Order and Disorder in Condensed Matter: from Solitons to Glasses

Program

09:45 opening remarks
10:00  - 10:50 Hanoch Gutfreund (Hebrew University), The quest for high Tc in the 70's - Baruch's thesis revisited
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 12:00 Eva Andrei (Rutgers), Observation of Landau Levels of Dirac Fermions in Graphite and Graphene
12:00 - 12:50 Yshai Avishai (BGU), Disordered Quantum Spin Hall Systems
12:50- 14:30 lunch
14:30 - 15:20

Andras Janossy (Budapest),  Magnetic order in lightly hole doped cuprates

15:20- 16:10 Pierre Ledoussal (ENS Paris), Are spin glass domain walls described by a Stochastic Loewner Evolution ?
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:20

John Chalker (Oxford), Freezing and Ordering Transitions in Classical Geometrically Frustrated Antiferromagnets

17:20 - 18:10 Meir Weger (Hebrew University), HMTSF-TCNQ - Another System with Dirac-like Fermions
19:00 celebratory dinner, Ahuzat Halperin
09:30 - 10:20 Natan Andrei (Rutgers), Quantum Impurities out of Equilibrium
10:20 - 11:10 Gergely Zarand (Budapest), Quantum critical states in multi-dot systems
11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 - 12:30 Herbert Fertig (Indiana), Edge States for the Quantum Hall Effect in Two Dimensional Carbon
12:30 - 13:20 Yosi Avron (Technion), Entangled photons from a quantum dot and the Peres criterion
13:20 lunch
14:30 - excursion in Tel Beer Sheva

 

Excursion to the Nabatian Spice Road (world heritage site) -- from the Ramon crater to the Arava. Tour is in a desert vehicle and includes moderate hiking sections.