| 09:00-18:00 | POSTERS | Lower parking lot, Physics |
| 09:30-18:00 | JOB FAIR | Third floor foyer, Ullmann |
| 09:30-18:00 | TRADE FAIR | Third floor foyer, Ullmann |
| 09:00-09:35 | Coffee | Foyer outside Rm 323, Physics |
| Registration | Foyer, Physics |
| MORNING PLENARY SESSION: | Rm 001, Physics | |
| Chair - Amnon Moalem, Ben Gurion University | ||
| 09:35-09:45 | Welcome - Amos Lapidot, President of the Technion | |
| 09:45-09:55 | Prize Ceremony for Physics Students | |
| Theoretical Physics - David Karasik, Ben Gurion University | ||
| Experimental Physics - Dror Fixler, Bar Ilan University | ||
| 9:55-10:40 | Amnon Aharony, (Rothschild Prize Laureate, 2000) | |
| Tel Aviv University | ||
| Magnetic order out of disorder in the cuprates | ||
| 10:45-12:45 | MORNING PARALLEL SESSIONS: | |
| CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I | Rm 001, Physics | |
| NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS & | ||
| COMPLEX SYSTEMS | Rm 323, Physics | |
| COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS | Rm 300, Physics | |
| MEDICAL PHYSICS | Rm 471, Physics | |
| MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS | Rm 512, Taub | |
| BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS I | Rm 202, Ullmann | |
| PLASMA PHYSICS I | Rm 203, Ullmann | |
| PHYSICS of FLUIDS | Rm 201, Ullmann | |
| PARTICLES & FIELDS I | Rm 204, Ullmann | |
| 12:45-14:15 | POSTERS and Lunch | Physics |
| AFTERNOON PLENARY SESSION: | Rm 001, Physics | |
| IN MEMORY of MICHAEL (MISHA) MARINOV | ||
| Chair - Zvi Lipkin, Weizmann Institute | ||
| 14:15-14:30 | Zvi Lipkin, Weizmann Institute | |
| In Memoriam | ||
| 14:30-15:25 | Mikhail (Misha) Shifman, University of Minnesota | |
| Quantum Tunnelling | ||
| 15:25-17:25 | AFTERNOON PARALLEL SESSIONS: | |
| PARTICLES & FIELDS II | Rm 001, Physics | |
| BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS II | Rm 323, Physics | |
| PHYSICS EDUCATION | Rm 300, Physics | |
| NUCLEAR, ATOMIC & MOLECULAR PHYSICS . | Rm 471, Physics | |
| ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOLOGY | Rm 512, Taub | |
| STATISTICAL PHYS. & SOFT COND. MAT. | Rm 204, Ullmann | |
| PLASMA PHYSICS II | Rm 203, Ullmann | |
| CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS II | Rm 202, Ullmann | |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS | Rm 201, Ullmann | |
| 17:25-17:45 | Coffee and POSTERS | Physics |
| 17:45-18:45 | IPS Business Meeting, followed by Pizza | Rm 323, Physics |
| ASTROPHYSICS and COSMOLOGY: | |
| Chair - Ari Laor, Technion | |
| 15:25-15:55 | David Eichler, Ben Gurion University |
| A dark component in gamma ray bursts? | |
| 15:55-16:25 | Arieh Konigl, University of Chicago/HUJ |
| Magnetic field diffusion and star formation in | |
| molecular clouds | |
| 16:25-16:55 | Amos Harpaz, Oranim |
| Radiation for an accelerated charge | |
| 16:55-17:25 | Noah Brosch, Tel Aviv University |
| Ultraviolet Astronomy: past, present, and future | |
| COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS: | |
| Chair - Ofer Biham, Hebrew University | |
| 10:45-11:25 | Dennis Rapaport, Bar Ilan University |
| Simulating the dynamics of granular media | |
| 11:25-11:55 | Adham Hashibon, Technion |
| Atomistic study of structural correlations at a | |
| metal/ceramic interface | |
| 11:55-12:15 | Gerhard Wagner, Tel Aviv University |
| Towards a hybrid model for combining molecular | |
| dynamics and continuum dynamics | |
| 12:15-12:45 | David Menashe, Hebrew University |
| Thermodynamic fluctuations in the 2D Coulomb glass | |
| CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS I: | |
| Chair - G. Deutscher, Tel Aviv University | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Y. J. Uemura, Columbia University |
| Condensation and phase separation of exotic | |
| superconductors inferred from the superfluid density | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Emil Polturak, Technion |
| Appearance of spontaneous magnetic field at Tc of YBCO | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Yossi Yeshurun, Bar Ilan University |
| Nucleation and growth of the quasi-ordered vortex | |
| phase in superconductors | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Assa Auerbach, Technion |
| Two gaps and many pairs tunneling in cuprate SNS junctions | |
| 12:30-12:45 | Victor Kagalovsky, Negev Academic College of Engineering |
| Quantum Hall phases for triplet superconductors | |
| and related models | |
| NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS: | |
| Chair - Nathan Argaman, NRC-Negev | |
