In memory of Antun Balaž - insights into complex systems

from Thursday, 11 June 2026 (09:00) to Friday, 12 June 2026 (18:30)
Institute of Physics Belgrade (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Jun 2026
12 Jun 2026
AM
09:00
Biographical session -Dr Aleksandar Belić (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia) (until 13:30) (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
09:00 Completing Feynman's path integral program: Lagrangian path integral measure - Dr Aleksandar Bogojević (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
09:30 Path integrals at warp speed: reporting to my captain for quarter-century - Dr Danica Stojiljković (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
10:00 Bosonic dynamics in optical lattices - Dr Ivana Vasić (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 On the open-dissipative nature of photon Bose-Einstein condensates - Prof. Axel Pelster (Physics Department and Research Center OPTIMAS, RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
11:30 Dipole‑induced Fermi‑surface anisotropy in strongly dipolar quantum gases - Dr Vladimir Veljić (Institute of Physics Belgrade (alumni, presently Delhaize International, Serbia))   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
12:00 Faraday and resonant waves in dipolar cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates - Dr Dušan Vudragović (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
12:30 Sound in ring dipolar supersolids - Dr Marija Šindik (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
13:00 Nonthermalizing dynamics and quantum criticality in programmable Rydberg atom arrays - Dr Ana Hudomal (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
09:00
High-performance computing session -Dr Dušan Vudragović (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia) (until 13:30) (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
09:00 European open science cloud: enabling open and collaborative research - Prof. Anastas Mishev (Saints Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje, North Macedonia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
09:30 The Serbian AI Factory Antenna: bridging high-performance computing with energy and environmental sustainability - Dr Miloš Ivanović (Faculty of Science, University of Kragujevac, Serbia and Faculty of Information Studies, Novo mesto, Slovenia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
10:00 Grid computing for large-scale scientific research - Dr Mihajlo Savić (University of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 From HPC and GRID infrastructures to digital ecosystems - Dr Cozzini Stefano (Institute for Research and Innovative Technologies, AREA Science Park, Italy)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
11:30 High-performance applications on heterogenous systems - benchmarking and optimisation - Prof. Emanouil Atanassov (Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, Sofia, Bulgaria)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
12:00 Building regional e-Infrastructure for advanced scientific computing - Dr Ognjen Prnjat (Greek Research And Technology Network, Athens, Greece)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
12:30 Atomic solitons in optical lattices - Prof. Luca Salasnich (University of Padova, Italy)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
PM
13:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:30
Ultracold atoms session -Dr Ivana Vasić (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia) (until 18:30) (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
14:30 The quantum age: from atoms and photons to quantum computers - Prof. Vladan Vuletić (Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
15:00 Photons in a dye-filled cavity: quantum-optical system interpolating between Bose-Einstein condensates and laser-like states - Dr Milan Radonjić (University of Hamburg, Germany, and Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
15:30 Unconventional topological phases in some lattices - Prof. Hrvoje Buljan (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 A universal speed limit for spreading of coherence - Prof. Zoran Hadžibabić (University of Cambridge, UK)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
17:00 Pattern-forming instabilities in BECs: An homage to Antun Balaž - Dr Alexandru Nicolin-Żaczek (Institute of Space Science, Romania)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
17:30 Mach-Zehnder interferometer for in-situ characterization of atom traps - Dr Maxim Efremov (German Aerospace Center, Institute of Quantum Technologies, Germany)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
18:00 Solitons on the surface of a sphere - Dr Alexander Wolf (Institute of Quantum Physics and Center for Integrated Quantum Science and Technology, Ulm University, Germany)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
20:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
13:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Friends’ session -Dr Nenad Vukmirović (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia) Dr Marija Mitrović Dankulov (Institute of Physics Belgrade, Serbia) (until 18:30) (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
14:00 Integrated quantum photonics developed with and for quantum hardware - Prof. Marina Radulaški (Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, USA)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
14:30 Nature-inspired periodicity on optical table - Dr Jovana Petrović (Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
15:00 Exploring lattice gauge theories with classical and quantum simulations - Prof. Marina Krstić Marinković (Institut für Theoretische Physik, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
15:30 Atomistic modeling of valence change memory devices: What can we learn from simulations? - Dr Marko Mladenović (Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 Noncommutative AdS spacetime: classical limits & the boundary - Prof. Maja Burić (Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
17:00 From classical to fuzzy de Sitter spacetime and back - Prof. Duško Latas (Faculty of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
17:30 Complex networks analysis of Belgian railway - Dr Jelena Grujić (Dataminded, Brussels, Belgium)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)
18:00 Large Language Models as voting mechanisms and their economic rationality - Prof. Raša Karapandža (EBS Business School, Germany, and New York University, US)   (“Zvonko Marić” lecture hall)