Nonequilibrium Quantum and Statistical Thermodynamics Workshop
from
Tuesday, 17 February 2026 (09:00)
to
Thursday, 19 February 2026 (14:30)
Monday, 16 February 2026
Tuesday, 17 February 2026
09:30
Long Talk 1 Juan Parrondo - Thermalization and local dissipation in collisional baths
Long Talk 1 Juan Parrondo - Thermalization and local dissipation in collisional baths
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:30
Short Talk 1 Till Welker - Optimal Localisation against a Flow
Short Talk 1 Till Welker - Optimal Localisation against a Flow
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:30
Long Talk 2 Mark Mitchison - Optimal time estimation at the nanoscale: frenetic and thermodynamic aspects
Long Talk 2 Mark Mitchison - Optimal time estimation at the nanoscale: frenetic and thermodynamic aspects
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:30
Short talk 2 Simone Artini - Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of the quantum Brownian motion.
Short talk 2 Simone Artini - Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of the quantum Brownian motion.
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
14:30
Long talk 3 Kay Brandner - Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations for Coherent Transport
Long talk 3 Kay Brandner - Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations for Coherent Transport
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
15:30
Short talk 3 Hugues Meyer - Weak-Memory Dynamics in Discrete Time
Short talk 3 Hugues Meyer - Weak-Memory Dynamics in Discrete Time
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:30
Poster session and reception
Poster session and reception
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
Wednesday, 18 February 2026
09:30
Long Talk 4 Gabriele de Chiara - Thermodynamics and protection of quantum time crystals.
Long Talk 4 Gabriele de Chiara - Thermodynamics and protection of quantum time crystals.
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:30
Short Talk 4 Elsa Danielsson - An autonomous feedback protocol: responding to temperature changes in energy converters
Short Talk 4 Elsa Danielsson - An autonomous feedback protocol: responding to temperature changes in energy converters
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:30
Long talk 5 Katarzyna Macieszczak - One to many and many to one: relations between average and stochastic dynamics of open quantum systems.
Long talk 5 Katarzyna Macieszczak - One to many and many to one: relations between average and stochastic dynamics of open quantum systems.
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:30
Short Talk 5 Francesco Coghi - Kinetic and thermodynamic uncertainty relations for non-Markov self-interacting processes
Short Talk 5 Francesco Coghi - Kinetic and thermodynamic uncertainty relations for non-Markov self-interacting processes
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
13:00
Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
14:30
Long Talk 6 Izaak Neri - Trade-offs between speed, accuracy, and dissipation in first-passage problems of fluctuating currents
Long Talk 6 Izaak Neri - Trade-offs between speed, accuracy, and dissipation in first-passage problems of fluctuating currents
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
15:30
Short Talk 6 Kristian Olsen - Thermodynamic optimal control out of equilibrium: insights from active and driven systems.
Short Talk 6 Kristian Olsen - Thermodynamic optimal control out of equilibrium: insights from active and driven systems.
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
16:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
19:30
Conference dinner at Hotel du Vin
Conference dinner at Hotel du Vin
19:30 - 22:00
Thursday, 19 February 2026
09:30
Long Talk 7 Janine Splettstoesser - Thermodynamic Bounds on Noise in Quantum Transport
Long Talk 7 Janine Splettstoesser - Thermodynamic Bounds on Noise in Quantum Transport
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
10:30
Short Talk 7 Diana Chisholm - Coherence-enhanced quantum collision-model thermal machines
Short Talk 7 Diana Chisholm - Coherence-enhanced quantum collision-model thermal machines
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:00
Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
11:30
Short Talk 8 Elsen Tjung - Control of active field theories at minimal dissipation
Short Talk 8 Elsen Tjung - Control of active field theories at minimal dissipation
11:30 - 12:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
12:00
Long Talk 8 Eric Lutz - Combining energy efficiency and quantum advantage in cyclic machines.
Long Talk 8 Eric Lutz - Combining energy efficiency and quantum advantage in cyclic machines.
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre
13:00
Lunch/End
Lunch/End
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Elm Lecture Theatre