Planck 2018 Memorial Scientific Symposium

Name: Planck 2018 Memorial Scientific Symposium
Start: 2018-10-10T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-10-11T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Hungarian Academy of Sciences

10 Oct 2018, 09:00 → 11 Oct 2018, 16:00 Europe/Budapest

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Széchenyi Square 9, Budapest, Hungary

Sándor Varró (Wigner Research Centre), Peter Hartmann (MTA Wigner FK)

Description

The “Planck 2018 Memorial Scientific Symposium” is organized on the occasion of Max Planck’s 160th birthday and of the 100th anniversary of his receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics. The elementary quantum of action h discovered by Planck in the year 1900 plays a fundamental role not only in physics (from microphysics to cosmological physics), but in other natural sciences (like chemistry or biology) and modern technologies (like microelectronics), as well as in our everyday life. Max Planck was elected to a honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and this is an other reason for why the Joint Committee of the History of Science and Technology celebrates the Great Master on this outstanding occasion.

At this two-days memorial scientific symposium there will be 45 minutes plenary talks on each day. Besides emphasizing historical aspects and the broad spectrum of Max Planck’s contribution to physics, the alltogether eleven talks to be delivered by leading experts, are also ment to reflect the present challenges for human knowledge concerning the scientific description of nature.

Registration

Planck 2018 registration form

Participants

Adam Gali
Alex Szakál
Andor Frenkel
Andras Patkos
Andras Ster
András László
Antal Jakovac
Arindam Mallick
Attila Czirják
Attila Nagy
Attila Németh
Balazs Mikoczi
Balazs Ujfalussy
Balázs Bódi
Benedek Lang
Benedek Nagy
Bálint Somogyi
Béla Ráczkevi
Charlyne de Gosson
Daniel Berenyi
David Beke
David Keresztes
David Nagy
Dr. Polls Mounjer
Dániel Csanády
Dénes Kaptás
Edit Szilagyi
Ehmann P. József
Endre Kósa
Erdős Géza
Federico Vázquez
Ferenc Siklér
Fruzsina Darányi
Gabor Veres
Gergely Barcza
Gergely Gábor Barnaföldi
Gergő Thiering
Gyula Faigel
Gyula Károlyházy
Gyula Radnai
Gyula Török
György Major
Győző Garab
Gábor Cynolter
Gábor Tóth
Hedvig Jung
Imre Bakonyi
Imre Ferenc Barna
Istvan Banyasz
Istvan Csabai
István Beszédes
István Dézsi
István Magashegyi
Janos Asboth
Janos Balog
Judit Balogh
Julia Nyiri
János Hebling
József Kecskeméti
Karl Hall
Krisztina Márton
Krisztián Lengyel
Károly Nagy
Laszlo Himics
Laszlo Kiss
Livia Vasas
László Fehér
László Péter
László Szabados
László Zimányi
Margit Pap
Maurice de Gosson
Michael Bonitz
Mihaly Csirik
Mihály András Pocsai
Mihály Benedict
Miklos Veres
Miklós Kedves
Miklós Kornyik
Molnár Árpád
Márton Markó
Mátyás Vasúth
Máté Veszeli
Mónika Polner
Nain Mukesh
Norbert Kroo
Pal Koppa
Pavlo Pyshkin
Peter Boross
Peter Domokos
Peter Hartmann
Peter Levai
Peter Mati
Peter Molnar
Peter Ván
Piroska Dömötör
Péter Földi
Péter Király
Péter Kovács
Péter Rácz
Péter Szegedi
Robert Vertesi
Róbert Juhász
Sandor Varro
Szabolcs Hack
Szilárd Szalay
Szivia Kugler
Sándor Hegyi
Tamas Balazs
Tamas Balazs
Tamas Biro
Tamás Geszti
Valéria Kozmáné dr Blázsik
Veronika Werovszky
Zoltan Donko
Zoltan Nemeth
Zoltán Bodrog
Zoltán Dudás
Zoltán Rácz
Zoltán Somogyvári
Zoltán Zimborás
Zsolt Rithnovszky
Árpád Hegedüs
Éva Osváth

