IPS Conference 2015 - Detailed Program

Plenary sessions


Plenary Lectures

Chair: Prof. Yaron Silberberg
Place: Auditorium
Time: 09:20 -11:00

09:20-10:10
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
Arnold Sommerfeld Center, Physics Department, Ludwig Maxmillians University, Munich, Germany
Quantum Universe
10:10-11:00
Immanuel Bloch
Max-Planck Institut für Quantenoptik, Hans Kopfermann Str. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany & Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Schellingstr. 4, 80799 München, Germany
Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level


Review sessions


R1: Review 1 - High Energy and Astrophysics
Prof. Tomer Volansky
Auditorium
11:15 - 12:15
11:15-11:45
Eli Waxman
Weizmann Inst.
Astrophysical neutrino telescopes
11:45-12:15
Erez Etzion
Tel Aviv University
The return of the LHC

R2: Review 2 - AMO and Cond-Matt Physics
Prof. Lior Klein
Hall 1
11:15 - 12:15
11:15-11:45
Andrew Kent
New York University
Current-Induced Torques in Magnetic Materials
11:45-12:15
Nir Davidson
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
Simulating spin systems with dissipative-coupled lasers

R3: Review 3 - Statistical, Soft matter and Bio physics
Prof. Yariv Kafri
Hall 2
11:15 - 12:15
11:15-11:45
Martin R. Evans
School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Edinburgh
Antimicrobial resistance: modelling the efficacy of antibiotic treatment
11:45-12:15
Nathalie Q. Balaban
Racah Institute of Physics
Understanding self-replication



Parallel sessions


A2: High Energy - Theory and Phenomenology
Dr. Amit Sever
Eng. 244
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:45
Shlomo S. Razamat
Technion
Geometrization of N=1 supersymmetric QFTs
14:45-15:00
Gabriel Lee, Carlos E. M. Wagner
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Higgs Bosons in Heavy Supersymmetry with an intermediate mA
15:00-15:15
Yevgeny Kats
Weizmann Institute
Measuring c-quark polarization in W+c production at the LHC
15:15-15:30
Sho Iwamoto, Jonathan L. Feng, Yael Shadmi, Shlomit Tarem
Physics Department, Technion
Long-Lived Sleptons at a 100 TeV Proton Collider (and the LHC)
15:30-15:45
Lorenzo Di Pietro
Weizmann Institute of Science
QED in d=3 from the epsilon-expansion
15:45-16:00
Daniel Aloni, Yosef Nir, Emmanuel Stamou
Weizmann Institute
Large BR(h->tau mu) in the MSSM

B2: High Energy - Theory
Dr. Amit Sever
Eng. 244
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:30
Carlos Hoyos, Adiel Meyer, Yaron Oz
Universidad de Oviedo
Parity Breaking Transport in Lifshitz Hydrodynamics
16:30-16:45
Roy Ben-Israel, Amit Giveon, Nissan Itzhaki, Lior Liram
Physics Department, Tel-Aviv University
Stringy Horizons and UV/IR Mixing
16:45-17:00
Ruth Shir
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Permutation Symmetries in Scattering Amplitudes
17:00-17:15
Ido Ben-Dayan
Ben-Gurion University
Gravitational waves in bouncing cosmology
17:15-17:30
Nilanjan Sircar, Carlos Hoyos, Jacob Sonnenschein
Universidad de Oviedo
New knotted solutions of Maxwell's equations
17:30-17:45
Philipp Burda
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vacuum metastability with black holes and fate of the Higgs vacuum

A1: Astrophysics - Observational
Prof. Hagai Perets
Eng. 329
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:35 (invited)
Eran Ofek
Weizmann Institute of Science
Supernova precursors
14:35-14:55 (invited)
Shai Kaspi
Tel-Aviv University
Measuring supermassive black hole masses: where we are, where we are going
14:55-15:10
Barak Zackay, Eran Ofek, Avishay Gal-Yam
Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Proper astronomical image processing - Solving the problems of image coaddition and image subtraction
15:10-15:25
David Polishook
Weizmann Institute of Science
The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey: breaking down the size limit
15:25-15:40
Shlomi Hillel, Noam Soker
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Heating the intra-cluster medium by jet-inflated bubbles
15:40-15:55
Peter Szabo, Nir Sapir, Eli Waxman
Department of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Numerical Solutions of Shock Breakouts from Optically Thick Circumstellar Winds

A3: Nuclear Physics

Prof. Ron Guy
Eng. 249
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:40 (invited)
Ishay Pomerantz
The School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University
Nuclear Physics Research with High Intensity Lasers
14:45-15:00
Moshe Friedman, for the E08-007 Collaboration
Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Measurement of the Proton Form Factor Ratio at Low Momentum Transfer
15:00-15:15
Ronen Weiss, Betzalel Bazak, Nir Barnea
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University
The nuclear contact relations
15:15-15:30
Erez O. Cohen, Eli Piasetzky, Or Hen, Meytal Duer, Igor Korover
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
A search for three nucleons Short Range Correlated nucleons in nuclei with CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory
15:30-15:45
Noam Gavrielov
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
First order quantum phase transition between spherical and γ-unstable nuclear shapes
15:45-16:00
Mr. Evgeni Iosefovski
Weizmann Institute of Science
Understanding Peripheral Events in Pb-Pb Collisions

