STATISTICAL MECHANICS DAY XV
Tuesday March 19th, 2024
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 Joel Stavans, WIS
Target search processes during horizontal gene transfer in bacteria.
10:00 – 10:20 Ehud Meron, BGU
Phenotypic plastcity– a missing element in the theory of vegetation
pattern formation
10:20 – 10:40 Amir Erez, HUJI
Generic flexibility in noisy cell-to-cell information dynamics.
10:40 – 11:00 Yael Roichman, TAU
Diffusive contact between randomly driven colloidal suspensions.
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:50 Hillel Aharoni, WIS
Ribbon Gridshells – Soft Elasticity and Inverse Design.
11:50 – 12:10 Tomer Markovich, TAU
Chiral active fluids are both `odd’ and non-reciprocal
12:10 – 12:30 Ram Adar, Technion
Active matter that modifies its environment: a framework for extra-
cellular matrix remodeling
12:30 – 12:50 Ilya Svetlizky, Technion
Work hardening in colloidal crystals
Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:20 Yariv Kafri, Technion
The Anomalous Long-Ranged Influence of an Inclusion in
Momentum-Conserving Active Fluids.
14:20 – 14:40 Baruch Meerson, HUJI
Correlations of disorder strongly affect thermally activated particle motion in
disordered potentials.
14:40 – 15:00 Baruch Barzel, BIU
Constructing dynamically predictive networks.
15:00 – 15:20 Haim Diamant, TAU
Universal relation between entropy and diffusion.
Organizers: David Mukamel and Oren Raz
Administrative organizer: Debbie Hen (debbie.hen@weizmann.ac.il) 08-9343961
