STATISTICAL MECHANICS DAY XVII
Monday May 4th, 2026
Physics Library in Weissman building
Weizmann Institute of Science
09:00 – 09:30 Coffee
09:30 – 09:40 Opening Remarks
09:40 – 10:00 Eli Barkai, BIU
Monitored quantum hitting times: an introduction.
10:00 – 10:20 Nir Davidson, WIS
Laser arrays with complex coupling have complex bands
10:20 – 10:40 Eran Bouchbinder, WIS
A unified mean-field model of glasses
10:40 – 11:00 Naftali Smith, HUJI
Quantum systems with weak disorder and the Tracy-Widom distribution at large Dyson index
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 11:50 Eli Sloutskin, BIU
Mobile-Fold Nano-Origami in Liquid Droplets: From Hexagons to Hexagrams and Beyond.
11:50 – 12:10 Itai Griniasty, TAU
Towards embodied intelligence in shape shifting matter.
12:10 – 12:30 David Andelman, TAU
Over a Century after Debye and Onsager:
What's new about the Stat Mech of Ions in Solution?
12:30 – 12:50 Yair Shokef, TAU
Combinatorial Design of Floppy Modes and Frustrated Loops in Metamaterials
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:20 Guy Bunin, Technion
Learning to outgrow the competition: adapting reaction-diffusion systems.
14:20 – 14:40 Naama Brenner, Technion
Implicit Bias Towards Flatness in Evolutionary Dynamics.
14:40 – 15:00 Yohai Bar Sinai, HUJI
Simple models of sudden learning
15:00 – 15:20 Anna Frishman, Technion
Why and how does rotating turbulence self-organize?
Organizers:
David Mukamel and Oren Raz
Coordinator and accessibility issues:
Talia Tzahor (talia.tzahor@weizmann.ac.il) ; 08-9344035