A4: Quantum information and Quantum Optics
Ron Folman
Eng. 53
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:30
Demitry Farfurnik, Andrey Jarmola, My Linh Pham, Zhihui Wang, Viatcheslav V. Dobrovitski, Ronald L. Walsworth, Dmitry Budker, Nir Bar-Gill
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Enhanced coherence properties and solid-state spin ensemble magnetometry using optimized dynamical decoupling
14:30-14:45
Ido Schwartz, Dan Cogan, Emma R. Schmidgall, Yaroslav Don, Liron Gantz, Netanel Lindner, David Gershoni
The Physics Department and the Solid State Institute, Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Deterministic Generation of a Cluster State of Polarization Entangled Single Photons
14:45-15:00
I. Cohen, A. Retzker, S. Weidt, W. K. Hensinger, G. Mikelsons, M. B. Plenio, J. M. Cai, P. Richerme, Z.-X. Gong, C. Senko, J. Smith, A. Lee, C.Monroe
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Quantum information with dressed states using trapped ions
15:00-15:15
Elisha Svetitsky, Nadav Katz
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Emulating a Relativistic Quantum Particle with Coupled Qubits
15:15-15:30
Tuvia Gefen, David A. Herrera-Marti, Nadav Katz, Dorit Aharonov, Alex Retzker
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Sensing with quantum error correction
15:30-15:45
Leon Bello, Yaakov Shaked, Avi Peer
Department of physics and BINA Center for nano-technology, Bar-Ilan university
Coupled parametric oscillators for generation of tuned two-mode squeezing - an RF demonstration
15:45-16:00
Orel Bechler, Serge Rosenblum, Itay Shomroni, Yulia Lovsky, Gabriel Guendelman, Barak Dayan
AMOS and Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Extraction of a Single Photon from an Optical Pulse

A5: Mesoscopic and condensed matter physics
Dr. Beena Kalisky
Eng. 2
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:45 (invited)
M. Ben Shalom, M. J. Zhu, V. I. Fal’ko, A. Mishchenko, A. V. Kretinin, K. S. Novoselov, C. R. Woods, A. K. Geim, J. R. Prance
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL Manchester, UK
Ballistic transport and superconducting proximity effect in graphene
14:45-15:00
Assaf Hamo, Avishai Benyamini, Ilanit shammass, Ilya Khivrich, Kirsten Kaasbjerg, Yuval Oreg, Felix von Oppen, Shahal Ilani
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.
Attraction by Repulsion: Pairing Electrons using Electrons
15:00-15:15
Iliya Esin, Alessandro Romito, Yuval Gefen
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Non-local composite measurement protocol as a tool to probe non-causal quantum evolution
15:15-15:30
Y. E. Yaish, G. Zeevi, M. Shlafman, T. Tabachnik, Z. Rogachevsky, S. Maliniak, I. Goldstein, S. Shlafman, N. Gordon, G. Alchanati, Y. Moshe, E. M. Hajaj, H. Nir, Y. Milyutin, T. Y. Izraeli, A. Razin, O. Shtempluck, V. Kotchtakov
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion
Carbon Nanotubes Circuits Made Easy - Optical Imaging of CNTs
15:30-15:45
Jonathan Reiner, Anderw Norris, Nurit Avraham, Hadas Shtrikman, and Haim Beidenkopf
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Visualizing One-Dimensional Electronic states and their Scattering in Semi-conducting Nanowires
15:45-16:00
Yoav Kalcheim, Felix Zeides, Nadav Katz, Eran Katzir, Yossi Paltiel, Oded Millo
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel
manipulation of vortex flow in a superconductor by localized current injection

A6: Strongly correlated electronic systems
Prof. Efrat Shimshoni
Eng. 22
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:45 (invited)
Eran Sela, Gregory Gorohovsky, Rodrigo Pereira
Tel Aviv University
Chiral Spin Liquids in Arrays of Spin Chains
14:45-15:00
I. Tamir, D. Kalok, M. Ovadia, S. Mitra, B. Sacepe, D. Shahar
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Evidence for a finite temperature insulator
15:00-15:15
Ori Alberton, Jonathan Ruhman, Erez Berg, Ehud Altman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Fate of the Ising Quantum Critical Point Coupled to a Gapless Phonon
15:15-15:30
Rajeev Singh, Dibyendu Roy, Roderich Moessner
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany
Probing Many-Body Localization by Spin Noise Spectroscopy
15:30-15:45
Ilia Khait, Snir Gazit, Norman Y. Yao, Assa Auerbach
Physics Department, Technion
Absence of diffusion in disordered spin-chains
15:45-16:00
Yonathan Anahory, Lior Embon, Chang Jian Li, Sumilan Banerjee, Alexander Meltzer, Hoovinakatte R. Naren, Anton Yakovenko, Jo Cuppens, Yuri Myasoedov, Michael L. Rappaport, Martin E. Huber, Karen Michaeli, Thirumalai Venkatesan, Ariando, Eli Zeldov
Weizmann Institute of Science
Emergent nanoscale superparamagnetism at oxide interfaces

