IPS Conference 2014 - Detailed Program

Plenary sessions


Plenary Lectures

Chair: Prof. Amnon Aharony
Time: 09:30 -11:30

09:30-10:30 [APS sponsored]
Shaul Hanany
School of Phys. and Astronomy, Univ. of Minnesota/Twin Cities
Probing the Big Bang with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
10:30-11:30
Mordechai (Moti) Segev
Physics department and Solid State Institute, Technion
Photonic Topological Insulators


Review sessions


R1: Review 1 - High Energy and Astrophysics
Prof. Adi Nusser
90/227
12:00 - 13:00
12:00-12:30
Avishai Dekel
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Galaxy Formation in its Most Active Phase
12:30-13:00
Tomer Volansky
Tel Aviv University
The Hunt for Dark Matter

R2: Review 2 - Quantum and Cond-Matt Physics
Dr. Eytan Grosfeld
92/001
12:00 - 13:00
12:00-12:30 [APS sponsored]
Amir Yacoby
Harvard
Induced superconductivity in the quantum spin hall edge
12:30-13:00
Ady Stern
Weizmann Institute
The making and breaking of non-abelian states of matter

R3: Review 3 - Statistical and Soft matter physics
Prof. Yuval Garini
92/002
12:00 - 13:00
12:00-12:30
Alexander Grosberg
Department of Physics, New York University
Nuclear chromodynamics: statistical physics and cell nucleus
12:30-13:00 [EPJ sponsored]
Peter Hanggi
Dept. of Physics, University of Augsburg, Germany
On the use and abuse of THERMODYNAMIC entropy



Parallel sessions


A1: Astrophysics (observational)

Dr. Dovi Poznanski
90/227
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Andy Howell
LCOGT
Exotic explosions and LCOGT
15:00-15:15
Iair Arcavi
University of California Santa Barbara
Rapidly Rising Luminous Supernovae
15:15:15:30
Ziv Mikulizky, Adi Nusser
Technion
The kinematics of the Local Group and nearby galaxies
15:30-15:45
Lee Yacobi, Dafne Guetta, Ehud Behar
Technion
Constraints on The Hadronic Content of Gamma Ray Bursts
15:45-16:00
Ranieri D. Baldi, Ehud Behar, Ari Laor, Assaf Horesh
Technion Institute
Radio-Quiet AGN at high radio frequencies: jet or accretion disk corona?

A2: High Energy (theory)
Prof. Tomer Volansky
90/224
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Gilad Perez
Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Inst.
News from the frontier: the LHC battle for naturalness
15:00-15:15
Oren Slone, Tomer Volansky
Tel Aviv University
Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter via Molecular Bond Breaking
15:15-15:30
Yotam Soreq, Christoph Englert, Michael Spannowsky
Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Off-Shell Higgs Coupling Measurements in BSM scenarios
15:30-15:45
Avia Raviv
Tel Aviv University
Lifshitz z=2 Supersymmetry
15:45-16:00
Prithvi Narayan, Micha Berkooz, Amir Zait
Weizmann Institute of Science
Chiral 2D Strange Metals from N = 4 Super Yang-Mills theory

A3: High Energy - Nuclear Physics A

Prof. Alexander Milov
90/226
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Michael H. Urin
National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, 115409 Moscow, Russia
Damping of simple modes of high-energy nuclear exctations: dispersive optical models and their implementations
15:00-15:15
Erez Cohen, Nikolay Pilip, Eli Piasetzky, Yair Shamai
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
TASFID - A Scintillating Fiber detector
15:15-15:30
Nir Nevo Dinur, Chen Ji, Oscar Javier Hernandez, Sonia Bacca, Nir Barnea
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Nuclear Structure Effects in Light Muonic Atoms
15:30-15:45
Or Hen
Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
Short-range correlations in imbalanced Fermi systems
15:45-16:00
Sourav Tarafdar, Alexander Milov, Zvi Citron
Weizmann Institute of Science
A Centrality Detector Concept for Heavy Ion Collider

A4: Quantum information
Prof. Hagai Eisenberg
90/234
14:30-15:00 (invited)
David Gershoni
The Physics Department and The Solid State Institute, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa, 32000, Israel
Quantum Optics with Semiconductor Quantum Dots.
15:00-15:15
Itay Shomroni, Orel Bechler, Serge Rosenblum, Barak Dayan
Weizmann Institute of Science
Demonstration of Weak Measurement based on Atomic Spontaneous Emission
15:15-15:30
E. Poem, K. T. Kaczmarek, C. Weinzetl, J. Munns, T. F. M. Champion, D. J. Saunders, J. Nunn, I. A. Walmsley
Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, UK
Proposed ultrafast optical control and broadband optical quantum memory with neutral nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond
15:30-15:45
I. Cohen, A. Retzker, S. Weidt, W. K. Hensinger, G. Mikelsons, M. B. Plenio, C. Senko, P. Richerme, J. Smith, A. Lee, C. Monroe
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dressed states for quantum gates and quantum simulation with trapped ions
15:45-16:00
Yaakov Shaked, Hillel Sanhedrai, Gill Bashan, Avi Pe'er
Department of physics and BINA Center of nano-technology, Bar-Ilan University
Measuring Bright Two-mode Squeezing without an External Local Oscillator

