Dear QSIT members

The next QSIT Lunch Seminar will take place on Thursday December 6, 2012, at 12:00 noon in the room HPF G6, ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich. There will be two talks of 30 minutes duration jointly presented by two collaborators from different research groups. At 13:00 pm free pizza is offered to the participants.

Exorcising the Maxwell Demon: Understanding the Interplay Between Work and Entropy in Quantum Systems

Philippe Faist Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Electron Waiting Times in Mesoscopic Transport

Christian Flindt Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève

Abstracts: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/lunchseminar/december2012

Please register for your free pizza at the following link by Tuesday Dec 4, 12:00 noon https://ethz.doodle.com/6vrpwe8aahpsixw4

If you have suggestions on topics or speakers, or would like to present recent results of your research, please send your information to Andreas Wallraff or Ilona Blatter.

With best regards,

Andreas Wallraff Ilona Blatter Professor for Solid State Physics QSIT Coordinator

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter NCCR QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 17 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich

ilona.blatter@phys.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

Phone: +41 44 633 36 06