of the Weizmann Institute
09:00-10:00	Plenary Session Prof. Angelo Bassi
09:00-10:00	Serge Haroche- College de France and Ecole Normale Superieure Controlling photons in cavities
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Complex Systems Prof. David Tannor
10:15-10:45	Eli Yablonovitch- UC Berkeley, USA Spontaneous Emission Faster than Stimulated Emission
10:45-11:15	Uri Peskin- Technion Evidence for quantum transport through long DNA sequences?
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Lorenz Cederbaum- University of Heidelberg, Germany ICD and its Exploration by Short, Intense and Coherent Light Pulses
12:15-12:45	Edvardas Narevicius- Weizmann Institute Chemistry of the Quantum Kind
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information Prof. Omri Gat
10:15-10:45	Eugene Polzik- Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen Beyond the Heisenberg uncertainty
10:45-11:15	Mordechai (Moti) Segev- Physics Department, Technion Photonic Topological Insulators
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Luiz Davidovich- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Quantum metrology, quantum speed limit, and quantum control
12:15-12:45	Detlef Duerr- Mathematisches Institut LMU Muenchen What one should know about Quantum Mechanics
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Prof. Shimshon Barad
10:15-10:45	Holger Mueller - University of California Berkeley Reverse-Engineering quantum mechanics
10:45-11:15	Beatrix C. Hiesmayr- University of Vienna Testing Foundations of QM in High Energy Physics
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Lajos Diosi- Wigner Research Center for Physics, Budapest Newton force from spontaneous wave function collapse?
12:15-12:45	Achim Peters- Humboldt-University of Berlin Towards Quantum Tests of the Equivalence Principle in Space: QUANTUS, STE-QUEST, Q-WEP and all that ...
12:45-13:50	Lunch
12:45-13:50
13:50-15:00	Plenary Session Prof. Benni Resnik
14:00-15:00	Renate Loll- Radboud University Nijmegen Nonperturbative Quantum Gravity for the Uninitiated
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Complex Systems Prof. Shmuel Gurvitz
15:10-15:45	Peter Talkner- Universitaet Augsburg Transient quantum fluctuation theorems and generalized measurements
15:45-16:15	Ronnie Kosloff- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Quantum dynamical version of the third-law of thermodynamics
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:15	Bjorn Kubala- University of Ulm Charge transfer in the presence of equilibrium and non-equilibrium environments
17:15-17:45	Daniel Podolsky- Technion Gapped excitations in a quantum solid
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information Prof. Robert Englman
15:10-15:45	Andrew Cleland- University of California - Santa Barbara A snapshot of superconducting quantum computing
15:45-16:15	Klaus Moelmer- Aarhus University Past states of probed quantum systems: ?spooky action in the past ?"
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:15	Hendrik Ulbricht- University of Southampton Testing the quantum superposition principle
17:15-17:45	Barak Dayan- Weizmann Institute A single photon optical switch based on a single atom
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Prof. Benni Reznik
15:10-15:45	Bianca Dittrich- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics Coarse graining of quantum space time models
15:45-16:15	Nissan Itzhaki- Tel-Aviv Univ. Black Hole Horizon and String theory
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-17:15	Ward Struyve- KULeuven Towards a novel approach to semi-classical gravity
17:15-17:45	Mercedes Martin Benito- IMAPP, Radboud University, Nijmegen Refinement limit of quantum group spinnets
19:00-20:00	Dinner
19:00-20:00
20:00-22:00	Poster Session
20:00-22:00

Tuesday, March 25
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-10:00	Plenary Session Prof. Salvador Miret-Artez
09:00-10:00	Martin Plenio- Ulm University Quanta, Vibrations and Biology
10:00-11:15	Morning Session- Quantum Complex Systems Prof. Jakub Zakrzewski
10:15-10:45	Benedetta Mennucci- University of Pisa Investigating the environment effects in natural light-harvesting systems: a multiscale quantum chemical strategy
10:45-11:15	Doron Cohen- Ben Gurion University, Israel Triangular Bose-Hubbard trimer as a minimal model for a superfluid circuit
10:00-11:15	Morning Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information Prof. Yuji Hasegawa
10:15-10:45	Roee Ozeri- Weizmann Institute Weak dipolar interactions in ion chains
10:45-11:15	Maciej Lewenstein- ICFO Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques Detecting nonlocality of quantum many body states
10:00-11:15	Morning Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Dr. Laszlo Bascardi
10:15-10:45	Daniel Sudarsky- National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico Dynamical reduction theories, inflation and the emergence of structure in the universe.