A5: Quantum (AMO)

Prof. Ronnie Kosloff
90/231
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Lev Khaykovich
Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Probing and understanding the few-body physics in ultracold atoms
15:00-15:15
Hagar Veksler, Shmuel Fishman
Technion
Collapses and revivals of matter waves
15:15-15:30
Shimshon Kallush, Sharly Fleischer
Department of Physics and Optical Engineering, ORT Braude College
Computing alignment and oritentation of non-linear molecules in room temperature using random phase wave functions
15:30-15:45
David J. Tannor, Elie Assemat, Shai Machnes
Weizmann Institute of Science
Toward the Simulation and Control of Multielectron Dynamics
15:45-16:00
Menachem Givon, Yair Margalit, Amir Waxman, Tal David, David Groswasser, Yonathan Japha, Ron Folman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
Magic Frequencies in Atom-Light Interaction for Precision Probing of the Density Matrix

A6: Mesoscopic physics
Dr. Saar Rahav
90/233
14:30-14:45
Ran Fischer, Gonzalo. A. Alvarez, Christian Bretschneider, Paz London
Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute, Israel
Local and bulk 13C hyperpolarization in NV-centered diamonds at arbitrary fields
14:45-15:00
Ariane Soret, Evgeni Gurevich, Eric Akkerman
Technion
Quantum dynamics of a wave packet for a Cantor spectrum
15:00-15:15
Kristen Kaasbjerg, Abraham Nitzan
Weizmann Institute of Science
Light emission from high-frequency quantum noise in plasmonic contacts
15:15-15:30
Jinhong Park, Yuval Gefen, H.-S. Sim
Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dephasing by Fractionalization in the \nu= 2/3 Fractional Quantum Hall Regime
15:30-15:45
Rani Arielly
Tel Aviv University
Dynamics of Redox events in Molecular Junctions
15:45-16:00
Haggai Landa, Georgy Shlyapnikov
Univ. Paris Sud, CNRS, LPTMS, UMR 8626, Orsay 91405, France
Quasi-Bound States in Periodically-Driven Scattering

A7: Statistical Physics A
Prof. Eli Barkai
90/230
14:30-15:00 (invited)
David Mukamel
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, the Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Long-Range correlations in locally driven systems
15:00-15:15
Daniel Hurowitz, Doron Cohen
Ben Gurion University
Nonequilibrium version of the Einstein relation
15:15-15:30
Yosi Hammer, Yacov Kantor
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Entropic pressure in lattice models for polymers
15:30 - 15:45
Avi Aminov, Yariv Kafri, Mehran Kardar
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Fluctuation Induced Forces in Out of Equilibrium Systems
15:45 - 16:00
Johannes H. P. Schulz, Eli Barkai
Bar-Ilan University
Infinite densities in continuous-time random walks

A8: Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Prof. Sam Safran
90/223
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Kinneret Keren
Physics Department, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology
Artificial cells: model systems for studying the actin cytoskeleton
15:00-15:15
Alexandra M. Tayar, Eyal Karzbrun, Vincent noireaux, Roy H. Bar-Ziv
Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Programmable on-chip DNA compartments as artificial cells
15:15-15:30
Anat Vivante, Irena Bronshtein, Eldad Kepten, Itamar Kanter, Yuval Garini
Bar Ilan University
The effect of nuclear structural proteins on chromatin dynamics - measured by advanced live imaging methods
15:30-15:45
Tomer Markovich, David Andelman, Rudi Podgornik
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Surface tension of electrolyte solutions: a self-consistent theory
15:45-16:00
Michal Sahaf
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mechanical Stress and Leaf Growth

A9: Complexity in Biological systems
Dr. Ofer Feinerman
90/225
14:30-15:00 (invited)
David Sprinzak, Oren Shaya, Sheila Weinreb, Udi Binshtok, Micha Hersch, Liat Zilberstein Amir
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University
Know Thy Neighbor: The role of contact area geometry on cell-cell signaling
15:00-15:15
Alon Oyler-Yaniv, Jennifer Oyler-Yaniv, Gregoire Altan-Bonnet, Oleg Krichevsky
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Cytokine consumption controls the extent of cell-to-cell signaling and dynamically generates cellular microdomains.
15:15-15:30
David Golomb
Departments of Physiology and Physics, Ben Gurion Univ., Be'er-Sheva, Israel
Is cortical information processing described by the balanced-state model?
15:30-15:45
Amir Goldental, Shoshana Guberman, Roni Vardi, Ido Kanter
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University Ramat-Gan, Israel.
A computational paradigm for dynamic logic gates in neuronal activity
15:45-16:00
Avraham Be'er, Sivan Benisty, Eshel Ben Jacob, Gil Ariel
Ben Gurion University
Antibiotic-induced anomalous statistics of collective bacterial swarming

