Department of Physics
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…
Mikhail Shifman (University of Minnesota) | 50 Years of Supersymmetry |Abstract:I present a broad non-technical review of supersymmetry in our world from its inception to the current status. Related concepts of…
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.…
Haim Diamant (Tel Aviv University) | Using entropy to study systems out of thermal equilibrium |Abstract:Thermodynamic variables such as temperature and pressure are ill-defined out of thermal equilibrium. However, the relation…
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 radius nucleus.…
Barak Kol (the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) | The flux-based statistical theory for the three- body problem |Abstract:The Newtonian three-body problem is one of the richest, deepest and longest-standing open problems…
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…
