French-Israeli Symposium in
Physics
of the
Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
and the
French Academy of Sciences
Light- Matter Interactions
Organizing Committee:
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji – ENS and Collège de France , Paris
Serge Haroche – ENS and Collège de France, Paris
Moti Segev – Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa
Yaron Silberberg – The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot
Jerusalem
19-20 March 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 - 18:00
Coffee Break
18:00 - 18:30
Panel Discussion
EXPERIMENTS IN QUANTUM SIMULATORS MODERATION:
Moderator: Nimrod Moiseyev – Technion – Israel Institute of
Technology
19:30
Dinner
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
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
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
Ecole normale supérieure and Collège de France, 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
19:00
Dinner