IPS Conference 2016 - Program Schedule

Time Session & details Place
08:30
Refreshments and Registration

09:00
Plenary session

Opening
Prof. Tomer Volansky (Chair, IPS2016)

Greetings & IPS prizes
Prof. Yaron Oz (Rector, TAU and President, IPS)

Plenary Lectures
Chair: Prof. Tomer Volansky

Symmetries, Duality, and the Unity of Physics
Nathan Seiberg,
09:35-10:20
Musical Interlude
Yuval Beker,
10:20-10:30
New routes to amorphous structures
David Weitz
10:30-11:15
Smolarsh Auditorium
11:40
Review sessions

Review 1 - High Energy and Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Gilad Perez
Melamed Auditorium

Some progress and open questions in particle astrophysics
Kfir Blum,
Flavored supersymmetry
Yael Shadmi
Review 2 - Quantum and Cond-Matt Physics
Chair: Prof. Ora Entin
Lev Auditorium

The Higgs and Other Amplitude Modes in Condensed Matter
Daniel Podolsky,
Transport in Strongly Correlated Bad Metals
Aharon Kapitulnik
Review 3 - Statistical, Soft Matter and Biophysics
Chair: Prof. Roy Beck
Dach Auditorium

Geometrically Frustrated Mechanical Metamaterials
Yair Shokef,
11:40-12:10
How do cosolutes stabilize macromolecules? From bridging to depletion attraction
Daniel Harries
12:10-12:40
12:40
Lunch break

Posters, Trade fair, Job fair

IPS council meeting

14:15
Parallel sessions A

Topological Superconductivity and Majorana Modes
Chair: Prof. Netanel Lindner
Dach Auditorium

Topological Electronic Phases

Photonics and Optics
Chair: Prof. Avi Zadok
Melamed Auditorium

Nano Physics
Chair: Dr. Michael Mrejen
Orenstein 110

Nuclear Physics I
Chair: Dr. Ishay Pomerantz
Shenkar 204

Quantum Information and Quantum Optics I
Chair: Prof. Avi Pe'er
Lev Auditorium

Statistical and Non-equilibrium Physics I
Chair: Prof. Baruch Meerson
Shenkar 222

High Energy Phenomenology and Experiment I
Chair: Prof. Abner Soffer
Kaplun 118

Physics in the Industry
Chair: Mr. Ron Naftali
Orenstein 102

Soft Matter and Nonlinear Physics
Chair: Prof. Eran Sahron
Holcblat Hall

Material Physics
Chair: Prof. Guy Makov
Orenstein 103

15:45
Coffee break

16:15
Parallel sessions B

Nuclear Physics II
Chair: Dr. Ishay Pomerantz
Shenkar 204

Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Chair: Eilon Sherman
Holcblat Hall

Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Dan Maoz
Orenstein 103

Plasma and Fluids
Chair: Dr. Gilad Marcus
Orenstein 102

High Energy Phenomenology and Theory
Chair: Prof. Jacob Sonnenschein
Orenstein 110

High Energy Phenomenology and Experiment II
Chair: Dr. Kfir Blum
Kaplun 118

Material Design and Low Dimensional Systems

AMO and Cold Atoms
Chair: Dr. Yoav Sagi
Melamed Auditorium

Strongly Correlated Electronic States and Superconductivity
Chair: Prof. Netanel Lindner
Dach Auditorium

Quantum Information and Quantum Optics II
Chair: Prof. Avi Pe'er
Lev Auditorium

Statistical and Non-equilibrium Physics II
Chair: Prof. Baruch Meerson
Shenkar 222

17:50
Announcing winning poster
Prof. Yaron Oz

Shenkar Physics Lobby
18:30
Public Event

Hanukkah Candles

Public Lecture
Ted Barr

Musical Interlude
Yuval Beker

Public Lecture
Prof. Mario Livio (UNLV)

Smolarsh Auditorium
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