Frontiers in Physics

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

Faculty of Physics (LMU Munich)

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08:30 Registration

1 Welcome¶

Sprecher: 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¶

Sprecher: 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.¶

Sprecher: Erez Zohar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

4 Quantum Simulation with Ultracold Atoms, Molecules and Photons¶

Sprecher: Immanuel Bloch (LMU Munich)

11:00 Coffee

5 The interstellar medium of galaxies¶

Sprecher: Amiel Sternberg (Tel Aviv University)

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

Sprecher: Avishai Dekel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

7 Massive Black Holes: Experimental Evidence and Cosmic Evolution¶

Sprecher: Reinhard Genzel (LMU Munich)

13:00 Lunch

8 Quantum Optics with Strong Fields¶

Sprecher: Ido Kaminer (Technion)

9 Simulating real materials with tensor networks¶

Sprecher: Ulrich Schollwöck (LMU Munich)

10 Diffusive relays and how they stop¶

Sprecher: Ariel Amir (Weizmann Institute)

15:30 Coffee

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

Sprecher: Yoav Lahini (Tel Aviv University)

12 Artificial cells in 2D¶

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

13 Recreating early Life in the lab¶

Sprecher: Dieter Braun (LMU Munich)

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

Sprecher: Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Institute)

15 Deep Learning and Physics¶

Sprecher: Yaron Oz (Tel Aviv University)

16 Gravitationally Dominated Instantons¶

Sprecher: Slava Mukhanov (LMU Munich)

17 Directions in particle physics¶

Sprecher: Abner Soffer (Tel Aviv University)

11:00 Coffee

18 Topological Materials¶

Sprecher: Roni Ilan (Tel Aviv University)

19 Thermodynamic probes of strongly correlated 2D moire matter¶

Sprecher: Dmitri Efetov (LMU Munich)

20 Few-photon physics¶

Sprecher: Ofer Firstenberg (Weizmann Institute)

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

Sprecher: Monika Aidelsburger (LMU Munich)

13:30 Lunch & Poster session

15:30 Free time

17:00 Bus transfer Deutsches Museum

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

19:25 Transfer to Restaurant

19:30 Workshop Dinner

22:00 Bus transfer to Leonardo Boutique Hotel

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

Sprecher: Tsevi Mazeh (Tel Aviv University)

24 Self-organised galaxy evolution at the edge of chaos¶

Sprecher: Andreas Burkert (LMU Munich)

10:00 Coffee

25 Lightwave-driven electrons in a Floquet topological insulator¶

Sprecher: Peter Hommelhoff (LMU Munich)

26 What is (topological) String Theory?¶

Sprecher: Eran Palti (Ben-Gurion University)

27 On topological field theory¶

Sprecher: Ilka Brunner (LMU Munich)

12:00 Lunch

13:00 End of Meeting