A7: Statistical and Nonequilibrium physics
Prof. Yitzhak Rabin
Eng. 42
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:30
Tamir Admon, Dr. Saar Rahav, Dr. Yael Roichman
Department of physical chemistry, Tel Aviv university
Information machine
14:30-14:45
Dino Osmanovic, Lenin Shagolsem, Yitzhak Rabin
Bar-Ilan University
Statistical Physics of Ensembles of Particles with Random Interactions
14:45-15:00
Doron Grossman, Eran Sharon
Hebrew University Jerusalem
The statistics of frustrated ribbons
15:00-15:15
Nimrod Segall, Eial Teomy, Yair Shokef
Tel-Aviv University
Jamming vs Caging in 3D Jamming Percolation
15:15-15:30
Lukas Sieberer, Gideon Wachtel, Ehud Altman, Sebastian Diehl
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 7610001, Israel
Vortex unbinding in driven-dissipative condensates
15:30-15:45
Eytan Katzav
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Analytical results for the distribution of shortest path lengths in random networks
15:45-16:00
Daniel Hurowitz, Doron Cohen
Ben Gurion University
Percolation, sliding, localization and relaxation in glassy circuits

A8: Complexity in Biological systems A
Prof. Avraham Be'er
Eng. 271
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:45 (invited)
Yaron Ideses, Samuel Safran, Karsten Kruse, Anne Bernheim-Groswasser
Department of Chemical Engineering, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
The dynamics of buckling of self-organizing contractile sheets
14:45-15:00
Inbal Hecht
School of Physics and Astronomy and Department of Molecular Microbiology & Biotechnology, Tel Aviv University
Diversity and heterogeneity in the service of cancer metastasis
15:00-15:15
Dan Gorbonos, Reuven Ianconescu, James G. Puckett, Rui Ni, Nicholas T. Ouellette, Nir S. Gov
Department of Chemical Physics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, P.O. Box 26, Rehovot, Israel 76100
Long-range Acoustic Interactions in Insect Swarms: An Adaptive Gravity Model
15:15-15:30
Eran Even-Tov, Avigdor Eldar, Shira omer
Tel Aviv University
Social evolution selects for complexity in bacterial communication systems
15:30-15:45
Adar Sonn-Segev, Anne Bernheim-Groswasser, Yael Roichman
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
Statistics of discrete motor-driven events in active actin-myosin networks
15:45-16:00
Roman Golkov, Yair Shokef
School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Shape regulation generates elastic interaction between active force dipoles

A9: Plasma Physics
Dr. Anatoli Shlapakovski
Eng. 243
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:40 (invited)
Eli Jerby
Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University
Microwave-generated dusty-plasma fireballs and fire-columns
14:45-15:00
H. R. Strauss
HRS Fusion
JET disruption simulations
15:00-15:15
J. Papeer, M. Botton, D. Gordon, R. Bruch, A. Zigler, Z. Henis
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904 Israel
Towards Generation of Long and Continuous Plasma Channels in Air.
15:15-15:30
Asher ‎Yahalom
Ariel University
Simplified Variational Principles for non-Barotropic ‎Magnetohydrodynamics
15:30-15:45
Daniel Shafer, Victor Tz. Gurovich, Svetlana Gleizer, Kalman Gruzinsky, Yakov E. Krasik
Technion Israel Institute of Technology
Generation of ultra-fast cumulative water jets by sub-microsecond underwater electrical explosion of conical wire arrays
15:45-16:00
Shay I. Heizler, Tomer Shussman
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, IL52900 ISRAEL
Full self-similar solutions of the subsonic radiative heat equations

A10: Material Physics A
Dr. Ehoud Pazy
Music 111
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:40 (invited)
Doron Naveh
Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
2D Semiconductors: Physical Phenomena and Device Applications
14:45-15:00
Ido Azuri, Elena Meirzadeh, David Ehre, Sidney R. Cohen, Andrew M. Rappe, Meir Lahav, Igor Lubomirsky, Leeor Kronik
Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel
UNUSUALLY LARGE YOUNG`S MUDULI OF AMINO ACID MOLECULAR CRYSTALS*
15:00-15:15
Anna Hirsch, Dvir Gur, Iryna Polishchuk, Davide Levy, Boaz Pokroy, Aurora J. Cruz-Cabeza, Lia Addadi, Leeor Kronik, Leslie Leiserowitz
Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth 76100, Israel
‘Guanigma’: the revised structure of biogenic anhydrous guanine
15:15-15:30
Eyal Yahel, Moran Emuna, Yaron Greenberg, Guy Makov
Department of Physics, NRCN, P.O. Box 9001, Beer-Sheva 84190, Israel
Pressure dependence of binary alloy systems from sound velocity measurements
15:30-15:45
Eial Teomy, Corentin Coulais, Koen de Reus, Yair Shokef, Martin van Hecke
Tel Aviv University
Combinatorial Mechanical Metamaterials
15:45-16:00
Jonathan Jeffet, Victor Garcia-Lopez, James M. Tour, Yuval Ebenstein
Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University
Nano-submarines