| 10:45-11:20 | Victor Steinberg, Weizmann Institute |
| Elastic turbulence in polymer solution flows | |
| 10:20-11:55 | Baruch Meerson, Hebrew University |
| Dynamics of coarsening of fractal clusters, or how | |
| a fractal gets spoiled | |
| 11:55-12:45 | Eugene Bogomolny, Orsay |
| Spectral statistics of chaotic systems with point-like | |
| singularity | |
| STATISTICAL PHYSICS AND SOFT | |
| CONDENSED MATTER: | |
| Chair - L. Gilles Benguigui, Technion | |
| 15:25-15:55 | Phillipe Claudin, Technion |
| Stress distribution in granular materials | |
| 15:55-16:20 | Tsvi Tlusty, Weizmann Institute |
| Topology and phase behavior of self assembling networks | |
| 16:20-16:45 | Dganit Danino, Technion |
| From soft condensed to hard condensed matter: | |
| pathway of cholesterol crystallization in bile | |
| 16:45-17:05 | Yoav Tsori, Tel Aviv University |
| Diblock copolymer ordering induced by patterned surfaces | |
| 17:05-17:25 | D. E. Feldman, Weizmann Institute |
| Quasi-long-range order in nematics confined | |
| in random porous media | |
| CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS II: | |
| Chair - Yigal Meir, Ben Gurion University | |
| 15:25-15:55 | Yossi Rosenwaks, Tel Aviv University |
| Nanoscale electronic characterization of semiconductor | |
| structures | |
| 15:55-16:25 | Uri Banin, Hebrew University |
| Size dependent optical and tunneling spectroscopy | |
| of semiconductor cluster-molecules and nanocrystals | |
| 16:25-16:55 | Israel Bar-Joseph, Weizmann Institute |
| Bound states in a two-dimensional electron gas + hole | |
| 16:55-17:25 | Dan Regelman, Technion |
| Carrier carrier correlations in an optically excited | |
| semiconductor quantum dot | |
| BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS I : | |
| Chair - Erez Braun, Technion | |
| 10:45-11:25. | Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute |
| Design properties of biochemical networks | |
| examples from bacterial chemotaxis and the circadian rhythm | |
| 11:25-12:05 | Hana Salman, Weizmann Institute |
| Translocation of DNA-polymer through nuclear membrane | |
| pores | |
| 12:05-12:45 | Levi Gheber, Ben Gurion University |
| Clusters of membrane proteins revealed with near-field | |
| scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) | |
| BIOLOGICAL PHYSICS II : | |
| Chair - Eshel Ben Yaakov, Tel Aviv | |
| 15:25-16:05 | Ronen Segev, Tel Aviv University |
| Spontaneous activity of 2D neural networks | |
| 16:05-16:45 | Netta Cohen, Technion |
| Development of self-organized spontaneous dynamics | |
| of cultured heart cells on a dish | |
| 16:45-17:25 | Lila Kari, University of Western Ontario |
| Computation in cells | |
| MEDICAL PHYSICS: | |
| Chair - Solange Akselrod, Tel Aviv University | |
| 10:45-11:15 | David Horn, Tel Aviv University |
| Novel methods in neural computation | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Yehoshua Y. Zeevi, Technion |
| On image structure and its processing by retina-type | |
| networks | |
| 11:45-12:05 | Artium Khachatryam, Hebrew University |
| Ultrafast-lasers for ultrafast-probing and tissue | |
| alteration: Applications in biology and medicine | |
| 12:05-12:25 | Uri Nevo, Tel Aviv University |
| Imaging the injured and treated spinal cord | |
| 12:25-12:45 | Eran Rave, Tel Aviv University |
| Thermal imaging through ordered bundles of IR fibers | |
| NUCLEAR, ATOMIC and MOLECULAR PHYSICS: | |
| Chair - Itzhak Gertner, Technion | |
| 15:25-15:55 | Daniel Zajfman, Weizmann Institute |
| Ion beams in traps: from atomic physics to mass | |
| spectrometry | |
| 15:55-16:25 | Michael Paul, Hebrew University |
| Nucleosynthesis with rare ion beams | |
| PARTICLES AND FIELDS I: | |
| Chair - Michael Gronau, Technion | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Mikhail Shifman, University of Minnesota |
| Life on the wall | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Aharon Levy, Tel Aviv University |
| The legacy of HERA - the first decade | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Aharon Davidson, Ben Gurion University |
| Geodetic Brane Cosmology | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Barak Kol, Tel Aviv University |
| Supersymmetric index for matrix mechanics, | |
| the mass deformation method and branes | |
| in string theory | |
| PARTICLES AND FIELDS II: | |
| Chair - Y. Frishman, Weizmann Institute | |
| 15:25-15:55 | Jacques Goldberg, Technion |
| The OPERA experiment | |
| 15:55-16:25 | Shmuel Elitzur, Hebrew University |
| D Branes in a Background of NS Fivebranes | |
| 16:25-16:55 | Ram Brustein, Ben Gurion University |