A10: Strongly correlated electronic systems
Prof. Dror Orgad
92/001
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Nathan R. Bernier, Eugene Demler
Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel
Oscillatory Pattern Formation in Non-Equilibrium Many-Body Systems
15:00-15:30 (invited)
Maxim Khodas
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Inelastic light scattering in iron based superconductors: competing orders and electronic anisotropy
15:30-15:45
Yoni Schattner, Samuel Lederer, Erez Berg, Steven A. Kivelson
Weizmann Institute of Science
Quantum Monte Carlo study of the nematic quantum critical point in a metal
15:45-16:00
Ofer Shlagman, Efrat Shimshoni
Department of physics, Bar-Ilan university
Plaquette Order in a Frustrated Dimerized Spin-Ladder

A11: Superconductivity and magnetism
Dr. Ophir Auslaender
92/002
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Yonathan Anahory, Lior Embon, Alexander Suhov, Dorri Halbertal, Jo Cuppens, Anton Yakovenko, Aviram Uri, Michael L. Rappaport, Martin E. Huber, Alexander V. Gurevich, E. Zeldov
Weizmann Institute of Science
Vortex dynamics at the sub-nanometer scale
15:00-15:15
Jonathan Reiner, Yonathan Anahory, Lior Embon, Dorri Halbertal, Anton Yakovenko, Yuri Myasoedov, Michael L. Rappaport, Martin E. Huber, Eli Zeldov
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Rehovot, Israel
A three-junction SQUID-on-tip with tunable in-plane and out-of-plane magnetic field sensitivity
15:15-15:30
Anna Kremen, Beena Kalisky
Department of Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University
Effect of strain on individual vortices in superconducting thin films.
15:30-15:45
Alon Ron, Eran Maniv, David Graf, Ju-Hyun Park, Yoram Dagan
Tel Aviv University
Anomalous Magnetic Ground State in an LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface Probed by Transport through Nanowires
15:45-16:00
Eran Maniv, Moshe Ben Shalom, Alon Ron, Izhar Neder, Moshe Goldstein, Alexander Palevski, Yoram Dagan
Tel Aviv University
Link Between Mobile Band Population and Superconductivity in SrTiO3\LaAlO3 Interface

A12: Material Physics A
Prof. Yuval Golan
90/235
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Guy Makov
Ben-Gurion University
Liquids: Transitions, thermo-physical anomalies and structure
15:00-15:15
Arik Yochelis
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics and Ben-Gurion National Solar Energy Center, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR), Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel
What drives the layered nano-structure of electrical diffuse layers in ionic liquids?
15:15-15:30
Eli Kraisler, Leeor Kronik
Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth 76100, Israel
The problem of fractional dissociation in Density Functional Theory, and how it can be resolved using the ensemble-generalization approach
15:30-15:45
Tzvi Templeman, Michael Schmidt, Eyal Yahel, Yuval Golan, Itzhak Kelson, Michael Shandalov
Department of Materials Engineering, and Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
A New Approach for the Incorporation of Dilute Self-Irradiating Defects in Thin Films
15:45-16:00
Shlomi Matityahu, Moran Emuna, Guy Makov, Yaron Greenberg, Eyal Yahel
Department of Physics, NRCN, P.O. Box 9001, Beer-Sheva 84190, Israel
Novel experimental design for high pressure - high temperature electrical resistance measurements in a ’Paris-Edinburgh’ large volume press

A13: Applied Physics A
Prof. Dan Oron
90/236
14:30-15:00
Gadi Eisenstein
Technion
Quantum Coherent Effects in Room Temperature Quantum Dot Optical Amplifiers
15:00-15:15
Noga Meir, Ohr Lahad, Iddo Pinkas, Dan Oron
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
Long-Lived Population Inversion in Isovalently Doped Quantum Dots
15:15-15:30
Assaf Manor, Leopoldo Martin, Carmel Rothschild
RBNI, Technion
On the transition from photoluminescence to thermal emission and its implication on solar energy conversion
15:30-15:45
Adel Zeidan, Lior Golan, Daniela Yeheskely-Hayon, Limor Minai, Eldad J Dann, Dvir Yelin
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Haifa, 3200003 Israel
High resolution microscopy of flowing blood cells in vivo
15:45-16:00
Doron Gilboa, Shamir Rosen, Ori Katz, Yaron Silberberg
Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
Focusing light through a multimode fiber