A11: Applied Physics
Yossi Paltiel
Music 109
14:15 - 16:00
14:15-14:45 (invited)
Avi Zadok, Yair Antman, Yosef London
Faculty of Engineering, Bar-Ilan University
Liquid sensor using radial acoustc modes of standard fibers
14:45-15:00
Matan Galanty, Shira Yochelis, Liron Stern, Irene Dujovne, Uriel Levy, Yossi Paltiel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Extinction Enhancement from a Self-Assembled Quantum Dots Monolayer using Simple Thin Films Process
15:00-15:15
Doron Azulay, Isaac Balberg, Oded Millo
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Effects of grain-boundaries on the performance of polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 solar-cells
15:15-15:30
Sigal Wolf, Itamar Rosenberg, Ronen Rapaport, Nir Bar-Gill
The Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Purcell-enhanced optical spin readout of Nitrogen-Vacancy centers in diamond
15:30-15:45
Yulia Lovsky*, Serge Rosenblum*, Barak Dayan
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for ultrafast sensing with optical microresonators
15:45-16:00
Moti Fridman, Shir Shahal, Vlada Artel, Doron Naveh
Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University & BINA Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University
Optical isolator based on topological insulator nano-particles

B1: Astrophysics - Theory
Prof. Tsvi Piran
Eng. 329
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:35 (invited)
Boaz Katz
Weizmann Institute of Science
Energy conservation in supernovae
16:35-16:55 (invited)
Ari Laor
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
The Effect of Radiation Pressure on Photoionized Plasma
16:55-17:10
Shmuel Bialy, Amiel Sternberg, Min-Young Lee, Franck Le Petit, Evelyne Roueff
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
HI-to-H2 transitions in the Perseus molecular cloud
17:10-17:25
Almog Yalinewich, Reem Sari
Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University, 91904, Jerusalem, Israel
Asymptotic Steady State Solution to a Bow Shock with an Infinite Mach Number
17:25-17:40
Ilya Gurwich, Uri Keshet
Ben Gurion University
Natural model for the Fermi bubbles and Galactic haze
17:40-17:55
Asher Yahalom
Ariel University
On the Difference between Time and Space

B3: High Energy - Experiment

Erez Etzion
Eng. 243
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:30
Orel Gueta
Tel Aviv University
Studies of double parton interactions with the ATLAS detector
16:30-16:45
Eran Erdal, Lior Arazi, Vitaly Chepel, David Vartsky, Michael Rappaport, Amos Breskin
Weizmann Institute of Science
Novel concepts for noble-liquid radiation detectors
16:45-17:00
Hadar Cohen, Erez Etzion, on behalf of The ATLAS collaboration
Tel Aviv University
Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H± → tb decay channel in pp collisions at \sqrt{s}=8 TeV using the ATLAS detector
17:00-17:15
Michael Pitt
Weizmann Institute of Science
Search for the Charged Higgs boson in the $\tau$+jets final state
17:15-17:30
Yonatan Mishnayot, Guy Ron
Racah Institute of Physics
3D Printed Scintillators
17:30-17:45
L. Barak
CERN
Search for scalar diphoton resonances at √s = 13 TeV in the mass range from 150 to [XXX] GeV
17:45-18:00
Jordi Duarte-Campderros, Avner Soffer, Gilad Perez, Shmuel Nussinov
Tel Aviv University
H->ssbar in ILC

B4: Optics and Photonics
Dr. Ofer Firstenberg
Eng. 53
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:45 (invited)
Ori Katz
Department of Applied Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Seeing through the fog: Looking into opaque samples and around corners with scattered light
16:45-17:00
Yaron Bromberg, Brandon Redding, Sebastien M. Popof, Hui Cao
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Classical Key Distribution in Multimode Fibers Using Optical Reciprocity
17:00-17:15
S. Bar-Ad, M. Karpov, V. Fleurov, T. Congy, N. Pavloff, Y. Sivan
Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
Spontaneously-formed autofocusing caustics in a confined self-defocusing medium
17:15-17:30
Igal Aharonovich, Avi Pe'er
Department of Physics and BINA center for Nano-Technology, Bar-Ilan University
Coherent Amplification of Ultrafast Molecular Dynamics in an Optical Oscillator
17:30-17:45
Mallachi-Elia Meller, Avi Pe’er
Bar-Ilan University
Mode locking with ultra-low intra-cavity power for high repetition rate frequency combs
17:45-18:00
Yaniv Eliezer, Liran Hareli, Lilya Lobachinsky, Sahar Froim, Alon Bahabad
Tel Aviv University
Temporal Optical Superoscillations

