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 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