A14: Physics teaching
Prof. Ricardo Trumper
90/237
14:30-15:00 (invited)
Igal Galili
Science Teaching Center, Mathematics and Natural Science Faculty
Cultural Content Knowledge (CCK) of physics and possible ways of the correspondent curricular and pedagogy change
15:00-15:20
Jorge Berger
Department of Physics and Optical Engineering, Ort-Braude College
Active learning of Physics 1M
15:20-15:40
Alexander Reznik
Afeka Academic College of Engineering, Tel-Aviv
Self-directed research tasks in physics laboratory course
15:40-16:00
Ricardo Trumper
Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa
Work after Energy

B1: Astrophysics (theory)
Prof. Uri Keshet
90/227
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Boaz Katz, Doron Kushnir, Subo Dong
Weizmann Institute of Science
We believe type Ia supernovae are direct White Dwarf-White Dwarf collisions in triple stellar systems
17:00-17:15
Aviad Cohen, Rennan Barkana, Anastasia Fialkov
Tel Aviv University
Reconstructing the nature of the first cosmic sources from the anisotropic 21-cm signal
17:15-17:30
Tal Alexander
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rapid black hole formation in the early universe
17:30-17:45
Asaf Pe'er, Dangbo Liu, Abraham Loeb
University College Cork (UCC)
A two-component jet model for the tidal disruption event Swift J164449.3+573451
17:45-18:00
Elad Steinberg, Almog Yalinewich, Re'em Sari
Hebrew University
Should We Move to Moving Mesh?

B2: High Energy (experiment)
Prof. Eilam Gross
90/224
16:30-16:45
Adi Ashkenazi
Tel Aviv University
Trigger Level Analysis and Search for New Physics at the LHC
16:45-17:00
Daniel Turgeman, Itamar Roth, Ehud Duchovni
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Low-Scale Gravity searches in multi-jet final states at the LHC
17:00-17:15
Eitan Gozani
Technion
A search for dark matter in the ATLAS detector
17:15-17:30
Shikma Bressler, Avital Dery, Aielet Efrati
Weizmann Institute of Science
Asymmetric Lepton Flavor Violating Higgs Decays
17:30-18:00 (invited)
Erez Etzion
Tel Aviv University
The return of the LHC

B3: High Energy - Nuclear Physics B
Prof. Alexander Milov
90/226
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Zvi Citron
Weizmann Institute of Science
Recent Results from Heavy Ion Collisions Measured by the ATLAS Experiment
17:00-17:15
Shalom Shlomo
Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University
Determining a modern energy density functional for properties of finite nuclei and nuclear matter
17:15-17:30
Markus K. Koehler
Weizmann Institute of Science
Dielectron measurements in pp collisions with ALICE at the LHC
17:30-17:45
Ronen Weiss, Betzalel Bazak, Nir Barnea
The Racah Institute of Physics, The hebrew university
Experimental evaluation of the nuclear neutron-proton contact
17:45-18:00
David Izraeli
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Medium Modification in 12C and 2H

B4: Plasma Physics
Prof. Amnon Fruchtman
90/223
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Michael Mond
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
On the Dynamics of Thin Rotating Astrophysical Disks
17:00-17:15
L. Beilin, A. Shlapakovski, M. Donskoy, T. Queller, Y. Hadas, Ya. E. Krasik
Physics Department, Technion
Nanosecond timescale plasma density temporal evolution in a switch of a high-power microwave pulse compressor
17:15-17:30
Guy Rosenzweig, Eyal Kroupp, Alexander Starobinets, Amnon Fisher, Yitzhak Maron, Henry R. Strauss, John L. Giuliani, J. Ward Thornhill, Alexander L. Velikovich
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Measurements of the magnetic field distribution in a z-pinch plasma during and near stagnation, using polarization spectroscopy*
17:30-17:45
Asher Yahalom
Ariel University
Variational Principles for Topological Barotropic Fluid Dynamics
17:45-18:00
Gennady Makrinich, Amnon Fruchtman, Raymond Boxman
Holon Institute of Technology
The forces on the plasma in a radial plasma source

B5: Quantum (photonics)
Prof. Oren Cohen
90/234
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Barak Dayan
Weizmann Institute of Science
Controlling Light with Light: Demonstration of Deterministic Photon-Photon Interactions
17:00-17:15
Itai Epstein, Ana Libster-Hershko, Ady Arie
Tel Aviv University
Generation of Paraxial and Non-paraxial Self-accelerating Plasmonic Light Beams
17:15-17:30
Moshe G. Harats, Andreas Tittl, Ramon Walter, Xinghui Yin, Martin Schäferling, Ronen Rapaport, Harald Giessen
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Quantitative angle-resolved small-spot reflectance measurements on plasmonic perfect absorbers: impedance matching and disorder effects
17:30-17:45
Chene Tradonsky, Micha Nixon, Eitan Ronen, Vishwa Pal, Ronen Chriki, Asher A. Friesem and Nir Davidson
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Physics of Complex Systems
The use of second harmonics in phase locked laser arrays.
17:45-18:00
Ido Kaminer, Maor Mutzafi, Gal Harari, Hanan Herzig Sheinfux, Amir Levy, Scott Skirlo, Jonathan Nemirovsky, John D. Joannopoulos, Mordechai Segev, Marin Soljačić
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Quantum Cherenkov Radiation from Electron Vortex Beams

