Provisional Program:
Tuesday 26th January:
• 10h00 Registration, coffee and introduction.
• 10h30 Felix Ritort (Small Biosystems Lab, Facultat de Fisica, Barcelona, Spain). Recent progress in fluctuation theorems and free energy recovery.
• 11h30 Christian Van den Broeck (Universiteit Hasselt, Diepenbeek, Belgium). Lessons in Reversibility.
• 12h30 Lunch.
• 14h00 Sergio Ciliberto (ENS, Lyon, France). Aging after a quench at the critical point.
• 15h00 Jorge Kurchan (PMMH, ESPCI, Paris, France). What are the experiments on the Fluctuation Theorem testing, actually?
• 16h00 Coffee break.
• 16h30 Michael Lässig (Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, Germany). Nonequilibrium fluctuation theory of biological evolution.
• 17h30 Massimiliano Esposito (Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). Three fundamental detailed fluctuation theorems. Abstract.
Wednesday 27th January:
• 09h00 Theo Nieuwenhuizen (Institute for Theoretical Physics, Amsterdam, Netherlands). Brownian entanglement — Entanglement in classical Brownian motion. Abstract.
• 10h00 Časlav Brukner (IQOQI, Fakultät für Physik, Wien, Austria). The quantum to classical transition and the complexity of Schrödinger-cat states. Abstract.
• 11h00 Coffee Break.
• 11h30 Roger Balian (CEA-IPhT, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France). A model to understand quantum measurements.
• 12h30 Lunch.
• 14h00 Christian Maes (Instituut voor Theoretische Fysica, Leuven, Belgium). Fluctuation response relations out-of-equilibrium.
• 15h00 Pierre Gaspard (Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium). The physico-chemical principles of information processing in biophysical nanosystems. Abstract.
• 16h00 Coffee Break.
• 16h30 Ivan Junier (ISC-PIF, Paris, France). Using daemons to investigate small systems.
• 17h30 Antoine Gerschenfeld (LPS, ENS, Paris, France). Current fluctuations for simple exclusion on the infinite line.
