IPS Conference 2014 - Program Schedule

Time Session & details Place
08:30
Refreshments and Registration

Bldg.73 - Zonnenfeld hall
09:00
Plenary session

Opening
Prof. Doron Cohen (Chair, IPS2014)

Welcome
Prof. Rivka Carmi (President, BGU)

Welcome
Prof. Michael Gedalin (Chair, BGU physics)

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

Plenary Lectures
Chair: Prof. Amnon Aharony

Probing the Big Bang with the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation
Shaul Hanany
09:30-10:30 [APS sponsored]
Photonic Topological Insulators
Mordechai (Moti) Segev
10:30-11:30
Bldg.73 - Zonnenfeld hall
11:30
Break

Bldg.90
12:00
Review sessions

Review 1 - High Energy and Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Adi Nusser
90/227

Galaxy Formation in its Most Active Phase
Avishai Dekel
12:00-12:30
The Hunt for Dark Matter
Tomer Volansky
12:30-13:00
Review 2 - Quantum and Cond-Matt Physics
Chair: Dr. Eytan Grosfeld
92/001

Induced superconductivity in the quantum spin hall edge
Amir Yacoby
12:00-12:30 [APS sponsored]
The making and breaking of non-abelian states of matter
Ady Stern
12:30-13:00
Review 3 - Statistical and Soft matter physics
Chair: Prof. Yuval Garini
92/002

Nuclear chromodynamics: statistical physics and cell nucleus
Alexander Grosberg
12:00-12:30
On the use and abuse of THERMODYNAMIC entropy
Peter Hanggi
12:30-13:00 [EPJ sponsored]
Bldg.90 - Rooms 90/227, 92/001, 92/002
13:00
Lunch break

Posters, Trade fair, Job fair

IPS council meeting (Room 90/129)

Bldg.90
14:30
Parallel sessions A

Astrophysics (observational)
Chair: Dr. Dovi Poznanski
90/227

High Energy (theory)
Chair: Prof. Tomer Volansky
90/224

High Energy - Nuclear Physics A
Chair: Prof. Alexander Milov
90/226

Quantum information
Chair: Prof. Hagai Eisenberg
90/234

Quantum (AMO)
Chair: Prof. Ronnie Kosloff
90/231

Mesoscopic physics
Chair: Dr. Saar Rahav
90/233

Statistical Physics A
Chair: Prof. Eli Barkai
90/230

Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Chair: Prof. Sam Safran
90/223

Complexity in Biological systems
Chair: Dr. Ofer Feinerman
90/225

Strongly correlated electronic systems
Chair: Prof. Dror Orgad
92/001

Superconductivity and magnetism
Chair: Dr. Ophir Auslaender
92/002

Material Physics A
Chair: Prof. Yuval Golan
90/235

Applied Physics A
Chair: Prof. Dan Oron
90/236

Physics teaching
Chair: Prof. Ricardo Trumper
90/237

Bldg.90
16:00
Coffee break

Bldg.90
16:30
Parallel sessions B

Astrophysics (theory)
Chair: Prof. Uri Keshet
90/227

High Energy (experiment)
Chair: Prof. Eilam Gross
90/224

High Energy - Nuclear Physics B
Chair: Prof. Alexander Milov
90/226

Plasma Physics
Chair: Prof. Amnon Fruchtman
90/223

Quantum (photonics)
Chair: Prof. Oren Cohen
90/234

Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases
Chair: Prof. Amichay Vardi
90/231

Nonequilibrium and mesoscopic physics
Chair: Dr. Saar Rahav
90/233

Statistical Physics B
Chair: Prof. Eli Barkai
90/230

Complexity in Dynamical systems
Chair: Dr. Arik Yochelis
90/225

Topological phases and excitations
Chair: Prof. Dror Orgad
92/001

Superconductivity and topological superconductivity
Chair: Prof. Yoram Dagan
92/002

Material Physics B
Chair: Dr. Eyal Yahel
90/235

Applied Physics B
Chair: Uriel Levy
90/236

Bldg.90
18:00
Closing ceremony

Announcing winning poster
Prof. Yaron Oz

IPS 60th Birthday cake
Prof. Yuval Garini

Hanukkah Candles
Prof. Efrat Shimshoni

Bldg.90
19:06
Train

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