IPS Conference 2017 - Program Schedule

Time Session & details Place
08:30
Refreshments and Registration

Churchill Auditorium
09:00
Plenary session

Opening
Prof. Amit Keren (Chair, IPS2017)

Greetings
Prof. Yosi Avron (President, IPS)

Plenary Lectures
Chair: Prof. Yaron Oz
Churchill Auditorium

SESAME: progress in commissioning and research opportunities
Giorgio Paolucci,
9:15-9:50
Testing General Relativity with Infrared Interferometry of the Massive Black Hole in the Galactic Center...
Reinhard Genzel,
9:50-10:25
Emergent Gravity and the Dark Universe
Erik Verlinde
10:25-11:00
Churchill Auditorium
11:00
Break

Ulman Building
11:30
Review sessions

Review 1 - Condensed matter
Chair: Prof. Uri Sivan
Sego

Viscosity in electron liquids
Dirk Van Der Marel,
11:30-12:00
Quantifying hidden order out of equilibrium
Paul Chaikin
12:00-12:30
Review 2 -High Energy
Chair: Prof. Amos Yarom
Ulman 305

Daybreak at the LHC: what we learned from the 13 TeV data so far
Andreas Hoecker,
11:30-12:00
Probing Cold Dense Nuclear Matter
Eli Piasetzky
12:00-12:30
Review 3 - Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Ehud Behar
Ulman 309

100 years of the Cosmological Constant: new results from the Dark Energy Survey
Ofer Lahav,
11:30-12:00
Multi Messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger — A Success Story
Dovi Poznanski
12:00-12:30
Ulman Building
12:30
Lunch break

Posters, Trade fair, Job fair

IPS council meeting

Ulman Building
14:00
Parallel sessions A

High Energy (theory)
Chair: Dr. Shlomo Razamat
Ulman 301

Mathematical Physics
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Breuer
Ulman 302

Applied Physics
Chair: Dr. Chen Dubi
Ulman 303

Statistical Physics
Chair: Prof. Yariv Kafri
Ulman 304

High Energy (Theory and experiment)
Chair: Prof. Shikma Bressler
Ulman 305

High Energy - Nuclear Physics
Chair: Prof. Nir Barnea
Ulman 306

Topological phases and excitations
Chair: Prof. Netanel Lindner
Ulman 307

Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Hagai Perets
Ulman 309

Material Physics
Chair: Prof. Amit Kanigel
Ulman 310

Strongly correlated electronic systems
Chair: Prof. Assa Auerbach
Ulman 311

Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Chair: Prof. Kinneret Keren
Ulman 501

Quantum (AMO)
Chair: Dr. Yoav Sagi
Ulman 503

Quantum (photonics)
Chair: Dr. Oren Cohen
Ulman 505

Ulman Building
15:30
Coffee break

Ulman Building
15:45
Parallel sessions B

High Energy (theory) B
Chair: Dr. Shlomo Razamat
Ulman 301

Mathematical Physics B
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Breuer
Ulman 302

Applied Physics B
Chair: Dr. Chen Dubi
Ulman 303

Statistical Physics B
Chair: Prof. Yariv Kafri
Ulman 304

High Energy (Theory and experiment) B
Chair: Prof. Yael Shadmi
Ulman 305

High Energy - Nuclear Physics B
Chair: Prof. Nir Barnea
Ulman 306

Topological phases and excitations B
Chair: Prof. Netanel Lindner
Ulman 307

Astrophysics B
Chair: Prof. Hagai Perets
Ulman 309

Nanophysics
Chair: Prof. Yoram Dagan
Ulman 310

Superconductivity and magnetism
Chair: Prof. Assa Auerbach
Ulman 311

Non-linear physics
Chair: Dr. Guy Bunin
Ulman 501

Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases
Chair: Dr. Yoav Sagi
Ulman 503

Quantum information
Chair: Prof. Itai Arad
Ulman 505

Ulman Building
17:15
Closing ceremony

Holiday celebration
Prof. Amit Keren

Announcing winning poster + IPS prizes
Prof. Yosi Avron

Public talk
Lisa Randall

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs
Churchill Auditorium
19:00
IPS General Meeting
Prof. Yosi Avron

Churchill Auditorium
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