Date & Time: 19/03/2014

French-Israeli Inter-Academy Symposium in Physics
Wednesday, March 19, 2014

09:00 - 09:45   Registration

Chair:   Gad Eisenstein
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
   
09:45 - 10:00   Greetings and Opening Remarks
Ruth Arnon
President, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
   
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Nobel Prize Laureate, Ecole normale supérieure and Collège de France, Paris
 
Session I
  
10:00 - 10:30 Serge Haroche
Nobel Prize Laureate, Ecole normale supérieure and Collège de France, Paris
JUGGLING WITH PHOTONS IN CAVITIES
 
10:30 - 11:00 Yakir Aharonov
Tel Aviv University
A NEW APPROACH TO QUANTUM THEORY

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
 
11:30 - 12:00 Patrice Bertet
 SPEC/CEA, Saclay
 QUANTUM PHYSICS AND QUANTUM INFORMATION WITH ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS, SPINS AND MICROWAVE PHOTONS
 
12:00 - 12:30 Nadav Katz
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
THE WELL-TEMPERED SUPERCONDUCTING CIRCUIT - CONTROL AND TOMOGRAPHY OF MULTI-LEVEL COHERENCE
 
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch/Posters
Session II

Chair:   Asher Friesem
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

14:30 - 15:00 Jacqueline Bloch
LPN/CNRS, Marcoussis
INTERACTING PHOTONS IN SEMICONDUCTOR MICROCIRCUITS
 
15:00 - 15:30 David Gershoni
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
QUANTUM OPTICS WITH SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 Mathias Fink
Institute Langevin ESPCI, Paris
TIME-REVERSED WAVES AND COMPLEXITY

16:30 - 17:00 Erez Hasman
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
SPINOPTICAL METASURFACES: SPIN - CONTROLLED PHOTONICS
 
17:00 - 17:30 Ady Arie
Tel Aviv University
SELF ACCELERATING OPTICAL, ELECTRONIC AND PLASMONIC BEAMS

17:30 - 17:45 Coffee Break

17:45 - 18:45 Panel Discussion
EXPERIMENTS IN PHYSICS AND QUANTUM SIMULATORS:
Moderator: Nimrod Moiseyev - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

 
Thursday, March 20, 2014

Session III
Chair:   Joseph Zyss
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan

09:30 - 10:00 Alain Aspect
Institut d´Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau, Paris
COHERENT BACK-SCATTERING OF ULTRA-COLD ATOMS IN A DISORDERED POTENTIAL

10:00 - 10:30 Moti Segev
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
 PHOTONIC TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS

10:30 - 11:00 Yaron Silberberg
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
 QUANTUM WALKS OF ENTANGLED PHOTONS

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00 Philippe Grangier
Institut d´Optique, Palaiseau, Paris
QUANTUM OPTICS AND QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS USING  NON-GAUSSIAN STATE OF LIGHT

12:00 - 12:30 Tal Carmon
Technion - Israel institute of Technology, Haifa
NEW DIRECTIONS IN OPTOMECHANICS:
MICROSPHERES GAS AND BRILLOUIN COOLING
 
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch/Posters

Session IV
Chair:   Yehiam Prior 
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot

14:30 - 15:00 Jean-Michel Raimond
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
CONFINED QUANTUM ZENO DYNAMICS OF A WATCHED ATOMIC ANGULAR MOMENTUM 

15:00 - 15:30 Roee Ozeri
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
 WEAK DIPOLAR INTERACTIONS IN ATOMIC ION-CRYSTALS
 
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 16:30 Christophe Salomon
Recherche au CNRS, Paris
STRONGLY CORRELATED BOSE AND FERMI GASES

16:30 - 17:00 Nir Davidson
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
 ATOMIC MEMORIES WITH LONG COHERENCE TIMES

17:00  Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Nobel Prize Laureate, Ecole normale supérieure and Collège de France, Paris
Milestones and Perspectives in Light-Matter Interactions
 

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