Hosted by Christian Van den Broeck, Hasselt University, Peter Salamon, San Diego State University, and
Katja Lindenberg, University of California San Diego.
| Wednesday, July 26 |
| 19:00 - 21:30 |
Welcome reception and dinner at Salamon home
4823 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92115, (619) 286-3562 (see map&directions)
Guest parking in this area is prohibited before 7 pm.
(Conference packets & badges provided at this time) |
| Thursday, July 27
(UCSD Revelle Campus, Natural Science
Building, Room 3211) |
| 08:45 - 09:15 |
Continental breakfast, conference room area |
| 09:15 - 09:30 |
K. Lindenberg |
Opening remarks |
| 09:30 - 10:10 |
R. Kawai |
Fluctuation Theorems Explained with Freshman Physics |
| 10:10 - 10:50 |
Coffee break |
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
C. Van den Broeck |
Carnot efficiency revisited. |
| 11:30 - 12:10 |
G. Crooks |
Bayesian estimates of free energies from nonequilibrium work data
in presence of instrument noise. |
| 12:10 - 14:00 |
Lunch & break (inside seating available in Room 3209 NSB; outside patio tables available on 2nd & 3rd floors) |
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
P. Salamon |
Principles of Finite Time Thermodynamics |
| 14:40 - 15:20 |
K. H. Hoffman |
Quantifying Dissipation |
| 15:20 - 16:00 |
Coffee break & discussion time |
| 16:00 - 16:40 |
B. Andresen |
Fuel cells and finite-time thermodynamic optimization of mitochondrial chemistry (with Chris Essex). |
| 16:40 - 17:20 |
C. Essex |
| Evening |
Free |
| Friday, July28
(UCSD Revelle Campus, Natural Science
Building, Room 3211) |
| 08:45 - 09:15 |
Continental breakfast, conference room area |
| 09:15 - 09:55 |
T. Komatsu |
A working mechanism of molecular heat engines and heat pumps |
| 09:55 - 10:35 |
K. Sekimoto |
Bidirectional control: a way to look at molecular motors |
| 10:35 - 11:00 |
Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 11:40 |
N. Nakagawa |
Modeling protein thermodynamics, fluctuations and slow folding process
from the inherent structure landscape. |
| 11:40 - 12:20 |
J. Mateos |
Walking on Ratchets with Two Brownian Motors |
| 12:20 - 14:00 |
Lunch & break (inside seating available in Room 3209 NSB; outside patio tables available on 2nd & 3rd floors) |
| 14:00 - 14:40 |
Discussion |
| 14:40 - 15:20 |
A. Gomez-Marin |
Work and Heat in Feynman Brownian devices |
| 15:20 - 16:00 |
Coffee break & discussion time |
| 16:00 - 16:40 |
M. Esposito |
Electron Counting Statistics in Nanosystems |
| 18:30 - 20:00 |
No host dinner at El Torito (easy walk from Residence Inn) |
| Saturday, July 29
(UCSD Revelle Campus, Natural Science
Building, Room 3211) |
| 08:45 - 09:15 |
Continental breakfast, conference room area |
| 09:15 - 10:15 |
Round table 1: Can Brownian motors achieve Carnot efficiency? |
| 10:15 - 10:45 |
Coffee break |
| 10:45 - 11:45 |
Round table 2: What was new that we learned about irreversibility? |
| 11:45 - 12:00 |
Wrap up and closing remarks |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Box lunch and departure |
