Institute for Mathematical Sciences Event Archive
Session 2 on
Information-Theoretic Approaches to Thermodynamics
( 26 Aug - 13 Sep 2013 )
Venue: IMS Auditorium
Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Enquiries
09:30am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Kick-off tutorial: Equilibration I Jens Eisert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Kick-off tutorial: Equilibration II Jens Eisert, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
--- Group Photo & Lunch Reception at IMS --- |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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Tuesday, 27 Aug 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Entropy increase in K-Step Markovian, decoherent quantum dynamics (PDF) Jochen Gemmer, Universität Osnabrück, Germany |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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02:00pm - 03:00pm |
Entropic uncertainty in finite systems Hans Maassen, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands |
03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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Wednesday, 28 Aug 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Quantum equilibration (PDF) Tony Short, University of Bristol, UK |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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05:00pm - 09:30pm |
--- Social Event: Board walk from Kent Ridge to Mount Faber --- Dinner at Vivocity |
Thursday, 29 Aug 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Landauer’s principle and the thermodynamics of error correction (PDF) Charles Bennett, IBM, USA |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
On the role of entanglement in work extraction (PDF) Marti Perarnau Llobet, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain |
Friday, 30 Aug 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
The physics of information: from maxwell's demon to landauers (PDF) Eric Lutz, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
(Im-)proving Landauer's principle & a few questions (PDF) David Reeb, Technische Universität München, Germany |
07:00pm - 10:30pm |
--- Excursion to Night Safari --- For registered participants only Participants to bear ticket cost |
09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Kick-off tutorial: Small thermal machines I Paul Skrzypczyk, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Kick-off tutorial: Small thermal machines II Paul Skrzypczyk, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:15pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:15pm - 05:15pm |
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Tuesday, 3 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Thermodynamic work gain from entanglement Masahito Ueda, The University of Tokyo, Japan |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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Wednesday, 4 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Local thermal states and correlations (PDF) Toni Acin, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
Entanglement in small self-contained quantum fridges (PPT) Nicolas Brunner, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
Thursday, 5 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Thermodynamics of discrete quantum processes (PDF) Janet Anders, University of Exeter, UK |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
Thermal machines driven by quantum quenches Rodrigo Gallego L, Freie Universit, Germany |
Friday, 6 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Work extraction from quantum systems Paul Skrzypczyk, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Spain |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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07:00pm - 09:30pm |
--- BBQ --- For registered participants only Payment details to be announced |
09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Kick-off tutorial: Information and work I Renato Renner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Kick-off tutorial: Information and work II Renato Renner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
--- Lunch Reception at IMS --- |
03:00pm - 04:15pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:15pm - 05:15pm |
The minimal work cost of information processing (PDF) Philippe Faist, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Tuesday, 10 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
Subjectivity in thermodynamics (PDF) Lidia del Rio, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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06:30pm - 07:30pm |
Public Lecture: Gambling Against the Second Law of Thermodynamics Renato Renner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland |
Wednesday, 11 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
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10:00am - 11:00am |
The second laws of quantum thermodynamics (PDF) Jonathan Oppenheim, University College London , UK |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
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12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
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04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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Thursday, 12 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
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10:00am - 11:00am |
Unitary t-designs and thermalization (PDF) Fernando Brandao, University College London, UK |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
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04:00pm - 05:00pm |
The entropy concept for non-equilibrium states (PDF) Jakob Yngvason, Universität Wien Vienna, Austria |
Friday, 13 Sep 2013 |
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09:45am - 10:00am |
Registration |
10:00am - 11:00am |
What do fluctuation theorems in the presence of correlations, work extraction from miniature students and the apparent cosmological increase of entropy have in common? Terry Rudolph, Imperial College London, UK |
11:00am - 11:15am |
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11:15am - 12:15pm |
Group discussion |
12:15pm - 02:00pm |
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03:00pm - 04:00pm |
Tea discussion meeting |
04:00pm - 05:00pm |
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07:30pm - 11:00pm |
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Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Enquiries