10:45-11:15	Bei Lok Hu- University of Maryland Problems of Newton-Schrodinger equations in Alternative Quantum Theories
11:30-21:00	Conference Tour in Jerusalem
11:30-21:00

Wednesday, March 26
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-10:00	Plenary Session Prof. David Gershoni
09:00-10:00	Jacob Bekenstein- Racah Institute of Physics, the University of Jerusalem Positivity of mass in light of negative Casimir energies
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Complex Systems Prof Nikola Buric
10:00-10:30	Efthimios Kaxiras- Harvard University Ab-initio quantum simulations of complex photocatalytic reactions
10:30-11:00	Eran Rabani- Tel Aviv University Reduced Dynamics in Non-Equilibrium Quantum Impurity
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
11:30-12:00	Sanford Ruhman- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ultrafast spectroscopic study of exciton dynamics in nanocrystals
12:00-12:30	Daniel Strasser- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Shaped intense laser pulse interaction with molecular anions
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information Prof. Marek Kus
10:15-10:45	Ferdinand Schmiidt-Kaler- QUANTUM Univ. Mainz Quantum simulation in 2D Ion crystals - lattice geometries and interactions
10:45-11:15	Yaron Silberberg- Weizmann Institute Quantum Microscopy
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Markus Aspelmeyer- Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) & Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna Quantum measurements with mechanical systems: from optical clocks to gravitational waves
12:15-12:45	Ofer Firstenberg- Weizmann Institute Quantum nonlinear optics with Rydberg polaritons
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Prof. Robert Mann
10:05-10:45	Jose Ignacio Latorre- U. Barcelona / NUS Singapore Quantum Simulation of Geometry
10:45-11:15	Erez Zohar- Max Planck Institut fuer Quantenoptik, Germany Simulation of dynamic abelian and non abelian gauge theories with ultracold atoms
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Sorin Paraoanu- Aalto University, Finland Circuit QED as an experimental platform for analog quantum relativistic effects
12:15-12:45	Masahiro Hotta- Tohoku University Quantum Energy Teleportation and Black Hole
12:45-13:50	Lunch
12:45-13:50
13:50-15:00	Plenary Session Dr. Nadav Katz
14:00-15:00	Kieron Burke- University of California, Irvine Density functional theory: A great success story?
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Complex Systems Dr. Nathan Argaman
15:10-15:45	Roi Baer- Hebrew University of Jerusalem Random numbers enable large scale electronic structure computations
15:45-16:15	Leeor Kronik- Weizmann Institute Fundamental and optical gaps from Density Functional Theory
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:15	Assa Auerbach- Technion Lattice Bosons and Dynamics of Strongly Fluctuating Superconductors
17:15-17:45	Bassano Vacchini- Universita di Milano and INFN Non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information Prof. Mehmet Zafer Gedik
15:10-15:45	Jorg Schmiedmayer- Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU-Wien Does an isolated quantum system relax?
