IPS Conference 2015 - Program Schedule

Time Session & details Place
08:30
Refreshments and Registration

Wohl center
09:00
Plenary session

Opening
Avi Pe'er (Chair, IPS2015)

Welcome
Daniel Hershkoviz (President, BIU)

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

Plenary Lectures
Chair: Prof. Yaron Silberberg
Auditorium

Quantum Universe
Viatcheslav Mukhanov
09:20-10:10
Controlling and Exploring Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level
Immanuel Bloch
10:10-11:00
Wohl center
11:00
Break

Wohl center
11:15
Review sessions

Review 1 - High Energy and Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Tomer Volansky
Auditorium

Astrophysical neutrino telescopes
Eli Waxman
11:15-11:45
The return of the LHC
Erez Etzion
11:45-12:15
Review 2 - AMO and Cond-Matt Physics
Chair: Prof. Lior Klein
Hall 1

Current-Induced Torques in Magnetic Materials
Andrew Kent
11:15-11:45
Simulating spin systems with dissipative-coupled lasers
Nir Davidson
11:45-12:15
Review 3 - Statistical, Soft matter and Bio physics
Chair: Prof. Yariv Kafri
Hall 2

Antimicrobial resistance: modelling the efficacy of antibiotic treatment
Martin R. Evans
11:15-11:45
Understanding self-replication
Nathalie Q. Balaban
11:45-12:15
Wohl center
12:30
Lunch break

Posters, Trade fair, Job fair

IPS council meeting

Engineering
14:15
Parallel sessions A

Astrophysics - Observational
Chair: Prof. Hagai Perets
Eng. 329

High Energy - Theory and Phenomenology
Chair: Dr. Amit Sever
Eng. 244

Nuclear Physics
Chair: Prof. Ron Guy
Eng. 249

Quantum information and Quantum Optics
Chair: Ron Folman
Eng. 53

Mesoscopic and condensed matter physics
Chair: Dr. Beena Kalisky
Eng. 2

Strongly correlated electronic systems
Chair: Prof. Efrat Shimshoni
Eng. 22

Statistical and Nonequilibrium physics
Chair: Prof. Yitzhak Rabin
Eng. 42

Complexity in Biological systems A
Chair: Prof. Avraham Be'er
Eng. 271

Plasma Physics
Chair: Dr. Anatoli Shlapakovski
Eng. 243

Material Physics A
Chair: Dr. Ehoud Pazy
Music 111

Applied Physics
Chair: Yossi Paltiel
Music 109

Engineering
16:00
Coffee break

Engineering
16:15
Parallel sessions B

Astrophysics - Theory
Chair: Prof. Tsvi Piran
Eng. 329

High Energy - Theory
Chair: Dr. Amit Sever
Eng. 244

High Energy - Experiment
Chair: Erez Etzion
Eng. 243

Optics and Photonics
Chair: Dr. Ofer Firstenberg
Eng. 53

Atomic physics and molecules
Chair: Prof. Lev Khaykovich
Eng. 42

Superconductivity and magnetism
Chair: Prof. Assa Auerbach
Eng. 22

Topological phases, excitations, and topological superconductivity
Chair: Dr. Hadar Steinberg
Eng. 2

Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Chair: Elisha Moses
Eng. 249

Complexity in Dynamical systems
Chair: Prof. David Mukamel
Music 109

Complexity in Biological systems B
Chair: Prof. Avraham Be'er
Eng. 271

Material Physics B
Chair: Dr. Eyal Yahel
Music 111

Engineering
18:00
Closing ceremony

Announcing winning poster
Prof. Yaron Oz

Hanukkah Candles and sweets
Avi Pe'er

Engineering
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