Eran Sharon (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Self-Morphing of frustrated sheets - from the lab to the real world and from statics to locomotion |Abstract:Humanity spends huge amounts of time, energy…
Boris Shapiro (Technion) | Fluctuation-induced forces: from van Der-Waals to quantum friction |Abstract:All bodies are surrounded by a fluctuating electromagnetic field, due to the random motion of charges inside a body.…
Yuval Garini (Technion) | The multi-scale structure of chromatin in the nucleus | Abstract: The DNA in a human cell which is ~2 meters long is packed in a ~10 μm…
Erez Zohar (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | Quantum Information and Technology Methods for Lattice Gauge Theories |Abstract:While the road to a full scale universal quantum computer is still long, in…
Doron Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) | Quantum Irreversibility of Quasistatic Protocols |Abstract:In quantum mechanics, a driving process is expected to be reversible in the quasistatic limit, aka adiabatic theorem.…
Alexander Migdal (New York University Abu Dhabi) | Quantum Geometry of Classical Turbulence |Abstract:We argue that in the strong turbulence phase, as opposed to the weak one, the Clebsch variables compactify to…
Dan Gorbonos (Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior) | Mean Field trajectories in a spin model for decision making on the move |Abstract:How animals navigate and perform directional decision making while migrating…
Eugene Kanzieper (Holon Institute of Technology) | Random Matrix Theory of the Power Spectrum in Quantum Chaotic Systems |Abstract:The power spectrum analysis of stochastic spectra has emerged as a powerful tool…
Yossi Nir (Weizmann Institute of Science) | The Jewels in the Crown of the LHC | Abstract: The ATLAS and CMS experiments have made several major discoveries: The discovery of an elementary…
Ray Rivers (Imperial College London) | Entropology: an information-theoretic approach to understanding archaeological data |In collaboration with: Paula Gheorghiade (U of Helsinki), Vaiva Vasiliauskate (ETH Zurich), Henry Price (ICL), Sasha Diachenko…
