The Israel Physical Society - CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENTS

Indo-Israeli Workshop on Current Issues in Condensed Matter Physics,
January 27-30, 2002


This Second Indo-Israeli Workshop on Current Issues in Condensed Matter Physics is sponsored by the Indian National Academy of Sciences and the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities together with the Ministries of Science of the two countries, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science.  Scientific sessions will take place at the Israel Academy located at Albert Einstein Square, 43 Jabotinsky Street (adjacent to the President's residence) in Jerusalem.

For participation and registration please contact Mrs. Perla Zalcberg, by telephone 08-9343960 or by email :
feperla@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il 

PROGRAM


Saturday, January 26, 2002

Excursion 
 
Sunday,  January 27, 2002

Morning:	

09:00-09:30	Registration and get-together.

09:30-09:40	Opening and Greetings.
 
		Non-linear Physics

		Chair Person :  M. Barma


09:40-10:20	Sriram Ramaswamy - Hydrodynamic fluctuations and instabilities in ordered
	suspensions of self-propelled particles: Living liquid crystals

10:20-11:00	Jay Fineberg - From oscillons to superlattices: pattern formation of 2
	frequency parametrically forced waves.
                          
11:00-11:20	Coffee

11:20-12:00	Sanjay Puri - Nonequilibrium dynamics in the complex Ginzburg-Landau
	equation.

12:00-12:40	Rahul Pandit - Spiral turbulence and spatiotemporal chaos in models for
	ventricular fibrillation..

12:40-13:20	Ron Lifshitz - Nanomechanics: A small window to new physics.


13:20		Lunch

Afternoon:	

		Non-Linear Physics and Granular Systems

		Chair Person : D. Dhar

15:00-15:40	Isaac Goldhirsch - Granular Gases versus Molecular Gases

15:40-16:20	Anita Mehta  - Vibrated Sand.
	
16:20-16:40	Coffee

16:40-17:20	Dov Levine - Stress propagation and force chains in granular materials

17:20-18:00	David Kessler - Breaking the bonds of Classical Fracture Theory.
 
18:00-18:40	Ido Kanter - Statistical mechanics, error correcting codes and cryptography.


Evening:	Dinner


Monday, January 28, 2002

Morning:	

		Soft Condensed Matter and Biology Motivated Physics

		Chair Person :  David Andelman

09:00-09:40	Oleg Krichevsky - Kinetics of DNA fluctuations: hairpin loops and breathing
	modes.

09:40-10:20	Debashis Chowdhury - Self-assemblies of amphiphilic molecules.

10:20-10:40	Coffee

10:40-11:20	G.V. Shivashankar - Spatio-temporal analysis of the genome.

11:20-12:00	Madan Rao - Active processes in biomembranes.

12:00-12:40	Ashutosh Sharma - Self organization in thin liquid films.

13:00		Lunch

Afternoon:	

		Superconductivity

		Chair Person :  Israel Felner


14:30-15:10	Eli Zeldov - Disorder-driven transitions and inverse melting of the vortex
	lattice 

15:10-15:50	Gautam I. Menon - Phenomenology of phase behaviour in the mixed phase
	of disordered type-II superconductors.
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15:50-16:20	Coffee 

16:20-17:00	Dror Orgad - Electron fractionalization and solitonic confinement in a stripe
		model of the cuprates.

17:00-17:40	Alexander Palevski - Critical current in SNS and SNFNS diffusive junctions.

17:40-18:00	Aviad Frydman - The superconductor insulator transition in systems of
		ultrasmall grains


Evening:	Dinner
	

Tuesday, January 29, 2002

Morning:	

		Mesoscopic Systems

		Chair Person :  Yshai Avishai

09:00-09:40	Ajay K. Sood - Walled carbon nanotubes: electrochemical tuning of 
electronic structure and remarkable resilience.

09:40-10:20	Efrat Shimshoni - Quantum breakdown of the quantized hall insulator.

10:20-10:40	Coffee

10:40-11:20	Avraham Schiller - Enhancement of the two-channel Kondo effect in 
	single-electron transistors.

11:20-12:00	Yuval Oreg - Spin and electron-electron interactions in mesoscopic dots.

12:00-12:40	Dan Shahar - Conductance fluctuations near quantum phase transitions.


13:00		Lunch

Afternoon:	

		Magnetism and Growth

		Chair Person : I. Bose

14:30-15:10	Michael Reznikov - Conductivity and magnetic susceptibility of the low
	density electrons in Si inversion layer.
 
15:10-15:50	Amit Keren - Frustration driven lattice distortion; an NMR investigation of
		Y2M02O7.

15:50-16:20	Coffee 

16:20-17:00	E.V. Sampathkumaran - Magnetic anomalies in new class of ternary 
		intermetallics and oxides.

17:00-17:40	M.K. Sanyal  - Growth mechanism and surface morphology.
		
17:40-18:30     Summary - G. Baskaran

Evening:	Dinner



Wednesday, January 30, 2002


Tour Jerusalem.

For registration please contact Mrs. Perla Zalcberg, by telephone 08-9343960 or by email :
feperla@wisemail.weizmann.ac.il