Department of Physics
Erez Gilad (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) | Reactor Physics: An essential link towards nuclear energy in Israel |Nuclear power, characterized by its reliability, safety, and minimal carbon emissions, contributes approximately…
Yasmine Meroz (Tel Aviv University) | Plant Tropisms as a Window on Plant Computational Processes |Plants survive in a harsh and fluctuating environment, optimising their search for fluctuating nutrients, and predicting…
Shahar Hadar (The University of Haifa at Oranim) | Resolving the Photon Ring |In the past few years, the Event Horizon Telescope has released the first close-up interferometric images of two…
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…