B5: Atomic physics and molecules
Prof. Lev Khaykovich
Eng. 42
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:30
Yair Margalit, Zhifan Zhou, Shimon Machluf, Daniel Rohrlich, Yonathan Japha, Ron Folman
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
A self-interfering clock as a “which path” witness
16:30-16:45
Erez Aghion, Eli Barkai, David A. Kessler
department of physics, institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar Ilan University
Infinite-density for cold atoms and Levy walks
16:45-17:00
David Eger, Slava Smartsev, Ofer Firstenberg, Nir Davidson
Department of the Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science
Optical Coherence in Closed-Loop Double-V Configuration
17:00-17:15
David Avisar, Arlene D. Wilson-Gordon
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University
Thermal-Light-Induced Dynamics: Coherence and Revivals in V- and Extended Jaynes-Cummings Systems
17:15-17:30
Shuyu Zhou, David Groswasser, Mark Keil, Yonathan Japha, Ron Folman
Department of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva 84105, Israel
Robust quantum spatial coherence near a classical environment
17:30-17:45
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 LiF(001) surface [1,2]
17:45-18:00
Michael Karpov, Nitzan Akerman, Yair Segev, Natan Bibelnik, Julia Narevicius, Edvardas Narevicius
Chemical Physics Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
Trapping of cold molecular oxygen

B7: Topological phases, excitations, and topological superconductivity
Dr. Hadar Steinberg
Eng. 2
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:45 (invited)
Ella O. Lachman, Andrea. F. Young, Anthony Richardella, Jo Cuppens, Naren HR, Yonathan Anahory, Alexander Y. Meltzer, Abhinav Kandala, Susan Kempinger, Yuri Myasoedov, Martin E. Huber, Nitin Samarth, Eli Zeldov
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot 76100, Israel
Visualization of superparamagnetic dynamics in magnetic topological insulators
16:45-17:00
Arijit Kundu, Netanel Lindner
Physics Department, Technion
Quantized Charge Transport in a far-from-equilibrium driven system
17:00-17:15
Eran Sagi, Yuval Oreg
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 76100
From an array of quantum wires to three-dimensional fractional topological insulators
17:15-17:30
Nurit Avraham, Andrew Norris, Lin Pan, Shu-Chun Wu, Claudia Felser, Binghai Yan, Haim Beidenkopf
Weizmann Atomic Scale Physics Lab / Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
1-D MODES ON STEP EDGES OF THE PUTATIVE WEAK TOPOLOGICAL INSULATOR BI2TeI
17:30-17:45
Yuval Baum, Erez Berg, S. A. Parameswaran, Ady Stern
Weizmann Institute of Science
Current at a distance and resonant transparency in Weyl semimetals
Aviad Landau, Stephan Plugge, Eran Sela, Alexander Altland, Sven Albrecht, Reinhold Egger
Tel Aviv university
Towards realistic implementations of a Majorana surface code

B6: Superconductivity and magnetism
Prof. Assa Auerbach
Eng. 22
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:30
Elran Baruch-El, M. Baziljevich, T. H. Johansen, A. Shaulov, Y. Yeshurun
Institute of Superconductivity and Institute of nanotechnology Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University.
Dendritic flux instabilities in YBCO films exposed to an ultra-fast field ramp
16:30-16:45
Almog Danzig, Ori Scaly, Emil Polturak
Technion
Detection of a Quantum Friction mechanism in solid helium 4
16:45-17:00
David Dentelski, Emanuele G. Dalla Torre, Eugene Demler
Bar-Ilan University
Friedel Oscillations as a Probe of Fermionic Quasiparticles
17:00-17:15
Naftali Kirsh, Elisha Svetitsky, Tmiron Alon, Simcha Korenblit, Nadav Katz
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
How nonlinear is a linear superconducting resonator?
17:15-17:30
Yosef Caplan, Gideon Wachtel, Dror Orgad
Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Long-Range Order and Pinning of Charge-Density Waves in Competition with Superconductivity
17:30-17:45
Itzik Kapon, David Ellis, Gil Drachuck, Christof Niedermayer, Markus Hucker, Jörg Strempfer, Amit Keren
Technion - Israeli Institute of Technology
Nodal Gap Induced by Spin Density Wave Excitations in La2-xSrxCuO4 x=1.92%
17:45-18:00
Yoni Schattner, Max Gerlach, Simon Trebst, Erez Berg
Weizmann institute of science
Monte Carlo Study of Competing Orders in a Nearly Antiferromagnetic Metal