B6: Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases
Prof. Amichay Vardi
90/231
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Nir Navon
University of Cambridge
Bose-Einstein Condensation in a Box
17:00-17:15
Yoav Sagi, Tara E. Drake, Rabin Paudel, Roman Chapurin, Deborah S. Jin
JILA, NIST and the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Breakdown of Fermi Liquid Behavior in the Normal State of an Ultracold Fermi Gas
17:15-17:30
Avraham Klein, Igor L. Aleiner, Oded Agam
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vortex core deformation and its impact on the behaviour of weakly coupled superfluids
17:30-17:45
Orel Bechler, Serge Rosenblum, Itay Shomroni, Roy Kaner, Talya Arusi-Parpar, Oren Raz, Barak Dayan
Weizmann Institute of Science
Catastrophes in Cold Atoms
17:45-18:00
Yair Margalit, Shimon Machluf, Yonathan Japha, Ron Folman
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Coherent Stern–Gerlach momentum splitting on an atom chip

B7: Nonequilibrium and mesoscopic physics
Dr. Saar Rahav
90/233
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Ronnie Kosloff, Amikam Levy, Tova Fledman, Raam Uzdin
Hebrew University
The Dynamical Versions of the III-law of Thermodynamics
17:00-17:15
Yehuda Dinaii, Alexander Shnirman, Yuval Gefen
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute
Statistics of energy dissipation in a quantum dot operating in the cotunneling regime
17:15-17:30
Mark H Fischer, Ronen Vosk, Ehud Altman
Weizmann Institute of Science
A macroscopic 'order parameter' for many-body localization
17:30-17:45
Tal Goren, Eric Akkermans
Technion
Schwinger effect in a tunnel junction
17:45-18:00
Eugene Kanzieper
Department of Applied Mathematics, Holon Institute of Technology
Random matrix theory of quantum transport in chaotic cavities with non-ideal leads

B8: Statistical Physics B
Prof. Eli Barkai
90/230
16:30-16:45
Eial Teomy, Yair Shokef
Tel Aviv University
Jamming by Shape
16:45-17:00
Itamar Kolvin, Gil Cohen, Jay Fineberg
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
Crack front dynamics: the interplay of singular geometry and crack instabilities
17:00-17:15
Ido Levin, Eran Sharon
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Anomalously soft non-Euclidean springs
17:15-17:30
Ohad Shpielberg, Eric Akkermans
Technion
Additivity principle and stability of out-of-equilibrium open systems : extension of Le Chatelier principle
17:30-17:45
Eli Sloutskin, Alexander V. Butenko, Pilkhaz M. Nanikashvili, David Zitoun
Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Who ordered these fluid nanoparticle suspensions?
17:45-18:00
Adar Sonn-Segev, Haim Diamant, Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Yael Roichman
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
Microrheology of in-Vitro Acto-Myosin Networks in Steady State

B9: Complexity in Dynamical systems
Dr. Arik Yochelis
90/225
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Gabriel Seiden
Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
The tongue as an excitable medium
17:00-17:15
Golan Bel, Hezi Yizhaq
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Israel
Effects of quenched disorder on critical transitions in pattern-forming systems
17:15-17:30
Shay Be'er, Michael Assaf, Baruch Meerson
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University
Against all odds: how a stochastic population colonizes a territory at low immigration rates
17:30-17:45
Yuval Zelnik, Shai Kinast, Golan Bel, Ehud Meron
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Ben-Gurion University
Competing Turing Mechanisms in Dryland Pattern Forming Systems
17:45-18:00
Yoav Green, Sinwook Park, Gilad Yossifon
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion
Concentration Polarization and Electroconvection in a Nanochannel Array System

