Plenary Lectures Bld. 26, Aud. 06

Morning session
Chair: A. Moalem; Ben-Gurion University

09:50 - 10:40 J.H. Taylor; Princeton University
Clocking Pulsars Into the Twenty-First Century

Bld. 73, Sonnenfeldt Aud.

Afternoon session
Chair: Y. Aharonov; Tel-Aviv University

17:00 - 17:40 R.G. Hulet; Rice University
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Li - It's not Just Another Condensate !

17:40 - 18:20 G. Veneziano; CERN
String Theory and its Heretic Cosmology

Astrophysics and Cosmology Bld. 34, Room 207

Morning session
Chair: S. Nussinov; Tel-Aviv University

11:00 - 11:30 R. Brustein; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Detection of Relic Gravitational Waves from String Cosmology

11:30 - 12:00 V. Usov; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Radiation From Strange Stars

12:00 - 12:30 G. Shaviv; Technion (Invited)
Coulomb Scattering and the Solar Neutrino Problems

12:30 - 12:45 E. Griv; Ben-Gurion University
Central NGC 2146 - a Firehose Type Instability?

12:45 - 13:00 L.A. Pusti'nik; Sea of Galilee Observatory, Jordan Valley Academic College
On Stability of Accretion Models and "Hidden" Assumptions

Condensed Matter Physics Bld. 34, Room 316

Morning session
Chair: Z. Ovadyahu; Hebrew University

11:00 - 11:30 Y. Imry; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Orbital Paramagnetism of Andreev Electrons

11:30 - 12:00 U. Sivan; Technion (Invited)
The Coulomb Blockade - Revisited

12:00 - 12:30 M. Reznikov; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Determination of Quasi Particle Charge in the Fractional Quantum Hall Regime via Quantum Shot Noise Measurements

12:30 - 13:00 E. Shimshoni; Oranim - Haifa University (Invited)
Duality Near Quantum Hall Liquid-to-Insulator Transitions

Afternoon session
Chair: G. Jung; Ben-Gurion University

14:30 - 15:00 Y. Yeshurun; Bar-Ilan University (Invited)
Local Magnetic Measurements in High-Temperature Superconductors

15:00 - 15:30 S. Goren; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Enhancement of Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance by Vortices in a Superconductor

15:30 - 16:00 A. Gerber; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Giant Magnetoresistance in Granular Ferromagnets

16:00 - 16:15 Y. Levi; Hebrew University
Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy of Inhomogeneous Superconductors

16:15 - 16:30 Y. Dagan; Tel-Aviv University
Can We Explain C Axis Tunneling Into YBCO by the Marginal Fermi Liquid
Theory ?

Lasers and Quantum Optics Bld. 34, Room 305

Morning session
Chair: R. Shuker; Ben-Gurion University

11:00 - 11:30 R.G. Hulet; Rice University (Invited)
Atomic Interactions at the Nano-Kelvin Scale and Their Role in Bose-Einstein Condensations

11:30 - 12:00 M. Rosenbluh; Bar-Ilan University (Invited)
Short Optical Pulse Propagation and Pulse Breakup in Resonant Media

12:00 - 12:30 Y. Prior; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
COIN - Coherence Observation by Interference Noise

12:30 - 13:00 A. Zigler; Hebrew University (Invited)
Optical Guiding of High Intensity Laser Pulse in a Plasma Density Channel

13:00 - 13:15 M. Lando; Rotem Industries
Progress of the Solar Pumped Lasers Program

Afternoon session
Chair: M. Rokny; Hebrew University

14:30 - 15:00 A. Gover; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
First Lasing of the Israeli Electrostatic Accelerator FEL

15:00 - 15:30 P. Shuker; University of Colorado (Invited)
Energy Pooling Cross-Section in Rubidium

15:30 - 16:00 Y. Band; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Dynamics of Short-Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Media

16:00 - 16:30 I. Averbukh; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Quantum Wavepacket Technology

Nuclear Physics Bld. 34, Room 203

Morning session
Chair: D. Ashery; Tel-Aviv University

11:00 - 11:30 I. Tserruya; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Results From the CERES Experiment: Probing Hot and Dense Nuclear Matter

11:30 - 12:00 E. Friedman; Hebrew University (Invited)
The He() Reaction as Evidence for a Dibaryon?