B8: Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Elisha Moses
Eng. 249
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:40 (invited)
Eli Sloutskin, Moshe Deutsch, Shani Guttman
Physics Department & Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Bar-Ilan University (Israel)
How faceted liquid droplets grow tails
16:45-17:00
Yohai Bar-Sinai, Eran Bouchbinder
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Is Statistical Field Theory applicable to inhomogeneous polymers? (hint: not always)
17:00-17:15
Guy Nir, Einat Chetrite, Anat Vivante, Yuval Garini, Ronen Berkovich
Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
Near–wall internal diffusion coefficients of a tethered dsDNA molecule under shear flow
17:15-17:30
Ram Adar, David Andelman, Haim Diamant
Tel Aviv University
Interaction between patchy surfaces: the attraction scenario
17:30-17:45
Lihi Musbat, Yoni Toker, Jonathan Dilger, David E. Clemmer, Mordechai Sheves, Anastasia V. Bochenkova
Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Direct Measurement of the Isomerization Barrier of the Isolated Retinal Chromophore
17:45-18:00
Alexandra M. Tayar, Eyal Karzbrun, Vincent Noireaux, Roy H. Bar-Ziv
Weizmann institute of science
Propagating gene expression fronts in a one-dimensional coupled system of artificial cells

B10: Complexity in Biological systems B
Prof. Avraham Be'er
Eng. 271
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:30
Shay Be'er, Michael Assaf
Hebrew university
Effect of reaction-step-size noise on the dynamics of stochastic populations
16:30-16:45
Or Levy, Binyamin Knisbacher, Erez Levanon, Shlomo Havlin
Deptartment of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel[1]
Retroelements Network – activity and dynamics in genome evolution
16:45-17:00
Yael Fried, David A. Kessler, Nadav M. Shnerb
Bar-Ilan University
Communities as cliques
17:00-17:15
Nimrod Shaham, Yoram Burak
Racah institute of physics, the Hebrew university of Jerusalem
Continuous parameter working memory in a balanced chaotic neural network
17:15-17:30
Noga Weiss Mosheiff, Haggai Agmon, Avraham Moriel, Yoram Burak
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
An Efficient Coding Theory for a Dynamic Trajectory Predicts non-Uniform Allocation of Grid Cells to Modules in the Entorhinal Cortex
17:30-17:45
Haim Weissmann, Nadav M. Shnerb
Bar Ilan University
Predicting Catastrophic shifts
17:45-18:00
Merav Stern, Johnatan Aljadeff, Omri Barak
Medicine Faculty, Technion
Evoked responses in recurrent networks with multiple sub-populations

B9: Complexity in Dynamical systems
Prof. David Mukamel
Music 109
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:30
John Kolinski, Hillel Aharoni, Jay Fineberg, Eran Sharon
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
Ringin' the water bell: dynamic modes of curved fluid sheets
16:30-16:45
Shay I. Heizler, David A. Kessler
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, IL52900 ISRAEL
Microbranching in simulations of mode-I fracture in a three-dimensional perturbed hexagonal close-packed (hcp) lattice
16:45-17:00
Sivan Trajtenberg Mills, Ady Arie
School of Physics, Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University
Shaping light in non-linear optical interaction: on-axis holograms and caustic curves
17:00-17:15
Louis M. Shekhtman, Michael M. Danziger, Yehiel Berezin, Shlomo Havlin
Bar Ilan University
Failure-spreading transition in spatially embedded multiplex networks
17:15-17:30
Asher Yahalom, Meir Lewkowicz, Jacob Levitan, Gil Elgressy, Lawrence Horwitz, Yossi Ben-Zion
Ariel University
Uncertainty Relation for Chaos
17:30-17:45
Tomer Goldfriend, Haim Diamant
Raymond & Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Effect of Hydrodynamic Interactions on the Relative Translation between Two Forced Objects of Arbitrary Shape
17:45-18:00
Oz Oshri, Haim Diamant
School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Properties of compressible elastica from relativistic analogy

B11: Material Physics B
Dr. Eyal Yahel
Music 111
16:15 - 18:00
16:15-16:35 (invited)
Tzvi Tempelman, Michael Shandalov, Eyal Yahel, Itzhak Kelson, Michael Schmidt, Yuval Golan
Department of Material Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel
A New Approach for Radiation Damage Studies by Incorporation of Dilute Self-Irradiating Defects in Thin Films
16:35-16:50
Uri Argaman, Eitan Eidelstein, Ohad Levy, Guy Makov
Materials Engineering Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel
Thermodynamic properties of titanium from ab initio calculations
16:50-17:05
Yoav Romach, Nir Bar-Gill
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 a diamond
17:05-17:20
Alex Axelevitch, Boris Apter
Engineering Faculty, Holon Institute of Technology (HIT)
Ion Assisted Evaporation System for Complex Thin Films Deposition
17:20-17:35
Merav Muallem, Alex Palatnik, Gilbert D. Nessim, Yaakov R. Tischler
Bar-Ilan Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials
Molecular vibration polaritons in low-loss dielectric microcavities in the mid-infrared
17:35-17:50
Igor Yulevich, Elhanan Maguid, Nir Shitrit, Dekel Veksler, Vladimir Kleiner, and Erez Hasman*
Micro and Nanooptics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Optical Mode Control by Geometric Phase in Quasicrystal Metasurface