B10: Topological phases and excitations
Prof. Dror Orgad
92/001
16:30-16:45
Maciej Koch-Janusz, D.I. Khomskii, Eran Sela
Weizmann Institute of Science
Valence bond solid (AKLT) state from t_2g electrons
16:45-17:00
Amir Rosenblatt, Itamar Gurman, Ron Sabo, Moty Heiblum, Vladimir Umansky, Diana Mahalu
Braun Center for Submicron Research, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Structure of the Charged Edge Modes in the ν=2/3 Fractional Quantum Hall State
17:00-17:15
Raul Santos, Chia-Wei Huang, Yuval Gefen, Dmitri Gutman
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 52900, Israel
Fractional Topological Insulators: from sliding Luttinger Liquids to Chern-Simons theory
17:15-17:30
Eyal Cornfeld, Michael Becker, Izhar Neder, Simon Trebst, Eran Sela
Tel Aviv University
Fractional Phases in Partially Gapped 1D systems
17:30-17:45
Arbel Haim, Erez Berg, Felix von Oppen, Yuval Oreg
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Signatures of Majorana Zero Modes in Spin-Resolved Current Correlations
17:45-18:00
Anna Keselman, Erez Berg
Weizmann Institute of Science
Gapless topological phase in a time-reversal-invariant quantum wire

B11: Superconductivity and topological superconductivity
Prof. Yoram Dagan
92/002
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Roni Ilan
Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, California 95720, USA
Transport signatures of topological superconductivity in topological insulator nano-wires
17:00-17:15
Amit Ribak, Zaher Salman, Cinthia Piamonteze, Ekaterina Pomjakushina, Amit Kanigel
Technion
Time reversal symmetry breaking in a magnetically doped topological insulator
17:15-17:30
Yonatan Cohen, Yuval Ronen, Jung-Hyun Kang, Hadas Shtrikman, Moty Heiblum
Condensed Matter dept., Weizmann Institute of Science
Quantized charge staircase in Multiple Andreev Reflection processes
17:30-17:45
A. Yagil, Y. Lamhot, N. Shapira, S. Kasahara, T. Watashige, T. Shibauchi, Y. Matsuda, O. M. Auslaender
Technion
Local characterization of superconductivity in an isovalently doped pnictide
17:45-18:00
David Shai Ellis, Yaobo Huang, Paul Olalde-Velasco, Gil Drachuck, Rinat Ofer, Galina Bazalitsky, Jorge Berger, Thorsten Shmitt, Amit Keren
Physics Department, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
The Dependence of Tc on Spin and Orbital Excitation Energy in Ca(x)La(1-x)Ba(1.75-x)La(0.25+x)Cu(3)O(y) measured by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering

B12: Material Physics B
Dr. Eyal Yahel
90/235
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Roy Beck, Guy Jacoby, Keren Cohen, Kobi Barkan, Yeshayahu Talmon, Dan Peer
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Predetermined and temporally controlled metastability in lipid-based particles
17:00-17:15
Giora Kimmel, Dror Kadosh, Dmitry Mogilyanski, Jacob Zabicky
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Grain-size effects of yttrium and rare earth oxides formed by the sol–gel technique
17:15-17:30
Ran Vardimon, Marina Klionsky, Oren Tal
Department of Chemical Physics
Spin-polarized conductance in atomic nickel-oxide junctions
17:30-17:45
Shimon E Lerner, Paul Ben Ishai, Yuri Feldman
JCT Lev Academic Center
Meyer-Neldel Compensation as a feature of the Johari-Goldstein Beta relaxation
17:45-18:00
Jennifer Galanis, Yoav Tsori
Ben Gurion University
Phase Separation Dynamics of Simple Liquids in Non-Uniform Electric Fields

B13: Applied Physics B
Uriel Levy
90/236
16:30-17:00 (invited)
Aharon Agranat
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Electrooptical and photorefractive effects in glass forming liquids of dipolar nano-clusters embedded in a paraelectric environment
17:00-17:15
Dekel Veksler, Elhanan Maguid, Dror Ozeri, Nir Shitrit, Vladimir Kleiner, Erez Hasman
Micro and Nanooptics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Multifunctional optical disordered gradient metasurface
17:15-17:30
Ronen Chriki, Micha Nixon, Vishwa Pal, Chene Tradonsky, Gilad Barach, Asher A. Friesem, Nir Davidson
Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Efficient control of spatial coherence
17:30-17:45
Noa Rosenthal, Gilad Marcus
Affiliations : "Department of Applied Physics at the Hebrew University"
Enhancement of High Harmonic Generation Yield by Using Quasi Phase Matching and Resonance Conditions
17:45-18:00
Nir Peer
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nano Scale Charge separation using Chiral Molecules

Posters


Categories:


A - Astro
B - HEP
C - AMO
D - CondMat
E - StatMech
F - NLD
G - Applied Physics
H - Science Education
I - Materials physics

