Physics at the FQMT’04 conference

Physics at the Fmqt'04 Conference

This paper summarizes the recent state of the art of the following topics presented at the FQMT'04 conference: Quantum , mesoscopic and (partly) classical thermodynamics; Quantum limits to the second law of thermodynamics; Quantum measurement; Quantum decoherence and dephasing; Mesoscopic and nano-electro-mechanical systems; Classical molecular motors, ratchet systems and rectified motion; Quan...

Proceedings of the First MEFOMP International Conference of Medical Physics: November 2-4, 2011, Shiraz, Iran

Schedule of the Assembly and Self-Assembly at the Interface of Biology, Chemistry and Physics Conference

Living beings often produce remarkable structures, such as the silica shells of diatoma, or the sophisticated structures of striated muscles. One major current problem is to invent useful objects inspired by these structures, but simpler, and able to be produced in short times. Some examples will be presented. "Subtleties and Differences in the Interactions of Biological and Non-Biological Mole...

Ability to Count to Two. Opening Talk at the Third International Sakharov Conference on Physics

Third International Sakharov Conference on Physics organized by the Theoretical Physics Department of the Lebedev Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, covered wide scope of topics: astrophysics, fusion, high field, high pressure and high density research, superstrings and dualities, brane world and quantum gravity, quantum field theory and high energy physics. This short Opening Word however...

Invited talk presented at the 27th International Conference on High Energy Physics

I discuss the theoretical uncertainties in the extraction of |Vcb| from a measurement of the B̄ → Dl ν̄ decay rate close to zero recoil. In particular, I combine previous estimates of the 1/mQ corrections to the normalization of the hadronic form factor at zero recoil with sum rules derived by Shifman et al. to obtain a new prediction with less uncertainty. I also give a prediction for the slope ...