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
Bella Ilkanaiv, Gil Ariel, Avraham Be'er
Zuckerberg InstituteInstitute for Water Research, The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus 84990, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
The impact of cell aspect ratio on bacterial swarming
PD-02
Nava Leibovich
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan, Ramat-Gan, Israel
Aging Wiener-Khinchin Theorem
PE-03
David Yanuka, Maxim Kozlov, Hodaya E. Zinowits, Yakov E. Krasik
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Convergence of shock waves generated by underwater electrical explosion of cylindrical wire arrays between different boundary geometries
PD-04
Tomer Markovich, David Andelman, Rudi Podgornik
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Charge regulation: a generalized boundary condition?
PC-05
Pavel Tikhonov, Efrat Shimshoni, H. A. Fertig, Ganpathy Murthy
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Emergence of helical edge conduction in graphene at the ν=0 quantum Hall state
PC-06
Yiftach Frenkel, Noam Haham, Yishai Shperber, Chris Bell, Yanwu Xie, Yasuyuki Hikita, Harold Hwang, Beena Kalisky
Department of Physics, Bar Ilan Universiy,Israel
Imaging and quantifying the effect of STO domains on transport in LAO/STO interfaces
PE-07
Yulia Sokolov, Haim Diamant
Tel Aviv University
Inflation and deflation of driven colloidal rings
PC-08
Mordecai Kot, Moshe Goldstein
Tel Aviv University
Hall Viscosity in Solid State Systems
PB-09
Daniel Dribin
Racah Institute of Physics The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Building a Positron Annihilation spectroscopy using a DRS4 digitizer
PE-010
Michael M. Danziger, Sebastian M. Krause, Vinko Zlatić
Department of Physics, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israe.
Secure communication on networks with no trusted nodes using color avoiding percolation
PD-11
Maayan Shalom, Yael Roichman
Tel Aviv University
The effect of adsorption on the microrheology of nanoparticles/hydrogel composites
PC-12
Elhanan Maguid, Igor Yulevich, Nir Shitrit, Dekel Veksler, Vladimir Kleiner, Erez Hasman
Micro and Nanooptics Laboratory, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Optical spin Hall effect in quasicrystal metasurface
PC-13
Omri J. Sharon, Noam Haham, Avner Shaulov, Yosi Yeshurun
Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University
Fluxoids configurations in finite superconducting networks
PB-14
Daniel Louzon, Thomas Unden, Priya Balasubramanian, Yuval Vinkler, Martin B. Plenio, Matthew Markham, Daniel Twitchen, Igor Lovchinsky, Alexander O. Sushkov, Mikhail D. Lukin, Alex Retzker, Boris Naydenov, Liam McGuinness, Fedor Jelezko
Racah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 91904 Jerusalem, Israel
Quantum metrology enhanced by repetitive quantum error correction
PB-15
Ben Ohayon, Guy Ron
Racah Institute of physics
An efficient atom-trap setup for beta-decay studies
PB-16
Yaakov Shaked, Rafi Z. Vered, Yoad Michael, Michael Rosenbluh, Avi Pe’er
Department of physics and BINA Center of nano-technology, Bar-Ilan University
Lifting the Bandwidth Limit of Optical Homodyne Measurement
PC-18
Yochai Werman, Erez Berg
Weizmann Institute of Science
Resistivity saturation in a tractable electron-phonon model
PC-19
Tony Yamin, Yakov M. Strelniker, Amos Sharoni
Department of Physics and Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology Advanced Materials Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, 5290002, Israel
High Resolution Hall Measurement across the Phase Separated Metal-Insulator Transition in VO2 Reveals Non-Trivial Relation to Carrier Density
PB-20
Chen Avinadav, Dimitry Yankelev, Nir Davidson, Ofer Firstenberg
Weizmann Institute of Science
Trapped atom interferometry using Bloch oscillations in optical lattices
PE-21
Maria Nihamkin, Jonathan Toker
Bar Ilan University
The Bar Ilan Action Spectrometer
PB-22
Simcha Korenblit, Ydan Bendor, Hao Wang, Michael Geller, Nadav Katz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Quantum Walks in a Globally Connected Superconducting Network
PB-23
Yossi Rosenzweig, Yechezkel Schlussel, Ron Folman
Department of Physics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
“Doppler-free” type pump-probe spectroscopy in diamond nitrogen-vacancy centers
PC-24
Anna Kremen, Shai Wissberg, Noam Haham, Yiftach Frenkel, Beena Kalisky
Bar-Ilan University, Department of Physics and Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Mechanical control of individual superconducting vortices
PF-26
Gil Atar, Idan Casif, David Eger, Ariel Bruner, Bruno Sfez, Shlomo Ruschin
Applied Physics Division, Soreq NRC, Yavne 81800
Near-Single-Mode Operation of Highly-Multimode Waveguides Imposed by Sidewall Roughness Scattering
PF-27
Omer Amit, David Groswasser, Meni Givon, Amir Waxman, Avinoam Stern, Ron Folman
Ben-Gurion University
Ultracold-Rb Atomic Clock
PC-28
I. C. Fulga, D. I. Pikulin, T. A. Loring
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Aperiodic weak topological superconductors
PC-29
