IPS 2008 - Program

09:00-09:50	Refreshments and fast track registration *()**			Zonnenfeld hall, Bldg. 73
	Plenary session chair: Prof. Amnon Aharony (BGU)
09:50-10:00	Welcome: Prof. Rivka Carmi (BGU president)
10:00-10:15	Opening and IPS prizes: Prof. Avishai Dekel (IPS president)
10:15-11:00	Plenary Lecture: Prof. Moty Heiblum (WIS), Fractionally charged quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect.
11:00-11:40	Registration for non-registered participants ()**			Bldg. 90
	Review 1 High energy and Astrophysics chair: R. Brustein (BGU)	Review 2 Quantum and Solid state physics chair: G. Deutscher (TAU)	Review 3 Biophysics and Statistical Physics chair: E. Domany (WIS)
11:40-12:10	LHC - a theorist's perspective, Yossi Nir (WIS)	Experimental quantum information processing - the $\|\psi\rangle$ of the art, Nadav Katz (HU)	From bioinformatics to systems biology: what's the physicist's role? Eli Eisenberg (TAU)
12:10-12:40	Magnetars, David Eichler (BGU)	Electronic structure of the cuprate superconducting and pseudogap states from spectroscopic imaging STM, Seamus Davis (Cornell)	Imaging physical concepts: A review of Bose-Einstein condensation, Jeff Steinhauer (Technion)
12:40-14:00	Lunch break, Posters, Trade fair, Job fair ()*			Campus
14:00-16:00	Parallel sessions [Click here for details]			Bldg. 90
16:00-16:30	Coffee break
16:30-18:30	Parallel sessions [Click here for details]

(*) Fast track registration is intended for those who have registered in advance and filled the payment webform.
(**) There will be 6 PC stands available for web browsing, as well as wireless network coverage for guests.
(***) Posters and fairs are expected to be available starting from 11:00 at the lobby of Bldg.90.