Frontiers in Physics

28.10.2024, 08:15 → 30.10.2024, 15:30 Europe/Berlin

Faculty of Physics (LMU Munich)

Mo., 28. Oktober

08:30 → 09:15 Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome

Sprecher: Bernd Huber (President LMU Munich), Ulrich Schollwöck (Dean Faculty of Physics, LMU Munich), Ralf Bender (LMU Munich)

09:30 → 10:00 Photonic Time-Crystals and Light-Matter interactions therein

Sprecher: Mordechai (Moti) Segev (Technion)

10:00 → 10:30 Gauged Gaussian PEPS: Studying Hamiltonian lattice gauge theories in more than one space dimension using tensor networks and Monte-Carlo.

Sprecher: Erez Zohar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

10:30 → 11:00 Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms, Molecules and Photons

Sprecher: Immanuel Bloch (LMU Munich)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:00 The interstellar medium of galaxies

Sprecher: Amiel Sternberg (Tel Aviv University)

12:00 → 12:30 Origin of Excessively Bright Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn

Sprecher: Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

12:30 → 13:00 Massive Black Holes: Experimental Evidence and Cosmic Evolution

Sprecher: Reinhard Genzel (LMU Munich)

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:30 Quantum Optics with Strong Fields

Sprecher: Ido Kaminer (Technion)

14:30 → 15:00 Simulating real materials with tensor networks

Sprecher: Ulrich Schollwöck (LMU Munich)

15:00 → 15:30 Diffusive relays and how they stop

Sprecher: Ariel Amir (Weizmann Institute)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 16:30 Slow, noise-driven avalanches drive the physical aging of disordered matter - from crumpled sheets to seismic aftershocks

Sprecher: Yoav Lahini (Tel Aviv University)

16:30 → 17:00 Artificial cells in 2D

Sprecher: Roy Bar-Ziv (Weizmann Institute of Science)

17:00 → 17:30 Recreating early Life in the lab

Sprecher: Dieter Braun (LMU Munich)

Di., 29. Oktober

09:00 → 09:30 Quantum field theory and string theory: rivals or duals?

Sprecher: Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute)

09:30 → 10:00 Deep Learning and Physics

Sprecher: Yaron Oz (Tel Aviv University)

10:00 → 10:30 Gravitationally Dominated Instantons

Sprecher: Slava Mukhanov (LMU Munich)

10:30 → 11:00 Directions in particle physics

Sprecher: Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee

11:30 → 12:00 Topological Materials

Sprecher: Roni Ilan (Tel Aviv University)

12:00 → 12:30 Thermodynamic probes of strongly correlated 2D moire matter

Sprecher: Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich)

12:30 → 13:00 Few-photon physics

Sprecher: Ofer Firstenberg (Weizmann Institute)

13:00 → 13:30 Quantum simulation – Engineering & understanding quantum systems atom-by-atom

Sprecher: Monika Aidelsburger (LMU Munich)

13:30 → 15:30 Lunch & Poster session

15:30 → 17:00 Free time

17:00 → 17:30 Bus transfer Deutsches Museum

17:30 → 19:25 Visit Deutsches Museum: Light & Matter exhibition, Optics & Atomic Physics

19:25 → 19:30 Transfer to Restaurant

19:30 → 22:00 Workshop Dinner

22:00 → 22:20 Bus transfer to Leonardo Boutique Hotel

Mi., 30. Oktober

09:00 → 09:30 The recently discovered three black holes in wide binaries by Gaia astrometry

Sprecher: Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv University)

09:30 → 10:00 Self-organised galaxy evolution at the edge of chaos

Sprecher: Andreas Burkert (LMU Munich)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee

10:30 → 11:00 Lightwave-driven electrons in a Floquet topological insulator

Sprecher: Peter Hommelhoff (LMU Munich)

11:00 → 11:30 What is (topological) String Theory?

Sprecher: Eran Palti (Ben-Gurion University)

11:30 → 12:00 On topological field theory

Sprecher: Ilka Brunner (LMU Munich)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 End of Meeting