Shai Wissberg, Eylon Persky, Yiftach Frenkel, Anna Kremen, Noam Hacham, Yishai Shperber, Beena Kalisky
Physics Department, Bar Ilan University
Probing complex oxide interfaces with scanning SQUID microscopy
PB-30
Parry Y. Chen, Jacob Ben-Yakar, Yonatan Sivan
Tel Aviv University
Reinterpreting the magnetoelectric coupling of infinite cylinders using symmetry: a simple TM/TE view
PE-31
Dolev Roitman, Itay Kishon, Ishay Pomerantz
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
High Intensity Laser Irradiation of Solid Targets at a High Repetition Rate
PD-32
Raz Halifa- Levi, Yacov Kantor
Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Ideal polymers: equilibrium properties from non-equilibrium processes
PC-33
Itzhack Dana
Minerva Center and Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan 52900, Israel
Topological Properties of Adiabatically Varied Floquet Systems and Coupled Chains
PC-34
Arbel Haim, Erez Berg, Felix von Oppen, Yuval Oreg
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, 76100, Israel
Current Correlations in a Majorana Beam Splitter
PC-36
Raul A. Santos, Dmitri Gutman, Sam Carr
Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science
Stability of interacting helical modes in a time reversal topological insulator.
PA-37
Moran Netser, Noa Feldman, Yoni Svechinski
Tel Aviv University
Search for Pairs of Long-Lived Particles at BaBar
PF-38
Moti Fridman
Faculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University
Radial and azimuthal polarizations induced by long period fiber grating
PB-39
Shmuel Sternklar, Moshe Ben-Ayun, Seva Rosenberg, Arye Schwarzbaum
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ariel University
Fundamental limits of phase-shift measurement: Comparing optical interferometry to a new technique based on RF phase-shift amplification
PF-40
Elyashiv Shacham, Igor Liokomovich, David Mermelstein, Shmuel Sternklar
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Ariel University
Brillouin single-sideband amplification of OTDR signals for high sensitivity strain and vibration sensing
PC-41
Denis Golosov
Bar-Ilan University
Stoner-like theory of Magnetism in Silicon MOSFETs
PB-42
Yuval Shagam, Ayelet Klein, Wojciech Skomorowski, Renjie Yun, Vitali Averbukh, Christiane P. Koch, Edvardas Narevicius
Department of Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Probing long-range forces of a molecular quantum rotor in cold reactions
PE-43
Zehavit Eizig, Dan Thomas Major, Harvey Lee Kasdan, Elena Afrimzon, Naomi Zurgil, Maria Sobolev, Mordechai Deutsch
The Biophysical Interdisciplinary Schottenstein Center for the Research and Technology of the Cellome, Physics Department, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 5290002 ISRAEL
Spectroscopic Aspects of the Cationic Dye Basic Orange 21
PB-44
Meytal Duer, Eli Piasetzky, Or Hen, Erez Cohen, Igor Korover
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University
Study of Short Range Correlations via the A(e,e'n) reaction using CLAS detector at Jefferson Laboratory
PB-46
D. Izraeli, M. Durante, M. Krämer, E. Piasetzky, R. Pleskac, M. Rovituso, C. Schuy
Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Ion Therapy
PB-48
Israel Weinberger, Nir Barnea [1
The Hebrew University
Removing Center of Mass Effects from Calculated Response Functions
PB-49
Nir Nevo Dinur, Chen Ji, Oscar J. Hernandez, Sonia Bacca, Nir Barnea
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Understanding the proton radius puzzle: Nuclear structure effects in light muonic atoms
PE-50
Lerner Eitan, Chung Sangyoon, Allen Benjamin, Shuang Wang, Jookyung J. Lee, Shijia Winson Lu, Grimaud Wilson Logan, Ingargiola Antonino, Alhadid Yazan, Borukhov Sergei, Strick Terence, Taatjes J. Dylan, Weiss Shimon
Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Pausing in Escherichia Coli transcription initiation
PE-51
Chen Bar Haim, Haim Diamant
Tel Aviv University
Velocity Pair Correlations in a Suspension Confined Between two Elastic Surfaces
PC-52
Atindra Nath Pal, Arindam Ghosh
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India
1/f noise as a probe to investigate the band structure of graphene
PC-53
Atindra Nath Pal, Fabrizio Nichele, Susanne Mueller, Patrick Pietsch, Thomas Ihn, Klaus Ensslin, Christophe Charpentier, Werner Wegscheider
Solid State Physics Laboratory, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Electronic transport in InAs/GaSb composite quantum well: A possible candidate for 2D topological insulator
PC-54
M. Ya. Amusia, L. V. Chernysheva
The Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91904, Israel
The role of fullerene shell upon stuffed atom polarization potential
PC-55
M. Ya. Amusia
Racah Institute of Physics, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 91904, Israel
Light generation in collisions of atoms with a linear chain of fullerenes
PB-56
T. Yelin, R. Korytar, N. Sukenik, R. Vardimon, B. Kumar, C. Nuckolls, F. Evers, O. Tal
Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
The Upper Limit of Conductance across a Single Molecule

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