Program

  • The meeting will take place in Room 3211 of the Natural Sciences Building on Revelle campus (See map).
  • See Additional Info page for additional information.
  • Conference packets and name tags will be available for pickup Monday morning at the meeting site.
  • Additional campus information (just about anything you would want to know) is available at http://blink.ucsd.edu.
Monday, (July 20, 2009)
8:30-9:30 Udo Seifert"Optimal processes within stochastic thermodynamics and beyond" pdf)
9:30-10:30 Christian Van den Broeck"Universality of thermodynamic efficiency at maximum power" (pdf)
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:20 Bart Cleuren"Reaching optimal e?ciencies using nano-sized photo-electric devices" (pdf)
11:20-11:50 Massimiliano Esposito"Efficiency of energy extraction using entropy growth" (pdf)
11:50-12:20 Ryoichi Kawai"Finite time thermodynamics of a quantum dot"
12:20-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Jose M. Sancho"Introduction to molecular machinery" (pdf)
15:00-15:30Andreas Engel"Asymptotics of work distribution in driven Langevin systems" (pdf)
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-16:50
Round table on "Optimization in biological systems" (Leader: Seifert)

Thuesday, (July 21, 2009)
8:30-9:30 Igor Sokolov"Nonergodicity in single molecule tracking"
9:30-10:30 Dvira Segal"Energy transfer at the nanoscale: heat pumps" (pdf)
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Olga Dudko"Single-molecule mechanics: Observations and Theory"
11:50-12:20 Peter Salamon"Prelude Processes" (pdf)
12:20-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Hongqi Xu"Nonlinear transport properties of semiconductor nanodevices"
15:00-15:30 Misha Galperin"Transport and optical response of molecular junctions" (pdf)
15:30-15:50 Coffee break
15:50-16:50  Round table on "Optimization in quantum systems" (Leader: Van den Broeck)

Optimization At a Small Scale • University of California at San Diego (UCSD) • July 20-21 2009