| Entropy bounds, holography and second law in | |
| cosmology | |
| 16:55-17:25 | Erez Etzion, Tel Aviv University |
| Mb Measurement at the Z peak | |
| PLASMA PHYSICS I: | |
| Chair - Shalom Eliezer, Soreq Nuclear Center | |
| 10:45-11:09 | Yakov Krasik, Technion |
Emission properties of different cathodes at
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| 11:09-11:33 | Evgeny Stambulchik, Weizmann Institute |
| A novel method for the calculation of spectral-line broadening in plasmas | |
| 11:33-11:57 | Amit Ben-Kish, Rafael |
| Capillary discharge pumped soft x-ray lasers | |
| 11:57-12:21 | Izak Beilis, Tel Aviv University |
| Modeling of the anode spot processes in vacuum arcs | |
| 12:21-12:45 | Amnon Fisher, Technion |
| Gas puff z-pinch experiments | |
| PLASMA PHYSICS II: | |
| Chair - Joshua Felsteiner, Technion | |
| 15:25-15:49 | Amnon Fruchtman, Holon |
| Development of a helicon plasma source | |
| 15:49-16:13 | Avi Gover, Tel Aviv University |
| Development of free electron lasers technology and | |
| applications | |
| 16:13-16:37 | Oren Sadot, Kamag |
| Studies of the dependence of the Schok-wave induced | |
| hydrodynamic | |
| instability on dimensionality and fluids density ratio | |
| 16:37-17:01 | Alex Pokryvailo, Soreq Nuclear Center |
| Development of pulsed corona discharge technology | |
| for pollution control | |
| 17:01-17:25 | Reuven Shuker, Ben Gurion University |
| Optogalvanic spectroscopy in hollow cathode | |
| discharges | |
| MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS:: | |
| Chair - Lorenzo Sadun, University of Texas at Austin | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Yoram Last, Hebrew University and Caltech |
| On the spectral theory of Anderson-type Hamiltonians | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Eric Akkermans, Technion |
| Geometrical description of Ginzburg-Landau vortices | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Holger Schanz, Max-Planck Institute, Goettingen |
| Periodic-orbit theory of 1D Anderson localization | |
| in quantum graphs | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Yossi Strauss, Tel Aviv University |
| Functional and geometrical aspects of Lax-Phillips theory | |
| and applications to quantum theory | |
| PHYSICS OF FLUIDS: | |
| Chair - Tov Elperin, Ben Gurion University | |
| 10:45-11:15 | Victor L'vov, Weizmann Institute |
| Anomalous exponents in turbulence: using the fusion rules to flash out a small parameter | |
| 11:15-11:45 | Arkady Tsinober, Tel Aviv University |
| Geometrical statistics in turbulence | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Igor Rogachevskii, Ben Gurion University |
| Turbulent transport of a passive scalar in a | |
| random velocity field with finite renewal time | |
| 12:15-12:45 | Alexander Nepomnyashchy, Technion |
| Convective instabilities in fluid systems with an interface | |
| ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS: | |
| Chair - Nathan Paldor, Hebrew University | |
| 15:25-15:49 | Eli Tziperman, Weizmann Institute |
| Controlling El Nino's chaos | |
| 15:49-16:13 | Colin Price, Tel Aviv University |
| Observations of ELF/VLF electromagnetic radiation | |
| from global lightning sources | |
| 16:13-16:37 | Alexander Khain, Hebrew University |
| Interaction of intertial drops in a turbulent flow and its effect | |
| on the formation of droplet size spectrum in clouds | |
| 16:37-17:01 | Steve Brenner, IOLR, Haifa and Bar Ilan University |
| Physically based models of climatic changes in the | |
| Eastern Mediterranean | |
| 17:01-17:25 | Sergey Biryukov, BGU and the Desert Research Institute |
| 400 sq. metre parabolic solar concentrator in Sede Boqer: | |
| optical characterisation and possible applications | |
| PHYSICS EDUCATION: | |
| Chair - Igal Galili, Hebrew University | |
| 15:25-15:48 | Igal Galili, Hebrew University |
| Electromagnetism in elementary physics course: | |
| Difficult contents to teach | |
| 15:49-16:13 | Ester Bagno, Weizmann Institute |
| Towards professional development of physics teacher: | |
| from national to regional leadership | |
| 16:13-16:37 | Meir Meidav, Tel Aviv University |
| Distinction between ``didactic'' and ``scientific'' | |
| models in physics and science teaching | |
| 16:37-17:01 | Miriam Reiner, Technion |
| Thought experiments, interactive simulations and physics learning | |
| 17:01-17:25 | Hezi Yishaq, Sede Boker |
| Using Mathematica in the physics classroom | |
| 17:25-17:45 | Zvi Paltiel, Weizmann Institute |
| The Shalhevet Freier Physics Tournament | |