15:45-16:15	Joerg Wrachtrup- Universitaet Stuttgart Precision quantum state preparation of interacting spin systems
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:15	Mauro Paternostro- School of Mathematics and Physics, Queen's University Belfast Mesoscopic mechanical non-classicality
17:15-17:45	Avi Pe'er- Bar Ilan University Bi-photon generation with imaginary gain
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Prof. Victor Fleurov
15:10-15:45	Ralf Schuetzhold- University of Duisburg-Essen Robustness of Hawking radiation and black hole analogues
15:45-16:15	Jeff Steinhauer- Technion Phonon fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein condensate
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-17:15	Shimshon Barad- School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University Transonic flow of light, sonic horizons and analogue gravity
17:15-17:45	Ulf Leonhardt- Weizmann Institute of Science Optical Analogue of the Event Horizon
19:00-20:00	Dinner
19:00-20:00

Thursday, March 27
Time	Session/Lecture info
09:00-10:00	Plenary Session Prof. Nir Davidson
09:00-10:00	Caslav Brukner- Institute for Quantum Optics, Quantum Information Quantum Causality: from superpositions of clocks to quantum correlations with no causal order
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Complex Systems Prof Ilya Averbukh
10:15-10:45	Rienk van Grondelle- Faculty of Science, VU University, Amsterdam The Quantum Design of Photosynthesis
10:45-11:15	Paul Brumer- University of Toronto Developments in Molecular Excitation with Natural Incoherent Light
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Thomas Renger- Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) Theory of Light-Harvesting in Photosynthesis: A Bottom Up Approach
12:15-12:45	Jianshu Cao- MIT Coherent Energy Transfer in Light-harvesting: Symmetry, Disorder, and Noise
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information
10:15-10:45	Andrew Steane- Oxford University Electromagnetic self-force, and decoherence owing to Unruh radiation
10:45-11:15	Natanel Lindner- Technion Engineering new platforms for topological quantum computing
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Peter Rabl- Vienna University of Technology Probing macroscopic realism via Ramsey correlations measurements
12:15-12:45	Asher Yahalom- Ariel University Log-Analytic Uncertainty Relation
10:00-12:45	Morning Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Prof. Jose Ignacio Latorre
10:15-10:45	Robert Mann- University of Waterloo Quantum Control of Wave-Particle Duality
10:45-11:15	Nicolas Menicucci- University of Sydney Harvesting entanglement from a quantum field
11:15-11:45	Coffee Break
11:45-12:15	Ivette Fuentes- Nottingham University Quantum technologies as tools to deepen our understanding of quantum theory and relativity
12:15-12:45	Adrian Kent- DAMTP A Solution to the Lorentzian Quantum Reality Problem
12:45-13:50	Lunch
12:45-13:50
13:50-15:00	Plenary Session Prof. Gershon Kurizki
14:00-15:00	J. Ignacio Cirac- Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Bulk-boundary correspondence and tensor network states
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Complex Systems Prof. Irene Burghardt
15:00-15:45	Elisabet Romero- VU University Amsterdam Photosynthesis Exploits Quantum Coherence for Efficient Solar Energy Conversion
15:40-16:10	David Coker- Boston University Quantum Dynamics Simulations Exploring the Influence of Quantum Beats on Excitation Energy Transfer and Charge Separation Dynamics in Extended Light Harvesting Systems
16:10-16:30	Coffee Break
16:30-17:00	Yossi Paltiel- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Room-Temperature Biological Quantum Random Walk in Phycocyanin Nanowires
17:00-17:30	Dan Major- Bar-Ilan University TBA
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Measurement, Decoherence, Causality & Information Prof Ruvin Ferber
15:00-15:45	Lev Vaidman- Tel Aviv University The past of the photon
15:45-16:15	Hagai Eisenberg- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Past and Future of Entangled Multi-Photons
16:15-16:45	Coffee Break
16:45-17:15	David Petrosyan- Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Greece High-fidelity quantum gates with Rydberg superatoms: How to count atoms in mesoscopic ensembles
17:15-17:45	Amichay Vardi- Ben-Gurion University Chaos and thermalization with few-mode Bose-Hubbard systems
15:00-17:45	Afternoon Session- Quantum Relativity/Gravity Prof Ivette Fuentes
15:10-15:45	Egidijus Norvaisas- Vilnius University, Institute of Theor. Phys. and Astronomy, Lithuania Baryon form factors in canonically quantized SU(3) Skyrme model
15:45-16:15	Tejinder Singh- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India Gravity induced collapse of the wave-function
16:15-16:45	Coffee break
16:45-17:15	Thomas Durt- Ecole Centrale de Marseille-Institut Fresnel Would a quantum system succumb to its own gravitational attraction?
17:15-17:45	Lecture
19:00-20:00	Dinner
19:00-20:00

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Sunday, March 23