Department of Physics
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 spin-zero particle,…
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…
Ehud Meron (Ben-Gurion University) | Ecosystem responses to climate change across different levels of organization |Abstract:Understanding the response of dryland vegetation to climate extremes, such as severe droughts, is of utmost…
Ady Stern (Weizmann Institute of Science) | How low can electronic resistance go? |Abstract:Electronic resistance is a fundamental notion both in condensed matter physics and in everyday life, where it is…
Serge Galam (CEVIPOF-Center for Political Research, Sciences PO & CNRS) | Do humans behave like atoms? An answer from sociophysics |Abstract:This provocative question sounds out of place and indeed is out…
Naama Brenner (Technion) | Exploratory Learning in Biological Cells |Abstract:The capacity of cells and organisms to respond to challenging conditions is limited by a finite repertoire of repeatable responses. Beyond this capacity,…
