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24.09.2019 Dr. Yuri Myasoedov has received Surface Science Expertise Excellence Award from the Israel Vacuum Society

10.09.2019 Prof. Eytan Domany awarded the the Levi-Montalcini Prize from the Italian government

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Departments

  • Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
  • Department of Physics of Complex Systems
  • Department of Condensed Matter Physics
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Centers and Institutes

The Andre' Deloro Institute for Space and Optics Research

The Center for Experimental Physics

The Crown Photonics Center

The Gruber Center for Quantum Electronics

The Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Center for Submicron Research

The Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Center for Nanophysics

The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics

The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for High Energy Physics

Schwartz/Reizmann Institute for Theoretical Physics

The Nella and Leon Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics

The Andre' Deloro Institute for Space and Optics Research

Schwartz/Reizmann Institute for Theoretical Physics

Clore Center for Biological Physics

Center for Quantum Science and Technology

Upcoming events

Wed
20 Nov
Seminars

STATISTICAL DYNAMICS DAY XI

Seminars STATISTICAL DYNAMICS DAY XI Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Seminar Room 09:00
Thu
21 Nov
Colloquium

Quantum Many-Body Integrability, Solvability, and Chaos

Vladimir Rosenhaus
Colloquium Quantum Many-Body Integrability, Solvability, and Chaos Vladimir Rosenhaus Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room Auditorium 11:15 11:00 Coffee, Tea and more This talk is concerned with the question: How can we characterize, find, and solve quantum field theories and many-body systems that exhibit features of quantum chaos? We describe the recently discovered Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model: a quantum mechanical system of a large number of fermions with all-to-all quartic, Gaussian-random, interactions that, remarkably, is chaotic, nearly conformally invariant, and solvable. We contrast this with integrable two-dimensional quantum field theories, such as the Sine-Gordon model. We end with some comments on hopes for a framework to find nearly integrable quantum field theories that are nearly solvable.
Thu
28 Nov
Colloquium

TBA

Boaz Katz
Colloquium TBA Boaz Katz Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room Auditorium 11:15 11:00 Coffee, Tae and more TBA
Sun
01 Dec
Seminars

Active Matter: `active thermodynamics’ and the dynamics of biopolymer gels

Tomer Markovich
Seminars Active Matter: `active thermodynamics’ and the dynamics of biopolymer gels Tomer Markovich Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room Drory Auditorium 13:15 Active materials are composed of many components that can convert energy from its environment (usually in the form of chemical energy) into directed mechanical motion. Time reversal symmetry is thus locally broken, leading to a variety of novel phenomena such as motility induced phase separation, reversal of the Ostwald process and flocking. Examples of active matter are abundant and range from living matter such as bacteria, actomyosin networks and bird flocks to Janus particles, colloidal rollers and macroscale driven chiral rods. Nevertheless, in many cases experiments on active materials exhibit equilibrium like properties (e.g., sedimentation of bacteria). In the first part of the talk I will try to answer the important question: how do we know a system is `active’? And if it is, can we have generic observables as in equilibrium thermodynamics? Can we measure how far it is from equilibrium? In the second part of the talk I will focus on examples of activity in biopolymer gels, such as the cytoskeleton of living cells. I will show some of the effects of active motors with emphasis on chiral motors. The latter does not have a unique hydrodynamic description, which one can utilize to gain access to the microscopic details of the complex motors using macroscopic measurements. I will also discuss non-motor activity and demonstrate how it can result in contractility, e.g., in the process of cell division.
Thu
05 Dec
Colloquium

TBA

Hans-Walter Rix
Colloquium TBA Hans-Walter Rix Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences
Room Auditorium 11:15 11:00 Coffee, Tae and more TBA
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