STATISTICAL MECHANICS DAY XIV
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
Physics Library in Weissman building
Weizmann Institute of Science
09:00 – 09:30 Coffee break
09:30 – 09:40 Opening Remarks
09:40 – 10:00 Itamar Procaccia, WIS
Anomalous Elasticity and Emergent Dipole Screening in Amorphous Solids: Kosterlitz-Thouless-like transition.
10:00 – 10:20 Eytan Katzav, HUJI
Analytical results for the distribution of first-passage times of random walks on random regular graphs.
10:20 – 10:40 Michael Assaf, HUJI
Phase Transition in a Non-Markovian Animal Exploration Model with Preferential Returns
10:40 – 11:00 Naftali Smith, BGU
Nonequilibrium steady state for harmonically-confined active particles
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:50 Alexandra Tayar, WIS
Active stresses control the phase behavior of liquid phase separation.
11:50 – 12:10 Guy Bunin, Technion
Local and extensive dynamics in many-variable disordered systems
12:10 – 12:30 Oded Farago, BGU
Brownian dynamics across discontinuities – algorithms and applications
12:30 – 12:50 Yair Shokef, TAU
Emergent Disorder and Mechanical Memory in Periodic Metamaterials
Lunch break
14:00 – 14:20 Eli Barkai, BIU
Packets of diffusing particles exhibit universal exponential tails.
14:20 – 14:40 Avraham Be'er, BGU
Biophysical aspects underlying the swarm to biofilm transition.
14:40 – 15:00 Omer Granek, Technion
Flocking in the Active Ising Model
15:00 – 15:20 Kinneret Keren, Technion
Physics of Hydra Morphogenesis.