12:00 - 12:30 S. MayTal-Beck; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
The Search for the Pentaquark

12:30 - 13:00 A. Uziel; Tel-Aviv University and Weizmann Institute
Transverse Momentum of D Mesons - a Thermometer of the Quark - Hadron Transition

Afternoon session
Chair: Z. Vager; Weizmann Institute

14:30 - 15:00 S. Shlomo; Cyclotron Institute, Texas A&M University (Invited)
Nuclear Matter Incompressibility Coefficient

15:00 - 15:20 E. Gedalin; Ben-Gurion University
PT Calculations for Production in pp Collissions

15:20 - 15:50 A. Wolf; Nuclear Research Center Negev (Invited)
Magnetic Moments of Excited States of Fission Products

15:50 - 16:20 J. Levin; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Coulomb Explosion Imaging - Experimental Representation of Intramolecular Correlations

Particles and Fields Bld. 34, Room 209

Morning session
Chair: S. Tarem; Technion

11:00 - 11:30 J. Lichtenstadt; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Measurements of the Proton and Deuteron Spin Structure Functions

11:30 - 12:00 Y. Rozen; Technion (Invited)
B Physics at LEP

12:00 - 12:30 S.Dagan; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
The Standard Model and beyond at HERA

12:30 - 13:00 D. Lellouch; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
The Israeli Participation to the Atlas Project

Afternoon session
Chair: S. Elitzur; Hebrew University

14:30 - 15:00 I. Bars; University of Southern California & CERN (Invited)
Two Times

15:00 - 15:30 R. Plesser; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
to be announced

15:30 - 16:00 D. Kutasov; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Strings, Branes and Gauge Theories

16:00 - 16:30 R. Madden; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Graceful Exit and Energy Conditions in String Cosmology

Physics in Biology Bld. 34, Room 216

Morning session
Chair: D. Andelman; Tel-Aviv University

11:00 - 11:30 J. Stavans; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Temperature Dependence of the Efficiency of Termination

11:30 - 12:00 D. Golomb; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Propagating Pulses in One-Dimensional Neuronal Networks

12:00 - 12:30 E. Braun; Technion (Invited)
The Spontaneous Activity of Biological Networks: Experimental Study of Heart

12:30 - 13:10 E. Ben-Jacob; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Smart Bacterial Colonies

Physics in Industry Bld. 34, Room 303

Morning session
Chair: S. Barak; Orbotech/Opal/Unix

11:00 - 11:30 D. Faiman; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Photovoltaic Properties of Buckminsterfullerene and Some C Junction Devices

11:30 - 12:00 A. Yogev; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Solar Energy Projects at the Solar Facilities in the Weizmann Institute

12:00 - 12:40 M. Fassberg; Intel (Invited)
INTEL Leading Edge VLSI in Israel

12:40 - 13:00 A. Gross; Orbotech, Yavne (Invited)
The Physicist Impact in the Development of Hi-Tech Machines

Afternoon session
Chair: S. Barak; Orbotech/Opal/Unix

14:30 - 15:00 M. Tur; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Fiber Bragg Gratings in Communications and Lensing

15:00 - 15:30 G. Eisenstein; Technion (Invited)
Principle and Applications of Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers

15:30 - 16:00 D. Ben-Zeev; SmartLight Ltd. (Invited)
Digital Film Viewing

16:00 - 16:30 M. Berger; El-Op Ltd. Remote Sensing Operation (Invited)
Instrumentation for Earth Remote Sensing From Space