PE-01
Yuval Vardi, Avraham Guttman, Israel Bar-Joseph
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Random Telegraph Signal in a Metallic Double-Dot System
PE-02
Jorge Berger
Department of Physics and Optical Engineering, Ort-Braude College
Flux-induced Nernst effect in a superconducting loop
PB-03
Lee Yacobi
Technion
ISS-Lobster / GTM
PD-05
A. Pick, A. Cerjan, D. Liu, A. W. Rodriguez, A. D. Stone, Y. D. Chong, S. G. Johnson
Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Multimode laser-linewidth theory for complex wavelength-scale laser cavities
PD-06
Geva Arwas, Amichay Vardi, Doron Cohen
Ben-Gurion University
Superfluidity and Chaos
PD-07
Shuyu Zhou, Julien Chabe, Ran Salem, Tal David, David Groswasser, Mark Keil, Yonathan Japha, Ron Folman
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Phase space tomography of cold-atom dynamics in a weakly corrugated potential
PG-09
Baruch Barzel
Bar Ilan University
Peeking Into the Black Box: Reverse Engineering the Dynamics of Complex Systems
PG-010
Nathaniel Wagner, Lilia Vasilkovsky
Dept. of Chemistry
Modeling Circadian Clocks using Catalytic Networks
PD-11
Tamir Admon, Yael Roichman
Department of physical chemistry, Tel Aviv university
Information Machine
PF-12
Harel Nagar, Yael Roichman
Department of physical chemistry Tel aviv univesity
Collective excitations of hydrodynamically coupled driven colloidal particles
PH-13
Sigal Wolf, Itamar Rosenberg, Ronen Rapaport, Nir Bar-Gill
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Proposal for plasmonically-enhanced optical spin readout of Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond
PC-15
Yair Kurzweil, Sylvian Kahane, Giora Hazak
Physics Department, Nuclear Research Center-Negev, POB 9001, Beer-Sheva, Israel
The effect of ion-ion correlation on the atomic energy levels and absorption of radiation in dense plasmas
PC-16
Dimitry Mikitchuk, Eyal Kroupp, Ramy Doron, Christine Stollberg, Yitzhak Maron, Henry R. Strauss, Alexander L. Velikovich, John L. Giuliani
Weizmann Institute of Science
The effects of preembedded axial magnetic field on z-pinch plasma implosion
PD-17
David Rakhmilevitch, Richard Koryta'r, Alexej Bagrets, Ferdinand Evers, Oren Tal
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Electron-vibration interaction in presence of a switchable Kondo resonance
PD-19
Shay Keren-Zur, Nadav Segal, Netta Hendler, Tal Ellenbogen
Tel Aviv University
Construction of functional nonlinear optical metamaterials
PF-20
Maoz Shamir
Ben Gurion University
Balancing feed-forward excitation and inhibition via inhibitory spike timing dependent plasticity
PE-22
Ran Vardimon, Tamar Yelin, Marina Klionsky, Soumyajit Sarkar, Ariel Biller, Leeor Kronik, Oren Tal
Department of Chemical Physics
Probing the orbital origin of conductance oscillations in atomic chains
PE-23
Ofir Shein, Ran Vardimon, Oren Tal
Weizmann Institute of Science
Local heating in atomic gold junctions at cryogenic temperature
PF-24
Erez Aghion
Department of Physics, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Bar-Ilan University
Excursions, Meanders and Bridges for cold atoms and more
PD-26
Y. Schlussel, A. Waxman, V.M. Acosta, D. Budker, L.-S. Bouchard, R. Folman
Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva
Diamond Magnetometry of Superconducting Thin Films
PE-27
Amir Broide, Itzhak Halevy, Silvie Maskova, Oleg Rivin, Matthew S. Lucas, Amir Hen, Itzhak Orion, Shai Salhov, Michael Shandalov, Antonio F Moreira Dos Santos, Jamie Molaison
Dept. of physics, NRCN, P.O.Box 9001, Beer-Sheva, ISRAEL
Neutrons High Pressure crystallographic structure and magnetic Study of the Fe-Cr-Hx Phase Diagram.
PG-28
Itamar Shani, Tsevi Beatus, Roy Bar-Ziv
Department of Materials and Interfaces, The Weizmann Institute of Science
Correlations screening, pairing direction switching, and rotation reversal due to attractive forces of microfluidic droplets
PE-29
A. Hen, E. Colineau, R. Eloirdi, J.-C. Griveau, N. Magnani, J.-P. Sanchez, I. Halevy, I. Orion, R. Caciuffo
European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Transuranium Elements, Postfach 2340, D-76125 Karlsruhe, Germany
Crystallographic, electronic and magnetic properties of Np2Ni17.
PD-30
Omer Amit
Physics Department - Ben-Gurion University
Normalized Measurement of the Clock-States in Rb87.
PD-31
Ofir Flom, Haggai Zilberbeg, Asher Yahalom, Yaakov Levitan
Ariel University
Tunneling as a Source for Quantum ‎Chaos
PD-33
Asaf Farhi, David J. Bergman
Tel Aviv University
Analysis of a Veselago lens in the quasistatic regime
PD-34
Tomer Shushi
University of Haifa
The Connection between Quantum and Classical Physics: The Measurement Device's Viewpoint
PA-35
Ben Bar-Or, Tal Alexander
Weizmann institute of science
