IPS Conference 2018 - Program Schedule

Time Session & details Place
08:00
Registration

Main tent
09:00
Plenary session

Opening
Prof. Nadav Katz (Chair, IPS2018)

Greetings
Prof. Asher Cohen (President, HUJI)

Plenary session I
Chair: Prof. Nadav Katz
Wise Auditorium

Quantum supremacy: checking a quantum computer with a classical supercomputer
Prof. John Martinis
IPS fellows
Prof. Yosi Avron (President, IPS)

Wise Auditorium
10:30
Break

Main tent
11:00
Review sessions

Review 1 - Soft matter and Biophysics
Chair: Prof. Kinneret Keren
Wise Auditorium

The Physics of Active Matter
Cristina Marchetti,
Physics of membrane superstructures
Michael M. Kozlov
Review 2 - Condensed matter
Chair: Dr. Erez Berg
Feldman A

Thermodynamics and order beyond equilibrium - from eigenstate thermalisation to time crystals
Roderich Moessner,
Imaging electronic states at surfaces and interfaces
Beena Kalisky
Review 3 - Astrophysics
Chair: Dr. Omer Bromberg
Feldman B

Fast Radio Bursts
Jonathan I. Katz,
New Types of Flares from Accreting Supermassive Black Holes
Benny Trakhtenbrot
12:30
Lunch break

Posters, Trade fair, Job fair

IPS council meeting

Main tent
14:00
Parallel sessions A

Astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Hagai Perets
Sprinzak 215

Atomic, Molecular and Optical
Chair: Dr. Yaron Bromberg
Sprinzak 115

High Energy (Phenomenology + experiment) A
Chair: Prof. Shikma Bressler
Sprinzak 116

High Energy (theory) A
Chair: Dr. Michael Smolkin
Sprinzak 102

High Energy - Nuclear Physics A
Chair: Prof. Ron Guy
Sprinzak 114

Magnetism and Superconductivity
Chair: Dr. Emanuele Dalla Torre
Sprinzak 117

Material Physics A
Chair: Prof. Amos Sharoni
Sprinzak 29

Mathematical Physics
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Breuer
Sprinzak 201

Physics Education Research
Chair: Dr. Avi Merzel
Sprinzak 203

Physics in Industry
Chair: Dr. Amir Waxman
Sprinzak 202

Photonics
Chair: Prof. Tal Ellenbogen
Sprinzak 217

Plasma Physics
Chair: Prof. Igal Kronhaus
Sprinzak 26

Soft Matter and Biological Physics
Chair: Prof. Ady Vaknin
Sprinzak 27

Statistical Physics
Chair: Dr. Yoav Lahini
Sprinzak 28

Topological electrons
Chair: Dr. Eytan Grosfeld
Sprinzak 214

Sprinzak Building
15:30
Coffee break

Main tent
15:45
Parallel sessions B

Astrophysics B
Chair: Prof. Hagai Perets
Sprinzak 215

Atomic, Molecular and Optical B
Chair: Dr. Yaron Bromberg
Sprinzak 115

High energy (Phenomenology + experiment) B
Chair: Dr. Yonit Hochberg
Sprinzak 116

High Energy (theory) B
Chair: Dr. Michael Smolkin
Sprinzak 102

High Energy - Nuclear Physics B
Chair: Prof. Ron Guy
Sprinzak 114

Magnetism and Superconductivity B
Chair: Prof. Karen Michaeli
Sprinzak 117

Material Physics B
Chair: Prof. Amos Sharoni
Sprinzak 29

Mathematical Physics B
Chair: Prof. Jonathan Breuer
Sprinzak 201

Nanophysics

Non-linear physics
Chair: Dr. Michael Moshe
Sprinzak 215

Plasma Physics B
Chair: Prof. Igal Kronhaus
Sprinzak 26

Quantum information
Chair: Prof. Hagai Eisenberg
Sprinzak 27

Statistical Physics B
Chair: Dr. Yoav Lahini
Sprinzak 28

Topological electrons B
Chair: Dr. Eytan Grosfeld
Sprinzak 214

Sprinzak Building
17:15
Plenary session II

Holiday celebration

Announcing IPS prizes and poster awards
Prof. Yosi Avron

Plenary session II
Chair: Prof. Nadav Katz
Wise Auditorium

Deep Networks in Machine Learning, Tensor Networks and Quantum Entanglement – some interesting new connections...
Prof. Amnon Shashua
18:00-19:00
Wise Auditorium
19:00
IPS General Meeting
Prof. Yosi Avron

Wise Auditorium
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