Wednesday, 10 October
- Wed, 10 Oct
- Thu, 11 Oct
- 09:00 → 09:15
  
  Opening 15m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Jenő Sólyom (MTA Wigner FK)
  
  01_Planck.pdf
- 09:15 → 10:00
  
  Max Planck, Kiel and recent progress in the dynamics of correlated quantum many-body systems. 45m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Michael Bonitz (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
  
  02_planck_budapest_18_bonitz.pdf
  
  negf_bonitz.pdf
- 10:00 → 10:45
  
  Black-hole horizon thermodynamics and Planck scale. 45m
  
  Speaker: Tamas Biro (No institute)
  
  03_tsbiro_PLANCK2018_talk.pdf
- 10:45 → 11:15
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:15 → 12:00
  
  Planck Mission: a cornerstone of modern cosmology. 45m
  
  Speaker: Prof. István Csabai (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem • Természettudományi Kar • Fizikai Intézet)
  
  04_csabai_Planck2018.pdf
- 12:00 → 13:30
  
  Lunch Break 1h 30m
- 13:30 → 14:15
  
  The symplectic camel property and quantum mechanics: old and new results. 45m
  
  The variability of physical "constants" is a possibility that cannot be out-ruled and which is an active area of research in cosmology and astrophysics. In fact, since Dirac in his "Large Numbers Hypothesis" suggested that some constants of Nature could vary in space and time, the topic has fascinated not only physicists but also philosophers of Science and has motivated numerous theoretical and experimental researches. In this talk, we focus on some consequences of possible changes in Planck's constant. In particular, the purity of a quantum state is extremely sensitive to such changes, and quantum states can evolve into classical states, and vice versa. We also shortly discuss entanglement from this perspective. A complete classification of such transitions is however not possible for the moment being because of yet unsolved mathematical difficulties related to the study of positivity properties of trace class operators. Reference: M. de Gosson, Phys. Lett. A 381 (2017).
  
  Speaker: Prof. Maurice de Gosson (University of Vienna)
  
  05_deGosson_TalkBudapest_HAS.pdf
  
  De_GossonM_01_Oct_2018_Title_Abstract.pdf
- 14:15 → 15:00
  
  The Kolmogorovian censorship hypothesis. 45m
  
  Speaker: Prof. László E. Szabó (Department of Logic, Institute of Philosophy, Eötvös University)
  
  06_LESzabo-Planck-lecture.pdf
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 15:30 → 16:15
  
  A conservative revolutionary – Max Planck's worldview in physics. 45m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Péter Szegedi (Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Tudománytörténet és Tudományfilozófia Tanszék)
  
  07_A_Conservative_Revolutionary.pdf
Thursday, 11 October
- Wed, 10 Oct
- Thu, 11 Oct
- 09:00 → 09:45
  
  Atom-photon molecules. 45m
  
  Speaker: Peter Domokos (No institute)
- 09:45 → 10:30
  
  Quantum field theory towards the Planck scale. 45m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Antal Jakovác (Department of Theoretical Physics Institute of Physics, Technical University of Budapest)
  
  09_MTA_jakovac_talk.pdf
- 10:30 → 11:00
  
  Coffee Break 30m
- 11:00 → 11:45
  
  Relativistic thermodynamics and relativistic temperature. 45m
  
  Speaker: Dr Péter Ván (MTA Wigner FK )
  
  10_RelTherm_Planck18.pdf
- 11:45 → 13:30
  
  Lunch Break 1h 45m
- 13:30 → 14:15
  
  Molecular mechanisms and global effects of photosynthesis, and new vistas in the ultrafast reactions. 45m
  
  Speaker: Dr Győző Garab (Institute of Plant Biology, Biological Research Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  
  11_Garab_Planck_2018_MTA.pdf
- 14:15 → 15:00
  
  Black-body radiation and the forgotten heritage of Max Planck. 45m
  
  Speaker: Prof. Sándor Varró (MTA Wigner FK)
  
  12_VarroS_Planck-2018_Oct_11_portable_v6.pdf