STATISTICAL MECHANICS DAY XVI
Wednesday Feb 26th, 2025
Physics Library in Weissman building
Weizmann Institute of Science
09:00 – 09:30 Coffee
09:30 – 09:40 Opening Remarks
09:40 – 10:00 Hanna Salman, University of Pittsburgh
Collective bacterial navigation through obstacle-laden terrains.
10:00 – 10:20 Roi Holtzman, WIS
Acceleration from a clustering environment.
10:20 – 10:40 Amir Bashan, BIU
Complexity–stability trade-off in empirical microbial ecosystems.
10:40 – 11:00 Shlomi Reuveni, TAU
Sokoban: a model for percolation with obstacle-pushing.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:50 Daniel Podolsky, Technion
Lattice melting in two-dimensional antiferromagnets.
11:50 – 12:10 Doron Cohen, BGU
Broken quantum classical correspondence in quasi-static protocols.
12:10 – 12:30 David Gelbwaser, Technion
Thermalization of open quantum systems that violate detailed balance.
12:30 – 12:50 Yevgeny Bar-Lev, BGU
Absence of localization in interacting spin chains with a discrete symmetry.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:20 Efi Efrati, WIS
Cumulative geometric frustration in materials with discrete degrees of freedom.
14:20 – 14:40 Michael Moshe, HUJI
Analytic Framework for Predicting Curved Crack Trajectories.
14:40 – 15:00 Noam Levi, EPFL
Unraveling Compositionality in Data through the Lens of Generative Models.
15:00 – 15:20 Shmuel Rubinstein, HUJI
The Physics of Fracking Hydrogels: Ballistic Annihilation and the Rules of Roughness.
15:20 – 15:40 Eran Sharon, HUJI
Confirming the Prediction of Wave-Turbulence Theory in Weak Rotating Turbulence.
Organizers:
David Mukamel and Oren Raz
Coordinator and accessibility issues:
Talia Tzahor (talia.tzahor@weizmann.ac.il) ; 08-934396
