Name: In memory of Antun Balaž - insights into complex systems
Start: 2026-06-11T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-12T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Institute of Physics Belgrade

In memory of Antun Balaž - insights into complex systems

from Thursday, 11 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 12 June 2026 (18:30)

Monday, 8 June 2026
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
Thursday, 11 June 2026
09:00
09:00 - 13:30
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
Contributions

09:00 Completing Feynman's path integral program: Lagrangian path integral measure - Aleksandar Bogojević (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)

09:30 Path integrals at warp speed: reporting to my captain for quarter-century - Danica Stojiljković (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)

10:00 Bosonic dynamics in optical lattices - Ivana Vasić (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)

11:00 On the open-dissipative nature of photon Bose-Einstein condensates - Axel Pelster (Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)

11:30 Dipole‑induced Fermi‑surface anisotropy in strongly dipolar quantum gases - Vladimir Veljić (Institute of Physics Belgrade (alumni, presently Delhaize International, Serbia))

12:00 Faraday and resonant waves in dipolar cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates - Dušan Vudragović (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)

12:30 Sound in ring dipolar supersolids - Marija Šindik (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)

13:00 Nonthermalizing dynamics and quantum criticality in programmable Rydberg atom arrays - Ana Hudomal (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)
13:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:30 - 14:30
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
14:30
14:30 - 18:30
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
Contributions

14:30 The quantum age: from atoms and photons to quantum computers - Vladan Vuletić (Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

15:00 Photons in a dye-filled cavity: quantum-optical system interpolating between Bose-Einstein condensates and laser-like states - Milan Radonjić (University of Hamburg, Germany, and Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)

15:30 Unconventional topological phases in some lattices - Hrvoje Buljan (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)

16:30 A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence - Zoran Hadžibabić (University of Cambridge, UK)

17:00 Pattern-forming instabilities in BECs: An homage to Antun Balaž - Alexandru Nicolin-Żaczek (Institute of Space Science, Romania)

17:30 Mach-Zehnder interferometer for in-situ characterization of atom traps - Maxim Efremov (German Aerospace Center, Institute of Quantum Technologies, Germany)

18:00 Solitons on the surface of a sphere - Alexander Wolf (Institute of Quantum Physics and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Ulm University, Germany)
20:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
Friday, 12 June 2026
09:00
09:00 - 13:30
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
Contributions

09:00 European open science cloud: enabling open and collaborative research - Anastas Mishev (Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, North Macedonia)

09:30 The Serbian AI Factory Antenna: bridging high-performance computing with energy and environmental sustainability - Miloš Ivanović (Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia and Faculty of Information Studies, Novo mesto, Slovenia)

10:00 Grid computing for large-scale scientific research - Mihajlo Savić (University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)

11:00 From HPC and GRID infrastructures to digital ecosystems - Cozzini Stefano (Institute for Research and Innovative Technologies, AREA Science Park, Italy)

11:30 High-performance applications on heterogenous systems - benchmarking and optimisation - Emanouil Atanassov (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria)

12:00 Building regional e-Infrastructure for advanced scientific computing - Ognjen Prnjat (Greek Research And Technology Network, Athens, Greece)

12:30 Atomic solitons in optical lattices - Luca Salasnich (University of Padova, Italy)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
14:00
14:00 - 18:30
Room: “Zvonko Marić” lecture hall
Contributions

14:00 Integrated quantum photonics developed with and for quantum hardware - Marina Radulaški (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, USA)

14:30 Nature-inspired periodicity on optical table - Jovana Petrović (Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbia)

15:00 Exploring lattice gauge theories with classical and quantum simulations - Marina Krstić Marinković (Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland)

15:30 Atomistic modeling of valence change memory devices: What can we learn from simulations? - Marko Mladenović (Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

16:30 Noncommutative AdS spacetime: classical limits & the boundary - Maja Burić (Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia)

17:00 From classical to fuzzy de Sitter spacetime and back - Duško Latas (Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia)

17:30 Complex networks analysis of Belgian railway - Jelena Grujić (Dataminded, Brussels, Belgium)

18:00 Large Language Models as voting mechanisms and their economic rationality - Raša Karapandža (EBS Business School, Germany, and New York University, US)