Program
The 71th Annual Meeting - Schedule
08:00 Morning gathering Wise
08:50 Plenary Session
Announcements and Awards Nadav Katz
Plenary talks | Chair:Michael Moshe
09:15-10:10 Paul Steinhardt Why it's time to take the big bang out of the big bang theory›
10:10-11:00 Mikael Rechtsman Two experiments on aperiodic photonic crystals›
Wise
11:00 Coffee Break›
11:15 Review Talks
Review Session: Soft Matter and Biophysics | Chair:Efi Efrati
11:15-11:55 Tuomas Knowles Protein phase transitions›
11:55-12:35 Shmuel Rubinstein Friction and Fracture at Soft Interfaces: What is Soft? what is Not?›
Wise
Review Session: AMO and Condensed Matter | Chair:Ofer Kfir
11:15-11:55 Eli Zeldov Reconfigurable chiral superconductivity in graphene›
11:55-12:35 John Howell Superresolution, Metrology, and Information Limits in Optical/Radar Measurements›
Canada
Review Session: Astrophysics and High Energy Physics | Chair:Eric Kuflik
11:15-11:55 Nicholas Stone Ripples in the Cosmos: Gravitational Waves Past, Present, and Future›
11:55-12:35 Tomer Volansky From Deep Underground to Deep Space - Unveiling the Nature of Dark Matter›
Feldman A
12:35 Lunch Break + Posters
12:50 Posters
Astrophysics and Cosmology posters | ›
Biophysics posters | ›
Condensed Matter posters | ›
Fluid Dynamics and Plasma Physics posters | ›
High Energy Physics posters | ›
Materials Science posters | ›
Mathematical Physics posters | ›
AMO posters | ›
Quantum Information posters | ›
Statistical Physics posters | ›
14:00 Parallel Session 1
AMO Ia: Quantum Devices, Qubit Control, and Coherent Manipulation | Aviv Karnieli› Sprinzak 115
AMO Ib: Quantum Optics, Imaging, and Quantum Communication | Moti Fridman› Sprinzak 117
AMO Ic: Quantum Sensing, Precision Spectroscopy, and Fundamental Tests | Eliahu Cohen› Sprinzak 116
Astro & Cosmology Ia: Cosmology, Dark Energy & Cosmic Dawn | Michal Golan› Sprinzak 217
Astro & Cosmology Ib: TDEs & AGN | Itai Bromberg› Sprinzak 214
Biophysics Ia - Active and Phase-Separating Biological Soft Matter | Lior Atia› Canada
Condensed Matter Ia: Superconductivity I | Efrat Shimshoni› Feldman A
Condensed Matter Ib: 2D materials | Hadar Steinberg› Feldman B
Fluid Ia - Interfacial Phenomena and Soft Microfluidics | Bat-el Pinchasik› Wise
High Energy Physics Ia: Theory and Phenomenology | Misha Smolkin› Sprinzak 29
High Energy Physics Ib: Dark Matter Detection | Majed Khalaf› Sprinzak 215
Materials Science I - Structure, Defects and Computational Materials Discovery | Eli Kraisler› moved to moved to rothberg near kaplan not engineering
Machine Learning I - Learning Theory, Dynamics and Generalization | Yohai Bar-sinai› Sprinzak 28
Nuclear and heavy ion physics I | Igor Korover› Sprinzak 27
Physics Education I | Yuval Ben Abu› Sprinzak 202
Plasma Physics - Waves, Ionization and Mass Separation | › Sprinzak 24
Quantum Hardware and Devices | Serge Rosenblum› Sprinzak 101
Statistical Physics I - Active Matter and Control | Stas Burov› Levi 6
15:00 Break
15:15 Parallel Session 2
AMO IIa: Trapped Particles, Ultracold Matter, and Quantum Interactions | Ran Finkelstein› Sprinzak 115
AMO IIb: Temporal Optics, Nonclassical Light, and Slow-Light Dynamics | Hagai Diamandi› Sprinzak 117
AMO IIc: Attosecond, Strong-Field, and Accelerator Photonics | Ofer Neufeld› Sprinzak 116
Astro & Cosmology IIa: Galaxies, Dwarfs & Dark Matter | Daniella Van Der Boom› Sprinzak 217
Astro & Cosmology IIb: Supernovae & Stellar Explosions | Yael Dgany› Sprinzak 214
Astro & Cosmology IIc: White Dwarfs & Stellar Evolution | Sara Faris› Sprinzak 203
Biophysics IIa - Physics of Morphogenesis and Growth | Eyal Karzbrun› Canada
Condensed Matter IIa: Nonlinear dynamics | Alon Ron› Feldman A
Condensed Matter IIb: Superconductivity II | Snir Gazit› Feldman B
Fluid IIa - Instabilities, Turbulence and High-Re Flows | Yaniv Edry› Wise
Quantum Error Correction | Erez Zohar› Sprinzak 101
High Energy Physics IIa: Theory and Phenomenology | Alessandro Lenoci› Sprinzak 29
High Energy Physics IIb: Detectors, Nuclear and Neutrino Physics | Eric Kuflik› Sprinzak 215
Materials Science II - Electronic, Optical and Quantum Materials | Michal Hartstein› moved to rothberg near kaplan not engineering
Machine Learning II - Diffusion, LLMs and Applied Physical Learning | Zohar Ringel› Sprinzak 28
Nuclear and heavy ion physics II | Igor Korover› Sprinzak 27
Physics Education II | Igal Galili› Sprinzak 202
Statistical Physics IIa - Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics | Tomer Markovich› Sprinzak 26
Statistical Physics IIb - Elasticity | Eli Sloutskin› Levi 6
16:15 Break
16:30 Parallel Session 3
AMO IIIa: Ultrafast and Cavity-Modified Quantum Materials | Hanan Herzig Sheinfux› Sprinzak 115
AMO IIIb: Analog Gravity, Quantum Fields, and Nonlinear Photonic Theory | Yonatan Israel› Sprinzak 117
AMO IIIc: Waveguide QED, Polaritons, and Quantum Light-Matter Interfaces | Avi Pe’er› Sprinzak 116
Astro & Cosmology IIIa: Shocks & Plasma Astrophysics | Sondos Mohsen-tanev› Sprinzak 203
Astro & Cosmology IIIb: Accretion, Multimessenger & Compact Objects | Yoav Ziv› Sprinzak 214
Astro & Cosmology IIIc: CGM, Dynamics, Diagnostics & Stellar Activity | Inbar Havilio› Sprinzak 217
Biophysics IIIa - Dynamics and Information in Biological Networks | Eyal Karzbrun› Canada
Biophysics IIIb - Multiscale Biophysics: From Proteins to Tissues | Lior Atia› Sprinzak 26
Condensed Matter IIIa: Correlated electrons | Jonathan Ruhman› Feldman A
Condensed Matter IIIb: Topological materials | Nurit Avraham› Feldman B
Fluid IIIa - Porous Media, Granular Flow and Transport | Yoav Green› Wise
High Energy Physics IIIa: Collider Physics and Flavor | Liron Barak› Sprinzak 215
High Energy Physics IIIb: Theory and Phenomenology | Rotem Ovadia› Sprinzak 29
Materials Science III - Soft, Electrochemical and Operando Materials | Lee Burton› moved to rothberg near kaplan not engineering
Quantum Dynamics and Measurements | Adi Pick› Sprinzak 101
Statistical Physics III - Complex Systems and Polymers | Naftali Smith› Levi 6
17:30 Happy hour
18:00 Poster Prize Winners