Keynote Speaker

Amnon Aharony, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, and Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva.
  The Rashba-Aharonov-Bohm interferometer: A spin polarizer analyzer.

Invited Speakers

Ehud Altman, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot.
  Non equilibrium phenomena in strongly correlated ultracold atom systems.

Satyajit Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
  Instabilities and nonlinearities in bulk and nanopatterned superconductors.

Ramesh C. Budhani, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
  The de Gennes effect and giant magnetoreistance in ferromagnet-superconductor heterostructures.

Debashish Chowdhury, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
  Motoring along the intracellular highway: The real engines of creation.

Doron Cohen, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva.
  The conductance of small mesoscopic disordered rings.

Yoram Dagan, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
  Similarity and difference between electron and hole-doped cuprates.

Kedar Damle, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Variational wavefunction studies of a triangular lattice supersolid.

Chandan Das Gupta, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  Growing length and time scales in glass forming liquids.

Eli Eisenberg, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
  Exploring the efficiency of protein-complex production in the cell.

Ron Folman, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva.
  How atoms interact with surfaces.

Itzhak Fouxon, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv.
  Finite time collapses in freely cooling granular gases.

Yuval Garini, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.
  Organization of telomeres and their diffusion in the nucleus of the cell.

Rama Govindarajan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore.
  Death of a vortex at the (spiralling) hands of a density interface.

Shahal Ilani, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot.
  Coupling of spin and orbital motion of electrons in ultra-clean carbon nanotubes.

Nadav Katz, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  Superconducting phase qubits - Measuring noise and controlling decoherence.

Eytan Katzav, King's College, London.
  Response-correlation inequality in dynamical systems.

Kinneret Keren, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
  Intracellular fluid dynamics in rapidly moving cells.

Yamuna Krishnan, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
  Wires, reporters, and information capsules: Cellular journalism with DNA.

Kalobaron Maiti, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Electron spectroscopy of correlated electron systems.

Shobhana Narasimhan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, bangalore.
  Structural, magnetic, and chemical effects in low-dimensional systems.

Yuvel Oreg, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot.
  Superconducting fluctuations in small rings.

Venkateswara Pai, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
  Dissipative quantum Hall transport at the Dirac point of graphene.

Bipul Pal, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata.
  Type-II behavior in wurtzite InP/InAs/InP core-multishell nanowires.

Avi Pe'er, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.
  Ultracold polar molecules near quantum degeneracy.

Sanjay Puri, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
  Cooling in freely-evolving granular gases.

Ronen Rapaport, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  Correlated phases of cold dipolar exciton fluids: A Bose-Einstein condensate or a liquid?

D. D. Sarma, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata.
  Time-resolved study of growth mechanisms of semiconductor nanocrystals via the solution route.

G.V. Shivashankar, National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore.
  Cellular architecture of genome assembly & its regulation.

Ajay K. Sood, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
  Fascinating dynamics of surfactant micellar gels under shear.

Jeff Steinhauer, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
  The a.c. and d.c. Josephson effects in a Bose-Einstein condensate.

Vikram Tripathi, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai.
  Nuclear spin pumping in semiconductor devices.