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Conferences

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Talks

  1. Invited talk (2006): Superradiance-mesoscopic fluctuations and localization in cold atomic gases
     
  2. Lectures delivered in the framework of the “Chair Paris Science” (January 2007):
    • Lecture 1.
    Introduction to the mesoscopic physics of electrons and photons.
    • Lecture 2.
    Introduction to a unified description of mesoscopic effects.
    • Lecture 3.
    Correlation of speckle patterns in optics and atomic physics.
    • Lecture 4.
    Superradiance, coherent multiple scattering and Anderson localization.
    • Lecture 5.
    Non-exponential relaxation of quasi-particles in low dimensionality conductors.
     
  3. Conference delivered for Technion undergrads (December 2012): Universality – Scaling and measurement in physics: the Einstein legacy.
     
  4. Invited speaker at Joseph Avron festschrift (Jerusalem, July 2013): Cumulants of the current and large deviations in the Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process (SSEP) on graphs.
     
  5. Course delivered in Mont Orford, Quebec summer school (September 2013): Physique mesoscopique des electrons et des photons – Structures fractales et quasi-periodiques.
    • Part 1.
    What is quantum in mesoscopic physics? Transport and interferences.
    • Part 2.
    Towards a quantitative description: the tools of quantum mesoscopic physics.
    • Part 3.
    Quantum mesoscopic physics: fractals and quasi-periodic structures.
     
  6. Talk delivered at KIAS in Seoul (July 2014): Large deviations in the Symmetric Simple Exclusion Process (SSEP) on graphs.
     
  7. Collège de France (Chaire d’état, May 2015): Waves and Quantum Physics on Fractals: From Continuous to Discrete Scaling Symmetry.
    • Lecture 1.
    Photons and Quantum Electrodynamics on Fractals.
    • Lecture 2.
    The Interplay Between Topology and Discrete Scaling Symmetry: Application to Quasicrystals.
    • Lecture 3.
    Critical Behaviour on Fractals: Long Range Correlated Disorder. Application to BEC and Superfluidity.
    • Lecture 4.
    Efimov Physics from Geometric and Spectral Perspectives.
     
  8. Invited lecture at ITAMP & Harvard (November 2015): Topology and fractals: measuring Chern numbers with waves in quasicrystals.
     
  9. Colloquium at the Technion (May 2016): Quantum symmetry breaking: observation of scale anomaly in graphene.
     
  10. Invited speaker at Assa Auerbach 60 Years Birthday Conference (Technion, July 2016): Measuring Chern numbers with waves in quasicrystals.
     
  11. Invited lecture in Cargese (September 2016): Cooperative effects and photon localization in atomic gases: Phase transition in non-Hermitian random matrices.
     
  12. Invited lecture in Nice (December 2016): Topology in Physics – Presentation of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics.
     
  13. Guest lecturer at Cornell (June 2017): Waves and quantum physics on fractals: from continuous to discrete scaling symmetry.
    • Course 1.
    Spectral properties of fractals – Application in statistical physics.
    • Talk.
    Quantum symmetry breaking – Scale anomaly and fractals.
    • Course 2.
    Topology and fractals – Measuring topological numbers with waves.
    • Elaboration.
    Renormalisation group and Efimov physics.
     
  14. Invited lectures at UBC, Vancouver (August 2017):
    • Lecture 1.
    Quantum symmetry breaking: Observation of a scale anomaly in Graphene.
    • Lecture 2.
    Topology of quasicrystals: Measuring topological numbers with waves.
     
  15. Invited speaker at 2017 AMO Physics Summer School (Taiwan, August 2017): Mesoscopic Physics of Electrons and Photons.
    • Part 1.
    Introduction to mesoscopic physics.
    • Part 2.
    Introduction to mesoscopic physics (cont.).
     
  16. Invited speaker at CECAM workshop: Condensed Matter Analogies in Mechanics, Optics and Cold Atoms (Tel Aviv, April 2019): Vacancies in Graphene: Dirac physics and fractional charges.
     

Posters

  1. Additivity Principle and stability of open systems: extension of Le Chatelier principle (Prague, 2015).
  2. Chern Numbers in Quasicrystals: Structural Interpretation (Bordeaux, 2016; best poster award to Eli Levy).
  3. Scale anomaly of a Lifshitz scalar: a universal quantum phase transition to discrete scale invariance (Tel Aviv, 2017).
  4. A Casimir Effect in Quantum Mesoscopic Physics (Prague, 2017).
  5. Topological Properties of Quasiperiodic Tilings (Haifa, 2017).
  6. Out-of-Equilibrium Quantum Radiation and Atomic Motion (Haifa, 2018).
  7. Efimov physics – fractal tilings – quantum Einstein gravity and their relations (Haifa, 2020).
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