Physics in Medicine Bld. 34, Room 214

Afternoon session
Chair: D. Gill; Ben-Gurion University

14:30 - 15:00 H. Taitelbaum; Bar-Ilan University (Invited)
Photon Migration in Tissues: Model and Applications

15:00 - 15:20 D. Maor; Elscint Ltd. (Invited)
Physics of Medical Imaging

15:20 - 15:50 E. Miron; Nuclear Research Center Negev (Invited)
Laser-Polarized Inert Gas Imaging

15:50 - 16:10 S. Akselrod; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Computerized Analysis of Ovarian Cysts in Ultrasound Images - A Step Towards Automatic Classification of Ovarian Masses

16:10 - 16:30 M. Strauss; Nuclear Research Center Negev (Invited)
Short Pulse Lasers in Medical Applications

Plasma and Space Physics Bld. 34, Room 314

Morning session
Chair: Dov Shvarts; Negev Nuclear Research Center

11:00 - 11:30 L. Friedland; Hebrew University (Invited)
Autoresonant Excitation and Control of Nonlinear Waves in Space-Time Varying Plasmas

11:30 - 12:00 A. Fruchtman; Center for Technological Education Holon (Invited)
Stationary Plasma Thruster Modeling

12:00 - 12:30 D. Oron; Negev Nucler Research Center (Invited)
Scaling of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability Nonlinear Evolution in Ablatively Driven Inertial Fusion

12:30 - 12:45 R. Arad; Weizmann Institute
Spectroscopic Investigations of the Time Dependent 2D Magnetic Field Distributions in High-Current Carrying Plasmas

12:45 - 13:00 M. Topaz; El-Op Ltd. Remote Sensing Operation
TAUVEX- Short Wavelength Astronomy From Deep Space

Afternoon session
Chair: Sami Cuperman; Tel-Aviv University

14:30 - 15:00 V. Karpman; Hebrew University (Invited)
Radiation of Langmuir Solitons

15:00 - 15:30 M. Mond; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Propagation and Stability of Strong Shocks in Gases

15:30 - 16:00 M. Podolak; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Recent Advances in the Study of Comets

16:00 - 16:15 E. Behar; Hebrew University
Effect of Electron-Ion Collisions on Dielectronic Recombination of Ni-Like Ions

16:15 - 16:30 D. Zilbersher; Ben-Gurion University
Dynamics of Pickup Ions at the Structured Quasiperpendicular Shock

Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics Bld. 34, Room 205

Morning session
Chair: I. Goldhirsch; Tel-Aviv University

11:00 - 11:30 T. Elperin; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Intermittency and Anomalous Scalings of Passive Fields Advected by Turbulent Flow

11:30 - 12:00 A. Aharony; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Absence of Self-Averaging and Universal Fluctuations in Critical Random Systems

12:00 - 12:30 Y. Kantor; Tel-Aviv University (Invited)
Charged Polymers, Necklaces, and Loops in Random Walks

12:30 - 13:00 R. Yerushalmi-Rozen; Ben-Gurion University (Invited)
Cross-Link Induced Autophobicity in Polymer Melts: A re-Entrant Wetting Transition

Afternoon session
Chair: A. Rabinovitch; Ben-Gurion University

14:30 - 14:55 S. Alexander; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Stresses in Amorphous Materials and Structural Buckling

14:55 - 15:20 D. Levine; Technion (Invited)
A Brief Overview of Sand Physics

15:20 - 15:45 L.Prigozhin; Weizmann Institute (Invited)
Shape of a Sandpile and Free-Surface Segregation: Model and Experiment

15:45 - 16:10 L.M. Pismen; Technion (Invited)
Planform Selection in Non-Equilibrium Patterns

16:10 - 16:35 B. Meerson; Hebrew University (Invited)
Vorticity Generation in Slow Cooling Flows: a New Paradigm for Turbulence?