Frontiers in Physics

Oct 28, 2024, 8:15 AM → Oct 30, 2024, 3:30 PM Europe/Berlin

Faculty of Physics (LMU Munich)

Monday, October 28

8:30 AM Registration

1 Welcome

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

2 Photonic Time-Crystals and Light-Matter interactions therein

Speaker: Mordechai (Moti) Segev (Technion)

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

Speaker: Erez Zohar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

4 Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms, Molecules and Photons

Speaker: Immanuel Bloch (LMU Munich)

11:00 AM Coffee

5 The interstellar medium of galaxies

Speaker: Amiel Sternberg (Tel Aviv University)

6 Origin of Excessively Bright Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn

Speaker: Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

7 Massive Black Holes: Experimental Evidence and Cosmic Evolution

Speaker: Reinhard Genzel (LMU Munich)

1:00 PM Lunch

8 Quantum Optics with Strong Fields

Speaker: Ido Kaminer (Technion)

9 Simulating real materials with tensor networks

Speaker: Ulrich Schollwöck (LMU Munich)

10 Diffusive relays and how they stop

Speaker: Ariel Amir (Weizmann Institute)

3:30 PM Coffee

11 Slow, noise-driven avalanches drive the physical aging of disordered matter - from crumpled sheets to seismic aftershocks

Speaker: Yoav Lahini (Tel Aviv University)

12 Artificial cells in 2D

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

13 Recreating early Life in the lab

Speaker: Dieter Braun (LMU Munich)

Tuesday, October 29

14 Quantum field theory and string theory: rivals or duals?

Speaker: Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute)

15 Deep Learning and Physics

Speaker: Yaron Oz (Tel Aviv University)

16 Gravitationally Dominated Instantons

Speaker: Slava Mukhanov (LMU Munich)

17 Directions in particle physics

Speaker: Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

11:00 AM Coffee

18 Topological Materials

Speaker: Roni Ilan (Tel Aviv University)

19 Thermodynamic probes of strongly correlated 2D moire matter

Speaker: Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich)

20 Few-photon physics

Speaker: Ofer Firstenberg (Weizmann Institute)

21 Quantum simulation – Engineering & understanding quantum systems atom-by-atom

Speaker: Monika Aidelsburger (LMU Munich)

1:30 PM Lunch & Poster session

3:30 PM Free time

5:00 PM Bus transfer Deutsches Museum

22 Visit Deutsches Museum: Light & Matter exhibition, Optics & Atomic Physics

7:25 PM Transfer to Restaurant

7:30 PM Workshop Dinner

10:00 PM Bus transfer to Leonardo Boutique Hotel

Wednesday, October 30

23 The recently discovered three black holes in wide binaries by Gaia astrometry

Speaker: Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv University)

24 Self-organised galaxy evolution at the edge of chaos

Speaker: Andreas Burkert (LMU Munich)

10:00 AM Coffee

25 Lightwave-driven electrons in a Floquet topological insulator

Speaker: Peter Hommelhoff (LMU Munich)

26 What is (topological) String Theory?

Speaker: Eran Palti (Ben-Gurion University)

27 On topological field theory

Speaker: Ilka Brunner (LMU Munich)

12:00 PM Lunch

1:00 PM End of Meeting