Conference Programme

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Talk titles follow below.

Both versions of the programme will be updated as further details are confirmed. An abstract booklet will also be forthcoming.

Table of Contents

Tuesday, 12th November

8:00--8:45Registration

Opening & Welcome
8:45--9:00
9:00--10:00Alexia AuffèvesQuantum energetics: foundations, applications, and back
10:00--10:30Nathan ShettellEntropic Cost of Statistical Inference
10:30--11:00Smoko
11:00--11:30Mile GuThe Thermodynamic Cost of Misaligned Expectations and Its Consequences
11:30--12:00Kiarn LaverickQuantum Fluctuation Theorems using Optimal State Estimation
12:00--13:30Lunch
13:30--14:30Federico CerisolaExploring nanoscale thermodynamics on suspended carbon nanotubes
14:30--15:00Liam McClellandA proof‐of‐concept memory powered heat engine with trapped Yb+ ions
15:00--15:30Rose ManakilInformation Erasure with Spin‐polarised atoms
15:30--16:00Smoko
16:00--17:30Discussion Time

Wednesday, 13th November

8:30--9:00Arrival
9:00--10:00James Quach
Quantum batteries – from information to energy
10:00--10:30Josephine DiasStrategies for charging open quantum batteries
10:30--11:00Smoko
11:00--11:30Arnab MukherjeeEnhancement in the performance of a Unruh‐DeWitt battery through velocity tuning
11:30--12:00Cassandra BowieThe Quantum Tolman‐Ehrenfest effect
12:00--13:30Lunch
13:30--14:30Jayne ThompsonScaling advantages for quantum thermodynamic advantage in agents
14:30--15:00SahilPost‐Markovian master equation via microscopic collisional model
15:00--15:30William McEnieryThermally induced correlations in gas of spin‐half quantum particles bathed in thermal light
15:30--16:00Smoko
16:00--17:30Discussion Time
18:00--22:00Conference Dinner

Thursday, 14th of November

8:30--9:00Arrival
9:00--10:00Masahito UedaRoles of locality and range of interactions on quantum thermalization
10:00--10:30Matthew DavisThermalisation of a Spin‐1 Bose Gas in a Double‐Well
10:30--11:00Smoko
11:00--11:30Lewis WilliamsonThe Jarzynski equality in a microcanonical ensemble and connections with the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis
11:30--12:00David StrachanNon‐Markovian Quantum Mpemba Effect
12:00--13:30Lunch
13:30--14:30Dario PolettiMany-body quantum systems out of equilibrium: relaxation and emergence of steady states
14:30--15:00Stephen SandersonMachine learning a time-local fluctuation theorem for classical nonequilibrium steady states
15:00--15:30Jesse SlimChiral thermal transport induced by optomechanically‐mediated synthetic magnetism
15:30--16:00Smoko
16:00--17:30Discussion Time

Friday, 15th of November

8:30--9:00Arrival
9:00--10:00Karen KheruntsyanGlauber’s second‐order correlation and quantum thermodynamics
10:00--10:30Vishnu Muraleedharan SajithaThermal machine regimes in the transverse‐field Ising model.
10:30--11:00Smoko
11:00--11:30Nicole LuuThermodynamic driving of superfluid helium thin films
11:30--12:00Raymon WatsonA nonequilibrium quantum Otto cycle fuelled by chemical work
12:00--12:30Wrap Up & Close
12:30--Social Activity (TBD)