The statistical mechanics of relativistic orbits around a massive black hole
PE-37
Yuval Vardi, Avraham Guttman, Israel Bar-Joseph
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Random Telegraph Signal in a Metallic Double-Dot System
PE-39
Robert Englman
Soreq NRC and Ariel University
An "unreasonable effectiveness" of Hilbert transform for the transmission phase behavior in a quantum dot two-path interferometer.
PF-40
Sela Samin, Manuela Hod, Eitan Melamed, Moshe Gottlieb, Yoav Tsori
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Stabilization of Colloids by Addition of Salt
PE-41
Yevgeni Estrin, Dan Rich
Department of Physics and The Ilse Katz Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Temperature dependence of the exciton-surface plasmon polariton coupling in Ag, Au, and Al films deposited on the surface of InGaN/GaN quantum wells
PD-42
Demitry Farfurnik, Andrejs Jarmola, Linh M. Pham, Zhi-Hui Wang, Viatcheslav Dobrovitski, Ronald L. Walsworth, Dmitry Budker, Nir Bar-Gill
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel
Optimizing a Dynamical Decoupling Protocol for Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Ensembles
PD-43
Sivan Trajtenberg-Mills, Ana Libster-Hershko, Ady Arie
"Tel Aviv University"
Dynamic Control of Light Beams in a Quadratic Nonlinear Process
PE-44
Eran Sagi, Yuval Oreg, Ady Stern, Bertrand I. Halperin
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Imprint of topological degeneracy in quasi-one-dimensional fractional quantum Hall states
PD-46
Ronen Berkovich, Rodolfo I. Hermans, Ionel Popa, Guillaume Stirnemann, Sergi Garcia-Manyes, Bruce J. Berne, Julio M. Fernandez
Department of Chemical-Engineering and the Ilze Katz Institute for Nanoscience and Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 84105, Israel
Force application effects on the internal-diffusion of a tethered protein
PD-47
Yaakov Shaked, Shai Yefet, Tzahi Geller, Avi Pe’er
Department of physics and BINA Center of nano-technology, Bar-Ilan University
A Prism-pair with Negative Separation for Dispersion Compensation of Ultra Broadband Bi-photons Over a Full Octave
PI-49
Maayan Shalom, Yael Roichman
Department of Physical Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
Microrheology of hydrogels based composites with an internal stress-release mechanism
PD-50
Nezah Balal, Eyal Magori, Igor Dyunin, Aharon Friedman‎, Asher Yahalom‎
Ariel University
Design of a Permanent Magnet ‎Wiggler for a THz Free Electron Laser
PD-52
Ben Ohayon, Guy Ron
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University.
Towards the Trapping of Metastable Neon
PI-53
Asaf Azuri, Eli Pollak
Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100 Rehovoth, Israel
First principles based computations of the scattering of Ar from a room temperature LiF(100) surface {1}
PF-54
Lenin S. Shagolsem, Yitzhak Rabin
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Statistical Physics of the 'All Particles are Different' model
PD-55
Elad Eizner, Tal Ellenbogen
Department of Physical Electronics, School of Electrical Engineering , Tel Aviv University, Israel
Coupling light to strongly coupled exciton-surface plasmons polaritons by nanoantennas
PE-58
David Rakhmilevitch, Soumyajit Sarkar, Ora Bitton, Leeor kronik, Oren Tal
Department of chemical physics, Weizmann institute of science, Israel
Conjugated molecules as amplifiers of anisotropic magneto-resistance in molecular junctions
PE-59
Tzipora Y. Izraeli, Ziv Even Zur, Yuval E. Yaish
Faculty of Physics, Technion
Modeling of MOS Capacitors with Metal Nanoparticles
PE-60
Uri Argaman, Eitan Eidelstein, Ohad Levi, Guy Makov
Materials Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel
Thermodynamic properties of titanium from ab-initio calculations
PD-62
Eliahu Cohen, Yakir Aharonov
Tel Aviv University
Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Quantum Protective Measurement
PD-63
Yuval Shagam, Ayelet Klein, Edvardas Narevicius
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Direct observation of universal Langevin rates in strongly anisotropic neutral-neutral reactions down to the quantum threshold
PE-64
Igor Kuzmenko, Tetyana Kuzmenko, Yshai Avishai
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
Carbon Nanotube Quantum Dot: Realization of Two-Channel Kondo Effect
PE-65
Yoav Romach
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spectroscopy of surface-induced magnetic noise using shallow spins in diamond
PF-66
Erez N Ribak, Amichai M Labin, Shadi Safuri, Ido Perlman
Technion
Color separation in the retina
PD-68
E. Schleifer, M. Botton, A. Zigler
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Enhanced Proton Acceleration by an Ultrashort Laser with Structured Dynamic Plasma Targets

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