BGU Physics Department
Colloquium schedule 2011/12
All colloquia are on
Thursday 3:30 pm
(except where noted).
Click on an underlined title to see the abstract for the colloquium.
Fall semester
November 3rd
, 2011
Weak Values and Precision Measurements
John Howell, University of Rochester
November 10th
, 2011
Time-Reversal-Symmetry-Breaking in Unconventional Superconductors
Aharon Kapitulnik, Stanford University
November 17th
, 2011
The role of exact results in condensed matter physics
Yupeng Wang,
Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science
November 24th
, 2011
Majorana fermions at Fermi velocities: a condensed matter perspective
Eytan Grsofeld, Ben Gurion University
December 1st
, 2011
Magnetars: the Strongest Magnets in Nature
Jonathan Granot, University of Hertfordshire
December
8th, 2011
Transonic flow of light, sonic horizons and analogue gravity
Shimshon Barad, Tel Aviv University
December
15th, 2011
The interplay between actin dynamics and membrane tension determines the shape of moving cells
Kinneret Keren, The Technion
December 22nd, 2011
Harmony of scattering amplitudes:
from collider physics to supergravity
Zvi Bern, UCLA
December
29th, 2011
Quantum Origin of the Universe Structure
Viatcheslav Mukhanov, University of Munich
January 5h, 2012
SUSY searches at ATLAS
Natalia Panikashvili
, University of Michigan &CERN
January 12h, 2012
Cosmic Fireworks
T
svi Piran
, Hebrew University
January 19h, 2012
Electrically tuned spin-orbit interactions in a semiconductor quantum dot
Yasuhiro Tokura, NTT Research Laboratories
January 26h, 2012
Protection and disorder on the surface of topological insulators
Ady Stern, Weizmann Institute