Gabi Zafrir (Stony Brook University) |  Understanding quantum field theory with dimensional reduction |Abstract:The world around us is made of particles that interact through various forces. The behavior of the particles and…

Noam Soker (Technion) |  Astrophysical Naturalness |Abstract:I suggest that stars introduce mass and density scales that lead to `naturalness' in the Universe. Namely, two ratios of order unity. The first ratio…

Shahar Hadar (University of Haifa at Oranim) | Extreme Black Holes |Abstract:The spacetime geometry of a black hole is characterized by a handful of parameters: Its mass, angular momentum, and…

Matan Mussel (University of Haifa) | Kinetics of volume transition in polymer gels |Abstract:A gel is a soft material composed of a solid phase interpenetrated by a liquid phase. Gels…

Ohad Shpielberg (University of Haifa at Oranim) | Power law decay of entanglement quantifiers: Coupling a single agent to a many body system |Abstract:Control over a many-body quantum system can…

Jacob Sonnenschein (Tel Aviv University and New York University) | Back to Square One: The HISH (holography inspired stringy hadron) model |RecordingSlidesAbstract:String theory was born as a theory of Hadrons. I…

Joshua Feinberg (Haifa) | Solitons and Fluctuations in the Calogero Model  |Abstract: The collective field formulation of the Calogero model supports periodic density waves. An important set of such density waves…